The more one feels imperfect in Krishna’s service, the more he is advancing in Krishna Consciousness. Even the topmost devotees feel they are inadequate in their service to the Lord. So it is good to feel inadequate, and to try harder to please Krishna with better service. But one should never feel, oh, I have […]

Abhayam means we are always afraid. We are always agitated, anxiety, because I am thinking, “I am this body.” But if you are completely realized that you are not this body, you are something else, spirit soul, then I am immediately free from anxieties. That is called abhayam — no more fear, no more anxiety. […]

I have noted with great pleasure that you are opening a new centre in Bloomington, Indiana. You are fixing up your new place very nicely, that will attract men to come there. But always remember that our first business is preaching and distributing literatures, never mind we have to live under a tree. But because […]

Decorate the Deity as nicely as possible with nice flowers and dress. You will forget all other false beauty. From Srila Prabhupada’s letter to Kirtanananda — Seattle 22 October, 1968

There is example in the Bhagavata that in the rainy season, when the sky is covered with clouds, the glowworms become very prominent. Glowworms. But when the sky is clear, there is moonshine, these glowworms have no meaning. So in the world there are so many glowworms, because real knowledge is covered. They do not […]

Lord Caitanya’s philosophy — that is the greatest contribution to the world — that these living entities who are hankering after happiness by different process. By material process, by philosophical process, by mental concoction or mental process they are trying, and Lord Krsna also said — they are trying — but that happiness is available […]

The Supreme Personality of Godhead appeared on the full-moon day as Gauracandra, or the spotless transcendental moon. The material moon has spots on it, but on the transcendental moon, Gauracandra, there are no spots. In order to fix the purified mind in the service of the Supreme Lord, one has to worship the spotless moon, […]

Study this Caitanya-caritamrta. Now we have got this English edition, very elaborately described, following the footsteps of our Guru Maharaja, Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura Prabhupada. So there is no such edition of Caitanya-caritamrta, very elaborately described. But it can be understood by the advanced student. It can be… And so… Advanced, you can, anyone, you can […]

Everyone can be raised to the platform of Krsna consciousness. There is no difficulty. That is Caitanya Mahaprabhu’s movement. So from early in the morning He is teaching. Udilo aruna purava bhage dwija mani gora amani jage [When the rising sun appeared in the East, the jewel of the twice-born, Lord Gaurasundara, awakened]. He was […]

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