Chanting in Almviks Gård, Sweden
Vyāsa Pūjā Offering to Śrīla Prabhupāda 2002
I simply pray that I may be known as one of your insignificant followers and that in this way I may know that Kṛṣṇa that you know. Any other Kṛṣṇa, we are not worried about, the Kṛṣṇa in all His unlimited forms, doesn’t matter to us.
Kāma and Kāma-Gāyatrī
We don’t want to scare anybody, but people should be conscious that these are serious things. Material world is a serious place. You do an activity, you get a reaction. In the same way is, you do spiritual activities, you can get great spiritual benefit, or you can get some other reactions.
Clothing and Refinement
We dress according to the nature, so we should be comfortable, so we can perform our service. But at the same time we have to understand that there are standards set by Kṛṣṇa. The Vaiṣṇava dress is more refined than the Western dress. But if one finds one is comfortable in the Western dress and that matches his identification, he’ll wear it. But don’t claim that it’s the same as the Vaiṣṇava dress, or better or more practical, that’s nonsense.
Mahabharata Part 1 The Problems of Mahabharata are Based on Passion
The whole problem of the Mahabharata is all based on passion, that sets the whole scene for the Mahabharata. So we see that this attachment of the senses, attachment to name, fame, they just make trouble. Whatever trouble we have in our life, it’s because of these things, because of this lust, anger, greed, attachment, madness and illusion.
On Cooking And Serving Prasadam
If those who were mature and understood how to satisfy devotees served prasadam, the whole atmosphere in the temple would immediately go up, and if the atmosphere goes up, problems go down.
Vedic Equal Rights and Women’s Education
The husband and wife are 100% equal at the time of conception of a child because it takes both of them equally to create a child. To conceive a child it’s completely 50/50, there is a complete equality at that time. So the whole idea in the Vedic culture, because we don’t want to encourage […]




