The Ecstacy of Madhavendra Puri
A young cowherd boy appeared before Madhavendra Puri and offered him a pot of milk. That boy was none other than Krishna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
Srila Prabhupada Television Interview
Prabhupada arrived in Gainesville, calling it a remote corner of the world, thousands of miles from the birthplace of Lord Caitanya, to speak at the University of Florida. The local TV station arranged for this interview.
Colleges for curing the Social Body — Prabhupada Speaks Out
Wherever we have a Hare Krsna center we should immediately establish a college for training people—first, according to their natural talents. Everyone will be elevated to spiritual awareness by performing the spiritual activities we prescribe
The Unseen Controller Behind the Material World
We see in the street that the cars are moving at high speed but they’re within their ‘orbits,’ their white or yellow lines of demarcation—because there is some brain, some management. So, similarly, with all these planets.
Escaping the Dream — Srila Prabhupada Speaks Out
In a dream we see so many things that have nothing to do with us. This is our nighttime dream, and we recognize it when we wake up. Unfortunately generally we go back into our daytime dream. “I am this.” “I am that.” “I am white.” “I am black.” “I am American.” And so forth.
Two Paths — Spiritual Path or Material Path?
There are two paths we can follow: One takes us back home, back to Godhead, and the other forces us to remain in this material world, which is full of miseries, especially birth, old age, disease, and death. These are the two paths open to us.
Why do Devotees have a Negative Outlook?
The fact is this material world is a miserable, negative place, full of danger at every step; it is a temporary abode of death, birth, disease, and old age, a home of suffering and pain only.
The Test of the Genuine Guru
If you want a cheap guru there will be many cheater gurus. But if you are sincere, you will have a sincere guru. Because people want everything very cheaply, they are cheated.
Mad Scientists — Srila Prabhupada Speaks Out
You can explain their madness in so many ways, but first try to understand the main idea: a very educated man—when he becomes mad, then he and his words have no value.
Potencies Of The Omnipotent
We try to imitate Krishna’s enjoyment. Boys and girls mix with each other and dance together. The same activities are there in Krishna’s pastimes. Krishna is dancing with the gopis in the forest, and you are dancing with your girlfriend in the nightclub.
Back to the Simple Life and Simple Truth
In the country the pangs of the material world are less. You can arrange your life for real profit. Spiritual profit. Realize God; become Krishna conscious.
Prepare for Your Next Life
Spirit souls in the cycle of birth and death from species to species. Human life affords the soul a chance to regain his eternal life beyond birth and death.
Christ Is Our Guru — Srila Prabhupada
Jesus Christ is our guru. Christ is preaching consciousness of God. So he is our guru, our spiritual master. That’s a fact. Don’t take him otherwise. He’s our guru.
Better Than the Animals
As the embodied soul continuously passes, in this body, from boyhood to youth to old age, the soul similarly passes into another body at death. A sober person is not bewildered by such a change.
The Dearest Friend
Man looks to woman, and woman looks to man. The teachings of the boy devotee Prahlada Maharaja explain that we’re looking for love in the wrong place.
Srila Prabhupada Speaks Out
Dirty Illusions This is the continuation of a conversation between His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada and a guest—Dr. Christian Hauser, a psychiatrist—which took place in Stockholm in September 1973. Srila Prabhupada: I am prescribing, “Chant Hare Krsna.” If you say, “Hare Krsna,” immediately the relief begins. And if you say, “No, no, I […]
Prayers Of King Kulasekhara
King Kulasekhara, a pure devotee of the Lord, shows us the way to offer prayers to the Lord. It is our prime duty to follow in his footsteps in order to achieve the highest devotional platform.
Why Our Schools Don’t Have a Prayer — Srila Prabhupada Speaks Out
It is all cheating. You have left God out. That is the height of cheating. So naturally the rest of your so-called schooling must also be cheating.
A Manifesto of Krishna Consciousness
The International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) is a movement aiming at the spiritual reorientation of mankind through the simple process of chanting the holy names of God.
The Human Struggle
In spite of working so hard, there is frustration. No one is satisfied. We are always wondering what danger is coming next. This is material life: You work very hard, so hard, and still you feel frustration and are always fearful, and then one day you die.