1. War and famine

    Prabhupada: That will take place. Otherwise, how they will be killed? Ambarisa: They’re calling it a limited nuclear war. Prabhupada: They are accumulated so much sinful load that must be killed. That is sure. The massacre. That will take place. Harikesa: The sinless people will survive? Prabhupada: Yes. Devotee (3): Who is that? Prabhupada: We. […]
  2. For Durga-puja

    There is a plan for material nature, personally known as Durga, to punish the demons. Although the asuras, the godless demons, struggle for existence, they are directly attacked by the goddess Durga, who is well equipped with ten hands with different types of weapons to punish them. She is carried by her lion carrier, or […]
  3. Appreciating others’ service

    Everyone should be friendly for the service of the Lord. Everyone should praise another’s service to the Lord and not be proud of his own service. This is the way of Vaisnava thinking, Vaikuntha thinking. There may be rivalries and apparent competition between servants in performing service, but in the Vaikuntha planets the service of […]
  4. Everything is revealed automatically

    By associating with the sages, Narada got the taste for hearing and chanting the glories of the Lord, and he developed a great desire for devotional service. Therefore, as described in the Vedanta-sutra, prakasas ca karmany abhyasat: if one is engaged simply in the acts of devotional service, everything is revealed to him automatically, and […]
  5. The path of the paramahamsas

    Following in the footsteps of Lord Brahma, any person, even up to this day, can attain the same perfection by following the path of the paramahamsa as recommended herein. Lord Caitanya also approved of this method of self-realization for men in this age. One should first, with all conviction, believe in the Personality of Godhead […]
  6. Goodbye to this material world

    Real Krsna consciousness means goodbye to this material world. We are no more interested with your these big, big street, big, big buses or anything, whatever you think that is improvement, advancement. So Krsna conscious person are no more interested. Why not interested? They are disgusted. Srila Prabhupada, Lecture — July 25, 1976, London
  7. Seeing the unseen Lord

    A pure devotee never wants to see the Lord unnecessarily. The Lord is engaged in various activities, and the pure devotee does not want to see Him whimsically, for his own sense gratification. The pure devotee simply depends on the Lord’s mercy, and when the Lord is pleased, he can see Him face to face. […]
  8. The central point of Bhagavad-gita

    The Lord wants and demands that the living entities satisfy His senses 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 personal material senses, he has to satisfy the senses of the Lord. That […]