"We do not belong to any varṇa and āśrama. But we have to show these rascal. Just like Dhruva Mahārāja. He, he was perfect Vaiṣṇava, but when he was king, he was fighting like anything. Not that "Oh, I am now become Vaiṣṇava. I cannot kill." What is this? He killed like anything. When the Yakṣas attacked his kingdom, he was killing like anything that the Yakṣa-rāja came and asked him to pardon this. He immediately accepted. So he wanted to give him some benediction, that "You are so great that simply on my request, you have stopped killing these rascals, Yakṣas. So you can take some benediction from me." He said, "That's all right. Thank you. You give me the benediction that I may be a pure lover of Kṛṣṇa. That's all." This benediction he asked. Although he was so powerful and the Yakṣa-rāja, he could give him the wealth of the whole universe, but he made that "Thank you very much. You give me this benediction that I may remain a pure devotee of Kṛṣṇa." This is Vaiṣṇava. He is doing ev
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Prabhupāda: Gurukṛpa Mahārāja, what is the benefit of this modern education?
Gurukṛpa: No benefit. It makes them an ass.
Prabhupāda: Making them demons, that's all.
Gurukṛpa: They become puffed-up, thinking they know something. They don't know anything.
Prabhupāda: Modern educated youths, they are not inclined to come to the farm. So they're giving up their own father's property, farm. They do not come back from city. The farmers' children go to cities for education, and after so-called education the rascals do not come. Here also and in your country also, America and they want city life and enjoy restaurant and prostitute.
Satsvarūpa: There is a song, "How are you going to keep them on the farm after they've seen Paris?" They don't want to go back. I remember in school seeing films of India, and they would say, "This is very backward. They're living as they used to live hundreds of years ago by using the ox and the plow."
Prabhupāda: Yes. Now we have, hundred years after,
(So whatever Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is going forward, it is due to Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu's magnanimous compassion for the poor people suffering in this Kali-yuga) 
manuṣyāṇāṁ sahasreṣukaścid yatati siddhayeyatatām api siddhānāṁkaścin vetti . . .(BG 7.3)
To understand Kṛṣṇa is not easy job. But Kṛṣṇa in the form of Caitanya Mahāprabhu is so compassionate, not only He's giving Himself, Kṛṣṇa, but He's giving kṛṣṇa-prema, love of Kṛṣṇa. That is Caitanya Mahāprabhu's avatāra. Dayā. Mahā-vadānyāvatāra.
So whatever Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is going forward, it is due to Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu's magnanimous compassion for the poor people suffering in this Kali-yuga. Otherwise, to become Kṛṣṇa conscious is not very easy job. Is not easy job.
So those who are getting the chance of becoming Kṛṣṇa conscious by the mercy of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, they should not lo
(And the atheist will say, "Where is Kṛṣṇa?" And advanced devotee will say: "Everywhere Kṛṣṇa, antar bahiḥ, inside and outside)
Prabhupāda: "Everywhere. . . . māṁ paśyati sarvatra sarvaṁ ca mayi paśyati (BG 6.30). That is advancement of Kṛṣṇa consciousness: everywhere one sees Kṛṣṇa, and in Kṛṣṇa he sees everything. Therefore he sees Kṛṣṇa only. He sees nothing. And the atheist will say, "Where is Kṛṣṇa?" And advanced devotee will say: "Everywhere Kṛṣṇa, antar bahiḥ, inside and outside." Nato nāṭyadharo yathā (SB 1.8.19)."
(Prabhupada Morning Walk, January 23, 1974, Honolulu)
(And as soon as you come to Kṛṣṇa consciousness, then you are in direct touch. We are direct in touch with Kṛṣṇa, but it is covered by some cloud of ignorance. Otherwise, nothing can exist without Kṛṣṇa's touch)
Otherwise, nothing can exist without Kṛṣṇa's touch. That is not possible. Mayā tatam idaṁ sarvaṁ jagad avyakta-mūrtinā (BG 9.4). Kṛṣṇa is. . . One Kṛṣṇa is expanded all over the creation. Mayā tatam idaṁ sarvam. Īśāvāsyam idaṁ sarvam (ISO 1). Kṛṣṇa is everywhere, but due to the contamination of material modes of nature,
we are thinking we are apart from Kṛṣṇa, separate from Kṛṣṇa, or we do not know Kṛṣṇa, although we are in touch. So that is to be c
(Yes, a new Renaissance)
Prabhupāda: "Yes, a new Renaissance. What is called? Renaissance?"
Rāmeśvara: "Yes. Renaissance."
Prabhupāda: "Historical Renaissance."
(Prabhupada Conversation, January 22, 1977, Bhuvanesvara)
(But if I get my spiritual body, immediately, within a second, I can reach kingdom of God, the spiritual world. Spiritual body is so powerful and so, I mean to say, swift, because it is swifter than the mind)
You get this from Bhagavad-gītā. Mind is swifter than anything, than the air even, than the ether. You are sitting here, and immediately you remember twenty thousands miles away your home—immediately you go. This is the swiftness on mind. But the soul is still swifter than the mind. So as soon as you, just like in this fourth chapter you have read, Kṛṣṇa says:
tyaktvā dehaṁ punar janma
naiti mām eti kaunteya
(BG 4.9)
"Just after giving up this body, immediately he com
(A bhakta is always seeing, "Kṛṣṇa is within me.")
(Prabhupada Lecture, January 20, 1974, Honolulu)
(My Guru Mahārāja used to say that in this world there is no scarcity by the arrangement of God. But the only scarcity is this Kṛṣṇa consciousness)
But if we take up the laws as they are prescribed in the scriptures and live peacefully, there is no scarcity. My Guru Mahārāja used to say that in this world there is no scarcity by the arrangement of God. But the only scarcity is this Kṛṣṇa consciousness. People are not Kṛṣṇa conscious, they're materially conscious—they're sensually conscious. That has to be changed."
(Prabhupada Lecture, January 20, 1969, Los Angeles)
(Sometimes we have got experience. If we lose a friend, a son, at that time everything becomes vacant without my son, without my lover. That is practical. So Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu was exhibiting that type of love for Kṛṣṇa, that He was feeling that "Without Kṛṣṇa, everything is void)
Just like Caitanya Mahāprabhu taught us. In the last stage of His life He exhibited such manifestation of love that He was dying without Kṛṣṇa. Śūnyāyitaṁ jagat sarvaṁ govinda-viraheṇa me (Śikṣāṣṭaka 7). Śūnyāyitam. Śūnyāyitam, "everything is vacant." Śūnyāyitaṁ jagat sarvaṁ govinda-viraheṇa me. "Without Govinda, I see everything vacant."
Sometimes we have got experience. If we lose a friend, a son, at that time everyt
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We do not concern ourselves with any other religion. Our religion is to become the servant of the servant of the servant of Krsna.
"Regarding your question about Lord Jesus Christ, we accept him as a saktyavesa-avatara. Lord Buddha is in the same category also. Lord Buddha is mentioned specifically in the Srimad-Bhagavatam as incarnation of Godhead, and yet Vaisnavas do not accept his philosophy which is classified as atheism.
"Similarly, even if we accept Lord Jesus Christ as saktyavesa-avatara, it doesn't mean that we have to accept his philosophy. But we have all respects for him without fail.
"Regarding books like Aquarian Gospel or even the Testaments, we cannot accept them as authorities because sometimes it is learnt that the words are not actually spoken by Christ but they are so set up by the devotees.
"For example, in the ten commandments it is clearly stated, 'Thou shall not kill' but some bishop in Boston h
(But gold is always valuable, may be a small particle or big. So our position is transcendental. Our position is not material)
"Kṛṣṇa is the big gold; we are simply small particle of gold. That is the difference. But gold is always valuable, may be a small particle or big. So our position is transcendental. Our position is not material"
(Prabhupada Lecture, January 12, 1973, Bombay)
(This is Kṛṣṇa. He is very anxious to deliver us. So any little service done, He accepts, "All right, come on. You are accepted." )
She gave service by allowing her breast to be sucked by Kṛṣṇa. Although her intention was to kill, but Kṛṣṇa took it as mother, "She has given Me service." This is Kṛṣṇa. "This rascal does not know that nobody can kill Me, but on some plea or other, she has given her breast open to be sucked by Me, and I have done it.
Therefore she is My mother. She must get the promotion like Mother Yaśodā." This is Kṛṣṇa. He is very anxious to deliver us. So any little service done, He accepts, "All right, come on. You are accepted." This is Kṛṣṇa. Little service: "Let him do something." So kind."
(Prabhupada C
(Our, the George Harrison, the famous Beatle, he is supplying beads and bags to his friends—"Chant Hare Kṛṣṇa." And he has written in his record that, "Anyone who is a friend of Kṛṣṇa, I am his friend.")
They are more enlightened, so far material civilization is concerned. But in their country, almost all young men, as a hobby, they have taken a bead and chanting. Our, the George Harrison, the famous Beatle, he is supplying beads and bags to his friends—"Chant Hare Kṛṣṇa." And he has written in his record that, "Anyone who is a friend of Kṛṣṇa, I am his friend." What he has written?"
Gurukṛpā: "Any friend of Kṛṣṇa is friend of mine."
(Prabhup
(Because I love Kṛṣṇa, I want to see all, everybody in the world, to become Kṛṣṇa conscious. Otherwise why in this old age we are trying so much?)
"Why I have come to your country? Because to make you Kṛṣṇa conscious. So there is love of Kṛṣṇa. Otherwise why . . . what is the business, I have come to you? I have no business. Because I love Kṛṣṇa, I want to see all, everybody in the world, to become Kṛṣṇa conscious. Otherwise why in this old age we are trying so much?"
''SRILA PRABHUPADA SPEAKS OUT!''
''So, it is more profitable to preach about the Master of Vrndavana, Krsna, outside of Vrndavana. A devotee of Krsna can create Vrndavana everywhere by preaching the glories of Krsna.''
Good Afternoon from Vrindaban. I pray all devotees world-wide are blissful in their daily Krsna Conscious activities. Srila Prabhupada has sweet thoughts for You and me, taken from His Letters to disciples.............
Prabhupada: At Bhuvanesvara (Orissa) I want to construct a Jagannatha temple exactly like that in Puri. If you like you can do the full charge to do this job. I shall spend as much money as it is required to do it nicely. >>> Ref. VedaBase => Letter to: M. M. De -- Vrindaban 16 November, 1976
Prabhupada: I was a resident in Vrndavana, but at the age of 70 I tried to preach Krsna consciousness a little bit and now this Institution has come out. So, I think it is more profitable to preach about the Master of Vrndavana, Krsna, outside of Vrndavan
(They forget who is God, who is not God, but the central focus is in Kṛṣṇa. Everyone loves Kṛṣṇa. Without seeing Kṛṣṇa they are mad. This is the position in the spiritual world)
"So the Supreme Lord is person, and the lovers, the living entities, they are also persons. They forget who is God, who is not God, but the central focus is in Kṛṣṇa. Everyone loves Kṛṣṇa. Without seeing Kṛṣṇa they are mad. This is the position in the spiritual world.
Simply love Kṛṣṇa, that's all. Bhuñje sevā-sukha. And by loving, as we have got a little perverted experience of love affairs, so just imagine when that love is pure and true, how much pleasure there is. So that thing is there in the spiritual world: pure love. And object is Kṛṣṇa. Therefore they are so much in bliss . . . that is bliss.
That is bliss, sac-cid-ānanda-vigrahaḥ. Eternal love with knowledge that "Here is Kṛṣṇa," and ānandamayo 'bhyāsāt (Vedānta-sūtra 1.1.12). That is perfect stage, lovable object eternal, lover eternal,
(So as soon as you think of Kṛṣṇa, there is a tinge of love, must be there. So as you increase your thinking of Kṛṣṇa, then you increase your love of Kṛṣṇa)
"Without love, you cannot think of Kṛṣṇa. That is not possible. So as soon as you think of Kṛṣṇa, there is a tinge of love, must be there. So as you increase your thinking of Kṛṣṇa, then you increase your love of Kṛṣṇa. That is recommended by Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu. That is our ultimate goal of life."
(So similarly, here also, Govinda Dāsa Ṭhākura, he is asking his mind: "My dear mind, you just engage yourself to the lotus feet of abhaya-caraṇāravinda." That is the name of the lotus feet of Kṛṣṇa. Abhaya means fearless. If you take shelter of the lotus feet of Kṛṣṇa then you immediately become fearless)
"So Govinda Dāsa advises that, "You just engage your mind in Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Then mind becomes automatically controlled." If the mind has no chance of being engaged in any other business except Kṛṣṇa consciousness, then he cannot become my enemy.
It is automatically my friend. That is the instruction in the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam: sa vai manaḥ kṛṣṇa-padāravindayoḥ (SB 9.4.18). King Ambarīṣa, he first of all engaged his mind on the lotus feet of Kṛṣṇa. So similarly, here also, Govinda Dāsa Ṭhākura, he is asking his mind: "My dear mind, you just engage yourself to the lotus feet of abhaya-caraṇāravinda."
That is the name of the lotus feet of Kṛṣṇa. Abhaya means fearless.
