Mataji: What about vegans...? HH BVPS Maharaja: Vegans? You really want to go there? [Laughter] The problem is is with the vegan is that's it's nice in that they don't want to give problem to the cow. But what they've missed is the spiritual element of it, is that you
- October 19, 2010
Sixteen rounds is a minimum that's very dinamic. Sixteen rounds combined with service is a dinamic amount that one will advance nicely, because our idea is in one lifetime go back to Godhead, you know. Because you don't want to say, "Oh, I'll take a few lives," because you don't
- October 1, 2010
Seminar on Canakya Niti Sutras, given in Helsinki, Finland 2010
- July 4, 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.
- February 27, 2009
'This is what I feel, if I can find other people that feel like that, that’s truth.' Because of the identifying so strongly, as we are saying here, with the modern culture, especially the Protestant, as the prominent element of the First World culture... Means it doesn’t mean... You can
- February 17, 2009
"This [Vedanta] psychology is not something separate from what you are used to hearing. It’s just that it’s not necessarily taken as its own topic. Psychology, basically, it’s based in the root, the psyche, means is actually the soul. But in your modern psychology and philosophies they can’t actually tell
- February 12, 2009
Prabhu: If a person doesn’t wear clothes in the wintertime and gets sick thinking that he is very austere, and so he doesn’t need to wear almost anything, that is also based on ignorance? HH BVPS Maharaja: Yes, based on ignorance. Austerity means the proper performance of your duty.
- December 16, 2008
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.
- November 25, 2008