Why wearing tilak is so important and our duty

When I was Srila Prabhupada’s servant in Los Angeles in 1970, my neckbeads broke one day and I set them aside to restring later in the day. I went into Srila Prabhupada’s room and He immediately said, “Where are your neckbeads?” I told Him they had broken and I was going to fix them later in […]

“With folded hands I request you, don’t you become hippies again by growing hair.”

In this article we will explore some statements Prabhupada made regarding the look of a Vaishnava. We see today bhaktas wearing beard and long hair. At the beginning many people from the hippie community had also not shaved up but later the devotees became fame for clean-shaven hair. CC Madhya 20.70, Purport: “The words bhadra […]