Do not try to discover the nature of truth by the exercise of your imagination. Do not endeavor to attain the truth through experience of this world. Do not manufacture truth in order to satisfy your erring inclinations, or hastily accept anything for the reason that it satisfies such inclinations. Do not regard as truth […]

Many make a drama of chanting three lakh names. But merely a show of chanting without disturbing others will not benefit anyone, except perhaps oneself. Therefore we are preaching by approaching the people of the world dressed even somewhat better than they, showing knowledge even somewhat greater than theirs, being even somewhat more stylish than […]

Satsvarupa: Srila Prabhupada, is this school for women also, or just for men? Prabhupada: For men. Women should automatically learn how to cook, how to cleanse home. Satsvarupa: So they don’t attend varnasrama college. Prabhupada: No, no. Varnasrama college especially meant for the brahmana, ksatriya and vaisya. Those who are not fit for education, they […]

Association with persons who are not spiritually advanced is forbidden. Lord Caitanya advised, asat-sanga-tyaga: one should avoid persons who are attached to the temporary. Asat is one who is too materially attached, who is not a devotee of the Lord and who is too attached to women or enjoyable material things. Srila Prabhupada SB 3.29.18, […]

Narottama dasa Thakura says: dhana mora nityananda, radha-krsna-sricaranasei mora pranadhana “My real riches are Nityananda Prabhu and the lotus feet of Sri Radha and Krsna.” He further prays, “O Lord, kindly give me this opulence. I do not want anything but Your lotus feet as my property.” Srila Narottama dasa Thakura has sung in many […]

preme matta nityananda krpa-avatarauttama, adhama, kichu na kare vicara Because He is intoxicated by ecstatic love and is an incarnation of mercy, He [Lord Nityananda] does not distinguish between the good and the bad. Cc Adi 5.209

Nitai guna-mani amar nitai guna-mani — this is a song sung by Locana Dasa Thakura, almost a contemporary of Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu. He has got many books on the life and precepts of Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu. So he is saying that Lord Nityananda is full of good qualities, guna-mani. Guna-mani means the jewel of all […]

Srila Prabhupada: …a man will go to hell by taking Krsna’s money. So some way or other, take some money from him and engage him in the Krsna consciousness movement. Bob: And then he may not go to hell? Srila Prabhupada: Yes. You save him from going to hell. Because a farthing spent for Krsna […]

By prasadam, by chanting, by drama, somehow or other bring them. That is our mission. Congregational chanting. Always festival, and we shall spend for that. Immediately arrange. Bring them, somehow or other. We want to propagate this Krsna consciousness movement town to town, village to village, by attracting them with musical demonstration of sankirtana, dramatic […]

I don’t find in Bhagavata, big factory and all these slaughterhouse. No. Nothing. The whole atmosphere is surcharged with sinful life. How people will be happy? Now they are coming to crimes and hippies and so many things, problems, diplomacy, CIA and what other? So many unnecessary waste of energy, time and money. Vicious condition. […]

We had a flat in Napean Sea Road in Bombay, and we were going out preaching every day. It was quite a schedule. Eventually Prabhupada called it “the joint mess” because our schedule was that we would stay up very late on preaching programs, and then we would get up very late in the morning. […]

Anyone who gives spiritual instructions based on the revealed scriptures is accepted as a spiritual master. Although others give help in showing the way to beginners, the guru who first initiates one with the maha-mantra is to be known as the initiator, and the saints who give instructions for progressive advancement in Krsna consciousness are […]