Author: HH Bhakti Vikas Swami

We don’t discourage you to construct big, big cars, but it should be used for the kirtana party to go to village to village, not to go to the brothels and liquor shop. Then you are ruined. You can use it, all the facilities. The microphone should be used for spreading Krsna consciousness, not talking […]

Because everyone is not employed, they have discovered machine, and the machine is working hundred men’s work. So actually, a hundred men are unemployed. So the machine has not improved the situation. It has improved the pocket of the capitalist. But it has not improved the condition of the mass of people. No. They are […]

Modern warfare waged between capitalists and communists is due to their avoiding the advice of Srila Rupa Gosvami regarding atyahara. Modern capitalists accumulate more wealth than necessary, and the communists, envious of their prosperity, want to nationalize all wealth and property. Unfortunately the communists do not know how to solve the problem of wealth and […]

Everything should be learned from the standard Vedic literature, and society and other things, economic development, everything. So that is here in the Bhagavad-gita. All problems, whatever you want, you consult Bhagavad-gita — you’ll have perfect answer. From Srila Prabhupada’s lecture on Bhagavad-gita 16.7 — February 3, 1975, Honolulu

Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu has taught everyone that one should not be overly anxious to see the Lord, but should rather feel separation from Him in ecstasy. It is actually better to feel separation from Him than to desire to see Him face to face. Srila Prabhupada, in Caitanya Caritamrta, Madhya lila 1.56, purport

This is fairy land of children and that is fairy land of the adults. The children they play whole day and night they do not know that they have got responsibilities in future. Similarly these persons who have no responsibility what is going to happen after death and enjoying the skyscraper buildings and that is […]

That is religious life, when you execute your occupational duty just according to the law. There are state laws and there are laws also. So actually, we should perform the divine laws. State law is subordinate. That is legal. Otherwise illegal. But unfortunately, the whole state at the present moment, they are also illegal. Therefore […]

Prabhupada: The junglis, they are not called civilized. They are as good as animals. In India we say jungli he, jungli. And others say uncivilized. So Aryan means the most civilized group. Dr. Patel: But presently, sir, the Aryan race are spread the world over. Aryans are spread the world over right from South America […]

These temples, they are just like oasis in the desert for the conditioned souls to quench the thirst of their desire for real happiness. From Srila Prabhupada’s letter to Ksirodakasayi — Calcutta 29 January, 1973

So you should be very, very careful. Don’t go to hear any Mayavadi. There are many Mayavadis in the dress of Vaisnavas. Srila Prabhupada – Lecture – Srimad-Bhagavatam 1.7.8 – September 7, 1976, Vrndavana

One has got the particular type of body by nature’s arrangement according to the quality. If you want to change him to the better quality, then you have to accept this Krsna consciousness. Srila Prabhupada – Lecture – Bhagavad-gita 18.41 – September 7, 1973, Stockholm

Only five thousand years we have passed, and the number of sinful men is already greater — three-fourth’s sinful men, one-fourth pious men — and it will increase, and gradually it will become zero. And the total duration of life of Kali-yuga is 432,000’s of years. That means there is a balance of 427,000’s of […]