The devotees of the Lord are always transcendental, even if they are sometimes found to have fallen in their behavior. The Lord emphatically declares in the Bhagavad-gita (9.30) that even if an unalloyed devotee is found to be fallen due to a previous material contamination, he is nevertheless to be accepted as fully transcendental because of his being engaged cent […]

There are many students who, in spite of reading the Bhagavad-gita, misunderstand Krsna because of imperfect knowledge and conclude Him to be an ordinary historical personality. This one must not do. One should be particularly careful to understand the truth about Krsna. If because of laziness one does not come to know Krsna conclusively, one will be misguided about the […]

Don’t think that the sex happiness is less in dog’s life than the sex happiness in the life of human being. No. The pleasure of sex life, either in the hog’s body or in the dog’s body or in the man’s body, it is the same. We have several times informed that if you put something eatable in […]

You may please me the most by reading my books and following the instructions therein and by becoming fully Krishna Conscious in this life time. Srila Prabhupada, in a letter to Bahurupa — Bombay 22 November, 1974

I am very glad that Krsna has sent so many nice boys and girls to help me. Be blessed on this auspicious day. And there is nothing mine. I am simply a postal peon. I am delivering to you what I have heard from my Guru Maharaja. Simply you also act in the same way, and you will […]

Those karmis who think themselves selfless are still covered by material desire, but they hide the desires for sense pleasure that live in the core of their hearts by practicing piety — patriotism, giving food and cloth to the poor, constructing hospitals, digging ponds, giving water, and honoring guests. Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Prabhupada, quoted in Vaktrtavali: Garland of Divine Discourses. […]

According to the revealed scriptures, if a spiritual master can convert even one soul into a perfectly pure devotee, his mission in life is fulfilled. Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura always used to say, “Even at the expense of all the properties, temples and mathas that I have, if I could convert even one person into a pure devotee, my […]

These Gosvamis, although they occupied very exalted positions, they were living in Vrndavana as a very, very poor mendicant. They will not live underneath a tree more than one night, because one may develop some attachment after living two or three nights. There is a process for the sannyasis. A sannyasi cannot live in a place more than three […]

I have given them a sort of hope that if they take to Krsna Consciousness their problems will be solved. It is not my mental concoction, but I believe in the words of Narottama Dasa Thakura that the shelter of the Lotus Feet of Lord Nityananda is as cooling effectively as the combined moonshine of millions of moons. So […]

Devotee: Prabhupada? We know that His Divine Grace Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati always sat very erect and it is stated here in the Bhagavad-gita that one should sit erect. Will this aid us in our concentrating on chanting our japa, if we try to concentrate, if we sit erect while chanting? Prabhupada: No, no, it doesn’t require any sitting posture. […]

Jagai-Madhai were born in nice brahmana family, but due to bad association, they became drunkard, prostitute hunters, gambler and meat-eater. So they were simply creating disturbance on the street, and there was a crowd. Lord Nityananda saw the crowd and inquired from persons, “What is this crowd?” Lord Nityananda and Haridasa Thakura were out for preaching. So people informed that […]

We have to take little patience. That is preaching work. Don’t be impatient. Let us do our duty on behalf of Krsna. Even the result is not very appreciable, still we have to do it. This is preaching. Just like Nityananda Prabhu. He was hurt by Jagai-Madhai. Still, He determined, “No, these two boys must be delivered.” This is […]