Actually, woman is considered as goddess of fortune, representative of the goddess of fortune. We are misusing for sense gratification. No. They should be respected as goddess of fortune. If one man has got nice wife, actually he has got goddess of fortune. That is astrological calculation. A man is considered to be fortunate in […]

I am especially speaking to the Indians, bharata-varsis, that you have got this life in this land after many, many evolutionary process, bahunam janmanam ante. Bahu-sambhavante, the sastras say. Bahu-sambhavante [SB 11.9.29]. Unfortunately, we are forgetting this. At the present moment we are forgetting the importance of this life born in the land of Bharata-varsa. […]

It has become fashionable since the time of Sankaracarya to explain everything regarding the sastras in an indirect way. Scholars take pride in explaining everything in their own way, and they declare that one can understand the Vedic scriptures in any way he likes. This “any way you like” method is foolishness, and it has […]

O reservoir of all good qualities, just worship Sri Krsna, the purifier of all purifiers, the most exalted of the personalities worshiped by choice poetry. Worship Him with a faithful, unflinching mind, without duplicity and in a highly elevated manner. Thus worship the Lord, whose name is like the sun, for just as a slight […]

In India, the Muhammadans, the Muhammadans who claim to be partitioned: Pakistan and Hindustan. There are number of Muhammadans, they protested that “India is going to be independent, but we do not wish to participate with the Hindus. We must be separate.” Why? Because they have got a bad experience that the Hindus did not […]

Harikesa: What happens with all these people who, like for example, myself, I can’t live on a farm? Prabhupada: That does not make you unfit. You can do something like that. Harikesa: I mean I was born in a city, raised in a city, and feel very good when I’m in a city, but when […]

Your most significant contribution in giving siksa was by your translation and publication of Vedic scriptures into the English language. This was a brilliant stratagem that will destroy the forces of maya. People receive your books, become enlightened by reading them, and keep them and share them with others for years together. Told by ISKCON’s […]

In the human society there must be four divisions — the brahmana, the ksatriya, the vaisya and the sudra — according to the quality. The most intelligent class of men, they should become brahmanas. Satya, samah, damah, titiksa, arjavam, jnanam vijnanam astikyam brahma-karma svabhava-jam [Bg 18.42]. So the next-intelligent class of men should become the […]

My request is that it is a very scientific movement, authorized from, taken from the Vedic literatures, and based on the principles of Bhagavad-gita as it is. So our only request is, especially here in India, they should take it very seriously and try to apply the principles in their life, and spread it all […]

If one uses the vibration of the holy name for the benefit of the material body, for material wealth and followers, or under the influence of greed or atheism — in other words, if one utters the name with offenses — such chanting will not produce the desired result very soon. Therefore one should diligently […]

If a devotee once utters the holy name of the Lord, or if it penetrates his mind or enters his ear, which is the channel of aural reception, that holy name will certainly deliver him from material bondage, whether vibrated properly or improperly, with correct or incorrect grammar, or properly joined or vibrated in separate […]

Actually if there is God, one should worship according to the dictation of God. But if he does not know what is God, what is the dictation of God — then he is a rascal. What is the use of his so-called worship? It may be to some extent sentiment, but that is not worship. […]