Prabhupada’s Invitation
Everything within this material world will be destroyed, and therefore one should use everything for good purposes. If one is advanced in knowledge, he must always be prepared to sacrifice anything for a better cause. At the present moment the entire world is in a dangerous position under the spell of a godless civilization. The Krsna consciousness movement needs many exalted, learned persons who will sacrifice their lives to revive...
Srila Prabhupada’s Humility
[…] The same day Prabhupada dictated a letter to Karandhara: "I could never have thought it was possible to distribute so many of our literatures. Therefore I can understand it is simply Krishna's blessing us for your sincerely working on His behalf. Actually, that is the secret of my success, not that personally I have done anything wonderful, but that because those who are helping me are sincere. They have done the...
The Compassion of Pariksit Maharaja
In the Twenty-sixth Chapter of the Fifth Canto, Sukadeva Gosvam… has explained that people who commit sinful acts are forced to enter hellish planets and suffer. Now Maharaja Par…kit, being a devotee, is concerned with how this can be stopped. A Vaisava is para-dukha-dukhi; in other words, he has no personal troubles, but he is very unhappy to see others in trouble. Prahlada Maharaja said, "My Lord, I have no...
The Secure Position
As far as the members of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness are concerned, they have sacrificed everything to push on this Krsna consciousness movement. Yet they must take a lesson from the life of Bharata Maharaja to be very cautious and to see that not a single moment is wasted in frivolous talk, sleep or voracious eating. Eating is not prohibited, but if we eat voraciously we shall certainly sleep more than...
Tejiyas Prabhu on Srila Prabhupada and Relationships
"One of the things, if not the main thing, that deeply impressed me about Srila Prabhupad was his unconditional acceptance of each person he encountered and his immediate and spontaneous treatment of that person as being vitally significant to him. Put simply, if you want someone to be the way you want them to be, if you do not see them as being significant and special as a person seperate from their qualities, if you do not see...
This is victory
Many of the Lord's devotees residing in Vndavana have taken the vow not to leave Vndavana to preach Krsna consciousness. But the Lord says that Krsna consciousness should be spread all over the world, in every village and every town. This is the open order of Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu. pthiv…te ache yata nagaradi grama sarvatra pracara haibe mora nama A pure devotee, therefore, must execute the order of the Lord and must...




