Author: HH Bhakti Vikas Swami

  1. This material world is nasty

    (In) 1966, I remember one lady. She was a model, very beautiful, tall lady. She looked at the paintings that Jadurani had did, that we hung in the temple, of Radha Krishna and she said, “Radha Krishna are so beautiful. Why did He create this world which is so terrible?” The Vietnam War was going […]
  2. Guru etiquette in temples

    There are many offenses one can commit while serving the Lord, and these are described in the Bhakti-rasamrta-sindhu, Hari-bhakti-vilasa and other books. According to the rules and regulations, no one should accept obeisances in the temple of the Lord before the Deity. Nor is it proper for a devotee to offer obeisances and touch the […]
  3. Krsna, His flute, & the cowherd boys

    Over and above all, the Lord used to play His celebrated flute. The sound vibrated by His flute would give His friends such transcendental pleasure that they would forget all the talks of brahmananda, which is so much praised by the impersonalists. These cowherd boys were living entities who had accumulated heaps of pious acts […]
  4. Hellish London

    Any country which does not get the full facility of sunshine, it is to be considered condemned. I think I remarked this long ago, when I first came, in the television. They asked me in London that “What is your conception of hell?” And “This is hell, London.” Not conception; practically. Always dark, moist, drizzly. […]