Author: HH Bhakti Vikas Swami

  1. Chant Hare Krsna and preach

    One should chant Hare Krsna and preach about the urgency of making this life perfect in all respects. One should thus engage in the devotional service of the Lord and follow in the footsteps of previous acaryas, beginning with Lord Brahma and others. From Srila Prabhupada’s purport to SB 4.24.67
  2. One acre of land is enough

    Satsvarupa: So if all the land belongs to God, then who decides who will distribute it to the people? Prabhupada: You don’t distribute. You live only, till the ground and take your food. Where is the question of distribution? Whatever you can till, you take so much land. God has enough land. Why do you […]
  3. Short life-span, so chant!

    In this age human beings only live for sixty or eighty years, and even this small life-span is gradually decreasing. Therefore it is even more imperative for human beings to take to the worship of the lotus feet of the Lord by constantly chanting the Hare Krsna mantra, as recommended by Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu. From […]
  4. The standard of morality

    What is the standard of morality? Can you explain? Can any one of you say? Have you got any idea what is the standard of morality? The standard of morality is to obey the Supreme. That is standard of morality. Standard of morality does not mean that you manufacture something morality out of your concoction. […]
  5. Srila Prabhupada explains a song by Srila Locana Dasa Thakura

    Parama koruna, pahu dui jana, nitai gauracandra. This is a song sung by Locana dasa Thakura, a great devotee of Lord Caitanya, almost contemporary. He wrote one book, Caitanya-mangala, depicting the activities of Lord Caitanya. That is a very famous book, Caitanya-mangala. And he has composed many songs. Practically all Vaisnavas, they are transcendentally poetic. […]
  6. Misuse of the gosvami title

    There were six great Gosvamis of Vrndavana — Srila Rupa, Sanatana, Bhatta Raghunatha, Sri Jiva, Gopala Bhatta and Dasa Raghunatha — and none of them inherited the title of gosvami. All the Gosvamis of Vrndavana were bona fide spiritual masters situated on the highest platform of devotional service, and for that reason they were called gosvamis. […]
  7. Krsna & the cows & bulls

    Lord Krsna, as the teacher of human society, personally showed by His acts that the mercantile community, or the vaisyas, should herd cows and bulls and thus give protection to the valuable animals. According to smrti regulation, the cow is the mother and the bull the father of the human being. The cow is the […]
  8. Special stress to chanting in all activivities

    [Sukracarya to Lord Visnu]: There may be discrepancies in pronouncing the mantras and observing the regulative principles, and, moreover, there may be discrepancies in regard to time, place, person and paraphernalia. But when Your Lordship’s holy name is chanted, everything becomes faultless. PURPORTSri Caitanya Mahaprabhu has recommended: harer nama harer namaharer namaiva kevalamkalau nasty eva […]