Author: HH Bhakti Vikas Swami

Canakya Pandita said, ayusah ksana eko ‘pi na labhyah svarna-kotibhih… Svarna means gold coins, and koti means ten millions. So suppose today is 6th December. Now seven o’clock, morning, seven o’clock, 6th December, passed. Can you bring it again by paying one crores [ten million] of gold coins? Hm? That “Let me get back again […]

Nrsimha-deva has appeared to convince the atheist (laughter) that there is no [sic] God. This is a lying propaganda that nobody has seen God. Everyone has seen God. The devotee sees within his heart, in the temple, and everywhere. And the atheist sees when he’s… when the clock, the handles in the clock are over. […]

Prahlada Maharaja was an authority in the devotional service of the Lord because he had his father killed by Lord Nrsimha-deva, setting the example that even a father should be removed from the path of devotional service if such a father happens to be an obstacle. From Srila Prabhupada’s purport to SB 1.12.25

Devotee (2): Which way is India headed towards? The capitalists or the communists? Prabhupada: India has no…, had no such ideas. They are borrowing ideas. India’s idea is self-realization. Live very simple life – brahmana, ksatriya, vaisya, sudra. The brahmanas, they are living simple life, becoming very learned scholar, pure character, advanced in spiritual life-one […]

Unless we go to the spiritual planets, there is no escape from death. Srila Prabhupada – “Beyond Birth and Death”

The highest perfection of Krsna consciousness is renunciation of the material conception of life. Srila Prabhupada – BG 2.41, Purport

Those who drink through aural reception, fully filled with the nectarean message of Lord Krsna, the beloved of the devotees, purify the polluted aim of life known as material enjoyment and thus go back to Godhead, to the lotus feet of Him [the Personality of Godhead]. Srila Prabhupada – SB 2.2.37 Translation

Actual love is possible only with Krsna. Srila Prabhupada – The Quest For Enlightenment: From Folly to Defeat

Regarding Damodara’s plight, we are very sorry but we must always expect that some of the weak soldiers may fall down in a fight waged against the great Maya external energy of Krishna. The sex attraction is very great in the material world. But in the spiritual world it is different. From Srimad-Bhagavatam we know […]

If Krsna, if God wants to kill somebody, oh, nobody can protect him. And if God wants to protect him, oh, nobody can kill him. Srila Prabhupada, Lecture, Sri Caitanya-caritamrta, Madhya-lila 25.29 — San Francisco, January 21, 1967

Sometimes there will be a little misunderstanding between Godbrothers, that is even going on amongst liberated souls. What is important is that everyone must engage in Krishna’s service under the direction of the spiritual master. From Srila Prabhupada’s letter to Bhakta Ralph — 7 January, 1976

An English proverb: “Caesar’s wife must be above suspicion.” So anyone who is on the position of teacher, he must be above suspicion. That is our first acceptance of teacher. We don’t accept any teacher who is under suspicion. How he can be teacher if he’s under suspicion? Now they may question that if you […]