1. Think of Srila Prabhupada and go BTG

    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...
  2. No comparison to the fortune of Mother Yasoda

    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...
  3. That is Vrndavana

    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.
  4. Hear about Krsna, dream about Krsna

    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.
  5. When Govinda plays His flute

    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.
  6. Radha-Krsna parakiya love and its perversion

    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...
  7. Fully absorbed in thoughts of Krsna, like the gopis

    One should be fully absorbed in thoughts of Krsna, twenty-four hours a day. There are many devotees in raga-marga, which is exhibited in Vrndavana. Whether in dasya-rasa, sakhya-rasa, vatsalya-rasa or madhurya-rasa, all the devotees of Krsna are always overwhelmed by thoughts of Krsna. When Krsna is away from Vrndavana tending the cows in the forest, the gopis, in the madhurya-rasa, are always absorbed in thoughts of how Krsna walks in the forest. The soles of His feet are so soft...
  8. Krsna likes simple life in Vrndavana village

    This Krsna consciousness movement is trying to revive the original, constitutional position. So one of them, in Krsna consciousness movement, is village organization, as you are trying here. Krsna, in His natural life, is a village boy in Vrndavana. Vrndavana is a village. There is no factory, there is no motorcar, there is no big, big skyscraper buildings; it is village. That Krsna likes. In the sastra it is said, vrndavanam parityajya padam ekam na gacchati.