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How Srila Prabhupada Viewed Women

Srila Prabhupada had a definite vision of the role of women - grihini - in society, and that FDG is NOT in concordance with that vision. And Prabhupada rejected it in his…

His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada · 17 Nov 2019
Krishna and Bhakti

Is Violence Always Sinful?

War and bloodshed can become a glorious act if done under divine guidance. aho bata mahat papam kartum vyavasita vayam yad rajya-sukha-lobhena hantum sva-janam udyatah “Alas, how strange it is that we…

His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada · 22 Oct 2019
Krishna and Bhakti

WE HAVE NOT ACTUALLY FALLEN

People are running around--"Oh, I am the manager. I am the factory owner. I am this. I am that. We know his politics, we have to defeat our competitors." All these things…

HIS DIVINE GRACE A.C. BHAKTIVEDANTA SWAMI SRILA PRABHUPADA · 20 Oct 2019
Krishna and Bhakti

Cutting the Knots of Material Attachment

Our attempts at happiness in the material world keep us bound to repeated suffering, but there is a way out. bhidyate hridaya-granthish chidyante sarva-samshayah kshiyante chasya karmani drishta evatmanishvare "Thus the knots…

His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada · 19 Oct 2019
Marriage and Family

Why so many divorce happened ?

Everyone is engaged in these material activities, and the basic principle of material activity is gṛhastha, family life. Family life, according to Vedic system, or anywhere, is responsible life to maintain the…

HIS DIVINE GRACE A.C. BHAKTIVEDANTA SWAMI SRILA PRABHUPADA · 17 Oct 2019
Purports and Excerpts

Educated Man and Ordinary Boatman

There is a nice story. You'll appreciate it. In India, especially in Bengal, there are many rivers. The land is full of rivers. Because it is on the bank of the Bay…

His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada · 16 Oct 2019
Krishna and Bhakti

To love Krsna, to be loved by Krsna

Through bhakti-yoga we can finally reunite with the person we've wanted all along. A lecture given on December 12, 2000, at 26 Second Avenue in New York City, ISKCON's first temple. WE'LL READ TONIGHT from the…

His Holiness Sridhara Swami · 14 Oct 2019
Purports and Excerpts

Why did the Goswami’S come to Vrindavan?

The human life is so valuable, and I shall waste it simply by sleeping? Therefore the Gosvamis, our predecessor gurus, they have shown. They conquered over these things, Nidra, sleeping... Nidra is…

His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada · 1 Oct 2019