Nothing happens without the sanction of God

It is often said, Not a blade of grass moves without the sanction of the Supreme Lord, and that is a fact. Nothing happens without the sanction of God. There is an English saying, Man proposes and God disposes. This is correct because we can’t fulfill any of our desires without the sanction of Krishna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Sometimes, when we meet Christians and explain this to them, they find it difficult to believe. They question there are ...Read More

Sex–The Highest Pleasure in a Rascal Culture

They do not even know what knowledge is. To these fools and rascals, knowledge means sex. That is their knowledge. Advancement of knowledge means how to enjoy sex. How to take shelter of abortion–child killing. And how to perfect their contraceptive method. The whole thing is on the basis of sex. That’s all. They do not know anything except these things. They know that after sex, there is so much botheration. This exchange between His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta ...Read More

The Ksatriya Spirit

DOWNLOAD Not that the poor soldiers would fight and the leaders would remain in a secure place, no. The oldest man in the Kuru dynasty, the grandfather of Arjuna and Duryodhana. He was very old man, brahmacari, and he was taking the risk of fighting. This is ksatriya spirit. Pradyumna: Translation: “Then Bhisma, the great valiant grandsire of the Kuru dynasty, the grandfather of the fighters, blew his conchshell very loudly like the sound of a lion, giving Duryodhana joy.” Prabhupada: ...Read More

Anxiety

Material existence is always full of anxiety. People are always trying to find many ways to mitigate anxiety, but because they are not guided by a real leader, they try to forget material anxiety through drink and sex indulgence. Foolish people do not know that by attempting to escape anxiety by drink and sex, they simply increase their duration of material life. It is not possible to escape material anxiety in this way. Everyone has a blazing fire within his heart–a ...Read More

Kali Yuga, The Problems and the Solution

The age of Kali is the most condemned age due to its quarrelsome features. Kali-yuga is so saturated with vicious habits that there is a great fight at the slightest misunderstanding. Those who are engaged in the pure devotional service of the Lord, who are without any desire for self-aggrandizement and who are freed from the effects of fruitive actions and dry philosophical speculations are capable of getting out of the The leaders of the people are very much anxious to ...Read More

Study Shows People Who Sleep 8 Hours Die Sooner than those who Sleep Less

San Diego: Findings from a recent UCSD study released yesterday have awaken a flurry of controversy. Findings by UCSD psychiatrist and nationally known sleep researcher Daniel Kripke challenge the long-held recommendations from many health organizations and the National Sleep Federation that people need eight hours of sleep to maintain good health. The UCSD study analyzed responses that 1.1 million people gave to an American Cancer Study questionnaire in 1982. Six years later their answers were compared with their death rates. The ...Read More

America Has to Stop Demonism [Prabhupada Speaks Out]

Your leaders do not see this sameness between their demonism and the communists’ demonism. America has to stop demonism.  Then your nation will be the real leader of the world.  You understand your duty somewhat; you say, theoretically, ‘In God we trust.’  Now it is your business to actually trust in God and work for Him. This exchange between His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada and some of his disciples took place in Los Angeles, on the ...Read More

Heart Experts Recommend a Vegetarian Diet

Many health experts including Dr. Michael Brown and Dr. Josef Goldstein, heart specialists of U.S.A. & winners of Noble Prize of many million dollars for Medicine) now recommend a diet, free of eggs and meat, for better health and disease-free life. Heart –"veg. " way        I am referring to  study in ) The Journal of Clinical Pathology (USA–July 2001) wherein it has been  published that veggies have helthy hearts.Many health – experts (including Dr. ...Read More

Terrorists

You write that things are in a crises in England, with oil shortages and IRA bombing. Therefore, we have to take shelter of Krsna. If Krsna wants to kill us, that is not wrong, if it is His desire. Our business should just be to follow the regulative schedule, deity worship, distributing prasadam, chanting, book distribution and never mind the material danger. Krsna Consciousness means to be on the platform of Yogesvara: One problem that seems to be occurring more ...Read More

Safety in a Dangerous World

Since the tragic events of September 11, 2001, the world is now faced with unprecedented danger and uncertainty. Recent headlines reveal that the threat of terrorism in the U.S. and abroad has reached critical proportions. Once again we are forced to contemplate our fragility and mortality in this material world. Anything can happen now — and we know it. For those of us old enough to remember, these recent events may conjure up memories of the Great Northeast Blackout in ...Read More

Women In Krishna Consciousness–Questions & Answers

The first step in spiritual understanding is to transcend the bodily concept of life. To think I am a man or I am a woman is to be in illusion. The body is a material dress for the soul, a dress that’s changing from moment to moment, as the body develops, and will change entirely at death. But the constant within the body is the soul, which is not subject to any of these changes. Q. Why should women be interested in ...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

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

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

The King of Education

We see so many educational institutions in this world, so many universities, colleges and schools. Every variety of education is available. If we analyse all these educational institutions we find they are all only imparting knowledge concerned with the material body. It’s all knowledge meant for fulfilling the animal instincts of the body. We have four basic animal instincts; eating, sleeping, mating and defending. We have these instincts in the human form of life and they are common with the animals. ...Read More

Sex in a Palace and Sex on the Street–the Taste is the Same (MP3 Audio Morning Walk)

DOWNLOAD Enjoyment is there in the cats and dogs. When you enjoy sex in palace and the dog enjoys sex on the street, the value is the same. The taste does not increase or decrease. But you are thinking to enjoy sex in big palace is advancement. That is your foolishness. Actually sex enjoyment in the palace or on the street is the same. It has no difference of taste. Prabhupada: Who is giving the tree food, huh? (Hindi) What is ...Read More

The Pastimes of Scholarship

Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura, a great scholar and spiritual master, has written that in his youth he absorbed himself in speculative books on religion and philosophy. This song is his reflection on the value of that scholarship. (1) Once I spent long, long hours in the pastimes of scholarship. I never took to service of Your lotus feet as I do now. (2) Reading on and on, never finding satiation, I felt that knowledge would be the highest goal. That ...Read More

Abortion. No–It’s A Child!!

Nowadays there is very little regard for the life of a child within the womb of the mother. Most people are concerned about their own pleasure. Many want the right to have sex with anyone and then kill the child resulting from that sex life. Therefore so many young children are being murdered under the name of abortion. We come into this world completely dependent on our parents. Without the help of our mother we can’t even get food. This complete ...Read More

The Real United Nations Organization (UNO) Srimad-Bhagavatam MP3 Audio Class

DOWNLOAD Better close the United Nation organization because it has not had any practical effect. But talking about Krishna, just see how it is giving practical effect. You are assembled here from Europe, America, and Africa, Canada, and practically all over the world, but you are united nation. You are united nation simply by talking about Krishna. mauna-vrata-sruta-tapo-’dhyayana-sva-dharma- vyakhya-raho-japa-samadhaya apavargyah prayah param purusa te tv ajitendriyanam varta bhavanty uta na vatra tu dambhikanam So Prahlada Maharaja, indirectly he is declining ...Read More

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