1. Progress toward raganuga-bhakti

    Real bhakti is raganuga-bhakti. This raganuga-bhakti, we have to come after surpassing the vaidhi-bhakti [regulative process]. In the material world, if we do not try to make further and further progress in devotional service, if we are simply sticking to the sastric [scriptural] regulation process and do not try to go beyond that… The sastric […]
  2. Where is happiness?

    Where is happiness? Within the womb there was unhappiness, packed-up. When he comes down there is unhappiness. Then go to school, take education, appear for examination — that is unhappiness. Then grow up, then engage in some earning money — that is unhappiness. Then maintain your children, and that is unhappiness. Where is happiness, rascals? […]
  3. How monarchy worked

    They were never autocratic monarchs. The scriptures like Manu-samhita and other authorized books of the great sages were guiding principles for ruling the subjects, and there was no need for less intelligent persons to manufacture a code of law in the name of democracy. The less intelligent mass of people have very little knowledge of […]
  4. Servant of the servant of the…

    Srila Prabhupada was giving a talk on Srimad Bhagavatam and was pointing to a painting that was in the temple room of SrimatiRadharani offering Tulasi leaves to the lotus feet of Krsna and some gopis in the background, looking through the trees.  So Srila Prabhupada pointed, saying, “Radharani is worshipping the feet of Krsna, and […]
  5. Sweet Krsna

    Sugar cane juice is sweet. Concentrate it, it becomes molasses, further concentrate it, it becomes sugar, further concentrate it, it becomes candy. So the same sweetness, when it is concentrated, Oh that is Krsna. The highest degree of sweetness is Krsna. Srila Prabhupada, Conversation regarding philosophy of Edmund Husserl.