Gambling means betting. That is gambling. People are betting. You put one dollar, and if you gain, you get ten dollars. Otherwise, you lose this one dollar. This is gambling. They’re gambling in Christian churches also, in the Western countries. But gambling is considered sinful activity. One Mr. Bhattacarya, a barrister, he was educated in […]

Reporter (4): What is the test of a true guru? Prabhupada: He will describe about Krsna. He will ask you to become devotee of Krsna. His business is to propagate Krsna. That is the symptom of guru. (Reporters’ Interview — June 29, 1974, Melbourne)

The summary of Vaisnava philosophy is as follows: God is a person like us, but He is all-powerful with all opulences in full. The living entities are His eternal servants. There are varieties of living entities that have inherited the opulences of God in different degrees. There are two kinds of nature, the spiritual nature […]

The whole world is a butchershop. Whoever isn’t giving Krishna consciousness to another is butchering him. The mother is butchering, the father is butchering, the friend is butchering. (Srila Prabhupada, quoted in BTG #27, 1969)

Nava-yogendra reflected on what Prabhupada had told him. “His anger was only for our rectification,” he saw. “In the material world people get angry, but Prabhupada’s anger was not like theirs. He was a pure devotee, and he knew the value of this human life, that this human form is meant for self-realization and we […]

Prahlada Maharaja cited the example of Hanuman, the eternal servitor of Lord Ramacandra, who also set an example by never asking any material favor from the Lord. He always remained engaged in the Lord’s service. That is the ideal character of Hanuman, for which he is still worshiped by all devotees. Prahlada Maharaja also offered […]

“Big, big monkey, big, big belly–Ceylon jumping, melancholy.” With big belly a monkey comes forward, and if you ask him, “Jump over like Hanumanji,” finished, belly finished. These are Bengali words. Baro baro badare baro baro pet lanka dingake mata kare het. “I cannot do it.” And why you have got so much belly? So […]

We are servants of Krsna, that means because we understand that Krsna is our protector under all circumstances, we have no more any anxiety, so we become very liberal and tolerant of all kinds of seeing others’ sinful activities, and we see them innocent victims of maya, and we try to help them understand what […]

A chaste woman must dress nicely and decorate herself with golden ornaments for the pleasure of her husband. Always wearing clean and attractive garments, she should sweep and clean the household with water and other liquids so that the entire house is always pure and clean. She should collect the household paraphernalia and keep the […]

We should always remember that if something happens by providential arrangement, we should not be very sorry. The more we try to rectify such reversals, the more we enter into the darkest region of materialistic thought. From Srila Prabhupada’s translation of SB 4.19.34

Actually, we are in the material state, but we are being trained up, the Deity worship. This is, following the rules and regulations under the instruction of spiritual master, or Vedic injunction, this is training period. But even in the training period, if one is sincere and serious, he’s liberated. From Srila Prabhupada’s lecture on […]

There is no different between Rama and Krsna. Krsna is also param brahma, and Rama is also param brahma. We Vaisnava, we have equal faith and obeisances to all visnu-murtis, ramadi-murtisu, Rama, Nrsimha, Varaha, Narayana, Mahavisnu… There are advaitam acyutam anadim ananta-rupam [Bs 5.33]. But we Gaudiya Vaisnava or Madhva-Gaudiya Vaisnava, we are worshiper of […]