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Guest (1): But Guruji, giving those who are in need, is not giving to God? Srila Prabhupada: That is your philosophy. That is your philosophy. Everyone is needy. Guest (3): Now people… There are drought conditions, people are starving. Cattles are dying. There are no rains. Srila Prabhupada: Yes, because they are not God conscious, they are thinking like […]

The sufferings of human society are due to a polluted aim of life, namely lording it over the material resources. The more human society engages in the exploitation of undeveloped material resources for sense gratification, the more it will be entrapped by the illusory material energy of the Lord, and thus the distress of the world will be intensified […]

Devotional service is not a matter of sentimental speculation or imaginative ecstasy. Its substance is practical activity. From Srila Prabhupada’s purport to NoI: verse 3

As soon as you chant Hare Krsna, immediately you remember Krsna, Krsna’s form, Krsna’s fighting, Krsna is sitting on the chariot of Arjuna. If you read Krsna book always, some of His pastimes will immediately come, appear in my brain, immediately, as soon as you chant Hare Krsna. That is required. Smaranam, automatically. As soon as you chant Hare […]

For those working in Krsna consciousness, there are simply not enough hours in the day to serve Krsna. There are always activities, engagements both day and night, which the student of Krsna consciousness performs joyfully. That is the stage of real happiness — constant engagement for Krsna and spreading Krsna consciousness around the world. In the material world one may […]

Human prosperity flourishes by natural gifts and not by gigantic industrial enterprises. The gigantic industrial enterprises are products of a godless civilization, and they cause the destruction of the noble aims of human life. The more we go on increasing such troublesome industries to squeeze out the vital energy of the human being, the more there will be unrest […]

Srila Prabhupada said: Whatever I have wanted to say, I have said in my books. If I live, I will say something more. If you want to know me, read my books. From TKG’s Diary, June 9, 1977

Srila Jiva Gosvami has explained this desirelessness as bhajaniya-parama-purusa-sukha-matra-sva-sukhatvam in his Sandarbha. This means that one should feel happy only by experiencing the happiness of the Supreme Lord. This intuition of the living being is sometimes manifested even during the conditioned stage of a living being in the material world, and such intuition is expressed in the manner of altruism, […]

This Krsna consciousness movement is an art of living by which you will feel your senses are fully satisfied, but you are going to be free next life. This is the nice process. And artificially if you want to stop your senses, you will fail. That Krsna says, “One who restrains the sense and organs of action but whose […]

One who chants Hare Krishna is the topmost yogi. The highest perfection of yoga is Radharani… Krishna goes to Mathura and all night She is crying, “Where is My Krishna?” From Srila Prabhupada’s letter to Ramesvara, Ranadira — Melbourne 23 April, 1976

Hrdayananda: [translating] When the devotees are chanting their rounds and when they think of their spiritual master they feel a type of ecstasy. So why are they feeling this ecstasy? Prabhupada: That means spiritual standard. That feeling of ecstasy is required. That is spiritual standard. If he does not feel ecstasy, then there is still time to come to […]

At least if we take it as a vow that “I shall not eat anything which is not offered to Krsna,” that will help us. Krsna bado-doyamoy, karibare jihva jay svaprasad anna dila bhai. So with the tongue begins spiritual life. If we restrict our tongue not to talk uselessly, simply talk of Krsna or chant Hare Krsna, […]