Author: HH Bhakti Vikas Swami

Krsna is so powerful that He can immediately take up all the sins of others and immediately make them right. But when a living entity plays the part on behalf of Krsna, he also takes the responsibility for the sinful activities of his devotees. Therefore to become a guru is not an easy task. He […]

If you become steady in one life without deviating for maya, then you make solution of all problems. That is the duty of human being . Instead of suffering this repeated birth and death, one life sacrifice. What is that sacrifice? What is inconvenience to live nicely, avoiding these four rascal habit, taking Krsna prasadam, […]

Guest (4): Is this world a real place? Is this world a real place? Prabhupada: What do you mean by real? Guest (4): According to what you were saying, it’s illusion. Prabhupada: Yes. Illusion, illusion in this way, that what you take it as a fact, but it is something else. It is not fact. […]

Sometimes we have to cheat, sometimes we have to be injured — so many things. The only device is how people can become Krsna conscious. That is our mission. Some way or other these rascals should be converted to Krsna consciousness, either this way or that way. From Srila Prabhupada’s lecture on Sri Isopanisad, Mantra […]

We should be careful not to eat anything which is not offered to Krsna, prasadam. That should be determination. We cannot purchase things from the market and eat. No. That is not possible. We cannot eat. We can simply eat such things which are offered to the Deity, Krsna. That is yajna-sistasinah [Bg 3.13]. Even […]

In his purport to Gita 18.64, Srila Prabhupada refers to the next verse as “the most important instruction in all Vedic literature.” The next verse is: man-mana bhava mad-bhaktomad-yaji mam namaskurumam evaisyasi satyam tepratijane priyo ‘si me Always think of Me, become My devotee, worship Me and offer your homage unto Me. Thus you will […]

Anyone who is under the bodily concept of life is no better than animal. If we say frankly, everyone is in the bodily concept of life. Therefore the modern civilization is animal civilization. It is not human civilization. Human civilization will begin when one will understand that “I am not this body; I am spirit […]

Krishna Consciousness philosophy is as old as 120 million years at the least. So nothing can be compared with our philosophy either in the matter of antiquity, philosophy, ethics, science, morality, etc., all in correct vision and approved by great stalwart acaryas. So far others are concerned, they cannot be compared even. For example, if […]

Only the purified soul can attain the perfection of associating with the Personality of Godhead in complete bliss and satisfaction in his constitutional state. Whoever is able to renovate such devotional perfection is never again attracted by this material world, and he never returns. SB 2.2.31, Srila Prabhupada’s translation

Hindus do not purchase meat from Muslims’ shops. That is impure. [laughter] The same thing: stool this side and that side. They are eating meat, [chuckles] and Hindu shop is pure, Muslim shop is impure. These are mental concoction. Religion is going on like that. Therefore fighting: “I am Hindu,” “I am Muslim,” “I am […]

In this material world, to say this is good and this is bad has no value. To us, everything material is bad as it is lacking Krsna consciousness. Just like wet stool and dry stool. Stool is stool, but somebody is saying that wet stool is better than dry stool. What is this good and […]

When inaugurating the first publication of The Nectar of Devotion on 23 June 1970, Srila Prabhupada instructed: Every one of you should read this Nectar of Devotion repeatedly. The whole substance of Vaisnava philosophy and activities, everything is there. So every one of you read this Nectar of Devotion once, twice, thrice. Everything is very […]