Therefore having a bona fide spiritual master and serving him and pleasing him and getting his mercy is essential. Otherwise there can be no advancement in Krishna consciousness. And unless the spiritual master is a pure devotee of Krishna then he has no potency to give you Krishna. He is simply a cheating rascal. So […]

Human civilization begins from the stage of varnasrama-dharma. Srila Prabhupada, Bg 2.31, purport

As soon as you offer yourself to be enjoyed by Krsna as servant, according to His order you serve, then immediately you are in the spiritual world. So you can become in the material world or spiritual world, as you desire. As you desire. If you want to remain in the spiritual world, this temple […]

Prabhupada: …five items: no illicit sex, no gambling, no intoxication, no meat-eating, and chant sixteen rounds. Is it very difficult task? Hamsaduta: No. Prabhupada: And why people do not take it? Hamsaduta: They are just foolish. Prabhupada: If by following these five principles one can be saved from all problems of life… Still, people will […]

Everyone is being misled by blind leaders, but the spiritual master opens the eyes. His qualification is that ee puts things as they are. If you get a bonafide spiritual master, then you get God. Then by his satisfaction, God becomes satisfied immediately. By his dissatisfaction, everything is finished. Srila Prabhupada, quoted in a letter […]

A living entity is happily the part and parcel of the Lord, and thus his natural function is to render immediate service to the Lord. By the spell of illusion one tries to be happy by serving his personal sense gratification in different forms which will never make him happy. Instead of satisfying his own […]