Srila Rupa Gosvami was extremely dear to Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu. Through him and his elder brother, Sri Sanatan, Mahaprabhu disseminated His own teachings, the essential conclusions of all the scriptures.

                                           Srila Rupa Gosvami                                              

Srila Rupa Gosvami was extremely dear to Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu. Through him and his elder brother, Sri Sanatan, Mahaprabhu disseminated His own teachings, the essential conclusions of

Every now and then we find one immature devotee.  But such devotees should not be treated with harshness. There is a nice example.

It is the example of a mango. At first the mango is green, and green mangos are very bitter and sour. One does not  wants to eat such a mango. But by watering of the tree and sunlight, over a period of time, such mango is turned into a ripe, sweet nectarine mango. And everyone wants to have the mango.

Similarly in the beginning the devotees is immature. But by the chan

Formerly this entire planet was united in one global, peaceful, loving family. The head of government was at Hastinapur, near what is now New Delhi. There was only one global culture whose religion was service to the Supreme Lord. Now, since the advent of Kali Yuga 5,000 years ago, that one-world, spiritually centered culture has disintegrated, and a highly fragmented multi-national, multi-cultural, and multi-religious world society based on greed and exploitation has emerged.

There is no need fo

Hrdayananda: What is the difference between God and ourselves and what
is the relationship?

Prabhupada: God is great; we are small. Otherwise, we the same. God is
also living entity; you are also living entity. God is eternal; you
are also eternal. God is full of bliss; you are also full of bliss. So
quality, there is no difference. Only difference in quantity. Just
like a drop of sea water. It is salty. So this means in the drop there
is salt. But the quantity of the salt in the drop is not equal to t

The Lord is so kind to us that He can be present before us personally
in the form of transcendental sound, but unfortunately we have no
taste for hearing and glorifying the Lord's name and activities. We
have already discussed developing a taste for hearing and chanting the
holy sound. It is done through the medium of service to the pure
devotee of the Lord.

Srimad Bhagavatam 1.2.17 purport

Here are some quotes by Srila Prabhupada on the Four Vaisnava Sampradayas.  They are organized first by quotes about all four in general, and then by individual line.

By HH Sivarama Swami

Thirty years ago I was doing the Prabhupada marathon at the Chicago
airport. One afternoon, we devotees were so intoxicated by
distributing books that we decided to show that one doesn’t have to
speak to sell books, that book distribution just depends on our state
of consciousness. So we didn’t speak.

Just after loading my bookbag with (20) maha books I tapped a man on
the arm and looked him in the eye. He stopped, expecting me to say
something. I didn’t. I put a book in his hand, p

In this material world, whether we like or not, everyone--young, old, and in between--is living on the verge of death because death can come at any moment even when we least expect it.  This means that whatever we may establish for ourselves here in this world is nothing more than a castle made of sand that will be completely washed away the next time the tide comes in. So whether one thinks that life ends with the death of the body or that one has an eternal existence beyond this body, there is

Question: Vegans claim that we are contributing to factory farming and
calves being deprived of their mothers’ milk. How do we address this
argument?

Answer: There are two points here, first that a cow gives more milk
than a calf can drink, so it’s not necessarily that they’re being
deprived. However a calf should be able to drink its mothers milk, and
that happens when they’re being taken care of in a natural way in a
gosala. The calves drink their mothers’ milk and the cow gives more
milk. Also, if yo

By HH Sivarama Swami

Devotees often ask what the meaning of steadiness is: some consider
that chanting sixteen rounds a day and following the four regulative
principles means that one is steady, while others say it is steadiness
in one’s service; yet others give different variations of what they
consider steadiness to mean. But these things mentioned—regularly
chanting and regularity in serving—are physical symptoms that may or
may not indicate real steadiness.

Suddha-bhakti-cintamani deals with the sub

Dhruva Maharaj: “Because of my state of complete foolishness and
paucity of pious activities, although the Lord offered me His personal
service, I wanted material name, fame and prosperity. My case is just
like that of the poor man who, when he satisfied a great emperor who
wanted to give him anything he might ask, out of ignorance asked only
a few broken grains of husked rice.”

PURPORT

In this verse the word svārājyam, which means “complete independence,”
is very significant. A conditioned soul does no