The Materialist thinks–everything I do-is necessary! The Spiritualist thinks-nothing, except Krsna, is necessary! The Materialist thinks-I must work hard and make money The Spiritualist thinks- excessive working is punishment , due to ignorance The Materialist thinks-I must increase my work day and night ! The Spiritualist thinks- To stop working and death-that is spiritual tendency […]
Hare Krsna to all Pranams All glories to Srila Prabhupada Below is a very interesting conversation with Srila Prabhupada about many things devotees have always wondered about. Such as.. 1.What happens to the neophyte at the time of his or her death? 2.If a devotee is not yet perfect it is not possible to think […]
751102mw.nai Conversations Brahmananda: The quality of the chanting he’s asking. How can we make the quality the best? Prabhupada: Quality, you’ll understand first of all come to the quality. Without having quality, how he’ll understand the quality? You follow the instruction of your spiritual master, of the sastra. That is your duty. Quality, no quality–it […]
760217SB.MAY Lectures So this is the test. This is the test, that as soon as one is not Krsna conscious, immediately he comes to the group of sinful activities, rascaldom, lowest of the mankind, mayayapahrta-jnana, all knowledge taken away, and he’s an asura, Hiranyakasipu’s family, Hiranyakasipu’s category. So this is not optional, that “If I […]
680710SB.MON Lectures viprad dvi-sad-guna-yutad aravinda-nabha- padaravinda-vimukhat svapacam varistham manye tad-arpita-mano-vacanehitartha- pranam punati sa-kulam na tu bhurimanah So vipra means one who is fully conversant with Vedic knowledge. He is called vipra. For spiritual elevation there are gradual evolutionary stages. So vipra stage is just before becoming a qualified brahmana. That is called vipra. The first […]
Hare Krsna Prabhus Obeisances All glories to Srila Prabhupada 740401mw.bom Conversations 358851/530501 Prabhupada: Karma-yogi means one who does everything for Krsna. He’s karma-yogi. Guest (1): One who does everything for…? Prabhupada: For Krsna. Guest (1): For Krsna. Prabhupada: Just like you are doing, doing some work. For whom you are doing? Guest (1): For […]
680706SB.MON Lectures So this bhakti, it is not simply sentiment, but it is to understand actually what is God. It is science of God. Otherwise how it is said in the Bhagavad-gita that brahma-bhutah prasannatma? One who has understood the Supreme, the Absolute, he is called brahmana, brahma-bhutah. And the symptom is that… How can […]
760430rc.fij Conversations Prabhupada: Gradually, you’ll understand Krsna, by eating only. Krsna is not so easy to be understood, but we are giving you facility to eat krsna-prasadam so that one day you can understand this movement. This is the policy. Actually, that is the policy. We are not poor-feeding. That is not our philosophy. Like […]
730429SB.LA Lectures Krsna is living everywhere–that is, that is the vision of the higher devotees. Actually He’s living, but still, because we are in the lower condition, we should know that here is Krsna in the temple. Krsna is everywhere, but for us, because we have no such vision to see Krsna anywhere and everywhere, […]
Hare Krsna to all Pranams All glories to Srila Prabhupada Today, after the swell of around million touristas have left our town, we went to see the tulip fields close by to us. As one can see, so many varieties are grown here and this is only the tip of the iceberg in terms of […]
