[Thakura Bhaktivinoda composed this book review in English for publication in a Europeanjounal He came across the book entitled "Nitya-rupa-samsthapanarn" (Establishing God's Eternal Form), and he liked it very much d...   read more

Some of the important physicists of the world have concluded that there is a great similarity between ancient Hindu and modern cosmologies. Fritjof Capra, a noted physicist, writes, “This idea of a periodically expa...   read more

If we make a comparison between the ancient nations, the Indians came closest to modern ideas of atomism, quantum physics, and other current theories. (1) India developed very early enduring atomist theories of matter...   read more

INTRODUCTION

If Indian philosophy is studied in British Universities, it is rarely the philosophy department that offers it. (There are honourable exceptions!) A particularly unfortunate consequence of this is ...   read more

(The following is a conversation between Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Thakura and Prof. Albert E. Suthers that tool place in January 1929 in Krishnanagar.)

Professor Suthers: Did the worshippers of Krishna ever en...   read more

Although the Upanishadic texts (like some of the earlier Vedic texts) are primarily concerned with acquiring knowledge of the "soul", "spirit" and "god" - there are aspects of Vedic and Upanishadic literature that als...   read more

The ideal of the Superman has been brought recently into much notice, some not very fruitful discussion and a good deal of obloquy. It is apt to be resented by average humanity because men are told or have a lurking c...   read more

The fundamental thesis of the religious view, as implied in Vedic utterances, as stated in the Book of Genesis and as amplified in the opening to the Holy Qur’an, Man plays a central role as a purported end-product ...   read more

I was a child in a time of hope. I grew up when the expectations for science were very high: in the thirties and forties. I went to college in the early fifties, got my Ph.D. in 1960. There was a sense of optimism abo...   read more

Imagine that a man travels into outer space on a rocket at near the speed of light and then returns to earth. According to Einstein's theory of relativity, the man will find he has not aged as much as his identical tw...   read more