Free Will, Destiny and Kṛṣṇa-karma
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.
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.
Kṛṣṇa, Who, being God, could eat anything, He has chosen these particular things to eat because out of all the different tastes they are the most developed and refined. So it is a nice direction to go towards. But I would say more important is to learn how to cook.
A little knowledge is dangerous. So you have to have enough knowledge, then you stop being dangerous.