June 13 1976 Detroit   Devotee (2): …devotional service is transcendental to the modes of material nature. That’s from the very moment that one first begins to render devotional service? Or gradually? From the first very moment? Prabhupāda: Yes. [break] Devotee (2): …of devotional service in the modes of material nature, there’s no such thing. Prabhupāda:No. Means if you do not follow the regulative principles, then it is mixed. Satsvarūpa: Sometimes devotees think that […]

April 26 1976 Melbourne conversations   Devotee (1): Is a devotee always in some anxiety to see others unhappy? Prabhupāda: Yes. How to deliver them? This is Kṛṣṇaanxiety. This kind of anxiety is welcome. Devotee (1): Yes. Is that also in the spiritual world like this? Prabhupāda: Yes. In spiritual world there is everything, but only central point is Kṛṣṇa. Here anxiety is “Where I shall get money? Where […]

Hare Krsna-Below we have found many quotes from the Bhagavad gita which are very similar to those found in the Christians Bible  Often times devotees like to criticize others religions thinking themselves “superior” in some way. But as Srila Prabhupada says below,  …”The test of any scripture is how one is developing love of God. […]

Krsna Wants His money back   Hare Krsna- Below Srila Prabhupada gives us some good instructions on how to love Krsna, starting with –giving Him His money back !!    He then goes on to explain how love is developed, and if we don’t learn how to sacrifice for God, then we will still have to […]

May 3 1976 Honolulu conversations Prabhupāda: This is our position. Gradually they will show Hare Kṛṣṇa movement. In India also, although India’s… They will want to crush down this movement. So this will be up to Him. Kṛṣṇa or Kṛṣṇa’s movement, the same thing. And Kṛṣṇa was attempted to be killed by Kaṁsa class of men and his company, the demons. So it will be there; it is already there. Don’t be disappointed, because that is the meaning that […]

SB 6.4.24-As the sense objects [form, taste, touch, smell and sound] cannot understand how the senses perceive them, so the conditioned soul, although residing in his body along with the Supersoul, cannot understand how the supreme spiritual person, the master of the material creation, directs his senses. Let me offer my respectful obeisances unto that Supreme Person, who […]

June 5 1976 conversations LA Rādhāvallabha: If he gets a book in an unusual place, they always say, “You people are everywhere.” Rāmeśvara: When we tell the public that we only have maybe ten thousand devotees, they are very surprised there are so few Hare Kṛṣṇa devotees, because they see us everywhere. Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: Therefore we’re the most enthusiastic missionaries in the world. Prabhupāda: [break]…say that all […]

Ethics from Canakya pandit slokas   ch 1 verse 16–One must accept nectar from the midst of poison, gold even from an impure place, good instructions from a low class person and a jewel even from a girl from a wicked family”   Note-I have always liked this sloka because it tells us to be intelligent enough to be able to see what is […]

Hare Krsna-below is a few amazing stories the devotees told Srila Prabhupada of how  his books were changing  peoples lives.  For some reasons, certain devotees don’t even like to hear devotees names who later on became infamous instead of famous. Personally, if it is connected with sankirtan book distribution, I love to hear them.  Who among us […]

June 3 1976 conversations LA  Bharadvāja: Śrīla Prabhupāda, chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa is considered to be the watering process, and sometimes from chanting, the weeds, from watering, the weeds also grow along with devotional service—the weeds of different desires. I don’t understand how it is possible that from chanting that these weeds grow. Prabhupāda: Chanting is purifying all material desires. It will […]