Do the above examples show that the doctor is promoting smoking and the father discouraging his son from scoring 100% in maths?
Absolutely Not. Suresh was a chain smoker and Arvind an irresponsible student. So to bring them on right track they gave them a means by which they can improve themselves. Suresh does not have to smoke d
So what to do at the time of death? One has to change. Death means change of this body. The modern civilization, they do not know it. That is the first understanding of spiritual knowledge, that we change our body. I am spirit soul, every one of us, spirit soul, even the animals and the trees and plants and aquatics, any living being. There are 8,400,000 different forms of living being. Of all of them, the human form is considered the best. Best means it has got..., the human form has got develo
Hare Krsna
Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada
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The following conversation between His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada and Mr. C. Hennis of the United Nations' International Labor Organization took place in Geneva in 1974.
Mr. Hennis: The International Labor Organization is interested in promoting social justice and protecting the worker.
Srila Prabhupada: By natural arrangement, the social body has four divi
Hare Krsna
Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada
Hare Krsna, Hare Krsna, Krsna Krsna, Hare Hare
Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare
In India saints and ordinary people alike have long known about these holy names of God the maha-mantra, or great chanting for deliverance. In 1965 His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, a pure devotee of the Lord, brought the chanting to the West.
Hare is an address to God'
Hare Krsna
Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada
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German pessimist philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) thought that nirvana, (freedom from suffering) means becoming desireless putting an end to our will. But His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada disagrees….
Arthur Schopenhauer
Hayagriva dasa: Arthur Schopenhauer was a nineteenth-century German philosopher who took some of his ideas from the Indian Vedic
Dear Vaisnavas,
Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada!
That most auspicious time of the year, the Prabhupada Marathon, is coming to us very soon. The Prabhupada Marathon is total bliss. Why? Because this sankirtan movement is as Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu said, "anandambudhi vardanam" it is an ever expanding ocean of bliss. It's an oportunity to imerse ourselves in giving Krsna to others. Srila Prabhupada very nicely says in a purport of the Srimad
Hare Krsna
Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada
At present, we are concerned primarily with two things: one, ourselves; and the other, the place where we live. In other words, we are concerned with two objects: namely, everything that is related to our gross and subtle bodies; and the world at large, with all its paraphernalia. But there are others above us, the transcendentalists, who are concerned not only with their body and mind and the world at large, but also wi
As many of you know, my service in ISKCON is to travel worldwide to inspire devotees to distribute Prabhupada's books, but quite often when I visit temples, someone inspires me. I recently experienced this in Denver. Nidra Dasi joined in 1976 and has been distributing since that time. She made a vow to distribute books every day.
She has the most dedicated devotional schedule that I've ever seen. She starts her day at 2:00 A.M. every morning and ch
So long we are in the jurisdiction of three modes of material nature, up to that time we shall disagree with one another and there will be trouble. Therefore the Vaisnava religion is meant for the peaceful person. No trouble. Samah sarvesu bhutesu mad-bhaktim labhate param [Bg. 18.54]. Those who have come to the stage of seeing everyone on the equal terms... Equal terms means spiritually. That we invite everyone. There is no discrimination. We don't care for the designations. We invite everyone
Hare Krsna
Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada
"There is no other way out of this great ocean of Nescience except the unalloyed mercy of the Absolute Godhead. Living entity although superior in nature in comparison to the nature of matter, he is by association dependant and weaker than the material nature. The Absolute Godhead is the creator of all entities, He is the maintainer and deliverer of all entitie
Sometimes Bhakti is observed as similar to the activities of the karmis, but there is difference. One is bhakti, one is going back to home, back to Godhead; and the other is going forward to the hellish condition of life by the same activities. This is the technique. How it is possible? It is possible. By practical example, it is said in the sastras... Just like if you take more quantity of milk preparation, you get diarrhea. But the same milk preparation, yogurt, is there. It will stop diarrhea
Dear all,
We hope that you are doing very well in your family and career.
In the past many great personalities have praised Bhagavad Gita because of the wisdom it contains. We found that people were finding it difficult to access this great wisdom because of their busy life and lack of interest. So with this in mind, Gita Champions League (GCL) contest was started to spread the profound wisdom of Bhagavad Gita in an interesting manner.
We are very happy to announce that we are organizing
by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Better close the United Nation organization because it has not had any practical effect. But talking about Krishna, just see how it is giving practical effect. You are assembled here from Europe, America, and Africa, Canada, and practically all over the world, but you are united nation. You are united nation simply by talking about Krishna.
mauna-vrata-sruta-tapo-’dhyayana-sva-dharma-
vyakhya-raho-japa-samadhaya apavargyah
prayah param puru
Hare Krsna
Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada
Here we continue an exchange between His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada and the poet Allen Ginsberg. It took place on May 12, 1969, in Columbus, Ohio.
Srila Prabhupada: Krsna consciousness is not a bluff. It is real science, real authority. One simply has to understand it. That's all. Therefore, in Caitanya-caritamrta it is said, krsna yei bhaje sei bada catura: Unless one is very, very intelligent, he c
Hare Krsna
Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada
On June 15, 1974, in Paris, His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada received a visit from two priests and two Christian scholars. (Before his guests arrived, Srila Prabhupada briefly noted the Vedic literature's predictions for our age.)
Srila Prabhupada: In the Twelfth Canto of Srimad-Bhagavatam this current Age of Kali, the age of quarrel and hypocrisy, is described:
tasmat ksudra-drso martyah
ksudra-bhagya
Hare Krsna
Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada
Here we conclude an exchange between His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada and the poet Allen Ginsberg. It took place on May 12, 1969, in Columbus, Ohio.
Allen Ginsberg: If you're identifying love, however, with the sabda [sound] Krsna, what of those people who identify love with the sabda Allah?
Srila Prabhupada: Well, of course, if that sabda identifies with God, we have no objection. As Caitanya Mahaprab
A Dance for Shri Madhav – It Is Mayapur
Her fair skin was shining like a sun in the evening darkness of the Altar room. Her hands were like of two wings which were trying to fly over and over the sky. Her eyes were gazing sometimes to the Lotus Feet of the Lord before her and sometimes to her own heart full of thoughts…
She moved in tune to the mridanga which was sounding in the heart “tak tik taka taka tak…” While she was dancing her sari moved here and there trying to make her dance to the Lor
