GBC and Governance
GBC become more than Guru Maharaja?
In 1970 Srila Prabhupada appointed the first GBC to manage the daily affairs of ISKCON so Srila Prabhupada could simply write books as this was His main aspiration and inspiration for His…
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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.
Purports and Excerpts
Srila Prabhupada describes the word ‘HINDU’ from cultural point of view not religious point of view
Hindu means the culture of the Indians. India happens to be situated on the other side of the Indus River which is now in Pakistan which is spelled Indus -- in Sanskrit…
Politics and Current Affairs
The Duty of the Government to Kill at Once all Bad Social Elements
yasya rāṣṭre prajāḥ sarvās trasyante sādhvy asādhubhiḥ tasya mattasya naśyanti kīrtir āyur bhago gatiḥ eṣa rājñāṁ paro dharmo hy ārtānām ārti-nigrahaḥ ata enaṁ vadhiṣyāmi bhūta-druham asattamam Translation O chaste one, the king’s…
Guru and Initiation
How does Srila Prabhupada Define as One Who is Liberated
Prabhupada: Liberated soul never says that "I am liberated." As soon as he says "liberated," he's a rascal. A liberated soul will never say that "I am liberated." That is liberation. Caitanya…
Purports and Excerpts
Is America Really Materially Advanced
Your seventh question, "How is it that there is so much material "advancement'' in the USA even though there is no formal demigod worship? '' Prabhupada: Actually there is no material advancement…
Life and Memories
Srila Prabhupada experienced the Universal Form – Visvarupa
In 1942 Srila Prabhupada experienced the ''UNIVERSAL FORM-VISVARUPA'' of the Supreme Personality of Godhead KRSNA and heard the deafening sound '' chiiiii-goww ''--- Devotee: Prabhupada, we were reading earlier this morning in…
Book Distribution
Preaching by Moonlike Devotees
Danavira: I'm in charge of the New Bhakta program in Los Angeles, and yesterday one boy called up the temple, and he was seventeen years old, and he said, "Five years ago,…
Guru and Initiation
WHO HAS NO REFERENCE TO THE SASTRA, IMMEDIATELY TAKE HIM AS A RASCAL NUMBER ONE
"So śāstra-cakṣusā. Everything we have to take from the śāstra. Because we are blind now. Śāstra-cakṣusā. Our, the śāstra-jñāna, because the spiritual master enlightens the disciple with śāstra-jñāna, therefore he is spiritual…
Purports and Excerpts
On the Transcendental plane There is no Question of Higher or Lower
The more one feels imperfect in Krishna's service, the more he is advancing in Krishna Consciousness. Even the topmost devotees feel they are inadequate in their service to the Lord. So it…
GBC and Governance
What will happen when I am not here, shall everything be spoiled by GBC?
I cannot understand why, instead of one GBC man, a person outside the Commission was given so much power, and there was to be immediate action without divulging the matter to the…
