From Srila Prabhupada’s diary, 1966, New York: According to Mayapur Panjika today is Adhivas day of Gour Purnima. Devotees at Vrindaban and Nabadwipa are enjoying the celebration. I am here alone without any devotee companion. But I have come here to serve the Lord and not for personal happiness. I am prepared to live in […]

adbhuta-dayalu caitanya — adbhuta-vadanya!aiche dayalu data loke nahi suni anya Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu is wonderfully merciful and wonderfully magnanimous. We have heard of no one else within this world so merciful and charitable. Srila Prabhupada’s translation of Cc Antya 17.69

Not that “By worshiping Krsna or acting devotional service I shall get this opportunity, this facility,” material or spiritual. A real devotee, he does not aspire even for liberation. He doesn’t want. He simply wants, “My Lord Krsna, wherever I may be, it doesn’t matter. Please keep me always engaged in Your consciousness.” That’s all. […]

Everyone will want our books. We will always have customers. This is Caitanya Mahaprabhu’s mercy. Srila Prabhupada; letter to Ghanasyama, Bombay, November 20, 1975

Srila Prabhupada, CC Madhya 11.102 purport: Those not interested in understanding Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu are simply material in their attempts at professional chanting and dancing for money, despite their supposed artistry. If one does not have full faith in Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, he cannot properly chant and dance in the sankirtana movement. Artificial chanting and […]

People at the modern age are lacking this knowledge. So we require hundreds and thousands of spiritual master who has understood this Krsna science and preach all over the world. That is the problem. Therefore we have formed this Society and we invite all sincere souls to take part in the Society and become a […]

Husband is purusa, wife is prakrti. So if the wife is faithful, always trying to serve the husband, always to make her husband pleased, and husband takes care of the wife for all her necessities of life, as that home life becomes very beautiful and happy, similarly, Krsna is the supreme purusa, enjoyer. We living […]

A pure devotee of Narayana is never afraid of any material danger. There are many examples of devotees such as Prahlada Maharaja, who was tortured by his father but was not at all afraid, although he was only a five-year-old boy. Therefore, following the examples of Ambarisa Maharaja and Prahlada Maharaja, a devotee should learn […]

When one becomes devotee, beginning from the tongue, jihvadau, by chanting Hare Krsna mantra, sevonmukhe hi jihvadau, svayam eva sphuraty adhah, He becomes revealed. Yei nama sei krsna. That is the perfection of chanting without any offenses. Then you’ll find the name is not different from Krsna. When you are chanting, you’ll find Krsna is […]

Simply to become vegetarian is not the last word. There are many vegetarians. The monkey is vegetarian. [chuckles] He’s naked and lives in a jungle. Just like there are so many so-called sages, that “I live naked. I live in the jungle. I have given up the society.” So monkey is doing that. Huh? [laughter] […]

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30 top cited BG verses from his purports, lectures, conversation and letters. Based on a Vedabase search. A search in the current release of VB would give somewhat different figures. 01 – 18.66 sarva-dharman parityajya… cited = 1,32002 – 02.13 dehino ‘smin yatha dehe… cited = 73803 – 04.9 janma karma ca me divyam… cited […]