Author: HH Bhakti Vikas Swami

We must understand that we are all born rascals and fools and that we have to be enlightened. We have to receive knowledge to make our lives perfect. If we do not perfect our lives, we are defeated. What is this defeat? The struggle for existence. We are trying to obtain a better life, to […]

Love of Godhead is dormant in everyone. Simply we have to awaken. That process which awakens very quickly is first-class religion. Srila Prabhupada Conversation, 24 May 1974

The book distribution in Los Angeles during the six day period is transcendental samadhi. They are working in trance, not on the material platform. No common man can work so hard, it is not possible. Working without sleep means no death. Sleeping is dead condition. “Jiv jago, jiva jago, gauracanda bole, kota nidra yao maya-pisacira […]

Householder is not bad. That is not condemned. Real thing condemned: apasyatam atma-tattvam. That is condemned. Because they do not know what is the aim of life. That is missing. All these people… Ask anybody that “What is the aim of your life?” Nobody… Nobody will be able to say. Any householder, any businessman, ask. […]

The Krsna consciousness movement is not very popular with the karmis because this movement recommends that one refrain from illicit sex, meat-eating, gambling and intoxication. These are restrictions that karmis very much dislike. Nonetheless, in the presence of so many enemies, this movement is progressing, going forward without impediments. If the devotees continue to spread […]

Because the living entities are minute, atomic parts and parcels of the Lord, devotional service is already present within them in a dormant condition. Devotional service begins with sravanam kirtanam [SB 7.5.23], hearing and chanting. When a man is sleeping, he can be awakened by sound vibration; therefore every conditioned soul should be given the […]

Srila Prabhupada: You are so civilized. You are still in the crude form of human being, just like in the jungles, the aborigines, the Africans, they do not know how to develop civilization – crude methods, eating the animals. That also, they are not so uncivilized that they keep slaughterhouses. You are so uncivilized that […]

The difference between a pious man and a criminal is that one is pure in heart and the other is dirty. This dirt is like a disease in the form of uncontrollable lust and greed in the heart of the criminal. Today people in general are in this diseased condition, and thus crime is very […]

When a devotee said, “Prabhupada, when we take over the government, we’ll outlaw all these religions.” Prabhupada, surprised him with an answer “No, why? We only want to see that they are following their religion.” Balavanta Dasa, Following Srila Prabhupada, DVD 4

Instead of running a godless civilization in the present context of the world situation, if the leadership of world affairs is entrusted to the devotees of the Lord, for which a worldwide organization under the name and style of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness has already been started, then by the grace of the […]

Yes, farm-opening, that is good idea. Apart from my Krishna Consciousness spiritual movement I want this — that people may not move from the villages to the town. Krishna Himself was a villager — He did not move to the town. He went to Dvaraka, but Vasudeva is everywhere; Krishna and Balaram like Vrindaban, so […]

In the Padma Purana, there is a nice statement praising the service of the Vaisnavas or devotees. In that scripture Lord Siva tells Parvati, “My dear Parvati, there are different methods of worship, and out of all such methods the worship of the Supreme Person is considered to be the highest. But even higher than […]