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    We have to keep some cows. Never mind we are to take payment from others. That is not Cow Protection. Cow Protection means just like Bhagavan, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, He is tending the cows. He is going, taking the cows personally from His royal palace to the forest whole day, working … Read more
    I thank all of you very much for accepting me as your spiritual master, and I promise that I will take you back to home, back to Godhead. I ask you all to promise me to always chant at least 16 rounds, follow the regulative principles, read our books and try to preach … Read more
  Words of Wisdom from Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura     We are put to test and trial in this world. Only those who attend the kirtana of the devotees can succeed.   Every spot on earth where discourses on God are held is a place of pilgrimage.   Possession of objects not related to … Read more
  At the airport on the day of Srila Prabhupada’s first visit to the UK, he boldly replied to reporters who asked,   “What have you come to teach us?”   “I have come to teach you what you have forgotten—God.”   “These boys and girls who are following me, they are very elevated. They … Read more
  “Another meaning of guna is rope; it is to be understood that the conditioned soul is tightly tied by the ropes of illusion. A man bound by the hands and feet cannot free himself–he must be helped by a person who is unbound. Because the bound cannot help the bound, the rescuer must be … Read more
  Satisfaction of the mind can be obtained only by taking the mind away from thoughts of sense enjoyment. The more we think of sense enjoyment, the more the mind becomes dissatisfied. In the present age we unnecessarily engage the mind in so many different ways for sense gratification, and so there is no possibility … Read more
  “As long as a living entity is not completely self-realized—as long as he is not independent of the misconception of identifying with his body, which is nothing but a reflection of the original body and senses—he cannot be relieved of the conception of duality, which is epitomised by the duality between man and woman. … Read more
  My dear Lord Nrisimhadeva, I see that there are many saintly persons indeed, but they are interested only in their own deliverance. Not caring for the big cities and towns, they go to the Himalayas or the forest to meditate with vows of silence [mauna-vrata]. They are not interested in delivering others. As for … Read more
  “No compromise — Ramakrishna, avataras, yogis, everyone was enemy to Guru Maharaja — he never compromised. Some God-brothers complained that this preaching was chopping technique and it would not be successful. But we have seen that those who criticized, they fell down. For my part I have taken up the policy of my Guru … Read more
  If I were to desist from lecturing about the Absolute Truth due to fear that some listeners may be displeased, I would be deviating from the path of Vedic truth and accepting the path of untruth. I would become one who is inimical to the Vedas, an atheist, and would no longer possess faith … Read more