Understanding that the Supreme Personality of Godhead is the friend of everyone (suhrdam sarva-bhutanam [Bg 5.29]), they [devotees] act as friends of everyone on behalf of the Supreme Lord. Making no distinction between one nation and another or one community and another, they preach Krsna consciousness, the teachings of Bhagavad-gita, everywhere. Thus they are competent […]

Indian man (2): Can one be a householder, I mean, with his normal worldly life, and at the same time be a… Prabhupada: First of all, what do you mean by householder? Indian man (2): I mean continue the normal occupation of one’s… Prabhupada: Say me. Explain what is householder. Indian man (2): Looking after […]

CC Adi 17.127 Translation and purport by Srila Prabhupada “No one should perform sankirtana on the streets of the city. Today I am excusing the offense and returning home.” Such orders stopping sankirtana in the streets of the world’s great cities have been imposed upon members of the Hare Krsna movement. We have hundreds of […]

TRANSLATIONEven if one is a householder rather than a brahmacari, a sannyasi or a vanaprastha, one should not endeavor very hard for religiosity, economic development or satisfaction of the senses. Even in householder life, one should be satisfied to maintain body and soul together with whatever is available with minimum endeavor, according to place and […]

One madness you have to give up — this material madness — and you have to become mad after Krsna. Then your life is successful. That madness is exhibited by Caitanya Mahaprabhu: yugayitam nimesenacaksusa pravrsayitamsunyayitam jagat sarvamgovinda-virahena me That madness is wanted. Yugayitam nimesena: one moment appears to be one yuga. One yuga means twelve […]

If you have got some knowledge, you distribute the knowledge for Krsna’s satisfaction. How you can do that? Whatever knowledge you have got, you try to describe Krsna. Kavibhir nirupitah yad uttama-sloka-gunanuvarnanam (Bhag. 1.5.22). This is the first-class distribution of knowledge. Whatever you know, you try to explain Krsna by that knowledge. Just like our […]

Italian people they are really just by nature religious, just like they gather in this big square, St Peter’s square to hear the Pope speak. So they gather there sometimes a million people at one time will gather there. So they are very eager to receive the Pope’s blessings but they are very lazy when […]

Now people are becoming sudras by so-called education. So they cannot make any solution of the problems. If that daiva varnasrama again established, then the whole problem will be solved. From Srila Prabhupada’s discussion with Shyamasundara Dasa about philosopher John Dewey

SB 6.5.39 Translation and purport by Srila Prabhupada: All the devotees of the Lord but you are very kind to the conditioned souls and are eager to benefit others. Although you wear the dress of a devotee, you create enmity with people who are not your enemies, or you break friendship and create enmity between […]

[Bhagavata-dharma, the principles of religion] is understandable if one follows the parampara system of Lord Brahma, Lord Siva, the four Kumaras and the other standard authorities. There are four lines of disciplic succession: one from Lord Brahma, one from Lord Siva, one from Laksmi, the goddess of fortune, and one from the Kumaras. The disciplic […]

The Mayavadis’ proposition that God has no legs, no eyes, no ears, and no hands is an indirect way of insulting Him by defining Him as blind, deaf, dumb, lame, helpless, etc. Srila Prabhupada CC Adi 7.99 purport

Enamored by these big, big buildings, that’s all. “Oh, they are so advanced.” And naturally, the common man comes to a European or American city, he says, “Oh, Americans are so rich.” “Rich” means they have piled up stones and bricks, that’s all. This is their richness. What is there in the richness here? But […]