Author: HH Bhakti Vikas Swami

Spiritual life begins by guru-susrusah, [SB 7.7.30] by serving guru.” [Rupa] Gosvami said, adau gurvasrayam: “The first beginning is to take shelter of the bona fide spiritual master.” Sad-dharma-prccha: [Bhakti-rasamrta-sindhu 1.1.74] “Then inquire from him about the spiritual path.” Sadhu-marganugamanam: “Follow the previous acaryas.” These are the steps. Bhagavad-gita, Arjuna said, sisyas te ‘ham sadhi […]

Any woman should be looked upon as mother. This is culture. Except his married wife, all women should be treated as mother. The brahmacaris were taught like that, “Mother.” This is culture. Simply they are trying to elope other’s wife, other’s woman, exploit them. And they’re cultured. There is no culture at the present moment. […]

Prabhupada: Yes, they are some. They are not all. Even they criticize that “You cannot see Krsna,” so similar argument can be, “You do not see Lenin. Why you are worshiping?” That’s it. “Is Lenin present before you? So why you are worshiping?” You’ll see. You have got, in Moscow got, every street corner a […]

This is very hard to say but, the next morning he was already up very early and all of us were sleeping. Past 4 o’clock. In the morning for mangala-arati. I think we rose about 5, 5.30 or something, very late. All of Srila Prabhupada servants, myself. And Srila Prabhupada when he came in to […]

It is the desire of Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu that the benevolent activities of the sankirtana movement which was inaugurated five hundred years ago in Navadvipa be spread all over the world for the benefit of all human beings. Unfortunately, there are many so-called followers of Caitanya Mahaprabhu who are satisfied simply to construct a temple, […]

Srila Prabhupada: If there is civilization, that is this Aryan civilization in India, Vedic civilization. Otherwise, throughout the whole world… These people were within Aryan civilization. Aryan, Iranian, their names are given. Up to Iran, their field(?). Europeans also, Indo-European. Gradually they declined. Caitanya Mahaprabhu’s mission is to make them civilized. Pascimera loka saba mudha […]

If one remains kriya-hina even after being purified by initiation — in other words, if one fails to actually apply the principles of purity in his life — he remains an unpurified mleccha or yavana. From Srila Prabhupada’s  purport to Sri Caitanya-caritamrta Antya-lila 3.124

The hippies are nothing but a group of madmen, that’s all. A madman, they…, means publicly sex, that’s all. This Allen Ginsberg’s movement is that, homosex, public sex. Ginsberg was very proud that he had introduced homosex. He was telling me. Srila Prabhupada/ Room Conversation, July 14, 1977, Vrindavana Allen Ginsberg died on 5 April […]

Srila Prabhupada: The priests are after money. They are not first class; they are low-class men. This is the reason that Christianity has fallen down. The priests cannot speak straightforwardly. There is a straightforward commandment–“Thou shalt not kill.” But because people are already killing, the priests are afraid to present the commandment straightforwardly. Now they […]

Has this civilization produced anything more than the doggish mentality of quarreling individually and nationally? Has this civilization enhanced the cause of equality and fraternity by sending thousands of men into hellish factories and the war fields at the whims of a particular man? From Srila Prabhupada’s purport to SB 1.10.4

To keep the gopis in Vrndavana satisfied, Lord Balarama stayed there continuously for two months, namely the months of Caitra (March–April) and Vaisakha (April–May). For those two months He kept Himself among the gopis, and He passed every night with them in the forest of Vrndavana to satisfy their desire for conjugal love. Thus Balarama […]

The Ravana class of men, they want Sita without Rama, and therefore there is havoc. Ravana kidnapped Sita from the clutches of Ravana, and the result was that the whole nation, whole family, was vanquished. And Hanuman’s policy was to bring back Sita and let her sit down by the side of Rama. So we […]