Beginning from Brahma down to the small insect, they are all in ignorance, all fools and rascals. That is the constitutional position. Nobody should be proud of his knowledge. Everyone is a rascal. Everyone. Here it is said, klisyamananam avidya-kama-karmabhih. So Brahma is desiring that “If I can get the opportunity, the post of Brahma, […]

Jawaharlal Nehru, first prime minister of independent India (1947–64), died May 27, 1964. Srila Prabhupada: Intelligent policy to kill India’s spiritual status. Because there was one Britisher politician, Lord Macaulay. He studied the whole Indian situation. They were very expert politicians. So he reported that “If you keep Indians as Indians, you’ll never be able […]

Every individual being must have his opinion; that is the significance of individuality, but all such differences of opinions must coincide in Krishna. From Srila Prabhupada’s letter to Mandali Bhadra — Los Angeles 28 July,1969

Sometimes by association of the great, one appears great. Just like the sun is great heat and light, and by reflecting the greatness of the sun’s light the moon in dead of night also appears great, but actually the moon is by nature dark and cold, but in association with sun it has become accepted […]

Simply we have to desire to please Him, and not desire anything for ourselves. Then we become simply instruments for His will. This is the important essence of Krsna consciousness. From Srila Prabhupada’s letter to Atreya Rsi — Bombay 20 October, 1973

Maya is on the back side of Krsna and if we keep ourselves always in front side of Krsna, engaged in His service, then the external energy on the back side of Krsna will not be able to attack us. From Srila Prabhupada’s letter to Bhagavan — Tokyo 20 August, 1970

Anything can be done by practice. So if we take krsna-prasadam, the tongue is restricted, locked to some limited… Then our all other senses become controlled. Srila Prabhupada, Conversation — October 21, 1977, Vrndavana

The birth of a human being is a great science, and therefore reformation of the act of impregnation according to the Vedic ritual called Garbhadhana-samskara is very important for generating good population. The problem is not to check the growth of the population, but to generate good population on the level of Vidura, Vyasa and […]

Prabhupada: One who is not God-conscious, one who does not know that he is not body, he is animal. That’s all. Maybe in different dress, in different… So you have to set up real human society in a small scale so people will see, “Yes.” Because man has got intelligence. Just like, although I am […]

My dear Arundhati, Please accept my blessings. I am in due receipt of your letter dated July 19, 1972, and I am simply surprised that you want to give up your child to some other persons, even they are also devotees. For you, child-worship is more important than deity-worship. If you cannot spend time with […]

We are Arms of the Lord, because we are fighting against the influence of Maya, or the non-devotees. Actually we the Krishna Conscious people are soldiers of the Lord, or Arms of the Lord, and because we are energy at the same time, because all living entities are energy of the Lord, so energy is […]

There are two verses in the Canakya Sloka how a family or an institution can be glorified or burned into ashes by one person. Canakya Pandit says that if there is one tree in the forest producing nice aromatic flower, that one tree can glorify the whole forest by the flavor of its flower. Similarly […]