If we want Krsna, He will give us a chance to have Him, and if we don’t want Krsna, He will give us a chance to forget Him. If we want to enjoy life forgetting Krsna, forgetting God, Krsna will give us all facility so that we can forget, but if we want to enjoy […]

In the spiritual world service is voluntary, some devotees want to serve Krishna as flower; so they become flower there. If I want that, to be a flower I shall lie down at the lotus feet of Krishna, then he becomes flower, voluntarily, and he can change his, from flower to human body. That is […]

Srila Vrndavana Dasa Thakura has sung that the devotees of Lord Caitanya are so powerful that each one of them can deliver a universe. Srila Prabhupada; Srimad-Bhagavatam 4.24.58, purport

As soon as I see that there is such increased book distribution figures, I take that to mean that all other programs are successful. From Srila Prabhupada’s letter to Jagadisa – Bombay, 5 January, 1973

A man has served the family with heart and soul throughout the whole life, and when he is old man, if he asks permission from his wife, “My dear wife, now I have served so much. Let me take sannyasa now,” the wife will never give permission. She will say, “What you have done? I […]

When one is educated or trained up by this varnasrama institution, then his human life begins. Otherwise he is animal. One who does not take to this varnasrama-dharma, he remains in the animal life. Srila Prabhupada, SB 6.1.24 Lecture, Chicago July 8, 1975

The holy name of the Lord is as powerful as the Lord Himself. Therefore, simply by chanting and hearing the holy name of the Lord, many men can be fully protected from fierce death without difficulty. Thus a devotee is saved. By the grace of the Lord, if a devotee, at the time of death, […]

Ms. Nixon: How can one tell a bona fide spiritual master from a fake? Srila Prabhupada: Whoever teaches how to know God and how to love Him — he is a spiritual master. Sometimes bogus rascals mislead people. “I am God,” they claim, and people who do not know what God is believe them. You […]

Srila Prabhupada: The difference between others and us is that we are the only movement that can actually teach one how to know God and how to love Him. We are presenting the science of how one can know Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, by practicing the teachings of the Bhagavad-gita and the Srimad-Bhagavatam. […]

ye-rupe la-ile nama prema upajayatahara laksana suna, svarupa-rama-raya Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu continued, “O Svarupa Damodara Gosvami and Ramananda Raya, hear from Me the symptoms of how one should chant the Hare Krsna maha-mantra to awaken very easily one’s dormant love for Krsna. trnad api su-nicenataror api sahisnunaamanina mana-denakirtaniyah sada harih One who thinks himself lower […]

Do not hesitate to use your American and European brains to increase, that is Krishna’s special gift to you, now use it. Any activity which will please Krishna should be accepted favorably, this is our guiding principle. Now apply it in this way, by doing everything and anything for spreading this Krishna Conscious literature, and […]

Democracy is the ruination of civilization. Morning Walk — May 12, 1975, Perth