Author: HH Bhakti Vikas Swami

In 1971 I was the leader of a book distribution party. We were about five of us, and we were traveling in a van. Prabhupada was in Los Angeles, so I wanted to take the members of our party to meet Srila Prabhupada. I thought we will meet him, but we will also learn a […]

Gokularanajana: There was a local pop star, a drummer in a band, who had been coming to the Sunday Feast regularly. Then at one Sunday Feast he showed up wearing a turban and he was with the Yogi Bhajan group [a Sikh sect]. He’d always loved the devotees but he was challenging in a playful […]

So every night we were advertising, and maybe 40 to 50 people were coming every night. So Prabhupada was pleased, because they were coming to our place. And we would have a long kirtana, then Srila Prabhupada would give the lecture. And then people would ask different questions and he would answer. So after one […]

I first met Srila Prabhupada in San Francisco in 1970. He was coming for Ratha-yatra. The temple room was as half as big as this, maybe smaller, but it was packed with about 150 devotees. Kirtana was going on and began to build up to a huge crescendo. So here I was with the other […]

By once chanting the holy name of the Lord, which consists of the two syllables ha-ri, one guarantees his path to liberation. From Srila Prabhupada’s purport to SB 6.2.7

Generally, in the material world everyone is necessity of gratifying his senses. So sometimes, under the cover of religiosity, they want to satisfy senses. The same thing… Just like one goes to church or temple to mitigate some material necessities. Just like the Christians go to the church for meeting the problems of bread; similarly, […]

Srila Prabhupada pronounced that because of so much sex indulgence in our previous lives, we had become physically and mentally zero with no brains. Our only hope was Krsna consciousness, which was beyond any mental and physical considerations. TKG’s Diary

There was news that he was either going to come to London or somewhere else. Like San Francisco or New York or somewhere else that was going to have a Ratha-yatra. And so every day we would hear “yeah he is going to come here.” And then the next day we would be disappointed, “no […]

For persons who are not inclined to clean the dust from their hearts and who want to keep things as they are, it is not possible to derive the transcendental result of chanting the Hare Krsna mantra. From NoD ch 12 by Srila Prabhupada

Actually, a Vaisnava is above this varnasrama-dharma. But we don’t claim that we have become perfect Vaisnava. We are not so impudent. Srila Prabhupada Srimad-Bhägavatam 1.8.41 Lecture 21 October 1974

Prajapati Daksa cursed Narada Muni by saying that although he had the facility to travel all over the universe, he would never be able to stay in one place. In the parampara system from Narada Muni, I have also been cursed. Although I have many centers that would be suitable places of residence, I cannot […]

If one chants the holy name of the Lord, even in a helpless condition or without desiring to do so, all the reactions of his sinful life depart, just as when a lion roars, all the small animals flee in fear. From Srila Prabhupada’s purport to SB 6.2.7