Author: HH Bhakti Vikas Swami

An old father required massaging so all the children wanted to serve the father. The father divided the right and left portion of his body to be served by the children. Later along with the service, there was some quarrel between the children, and they were competing by hitting the parts of the father which […]

There was no university. The university was in the cottage-Vyasadeva. Vyasadeva was writing  all the Puranas in a cottage. So university was there. Who can produce such literature as Vyasadeva has given? From any angle of vision, from literary point of view, from philosophical point of view-everything, so perfect, every literature, Mahabharata, Puranas and Vedanta-Veda-vyasa, […]

You can do all kinds of opposition, but we shall go forward. The caravan will pass. You may bark.” So take all these things as Krsna’s mercies and engage more enthusiastically. Why should we be defeated? Srila Prabhupada, Conversation on 1976 Book Scores — January 16, 1977, Calcutta

Narottama dasa Thakura has used very strong word. “Anyone who has no connection with Nityananda Prabhu, he’s a pasu.” Sei pasu. He’s a pasu, means animal. So animal, how one animal can get happiness? That is not possible. The dog, from the childhood he’s searching after food, searching after food, and cannot get food. Unless […]

“In the Kali-yuga the population is just a royal edition of the animals.” Srila Prabhupada, SB 1.3.43 Purport

Vyasadeva was not an ordinary fiction writer. Anyone can write any nonsense. Formerly, no book will be accepted unless it is written by liberated soul. That was the system. No other man will dare to write any book, neither his book will be accepted in society. Only Vedic literature and literature produced out of Vedic […]

Your suggestion that the devotees visiting Vrindaban engage in preaching and chanting and not in gossiping is very good. We have sacrificed our life for Krsna’s service, where is there scope for sleeping and gossiping? You can see in my example, not a single moment is wasted. From Srila Prabhupada’s letter to Gurudasa — Calcutta […]

How Krsna becomes attracted by the devotional service of His devotees is described by Narada in the Srimad-Bhagavatam, Seventh Canto, Tenth Chapter, 37th verse. There Narada addresses King Yudhisthira while the King is appreciating the glories of the character of Prahlada Maharaja. A devotee always appreciates the qualities of other devotees.” i So that was […]

Cc Adi 13.66 In the house of Advaita Acarya, all the Vaisnavas took pleasure in always talking of Krsna, always worshiping Krsna and always chanting the Hare Krsna maha-mantra. Srila Prabhupada’s purport: On these principles only does the Krsna consciousness movement go on. We have no business other than to talk of Krsna, worship Krsna […]

So that means illicit sex, sex without the intention for begetting a nice child, that is illicit sex. Srila Prabhupada; January 3, 1971

It is foretold herein that in the absence of a monarchical regime the general mass of people will be an unwanted population like dogs and monkeys. As the monkeys are too sexually inclined and the dogs are shameless in sexual intercourse, the general mass of population born of illegitimate connection will systematically go astray from […]

SB 7.14.8 TRANSLATIONOne may claim proprietorship to as much wealth as required to maintain body and soul together, but one who desires proprietorship over more than that must be considered a thief, and he deserves to be punished by the laws of nature. PURPORTBy God’s favor we sometimes get large quantities of food grains or […]