The Importance of Sense Control in Spiritual Life

We all know in our own lives that sometimes we are in a “happy” situation and sometimes we are in a “distressful” situation. Our natural tendency is to work to try and maximize the happy situations in our life and minimize the distressful situations.   ...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.   ...Read More

Sankirtana: A Cleansing for the Soul

The performance of Sankirtana is a spiritual cleansing for the mirror of the mind, just as soap is a material cleansing for the body. According to the Vedic scriptures, there are three stages for spiritual cleansing, the first is to cleanse the mirror of the mind by Sankirtana. It is stated in the Bhagavad-gita, “For him who has conquered the mind, the mind is the best of friends; but for one who has failed to do so, his very mind will be the greatest enemy.”   ...Read More

2012 — The End of the World?

There is a great deal of propaganda that something dramatic will happen in 2012 and maybe the world will end… We have information from the Vedic scriptures about the nature of this material world. And very extensive information is given about the cycles that this world goes through. It is not that we are in uncharted territory.   ...Read More

The Mystery of Deity Worship

Many people can not understand why devotees worship Krishna in the form of the Deity. The Deity worship process is very mysterious. It is Krishna’s mercy for His devotees. Krishna agrees to appear in a form the devotees can see and serve with their material senses.   ...Read More

George Harrison Interview: Hare Krishna Mantra–There’s Nothing Higher (1982)

The Hare Krishna Mantra by George Harrison and London Radha-Krishna Temple devotees was featured four times on England’s most popular television program, Top of the Pops, after rising to the Top 10 throughout England, Europe, and parts of Asia.   ...Read More

Srila Prabhupada On Chanting Hare Krishna (MP3 Audio)

Krsna consciousness is not an artificial imposition on the mind. This consciousness is the original energy of the living entity. When we hear the transcendental vibration, this consciousness is revived.   ...Read More

Why do Bad Things Happen to Us?

From your views Why do ‘bad’ things befall us? How does all that come into play? Is everything karma or can anything just happen? How would a KC devotee deal with let’s say he’s on the road preaching and someone stabs him badly, how would you view that? Or would you say that while in KC it would not be possible to be stabbed because Krishna is watching over us, especially   ...Read More

The Main thing is: I’M NOT THIS BODY

The main thing is we understand we are not the body so no matter what we do to the body it will not give us satisfaction in the long term.   ...Read More

We Are Not These Bodies

I am not this body but am spirit soul is an essential realization for anyone who wants to transcend death and enter into the spiritual world beyond. It is not simply a matter of saying I am not this body, but of actually realizing it. This is not as simple as it may seem at first.   ...Read More

Throughway to Happiness

Every one of us is searching after happiness, but we do not know what real happiness is. We see so much advertised about happiness, but practically speaking we see so few happy people. This is because so few people know that the platform of real happiness is beyond temporary things. It is this real happiness that is described in Bhagavad-gita by Lord Krsna to Arjuna.   ...Read More

Liquid Beauty

Once upon a time a prince met very beautiful young girl. He visited her house to see her but she was very chaste. The prince wanted to marry this beautiful girl but she didn’t want to marry him. So she said to him, You want to marry me, you are attracted by my beauty, so I will distill my beauty in the next ten days, I will distill my beauty into   ...Read More

Srila Prabhupada Interview With Reporter in Durban, South Africa

This saffron robe is not very essential, or cut the hair, but it creates some good situation. Just like a military man, when he is dressed properly he gets some energy to feel like a military man. But it does not mean that unless you are dressed, you cannot fight. So God consciousness can be revived in any condition. But these conditions are helpful.   ...Read More

Changing Bodies

We are not these material bodies, we are the spiritual force, the spiritual spark, the soul within. These bodies are simply an outward dress only. As I change my clothes yet still remain the same person so I also change my bodies but I am still the same person.   ...Read More

George Harrison, John Lennon and Yoko Ono from the Beatles Talk With Srila Prabhupada (MP3 Audio)

In September 1969 Srila Prabhupada, the founder of the Hare Krishna movement, arrived as a house guest at Tittenhurst Park, John Lennon’s estate in England. 1969 was for John Lennon a year of intense search for social and personal liberation. He had already been to the Maharishi and later would enter primal therapy and left-wing politics. He was in a major transitional period; he had married Yoko Ono in March, and   ...Read More

Reincarnation Explained

Remembrances of past lives can be fascinating, but the real goal of understanding reincarnation is to become free from the painful cycle of birth in death. Srila Prabhupada warns, This is not a very good business–to die and take birth again. We know that when we die we’ll have to enter again into the womb of a mother–and nowadays mothers are killing the children within the womb.   ...Read More

Sunday Feast Lecture–The Higher Science

So this is the true picture of God: He is simply enjoying. You have seen the picture, Radha Krishna, eternally engaged in enjoyment with the gopis.   ...Read More

The Meaning of the Hare Krishna Mantra–1966 MP3 Audio Lecture

You can take the iron rod which is red hot in association with fire and touch anything; it will burn. That means it is no longer acting as iron; it is acting as fire. Similarly, if you associate with this transcendental incarnation, sound incarnation of God, then you will be gradually godly. If you want to get yourself warm, then you have to associate with fire…   ...Read More

Perfect Questions Perfect Answers

God, spiritual life—those were such vague terms to me before I met Srila Prabhupada. I have always been interested in religion, but before I met the Krsna conscious devotees, somehow I did not have the proper perspective needed to inquire fruitfully about spiritual life.   ...Read More

Forward To The Bhagavad-gita As It Is

The Bhagavad-gita is the best known and the most frequently translated of Vedic religious texts. Why it should be so appealing to the Western mind is an interesting question.   ...Read More

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