If you look outside, you dream; if you look INSIDE, you AWAKEN.
The author conducted a 3-group study on the effects of chanting the hare krsna maha mantra on stress, depression, and the three modes of nature–sattva, rajas, and tamas–described in the Vedas as the basis for human psychology. Sixty-two subjects, self-selected through newspaper advertisements in a Southeastern university town, completed the study. Average age was 24.63... Continue Reading →
Source: Back To Godhead magazine Jan 1, 2000 | Dhira Govinda Dasa, Holy Name, Volume-34 Number-01 ALTHOUGH I HAD done some preliminary theoretical work on researching the effects of chanting the Hare Krsna maha-mantra, I wasn't sure I wanted to pursue the research for my doctoral dissertation. I thought it would be too difficult to gather... Continue Reading →
Source: Hindustan Times Dated: Jan 28, 2016 Bhopal: A psychiatrist from the United States who has been researching psychiatric insights in the Bhagavad Gita, has said that the verses give the reader two fundamental psychological insights — how to be happy and how to be free — terming the scripture a “crisis-oriented therapy in the... Continue Reading →
Just before the Great War in the Mahabharata, Arjuna developed anxiety, reluctance to fight and other psychological problems. That is why many scholars suggest Sri Krishna was counselling Arjuna to over the psychological problems. The present age is filled with people in anxiety and modern psychiatry is now developing Bhagavad Gita as a clinical tool to overcome... Continue Reading →
In all the scriptures, it is clearly established that the cause of our suffering is due to forgetfulness of our relationship with God. But currently we have either wrong understanding or no understanding about God or even Religion. Srila Prabhupada, my spiritual teacher used to say, if we have got wrong understanding about God or Religion then we should not abandon God or Religion; instead we should work towards getting the right understanding, just like if we have cataract in our eyes, we ask the doctor to remove the cataract and not the eyes!! This spiritual blog is an humble attempt in this regard.
We are not teaching some ritualistic process, that “You become Hindu. You become Christian. You become Muhammadan.” We are simply teaching, “You try to love God. You have forgotten God. You have declared, ‘God is dead.’ These are all nonsense. God is there. You are here. You are suffering because you have forgotten God. You try to love God. Your normal life will come back. You will be happy.” This is Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement.
– Srila Prabhupada
AWAKENING BEGINS HERE... 