.——————————Srila Prabhupada says – So to play tricks with guru, to become diplomatand intriguer, these rascaldom will not help bhagavad-bhakti-yoga.   Topmost yoga system is bhagavad-bhakti, and bhagavad-bhakti-yoga begins, ādau gurv-āśrayaḥ. First of all surrender to guru. tad viddhi praṇipātenaparipraśnena sevayā (BG 4.34) The official initiation has no meaning. Unless one who has fully surrendered to guru, there is no question of […]

Srila Prabhupada describes the glories of Sri Narahari sarakara Thakuracompiled by Yasoda nandana dasa

Hare Krsna-below we put together this series of quotes because of the very first one I read last night before retiring, In this conversation Srila Prabhupada is pointing out that the great Acaryas and sages  in India of days gone  neglected building skyscrapers and instead focused upon simple living.  He asks-why, they were less intelligent? But because their […]

Once a person begins to worship the Deity of the  Lord with a trace of bhakti it is to be understood that he has sown the seed  of his own food fortune and that he is free from corrupt  ideologies. After hours of scouring thru two large books by Bhaktivinode Thakur-Jaiva Dharma and Caitanya siksamrita-I finally found […]

“So let us try to make an attempt to organize a New Vrindaban scheme, andI shall request all my students to develop this idea and show a good example to this Western part of the world where people are always engaged in ugra-karma, asuric-karma.”“Everyone has to earn his livelihood by agriculture,..”“Every man must possess a piece of […]

Srila Prabhupada speaks OutGuru or Goru?  Devotee (3): Then how is it that some people do finally come to accept Kṛṣṇa?  Srila Prabhupāda: Yes. They come in the paramparā system, through guru. Tad-vijñānārtham sa gurum evābhigacchet (MU 1.2.12). Therefore, you have to go to guru to understand. You cannot understand personally. That is not possible. Therefore, our system is […]

Hare Krsna- Below we have compiled some quotes by Srila Prabhupada about home deity worship. It seems thee are some misconceptions which have arisen that only if one can adopt the same  strict standards that Prabhupada originally enunciated in his temples, then one should not have Deity worship in his home.This is simply not the case at […]