Prabhu: In the lectures here as you gave in 1997 you said that the husband should act as a temple president, and the wife as a temple commander. Could you explain? HH BVPS Maharaja: Are you sure? I would have probably said, the husband is like the GBC, the wife
Mataji: If the husband or the wife cannot be faithful to the other, whose fault is this? The fault of both or just one? HH BVPS Maharaja: This is a very dangerous yatra [Laughter]. It can be both. It's very complex, this one, it takes a great amount of maturity
Prabhu: When we read in the Bhagavatam that Krishna appears in all species of life to call back the living entities, how to understand this? HH BVPS Maharaja: Means? Oh, okay. Means, we've already seen Him come as a Fish, as a Turtle, as a Boar, like that. So every
Prabhu: It often happens that if a man preaches nicely to a woman, to a Mataji, then the Mataji will feel that this man would make a nice husband for me, so how can we avoid this? Not to preach? By not preaching to women, or by preaching in not
"Being personal means dealing with the actual nature of the other person. What is your relationship with the other person? What is expected of you in that relationship? That's personal. So personal may mean not being nice and chummy, it may be being very firm. Do you understand? So, personal
"All the good qualities of the world still have no meaning unless they touch Krishna, because where does the quality come from? It comes from Krishna, that's the point. Compassion itself, that quality is Krishna. The forms that can manifest compassion are manifest through his internal potency, then you have
"The experience of the mind situated in goodness is far greater than what is experienced in passion and ignorance. In comparison it may not look as great, just like if you run water through some rocks there is a lot of movement, a lot of waves. But if you run
"There are 7 billion people on the planet, how many are experiencing what we are experiencing? Basically, only us. That's always the thing, we are always thinking, we want to share whatever our happiness is or distress is with others, because only we know what they are, others don't. If
"Management is an art, it's something that shudras can do very nicely. There are shudras who their art is management, they are very expert, but they can't give shelter to people, they can only manage. So when you see management without shelter, you are dealing with vaishyas or shudras. But