1. Learn how to chant

    When one becomes devotee, beginning from the tongue, jihvadau, by chanting Hare Krsna mantra, sevonmukhe hi jihvadau, svayam eva sphuraty adhah, He becomes revealed. Yei nama sei krsna. That is the perfection of chanting without any offenses. Then you’ll find the name is not different from Krsna. When you are chanting, you’ll find Krsna is […]
  2. Better than vegetarian

    Simply to become vegetarian is not the last word. There are many vegetarians. The monkey is vegetarian. [chuckles] He’s naked and lives in a jungle. Just like there are so many so-called sages, that “I live naked. I live in the jungle. I have given up the society.” So monkey is doing that. Huh? [laughter] […]
  3. Vaccine

    From a government link to the particulars of Astra Zeneca: 1. NAME OF THE MEDICINAL PRODUCT COVID-19 Vaccine AstraZeneca, solution for injection in multidose container COVID-19 Vaccine (ChAdOx1-S [recombinant]) 2. QUALITATIVE AND QUANTITATIVE COMPOSITION One dose (0.5 ml) contains: COVID-19 Vaccine (ChAdOx1-S * recombinant) 5 . 1010 viral particles (vp) *Recombinant, replication-deficient chimpanzee adenovirus vector […]
  4. How marriage can be very nice

    SB 3.31.43, as rendered by Srila PrabhupadaA woman, therefore, should consider her husband, her house and her children to be the arrangement of the external energy of the Lord for her death, just as the sweet singing of the hunter is death for the deer. PURPORTIn these instructions of Lord Kapiladeva it is explained that […]
  5. Saving boys from becoming demons

    Very good-looking boy. Don’t let him deviate. This is the age to be careful so that he may not deviate. What is his age? Eleven. This is the age. Twelve to fifteen years, the boys become, by bad association, they become rotten. This hellish world is like that. They go to school and become demons. […]
  6. Devotee drunkard

    Param drstva nivartate [Bg 2.59]. Not by force, but appreciating something better condition of life, one rejects all this nonsense. That is advancement. Bhajana-kriya. By bhajana-kriya, by being initiated and executing the bhajana, now, one just be detestful. Then nistha. Tato nistha, firm faith. Tato rucih. Ruci means taste. You cannot do without it. Just […]
  7. The test of actual initiation

    That is the test that whether you are actually initiated. If you are still attached to these… Bhaktih paresanubhavo viraktih… If you are not detestful to all these nonsense habits, then you must know that you are not making any progress. You are not making any progress. Because this is the result: anartha-nivrttih syat. If […]
  8. Siva, pure spirit mixed with maya

    Siva is dahi (yogurt) and Krsna is milk. Dahi, the preparation of dahi that you take milk, pure milk, and mix it with little sour thing, then it becomes dahi. Similarly, Krsna is pure spirit, and when this pure spirit is mixed up with maya, that is Siva. From Srila Prabhupada’s lecture on Srimad-Bhagavatam 5.5.2 […]
  9. Maintaining an elephant

    Nowadays there are scarcity of food grains. Even the human being cannot eat sufficiently. But formerly the kings, they used to maintain elephants. They were supplied very nice capatis. Do you know that? Still there are kings, they have elephants. Therefore elephant can be maintained by very rich man. If suppose, if somebody comes, he […]
  10. Joyful, beautiful, flute-playing Krsna

    You’ll see, Krsna’s picture, always a flute in His hand. Always joyful. Because He’s the Supreme Lord, there is nothing moroseness. Always joyful. That is the symptom of spiritual life. You’ll see Krsna always smiling, always playing on His flute. As you see in this material world also, some boy, he has got a flute […]