Devotee (3): How can one rid oneself of sex desire if one continues to chant, continuously chant Hare Krsna, and is still being plagued by desire for sex? Prabhupada: If you chant Hare Krsna seriously… The examples are there. Therefore Haridasa Thakura, he was chanting Hare Krsna, and some envious person engaged some very beautiful […]

Regarding your questions, “I read in a book sent from India that Srila Bhaktivinode Thakura was sent directly by Lord Sri Caitanya from the spiritual sky. I am not sure if the book was bona fide. Is the above true? Someone, a God-brother brought up that he heard that Srila Bhaktivinode was at one time […]

We take a newspaper and we read what the politician says, what so many nonsense things. We waste our time. Srama eva hi kevalam [SB 1.2.8]. We should increase our taste for hearing and chanting about Visnu, Krsna. From Srila Prabhupada’s lecture on Srimad-Bhagavatam 7.5.23-24 — 31 March, 1976

Your tendency to give Srila Jiva Goswami the proper position of philosopher is very much appreciated. Some years back I attended a meeting in Calcutta wherein Pramathanath Tarkabhusan, the learned Sanskrit scholar, was present. He said about Jiva Goswami very highly, that there was no comparison with Jiva Goswami and any other philosophers of the […]

I shall tell you one story from Madras. It is not a good one, because I am using myself as an example, which is not very becoming, but ultimately what happened was all Prabhupada’s mercy. I was the first devotee from ISKCON to go to Madras, in 1971. In Madras there are many Shaivas and […]

We act according to our whims, and the resultant action is there immediately. The nature’s law, God’s law, is there. We have got experience that if we infect some disease, contaminous disease, then we must suffer from that disease. So it is not God’s creation that somebody is suffering from some painful condition and somebody […]

Krsna alone is not particularly beautiful, but when His energy — especially His pleasure energy, represented by Radharani — expands, He looks very magnificent. From Srila Prabhupada’s Krsna Book, ch. 32: Krsna Returns to the Gopis

“In Vrndavana, Srimati Radharani must be dancing. If Radharani were ever to stop dancing in Vrndavana, this whole business [the creation] would be finished.” So Radharani never stops dancing. It is eternally one of the things She does for the pleasure of Krsna.” Srila Prabhupada then began to speak about Her cooking. He said that […]

Women are by nature endowed with many artistic tendencies, and from the Vedic age we find that high grade women and girls were highly qualified in sixty-four arts. Srimati Radharani was fully qualified in those arts, and therefore, by Her super-excellent transcendental qualities, she could charm Krsna who is the charmer of the three worlds. […]

Prabhupada: I have traveled all over the world, and this is my experience. Nobody knows how to eat. Only India. In every province they have got different dishes. Because the woman, they are trained up how to cook very nice. Woman is meant for that purpose, how to make nice palatable dishes. In Bengal there […]

When we ask from Krsna anything other than devotional service, that is pious activities. That is not devotional activity. Devotional activity is different from pious activity. By pious activities you can get material, so-called happiness, janmaisvarya-sruta-sri [SB 1.8.26]. You can get birth in very nice family, rich family, brahmana family, janma; and you can get […]