Author: HH Bhakti Vikas Swami

A devotee always accepts his distress as minimized by God’s Mercy, although he would have to suffer many more times the suffering. Any one who accepts this philosophy of God’s Mercy in suffering conditions, and still makes progress in Krishna Consciousness, it is said that he is sure to go back to Home, Back to […]

When we are children, innocent, we have no bad habits, but as we grow and associate with bad company, we also acquire all these bad habits. So to give up all these bad habits means we have to associate with sadhus or devotees, saintly persons. Then we can give it up. This is called anartha-nivrtti, […]

Regarding the “dust” supposedly brought from the Moon, that dust can be gotten anywhere. It has already been openly admitted that the same dust is available on this earth planet. These astronauts and scientists are all bluffing. But Srila Vyasadeva is the correct authority. Just study Srila Srimad-Bhagavatam carefully with full faith in Krishna and […]

When Krsna with His sixteen thousand wives went to Hastinapura, so Draupadi… It is natural between woman and woman, they talk about their husband. That is natural. So Draupadi was inquiring from each and every wife of Krsna. Not all of them; it is not possible, sixteen thousand. At least the principal queens, beginning from… […]

Spiritual anxiety means you are advancing in spiritual life, and material anxiety means you are going downhill. Maya is so strong that as soon as I am sitting in a solitary place, then I’ll think of money and women. Therefore we should live always in assembly and chant Hare Krsna and save ourself from the […]

We should always remember that our body is not for sense gratification; it is for Krishna’s service only. And to render very good sound service to Krishna we should not neglect the upkeep of the body. From Srila Prabhupada’s letter to Rayarama — Los Angeles 9 February, 1969

Our Caitanya-caritamrta is unique literature. For Caitanya-caritamrta, we are above any acarya. There are four acaryas: Ramanujacarya, Madhvacarya, Visnu Svami… But our Gaudiya Vaisnava, Caitanya Mahaprabhu’s legacy, acarya, that is unique. Anarpita-carim cirat karunayavatirna kalau. Here the Supreme Personality of Godhead is personally teaching — acarya. Anarpita-carim cirat karunayavatirna kalau samarpayitum unnatojjvala-rasam. The highest topmost […]

Before accepting sannyasa (the renounced order), Lord Caitanya was known as Visvambhara. The word visvambhara refers to one who maintains the entire universe and who leads all living entities. This very same maintainer and leader appeared as Lord Sri Krsna Caitanya to give humanity these sublime teachings. Lord Caitanya is the ideal teacher of life’s […]

Sex is also to be engaged in Krsna consciousness. The conception of God as a father or mother does not allow the engagement of one’s sex in the service of the Lord because there is no sexual relationship with the father and mother. But in the conception of God as a lover, there is sexual […]

sri-krsna-caitanya-daya karaha vicaravicara karile citte pabe camatkara If you are indeed interested in logic and argument, kindly apply it to the mercy of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu. If you do so, you will find it to be strikingly wonderful. PURPORTSrila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura comments in this connection that people in general, in their narrow-minded conception of […]

Kali-yuga, people are suffering. They’re all fallens, all meat-eaters, all drunkards, all fifth-grade, sixth-grade men. They are puffed-up, but actually they are fifth-, sixth- and tenth-grade men, not even gentlemen. Therefore my Guru Maharaja used to say that “No gentleman can live here. The society is so polluted.” But there is opportunity of serving Caitanya […]

Lord Caitanya was eulogized by Rupa Goswami as the latter understood that Lord Caitanya was there to distribute Krishna Consciousness. The only gift for the humanity at large. Lord Caitanya wanted that the message should be distributed in every village and town of the globe. Let us do this service as far as possible in […]