Author: HH Bhakti Vikas Swami

[Gajendra prayed,] “Since an animal such as I has surrendered unto You, who are supremely liberated, certainly You will release me from this dangerous position. Indeed, being extremely merciful, You incessantly try to deliver me….” Only Krsna can deliver us from this material existence. Indeed, He is always trying to deliver us…. He is within […]

Today in Hindu society, unmarried girls are still taught to worship Lord Siva with the idea that they may get husbands like him. Lord Siva is the ideal husband, not in the sense of riches or sense gratification, but because he is the greatest of all devotees. Vaisnavanam yatha sambhuh: Sambhu, or Lord Siva, is […]

Indian man (7): Swamiji, Siva is not another name of God? Prabhupada: Yes. Siva is next to God. Just like yogurt, dahi. What is this dahi? Indian man (7): Curd milk. Prabhupada: Milk, but it is not milk. Dahi is not anything but milk, but it is not milk. Similarly, Lord Siva is nothing but […]

One who cannot deliver his dependents from the path of repeated birth and death should never become a spiritual master, a father, a husband, a mother or a worshipable demigod. Srila Prabhupada’s rendering of Srimad-Bhagavatam 5.5.18

We are not powerful enough to enchant the lower animals such as tigers, snakes, cats and dogs or entice them to dance, but by chanting the holy names of the Lord we can actually convert many people throughout the world to Krsna consciousness. Srila Prabhupada, NoI 4 ppt.

At the present moment, no honest man can become a government officer, everywhere. Unless he is a rogue, dishonest person, he cannot maintain his governmental position. Therefore no noble man is going to the government. But what you can do? Srila Prabhupada, Morning Walk — May 3, 1973, Los Angeles

Prabhupada: We are not renouncing. We are actually accepting. You are renouncing. Devotee: We are accepting the real world. Prabhupada: No. We are accepting the Krsna’s society, or Krsna’s association. Krsna has got His society in Vrndavana. We are going to become one of the members of that society. But you are avoiding it. So […]

When a person actually revives his consciousness with thoughts of Krsna by the mercy of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, he revives his spiritual life and becomes addicted to the service of the Lord. Only then can he act as an acarya. In other words, everyone should engage in preaching, following in the footsteps of Sri Caitanya […]

These are the general principles to be followed by all human beings: truthfulness, mercy, austerity (observing fasts on certain days of the month), bathing twice a day, tolerance, discrimination between right and wrong, control of the mind, control of the senses, nonviolence, celibacy, charity, reading of scripture, simplicity, satisfaction, rendering service to saintly persons, gradually […]

If to carry out the command of the Vaisnava guru I have to be arrogant or brutish, or suffer eternal perdition, I am prepared to welcome such eternal damnation and even sign a contract to that effect. I will not listen to the words of malicious persons in lieu of the command of sri-gurudeva. I […]

The Krsna of genuine Krsna-kirtana is not the imagined “Krsna” attempted to be imprisoned by the hybrid ideologies of feeble mankind, the “Krsna” conceived as a historical figure, or an allegorical or mythological “Krsna”; nor the “Krsna” of the prakrta-sahajiyas or materially lusty persons; nor the “Krsna” portrayed by mundane artists or of those in […]

Just maintain our strong position of purity of routine work and preach and distribute literature, that’s all. From Srila Prabhupada’s letter to Giriraja, 28 December, 1971