Lecture audio, this passage starting about 19:20 http://seminary.bhaktivedantaacademy.com/content/uploads/sc/year2/noi102/2011-11-25-NOI-37.mp3 HH BVPS Maharaja: Men there is sanyasa, women there is reclusion. Because it's just a matter of, you just kind-of fade into the background. Because the point is is, the woman is prominent when all the facility is there, the emotions, the senses,
Mataji: What is your view of Matajis doing full dandavats? HH BVPS Maharaja: Ahh, if they want, they can... Problem is is, see, Gaudiyas generally don't. Others do, but the Gaudiyas generally are not so... See, there is Vaishnavas in general, then you have your peculiarities of the group, or
Prabhu: In a family of devotees kids sometimes watch cartoons or hear audio recordings, stories about Krishna or Vedic thematics. But often this kind of material contains violence because Krishna kills demons etc...
Prabhu: If the devotional service is the nature of the living entity, so that means that the devotional service must be performed in natural way and guided by taste or rasa. But opposite of that there is a part of austerity. So what's the difference between these two things, are
Managing it's not the big thing. Having the vision of Krishna consciousness, knowing how to apply it in your life and teach others to apply it in theirs, that's the higher element, that's the element that you'll always have a job. Being a temple president, after a time it gets
Reading from Bhagavad-gita Study Guide: If a person is engaged in full Krishna consciousness, in the devotional service of the Lord, it is to be understood that he has understood all the Vedic knowledge. In the Vaishnava Parampara it is said that if one is engaged in the devotional service
"Unless you can identify the quality of Kṛṣṇa that you are looking for, then you can't even see what is the connection. Because the point is is, it is not the game. The game is just a medium for that quality."
Let us say you have a sannyasi. They have money. So, according to what Prabhupada just is saying here, is there a problem? No. There is not a problem, because it says, "In spite of performing apparently material activities, such spiritualized persons are freed from the bondage of work." They
Prabhu: Maharaja, how much effect does electronic association [with devotees] have? HH BVPS Maharaja: Electronic association? Depends on the quality. Let us say, you are going to hand-write a letter. And you scribble it out, then you just as soon as you finish scribbling it, you just fold it up
I was just thinking this morning. Why is a ship in the navy, in those who work in the sea and ride around on ships, why are ships called "she"? Because if you think, because sailors, if you think of sailors, sailors are very masculine and everything like that. So