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Srila Prabhupada writes in the purport to 8.28: “Study of the Vedas is not meant for the recreation of armchair speculators, but for the formation of character.” What is character? Good character can be seen as the mature quality of a person who endeavors to act based on the understanding of principles rather than reactively…

The prayers offered by Visvanatha Cakravarti to his Spiritual Master have a special significance. His Spiritual Master was one of the assistant gopis, so the prayer was offered like that. On the whole, the Spiritual Master is an agent of Krishna. But either He is assistant to the gopis or assistant to the cowherds boys,…

Excerpt from Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Thakura’s Interview with Professor Johans, head of the Department of Philosophy, St. Xaviers College – Published in the Harmonist Question (Johans): Please tell me in brief the doctrine of Shri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu. Answer: There is an old Shloka which says “Bhagavan Krishna’s (Son of the Chieftain Nanda of Braja) own…

Here is a very transcendentally enlivening mp3 from Vinode Kumar Prabhu who chants for Sri Radha Ramana in Vrindavana. [download] ( 5MB ) Sri Radha Ramana diety in Vrindavana Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare You can read more about this beautiful Sri Radha Ramana…

Satsvarupa: They get nice attendance on Sunday. Many people come. Prabhupada: There is good hope. Satsvarupa: Oh, yes. Good book distribution here too. Prabhupada: That is the most successful. Wherever book distribution is going on nicely, that is successful, because people are in gross ignorance. They are taking this temporary life as everything. Very horrible…

ISKCON Cinema has joined forces with ITV to digitally restore all the films and videos currently available of Srila Prabhupada. The new set will replace the older version giving never before seen clarity to these precious moving images. It will include newly discovered films of Srila Prabhupada in Germany, Mayapur, Sweden, Detroit and Los Angeles…

By Srila Lochan Das Thakur ke jābi ke jābi bhāi bhava sindhu-pāra dhanya kali-yugera caitanya-avatāra O brothers, who will go? Who will go? Who will cross over this ocean of birth and death? This is a special Kali-yuga because Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu has come. āmāra gauraṅgera ghaṭe adāna-kheya vaya jaḍa andha, ātura avadhi pāra haya…

The devotee is never satisfied, thinking, ‘This is the limit of my devotional service.’ The more he engages in the service of the Lord, the more service he wants to give. This is the position of a devotee. Srimad-Bhagavatam 9.5.27 Purport

You can serve Krsna in any capacity – provided you want to serve. And if you want to engage Krsna for your service, that is blunder. Then it is blunder. You cannot engage Krsna to your service. The everyone is trying to engage Krsna for his service. They are going to the church, “O Krsna,…

Last week I was ill so i could not go out on Sankirtan. I felt completely useless. I thought, “I am just spacing here in the temple like a ghost, i have no desire to go out…” Then I realized that every day on sankirtan is very special and is acctually a causeless mercy of…

Jaya Sri Radhe!