Narottama das Thakura sings, hari hari biphale janama gonainumanusya-janama paiya, radha-krsna na bhajiyajaniya suniya bisa khainu So we should always remember this song of Narottama dasa Thakura. He is acarya. He’s guru. Acaryopasanam. Acarya upasana is one of the process of making progress. So this song is very important. hari hari biphale janama gonainumanusya-janama paiya, […]

This Krsna consciousness movement is trying to revive the original, constitutional position. So one of them, in Krsna consciousness movement, is village organization, as you are trying here. Krsna, in His natural life, is a village boy in Vrndavana. Vrndavana is a village. There is no factory, there is no motorcar, there is no big, […]

Gopis, the topmost devotees, their only business is to please Krsna. That’s all. Therefore Caitanya Mahaprabhu recommended, ramya kacid upasanavraja-vadhu-vargena ya kalpita [Caitanya-manjusa]. There cannot be better method of worship than the process which the gopis adopted. They did not care for anything. The gopis, some of them were engaged in household affairs, somebody was […]

Bhava-grahi janardanah: “Janardana, Krsna, He accepts the feeling.” So we have to purify our feelings. That is Krsna consciousness: “How I can serve?” And if we purify… Purify means purification will be done by Him. We cannot purify. Purification will be done by Him. Simply we have to become purified feelings, that “I must serve […]

Why not make one state — the whole world? Keep the democracy, but make one state, “United States of the World.” Why “United States of America”? Make English language common language and “United States of the World.” If they organize, they can do it. Just like United States has included Hawaii. They are not actually […]

What is this alone? Vaisnava is never alone. When I first came to the United States I was seemingly alone for one year. But I never felt alone. I always felt the presence of my Guru Maharaja. Myself, I was cooking, I was printing books, I was selling books, everything seemingly alone. But I did […]

Raghunatha Bhatta Gosvami … never talked of nonsense or worldly matters but always engaged in hearing about Krsna twenty-four hours a day. He never cared to hear blasphemy of a Vaisnava. Even when there were points to be criticized, he used to say that since all the Vaisnavas were engaged in the service of the […]

Revatinandana: The Republican party is elephant and the Democratic party is ass, a donkey. Prabhupada: What is the value of vote by asses? Srila Prabhupada, Conversation — December 13, 1970, Indore

If anyone tries to separate Sri from Narayana, then he will be vanquished. The example is Ravana. Ravana wanted to separate Laksmi from Rama. This attempt is so dangerous that Ravana, instead of becoming happy… He was so-called happy, materially opulent. But as soon as he separated Laksmi from Narayana, he became vanquished with all […]

The varnasrama system is for convenience sake in the material world. It has nothing to do with spiritual life. Acceptance of varnasrama means a little easy progress to spiritual life, otherwise it has no importance to us. For example, all my European and American disciples have no varnasrama position, but spiritually because they have followed […]

During the morning walk on April 4, Prabhupada noticed a Durga temple and went a little out of his way to take darsana of Katyayani, the goddess Durga. Prabhupada offered his dandavats and began glorifying her: srstisthiti-pralaya-sadhana-saktir eka, chayeva yasya bhuvanani bibharti durga. This verse describes Durga as the Lord’s shadow potency. One can worship […]

We are trying to convince everyone that the devotional service of the Lord is enjoined in every scripture. If a person is religious, he must accept the supreme authority of the Lord, become His devotee and try to love Him. This is the real principle of religion. It does not matter whether one is Christian, […]