A brāhmana should always fear homage as if it were poison; and constantly desire to suffer scorn as though he would long for nectar. For he who is scorned may sleep with an easy mind, but the scorner utterly perishes.

Kali-rāja knows: you break down restriction, you break down relationships. You break down relationships, people can't work together. People can't work together, you cannot have saṅkīrtana.

We see our faults, others see our good qualities. This is how the pious person sees things. A not so pious view is that we see all the good qualities in ourself and all the bad qualities in others.

Question: The junior is out there doing service, and by doing the service they get more realisation than the senior person administratinge people, and then you run into conflicts...

You have to speak on the principle and make the principle presented in a way that someone can appreciate it. Relative means material. Absolute means it is real today, it was real before, it would be real in the future.

This philosophy of 'We are Westerners and so we can't follow all this Indian culture' - extremely dangerous apasampradāya, extremely dangerous. Because it makes one think that my upādi, defining myself as a Westerner, is a valuable element in Kṛṣṇa consciousness.

We forget that there are 14 planetary systems, 13 of them, all they do is following Vedic culture, and on this planetary system, the 14th, there are 9 islands and 8 of them are following Vedic culture. All it leaves is this part of one of the islands where people