1. Radharani, Durga, and us

    Radharani and Durga, both are prakrtis of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, but one prakrti is meant for controlling this material world, and the other prakrti is meant for blessing the spiritual world. We living entities also belong to the spiritual prakrti, we are expansion of spiritual prakrti. Just like Srimati Radharani is always engaged […]
  2. A ticket back to Godhead

    One should try to purchase a ticket to go back home, back to Godhead. The price of such a ticket is one’s intense desire for it, which is not easily awakened, even if one continuously performs pious activities for thousands of lives. All mundane relationships are sure to be broken in the course of time, […]
  3. Krsna plays the flute backward

    Acyutananda Swami was standing next to Prabhupada that night in the Calcutta temple. “Prabhupada,” he said, “someone put Krsna’s flute in backward.” Prabhupada looked. It was backward. “Krsna is all-powerful” he said, turning to Acyutananda Swami. “He can play from the back end also.” from Srila Prabhupada lilamrta
  4. Grhasta-brahmacari

    A brahmacari is good for living a life of celibacy, but a person who can live a life of celibacy in the presence of a beautiful and obliging wife is more than a brahmacari. Of course anyone who is stuck up with only one wife is also called brahmacari. You will set a very good […]
  5. Perfect knowledge

    Guest (5): I have great difficulty with the meaning of the term “perfect knowledge.” I… Could you… Prabhupada: Perfect knowledge means what you say, it is correct; there is no mistake. Guest (5): In any and all circumstances. Prabhupada: Yes. That is perfect knowledge. Not like the scientists. They changes: “Yes, it was this. Now […]
  6. Polluted desires lead to rebirth

    The minds of those who are addicted to fruitive activity are always filled with unclean desires. Fruitive activities are symptomatic of our polluted desire to dominate material nature. As long as one continues to be subject to polluted desires, he has to accept one material body after another. From Srila Prabhupada’s purport to Srimad-Bhagavatam 4.23.8
  7. Revealed knowledge, & how to receive it

    The disease of the modern civilized man is his disbelief of everything in the revealed scriptures. Faithless nonbelievers cannot make progress in spiritual realization, for they cannot understand the spiritual potency. Although there are varieties of personalities, from Brahma down to the insignificant ant, all of whom are living beings, their development of knowledge is […]