This program of chanting and following the rules and regulations will give you spiritual intelligence for understanding the Bhagavad gita and our other scriptures also.

Sleeping is very dangerous. It is to be understood that I am under the clutches of maya, the more we sleep, because the symptom of tamo-guna is laziness and sleep. This is the symptom of tamo-guna, laziness and sleeping.

All these Visnu expansions, they are almost like Krsna, a little difference, but Krsna, what is that difference? That also we can note. When Krsna was here, He manifested Himself as completely free from any rules and regulation, any rules and regulation. But other incarnation, when They come, They follow the rules and regulation.

Srimad-Bhagavatam 1.3.22, states: "In the eighteenth incarnation, the Lord appeared as King Rama. In order to perform some pleasing work for the demigods, He exhibited superhuman powers by controlling the Indian Ocean and then killing the atheist King Ravana, who was on the other side of the sea."

All the Vaisnavas, they are expert. Just like Rupa, Sanatana, expert management. Expert, even in worldly affairs. Not that "I am so much big devotee that I cannot manage worldly affairs." Expert. Must be expert. Daksa.

So long people will remain in darkness about Krsna consciousness, these things, rubbish things, will go on. I'll find out fault in you; you'll find out fault in me. That's all. Because the basic principle of material civilization is envy. I do not like you; you do not like me. That's all. Envy. Everywhere -- individually, nationally, socially, familywise -- everyone is envious.

ye tu tvadiya-caranambuja-kosa-gandham jighranti karna-vivaraih sruti-vata-nitam bhaktya grhita-caranah paraya ca tesam napaisi natha hrdayamburuhat sva-pumsam

Talking is the business of tongue, and tasting is the business of tongue. So you engage the tongue in the service of the Lord by glorifying. Whenever... You take a vow that "Whenever I shall speak, I shall simply speak, glorifying Krsna, nothing more." That is tongue control. If you don't allow your tongue to speak anything nonsense, gramya-katha... We sometimes sit together. We talk so many nonsense. That should be controlled. "Now I have engaged my tongue for...

Prabhupada talked briefly about Freud. He said that producing such a complicated philosophy and writing volumes of books just to understand sexual attraction, which is there naturally even in the pigs, is like bringing a cannon to kill a mosquito. "Big philosophy," he said, "is not required for these things."

Real religion means to know God, our relation with Him and our duties in relation with Him and to know ultimately our destination after leaving this material body.

asesa-sanklesa-samam vidhatte gunanuvada-sravanam murareh kim va punas tac-caranaravinda- paraga-seva-ratir atma-labdha Simply by chanting and hearing of the transcendental name, form, etc., of the Personality of Godhead, Sri Krsna, one can achieve the cessation of unlimited miserable conditions. Therefore what to speak of those who have attained attraction for serving the flavor of the dust of the Lord's lotus feet?

So future, past, present, future, whatever it has been, our past, or what is present, it doesn't matter. But if you take to Krsna consciousness movement, then our present and future, both are bright, undoubtedly.