“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,…

So this was our last week at Unlimited School. I’ve had a lot to reflect on this past month. The teaching that goes on here is a lot different than on my first teaching practice at Villa Maria. Here they readily facilitate my attempts at reflective practice and some staff will even take as much…

Finally, we have the digital camera back. I hope to post Gopala’s darsan here regularly again.

Srila Prabhupada once told this story: There was once a muslim king who happened to hear some of the stories from the Mahabharata while travelling through his empire. He was very impressed with the activities of the great personalities he had heard about and upon returning to his palace he called upon one of his…