Author: Bhakti Vikasa Swami

  1. The value of sadhu-darshan

    sadhunam sama-cittanam sutaram mat-krtatmanam darsanan no bhaved bandhah pumso 'ksnoh savitur yatha When one is face to face with the sun, there is no longer darkness for one's eyes. Similarly, when one is face to face with a sadhu, a devotee, who is fully determined and surrendered to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, one will no longer be subject to material
  2. Understand one line, advance hundred years

    Prescribed course of study, these two, three books, that's all. Anyone can read Bhagavad-gita and Srimad-Bhagavatam or Caitanya-caritamrta — you'll learn everything. You haven't got to learn so many huge volumes of books. Because Bhagavad-gita is such nice book, if you can understand one line, you advance hundred years. So meaningful and so solid. Therefore we have
  3. perwakilan DominoQQ Online Yang cair Menang

    In the sastra it is said, kalau sudra-sambhavah. In the Kali-yuga almost every person is a sudra. Therefore there is so much chaos. The government is managed by the sudras or less than sudras, mleccha. Mleccha-rajendra-rupinah. Mlecchas have taken the post of government. From Srila Prabhupada's lecture on Srimad-Bhagavatam 1.2.6 — Calcutta
  4. Shameless women

    In India, woman drinking or taking meat is a horrible crime. And what to speak of smoking? That is most shameless. Srila Prabhupada, in conversation with Yogi Amrit Desai of Kripalu Ashram, Pennsylvania, USA — January 2, 1977, Bombay
  5. We are going to Krsna

    We are confident what is God, what is His father's name, what is His name, what is His address — everything. No samsaya, no doubt! Everything complete. Asamsayam. We are confident that we are going to Krsna, back to home, back to Godhead. There is no doubt
  6. Big-time Indologists

    This Bhagavad-gita is the science of Krsna consciousness. No one can become Krsna conscious simply by mundane scholarship. One must be fortunate enough to associate with a person who is in pure consciousness. A Krsna conscious person has realized knowledge, by the grace of Krsna, because he is satisfied with pure devotional service. By realized knowledge, one becomes
  7. We are the Mayavadis

    When Srila Prabhupada first began lecturing in New York in 1966, he would often attack the Mayavadi impersonalists in his talks, and not understanding this I joked with friend: "Mayavadi? When was the last time you saw a Mayavadi?" None of us could understand who Srila Prabhupada was talking about; we all thought that the Mayavadis were a little group of philosophers
  8. Vedic system of instruction

    Especially instruction are given to men. All literatures, all Vedic literatures, they are especially meant for instruction to the men. Woman is to follow the husband, that's all. The husband will give instruction to the wife. There is no such thing as the girl should go to school to take brahmacari-asrama or go to spiritual master to take instruction. That is not
  9. Motorcars means slaughterhouses

    You have seen the picture, Krsna, Vrndavana picture, Krsna's father transferring Krsna — they were going on bullock carts, no motorcar. You have seen the picture. So formerly, transport was bullock carts. The cows and the bulls, the bulls were employed for agricultural purpose, for drawing the carts. So there was no necessity of motorcar. Now you have got motorcar