So we require hundreds and thousands of spiritual masters who have understood this Krishna science and have preached it all over the world. That is the problem. To this end, we have formed this society and we invite all sincere souls to take part in the society and become a spiritual master, and preach this…

By intense service of the Lord, one can experience the presence of the Lord transcendentally. Therefore seeing the Lord means being engaged in His service because His service and His person are identical. SB 1.6.19–22

by Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Thakur Prabhupada On 21 September 1925, Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Prabhupada gave a long lecture to the devotees assembled at the Gaudiya Math about how to lead an exemplary devotional life. An excerpt from that lecture follows: All of you please perceive everything of this world as ingredients for serving Krishna; everything…

Samah siddhav asiddhau ca. If you are working for Krishna, it is Krishna’s decision whether you are successful or not successful. The word here is asiddhau. This means don’t think that because you are Krishna conscious, you will always be successful, for it really doesn’t matter. If you are unsuccessful, then be assured that this…

We’ve had a good week. I continued to be involved with a lot of one on one teaching which I find to be the most satisfying teaching format for me. Some of these kids are way ahead of me in terms of content knowledge. Its not that I can really sit down with them and…

My third week here at Unlimited continued on in the introspective vein. One very good thing that is coming from my experiences here is that I’m starting to find myself as a teacher. Of course, my first teaching practice was at Villa Maria Catholic All-Girls School which is as close to an antithesis of the…

Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu: His Life and Precepts by Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura “Caitanya Mahaprabhu was born in Mayapur in the town of Nadia just after sunset on the evening of the 23rd Phalguna (1407 Sakadba), answering to the 18th of February 1486 of the Christian Era. The moon was eclipsed at the time of His birth,…

My second week at unlimited gave me enough to time to settle into the program here. I’ve developed some nice relationships with some students and I’ve managed to really get into some nice teaching – especially with the one-on-one mentoring. One student is working on an entreprenual project centered around a game called Acorn Drop…

“It doesn’t matter if things are going a little slow, but make everything slow but sure. That is a good principle. To do things hastily and incorrectly is not good. There is a proverb in Bengali; ‘sabure mawaphale.’ This means that all valuable nuts like almonds, macadamias, walnuts, coconuts, etc. all take a long time…

“We are not concerned with any other movement save and except Krsna consciousness in its pure form. In India it is said that a little bit of a pure thing is much better than huge volumes of impure, adulterated things. So please try to follow this policy…” (Srila Prabhupada to Brahmananda, 8/27/69)

Prabhupada wrote to His spiritual master: “Personally I have no hope for any direct service for the coming crores of births of the sojourn of my life, but I am confident that some day or other I shall be delivered from this mire of delusion in which I am at present so deeply sunk. Therefore…

“I am glad to hear that you are now concentrating on improving the regulative life of the temple rather than so much advertising with brochures. This is very nice; this is what I want. A good example is better than precept. The pamphlet is precept, but if we don’t follow the precepts ourselves then such…

“You mention you like to speak now very often, but the first business should be to preach to the devotees. It is better to maintain a devotee than to try to convince others to become devotees. Don’t be too much concerned for the time being with non-devotees, now we must fix up what devotees we…

from: newscientist.com 1 – The Placebo Effect DON’T try this at home. Several times a day, for several days, you induce pain in someone. You control the pain with morphine until the final day of the experiment, when you replace the morphine with saline solution. Guess what? The saline takes the pain away. This is…