1. From hell to heaven and back

    We are offering this place. Come here. Why do you not come here and live with us? The Krsna consciousness movement is... This is the movement, that you come here, live with us, and produce your food, produce your milk, be happy, healthy, and chant Hare Krsna. This is our movement. Therefore we are creating New Vrindaban and farm, and we are trying to purchase...
  2. Always engage in bhakti, become qualified to talk with Krsna

    Tesam satata-yuktanam. Satata means twenty-four hours. Yukta means engaged. Always, twenty-four hours. Not that five minutes I meditate and rest of the time I live like cats and dogs. No. This kind of meditation will not help you. Krsna says satata. You have to mold your life in such a way that twenty-four hours you'll think of Krsna. This is Krsna consciousness. If you think, "Now I have chanted my sixteen rounds. Now I've finished my business. Now I...
  3. Non-sectarian Krsna

    We are not preaching Hindu religion. Therefore while registering the association I purposely kept this name, "Krsna Consciousness," neither Hindu religion nor Christian religion nor Buddhist religion. Krsna does not belong to any sect. Those who are thinking that we are sectarian, they're wrong, because Krsna does not belong to any sect.
  4. India’s science: how to become immortal

    Is recommended. Tapo divyam putraka yena suddhyed sattva [SB 5.5.1]. Tapasya should be made. Immortality is your right. Because you are part and parcel of God, you are immortal. Now you are diseased. You are accepting birth and death. This is diseased condition. So try to cure the disease. Don't try to become immortal in diseased condition. That is not possible. You must cure the disease. If you simply imagine to live eternally, that is not possible. [aside:] Stop...
  5. Active like a monkey

    Symptoms of rajo-guna -- very active, but just like monkey. Monkeys are very active, but all injurious. Wherever they will sit, they "Gata-gata-gat-gat-gat." Not a single moment they are inactive, but all foolishness. That is passion. And goodness means knowledge. So in the previous verse it is described how to come to the platform of goodness. When one comes to the platform of goodness, then he becomes prasanna-manasa, because he is not attacked by the modes of ignorance and...
  6. Celebrating birthdays

    (Excerpt from Tamal Krsna Maharaja's speech during Srila Prabhupada's Vyasa-puja, Hungary, 1999-09-05) ... So for those of you who will have children and if you want to celebrate your child´s birthday then you should understand that on that day your child should give gifts to others. Srila Prabhupada heard one day that a cake was made in honour of one of our leading sanyassis in Mayapur on account of his birthday and Srila Prabhupada did not approve of this.
  7. Associating with the supreme president

    One can chant Hare Krsna anywhere. Children, for example, also chant and dance. It is not at all difficult. While walking, our students take their beads with them and chant. Where is the loss? But the gain is very great, for by chanting we associate with Krsna personally. Suppose we were to associate personally with the President. How proud we would feel. "Oh, I am with the President." So should we not feel very much proud if we were...
  8. Fear of Editing

    Your fear that the entire society will be in danger by Raymond's editing of the Gita is not very suitable remark. Rayarama may not be as qualified as you are, but his one qualification that he is fully surrendered to Krishna and his Spiritual Master is the first class recommendation for his editing any one of our literatures, because editing of Vedic literatures does not depend on academic education. It is clearly stated in the Upanisads that one who...
  9. “Good morning”

    Prabhupada: "...morning," what is the meaning? Sudama: Well, it's just actually become an expression of greeting. Literally, of course, it means that "I am pleased to see you, happy to meet you. Good morning." Prabhupada: Anyone else? Satsvarupa: In English when we say, "Goodbye," that means "God be with you." Some God consciousness. Pradyumna: They say, "Good morning. Good morning to you." Bali-mardana: Like one pig grunting at another pig.