This, our book distribution is the most important task in our society. Therefore I am giving so much stress and I am working so hard on this. Because this is my life and soul according to the order of my Guru Maharaja. And by his grace it is to some extent successful. And I took […]

Prabhupada: No. Our religion is not faith. It is science. That is the fault. Fanaticism of Christianism, Muhammadanism, has created this godlessness. But Vedic knowledge is not that. It is really knowledge. Room Conversation — January 27, 1977, Bhuvanesvara

Srimad-Bhagavatam, each line, each word is so much impregnated with philosophical thoughts that you can study one word throughout your whole life — it is so philosophical. It is not a professional business, that you finish Bhagavata within one week. One life is not sufficient to understand one word of Bhagavata, it is so big […]

By studying Vedanta philosophy one must come to know the Supreme Person. Whoever describes Vedic knowledge as impersonal is a demon. One becomes successful in life by worshiping the form of the Lord. The Mayavadi sannyasis deny the form of the Lord, which delivers all fallen souls. Indeed, the Mayavadi demons try to cut this […]

There is a sweet transcendental interrelation between all living entities, irrespective of not only caste, creed, and colour between man and man, but between man and beast, man and birds, man and reptiles, man and plants, etc., and so also between man and God, and between God and others, and so on….as such the [farm] […]

It is said in the scriptures, brahma-saukhyam tv anantam: spiritual happiness is unlimited. Here it is said that even the Lord cannot measure such happiness. This does not mean that the Lord cannot measure it and is therefore imperfect in that sense. The actual position is that the Lord can measure it, but the happiness […]

So it is very difficult; still, Caitanya Mahaprabhu’s order to distribute this knowledge all over the world. So let us try. Even the people do not take our instruction, that is not our disqualification. Our qualification is let us try our best. The Nectar of Devotion – November 11, 1972, Vrndavana

In 1971 I was the leader of a book distribution party. We were about five of us, and we were traveling in a van. Prabhupada was in Los Angeles, so I wanted to take the members of our party to meet Srila Prabhupada. I thought we will meet him, but we will also learn a […]

Gokularanajana: There was a local pop star, a drummer in a band, who had been coming to the Sunday Feast regularly. Then at one Sunday Feast he showed up wearing a turban and he was with the Yogi Bhajan group [a Sikh sect]. He’d always loved the devotees but he was challenging in a playful […]

So every night we were advertising, and maybe 40 to 50 people were coming every night. So Prabhupada was pleased, because they were coming to our place. And we would have a long kirtana, then Srila Prabhupada would give the lecture. And then people would ask different questions and he would answer. So after one […]

I first met Srila Prabhupada in San Francisco in 1970. He was coming for Ratha-yatra. The temple room was as half as big as this, maybe smaller, but it was packed with about 150 devotees. Kirtana was going on and began to build up to a huge crescendo. So here I was with the other […]

By once chanting the holy name of the Lord, which consists of the two syllables ha-ri, one guarantees his path to liberation. From Srila Prabhupada’s purport to SB 6.2.7