Tamala Krsna: Practically you learned all these things in those early days at Radha-Govinda Temple. Prabhupada: Yes, that was the training in the childhood. This Ratha-yatra, Radha-Govinda seva, prasada distribution. Only the new thing I am doing — writing of books by the order of Guru Maharaja. Otherwise, whatever I have introduced, I was trained […]

Birth in a family of yogis or transcendentalists — those with great wisdom — is praised herein because the child born in such a family receives a spiritual impetus from the very beginning of his life. It is especially the case in the acarya or gosvami families. Such families are very learned and devoted by […]

As stated in Bhagavad-gita (4.8), paritranaya sadhunam vinasaya ca duskrtam. The sadhus, the devotees of the Lord, are always eager to advance the cause of Krsna consciousness so that the conditioned souls may be released from the bondage of birth and death. But the asuras, the demons, impede the advancement of the Krsna consciousness movement, […]

Krsna is so merciful that He always thinks of how to liberate the conditioned souls from the material platform. It is for this reason that Krsna incarnates, as clearly indicated in the Bhagavad-gita (4.7): yada yada hi dharmasya glanir bhavati bharataabhyutthanam adharmasya tadatmanam srjamy aham “Whenever and wherever there is a decline in religious practice, […]

The glories of Krsna nobody can understand. Similarly, Vrndavana. The land which is known as Vrndavana also has unlimited potency. When you go to Vrndavana, you will find unlimited potency of spiritual atmosphere, still. If you go to Vrndavana, you will see so many saints and sages — still they are worshiping Vrndavana-dhama. As Lord […]