Prisoners are shackled by iron chains and balls. Living entities implicated in materialism are shackled by unlimited desires.
Thank you to Kathleen for the artwork. I, Mahat, found the following very appropriate, complimentary to her drawing. It is a short section from the Bhagavad-gita (6.4–10), the most famous Indian spiritual text.
A person is said to be [...]
This transcendental vibration of chanting “Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare” is the sublime method of reviving our spiritual consciousness. As living spiritual souls we are all originally Krishna conscious entities, but due to our association with matter since time immemorial, our consciousness is now [...]
Warning!
Do not fall victim,
do not fall for their schemes!
They hiss:
“Give us your mind
then
give us your soul.”
Do not believe the hearsay,
do not believe their spit.
They want to make you an
avatar of death to sell as a hero.
Their war needs servants to tend to murder.
They want human sacrifice done in the
name of their greed.
They are the arsonists [...]
THE SYSTEM: What is the need of an artificial luxurious life of cinema, cars, radio, flesh and hotels? Has this civilization produced anything but quarreling individually and nationally? Has this civilization enhanced the cause of equality and fraternity by sending thousands of people into hellish factories and the warfields at the whims of a particular [...]
In terms of ethical philosophy, I think the worst kind of ethics is like the decadent Roman emperor who puts his thumb up and you live, thumb down and you die. In other words, you have no rights. If the tyrant decides to give you a right, you have one, otherwise not. In America, [...]
3 million abortions are performed each year.
34. 4 million cows are slaughtered per year.
Almost 50 percent of all marriages end in divorce.
1 in 10 American women take an antidepressant drug.
251 million tons of trash are generated in the US yearly.
Tobacco smoking causes nearly 1 in 5 deaths yearly.
Suicide is the 3rd leading cause of death [...]
Another Spring Break in San Diego has come and gone, again leaving me to ponder. There’s a bumper sticker that says, “The proof of intelligent life on other planets is that they haven’t tried to contact this one.”
If there is one interesting thing about living with a dozen monks in a monastery here in Pacific [...]
A re-take on the health care issue.
The debate rages on, but before we take a side, we need to start re-evaluating the whole system.
Even as I write these words, a fierce debate is raging in our nation’s capital. Representatives from all over the United States, along with staffers, lobbyists, and citizens, are all scrambling to [...]
Every day more technology is being invented, but know that such things come at a high cost.
One second of wasted time cannot not be purchased, even with millions of dollars.
16ROUNDS is presenting an awareness called Krishna Consciousness. Krishna Consciousness is perfectly distinct from the ways of modern materialistic society, which is considered by the Krishna Conscious advocates to be merely a waste of time.
The whole universe, or for that matter all [...]
