"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
- August 1, 2007
MAN WOMAN INTERACTION LECTURE #1 Eger, Hungary https://usercontent.one/wp/bhaktividyapurnaswami.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/20070731_BVPS_Eger_Hungary.mp3 Over the next few days we will be discussing various aspects of Krishna consciousness. The main point is that one is trying to get back to Godhead, and so it's a very plausible goal, but one has to be very realistic. Realistic
- July 31, 2007
"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
- March 7, 2007
HH BVPS Maharaja: All the Dharma Shastra does is go through the practical day-to-day life of an aspiring sadhaka and then what he can do to bring his life fully in line with God consciousness. Does that make some sense? So that's the principle that's going on. So it's not
- January 26, 2004
Secondary creation, that's where you are actually dealing with the material world, that's where things are actually functioning. So this is where you have to make the connection. Means, the origin is always on the other side of the Viraja river, but the connection is always on this side. Philosophy,
- January 9, 2004
So, whatever may be the situation, whatever anyone may say, I simply pray that I may be known as one of your insignificant followers and that in this way I may know that Krishna that you know. Any other Krishna, we are not worried about, the Krishna in all His
- September 1, 2002
Beautiful mantra chanting and address at an Upanayanam (Vedic initiation) ceremony at Sridham Mayapur, May 2002
- May 30, 2002
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
- January 14, 2002
Reading from Jaiva Dharma: Then the saintly sannyasi respectfully said, 'Oh, master, my heart is filled with conviction that the Mayavada theory is shallow and unimportant. Any doubt I had about that is now thrown far away by your mercy. Still, I myself wear the garments of a Mayavada sannyasi.
- December 28, 2001