SB 4.19.34We should always remember that if something happens by providential arrangement, we should not be very sorry. The more we try to rectify such reversals, the more we enter into the darkest region of materialistic thought. Purport by Srila Prabhupada: Sometimes the saintly or very religious person also has to meet with reversals in […]

If anyone surrenders unto Krsna, catches His lotus feet very strongly, “Krsna, save me,” Krsna promises, “Yes, I’ll save you.” Aham tvam sarva-papebhyo moksayisyami ma sucah. “Don’t worry. I shall save you.” From Srila Prabhupada’s lecture on, The Nectar of Devotion, Vrndavana, November 11, 1972

Krsna wanted to preach Krsna consciousness in the Western countries, so He gave me the chance to take the credit, that’s all. It is Krsna’s arrangement. But He liked that one of His devotee may take the credit. That’s all. Srila Prabhupada, Morning Walk, April 9, 1976, Vrndavana

TRANSLATIONThe strong bodily desires and needs of a person disturbed by hunger and thirst are certainly satisfied when he eats. Similarly, if one becomes very angry, that anger is satisfied by chastisement and its reaction. But as for greed, even if a greedy person has conquered all the directions of the world or has enjoyed […]

Dhama aparadha. The greatest offence is to live in Vrndavana and have illicit sex. The greatest offence.. And other things also. These things are prohibited, no illicit sex, no intoxication, no gambling, no meat-eating. So such function is most offensive in Vrndavana. In other places it may be excused but here it is the greatest […]

Satsvarupa: Prabhupada, we are only neophytes. How we can know if our anxiety is still material when we feel anxiety in devotional service? Prabhupada: No, no. If you feel anxiety for Krsna, then it is not material. That anxiety is not… That is love. That is pure love, that… Why you become anxious for our […]

In America especially, they are never satisfied. They are manufacturing another machine, another machine, another machine. That hankering after another, another, they think it is really progress. Srila Prabhupada, Conversation regarding philosopher Kierkegaard