It is the desire of Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu that the benevolent activities of the sankirtana movement, which was inaugurated five hundred years ago in Navadvipa, be spread all over the world for the benefit of all human beings. Unfortunately, there are many so-called followers of Caitanya Mahaprabhu who are satisfied simply to construct a temple, […]

Lord Caitanya is the shelter of the demigods, the goal of the Upanisads, the be-all and end-all of the great sages, the beautiful shelter of His devotees, and the essence of the love of the lotus-eyed gopis. Will He again be the object of my vision? Prathama Sri Caitanyastaka 2, from the Stava-mala of Srila […]

On the mirror if there is dust, you cannot see your face very nicely. If you wipe the mirror very nicely… So this Hare Krsna chanting is the process of wiping out the dust accumulated on the mirror of my mind. From Srila Prabhupada’s lecture on Bhagavad-gita 13.6-7 — Montreal, October 25, 1968

The injunction is, “Thou shall not kill,” but he will kill and kill and kill and kill, and still, he wants to be satisfied. Just see. The Bible says, “Thou shall not kill,” and they are simply engaged in killing business, and still they want to be happy. Just see the fun. Therefore Krsna says, […]

All the various activities exhibited by the incarnations of the Supreme Personality of Godhead are certainly pleasing to the ear and to the mind. Simply by one’s hearing of these activities, the dirty things in one’s mind immediately vanish. Generally we are reluctant to hear about the activities of the Lord, but Krsna’s childhood activities […]

Hayagriva: Plato states that time began with the creation of the material world. And how does this comply with the Vedic statement that time is eternal? Prabhupada: Yes, time is eternal. The present, past, present, the three features of time, it is relative. What is your past or your future, that is not past, future, […]