Articles tagged as Service

• New Service Opportunity: Head Librarian

  The Bhaktivedanta Research Centre (BRC) situated at 110A Motilal Nehru Road, Kolkata 700029 is seeking a creative and enthusiastic librarian. The successful applicant should ideally hold an MLS or B. Lib. Sci or have on-site experience of information management and be able and willing to lead a variety of services in the development of the BRC library.

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  Back To Godhead, or Back To Serve?

  If a devotee were to ask, “Please bless me so that I’ll never take birth again in this horrible material world,” would this be asking for some kind of liberation? Hundreds of times, Srila Prabhupada encouraged us to “Go Back home, back to Godhead.” Would it be a form of boldness or naiveté to desire to come back to this world and serve by preaching?

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  Girl Guides Fall Prey to Secular Inquisition

  The Guides (Scouts) announced they were changing the historic promise from ‘to love my God’ to ‘be true to myself and develop my beliefs’. Having dumped God and country altogether, it is now actually forbidding Guides to promise to serve anything beyond themselves.

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  A Final Lesson

  Every single day, without fail, he cooks three huge meals, goes out onto the streets, and personally feeds the mendicants. “This is the happiness of my life” he said, “there is nothing else of value.”