I am very glad to learn that you are all working peacefully together. This is the most favorable atmosphere for cultivating our Krishna consciousness. And if people see us working together nicely, they cannot criticize anything against our Krishna consciousness movement. From Srila Prabhupada’s letter to Prabhavisnu — Bombay 3 December, 1974

Devotee: “When we take your books out on the library party to the professors, they say that they are very surprised that one person has written so many books.” “So I am also surprised,” Prabhupada said, “how I have written so many, what to speak of them. It is all Krsna’s mercy.” >>> Ref. VedaBase => SPL 7-10: […]

We should have to preach this Krsna consciousness movement in every village, in every town of this planet. Therefore we have come to your country. You are kindly cooperating. You also spread. I am an old man. I may not live very long. Any moment I can be finished. But try. That is actually feeling. That is actually fellow […]

Brahmananda: Near to our farm is a mill where they grind the wheat fresh. Prabhupada: Our mill? Brahmananda: No. Tamala Krsna: We are going to get one now. It is not difficult to have a mill. “Hay-45 tons.” Prabhupada: In India the practice was hand grind daily. The women will do that. That’s exercise for them, and […]

By nature we are destined to follow a leader. Nobody is independent. Even in the animal society, the animals, they have also got a group, and there is leader of the group. And we are trying to make some group according to the similarly of thought and propensities. There are association, you know, various association, mercantile association, bankers’ association, […]

Fortunately you have got this Krsna consciousness, so utilize your life properly. You have got immense literature. Read it. Digest it. Make your life perfect. That is my request. Don’t spoil it. At least you have come to the shore of Krsna consciousness. Ei rupe brahmanda bhramite kono bhagyavan jiva [Cc. Madhya 19.151]. It is great fortune, bhagyavan jiva. […]

So far yajna is concerned, we can perform this yajna, sankirtana-yajna. That is not very difficult. Everyone, at home or in this place… What is that? Hare Krsna Hare Krsna Krsna Krsna Hare Hare Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare It is the most inexpensive performance of yajna. Anyone can adopt it, just to learn […]

In India, especially in Bengal and Orissa, there are millions of followers of Lord Caitanya. In Maharastra a saint of the name Saint Tukaram was also follower of Lord Caitanya and he has overflooded the whole Western India with Sankirtana Movement. So Sankirtana Movement in India in all the provinces is very much popular and anyone who is taking […]

I want the world to see by our example that life can be lived naturally, peacefully if one is self sufficient with land, some cows and chanting Hare Krishna. From Srila Prabhupada’s letter to Jagadisa, June 18,1974

The madhyama-adhikari wants to see that not a moment is wasted without Krsna consciousness. That is madhyama-adhikari. Avyartha-kalatvam [Cc. Madhya 23.18-19]. He’s always careful that “Whether I am spoiling the valuable time of my life.” That is the first qualification of madhyama-adhikari. Avyartha-kalatvam. Because we have got very short period, living period. We do not know when we shall die. […]

Srila Prabhupada: You are drinking the milk of the cow — so she is your mother — and after that you are sending her to the slaughterhouse. That is why we ask: “Where is society’s brain?” Mr. Hennis: Of course, when we speak of the distinctions that are made between pious activities and sinful activities Srila Prabhupada: Today […]

In this modern age, Kali-yuga, the so-called brahmanas have accepted the abominable position of sudras or less and still want to pass as qualified brahmanas. Actually, a qualified brahmana always sticks to his own duties and never accepts those of a sudra or of one less than a sudra. It is advised in the authorized scriptures that a brahmana […]