Manihara: What is the actual benefit that a karmi will get when he takes prasadam? Prabhupada: Prasadam means the mercy of Krsna. By eating, you are getting mercy. Krsna bado doyamoy koribare jihva jay swa-prasad-anna dilo bhai. Swa-prasad-anna dilo bhai. Sei prasada anna pao radha-krsna-guna gao preme dako caitanya-nitai. Krsna bado doyamoy. Because we want eating, so He […]

There was a poetry by Rabindranath Tagore. The purport of the poetry is that one who is mischievous, he is culprit. But one who tolerates mischievous activity, he is also culprit. If you are mischievous, you are criminal. But if you tolerate mischievous activities that is also criminal. 

…vama-svabhava, “mild and gentle by nature.” A good man or woman accepts anything very easily, but a man of average intelligence does not do so. But, anyway, we should not give up our reason and discriminatory power just to be gentle. One must have good discriminatory power to judge a thing on its merit. We should not follow […]

Everyone is in a bona fide disciplic succession provided he keeps that tradition. Apani acari prabhu jive sikhaila. One must behave that “I belong to this disciplic succession. I must keep myself fit for the post.” Then it is all right. If he deviates, then he deviates the disciplic succession. Hare Krsna. Caitanya Mahaprabhu says frankly that… This is […]

Caitanya Mahaprabhu, He was behaving in His life and that He was teaching. Behave like a spiritual man. Then you can teach. If you don’t behave, then how you can teach?

Caitanya Mahaprabhu has taught us kirtaniyah sada harih [Cc. Adi 17.31]. Then preksaniya, “He is worth seeing.” We are accustomed to see so many things. That is our bondage. Aksnoh phalam. If by the eyes you see the Deity, the Vaisnavas, with tilaka, with kunti, with chanting beads, as soon as you see… And practically you know. As soon […]

A sane man is always fearful of falling from his position. This is a regulative principle. One should not fall from his exalted position. The highest goal of life can be achieved as long as one’s body is stout and strong. We should therefore live in such a way that we keep ourselves always healthy and strong in mind […]

Schooling is meant especially for brahmanas; previously there was no question of schooling for ksatriyas, vaisyas or sudras. Ksatriyas used to learn the technology of warfare, and vaisyas learned business from their fathers or other businessmen; they were not meant to study the Vedas. At present, however, everyone goes to school, and everyone is given the same type of education, […]

Guru is respected as good as God. Why? Only for this qualification, that he does not speak anything nonsense. He speaks only what he has heard from the acarya. From Srila Prabhupada’s lecture on Srimad-Bhagavatam 1.7.5 — September 4, 1976, Vrndavana

Anyone whose work is not meant to elevate him to religious life, anyone whose religious ritualistic performances do not raise him to renunciation, and anyone situated in renunciation that does not lead him to devotional service to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, must be considered dead, although he is breathing.

When one is advanced in devotional service, while sleeping he also serves Krsna. That means twenty-four hours, satatam. Because in sleeping you also dream, so what we do during daytime we dream at night. So if one is cent per cent engaged in Krsna’s service, naturally he’ll dream also at night. I have seen one […]

Yesterday evening we had very good meeting in Harvard University, and many students and professors attended. There were nice discussions and they are convinced that our activities are genuine and for the real welfare of thehuman society. And actually it is so. We are not adulterating the transcendental message with any mundane rubbish. If we […]