Electronic Association with Devotees
Let’s say, you are going to hand-write a letter. You scribble it out, then as soon as you finish scribbling it, you just stick it in an envelope, seal it and send it, right?
Let’s say, you are going to hand-write a letter. You scribble it out, then as soon as you finish scribbling it, you just stick it in an envelope, seal it and send it, right?
The roughest class of men in actual practice and theory knows perfectly how to deal with a woman, and their life is dependent upon it. But when they go home, they don’t deal with the wife like that, and therefore their marriage has trouble.
When things are connected to Kṛṣṇa, the real problem is gone. And then, according to our conditioning, Kṛṣṇa will arrange the situation for whatever reason.
it sounds nice, it sounds great, but it’s not connected to Krishna. That’s what’s missing. Vegan is not connected to Krishna.
Children are born in a devotee’s family because they’re meant to do devotional service, and to get them to do something else – that’s criminal, actually.
Seminar on Canakya Niti Sutras, given in Helsinki, Finland 2010
The best photographers, cinematographers are invisible, you don’t see them, they come in, they get their shot, they leave, you don’t know. The worst ones are the ones because they have a camera they are the center of the universe, everyone has got to move and adjust.
The Protestant culture is totally devastating to any sense of authority, because that’s the first thing they go after: any authority, śāstra, Prabhupāda, previous authorities, varnāśrama.
You have to make distinction that you specifically like Kṛṣṇa and His devotees in Vraja better than anything else. They are people, you want to be with them.
The body is also to be maintained properly to use in Kṛṣṇa’s service. Keeping it warm – that is the austerity. It is very easy to just get up in the morning and walk out without your warm clothes on, it is more difficult to put them all on.