Author: HH Bhakti Vikas Swami

So try to receive Krsna’s grace through the disciplic succession, Caitanya Mahaprabhu. Then you will understand everything. Yasya deve para bhaktir yatha deve tatha gurau [SU 6.23]. This is the process, Vedic process. One should have unflinching faith in God and spiritual master. Don’t jump over God, crossing the spiritual master. Then it will be […]

We are suffering every moment, and still, we are thinking we are very happy. Therefore it is our misfortune, that human life is meant for understanding, “What is the position of my life? Why I am suffering?” So for that understanding Krsna has given us so many Vedic literature: four Vedas and the Puranas and […]

If you actually want to go to the moon planet, there is a clear process. A long time ago — I think sometime in 1960 — I wrote the book Easy Journey to Other Planets. So one gentleman met me: “Sir, your book, Easy Journey . . . So we shall go there?” “Yes, we […]

By writing regularly, what you read will become realized. Srila Prabhupada, Letter, 21 Jan 1972

As much as possible read, chant, and preach. This is our life and soul. Srila Prabhupada, Letter, 21 Jan 1972

Again election, as if election will change their quality. They remain… Let them remain as rascal, and simply by election, in place of one rascal, another rascal will improve it. This is the… Let them remain rascal, but get vote. So that is… That is described in Bhagavatam, sva-vid-varahostra-kharaih samstutah purusah pasuh [SB 2.3.19]. The […]

Lord Nityananda alone possesses the distinctive function of the guru. Nityananda is the servant of God, serving Gaurasundara by the distinctive method of reverential servitude. He is identical with Sri Balarama of Krsna-lila. Sri Balarama is not a chum of Krsna, but His respected elder brother. Individual souls are under the direction of Nityananda. They […]

When Lord Nityananda returned to Bengal to preach the cult of bhakti, love of Godhead, He began touring all over the country. For two purposes — to spread the cult of bhakti and to defeat and subdue the atheists — Lord Nityananda, the most dedicated devotee of the Lord, moved throughout the country. Lord Krsna […]

Regarding your question, how could Visnu appear from the nostril of Brahma? The answer is that Visnu being all pervading, He can appear from anyplace. He appeared as Nrsimhadeva from the pillar. So, one may question how Visnu may appear from pillar, but actually He appeared. He is all powerful with inconceivable potency, and therefore […]

The kings and the commanders were to stand in the front of the fighting soldiers. That was the system of actual fighting. The kings and commanders were not so-called presidents or ministers of defense as they are today. They would not stay home while the poor soldiers or mercenaries were fighting face to face. This […]

Lt. Mozee (Chicago police officer): I understood the spiritual leader had some ideas on how to prevent crime, how to do these things. I might inquire after he gives his ideas. Prabhupada: It is not idea; it is fact that one man is very pious and one man is very vicious. What is the difference? […]

Now here, these boys, these girls, they are worshiping Krsna, and they are becoming devotee. What is the sign of devotee? The sign of devotee is that the devotees are no more interested with material enjoyment. That is devotee. Bhaktih paresanubhavo viraktir anyatra syat [SB 11.2.42]. So these young boys and girls, they do not […]