Our Krsna is love, all-attractive. Srila Prabhupada, in conversation with Allen Ginsberg – May 12, 1969, Columbus

To develop attraction for Krishna is not difficult, you simply have to hear about Krishna, his activities, his name, his form and his teaching in Bhagavad-gita. Naturally you will develop love for Krishna, because we are all part and parcel of Krishna. The beginning process is to Chant Hare Krishna, follow the four regulative principles […]

The six Goswamis gave up their ministerial post, opulent post, and became mendicant. How they lived? They were merged in the ocean of the love affairs of the gopis with Krsna. Therefore this mendicantism was external. They were enjoying better things. So unless you enjoy better thing, you cannot give up inferior thing. So Krsna […]

Caitanya Mahaprabhu sent Sanatana Gosvami to Vrndavana, and other Gosvami, Rupa Gosvami… mathurate pathaila rupa-sanatanadui sena-pati kaila bhakti pracarana[Cc Adi 7.164] Sena-pati means these two brothers, Rupa Gosvami and Sanatana Gosvami, were appointed as the commander-in-chief, commander-in-chief in this fighting with maya. This Krsna consciousness means it is declaration of fighting with maya. Maya is […]

There is nothing in the world that can compare with our Movement of chanting and dancing. So Chant dance and when you get tired take Prasadam, this is our actual solid preaching work all over the world. From Srila Prabhupada’s letter to Bhakta dasa – Bhaktivedanta Manor 3 August, 1973

A devotee of Krsna should free himself from the clutches of maya, and he should also be compassionate to all others suffering in those clutches. The activities of the Krsna consciousness movement are meant not only for oneself but for others also. This is the perfection of Krsna consciousness. One who is interested only in […]

Loving affairs in the material world: they are only shadows or reflections of the real love with Krishna. If you love Krishna in any capacity, you shall never be frustrated because everything in Krishna is perfect, eternal, blissful, and full of knowledge. From Srila Prabhupada’s letter to Kancanbala — Los Angeles 14 January, 1968

Yogesvara: So here’s a practical problem. People would be interested to know our position on divorce. Here in Rome they just passed a divorce law. Prabhupada: That is also animalism. Just like a dog having sex intercourse with another female dog, and another, another, another. It is also animalism. So that is your decision. They […]

Foolish Mayavadis, not knowing that the Krsna consciousness movement is based on a solid philosophy of transcendental science, superficially conclude that those who dance and chant do not have philosophical knowledge. Those who are Krsna conscious actually have full knowledge of the essence of Vedanta philosophy, for they study the real commentary on the Vedanta […]

If by the tongue you chant Hare Krsna mantra, and by the tongue you taste prasadam, you will be perfect, simply by executing these two things. From Srila Prabhupada’s lecture on Bhagavad-gita 1.10 — 12 July, 1973

A bona fide spiritual master chants the holy names Hare Krsna, Hare Krsna, Krsna Krsna, Hare Hare / Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare, and the transcendental sound vibration enters the ear of the disciple, and if the disciple follows in the footsteps of his spiritual master and chants the holy name with […]

That is the first instruction in the Bhagavad-gita, that “Your position is that you are not this body. Your position is that you are the proprietor of the body; you are spirit soul.” So if people are not educated on this understanding that the soul is different from body, that is… The beginning of education […]