Author: HH Bhakti Vikas Swami

O reservoir of all good qualities, just worship Sri Krsna, the purifier of all purifiers, the most exalted of the personalities worshiped by choice poetry. Worship Him with a faithful, unflinching mind, without duplicity and in a highly elevated manner. Thus worship the Lord, whose name is like the sun, for just as a slight […]

In India, the Muhammadans, the Muhammadans who claim to be partitioned: Pakistan and Hindustan. There are number of Muhammadans, they protested that “India is going to be independent, but we do not wish to participate with the Hindus. We must be separate.” Why? Because they have got a bad experience that the Hindus did not […]

Harikesa: What happens with all these people who, like for example, myself, I can’t live on a farm? Prabhupada: That does not make you unfit. You can do something like that. Harikesa: I mean I was born in a city, raised in a city, and feel very good when I’m in a city, but when […]

Your most significant contribution in giving siksa was by your translation and publication of Vedic scriptures into the English language. This was a brilliant stratagem that will destroy the forces of maya. People receive your books, become enlightened by reading them, and keep them and share them with others for years together. Told by ISKCON’s […]

In the human society there must be four divisions — the brahmana, the ksatriya, the vaisya and the sudra — according to the quality. The most intelligent class of men, they should become brahmanas. Satya, samah, damah, titiksa, arjavam, jnanam vijnanam astikyam brahma-karma svabhava-jam [Bg 18.42]. So the next-intelligent class of men should become the […]

My request is that it is a very scientific movement, authorized from, taken from the Vedic literatures, and based on the principles of Bhagavad-gita as it is. So our only request is, especially here in India, they should take it very seriously and try to apply the principles in their life, and spread it all […]

If one uses the vibration of the holy name for the benefit of the material body, for material wealth and followers, or under the influence of greed or atheism — in other words, if one utters the name with offenses — such chanting will not produce the desired result very soon. Therefore one should diligently […]

If a devotee once utters the holy name of the Lord, or if it penetrates his mind or enters his ear, which is the channel of aural reception, that holy name will certainly deliver him from material bondage, whether vibrated properly or improperly, with correct or incorrect grammar, or properly joined or vibrated in separate […]

Actually if there is God, one should worship according to the dictation of God. But if he does not know what is God, what is the dictation of God — then he is a rascal. What is the use of his so-called worship? It may be to some extent sentiment, but that is not worship. […]

We have got four defects — means we commit mistake, we become illusioned or bewildered, our senses are imperfect, and, because everything is imperfect, still we want to become teacher, that is cheating. I am imperfect. How can I teach? That is going on. A imperfect person is teaching about transcendental knowledge. Therefore people are […]

Those who are following in the footsteps of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu should take the Lord’s mission most seriously. In this Age of Kali, people are gradually becoming less than animals. Nevertheless, although they are eating the flesh of cows and are envious of brahminical culture, Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu is considering how to deliver them from […]

Regarding incorporation of our ISKCON centers, we want to run all our centers as nonprofit religious organizations; that is the main point. Keeping this point in view too much official control is not good in spiritual life. The centers should remain spiritually fit and independent. Some control must be there as is now. Too much […]