1968 Interview with Srila Prabhupada

When all these attractions are reposed in one place without any rivalry, He is God. That is the conception of God. So Krsna means all these six opulences in fullness together. That is the full definition of God. Interview – February 1, 1968, Los Angeles Interviewer: I think the first question is kind of basic, is why is everything always taped at all the… Prabhupada: Because we have got so many branches, they want to hear me, my singing, my speech, therefore they ...Read More

Disciple of Krishna or Disciple of Kali?

DOWNLOAD He says, ‘Here is a servant of Kali. He has got a tilaka and neck beads, that’s all.’ He does not know what is the philosophy. If you simply mark your body with tilaka and kanthi, then you are not proper servant, you are not qualified. Srimad-Bhagavatam 6.1.38 – Los Angeles, June 4, 1976 Pradyumna: Translation: “The blessed messengers of Lord Visnu, the Visnudutas, said: If you are actually servants of Yamaraja, you must explain to us the meaning of religious ...Read More

Man is the architect of his own fortune.

What India is suffering from today is not so much poverty of the means of material existence. She is suffering much more from the bankruptcy of her spiritual resources. Man is the architect of his own fortune. That is an old well known English maxim and the good fortune that the man has evolved out for him at the present moment can be amply verified as soon as we receive our morning newspapers. The sample good news that we are ...Read More

Krishna Consciousness: A Wholesale, Thorough Overhaul of Human Society

So if you want to remodel your life, the society, the human society, nationally or internationally then you have to take to the advice of Krsna. This is the purpose of Krsna consciousness movement: wholesale, thorough, overhauling of the human society. Bhagavad-gita 4.13 – Bombay, April 2, 1974 Pradyumna: (leads chanting) catur-varnyam maya srstam guna-karma-vibhagasah tasya kartaram api mam viddhy akartaram avyayam Translation: “According to the three modes of material nature and the work ...Read More

The Material Body is a Machine. Who is Operating that Machine?

DOWNLOAD Any scientist can understand that no machine, however nicely made, finely made, without some person to push the button, it cannot work. Bhagavad-gita 4.12 – Vrndavana, August 4, 1974 Prabhupada: kanksantah karmanam siddhim yajanta iha devatah ksipram hi manuse loke siddhir bhavati karmaja Generally, people are karmaja. Karmaja means one who wants to enjoy the fruit of his labor. Everyone in this material world, they have come to enjoy. So therefore they are working so ...Read More

Mayavada–a very dangerous philosophy [Morning Walk--MP3 Audio]

DOWNLOAD They’ll talk of Krsna, so many things but they’re not devotees. Just like Kamsa. They may talk of Krsna or think of Krsna, but they don’t accept Krsna as the Supreme. Therefore they are demons. This is the test… Prabhupada: The Mayavada is a very dangerous philosophy. It has made the whole world atheistic. Hare Krsna. Jaya. Mayavadam asac-chastram pracchanam bauddham ucyate. They cannot understand that this is a dangerous philosophy. Yasomatinandana: He comes to the mangala arati, but then ...Read More

The Peace Formula

“The sages, knowing Me as the ultimate purpose of all sacrifices and austerities, the Supreme Lord of all planets and demigods and the benefactor and well-wisher of all living entities, attain peace from the pangs of material miseries.” (Bhagavad Gita 5.29) Srila Prabhupada called this verse of Bhagavad-gita the “peace formula.” It seems appropriate that we hear something from Srila Prabhupada about how the world can be brought into a peaceful condition now as we seem to be practically on the ...Read More

Krishna Consciousness–The Yoga for the Modern Age

Nowadays, we find yoga being taught in numerous courses and touted in mass-market books as a means to achieve health, lose weight, develop mental powers over others, achieve success in making money, or increase sexual potency. But real yoga is something entirely different. All glories to the sankirtana movement. Param vijayate sri-krsna-sankirtanam. Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu, when He was only a sixteen-year-old boy, introduced this sankirtana movement five hundred years ago in Navadvipa, India. It was not that He manufactured some religious ...Read More

Why Our Schools Don’t Have a Prayer [Prabhupada Speaks Out]

Now things have gotten to the point that we can’t even have prayer in the public schools. We used to have a prayer at the beginning of each school day. But then one atheist lady (and no doubt other people behind the scenes) pushed and pushed until the Supreme Court declared it unconstitutional. Now prayer in the schools is banned. This exchange between His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada and a divinity student took place in Los Angeles, during ...Read More

Download All Prabhupada MP3 Audio Free!

Because hearing from Srila Prabhupada is so powerful and it has completely transformed my life I would like you to have the chance also to hear from Srila Prabhupada and see the effect it has in your life. So I have uploaded the complete collection of all the 1100+ hours of audio recordings of Srila Prabhupada in the best quality MP3 files so you can listen to them or download them completely free of charge. This includes all Srila Prabhupada’s bhajans ...Read More

There Must Be A Leader!

DOWNLOAD Just like in this meeting, amongst my students, I am the supreme person, similarly, in the state there is a supreme person, the president or the prime minister, so everywhere you will find out one supreme person. Without a supreme person nothing can be managed, order-giving person. This is everlastingly existing, and you cannot avoid this. Bhagavad-gita 2.11 – Mauritius, October 1, 1975 Prabhupada: sri bhagavan uvaca asocyan anvasocas tvam prajna-vadams ca bhasase gatasun agatasums ca nanusocanti panditah This ...Read More

Television Interview With Srila Prabhupada

Krishna again came as Lord Caitanya to teach people how to surrender. And because we are following the footsteps of Lord Caitanya, the method is so sublime that even foreigners who never knew Krishna, they are surrendering. The method is so potent. So that was my purpose. Television Interview – ...Read More

You will see the power of Hare Krsna movement in due course of time…

DOWNLOAD So the devotees of Krsna should be trained up both ways: not only to give protection to the devotees, to give them encouragement, but if need be, they should be prepared to kill the demons. That is Vaisnavism. It is not cowardism. Lectures & Classes 730711BG.LON Bhagavad-gita 1.6-7 – London, July 11, 1973 Pradyumna: “Translation: There are the mighty Yudhamanyu, the very powerful Uttamauja, the son of Subhadra and the sons of Draupadi. All these warriors are great chariot fighters.” ...Read More

Entering Krishna’s Family

DOWNLOAD You enter into Krishna’s family, Vrndavana family, where Krishna has got His father, mother, His friends, His lover, His beloved, His cows, His garden, His Yamuna. You enter that, that family. Then you will not have to return back again to this temporary family, which will not stay. Pradyumna: Translation: “O Krsna, O friend of Arjuna, O chief amongst the descendants of Vrsni, You are the destroyer of those political parties which are disturbing elements on this earth. Your prowess ...Read More

Prabhupada Speaks on Bona Fide and Bogus Gurus

SB 2-3-25 LA 1972-06-23 Prabhupada on Bona Fide and Bogus Gurus [ 27:47 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download Translation: “O Sūta Gosvāmī, your words are pleasing to our minds. Please therefore explain this to us as it was spoken by the great devotee Śukadeva Gosvāmī, who is very expert in transcendental knowledge, and who spoke to Mahārāja Parīkṣit upon being asked.” Prabhupāda: So Parīkṣit Mahārāja was asking and Śukadeva Gosvāmī was replying. Both of them were fit ...Read More

Understanding the Living Force

In a statement delivered at a press conference in Los Angeles in December of 1968, Srila Prabhupada challenges the world’s intellectual leaders to review their definition of what constitutes life. In the background of this body you can find the soul, whose presence is perceivable by dint of consciousness. Similarly, in the universal body of the cosmic manifestation, one can perceive the presence of the Supreme Lord, or the Absolute Truth, The International Society for Krishna Consciousness is a ...Read More

Krishna’s Loving Relationship With His Devotees (MP3 Audio Srimad-Bhagavatam)

DOWNLOAD To control Krishna is not a very easy job; unless one is a great devotee, he cannot… Just like the cowherd boys. They used to rise on the shoulder of Krishna. Krishna was defeated in play. tam badham ity upamantrya pravisya gajasahvayam striyas ca sva-puram yasyan premna rajna nivaritah So this verse… All the ladies of the palace… It is natural for ladies. When there is separation, they cry. So they were shedding tears, but Maharaja Yudhisthira asked them ...Read More

Life Comes from Life!

All right, scientist, why is life not coming from matter now? You rascal. Why isn’t life coming from matter now? Actually such scientists are rascals. They childishly say that life came from matter, although they are not at all able to prove it. Recorded on April 19, 1973, In Cheviot Hills Park, Los Angeles [From "Life Comes From Life" by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhuapda] Darwinism Extinct Srila Prabhupada. This material ...Read More

Lord Vamanadeva, Bali Maharaja and His Non-Bona Fide Guru

Bali Maharaja is Mahajana because he wanted to serve Visnu by disobeying his non-bonafide spiritual master… one should be anxious to accept a spiritual master who is bona fide in spiritual knowledge. And if need be one should relinquish the connection of hereditary spiritual master and accept a real bona fide spiritual master. Montreal 3 July, 1968 My Dear Satsvarupa, Please accept my blessings. I am in due receipt of your letter dated June 28, 1968, and I thank you ...Read More

The Spiritual World

The material world is simply a shadow of the spiritual world. So real life, real variety, real beauty, real knowledge, everything in reality is there in the spiritual world. This material world is only reflection. Just like if you create a clay doll, a very nice beautiful girl. But it is imitation. It is shadow of the real beautiful girl. Prabhupada: Oh, Mr. Murti, I’m very glad to see you. Come here in front. How do you like this movement? Huh? Mr. ...Read More

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