Our tongues always engage in vibrating useless sounds that do not help us realize transcendental peace. The tongue is compared to a desert because a desert needs a constant supply of refreshing water to make it fertile and fruitful. Water is the substance most needed in the desert. The transient pleasure derived from mundane topics […]

Arjuna conquered both sleep and ignorance because of his friendship with Krsna. As a great devotee of Krsna, he could not forget Krsna even for a moment, because that is the nature of a devotee. Either in waking or in sleep, a devotee of the Lord can never be free from thinking of Krsna’s name, […]

Bhakti Svarupa Damodara Swami: One time I invited Professor Benford from the University of California Irvine. He is a particle physicist, and he had some interest on something beyond science. In the garden, Prabhupada’s garden, in the course of discussion with Professor Benford, Prabhupada was asking that “You scientists are spending so much time in […]

With you in your room in Mayapur there is no time, no beginning or end. Everything is so pleasant, the air blows into the room, soothing us like nectar, and you lean back and challenge, “If there is something missing, simply some chemical lost from the body at the time of death, then why don’t […]

When my Guru Maharaja ordered me… When I was manager in Bose’s laboratory, so he ordered me. So I thought, “Oh, I cannot do this. I cannot accept this sannyasa.” But he was so kind, and he is so kind still. Then he forced me, that “You must do it,” taking…, pulling my ear, he […]

According to external vision, Haridasa Thakura belonged to a Muhammadan family. Nevertheless, because he engaged himself in performing the yajna of chanting the Hare Krsna maha-mantra, he became a regularly initiated brahmana. As stated in Srimad-Bhagavatam (3.33.6): yan-namadheya-sravananukirtanadyat-prahvanad yat-smaranad api kvacitsvado ‘pi sadyah savanaya kalpatekutah punas te bhagavan nu darsanat Even if a devotee comes […]

So today is very auspicious day, Thakura Bhaktivinoda’s birthday. Here is the picture of Thakura Sac-cid-ananda Bhaktivinoda. He was one of the acaryas of this disciplic succession from Krsna. We have got a succession table from Krsna, genealogical table. There are two kinds of genealogical tables: one by the semina — father, his son, his […]

What is the extent of our intelligence in comparison to the vast expanse of water in the ocean? On my passage to America, how insignificant the ship was, like a matchbox in the midst of the ocean. Krsna’s intelligence resembles the ocean, for one cannot imagine how vast it is. The best course, therefore, is […]

Vamana, when He took three steps, stuck His foot through the covering of this universe. Water from the Causal Ocean flowed through the hole that His foot made, and it is said that that water became the river Ganges. Therefore the Ganges, flowing from the Himalayas down to the Bay of Bengal, is accepted as […]

Krsna then spoke to His elder brother Balarama as follows: “My dear brother, You are superior to all of us, and Your lotus feet are worshiped by the demigods. Just see how these trees, full with fruits and flowers, have bent down to worship Your lotus feet. It appears that they are trying to get […]

Prabhupada: That’s all. Print book and sell and spend. Follow this policy there and here also, and push these books. That is our main preaching. Somehow or other, it must go, from door to door, hand to hand. Then our preaching is successful. Anyone who will read, he’ll get some benefit. That is sure, because […]

Satyabhama is a competitor of Srimati Radharani’s, but she always desires to come to the standard of Srimati Radharani. Radharani is so expert in all affairs that all the damsels of Vraja come to learn arts from Her. She is so extraordinarily beautiful that even the goddess of fortune and Parvati, the wife of Lord […]