The neophyte should also read and hear Bhagavad-gita and Srimad-Bhagavatam. If we simply try to see and don’t listen, the results will not be permanent. In some temples there are Deities but no discussion about Krsna. People attend for some time, but after a while they lose interest. Thus there must be two activities. The […]

Tamala Krsna: These two pujaris, the two brothers… Prabhupada: They’re ideal. Tamala Krsna: …they look like they’re out of the Caitanya-caritamrta. They appear as two persons right out of that book. Prabhupada: Yes. Very good boys. Tamala Krsna: Vaikuntha men. Prabhupada: Oh, yes. They do not know except the Deity. Very good boys. Tamala Krsna: […]

One may engage in any business — material or spiritual — but the purpose should be the satisfaction of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. This verse presents a perfect picture of Vedic civilization. People training to become devotees should be respectful not only to the Supreme Personality of Godhead but also to those who are […]

If you catch up Krsna’s lotus feet very tightly, then you will not fall down. But if you make a show of so-called brahmacari, so-called grhastha or so-called sannyasi, then you will fall down. We are experiencing that. Then you must fall down. Krsna will not tolerate a defaulter, a pseudo devotee. Maya is very […]

If you go in the villages, you’ll find that the villagers rising early in the morning, they’re taking bath, changing cloth, and chanting Hare Krsna as far as possible. Still in the mass of people of India, the Krsna consciousness is still existing; it is not yet lost. And they believe in the next birth, […]

Prabhupada: That is the duty of the preacher, four things: isvare tad-adhinesu balisesu dvisatsu ca [SB 11.2.46]. The preacher should see four things. First of all isvara, the Supreme Person, God. So that vision must be there. He knows what is isvara, or the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Then tad-adhinesu, those who have taken shelter […]

The modern civilization has trained up educated people in such a way that the more you think yourself, “I am this body – ‘I am American,’ ‘I am Indian,’ ‘I am brahmana,’ ‘I am this, I am that’ ” – and you feel and act like that and create trouble like that – then you […]

Nitai: Once I met a little old lady on the streets of Denver when I was distributing books. Prabhupada: Old lady. Nitai: Very old. She was walking down the street. She was all bent over. And she asked me what I was doing, and I showed her our magazine and explained that we were teaching […]

Our conclusion: that anyone who is not Krsna conscious, he is dogs, hogs, camels, asses, that’s all. No brain. Animal. Animal has got brain: how to eat, how to sleep, how to have sex life. So these people, they have got brain for that purpose only. That is animal life. Actually, they do not know […]

The whole process is, of this Krishna Consciousness movement, to meet the waves of material nature. The waves are called agitation by hunger and thirst, lamentation, confusion, illusion in so called love and affection, pangs of old age and disease and at last meeting with death. All these things can be changed simply by engaging […]

Krsna realization begins from the tongue. How? Now you simply make it a vow, that “I shall not accept anything that is not offered to Krsna.” And you take another vow, that “I shall not talk anything except glorifying the Lord.” Then you become perfect. Very simple method. Simply you have to make this determination, […]

India is meant for doing welfare activities to the world, but we have forgotten that. We are trying to imitate the Western country and technology, and we have thrown out our Vedic treasure house, our transcendental knowledge treasure house. Srila Prabhupada, Lecture, 10 Nov 1971