SB 3.31.43, as rendered by Srila PrabhupadaA woman, therefore, should consider her husband, her house and her children to be the arrangement of the external energy of the Lord for her death, just as the sweet singing of the hunter is death for the deer. PURPORTIn these instructions of Lord Kapiladeva it is explained that […]

Very good-looking boy. Don’t let him deviate. This is the age to be careful so that he may not deviate. What is his age? Eleven. This is the age. Twelve to fifteen years, the boys become, by bad association, they become rotten. This hellish world is like that. They go to school and become demons. […]

Param drstva nivartate [Bg 2.59]. Not by force, but appreciating something better condition of life, one rejects all this nonsense. That is advancement. Bhajana-kriya. By bhajana-kriya, by being initiated and executing the bhajana, now, one just be detestful. Then nistha. Tato nistha, firm faith. Tato rucih. Ruci means taste. You cannot do without it. Just […]

That is the test that whether you are actually initiated. If you are still attached to these… Bhaktih paresanubhavo viraktih… If you are not detestful to all these nonsense habits, then you must know that you are not making any progress. You are not making any progress. Because this is the result: anartha-nivrttih syat. If […]

Siva is dahi (yogurt) and Krsna is milk. Dahi, the preparation of dahi that you take milk, pure milk, and mix it with little sour thing, then it becomes dahi. Similarly, Krsna is pure spirit, and when this pure spirit is mixed up with maya, that is Siva. From Srila Prabhupada’s lecture on Srimad-Bhagavatam 5.5.2 […]

My dear Lord, I wish to see You exactly in the form that Your very dear devotees worship. You have many other forms, but I wish to see Your form that is especially liked by the devotees. Please be merciful upon me and show me that form, for only that form worshiped by the devotees […]

Nowadays there are scarcity of food grains. Even the human being cannot eat sufficiently. But formerly the kings, they used to maintain elephants. They were supplied very nice capatis. Do you know that? Still there are kings, they have elephants. Therefore elephant can be maintained by very rich man. If suppose, if somebody comes, he […]

You’ll see, Krsna’s picture, always a flute in His hand. Always joyful. Because He’s the Supreme Lord, there is nothing moroseness. Always joyful. That is the symptom of spiritual life. You’ll see Krsna always smiling, always playing on His flute. As you see in this material world also, some boy, he has got a flute […]

Regarding your meeting with the Ram Krishna Mission man, you write to say that he has advised you how you should work combinedly with the Maharishi group in Hamburg, and he has said that our goals are actually the same. I do not know how our goals are actually the same. Our goal is Krishna, […]

SB 7.11.29, as rendered by Srila Prabhupada The woman who engages in the service of her husband, following strictly in the footsteps of the goddess of fortune, surely returns home, back to Godhead, with her devotee husband, and lives very happily in the Vaikuntha planets. PURPORTThe faithfulness of the goddess of fortune is the ideal […]

There are many regulative principles in the sastras and directions given by the spiritual master. These regulative principles should act as servants of the basic principle — that is, one should always remember Krsna and never forget Him. This is possible when one chants the Hare Krsna mantra. Therefore one must strictly chant the Hare […]

We should not waste our time with solving economic problems. Economic development is nonsense. Of course, this proposal is very revolutionary, and people may even hate me for it. “What is Swamiji saying?” they may ask. But actually it is a fact. This economic development is madness. Srila Prabhupada; TQK 4: Approaching Krsna, the All-pervading […]