1. Guru etiquette in temples

    There are many offenses one can commit while serving the Lord, and these are described in the Bhakti-rasamrta-sindhu, Hari-bhakti-vilasa and other books. According to the rules and regulations, no one should accept obeisances in the temple of the Lord before the Deity. Nor is it proper for a devotee to offer obeisances and touch the […]
  2. Krsna, His flute, & the cowherd boys

    Over and above all, the Lord used to play His celebrated flute. The sound vibrated by His flute would give His friends such transcendental pleasure that they would forget all the talks of brahmananda, which is so much praised by the impersonalists. These cowherd boys were living entities who had accumulated heaps of pious acts […]
  3. Hellish London

    Any country which does not get the full facility of sunshine, it is to be considered condemned. I think I remarked this long ago, when I first came, in the television. They asked me in London that “What is your conception of hell?” And “This is hell, London.” Not conception; practically. Always dark, moist, drizzly. […]
  4. Satisfy and worship the Lord simply by chanting

    dvapariyair janair visnuhpancaratrais tu kevalaihkalau tu nama-matrenapujyate bhagavan harih In the Dvapara-yuga one could satisfy Krsna or Visnu only by worshipingopulently according to the pancaratriki system, but in the Age of Kali one cansatisfy and worship the Supreme Personality of Godhead Hari simply by chantingHis holy name. From Srila Prabhupada’s purport to Sri Caitanya-caritamrta Antya-lila […]
  5. Householder brahmacari

    One who, however, follows the rules and regulations of married life, having a sexual relationship only with his wife (and that also under regulation), is also called a brahmacari. Such a restrained householder brahmacari may be accepted in the bhakti school, but the jnana and dhyana schools do not even admit householder brahmacaris. They require […]