We have got four defects — means we commit mistake, we become illusioned or bewildered, our senses are imperfect, and, because everything is imperfect, still we want to become teacher, that is cheating. I am imperfect. How can I teach? That is going on. A imperfect person is teaching about transcendental knowledge. Therefore people are […]

Those who are following in the footsteps of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu should take the Lord’s mission most seriously. In this Age of Kali, people are gradually becoming less than animals. Nevertheless, although they are eating the flesh of cows and are envious of brahminical culture, Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu is considering how to deliver them from […]

Regarding incorporation of our ISKCON centers, we want to run all our centers as nonprofit religious organizations; that is the main point. Keeping this point in view too much official control is not good in spiritual life. The centers should remain spiritually fit and independent. Some control must be there as is now. Too much […]

You ask about marriage, yes, actually I want that every woman in the Society should be married. But what is this training to become wives and mothers? No school is required for that, simply association. And it is not necessary to say that women only can instruct the girls and men only can instruct the […]

Talks about Krsna and His pastimes — especially His pastimes in Vrndavana and His dealings with the gopis — are all very confidential. They are not subject matter for public discussion because those who have no understanding of the transcendental nature of Krsna’s pastimes always commit great offenses, thinking Krsna to be an ordinary human […]

Srila Narottama dasa Thakura says in this connection, chadiya vaisnava-seva nistara peyeche keba: “Unless one serves the spiritual master and acaryas, one cannot be liberated.” Elsewhere he says: ei chaya gosani yanra — mui tanra dasatan-sabara pada-renu mora panca-grasa “I simply accept a person who follows in the footsteps of the Six Gosvamis, and the […]

As soon as one associates with a prostitute, immediately he becomes addicted to abominable activities, and that is the beginning of falldown. According to this formula, the system of arranged marriage of the boys and the girls is recommended, although that is not the guarantee; real thing is association. But still, when the boys and […]