Author: HH Bhakti Vikas Swami

Simply to become vegetarian is not the last word. There are many vegetarians. The monkey is vegetarian. [chuckles] He’s naked and lives in a jungle. Just like there are so many so-called sages, that “I live naked. I live in the jungle. I have given up the society.” So monkey is doing that. Huh? [laughter] […]

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30 top cited BG verses from his purports, lectures, conversation and letters. Based on a Vedabase search. A search in the current release of VB would give somewhat different figures. 01 – 18.66 sarva-dharman parityajya… cited = 1,32002 – 02.13 dehino ‘smin yatha dehe… cited = 73803 – 04.9 janma karma ca me divyam… cited […]

SB 3.31.43, as rendered by Srila PrabhupadaA woman, therefore, should consider her husband, her house and her children to be the arrangement of the external energy of the Lord for her death, just as the sweet singing of the hunter is death for the deer. PURPORTIn these instructions of Lord Kapiladeva it is explained that […]

Very good-looking boy. Don’t let him deviate. This is the age to be careful so that he may not deviate. What is his age? Eleven. This is the age. Twelve to fifteen years, the boys become, by bad association, they become rotten. This hellish world is like that. They go to school and become demons. […]

Param drstva nivartate [Bg 2.59]. Not by force, but appreciating something better condition of life, one rejects all this nonsense. That is advancement. Bhajana-kriya. By bhajana-kriya, by being initiated and executing the bhajana, now, one just be detestful. Then nistha. Tato nistha, firm faith. Tato rucih. Ruci means taste. You cannot do without it. Just […]

That is the test that whether you are actually initiated. If you are still attached to these… Bhaktih paresanubhavo viraktih… If you are not detestful to all these nonsense habits, then you must know that you are not making any progress. You are not making any progress. Because this is the result: anartha-nivrttih syat. If […]

Siva is dahi (yogurt) and Krsna is milk. Dahi, the preparation of dahi that you take milk, pure milk, and mix it with little sour thing, then it becomes dahi. Similarly, Krsna is pure spirit, and when this pure spirit is mixed up with maya, that is Siva. From Srila Prabhupada’s lecture on Srimad-Bhagavatam 5.5.2 […]

My dear Lord, I wish to see You exactly in the form that Your very dear devotees worship. You have many other forms, but I wish to see Your form that is especially liked by the devotees. Please be merciful upon me and show me that form, for only that form worshiped by the devotees […]

Nowadays there are scarcity of food grains. Even the human being cannot eat sufficiently. But formerly the kings, they used to maintain elephants. They were supplied very nice capatis. Do you know that? Still there are kings, they have elephants. Therefore elephant can be maintained by very rich man. If suppose, if somebody comes, he […]

You’ll see, Krsna’s picture, always a flute in His hand. Always joyful. Because He’s the Supreme Lord, there is nothing moroseness. Always joyful. That is the symptom of spiritual life. You’ll see Krsna always smiling, always playing on His flute. As you see in this material world also, some boy, he has got a flute […]

Regarding your meeting with the Ram Krishna Mission man, you write to say that he has advised you how you should work combinedly with the Maharishi group in Hamburg, and he has said that our goals are actually the same. I do not know how our goals are actually the same. Our goal is Krishna, […]