

"An acarya who comes for the service of the Lord cannot be expected to conform to a stereotype, for he must find the ways and means by which Krishna Consciousness may be spread...
Therefore it is a principle that a preacher must strictly follow the rules and regulations laid down in the shastras yet at the same time devise a means by which the preaching work to reclaim the fallen may go with full force." Chaitanya Charitamrta A.L. ch. 7, purport of verses 32 and 38
It is funny how the whole world believes that the 7 day week is a western concept!
7 day week is not a concept borrowed from Romans as it is generally believed.
The 7 day week is not really based on western calendar. Firstly, lets look at how classic predictions ( Jyothisha Shastra ) of the Vedas for answers to these questions:
Why do we have only 7 days in a week? Why can't we have 8 or 9? What is an hour? Why do we have only 24 hours in a day? Why can't we have 30 or 40 units and call it an hour?
Ancient Indians were so well versed that they often used 4 to 5 different units of time. If you ask your Indian grand mother, she might have told you that during her days, people measured time in a weird unit called ghati/ghadiya (1 ghati = 24 minutes).
1 day is the time lapsed between two sunrises. Sandhi in sanskrit means knot or junction and hence the junction points are named as pratah sandhya(Early morning) and sayam sandhya (Evening) which divide the standard day
Many arguments are made in this respect, that as long as we don't cut the animal we do not incur sin.
In the Mahabharata, there is a verse which states that one who sells the animal, one who buys the animal, one cuts the animal,one who cooks the animal, one who serves the animal and one who eats the animal, all are bound equally by the chain of Karma.
But leaving the spiritual aspect of it, anatomically, the human body is not structured to eat animal flesh. Studies have shown the length of the intestine of a tiger is 4 times the length of it's torso so when it eats flesh the toxins in the flesh are not kept for long in the intestine and are expelled at the earliest. Also the concentration of acid secreted in the stomach is so strong that it burns the bacteria in the flesh. While in the cow, the length of the intestine is 12 times it's torso and so the food takes longer time to be expelled from the body. We have seen that the incidence of the Mad Cow disease (bovine spongi
Could we condemn criminals to suffer for hundreds of years? Biotechnology could let us extend convicts' lives 'indefinitely'. This is the scenario being explored by researchers at Oxford University
They claim life extension tech could mean prisoners serve longer sentences
Philosopher Dr Rebecca Roache also writes in her blog that a time distortion pill could make people feel like they were in prison longer
Another scenario the group looked at was uploading mind to a digital realm
Running it a million times faster than normal would enable the uploaded criminal to serve a 1,000 year sentence in eight-and-a-half hours
By Ellie Zolfagharifard
Sentencing a criminal to 1,000 years in an artificial hell may one day become a reality.
At least, that is the claim of scientists at Oxford University who have been exploring controversial technologies that could extend human life.
They say billions are being invested in techniques that could mean the cruellest criminals will be kept alive indefi
‘Never was there a time in which I did not exist, nor you, Arjuna, nor all these kings, ( before us at the battlefield of Kurukshetra), nor in the future shall any of us cease to be’ - Sri Krsna, from Srila Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada's ; Bhagavad Gita As It Is.
Herein Lord Krsna reveals His Eternal Being, beyond the gates of time. He speaks of past, present, and future as aspects of one supreme reality, in which God and the souls exist as distinct, eternally. Indeed, He says, ‘Time I am’, indicating that He is the origin and the maintainer of the flow of events that we call time, and He is the Supreme Controller of that time element.
Those seeking happiness and freedom from the crushing wheels of death must ask themselves whether all the fuss and botheration of struggling hard to try to create a position of happiness here, and to keep it going, are of any value. Time destroys all things; in the form of oxidation, aging, homeostasis and equilibrium, violent destruction, gradual d