nama om visnu-padaya krsna-presthaya bhu-talesrimate bhaktivedanta-svamin iti naminenamas te sarasvate deve gaura-vani-pracarinenirvisesa-sunyavadi-pascatya-desa-tarine My most dear Srila Prabhupada, you are my life. Your orders and your mission are the only meaning to my life. Despite my chronic dismay and trepidation at the condition of your movement, I also feel increasing enthusiasm in service to your mission. […]

Student life means complete celibacy, but that is not observed in your country, rather they are indirectly encouraged by distribution of contraceptive pills. If things are allowed to go on like this, the future of the Western world is very dark. By such unrestricted association of young boys and girls, is gradually turning them to […]

Just like we are, in this old age, we are wandering all over the world to see that “Let everyone become happy by Krsna consciousness.” It is not that we love only our countrymen, only Hindus, or Bengalis, or Madrasis, or… No. We love everyone, even the animals. But because human being can understand the […]

(A meditation suitable for both Janmastami and Vyasa-puja) Some people complain that when they pray to God they do not feel His presence. We should know that this is due to our incapacities, not God’s. There are two conceptions of presence — the physical conception and the vibrational conception. The physical conception is temporary, whereas […]

Krsna says, “I appear in this material world. I appear just like ordinary child appears. I take birth.” Actually, Krsna does not take birth. If you read Bhagavata, you will see how He appeared. Anyway, even if you take Him that He appeared as the son of Vasudeva or Mother Yasoda… You can say that […]

Appearance and disappearance of God is for the devotees. Paritranaya sadhunam vinasaya ca duskrtam. God comes for two businesses, to give protection to the devotee, and to kill the demons. So, for killing the demons He does not require to come. He has got immense power. Simply by His indication any person can be killed, […]

The body of Krsna, the ocean of the eternal beauty of youth, can be seen to move in waves of beauty, and there is a whirlwind at the sound of His flute. Those waves and that whirlwind make the hearts of the gopis flutter like dry leaves on trees, and when those leaves fall down […]

Devotee (1): Swamiji? Is it possible for us to worship Krsna purely in this lifetime? Prabhupada: Why not? Do you think we are simply wasting our time with this process? Why lifetime? Within a second you can do. It is spiritual process. It is not material process, that you require so much time. No. It […]

Krsna is gopika-kanta. Radha-kanta. That is Krsna’s real identification. He is gopika-kanta, and He is Radha-kanta. This relationship with Krsna and gopis is the highest perfectional realization of the Absolute Truth. Srila Prabhupada — 29 March, 1975

One should not endeavor for ugra-karma, or unnecessary work for sense gratification. Nunam pramattah kurute vikarma yad indriya-pritaya aprnoti (SB 5.5.4). Simply for sense gratification, people make plans for material happiness. Maya-sukhaya bharam udvahato vimudhan (SB 7.9.43). They do this because they are all vimudhas, rascals. For flickering happiness, people waste their human energy, not […]

The demigods are situated in the mode of goodness, but sometimes even one who is situated in such an exalted position as King Indra, the king of all the demigods, falls down because of material opulence. We are now actually seeing this in America. The entire American nation has tried to advance in material opulence […]

Accompanied by the cowherd boys and Balarama, Krsna brought forward the cows and played on His flute as He entered the forest of Vrndavana, which was full of flowers, vegetation and pasturing grass. The Vrndavana forest was as sanctified as the clear mind of a devotee and was full of bees, flowers and fruits. There […]