Author: Bhakti Vikasa Swami

You have to take this sword of Krsna consciousness. Then you become free. The knot [of material entanglement] is cut by this sword. How we can get this sword? Simply, with faith, try to hear. You'll get the sword. We are getting the sword one after another, simply by hearing. I started this movement in New York. I had no actually any sword. Just like in some religious

Most of our preparations are made from milk products. Therefore we are so much fond of cow protection. It gives the basic principle of palatable foodstuff. But these people, they do not know. They simply cut the throat of the cow and boil it and with salt. [laughter] They do not know how to keep the cow and take milk from it and prepare hundreds and thousands of nice

Naturally a woman is under the control of the man. That is our Vedic system, and natural system also. However the woman may claim equal rights, they are under the control of the man. That is natural

Indian man (1): Prabhupada, there's a very important question in my mind all the time, that how a Godbrother should treat the Godbrother with great [indistinct] to produce more love of Godhead and to [indistinct] in them? Prabhupada: You show example. If other Godbrother is not treating you well, you treat him well. Then it will be right. Why you should deviate, that

We have to become very simple and pure. Then it is possible to relish the transcendental chanting

Devotee: How do you develop a service attitude? Prabhupada: By service. In the material world, if you give service you become tired. But transcendental world if you give service, you more become enthusiastic. Yes. More service. That is happening. I do not pay these boys. Rather, they pay me, and they engage the service. They pay and serve. In the material world, as

From a BTG article By Yadurani Devi Dasi IN NEW YORK CITY, 1967, in Srila Prabhupada's Second Avenue apartment, he asked me to paint a picture of Lord Nrsimha-deva, the half-man, half-lion incarnation of Lord Krsna who appeared many millennia ago. In a print Prabhupada's disciple Hayagriva Dasa had brought from India, Lord Nrsimha-deva had about ten arms, and He was

If the Supreme Lord is all-powerful, why should He try to reform His devotee by putting him in distress? The answer is that when the Supreme Personality of Godhead puts His devotee in distress, it is not without purpose. Sometimes the purpose is that in distress a devotee's feelings of attachment to Krsna are magnified. For example, when Krsna, before leaving the

If, becoming modern, we forget our future, then what is the use of becoming modernized? Better to remain primitive. The business is that in future also we shall exist. If we do not know how we shall exist — either I shall exist as a cat, as a dog or a tree or a demigod or as associate of Krsna... If I do not know... On account of being modernized, if I remain in

Renunciation is not as important as enhancing one's attachment to Krsna. The Krsna consciousness movement is especially meant for this purpose. We are preaching the principle that it does not matter whether a man is a sannyasi or grhastha (householder). One simply has to increase his attachment for Krsna, and then his life is successful. Following in the footsteps of

One who has chanted Hare Krsna, he cannot give it up. Cannot give it up. He has to come again, this life or next life. Krsna will not leave him. Krsna... Once surrender sincerely, "Krsna, I am Yours," Krsna I will never leave him. He will protect you. But if he had become little stronger, then there is no question of falling down. Vasi kriyate means hypnotized. It is

When chanting the Hare Krsna maha-mantra, in the beginning one may commit many offenses, which are called namabhasa and nama-aparadha. In this stage there is no possibility of achieving perfect love of Krsna by chanting the Hare Krsna maha-mantra. Therefore one must chant the Hare Krsna maha-mantra according to the principles of the above verse, trnad api su-nicena