Why God Descends
“Whenever and wherever there is a decline in religious practice, O descendant of Bharata, and a predominant rise of irreligion—at that time I manifest Myself.”
Lord Caitanya and the Renaissance of Devotion
While Europe, as if weary of its medieval concepts of God, turned with new interest toward man and the mundane, a spiritual revolution in India—destined to spread worldwide—was revealing the dynamic nature of the Absolute Truth.
Adventures of the Boar Incarnation
While Brahma was thinking, a small form of a Boar came out of his nostril. The Boar-like form became situated in the sky in a wonderful manifestation, grown suddenly into a gigantic form like a great elephant.
Krishna, The Supreme Personality of Godhead
Within a very short time, both Balaram and Krishna began to crawl by Their hands and knees and were moving hither and thither. When Rama and Krishna were crawling like that it was very pleasing to the mothers.
Love is Man’s Link to God
Love for Krishna is dormant within each of us, but because we have no conscious love for Him we are frustrated in various objects of love, and, therefore, in the material world, love is 99.9% frustration simply because the love isn’t in the right place.
Encounter at Kuruksetra
In the midst of the great battle, surrounded by the clash of arms, where the dust churned up by the horses dimmed the sun and blood turned the earth to mud, Krsna suddenly stopped the chariot and sprang to the ground.
Shri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu (Lord Chaitanya & His Teachings)
And as soon as one is able to cleanse the accumulated material dust covering one’s pure consciousness from time immemorial one is able to extinguish the blazing forest fire burning ever increasingly in the perpetual circle of birth and death.
Krishna is God, Even on the Lap of His Mother
There is a supreme controller. That is the beginning of knowledge. Why should we deny it? In every field of activity we find some controller, so why should we deny that there is a controller of this creation?
Lord Buddha — The Emblem of Theism
Prior to the advent of Lord Buddha the animal sacrificial portions of the Vedas were misused. The Personality of Godhead appears Himself as an incarnation to put things in the right order and Lord Buddha as incarnation of Krishna appeared as the emblem of Theism.
Which Way Home for the Wandering Soul?
Everyone is related to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, just as a son is always related to his father. That relationship cannot be broken at any stage. But sometimes it happens that the son, out of independence, goes out of his home and forgets his father.
Teachings of the Golden Avatar
Lord Chaitanya teaches that rational attributes of men are not capable of approaching the divine spirit. The religious sentiment in man, even in very small quantity, has the power to comprehend it. It is inspiration which can alone give light to spiritual matters.
Krishna The Chariot Driver
Krishna the Chariot Driver holds the reins of His chariot, the Creation. He is no inexperienced charioteer. He is very adept at driving the universe through space.
Reaching the World Beyond Illusion
Lord Krsna is explaining here how one can very easily enter into the spiritual world, the kingdom of God. The simple formula is that anyone who perfectly understands the transcendental appearance and activities of the Lord can enter into the spiritual kingdom after death.
The Glories of Lord Ramachandra
The Supreme Lord appeared on this planet as the Warrior Ramachandra, in order to display the Pastimes of the Personality of Godhead. As is stated in The Bhagavad Gita, “I come, in order to vanquish the demons and rescue the devotees.”
A Call to Spiritual Life
The Krsna consciousness movement is gradually spreading all over the world, but it is a little difficult to understand the purport of this movement because it is completely on the spiritual platform. Generally, people do not understand what the spiritual platform is.
The Highest Enjoyment
The Supreme Godhead is one without a second, is an eternal, joyful personality with a full sense of His own identity. That is a concise description of the Supreme Lord, and no one is equal to or greater than Him.
Krsna’s Blessings In the Chanting of His Name
Ladies and gentlemen: Please accept my greetings for the happy new year of 1969. and please accept the blessings of Sri Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, for your kindly participating in this happy meeting of Krsna consciousness.
1972 Prabhupada Interview by New York Times
God is there. Anyone can go back to Him and live an eternal life full of bliss and knowledge simply by knowing about it. When God Himself comes, all great acaryas, stalwart men, accept Him: “Yes, He is God.” If we simply understand God, we make a solution to all our problems.
With Krsna in the Peaceable Kingdom
We must invite Krsna back as the central object of all our senses. He is as available to us today as He was when He wandered at will in the Vrndavana forest, charming all beings. We need only chant His holy names.
Krishna Reveals His Universal Form at Kuruksetra
If hundreds of thousands of suns were to rise into the sky at once, their effulgence might resemble that of the Lord in His universal form. That wondrous form possessed unlimited mouths, unlimited eyes, unlimited faces, legs, and arms.