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Visnujana [repeating a question from the audience]: Is showing miracles like some svamis do the way to bring people back to spiritual life? Prabhupada: Why should I show miracles? What is the business? I have to speak the truth, that’s all. What is the use of miracle? When you go to college or school, we want to see […]

I was glad to hear from Gargamuni that you refused to set me in the N.Y. Times columns along with the other so called Swamis or yogis. We have a distinct position that we are neither cheated nor cheaters. We are the genuine representative of Krishna who is the friend of all living creatures. We must play our part […]

Here, in this world, everything has got six changes. Birth, then stay, and then develop, then by-products, then dwindle, then finish. Everything. So the motorcar civilization, it was born. And now the time has come it is dwindling, and it will be finished. Just like railway; railway no more interested, anybody. But when it was invented, it was very […]

Daksah means active, not lazy, sleeping. This is not good. Nidrahara-vihara. Everyone has to conquer over sleeping, so that is called daksah. And daksah means expert. Whatever business is entrusted to him, he does it very nicely, daksa. Just like Raghunatha dasa Gosvami, he was no…, had no interest in material things. His father’s estate was very big, and […]

While suffering at the time of death, Ajamila chanted the holy name of the Lord, and although the chanting was directed toward his son, he nevertheless returned home, back to Godhead. Therefore if one faithfully and inoffensively chants the holy name of the Lord, where is the doubt that he will return to Godhead? SB 6.2.49 text

Those who are deriding the Godhood of Krishna are considered as demons and raksasas. There was only one raksasa at the time of Lord Ramacandra who did not care for the Lord and attempted to kidnap his wife so he took away maya-laksmiji from Narayana. The result was that he became ruined with his whole family and kingdom. In […]

From Srila Prabhupada’s letter to Balavanta December 13, 1972 Now I want that we shall recruit more and more our men amongst the intelligent class of men. They, because they are little educated or they have got some wealth or fame or ability, so they will be sometimes little puffed-up, but that is all right, they deserve it. […]

Your statements expressing your surrender to your spiritual master is proper. If this principle is followed you will remain pure and always protected by Krsna. From Srila Prabhupada’s letter to Hansadutta  — 1 October, 1974

If actually they want peace and prosperous they should spend their money for performing this yajna everywhere. In Calcutta there was sometimes so many Durga-puja-pandals; kamais tais tair hrta-jnanah prapadyante ‘nya-devatah [Bg 7.20]. [Those whose minds are distorted by material desires surrender unto demigods and follow the particular rules and regulations of worship according to their own natures.] But now, […]

Ishan dasa recalls: A time in Sridham Mayapur, somewhere between 1973-75, the main building was not yet completed at that time. Srila Prabhupada was on the second floor in his then temporary quarters.  Bhavananda’s room was down the porch on the same floor.  And all of the kirtans that could be heard from the large kirtan […]

Mahatma Gandhi is supposed to be a great personality, but what is his teaching? He remained in designation, that’s all. “Feel like Indian and drive away the English.” By one designation, you drive away another designation. This is going on. And he took Bhagavad-gita and never said, “Krsna is the Supreme Personality of Godhead.” (Srila Prabhupada — August 8, […]

(London, August 6, 1971) Our great leader in India, in the later days, he was so much disgusted, because he wanted Hindu-Muslim unity. But the result was that Muslim partisan made a partition, and they took away the Pakistan. He wanted nonviolence, but actually there were so many violences, the Hindu-Muslim riots. During the last days of the British […]