In this age, nobody is actually born of a brahmana family or ksatriya family. That is accepted. Because nobody is keeping up their standard. They are simply following some false prestige. So therefore the pancaratrika-vidhi, they do not recognize anybody as qualified brahmana. Everyone sudra, beginning from the lowest stage. Get him conversant in Krsna consciousness, and then initiated, and […]

At least for some time, we must create Satya-yuga, the age of reason and piety. We can easily accomplish this Herculean task simply by reintroducing Lord Caitanya’s sankirtana movement of the congregational chanting of Lord Krsna’s name and thus flooding the world with krsna-prema. All living entities — the human beings, who are afflicted by Kali-yuga, as well as sub-human […]

Srila Prabhupada pronounced that because of so much sex indulgence in our previous lives, we had become physically and mentally zero with no brains. Our only hope was Krsna consciousness, which was beyond any mental and physical considerations. From TKG’s Diary

I only want that all you my disciples always think of Krisha and never forget Him for a moment. Letter to Vajresvari — Mayapur 7 October, 1974

Love means six symptoms. I give you something, you give me something. I give you something for eating, you also give me something for eating. Dadati pratigrhnati bhunkte bhojayate caiva guhyam akhyati prcchati. If I am in trouble, I express my mind, I open my mind before you, and you also try to help me. These are the six […]

The demoniac are engaged in activities that will lead the world to destruction. The Lord states here that they are less intelligent. The materialists, who have no concept of God, think that they are advancing. But, according to Bhagavad-gita, they are unintelligent and devoid of all sense. They try to enjoy this material world to the utmost limit and therefore […]

The policy should be that you should be self-sufficient and save time for advancing in Krsna consciousness. That is wanted. Yavad-artha prayojanam. Yuktahara-viharasya yogo bhavati siddhi-ha [Bg. 6.17]. You shall eat whatever you require for proper upkeep of the body, not eating too much and sleeping whole day. Don’t do that. Eat only what is absolutely necessary. Then you’ll never […]

In America, the president is a big man. But now he is put into such a condition that he is full of anxiety. At any moment he may be kicked out. This is the position. You cannot be happy either as President Nixon or tiger or cats and dogs or human being or Lord Brahma. That is not […]

Chanting of the Hare Krsna mantra is the easiest process of meditation in this age. As soon as one chants the Hare Krsna mantra, he sees the forms of Krsna, Rama and Their energies, and that is the perfect stage of trance. One should not artificially try to see the form of the Lord while chanting Hare Krsna, but […]

The completely bewildered material civilization is wrongly directed towards the fulfillment of desires in sense gratification. In such civilization, in all spheres of life, the ultimate end is sense gratification. In politics, social service, altruism, philanthropy and ultimately in religion or even in salvation, the very same tint of sense gratification is ever-increasingly predominant. In the political field the leaders […]

Sometimes Prabhupada would be talking and I would say,  “I know, I know.” I would almost cut off Prabhupada.  And then Srila Prabhupada would say, “Yes you know, you know everything but you don’t know what I am saying, so why don’t you just listen?” From a lecture by TKG

So our Krsna consciousness movement is very simple. We haven’t got to manufacture anything, any philosophy, by research work. Krsna says, yogah proktah puratanah [Bg. 4.3]. We have to speak the same thing. The most…, very, very old: puratanah. We haven’t got to manufacture it. Nowadays we have advanced in education and civilization; therefore we have to concoct some idea. […]