That is Vrndavana life: either in rasa dance or the cowherd’s play or killing the demons or in dining and dancing. The friends are eating, they are being stolen by Brahma — but the center is Krsna. That is Vrndavana. All activities are going on, just like in other place. But here in Vrndavana, all […]

I feel happy that even after my departure, things will go on. I am happy that I have got so many sincere devotees who will carry on. That is my happiness. From Srila Prabhupada’s letter to Madhudvisa — 18 September, 1974

There are two ways of association – by vani and by vapuh. Vani means words, and vapuh means physical presence. Physical presence is sometimes appreciable and sometimes not, but vani continues to exist eternally. Therefore we must take advantage of the vani, not the physical presence. From Srila Prabhupada’s Concluding Words to Cc Antya-lila

Shortly before Srila Prabhupada’s departure, Giriraja Maharaja (then brahmacari) prayed in a letter read to Srila Prabhupada: My dear Lord Krsna, You are known as Yogesvara, the master of all mystic powers. So it is very easy for You to perform the impossible, as You have done many times in the past. By Your merciful […]

Krsna’s lila is nitya-lila. Just to attract us, that “You are fond of dancing. Why don’t you come back to Me and dance with Me? Why you are rotting in this rotting dance? You want association. You want sporting. Why don’t you come to Me and take part in My sporting with the cowherds boy?” […]

Sadhu, those who are saintly person, for them there is no secret. There is no privacy. A sadhu has no privacy. In our ordinary social affairs, there is difference between private life and his public life. If somebody is a very good teacher — he can explain very nicely a subject matter — but his […]

Enthusiasm means to take things very seriously, utsahad dhairyat, and patiently. Although we are determined to go back to home, back to Godhead, so we should patiently follow the rules and regulations. So these are the six principles: enthusiasm and firm determination and patience and executing the regulative principles, tat-tat-karma-pravartanat, and sato vrtteh, means behavior […]

Goddess Kali does not eat meat; she is the husband [wife] of lord Shiva and takes only His remnants. That offered meat is eaten by ghosts, and so those people are eating remnants of ghosts. They are not worshipping Durga strictly according to scripture. Srila Prabhupada, quoted in a letter from Aravinda to Satsvarupa, 28 […]

We sometimes mistake the activities of gopis, it appears just like lusty affairs. But actually that is not. Gopis used to dress themselves very nicely, attractively, so that Krsna may be very pleased. That was gopis’ desire. Just like in the material world the woman dresses very nicely so that a man may be attracted […]

“I shall make my family affairs very perfectly situated, then I shall take sannyasa.” “I shall give all my money to the family and I shall take some little money with me and I shall go to Vrndavana. I shall live there.” The adjustment is family, not adjustment how to go to Vrndavana. You will […]

Krsna. He is the Lord, but He has nothing to do. He is simply enjoying with His friends, with Radharani, with cowherds boy, with gopis. That is greatness. He has nothing to think, “How to provide?” (chuckles) That is greatness. He is taking the cows as a sporting. And when He was called for killing […]

Lord Caitanya recommended the feeling of the gopis as the highest mode of worship that can be rendered to the Lord. The conclusion is that the regular practice of bhakti-yoga will lead the devotee to the plane of intense love for the Lord, and that is the single qualification by which the conditioned soul is […]