The spreading of the Hare Krsna maha-mantra in the West has become successful because the young people were not offenders. The youths who joined this movement were not very advanced as far as purity is concerned, nor were they very well educated in Vedic knowledge, but because they were not offenders, they could accept the […]

The purpose of this Hare Krsna movement is to bring man back to his original consciousness, which is Krsna consciousness, clear consciousness. When water falls from the clouds, it is uncontaminated like distilled water, but as soon as it touches the ground it becomes muddy and discolored. Similarly, we are originally pure spirit soul, part […]

“One friend of mine told me that this culture is vulture’s culture,” Dr. Patel said. “Yes. Not vultures,” Prabhupada clarified. “It is called hog civilization. The hogs, they eat anything and they have sex with anyone. Culture means human life; otherwise, dog’s life. Amanitvam, first of all you have to learn how to become humble. […]

Without Krsna consciousness, happiness is impossible; one may struggle, but one cannot have happiness. We are therefore trying to give human society the opportunity for a life of happiness, good health, peace of mind and all good qualities through God consciousness. From Srila Prabhupada’s purport to SB 10.13.60

You have asked what is meant by illicit sex. Sex should be used only in marriage for begetting nice children to raise in Krsna Consciousness. Krsna says in the Bhagavad-gita that I am sex life performed according to religious principles. Sex life for any other purpose means illicit sex. The use of contraceptive method for […]

Srila Prabhupada was speaking to Dr. Tarkatirtha about the condition of Kali-yuga, our current age — how everything would deteriorate — and he asked me to get the Twelfth Canto of Srimad-Bhagavatam from his desk. The Twelfth Canto had not yet been translated, so Prabhupada wanted me to get the Sanskrit version. When I fetched […]

So some way or other, let us always discuss about Krsna. That should be the life of Krsna conscious people. So this is life of Krsna, worshiping Krsna in the temple, to sell Krsna’s books, Srimad-Bhagavatam, Bhagavad-gita, to think of Krsna — Hare Krsna, Hare Krsna — to eat krsna-prasadam, to take all risk for […]

Mayavadi philosophers and the pancopasakas cannot in the least understand the existence of the spiritual world and the blissful variegatedness there. They cannot understand the Absolute Truth and its spiritual varieties — name, form, qualities and pastimes. Consequently they conclude that Krsna’s transcendental activities are maya. To avoid this misconception one has to directly cultivate […]

The spiritual master should train his disciple in such a way so that in the future only the Supreme Personality of Godhead will be the dearmost goal of his life. ————————————————————- From Srila Prabhupada’s purport to Srimad-Bhagavatam 3.32.42

The Western people, they are Aryans and ksatriyas in their origin, but due to bad association with the aborigines, they have taken all bad habits and become degenerated. Now we have to revive this Aryan civilization and rectify things. If we do it nicely, then all the Western people will be happy and they will […]

Madhudvisa: Nine out of every ten crimes never gets solved in America.Prabhupada: No, it cannot be solved.Pancadravida: It’s more than that, probably.Madhudvisa: So the criminal is very much encouraged, because he has only one chance in ten of getting caught whether he robs a bank or steals or rapes or something like that.Prabhupada: But for […]

According to Vedic system, everything is so… When the woman is pregnant there are so many ceremonies. When we were children, and I was in the middle, I saw my other two, three brothers and sisters born. So there was some ceremony. We were eating with mother in that ceremony. That ceremony was because my […]