Author: HH Bhakti Vikas Swami

In the beginning there may be some failures. That is quite natural. Just a child is trying to stand, he may fall down. But that does not mean he should give up the idea. Go on. A time will come come when he will be perfect. So we should not give up this business, to […]

You are doing your duty very nice. That’s all right. But by doing your duty, if you do not develop your Krsna consciousness, then you are simply wasting your time. From Srila Prabhupada’s lecture on The Nectar of Devotion — Bombay, January 6, 1973

Srila Prabhupada now wants to establish a seat of Krishna Consciousness at the Gorakhpur University in Gorakhpur. It is a very formidable university and Dr. Rao (Ramananda) and Kirtanananda Maharaj and others are presently there trying to establish such a program. The idea is that students may come there to receive their PhD in Krishna […]

Whatever success is there, it is due to our purity, following purity principles. First you must be sincere and pure, then there is a question of spiritual advancement. Srila Prabhupada, quoted in a letter from Aravinda to Satsvarupa, 28 Nov 1970

The Mayavadis, they also undergo severe austerities to become one with the Supreme, impersonalists. Any… I have given the… Karmi, jnani, yogi, politicians, and everyone — everyone has got some aim. Many rich men, they commit suicide. So this is possi… This is the ultimate result of nondevotee. He may rise up by endeavor to […]

“This book, Nectar of Devotion, Bhakti-rasamrta-sindhu, if you read regularly, try to understand, this means you are associating with Srila Rupa Gosvami directly. And if you act accordingly, then you are serving [his] lotus feet.” From Srila Prabhupada’s lecture on the Nectar of Devotion (20 October, 1972, in Vrndavana)

One who has understood Krsna perfectly – this is the qualification of guru. So that qualification, to attain, is not very difficult. But because we are rascals, we do not try to take the qualification. That qualification is very simple. Who can understand Krsna? Krsna is not so cheap thing. He has said already that […]

“The highest development of Krsna consciousness understanding will be when you are able to give anyone the truth but in such a manner that they will respond in a positive way.” (Srila Prabhupada, letter to Sankarsana, Dec. ’72)

Learned devotees accept even conditions of distress as representing the presence of the Supreme Lord. When a devotee is in distress, he sees that the Lord has appeared as distress just to relieve or purify the devotee from the contamination of the material world. While one is within this material world, one is in various conditions, and  […]

What is the purpose of the activity? You start your car, but if you do not know where to go, then what is the use of starting your car? Simply spoiling your energy and spoiling the petrol. Is that very good proposition: “I do not know where to go, that doesn’t matter; therefore I start […]

Not that because I want sense gratification, therefore let me under the name of independence, let me become naked and have sex life on the street. That day is coming. It already has come to some extent. They are taking this as freedom. This freedom is not very good. This freedom means that as soon […]

That was the training in the childhood. This Ratha-yatra, Radha-Govinda seva, prasada distribution. Only the new thing I am doing — writing of books by the order of Guru Maharaja. Otherwise, whatever I have introduced, I was trained up in childhood. I simply imitated. Conversation about Old Days in Calcutta – July 1, 1977, Vrndavana