uttistha jagrata prapya varan nibodhat ksurasya dhara nisita duratyaya durgam pathas tat kavayo vadanti “Please wake up and try to understand the boon that you now have in this human form of life. The path of spiritual realization is very difficult; it is sharp like a razor’s edge. That is the opinion of learned transcendental…

AMBASSADOR OF BHAKTIYOGA butler eagle Bhaktiyoga, chanting the holy name of God, is among the religious practises of A.C.Bhaktivedanta who arrived Monday for a month’s stay in Butler area as a “missionary to the West.” Pictured in the apartment of his sponsor in the United States, Gopal Agarwal, the Swamiji is residing in the YMCA…

Dear Srila Prabhupada, Please accept my most respectful obeisances. All glories to your Divine Grace. Thank you so much for coming to the west and saving this wretch of a human being from self-destruction. It often seems that the whole world is on the brink of ruination. As Kali-yuga progresses and the modes of material…

Today is Bala Gopala’s birthday. He’s headed up to the temple for giving darsan and an abhisek this evening.

Janmastami is the celebration of the advent of Lord Krishna, when He appeared on Earth to perform His pastimes. Devotees of Krishna and Hindus the world over celebrate Janmastami with pomp and circumstance equal to Christmas. In the Bhagavad-gita, Lord Krishna states: “Whenever and wherever there is a decline in religious principles, and a predominant…

The following story, told by Salya to Karna, from the forty-first chapter of the “Karna-parva” of Mahabharata nicely illustrates the dangers of pride. There once lived a wealthy vaisya by the side of the ocean. He performed many sacrifices and gave generously in charity. He was quiet, observant of the duties of his order, and…

“The most beautiful and most profound emotion we can experience is in the sensation of the mystical. It is a shower of all true science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, he who can no longer stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead. That deeply emotional conviction of the presence of…

Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 4.18.5 tān anādṛtya yo ‘vidvān arthān ārabhate svayam tasya vyabhicaranty arthā ārabdhāś ca punaḥ punaḥ SYNONYMS tān—those; anādṛtya—neglecting; yaḥ—anyone who; avidvān—rascal; arthān—schemes; ārabhate—begins; svayam—personally; tasya—his; vyabhicaranti—do not become successful; arthāḥ—purposes; ārabdhāḥ—attempted; ca—and; punaḥ punaḥ—again and again. TRANSLATION A foolish person who manufactures his own ways and means through mental speculation and does not recognize…

SALAGRAMA SILA TOYAM YAH PIVET VINDUNA SAMAM MATUH STANYAM PUNAR NAIVA SAPIVET BHAKTI BHANG NARAH (HARI BHAKTI VILASA 9/22 from PADMA PURANA) “Any person, if he has even taken one drop of water which has washed Salagram Sila, he will not have to suck a mother’s breast again in the future.” BHAKTYA BHUNAKTI NAIVEDYAM SALAGRAMA…

Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 12.13.2 pṛṣṭhe bhrāmyad amanda-mandara-giri-grāvāgra-kaṇḍūyanān nidrāloḥ kamaṭhākṛter bhagavataḥ śvāsānilāḥ pāntu vaḥ yat-saḿskāra-kalānuvartana-vaśād velā-nibhenāmbhasāḿ yātāyātam atandritaḿ jala-nidher nādyāpi viśrāmyati TRANSLATION When the Supreme Personality of Godhead appeared as Lord Kūrma, a tortoise, His back was scratched by the sharp-edged stones lying on massive, whirling Mount Mandara, and this scratching made the Lord sleepy. May you…

Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 8.20.4 na hy asatyāt paro ‘dharma iti hovāca bhūr iyam sarvaḿ soḍhum alaḿ manye ṛte ‘līka-paraḿ naram SYNONYMS na — not; hi — indeed; asatyāt — than compulsion to untruthfulness; paraḥ — more; adharmaḥ — irreligion; iti — thus; ha uvāca — indeed had spoken; bhūḥ — mother earth; iyam — this; sarvam…

I am continuously trying to publish books, as suggested by my spiritual master. I am neither a great scholar nor a great devotee; I am simply a humble servant of my spiritual master, and to the best of my ability I am trying to please him by publishing these books, with the cooperation of my…

“Kirtana means whatever we hear from the Spiritual Master we repeat it again nicely. One who can reproduce the sound vibration heard from the Spiritual Master, he will be a good preacher.” Prabhupada Letters – August 17, 1969