Woman should be expert in cooking. That is their natural tendency. They should be educated how to cook nicely, how to please the husband, how to take care of the children. This is Vedic civilization. In the beginning a woman, childhood, she’s trained up by the mother. Then as soon as she is married, formerly, child-marriage, so she’s transferred […]

Bill Sauer: I believe that materialism has a divine purpose. Prabhupada: Everything has got divine purpose. But if you do not understand the divine purpose, then you remain animal. This human form of life is given to us by the laws of nature to understand what is God, what we are, what is our relationship with God, what […]

Both for spiritual and material prosperity, everyone should devotedly chant the Hare Krsna mantra. (From Srila Prabhupada’s purport to SB 4.14.37)  

Devotee: Srila Prabhupada, sometimes when we go preaching, people do not want to take Krsna consciousness. Sometimes they actually… Prabhupada: So if they want to take, then where is the question of preaching? Because they do not want to take, you have to preach. Otherwise, where is the necessity of preaching? [laughter] You have to prepare yourself in such […]

Jaya Gauranga: One time I brought my father to see Srila Prabhupada. My father used to live in Beverly Hills when he was conducting an orchestra for the Los Angeles Metropolitan Opera Company. He was a big shot. He had been a medical doctor so he was a little puffed up, always looking down at people and especially me […]

There is a civil service examination before one man is posted in some responsible office. Similarly, to be recognized by Krsna, as He says, na ca tasman manusyesu [Bg. 18.69], one has to pass examination, severe test of examination. All the big, big devotees we see. Narada Muni, before becoming Narada Muni, he had to pass through severe examination, […]

“All right, you want flesh?” “No, I want flesh, but I want this big cow.” Why not a less important animal? There are so many other animals. The goats are there, the lambs are there, the hogs are there. Take them. Why Krsna says go-raksya? It is a very important animal. It will give you brain substance, this […]

By engaging the mind in Krsna, it is possible. The more you advance in Krsna consciousness, you’ll lose interest in this sex life. In Vaikuntha there is no sex life because the sex pleasure is not the foremost pleasure in the Vaikunthaloka. The sex pleasure is foremost here in this material world. They have got so much transcendental […]

It is true that Krishna has given some the opportunity to serve Him by nice writing, some by good business ability, some by nice cooking, and so on, but these various services are all accepted equally by Krishna. On the transcendental plane, one service is as good as another. There is no question of higher or lower. […]

We should always be in touch with Krishna the Supreme Personality of Godhead directly. That is by chanting Hare Krishna. From Srila Prabhupada’s letter to Ramesvara  —  Vrindaban 3 September, 1974

In Manila in 1972, as you [Srila Prabhupada], Jagattarini Mataji, and I sat alone in a room in the Hotel Intercontinental awaiting the start of your lecture, you requested: “My desire is that all living beings in the universe go back to Godhead. You please help me with this desire. Vyasa-puja offering 2006, Bhurijana Prabhu

Wherever she used to go, there was typhoid fever, so many people suffering, but she was not suffering. So by analysis of the blood, it was found that this girl, the blood was full of typhoid germs, but she was so strong that she could resist. She was not suffering, but wherever she used to go, everyone was infected […]