Author: Bhakti Vikasa Swami

The best service is to chant Hare Krsna always and spread it to every town and village

The people are becoming against Krsna: "Why Krsna should be God? I have got another God, manufactured. Here is God." Krsna was so beautiful, and "I am God." So ugly God? No. There are so many ugly Gods nowadays, that ferocious face and he is God. We worship God, so nice face, people come and become enchanted. And they bring a God, a ferocious head, and he becomes God

In the Bhagavad-gita, Eighteenth Chapter, the Lord states that one who is engaged in preaching Krsna consciousness is very dear to Him. A preacher has to face many difficulties in his struggle to preach pure Krsna consciousness. Sometimes he has to suffer bodily injuries, and sometimes he has to meet death also. All this is taken as a great austerity on behalf of

In this verse the words daya jivesu, meaning "mercy to other living entities," indicate that a living entity must be merciful to other living entities if he wishes to make progress in self-realization. This means he must preach this knowledge after perfecting himself and understanding his own position as an eternal servant of Krsna. Preaching this is showing real

Nitai-Gaura, we can establish many temples, and simply chanting before Him. Yajnaih sankirtana-prayair [SB 11.5.32]: chant, dance and distribute prasada. You don't require even education. Simply before Lord Nityananda and Gaura, simply chant and dance. You will become the first-class advanced spiritual. It is so easy. Even if you are illiterate, you cannot read, you

Caitanya Mahaprabhu said, "I was dreaming of Krsna, and why you wake Me? I have lost the chance." In this way they were making bhajana. This is called viraha-bhajana, viraha-bhajana, separation. That is very recommended process. So we should be awakened, awaken our consciousness, Krsna consciousness, in such a way that being separated from Krsna, we shall become mad

One who will cry for Krsna, he will never come down to the material platform. That crying is not so easy. As Caitanya Mahaprabhu used to cry, He also said, "I am crying for make-show." So crying automatically comes when actually if we are in prema-bhakti. But we have to go that stage gradually, not by imitating

We are addressing, Hare Krsna, Hare Krsna: "O the energy of the Lord, O the Lord, please accept me." That's all. "Please accept me." We have no other prayer. "Please accept me." Lord Caitanya taught that we should simply cry, and we shall simply pray for accepting us. That's all. So this vibration is simply a cry for addressing the Supreme Lord, requesting Him

Krsna Caitanya Mahaprabhu has advised that because all these rascals are filled up all over the world, "Each one of you become a guru." Yes. So many gurus required. Amara ajnaya guru haya tara ei desa, wherever you are living, you just try to deliver your family, your neighborhood, your friends. Deliver them. Tara. Tara means deliver. "How can I do it? I am not a

In the rainy season, when the clouds appear for the first time, the peacocks dance with joy upon seeing them. The peacocks can be compared to persons who are very much harassed in the materialistic way of life. If they can find the association of a person engaged in the loving devotional service of the Lord, they become enlightened and dance just like peacocks. We

Why people have lost in India their own culture? Because they have interpreted wrongly. Every sastra has been interpreted wrongly, and therefore people are misguided. They could not take advantage of the instruction of Bhagavad-gita because all through, the Bhagavad-gita has been misinterpreted. So many so-called politicians, scholars, but it is maybe for the first

We have got the test tube — " Srila Prabhupada said, "Bhagavad-gita. As soon as you see a man who has not surrendered to Krsna, all right, then he is a mudha. That's all. From "Srila Prabhupada-lilamrta"