Pusta Krsna: Now the incentive in modern society to become educated or to become engineer is money. What is the incentive in Vedic culture? Prabhupada: There is no need of money. The brahmana teaches everything free of charge. There is no question of money. Anyone can take education as a brahmana or a ksatriya, as a vaisya. but that is free. Just find out a brahmana

Indian man: Srila Prabhupadaji, regarding karma: one does his job every day, and if he spends some time in the evening in chanting Lord Krsna, do you approve this? Prabhupada: Oh, yes. Why not? Svalpam apy asya dharmasya trayate mahato bhayat [Bg. 2.40]. If you think of Krsna once, that will not go in vain. That is recorded. Svalpam apy asya dharmasya trayate mahato

Dr. Patel: I think the greatest damage done to this civilization of Aryans of India was by Macaulay, who introduced the British system of education. Prabhupada: But why you accepted that? [laughter] Why you accepted? Then why don't you accept? You should have refused. Dr. Patel: Well, we were not there to refuse. We came afterwards. Our forefathers gave us...

Nitai guna-mani amar nitai guna-mani — this is a song sung by Locana Dasa Thakura, almost a contemporary of Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu. He has got many books on the life and precepts of Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu. So he is saying that Lord Nityananda is full of good qualities, guna-mani. Guna-mani means the jewel of all qualities. So nitai guna-mani amar nitai guna-mani

Narottamo bado dukhi, Narottama dasa Thakura, the acarya, is taking the position that he is very unhappy. Actually, he is representing ourselves. He says, "My dear Lord, I am very unhappy." Nitai more koro sukhi "Therefore I am praying to Lord Nityananda to make me happy." Rakha ranga-caranera pasa. "Please keep me in a corner of Your lotus feet."

In the Western countries where there is no sun, it is hell, simply hell, simply hell without sun. All the condemned countries are devoid of sunlight. This morning we were speaking that London, it is without sunlight practically throughout the whole year. Long ago, in 1969, in the television, the television man asked me that "Where is hell?" and "It is here in London."

Bharata-varsa, the devatas, the demigods, they desire to take birth in India because here is the opportunity. Still, so much broken, you will find, you have seen, that when we hold this Hare Krsna festival, twenty thousand, fifty thousand men come automatically. You will find never in any other country. Still in India you will find that. Why? Because they have taken

During the rainy season, lightning appears in one group of clouds and then immediately in another group of clouds. This phenomenon is compared to a lusty woman who does not fix her mind on one man. A cloud is compared to a qualified person because it pours rain and gives sustenance to many people; a man who is qualified similarly gives sustenance to many living

We don't imagine God. Krsna is not imagination. He presented Himself 5,000 years ago as He is, and we are presenting Krsna as He is. We are presenting Krsna's philosophy and teaching as it is and what can we do more? But this process of presentation has become fortunate and we have become successful. I do not wish to change the process

My mind has become purified because I have associated with Advaita Acarya, who is directly the Supreme Personality of Godhead. He is unparalleled in His understanding of all the revealed scriptures and the devotional service of Lord Krsna. Therefore He is called Advaita Acarya. He is such a great personality that by His mercy He can convert even the meat-eaters

The yoga system, hatha-yoga system, is meant for this class of rascals, ajita. Yoga indriya-samyamah. Real meaning of yoga means controlling the senses. So because everyone is ajita-sad-varga — ajita means not conquered — so those who are too much addicted in the bodily concept of life, for them this hatha-yoga is prescribed. The purpose is to control the senses, not

Eating, sleeping, mating, and defending, they should be reduced, and come to the point, no sleeping, no eating. Just like Raghunatha dasa Gosvami. He came to that point, no sleeping, no eating. All the Gosvamis, they were not sleeping more than two hours. So why about Gosvamis? Even big karmis, like Subash Bose, Gandhi, they were also not sleeping. I heard that