Swamiji has personally explained to me that where it says that one must offer all respects to others it means all others and not just Vaishnavas. Letter from Ramanuja, 8 Dec 1967

“I go on committing all kinds of sinful activities, and sometimes I go in the temple and chant Hare Krsna and dance,” no, don’t take this policy. You must stop your sinful activities. Hare Krsna mantra has got the power to neutralize the resultant action of your all sinful activities. That’s a fact. But don’t accumulate again the sinful […]

If one takes to Krsna consciousness, in the beginning there will be many disturbances caused by Maya, the material energy of illusion. Maya will test us to see how firmly we are fixed in Krsna consciousness. Because she is also an agent of Krsna, she does not allow anyone the freedom to disturb Krsna. Therefore she tests very […]

There is a story, I may narrate it. One poor man was begging on the street, and Lord Siva and Parvati was passing as ordinary man. So Parvati requested Lord Siva that this poor man, he’s asking, he’s begging, so requested him, “Why don’t you give him something?” And Lord Siva replied, “Even if I give, he’ll not […]

Parvati is perpetually asking her husband about spiritual matters, everything, and the husband is replying. That is the duty of husband, and that is also the duty of wife. Wife should get enlightenment from the husband, and she should give service. The husband is well situated; she is not discomforted, always looking to the comfort of the husband. […]

Dhruva Maharaja, by his meditation, startled the whole universe. And we are so many, and by our devotional service cannot we startle the whole America? [laughs] Is it not possible? That is possible. If we go according to the prescribed, we can startle by that spiritual power. That is possible. In Calcutta we defeated Ramakrishna Mission. Nobody is […]

People do not come to us, but we are going, canvassing. This is the position. Solution is there, but they do not come to us for solution. We are going door to door all over the world, that “Here is the solution, sir. Here is the solution.” But they do not take, what can I do? This is […]