Prabhupada: Hare Krsna. So last night our explanation was right? Professor Durckheim: Yes. Lots of people of the country was in the football, was going in the football. Hamsaduta: This week is the big world football matches. So everyone goes to see that. They either stay at home and watch television or they go to the fields. Prabhupada: Because they

As a matter of Principle please read 'Back to Godhead' and revive your deeper aspect of personality. There is nothing in it, which is our ideology manufactured by imperfect sense-perception but all that it contains are messages of our liberated sages. We are simply helping them to speak again to men, and women in easy language for real life. Every responsible men and women must therefore

A dog, the body is dog's body; it must live as dog. But even a dog can be made a devotee. It doesn't matter. Because he has got the body of a dog it does not mean that he cannot be made a devotee. It can be trained. As you train the dog how to bite others at night, so you can train the dog also how to become devotee.

My advice to you under the circumstances is that at least for one hour you must all go to have Sankirtana outside on the streets or in the park. That is your life and soul, first business. The next business is completing the chanting of 16 rounds every day. The next business is your editing, and if you find extra time, then you can attend the

1) A real brahmana never hoards money for a luxurious life, like the ksatriyas or the vaisyas, but always keeps himself poverty-stricken, knowing that money diverts the mind to materialistic ways of life. To live in this way is the vow of a qualified brahmana. (From Krsna Book) 2) The brahmanas should live by spreading knowledge and should therefore take contributions from their disciples. (From SB 4.21.50 ppt.)

All the sannyasis of Ramakrishna Mission, they eat meat, they drink, they have woman secretary, and everything. Unless one is purely Krsna conscious, one cannot give up all these bad habits. Unless one is substantially advanced in krsna-bhakti, they cannot give up this material attachment — illicit sex, meat-eating. They cannot. It is impossible. So even in the name of

Yesterday on the beach I was talking with Karandhara, "Why your country does not allow to marry more than one wife?" He said they think it is immoral. I do not know what is the ethics or psychology behind it, but giving opportunity for the girls to become prostitute is not immoral? To marry more than one wife is immoral? You see your leaders. This is the leaders. Why? Because there is no varnasrama-dharma, they do not know. The...

Yasodanandana: I think that some of the comments of Your Divine Grace, some of the purports of the Fourth Canto of Srimad-Bhagavatam, if they come to the notice of the Indian government, it may give us some... They may seriously consider about banning, because in that one purport you openly criticize how unfortunate the citizens are because they have a woman as the prime minister, and in another purport you openly say that

Srila Prabhupada said: If you simply read Krsna book... then you become delivered from these clutches of repetition of birth and death." [Lecture, Bhagavad-gita As It Is 4.9, Bombay, 29 March, 1974]

This morning's beach walk gave rise to a long, interesting conversation between Prabhupada and the barefoot Dr. Patel. Srila Prabhupada explained everything to him — from the uselessness of vegetarianism, to the perfection of Communism. As far as being vegetarian goes, Prabhupada told us about a Jain monk who came to meet him in Berkeley, America. When Prabhupada had asked

The chanting process is that you chant with your tongue Hare Krsna and hear. That's all. Then you are saved. Hare Krsna must be chanted by the use of tongue, and you hear it, that's all. Where is the difficulty? Everything may come, but this is the process. This is the process. Chant Hare Krsna and become happy. Nothing is difficult in...