Guru and Initiation
Any damn rascal can become Guru
Guru does not mean anything extraordinary. Any damn rascal like me can become guru. You cannot question, "You are a damn rascal. How you have become guru?" (Bhagavad-gita 4.3 -- February 10,…
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Purports and Excerpts
Srila Prabhupada’s own words presented as the post: book purports, lecture, conversation or letter excerpts, quote posts.
Guru and Initiation
Spiritual master is not a particular man
The spiritual master is not that a particular man. The spiritual master is truth. So what is that truth? The truth is samsara-davanala-lidha-loka-tranaya karunya-ghanaghanatvam. [The spiritual master is receiving benediction from the…
Krishna and Bhakti
Black Art for eating meat and drinking wine
The practice of forcing one's wife to drink one's own semen is a black art practiced by extremely lusty persons. Those who practice this very abominable activity say that if a wife…
Farms and Cow Protection
Grow fresh, take fresh
"Anything fresh, that is full of vitamin. Grow fresh, take fresh." - Srila Prabhupada Little Gurukulis. #OrganicFarming Photos
Acaryas and Saints
A veteran devotee from a Mohammedan family :Namacharya Srila Haridas Thakur
"Although Thakura Haridasa happened to take his birth in a Muslim family, he was elevated to the post of namacarya by Lord Caitanya due to his rigidly attended principle of chanting three…
Purports and Excerpts
What is more essential than the chanting of the Hare Krsna maha-mantra?
For an ordinary man, worship of Sri Caitanya and Nityananda Prabhu or the Panca-tattva is easier than worship of Radha and Krsna. Unless one is very fortunate, he should not be induced…
Krishna and Bhakti
What if the whole universe becomes Krishna Conciousness ?
While we are preaching, opposing elements sometimes argue, "If all living entities were delivered by the Krsna consciousness movement, what would happen then? The universe would be devoid of living entities." In…
Krishna and Bhakti
Does Krishna condone violence in the Bhagavad Gita ?
Indian man: Swamiji, most of our Hindus accept Lord Krsna as our Supreme Being, as God. Yet in the Bhagavad-gita, Arjuna won't fight his brothers, but Lord Krsna encouraged this, to fight…
Krishna and Bhakti
Cow dung philosophy
Prabhupada: He is protected. Others are not protected. So his term has not yet come. But what is the answer, that "Lord has become your obedient servant to protect. And when He…
Krishna and Bhakti
A devotee is more merciful than Krishna
So if you become demon, then you are also infected with asuya, envious of Krsna. Then you cannot understand. Then you cannot understand. Krsna is very strict, but the devotees are very…
