1. Where Srila Prabhupada liked to stay

    Prabhupada came to stay there, which was not a guesthouse but a guest bungalow, because we didn’t have good accommodations for him at Hare Krishna Land. He never liked to stay at other people’s houses; he always liked to stay at the temple. Nowadays, preachers and sannyasis, etc., go to temples and they stay outside […]
  2. Brahmanas should preach

    A brahmana who is born out of the head of the Lord has as his business to preach the transcendental Vedic sounds, or sabda-brahma. Because the brahmana is the head, he has to preach the transcendental sound, and he also has to eat on behalf of the Supreme Lord. According to Vedic injunctions, when a […]
  3. Over endeavor

    Madhudvisa had this convent in mind to buy, it was going to cost $1 million. A big place right on the ocean. It belonged to some Catholic sisters and Prabhupada went to see it. And he looked it all through. And then, and the day he saw it he said “buy it.” But then later […]
  4. Good civilization: locally produced food

    In Virginia, it has proved very successful. We are getting eight hundred pounds of milk daily. So that milk product is sufficient for give them nutritious food. We are preparing ghee. Just like in India, they utilize milk so nicely. And vegetables we are growing. They are making sweetmeats, sandesa, rasagulla. There is enough milk […]
  5. The beginning of spiritual life

    Spiritual life begins by guru-susrusah, [SB 7.7.30] by serving guru.” [Rupa] Gosvami said, adau gurvasrayam: “The first beginning is to take shelter of the bona fide spiritual master.” Sad-dharma-prccha: [Bhakti-rasamrta-sindhu 1.1.74] “Then inquire from him about the spiritual path.” Sadhu-marganugamanam: “Follow the previous acaryas.” These are the steps. Bhagavad-gita, Arjuna said, sisyas te ‘ham sadhi […]
  6. Who is cultured?

    Any woman should be looked upon as mother. This is culture. Except his married wife, all women should be treated as mother. The brahmacaris were taught like that, “Mother.” This is culture. Simply they are trying to elope other’s wife, other’s woman, exploit them. And they’re cultured. There is no culture at the present moment. […]
  7. Lenin, Nehru, and Krsna

    Prabhupada: Yes, they are some. They are not all. Even they criticize that “You cannot see Krsna,” so similar argument can be, “You do not see Lenin. Why you are worshiping?” That’s it. “Is Lenin present before you? So why you are worshiping?” You’ll see. You have got, in Moscow got, every street corner a […]
  8. Our next step, how to make one civilization, Krsna conscious

    Srila Prabhupada: If there is civilization, that is this Aryan civilization in India, Vedic civilization. Otherwise, throughout the whole world… These people were within Aryan civilization. Aryan, Iranian, their names are given. Up to Iran, their field(?). Europeans also, Indo-European. Gradually they declined. Caitanya Mahaprabhu’s mission is to make them civilized. Pascimera loka saba mudha […]
  9. Ginsberg

    The hippies are nothing but a group of madmen, that’s all. A madman, they…, means publicly sex, that’s all. This Allen Ginsberg’s movement is that, homosex, public sex. Ginsberg was very proud that he had introduced homosex. He was telling me. Srila Prabhupada/ Room Conversation, July 14, 1977, Vrindavana Allen Ginsberg died on 5 April […]