Why Women Can Be Śikṣā, but Not Dīkṣā Gurus?
It is not based on spiritual values. No one should fool themselves on this. It is based purely on social values, modern social values, that the women should be dīkṣā-gurus.
It is not based on spiritual values. No one should fool themselves on this. It is based purely on social values, modern social values, that the women should be dīkṣā-gurus.
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.
We poor grihasthas who are meant to enjoy, it’s our birthright to enjoy, we are not enjoying! And these nonsense sannyāsīs, they are getting all the enjoyment!
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.