Author: HH Bhakti Vikas Swami

Here in this spot, New Vrindavan, the woman’s business will be to take care of the children, cooking, cleansing, and churning butter. [laughter] And those who have the knowledge of typing can help in typing also. No other hard work. That’s all. This is for woman. And for men, hard work, field work, taking care […]

Tamala Krsna: That’s what makes your books so unique: that others might have had some scholarly knowledge, but you have so much experience and realization packed into those books that it’s so appealing, the scholarsdelight in reading the purports. Prabhupada: Scholars theorize. I say practical. Scholars want to show how much their imaginative power is […]

Prabhupada took his massage, prasadam and rest half an hour earlier than usual, so he was ready to go when the car arrived at 3:00 p.m. to take him to the parade. As the car moved down 7th Avenue across the intersections we could see the chariots making their way down 5th Avenue. The parade […]

When our eyes are anointed with love of God, we can see Him everywhere. That is the injunction of the sastras. We have to develop our seeing power by developing love of Godhead. Premanjana-cchurita bhakti-vilocanena [Bs. 5.38]. When one is sufficiently developed in Krsna consciousness, he can see the Lord every moment within his heart […]

Kaumara means from fifth year to tenth year, five years. Within these five years, education must begin. And especially dharman bhagavatan. Bhagavata-dharma means to understand Krsna, to understand the Supreme Personality of Godhead. I know, amongst the Muhammadans it is a system that small children, they are taught Koran. That is very good system. But […]

The main point is that “In God we trust,” on this slogan… So the same point that, “What do you mean by God and what do you mean by trust? That you do not know.” So you have to explain what is God and what is trust, thoroughly, from our books. Our point of propaganda […]

Caitanya Mahaprabhu, because these rascals, they have misunderstood Krsna — “Why shall I surrender to Krsna? I am also Krsna” — therefore Caitanya Mahaprabhu, without any condition, He’s distributing krsna-prema.  Krsna-prema is not so easy thing. First of all one cannot understand Krsna. And what is krsna-prema? manusyanam sahasresukascid yatati siddhayeyatatam api siddhanam[Bg 7.3] Big, […]

It is the duty of a wife to adopt the special circumstances in which the husband is situated. Of course, if the husband is as great as Kardama Muni, then a very good result accrues from following him. But even if the husband is not a great devotee like Kardama Muni, it is the wife’s […]

Srila Bhaktisiddhanta warns all devotees engaged in broadcasting the Krsna consciousness movement not to speak to the impersonalist Mayavadis who are always determined to oppose such theistic movements. The world is full of atheists and Mayavadis and the political parties of the world take advantage of their philosophies to promote materialism. The Mayavadis and other […]

We have got a friend in London, perhaps you know his name, George Harrison. His house is a palatial building — he is a very rich man — but the former owner of the house is living there as ghost. This is practical. He was very rich man, the owner of the house, former owner […]

Krsna is living everywhere — that is the vision of the higher devotees. Actually He’s living, but still, because we are in the lower condition, we should know that here is Krsna in the temple. Krsna is everywhere, but for us, because we have no such vision to see Krsna anywhere and everywhere, therefore we […]

Our mantra is so strong that it is acting on the brain. So why don’t you take this side, that “If we are simply chanting and it is acting on the brain, even from your side, that it is so strong that we are giving up everything for this process. So how much this chanting […]