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Bill Sauer: I believe that materialism has a divine purpose. Prabhupada: Everything has got divine purpose. But if you do not understand the divine purpose, then you remain animal. This human form of life is given to us by the laws of nature to understand what is God, what we are, what is our relationship with God, what […]

Both for spiritual and material prosperity, everyone should devotedly chant the Hare Krsna mantra. (From Srila Prabhupada’s purport to SB 4.14.37)  

Devotee: Srila Prabhupada, sometimes when we go preaching, people do not want to take Krsna consciousness. Sometimes they actually… Prabhupada: So if they want to take, then where is the question of preaching? Because they do not want to take, you have to preach. Otherwise, where is the necessity of preaching? [laughter] You have to prepare yourself in such […]

Jaya Gauranga: One time I brought my father to see Srila Prabhupada. My father used to live in Beverly Hills when he was conducting an orchestra for the Los Angeles Metropolitan Opera Company. He was a big shot. He had been a medical doctor so he was a little puffed up, always looking down at people and especially me […]

There is a civil service examination before one man is posted in some responsible office. Similarly, to be recognized by Krsna, as He says, na ca tasman manusyesu [Bg. 18.69], one has to pass examination, severe test of examination. All the big, big devotees we see. Narada Muni, before becoming Narada Muni, he had to pass through severe examination, […]