Author: HH Bhakti Vikas Swami

Interviewer: Can you convert the world? Prabhupada: Yes provided you listen to me. I say that you love God, if you think, that “I shall love dog,” then how can I convert you? You may ask, “What is the difference between loving God and dog?” The difference is if you love God then you can […]

Bhakti is a relationship between master and servant. The servant’s duty is to serve the master, and the master supplies whatever the servant needs. Srila Prabhupada – TKQ 6 purport

Translation: By making plans with determination, one should give up lusty desires for sense gratification. Similarly, by giving up envy one should conquer anger, by discussing the disadvantages of accumulating wealth one should give up greed, and by discussing the truth one should give up fear. Purport: Srila Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura has suggested how one […]

It is recommended that one associate with devotees, but there must be some discrimination. Actually, a sadhu, a saintly person, must be saintly in his behavior (sadhavah sad-acarah). Unless one adheres to the standard behavior, one’s position as a sadhu, a saintly person, is not complete. Therefore a Vaisnava, a sadhu, must completely adhere to […]

Maya is so strong that untruthful things, we take it as truthful. Just like the modern scientists. These rascals, he could not, they cannot, they will never be able to produce life. Still, they are insisting: “Yes, we will do it. We can do.” The whole world is full of rascals. What they cannot do, […]

Gopala Krsna: There is a very big women’s liberation movement in America, they call it Womens Lib. So they want equal opportunity for women. Prabhupada: But who will give birth to the child? [laughter] Where is that liberation? [laughter] Can the woman transfer to the man to give birth to the child? [laughter]. Devotee (2): […]

SB 7.14.5 TRANSLATIONWhile working to earn his livelihood as much as necessary to maintain body and soul together, one who is actually learned should live in human society unattached to family affairs, although externally appearing very much attached. PURPORTThis is the picture of ideal family life. When Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu asked Ramananda Raya about the […]

There is a book called Aquarian Gospel in which it is stated that Lord Jesus Christ lived in the temple of Jagannatha. Without being His devotee, how could he live there and how the authorities could allow a nondevotee to live there? From that book it appears that Lord Jesus Christ lived in intimate relations […]

Bhava-grahi janardana. Bhava. The Personality of Godhead takes account of your mental… Not exactly mental–your spiritual attraction, how much you are attracted. This attraction is the main thing. As I have several times explained in this meeting, that sa vai pumsam paro dharma yato bhaktir adhoksaje. What is the highest type of religion? Everyone will […]

I have traveled all over the world so many times. Because there is no varnasrama-dharma, how loose they are. That has been experimented. I have seen. So actually, unless one comes to the standard of varnasrama-dharma, he is not considered to be a human being. Srila Prabhupada, SB 1.2.8 Lecture, Vrindavan, October 19, 1972

Sri Krsna’s beauty attracted the eyes of Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu. Krsna’s singing and the vibration of His flute attracted the Lord’s ears, the transcendental fragrance of Krsna’s lotus feet attracted His nostrils, Krsna’s transcendental sweetness attracted His tongue, and Krsna’s bodily touch attracted the Lord’s sensation of touch. Thus each of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu’s five […]

All our ailments are due to the external body. Although we have to suffer some time from bodily inconveniences specially in the old age, still if we are God conscious, we shall not feel the pangs. The best thing is therefore to Chant the holy Name of the Lord Constantly. From a letter by Srila […]