You cannot ever overcome, because you are all weak. Daivi hy esa guna-mayi mama maya [Bg 7.14]. Unless you are very strong, maya is very, very stronger than you. How you can avoid it? Daivi hy esa guna-mayi mama maya duratyaya, mam eva ye prapadyante. Only one is very, very strong in capturing the lotus […]

That is pleasure, serving God. Just like Rupa Gosvami, just see, in the cottage. They are minister. They are ministers. Tyaktva turnam asesa-mandala-pati-srenim. They are living most aristocratically, and now they are taking the place of mendicants living in the cottage, no bodily comfort, no servants, nothing of the sort. Does it mean they are […]

In this place you [Srila Prabhupada] manifested your divine anger when the devotees foolishly cut down very large and beautiful tree that had been standing in the courtyard. It had been one of the real opulences of the temple. The heavy winds of a Texas storm had knocked it over so that it was leaning […]

(Told by ISKCON’s Sridhara Swami) Finally, he called me and said, “So you want to take sannyasa?” “Yes, Prabhupada.” “So would you like to wait till Mayapur next year and . . .” I had learned a phrase for preaching to businessmen. Lord Rama, when he shot an arrow and Ravana was dying . . […]

Gopis, they are full of anxiety: “Oh, Krsna has gone to the pasturing ground.” Their anxiety is there. Just like Rukmini, she was thinking, “Oh, Krsna may not give me up. He is talking in this way.” She fainted. So anxiety is there. So that…, the anxiety is that one may not be separated from […]