In honor of the Avirbhava Mahotsava of Srila Bhakti Raksaka Sridhara Deva Goswami, Swami B. V. Tripurari glorifies his beloved siksa guru.

Gardening is never simply about gardens. To garden is to unseat oneself as the center of primary importance, and to instead turn one’s life into various forms of service.

Unless varnasrama is thought of in an essential sense, it is unlikely that we will see any such arrangement today—even in the society of devotees, much less in human society. Indeed, who will be the king?

Why is the number of Americans claiming “no religion” on the rise, and what does that mean?

The Environmental Movement has failed to address the role of meat consumption on our planet. If we as a society are willing to recognize that our purchases and lifestyle choices have an impact on the planet, then we must also recognize that our sandwiches do too.

While many Gaudiya Vaishnavas find themselves daily in less-than-devotional work environments, by exhibiting the essential qualities of a Vaishnava practitioners can nonetheless become a unique and attractive element in the workplace.

A South African athlete reminds the world that gender is not always black and white, a fact that the Vedic canon seems to have already recognized in full.

Is it ever intellectually honest for an atheist to pray? Indeed, can an atheist claim, without manifest absurdity, to have a relationship with God?

Darwin may have done religion—and God— a favor by revealing a flaw in modern Western faith. Despite our scientific and technological brilliance, our understanding of God is often remarkably undeveloped—even primitive.

The following is an excerpt from Swami B. V. Tripurari’s personal notes following the 9/11 terrorist attacks in New York.

Never in the annals of health and nutrition history has there been a food so maligned, lied about, and conspired against as raw milk. Once revered the world over as the most perfect of all foods, now most people only consume a shadow of the real thing.