[Srila Prabhupada addresses the question, "After you, who will take the leadership?"] Everyone will take, all my disciples. If you want, you can take also. But if you follow. They are prepared to sacrifice everything, so they'll take the leadership. I may, one, go away, but there will be hundreds, and they'll preach. If you want, you can also become a leader. We have no such thing, that "Here is leader." Anyone who follows the previous leadership, he's a leader....

Whenever an acarya comes, following the superior orders of the Supreme Personality of Godhead or His representative, he establishes the principles of religion, as enunciated in Bhagavad-gita. Religion means abiding by the orders of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Religious principles begin from the time one surrenders to the Supreme Personality of Godhead. It is the acarya's duty to spread a bona fide religious system and induce everyone to bow down before the Supreme Lord.

Prabhupada: And in paramahamsa stage there is no such discrimination. He sees everyone is engaged in service of the Lord. He does not envy anyone, he does not see anything, anybody. But that is another stage. We should not imitate, try to imitate, but we may know that paramahamsa is the highest stage of perfection. Just like as a preacher we have to point out... Just like I told this boy, "You sit down like this." But a paramahamsa...

To the most exalted, unlimitedly decorated Sri Srimad Swami Bhaktivedantajib Maharaja: O great preacher of Vedic culture, Formerly, a great many svamis went to foreign countries, but now you have wonderfully preached the sankirtana movement and the sublime philosophy of the bhakti cult in the Western countries, and that is the only means for giving peace and prosperity to all people of the world in this age. For preaching religion and culture, your holy name will remain ever dazzling. O most revered...

One evening, after an unusual number of impertinent questions, Hrdayananda Mahdrdja stopped translating and instructed the crowd not to ask nonsensical questions. Immediately one of the ladies raised her hand. "I've heard from the devotees," she began, "that at the time of leaving my body it will be a very important test for my life for getting my next body. I've also heard from the devotees that it is important for us to think of Lord Krsna at that...

You can hold the day after Diwali the Anakut Govardhana ceremony. There should be heaps of prasadam.

We are in Vrndavana-dhama. So why Vrndavana-dhama is worshiped? Because the Vrndavana-dhama is not different from Krsna. When you take little dust of Vrndavana-dhama and take it, that means you are taking the dust of Krsna's lotus feet, and you take it. Vrndavana-dhama, so important.

Nanda Maharaja and Yasoda are accepted as the father and mother of Krsna, yet Mother Yasoda was more fortunate than Nanda Maharaja, Krsna's father, because Nanda Maharaja was sometimes separated from Krsna whereas Yasoda, Krsna's mother, was not separated from Krsna at any moment. From Krsna's babyhood to His childhood and from His childhood to His youth, Mother Yasoda was always in association with Krsna. Even when Krsna was grown up, He would go to Vrndavana and sit on...

There are living entities who are eternally conditioned and there are living entities eternally liberated. The eternally liberated souls, living entities, they are with Krsna, they're dancing with Krsna, because they have no other desire than to satisfy Krsna. That is the difference between eternally conditioned and eternally liberated. Eternally liberated means they have no other desire.

In our childhood, we saw every village, every town, the transcendental knowledge. Any common man could speak about Ramayana, Mahabharata, Lord Krsna. And system was -- still there are, but practically closed now -- that in the evening, in the village, everyone should assemble in a place to hear messages from Mahabharata, Ramayana, especially, because these two books can be understood by common man.

When Govinda plays His flute, the peacocks immediately become mad, as if they had heard the rumbling of a new cloud. When all the animals and trees and plants, either on the top of Govardhana Hill or in the valley, see the dancing of the peacocks, they all stand still and listen to the transcendental sound of the flute with great attention.

Everything is there [in the spiritual world]. Otherwise if everything is not there, they cannot be manifested here because it is reflection. Of course, this discovery is by the Vaisnava, Gaudiya Vaisnava. Just like the love between Radha and Krsna, it is called parakiya. They are not married husband and wife. But Radharani appears to be wife of some other gentleman. But Krsna, from childhood, They were friends. So Radharani could not forget Krsna. She used to come to Krsna...