1. Let them go to the farm

    Hari-sauri: Should we try to make an effort to have our householders go and live on the farms, a special effort to persuade them to do that? Prabhupada: Why householders? Everyone. Hare Krsna. Ramesvara: In America there is a very big emphasis on getting people to join us by moving into our temples. The temple […]
  2. Material world: upside down

    If somebody takes your legs and catches you and your head down, then it is not very comfortable. This whole material world is like that. It is uncomfortable. It is perverted reflection. On the bank of a river or the bank of a pond, tree is standing, but the reflection in the water, of the […]
  3. The secret of Vyasa-puja

    The plain truth so vividly explained in the Gita, which is the central lesson of the Vedas, is not understood or even suspected by the most powerful scholars of the empiric schools. Herein lies the secret of Sri Vyasa-puja. When we meditate on the transcendental pastimes of the Absolute Godhead, we are proud to feel […]
  4. A lifetime in preparation

    When Prabhupada came to us in his seventieth year, he had already spent a lifetime preparing himself, not only by preaching, but by practicing self-discipline and the many other qualities of an advanced spiritualist. We joined him handicapped by our so-called hippie freedom and by so many other weaknesses in our characters. Prabhupada encouraged us […]