Author: HH Bhakti Vikas Swami

Now people are becoming sudras by so-called education. So they cannot make any solution of the problems. If that daiva varnasrama again established, then the whole problem will be solved. From Srila Prabhupada’s discussion with Shyamasundara Dasa about philosopher John Dewey

SB 6.5.39 Translation and purport by Srila Prabhupada: All the devotees of the Lord but you are very kind to the conditioned souls and are eager to benefit others. Although you wear the dress of a devotee, you create enmity with people who are not your enemies, or you break friendship and create enmity between […]

[Bhagavata-dharma, the principles of religion] is understandable if one follows the parampara system of Lord Brahma, Lord Siva, the four Kumaras and the other standard authorities. There are four lines of disciplic succession: one from Lord Brahma, one from Lord Siva, one from Laksmi, the goddess of fortune, and one from the Kumaras. The disciplic […]

The Mayavadis’ proposition that God has no legs, no eyes, no ears, and no hands is an indirect way of insulting Him by defining Him as blind, deaf, dumb, lame, helpless, etc. Srila Prabhupada CC Adi 7.99 purport

Enamored by these big, big buildings, that’s all. “Oh, they are so advanced.” And naturally, the common man comes to a European or American city, he says, “Oh, Americans are so rich.” “Rich” means they have piled up stones and bricks, that’s all. This is their richness. What is there in the richness here? But […]

TEXTIt is said that great personalities almost always accept voluntary suffering because of the suffering of people in general. This is considered the highest method of worshiping the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is present in everyone’s heart. PURPORTHere is an explanation of how those engaged in activities for the welfare of others are very […]

You have to make it public, that “I am going to have garbhadhana-samskara.” It is not a secret thing. It is a ceremony. And then, when she is pregnant, no more sex. No more sex means so long the child is there, ten months, and unless the child is grown up at least six months, […]

At the moment, devotees in the Western countries are being attracted by Krsna consciousness and becoming uninterested in materialistic activities, and therefore people are trying to oppose this movement. But they cannot possibly check this movement or stop the activities of the devotees in Europe and America by their artificial impositions. Here the words srotranjalir […]

Whenever God incarnates He has two missions, as stated in the Bhagavad-gita. There Krsna says, “Whenever I appear, My mission is to deliver the pious devotees and to annihilate the demons.” When Krsna appeared, He had to kill many demons. If we see a picture of Visnu we will notice that He has a conchshell, […]

In your country, nice city, New York City, but every moment there is fire – dung-dung-dung-dung-dung-dung-dung-dung. Why? Very nice city, big city, big roads, big…, but there is suffering. Who wants this fire? But government has to make arrangement for fire brigade, and because it is great nation, very prosperous nation, there is very constantly, […]

Your next question is if Visala Das will be your name eternally. As I have told you in San Francisco, Visala means Krishna, the Greatest, and Das means the servant of. So eternally you are the servant of visal, or Krishna, and thus you are always Visala Das. Krishna has so many different names because […]

Just this morning when Srila Prabhupada arose from bed, He spoke to me about how He had held Rathayatra early in His childhood. He recounted as follows: “When I was five or six years old, any carpenter I saw I would ask him why don’t you make a Rathayatra cart for me. ’Yes, why not,’ […]