Author: HH Bhakti Vikas Swami

Prabhupada: Chicken-eating has become very common. This Tarun Kanti and Tushar Kanti, they eat daily. Tamala Krsna: Yeah. All over his land he has chickens running. Prabhupada: Yes. Tamala Krsna: Tarun Babu. Prabhupada: Without chicken, this Tushar Kanti Ghosh cannot eat. And one Cinmayananda… They are maintaining that sadhu. So he was giving prasadam with […]

Prabhupada: In Bengal there are professional gurus. They travel from one house to another. Our paternal guru was coming like that. Tamala Krsna: You had a professional guru also? Prabhupada: Yes. I was initiated by that professional guru at the age of twelve years. Later on I rejected him. Tamala Krsna: I wonder if he […]

Similarly, the whole atmosphere… Because we were children, we were going here and there, the neighboringhoods, all houses… Everyone devotee. Tamala Krsna: Must have been a wonderful atmosphere. Prabhupada: Wonderful. We do not find such atmosphere now. Even maidservant, servant. Their character was not very good — still be devotee. And this was the opportunity. […]

Tamala Krsna: Practically you learned all these things in those early days at Radha-Govinda Temple. Prabhupada: Yes, that was the training in the childhood. This Ratha-yatra, Radha-Govinda seva, prasada distribution. Only the new thing I am doing — writing of books by the order of Guru Maharaja. Otherwise, whatever I have introduced, I was trained […]

Birth in a family of yogis or transcendentalists — those with great wisdom — is praised herein because the child born in such a family receives a spiritual impetus from the very beginning of his life. It is especially the case in the acarya or gosvami families. Such families are very learned and devoted by […]

As stated in Bhagavad-gita (4.8), paritranaya sadhunam vinasaya ca duskrtam. The sadhus, the devotees of the Lord, are always eager to advance the cause of Krsna consciousness so that the conditioned souls may be released from the bondage of birth and death. But the asuras, the demons, impede the advancement of the Krsna consciousness movement, […]

Krsna is so merciful that He always thinks of how to liberate the conditioned souls from the material platform. It is for this reason that Krsna incarnates, as clearly indicated in the Bhagavad-gita (4.7): yada yada hi dharmasya glanir bhavati bharataabhyutthanam adharmasya tadatmanam srjamy aham “Whenever and wherever there is a decline in religious practice, […]

The glories of Krsna nobody can understand. Similarly, Vrndavana. The land which is known as Vrndavana also has unlimited potency. When you go to Vrndavana, you will find unlimited potency of spiritual atmosphere, still. If you go to Vrndavana, you will see so many saints and sages — still they are worshiping Vrndavana-dhama. As Lord […]

Vaisnavas accept the Supreme Personality as the supreme cause and want to serve Him, talk with Him and see Him, just as the Lord is also eager to see His devotees and talk, eat and dance with them. From Srila Prabhupada’s purport to Cc Adi 7.99

If there are ample books, everything else will succeed. Practically our Society is built on books. Srila Prabhupada, Letter to Yogesvara: December 28th, 1971

We have to take little patience. That is preaching work. Don’t be impatient. Let us do our duty on behalf of Krsna. Even the result is not very appreciable, still we have to do it. This is preaching. Just like Nityananda Prabhu. He was hurt by Jagai-Madhai. Still, He determined, “No, these two boys must […]