At the end of one lecture Srila Prabhupada told the devotees, “If you become 90% Krishna conscious, you will go back home, back to Godhead.” Looking out into his audience, he saw that the devotees looked crestfallen. So then he said, “If you become 80% Krishna conscious, you will go back home, back to Godhead.” […]

The more one feels imperfect in Krishna’s service, the more he is advancing in Krishna Consciousness. Even the topmost devotees feel they are inadequate in their service to the Lord. So it is good to feel inadequate, and to try harder to please Krishna with better service. But one should never feel, oh, I have […]

Anyone reading our Krsna book, Nectar of Devotion, Teachings of Lord Caitanya and Bhagavad-gita will certainly become a Krsna conscious person. Someway or other we have to push these literatures, whether through schools, colleges, libraries, membership or ordinary sales. From Srila Prabhupada’s letter to Karandhara – 18 March, 1971)

Our tongues always engage in vibrating useless sounds that do not help us realize transcendental peace. The tongue is compared to a desert because a desert needs a constant supply of refreshing water to make it fertile and fruitful. Water is the substance most needed in the desert. The transient pleasure derived from mundane topics […]

Arjuna conquered both sleep and ignorance because of his friendship with Krsna. As a great devotee of Krsna, he could not forget Krsna even for a moment, because that is the nature of a devotee. Either in waking or in sleep, a devotee of the Lord can never be free from thinking of Krsna’s name, […]

Bhakti Svarupa Damodara Swami: One time I invited Professor Benford from the University of California Irvine. He is a particle physicist, and he had some interest on something beyond science. In the garden, Prabhupada’s garden, in the course of discussion with Professor Benford, Prabhupada was asking that “You scientists are spending so much time in […]

With you in your room in Mayapur there is no time, no beginning or end. Everything is so pleasant, the air blows into the room, soothing us like nectar, and you lean back and challenge, “If there is something missing, simply some chemical lost from the body at the time of death, then why don’t […]

When my Guru Maharaja ordered me… When I was manager in Bose’s laboratory, so he ordered me. So I thought, “Oh, I cannot do this. I cannot accept this sannyasa.” But he was so kind, and he is so kind still. Then he forced me, that “You must do it,” taking…, pulling my ear, he […]

According to external vision, Haridasa Thakura belonged to a Muhammadan family. Nevertheless, because he engaged himself in performing the yajna of chanting the Hare Krsna maha-mantra, he became a regularly initiated brahmana. As stated in Srimad-Bhagavatam (3.33.6): yan-namadheya-sravananukirtanadyat-prahvanad yat-smaranad api kvacitsvado ‘pi sadyah savanaya kalpatekutah punas te bhagavan nu darsanat Even if a devotee comes […]

So today is very auspicious day, Thakura Bhaktivinoda’s birthday. Here is the picture of Thakura Sac-cid-ananda Bhaktivinoda. He was one of the acaryas of this disciplic succession from Krsna. We have got a succession table from Krsna, genealogical table. There are two kinds of genealogical tables: one by the semina — father, his son, his […]

Vamana, when He took three steps, stuck His foot through the covering of this universe. Water from the Causal Ocean flowed through the hole that His foot made, and it is said that that water became the river Ganges. Therefore the Ganges, flowing from the Himalayas down to the Bay of Bengal, is accepted as […]

What is the extent of our intelligence in comparison to the vast expanse of water in the ocean? On my passage to America, how insignificant the ship was, like a matchbox in the midst of the ocean. Krsna’s intelligence resembles the ocean, for one cannot imagine how vast it is. The best course, therefore, is […]