This year the administrative team clarified the college's direction. By examining the needs and opportunities in ISKCON and defining the college's spiritual expectations of the students, we paved the way for success in the future.

It is not necessarily that all such contradictions are purposefully presented by the scriptures in order to get us to contemplate. It is just the nature of Absolute Truth, which appears to us to be contradictory when we try to capture it within the limited vocabulary of language or within the limited framework of our material mind and intelligence.

Keeping Krishna in the center doesn’t mean we have no relationships with others; rather, we then have the proper perspective of our spiritual relationship with all beings.

What are the potential realizations in each stage of chanting i.e. nama-aparadha, nama-abhasa, and suddha-nama? Is there any positive realization for a person in nama-aparadha stage?

Bhakti is supreme, causeless and fully independent - no material cause can either induce or impede bhakti from appearing in one’s heart.

Prabhupada told us to "Chant Hare Krishna and Be Happy". I have been chanting the maha mantra since two years and I am following the rules and regulations but I am still very unhappy.

Minute free will is an inherent quality of the soul and it can never be taken away from a living entity at any time (in the material or spiritual world).

Say a devotee after getting initiated, is unable to do his 16 rounds of chanting on a day or few days, due to illness or anything of that sort, it is like breaking the vows, right? So how and what the devotee should do in such situation?