Śrīla Prabhupāda speaks out to India’s Bhavan’s Journal: “A dog comes when there are some eatables; I say ‘Hut!’ and he goes away. But again he comes – he has no memory. So when our memory of God is reducing, that means that our human qualities are reducing.… There is no religion, simply a dog’s race. The dog is […]
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In this interview, Chicago Police Department media relations man Lt. David Mozee asks about curbing the upward-spiraling U.S. crime rate. Śrīla Prabhupāda replies, “If human beings are not given the facility to learn about God, then they remain on the level of cats and dogs. You cannot have peace in a society of cats and
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Can meditation solve our everyday problems? Is there life after death? Can drugs help us achieve self-realization? During a visit to South Africa, Śrīla Prabhupāda answers these and other questions for interviewer Bill Faill of the Durban Natal Mercury. Śrīla Prabhupāda: Krishna is a name for God that means “all-attractive.” Unless one is all-attractive he cannot be
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“It is not that this movement is simply a sentimental movement. Don’t think that these boys are dancing out of some religious sentiment or fanaticism. No. We have the highest philosophical and theosophical background.… But it is all simplified. That is the beauty of this movement. Whether one is a great scholar or a child, one
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The transcendental vibration established by the chanting of Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare/ Hare Rāma, Hare Rāma, Rāma Rāma, Hare Hare is the sublime method for reviving our transcendental consciousness. As living spiritual souls, we are all originally Krishna conscious entities, but due to our association with matter from time immemorial, our
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Krishna consciousness is the highest yoga performance by trained devotional yogis. The yoga system, as is stated in the standard yoga practice formula given by Lord Krishna in the Bhagavad-gītā, and as recommended in the Patañjali yoga discipline, is different from the nowadays-practiced haṭha-yoga as is generally understood in the Western countries. Real yoga
Śrīla Prabhupāda speaks out in an interview with the London Times: “If you want to be cheated, you will find many cheating gurus. But if you are sincere, you will find a sincere guru.… The genuine guru is God’s representative, and he speaks about God and nothing else.… A genuine guru is not a businessman. He is
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om ajñāna-timiraāndhasya jñānāñjana-śalākayā caksur unmīlitam yena tasmai śrī-gurave namah “I was born in the darkest ignorance, and my guru, my spiritual master, opened my eyes with the torch of knowledge. I offer my respectful obeisances unto him.” The word ajñāna means “ignorance” or “darkness.” If all the lights in this room immediately went
Again in the old tabloid Back to Godhead, this time dated April 20, 1960, Śrīla Prabhupāda talks about the science of the soul: “Since a human being is a rational animal, he is born to make inquiries and questions. The greater the number of questions, the greater the advancement of knowledge and science.… The most
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“Beauty is truth, truth Beauty,” said Keats. “That is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.” Or is it? In this charming yet cutting essay, which first appeared in the old tabloid version of Back to Godhead (November 20, 1958), Śrīla Prabhupāda tells the unforgettable story of “liquid beauty.” There