gopala.org

> At the Gaura-arati in Krishna-Balaram Mandir, an eighteen-year-old > young man from India asked me why we Westerners take to Krsna consciousness. by Pragosh dasa (ACBSP) What I say when asked this question by Indians – which is very frequently – is the following. “Let me ask you a question first, if I may?…

One devotee asked another devotee how he had come to Krsna aconsciousness. (Sorry I don’t have the names) The second devotee said, “At a concert I was standing around and talking to my friends when a book landed in my hands. I looked at the title: “The Science of Self Realization.” I looked up in…

“Everyone will want our books. We will always have customers. This is Caitanya Mahaprabhu’s mercy.” [Letter from Srila Prabhupada to HH Bhakti Tirtha Maharaja – Bombay, 20 November, 1975]

Devotee: Srila Prabhupada, because you are presenting this knowledge so purely, then it’s possible for the common man to understand this knowledge without chanting and following the four regulative principles. Prabhupada: That is not possible. That is not possible. Ceto-darpaNa-mArjanam [Cc. Antya 20.12]. You have to cleanse the mirror of your consciousness, then the reflection…

[The following are some of Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura’s instructions on reviving varnasrama-dharma.] In order to revive the principles of varnasrama the following few rules have to be reintroduced: 1. No one’s caste should be ascertained simply by birth. 2. A person’s caste should be determined according to the nature he develops in association as a…

A Kṛṣṇa conscious person has no desire for self-satisfaction. His criterion of success is the satisfaction of Kṛṣṇa, and thus he is the perfect sannyāsī, or perfect yogī. Lord Caitanya, the highest perfectional symbol of renunciation, prays in this way: na dhanaṁ na janaṁ na sundarīṁ kavitāṁ vā jagad-īśa kāmaye mama janmani janmanīśvare bhavatād bhaktir…

From Prabhupada Memories, by H.H Tamal Krsna Maharaja: In 1977 during his Vyasa Puja in London, I was enumerating a few of Srila Prabhupad’s outstanding accomplishments. At one point he said, “yes, whatever I am doing now, I learned from the time I was a child, from father.” He added, “Everything, except for one thing,…