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Gurukrpa: After if one becomes purified, is it possible when he becomes transferred to the spiritual world that he can meet Rupa Gosvami and other great… Prabhupada: Yes. Provided you are pure, purified, you can meet everyone. (April 27, 1976, Auckland, New Zealand)

Regarding Jhulanayatra Ceremony, during these five days the Deities’ clothings should be changed everyday, and there should be nice Prasadam distribution and Sankirtana as far as possible. If you are able to do it, a nice throne may be constructed on which the Deities can be placed. This throne may be swung gently during Kirtana. That will be very […]

I asked how it was that apparently advanced devotees fall down. He [Srila Prabhupada] explained that even good men can fall from their elevated positions because we all have our independence; as soon as this is misused maya is there to punish and reform us. From Transcendeantal Diary by Hari Sauri Prabhu

Ramesvara Dasa: Tamal and I were with Prabhupada in his room and I started telling Prabhupada about how degraded the society had become — the drugs, illicit sex, pornography, and the child pornography, and the homosex — and for some reason Prabhupada was letting us give this report. And we were being somewhat graphic. Prabhupada’s comments were so strong: […]

…a slight deviation … may create havoc for self-realization. If a slight deviation can create such havoc, then what to speak of deliberate expansion of the ideas separate from the Absolute Truth Personality of Godhead. From Srila Prabhupada’s purport to SB 1.5.14

In the Durga-puja, Devi-puja, they ask, after offering Mother Durga all sorts of paraphernalia, then they puspanjali, they pray favor, dhanam dehi rupam dehi balam dehi. Dehi, dehi. Dehi means “give me.” Therefore it is called puja. Puja, just like in business circle, if you want to take some business from a big merchant, so you satisfy him, flatter […]

Now I am especially concerned to distribute grains, rice, wheat in the form of dahl and rice prasadam to hungry people all over India. The people here are very disturbed because, partly due to the punishment of Nature, and partly due to the mismanagement of the demon class of men, food is not available. If the people do not […]

What was the business of Ramacandra? To kill Ravanas. To kill all the atheists. That was the Ramacandra’s business: to kill Ravana. Ravana was a very powerful atheist, and he was working with the ten heads. Just like materialistic karmis work very hard, and they have got good brain also for wording hard. So Ravana had ten heads. But […]

Raghunatha dasa Gosvami was very rich man’s son, and he left home. So he joined Lord Caitanya.He was the only son, very beloved son, very nice wife. Left everything. And left means stealing, without saying anything. Somehow or other he left home. And the father could understand he has gone to Lord Caitanya at Puri. So he sent […]

Hrdayananda: He wants to know how we can increase our desire for sankirtana. Prabhupada: By performing sankirtana. Just like if a man drinks and if he drinks, drinks, then you become a drunkard. (laughter) Drink more and you become drunkard. Similarly, chant more and you become perfect chanter. From Srila Prabhupada’s lecture on Bhagavad-gita 2.11 — Mexico, […]

Krsna consciousness is for those who have come to detest this material world. They are good candidates for developing Krsna consciousness. Srila Prabhupada, Topmost Yoga System ch. 3

Here in Los Angeles, we have found that there is a group of about 40 devotees who privately meet to discuss the intimate pastimes, artificially thinking that they can enter into the understanding of the gopis prematurely. This will create havoc in our society, and the result will be that if this is allowed to go on, our preaching […]