Prabhupada: No, God has created perfect, but you have become imperfect by misusing your independence. God is fully independent. You are part and parcel of God. Therefore you have got that quality, independence. When you misuse that, you become bad; when you use it properly, you remain good.

By H.D.G. Srila Prabhupada

      All glorries to Srila Prabhupad,   Hare Krishna,

                                                                                 The whole human civilization in this anxiety dominated Kali Yug manages on the bodily conception of life. Man just realizes that I am this body,and my business should be to satisfy the bodily necessities. "Eating,Sleeping,Defense & Sex", And if I am somehow capable of doing these acts,then I am O.K. And those who can arrange more scope for better execution of the

When His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada entered the port of New York City on September 17, 1965 few Americans took notice — but he was not merely another immigrant. He was on a mission to introduce the ancient teachings of Vedic India into mainstream America. Before Srila Prabhupada passed away on November 14, 1977 at the age of 81, his mission proved successful. He had founded the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) and saw it grow into a worldwide c

Gaura-Nitai: The Most Merciful

by Srila Bhakti Promode Puri Gosvami Maharaja

[Following is a expert from a new issue of the GOKUL Magazine "The Message of Universal Divine Love". This magazine is a collection of divine sermons of various Gaudiya Vaishnava Acharyas.] "The Supreme Lord Krishna manifests Himself in the material world in four forms as the Vaishnava, tulasi, the Ganges, and Srimad-Bhagavatam . The Deity Form of the Lord becomes worshipable only after it has been consecrated ritually an

What is the relationship between Radha & Krishna?

Even today, right from stones on the road to the trees to temple walls and cows, all that you see in and around Vrindavan have Radhey-Radhey written all over them. Why Radha’s name and not Krishna’s? Well to ask that question is folly itself, for Radha-Krishna are not separate!

Considered an incarnation of Goddess Lakshmi, Radha is Sri Krishna’s playmate, best friend, soulmate, & eternal lover: they are 2 sides of the same coin. Being the purest re

The Radha-Krishna amour is a love legend of all times. It's indeed hard to miss the many legends and paintings illustrating the Radha-Krishna affair is the most memorable. Krishna's relationship with Radha, his favorite among the 'gopis' (cow-herding maidens), has served as a model for male and female love in a variety of art forms, and since the sixteenth century appears prominently as a motif in North Indian paintings. The allegorical love of Radha has found expression in some great Bengali po

The Legend of Radha-Krishna

The Legend
Young Krishna is known to be very playful and mischievous. The story goes that as a child, Krishna was extremely jealous of Radha's fair complexion since he himself was very dark.

One day, Krishna complained to his mother Yashoda about the injustice of nature which made Radha so fair and he so dark. To pacify the crying young Krishna, the doting mother asked him to go and colour Radha's face in whichever colour he wanted.
In a mischievous mood, naughty K

If Radha and Krishna aren't married, why do we worship Them together, like Sita-Rama?

Srila Prabhupada is very careful that we understand the relationship between Radha and Krishna very carefully; it's not like some mundane love affair between a young boy and young girl. There are several ways to look at it, but first we must understand this point.

Srila Prabhupada points out in one lecture, that ". . .the love between Radha and Krishna is called parakiya. They're not married as husband and wife.

By His Holiness Kadamba Kanana Swami

Congregational preaching means Krishna consciousness for the grihastha ashram. Because many people who are involved in family life cannot directly live in the temples, we need a program to offer Krishna consciousness to those people. Since householders are the majority of the population, congregational preaching is one of the first priorities of our movement. We should develop different ways to engage people in chanting the holy name, in reading Srila Prabhupa

Prabhupada: The knowledge should be acquired from the beginning of life, from childhood. But if by circumstances I could not get this knowledge from childhood, then we should begin immediately. Because unless we get this knowledge, our life remains imperfect. We remain animal. The animal does not know this. And after evolutionary process, coming to the human form of body, if we keep ourself in the darkness of animal life, then our this opportunity is lost. This is the first problem. Unfortunatel

Suppose that we invest our hard earned money in a company’s share which promises to give a very high return at the end of the year. But we find that throughout the year the market value of the share keeps depreciating and at the end of the year we have lost all our money. Next year the same company again launches a new scheme and asks us to purchase its share. How many of us would ever think of buying the share from the same company again? Probably no one because the company would have lost its

     All glories to Srila Prabhupad,   Hare Krishna,

                                                                       Service is something inseparable from man whether he wants or not.    So on one hand Krishna & the other Maya, It is just an alternative choice between the two. You must serve Krrishna or bound to be misfortuned. That is all..............Jay Srrila Prabhupad.....................Hare Krishna.

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The material world is full of contamination, and one who is immunized by accepting prasadam of the Lord, food offered to Visnu, is saved from the attack, whereas one who does not do so becomes subjected to contamination. Food grains or vegetables are factually eatables. The human being eats different kinds of food grains, vegetables, fruits, etc., and the animals eat the refuse of the food grains and vegetables, grass, plants, etc. Human beings who are accustomed to eating meat and flesh must al

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