Author: HH Bhakti Vikas Swami

The more we struggle for advancing our Krishna Consciousness movement, the more we become advanced on the path. Really, devotional service means that we have to employ our energies for the purpose of Krishna Consciousness, and it does not matter what is the volume of such energy, because different persons have got different type of […]

Following in the footsteps of Lord Brahma, any person, even up to this day, can attain the same perfection by following the path of the paramahamsa as recommended herein. Lord Caitanya also approved of this method of self-realization for men in this age. One should first, with all conviction, believe in the Personality of Godhead […]

Real Krsna consciousness means goodbye to this material world. We are no more interested with your these big, big street, big, big buses or anything, whatever you think that is improvement, advancement. So Krsna conscious person are no more interested. Why not interested? They are disgusted. Srila Prabhupada, Lecture — July 25, 1976, London

A pure devotee never wants to see the Lord unnecessarily. The Lord is engaged in various activities, and the pure devotee does not want to see Him whimsically, for his own sense gratification. The pure devotee simply depends on the Lord’s mercy, and when the Lord is pleased, he can see Him face to face. […]

The Lord wants and demands that the living entities satisfy His senses By the spell of illusion one tries to be happy by serving his personal sense gratification in different forms which will never make him happy. Instead of satisfying his own personal material senses, he has to satisfy the senses of the Lord. That […]

So in this way, if we actually establish… Establish means re-establish. It is already established. We have got different types of relationship. That is called svarupa-siddhi. Svarupa-siddhi. When you are perfect in spiritual life, you will understand what is your relationship with Krsna automatically. That is called svarupa-siddhi. You have got original relationship with Krsna. […]

Actually, the purpose of our life is to please Krsna. That is the business of the older children, to serve the father. So there is a test for knowing if I am pleasing Krsna: If He reveals Himself to me, if I see Krsna, then I know I am pleasing Krsna. And another test is […]

SB 4.19.34We should always remember that if something happens by providential arrangement, we should not be very sorry. The more we try to rectify such reversals, the more we enter into the darkest region of materialistic thought. Purport by Srila Prabhupada: Sometimes the saintly or very religious person also has to meet with reversals in […]

If anyone surrenders unto Krsna, catches His lotus feet very strongly, “Krsna, save me,” Krsna promises, “Yes, I’ll save you.” Aham tvam sarva-papebhyo moksayisyami ma sucah. “Don’t worry. I shall save you.” From Srila Prabhupada’s lecture on, The Nectar of Devotion, Vrndavana, November 11, 1972

Krsna wanted to preach Krsna consciousness in the Western countries, so He gave me the chance to take the credit, that’s all. It is Krsna’s arrangement. But He liked that one of His devotee may take the credit. That’s all. Srila Prabhupada, Morning Walk, April 9, 1976, Vrndavana

TRANSLATIONThe strong bodily desires and needs of a person disturbed by hunger and thirst are certainly satisfied when he eats. Similarly, if one becomes very angry, that anger is satisfied by chastisement and its reaction. But as for greed, even if a greedy person has conquered all the directions of the world or has enjoyed […]

Dhama aparadha. The greatest offence is to live in Vrndavana and have illicit sex. The greatest offence.. And other things also. These things are prohibited, no illicit sex, no intoxication, no gambling, no meat-eating. So such function is most offensive in Vrndavana. In other places it may be excused but here it is the greatest […]