Krishna, the original person, is no less a person than we are. Most religions teach us to respect God as the almighty father. But we overlook His true greatness and power if we ignore He can relate to His devotees in loving relationships.
Awakening Our Spiritual Taste.Whether it’s a spicy chutney or a cooling raita, food offered to Krsna enlivens our spiritual senses.
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.
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.
Acyuta, drive my chariot!” This was the command given by Arjuna, the great devotee of the Supreme Personality of Godhead Lord Sri Krsna, unto Lord Krsna Himself on the Battlefield of Kuruksetra.
I meditate upon that eternally effulgent Lord who is directly and indirectly conscious of all manifestations and yet is beyond them. It is He only who first imparted Vedic knowledge unto the heart of Brahma, the first created being.
Krishna urged His father to concentrate on the activities of Vrndavana. Indra, He said, was simply bound to deliver water; he even pours rain on the ocean, where no one worships him.
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.
Though the spiritual world is the abode of the highest pleasure, hardly anyone wants to go there. We say we’d like to go, and we may think we are going, but our actions speak differently.
His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, who successfully distributed the message of Lord Krsna throughout the world, was not an ordinary conditioned soul, governed by the harsh laws of material nature.
Moscow—Members of the Hare Krishna sect said Monday that despite an easing of restrictions on political dissent, Soviet authorities are still detaining followers in prisons and psychiatric hospitals.
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.
The night was very dark, but as soon as Vasudeva took Krsna and went out, as a result of Krsna’s glaring effulgence he could see everything, just as in the sunlight.
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.
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.
As I began to spend more time with the brahmacaris, I noticed they seemed to be always joyful, beyond the ups and downs that had plagued my spiritual quest.
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.
One pleasant spring night Krishna and Balarama entered the forest of Vrndavana to enjoy the company of the gopis, Their cowherd girlfriends. Suddenly, there appeared … The Intruder
In the spirit of Srila Prabhupada’s voyage to America in 1965, devotees are bringing Krishna consciousness to the Hawaiian Islands on the Jaladutta II boat.
Sixty-five million people are on a diet at any given time in America. Millions are going on and off diets, losing weight, gaining it back, giving up, feeling desperate….