Following in the footsteps of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, a Vaisnava should be fully satisfied simply to see a variety of food offered to the Deity of Jagannatha or Radha-Krsna. A Vaisnava should not hunger for a variety of food for his own sake; rather, his satisfaction is in seeing various foods being offered to the […]

In this age human beings only live for sixty or eighty years, and even this small life-span is gradually decreasing. Therefore it is even more imperative for human beings to take to the worship of the lotus feet of the Lord by constantly chanting the Hare Krsna mantra, as recommended by Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu. From […]

What is the standard of morality? Can you explain? Can any one of you say? Have you got any idea what is the standard of morality? The standard of morality is to obey the Supreme. That is standard of morality. Standard of morality does not mean that you manufacture something morality out of your concoction. […]

Parama koruna, pahu dui jana, nitai gauracandra. This is a song sung by Locana dasa Thakura, a great devotee of Lord Caitanya, almost contemporary. He wrote one book, Caitanya-mangala, depicting the activities of Lord Caitanya. That is a very famous book, Caitanya-mangala. And he has composed many songs. Practically all Vaisnavas, they are transcendentally poetic. […]

We had shifted from downtown to our new land in Juhu Beach. And there were very few devotees and too much work to do; we literally had no manpower. Tamal Krsna Goswami was discussing the problem with Srila Prabhupada, and Prabhupada called for me. So I went there and Prabhupada said, “So, what shall we […]

There were six great Gosvamis of Vrndavana — Srila Rupa, Sanatana, Bhatta Raghunatha, Sri Jiva, Gopala Bhatta and Dasa Raghunatha — and none of them inherited the title of gosvami. All the Gosvamis of Vrndavana were bona fide spiritual masters situated on the highest platform of devotional service, and for that reason they were called gosvamis. […]

Lord Krsna, as the teacher of human society, personally showed by His acts that the mercantile community, or the vaisyas, should herd cows and bulls and thus give protection to the valuable animals. According to smrti regulation, the cow is the mother and the bull the father of the human being. The cow is the […]

[Sukracarya to Lord Visnu]: There may be discrepancies in pronouncing the mantras and observing the regulative principles, and, moreover, there may be discrepancies in regard to time, place, person and paraphernalia. But when Your Lordship’s holy name is chanted, everything becomes faultless. PURPORTSri Caitanya Mahaprabhu has recommended: harer nama harer namaharer namaiva kevalamkalau nasty eva […]

Srila Prabhupada said, “Krsna is very strict and Radharani is very nice.” He continued, “A woman, unless she is unnatural, is very softhearted and very kind-hearted. And Radharani is not unnatural.” From: The Art Of Spiritual Life by Jadurani dasi

Our treatment is for the spiritually diseased person. When a person is afflicted with a disease, there are no distinctions between a poor man and a rich man. They are both admitted to the same hospital. Just as the hospital should be in a place where both the poor man and the rich man can […]

This kind of writing that convinces people to the point of taking some action is very special. I know because I have done a lot of writing . . . to write letters to people to convince them to donate for some particular cause. And it’s very, very difficult — to have someone to just […]