1. Grhasta-brahmacari

    A brahmacari is good for living a life of celibacy, but a person who can live a life of celibacy in the presence of a beautiful and obliging wife is more than a brahmacari. Of course anyone who is stuck up with only one wife is also called brahmacari. You will set a very good […]
  2. Perfect knowledge

    Guest (5): I have great difficulty with the meaning of the term “perfect knowledge.” I… Could you… Prabhupada: Perfect knowledge means what you say, it is correct; there is no mistake. Guest (5): In any and all circumstances. Prabhupada: Yes. That is perfect knowledge. Not like the scientists. They changes: “Yes, it was this. Now […]
  3. Polluted desires lead to rebirth

    The minds of those who are addicted to fruitive activity are always filled with unclean desires. Fruitive activities are symptomatic of our polluted desire to dominate material nature. As long as one continues to be subject to polluted desires, he has to accept one material body after another. From Srila Prabhupada’s purport to Srimad-Bhagavatam 4.23.8
  4. Revealed knowledge, & how to receive it

    The disease of the modern civilized man is his disbelief of everything in the revealed scriptures. Faithless nonbelievers cannot make progress in spiritual realization, for they cannot understand the spiritual potency. Although there are varieties of personalities, from Brahma down to the insignificant ant, all of whom are living beings, their development of knowledge is […]
  5. Vedanta study & chanting

    People in general in Kali-yuga are so fallen that it is not possible for them to obtain perfection simply by studying Vedanta-sutra. One should therefore seriously take to the constant chanting of the holy name of the Lord. Although Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu is the Supreme Personality of Godhead Krsna, the spiritual master of the entire […]
  6. Raising humans from the animal platform

    Practically there is no religion. And without religion human society is animal society. Dharmena hina pasubhih samanah: “Human being without any ideas of religion, God, he is no better than animal.” That is the difference between animal and human being. Animals eat, we eat; animals sleep, we sleep; animals have sexual intercourse, we have; animals […]
  7. This is love

    What is the symptom of love? The symptom, the prime symptom, most important symptom of love, is that the devotee wants to see that his Lord’s name, fame, etc. become widespread. He wants to see that “My Lord’s name be known everywhere.” This is love. If I love somebody, I want to see that his […]