A man has served the family with heart and soul throughout the whole life, and when he is old man, if he asks permission from his wife, “My dear wife, now I have served so much. Let me take sannyasa now,” the wife will never give permission. She will say, “What you have done? I […]

In India the practice was hand grind [wheat] daily. The women will do that. That’s exercise for them, and they keep their body fit and beautiful. In the morning they chant Hare Krsna and grind. Whatever they require for the day, they grind fresh. And actually, by this exercise, they keep their body beautiful. Yasodamayi […]

A girl is married to a husband. She’s hankering after a child. So if she thinks that “Now I am married, I must have immediately a child.” Is it possible? Just have patience. You just become faithful wife, serve your husband, and let your love grown up and because you are husband and wife, it […]

No luxuries. Live very simple life and you save time for chanting Hare Krsna. That is my desire. Don’t waste time for bodily comforts. You have got this body. You have to eat something. You have to cover yourself. So produce your own food and produce your own cloth. Don’t waste time for luxury, and […]

Suicide is not justified. It is violation of nature’s law. Nature gives you a certain type of body to live in it for certain days, and suicide means you go against the laws of nature, you untimely stop the duration of life. Therefore he becomes a criminal. Suicide is criminal even in ordinary state laws. […]

When we are children, innocent, we have no bad habits, but as we grow and associate with bad company, we also acquire all these bad habits. So to give up all these bad habits means we have to associate with sadhus or devotees, saintly persons. Then we can give it up. This is called anartha-nivrtti, […]

Spiritual anxiety means you are advancing in spiritual life, and material anxiety means you are going downhill. From Srila Prabhupada’s lecture on Bhagavad-gita 16.11-12 — 7 February,1975

Maya is so strong that as soon as I am sitting in a solitary place, then I’ll think of money and women. Therefore we should live always in assembly and chant Hare Krsna and save ourself from the danger of material falldown. From Srila Prabhupada’s lecture on Bhagavad-gita 16.11-12 — 7 February, 1975

Atmarama means one who is satisfied with his self. He is called atmarama. Because self is the basic principle of this body, the soul, so one who is satisfied with his soul, he is called atmarama, or self-realized person. One who seeks pleasure externally, he is materialist, and one who seeks pleasure internally, he is […]

If you want perfection in your business, then you must try to satisfy the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Otherwise you are simply wasting your time. Srila Prabhupada; as quoted in Journey of Self-discovery 6.3: Spiritual Advice to Businessmen.

The more you cleanse the temple, the more you decorate the Deity, more your heart becomes cleansed and you become spiritually decorated. So cleanliness is next to godliness. Material world means dirty things and spiritual world means clean. Srila Prabhupada — 4 February, 1977

All over the world, there cannot be peace unless you reform the whole social structure, and that can be done only by this movement, Krsna consciousness. Only by this movement. From Srila Prabhupada’s lecture on Srimad-Bhagavatam 6.1.56–62 — January 3, 1971, Surat