So srimad-bhagavate maha-muni-krte. Srimad-Bhagavata is not some materialistic philosopher’s or writer’s as you have got… They are called gramya-vastavah. Gramya-vastavah means ordinarily these affairs. A man is meeting woman, woman is meeting man-that story, all these novels and fiction and dramas. It is not like that. Therefore it is said maha-muni-krte srimad-bhagavate. It is not […]

I started this Back to Godhead magazine in 1944, on this very birthday of Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura. From Srila Prabhupada’s lecture on the Appearance Day of Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura — February 11, 1974, Vrndavana

So I am very glad that Krsna has sent so many nice boys and girls to help me. Be blessed on this auspicious day. And there is nothing mine. I am simply a postal peon. I am delivering to you what I have heard from my Guru Maharaja. Simply you also act in the same […]

I thank you once more for your noble sentiments about me and I can simply say that for this nice attitude Krishna will certainly help you. I am fully aware of your sincere service and therefore I pray always to Krishna for your all-round welfare. You have got a nice temple by the grace of […]

That is not enjoyment. Just like sex indulgence. If you indulge in more than necessary, then you will be impotent. Nature will stop. You know impotence? That will be there. Impotency. This homosex is also another sign of impotency. They do not feel sex impulse to woman. They feel sex impulse in man. That means […]

Generally, woman, less intelligent than man — you cannot find any big scientist, any big mathematician, any big philosopher amongst woman. That is not possible. Although in your country, you want equal status with man, freedom, but by nature you are less intelligent. What can be done? (laughter) From Srila Prabhupada’s lecture on SB 1.3.21, Los […]

The atheistic, demoniac education imparted to the young in modern universities is simply producing a bunch of demons with titles. Srila Prabhupada; Renunciation Through Wisdom 2.2

Lord Nityananda Prabhu, the avadhuta, is also directly the Supreme Personality of Godhead. He is always intoxicated with the madness of ecstatic love. Indeed, He is an ocean of love of Krsna. Cc Antya 7.20 text, translation by Srila Prabhupada

Lord Nityananda is Guru. He can instruct us, but ultimately it depends on the disciple. A doctor may say “Do this, Do not do this,” but if the patient does not follow the prescription, what is the result? Similarly, Nityananda Prabhu will hear the prayer of an insincere rascal, if that rascal actually wants to […]

Prabhupada said that it would suffice to celebrate Lord Varahadeva’s appearance by singing the appropriate verse describing him from the song of the ten avataras. Srila Prabhupada also verbally listed the proper fasting periods to observe for other auspicious days: Lord Nityananda’s, Sri Advaita’s, Lord Balarama’s, and Srimati Radharani’s appearances are all half-day fasts. Lord […]

Our time is wasted because we do not know how valuable this human form of life is. There is no such education. They think human life is as cheap as dog’s life, but factually it is not. Bahunam janmanam ante (BG 7.19). One gets this human form of life, 8,400,000 species of life, especially advanced […]

To serve a devotee, to chant the holy name according to a certain counting method,  to worship the Deity, to hear Srimad-Bhagavatam or Bhagavad-gita from a realized person and to live in a sacred place where devotional service is not disturbed are the first out of sixty-four devotional activities for making progress in devotional service. […]