The other day my wife Seva Kunja dasi was having her non-devotee dad over. Before I left for school I was about to do Bala Gopala’s puja and she asked, “How could I explain who Gopala is to a non-devotee?” Very confidently I replied (right in front of Gopala), “I wouldn’t bother trying to explain.…

“Your mother has some financial strength and you want to be in her confidence to get the money engaged in the Krishna Consciousness Movement. That’s a good scheme, but unfortunately we do not get financial help by our schemes, but should always depend upon the causeless mercy of Lord Krishna.” Srila Prabhupada [1968]

“Party spirit – that great enemy of the truth – will always baffle the attempt of the inquirer who tries to gather truth from the religious works of his nation and will make him believe that the Absolute Truth is nowhere except in his old religious book.” Bhaktivinoda Thakur

“Here in Vrindaban I am enjoying my disciples how they are speaking. So two times daily everyone must attend the classes. During the morning and evening times there should be no business, simply kirtana, chant, dance, and be purified. Do not be paramahamsa that now I haven’t got to hear Srimad-Bhagavatam and Bhagavad-gita. Don’t be…

“The church that has the best chance of survival in this damned world is that of atheism under the convenient guise of theism. The churches have always proved the staunchest upholders of the grossest forms of worldliness.” Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakur (The Harmonist Vol. XXIX No 7 1932)

“When faults in others misguide and delude you — have patience, introspect, find faults in yourself. Know that others cannot harm you unless you harm yourself.” Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Thakura, discourse in Dhaka, Bangladesh, 1935

and Sri Laxmi-Narasimhadeva ….

“The idea of an organised church in an intelligible form, indeed, marks the close of a living spiritual movement. The great ecclesiastical establishments are the dykes and the dams to retain the current that cannot be held by any such contrivances. They, indeed, indicate a desire on the part of the masses to exploit a…