by Sue Strachan (New Orleans Magazine) On the outside, the building resembles a chalet, which is a bit of an architectural anomaly on Esplanade Avenue. As I walk up the steep steps, little children dressed in loose fitting, sari-like clothing are running in and out of the front door. I’m late, but one very polite…

SB 5.26.30 A lowborn and abominable person who in this life becomes falsely proud, thinking “I am great,” and who thus fails to show proper respect to one more elevated than he by birth, austerity, education, behavior, caste or spiritual order, is like a dead man even in this lifetime, and after death he is…

Śrī Upadeśāmṛta Text One vāco vegaṁ manasaḥ krodha-vegaṁ jihvā-vegam udaropastha-vegam etān vegān yo viṣaheta dhīraḥ sarvām apīmāṁ pṛthivīṁ sa śiṣyāt SYNONYMS vācaḥ—of speech; vegam—urge; manasaḥ—of the mind; krodha—of anger; vegam—urge; jihvā—of the tongue; vegam—urge; udara-upastha—of the belly and genitals; vegam—urge; etān—these; vegān—urges; yaḥ—whoever; viṣaheta—can tolerate; dhīraḥ—sober; sarvām—all; api—certainly; imām—this; pṛthivīm—world; saḥ—that personality; śiṣyāt—can make disciples.…

by Sri Srimad Gour Govinda Swami Maharaja: When the ācārya disappears, a dark period comes, just as a patch of black cloud covers up the effulgent sun. It is an unfortunate time, but it is temporary. That cloud will go away. A violent storm may come and disperse the cloud, and then the effulgent sun…

” This chanting should go on. Instead of meetings, resolutions, dissolutions, revolutions and then no solutions, there should be chanting.” – Srila A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, from Lilamrta Vol.6 p.182

Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura: I happen to be an entity dominated by the knowledge of the five mundane elements. I am entrapped in the functions of littleness by abstaining from thoughts of the great one. Because I have preferred to remain confined to the functions of my littleness, the egotistic sentiment that I am the…

by Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Thakur Prabhupada: The following is an excerpt from a lecture given by Srila Saraswati Thakur on the occasion of sending his first sannyāsī preachers to the West. All persons of this world are superior to us in every way as far as this world is concerned. Such material matters are not…

mātar ity eva śabdena yām ca sambhasate narah sā mātr-tulyā satyena dharmah sāksī satām api If a man addresses someone as “mother”, dharma has witnessed that statement. In truth, she is the same as his mother. — Brahma-vaivarta Purāna 1.10.50. sri-krsno jagatām tāto jagan-mātā ca rādhikā pituh sad-guno mātā vandyā pūjyā garīyasī Sri Krishna is…

by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada: There are many pseudo-worshipers who become religionists only for the sake of name and fame. Such pseudo-religionists do not wish to get out of this universe and reach the spiritual sky. They only want to maintain the status quo in the material world under the garb of…

by: Sri Srimad Gour Govinda Swami Maharaja Although many persons may come to hear Srimad Bhagavatam, who is actually hearing? To whose ears do these words penetrate and go deep into the heart? There are many that are posing to be hearing, but actually they are not hearing. The words are entering into one ear…

1796 The United States of America government signed a treaty with Tripoli, Libya, which included the statement, “The Government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion”. “As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion; as it has…

By Dwarakadhisa-devi Dasi: Consider for one moment the plight of the carnivorous beast. Skulking about the forest brush, sniffing and listening with intense concentration, hunger gnawing at his belly and burning his eyes, he searches for prey. His meditation is single-pointed in hopes of a kill. But, his task is difficult: to find his prey…

By Bir Krishnadas Goswami: My specialty is developing Vaisnava communities. I am trying to form communities based on the example of community that we have in Fiji. Devotees form extended families. All the devotees are like a family. If someone needs help, the devotees go to help; maybe financially, or if someone is building the…