Author: HH Bhakti Vikas Swami

Vaisnava position is not very easy thing; above all qualities. Therefore Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura introduced not to become an imitation of Rupa Gosvami. Rupa Gosvami, Sanatana, the Gosvamis of Vrndavana, they are paramahamsas. And in Vrndavana you’ll find so-called babajis, they have imitated the dress of Rupa Gosvami — half loincloth — but a […]

In London he was on television, and the interviewer… So Prabhupada began to explain, he said, “A society without religion is a society of cats and dogs.” So the interviewer said, “Do you mean to say that we are all cats and dogs?” Prabhupada said, “No. Not only you, the whole world.” Lecture, Hamsaduta Dasa, […]

The most important thing is that we must be ideal Krsna Conscious persons, and then we can attract others. This means chanting, reading my books, going on sankirtana, following the regulative principles and worshiping the deity. Whoever take part in these things, no matter what he has done of sinful activities before, will automatically advance […]

Slaughter is the way of sub-humans…. The animal killers do not know that in the future the animal will have a body suitable to kill them. That is the law of nature. In human society, if one kills a man he has to be hanged. That is the law of the state. Because of ignorance, […]

Instead of contemplating what will happen to this world – you have got a short duration of life, say fifty, sixty years – you should chant Hare Krishna and go back to home, back to Godhead. Don’t consider what will happen to this world. Nature will take care of it. Don’t puzzle your brain with […]

One should work hard and worship the Supreme Lord by the fruits of one’s hard labor for existence, and that should be the motto of life. Srila Prabhupada, SB 1.2.27, purport

Here Krsna proclaims that He is the enjoyer of all activities and the proprietor of all planets (sarva-loka-mahesvaram). An individual may possess a large tract of land, and he may be proud of his ownership, but Krsna claims to possess all planetary systems. Krsna also claims to be the friend of all living entities (suhrdam […]

This false identification with material nature is the cause of false ownership of things which are offered by the arrangement of superior control. All material resources are offered to the living entity for his peaceful living and for the discharge of the duties of self-realization in conditioned life. But due to false identification, the conditioned […]

Paramahamsa: The Bible has gone through so many interpretations and so many changes in the last two thousand years. I’ve talked to professors who know the original Hebrew and the original tongues that the Bible was written in. And they say that is has changed so much that you can hardly… Prabhupada: Yes, they are […]

Bhagavad-gita is the A-B-C-D of spiritual knowledge. If we do not understand even the A-B-C-D of spiritual knowledge, then where is the progress? Unfortunately, we are neglecting. But it is our duty to propagate this knowledge of Bhagavad-gita. From Srila Prabhupada’s lecture on Bhagavad-gita 13.1–2 — September 25, 1973, Bombay

The instruction given in my books is supposed to be personal instruction. When we read the Bhagavad-gita As It Is, it is understood that we are receiving personal instructions of Krsna. No physical barrier is there in the case of spiritual affairs. From Srila Prabhupada’s letter to Dhrstaketu — Bombay 14 October, 1973

Our only request is that if you want happiness, if you want to prosper, make your life successful, you must read Bhagavad-gita thoroughly, as it is, as Krsna says. Don’t try to misinterpret. From Srila Prabhupada’s lecture on Bhagavad-gita 4.13 — 2 April, 1974