Short news items and quotes.
  Prabhupada: So in my absence you read the books. What I talk, I have written in the books. That’s all.   Indian Man: Personally, we think more greater.   Prabhupada: That’s all right. But still, you can associate with me by reading my books.   (Morning Walk – Toronto, August 7, 1975)  
One must not only think that he is Brahman, but must act like Brahman. One who only thinks himself Brahman is an impersonalist. And one who acts like Brahman is the pure devotee. (SB 1.15.42 pp)
When flying an airplane, one cannot take care of other planes. Everyone has to take care of his own plane, and if there is any danger, no other plane can help another in that condition. Similarly, at the end of life, when one has to go back home, back to Godhead, everyone has to … Read more
I am always thinking of you, and I am feeling your separation… Never think that I am absent from you. Physical presence is not essential; presence by message (or hearing) is real touch… I hope you will understand me right… (Srila Prabhupada Letter, August 2, 1967)
Jiva Gosvami … says that Krsna, in His plenary expansion as Paramatma, is situated in the moving and the nonmoving entities as the Supersoul, so any neophyte devotee who simply gives his attention to the arca-murti, the form of the Supreme Lord in the temple, and does not respect other living entities is uselessly … Read more
A housewife who has a paramour continues to serve her husband while even absorbed in thoughts of her lover. In the same way the devotee submerged in Krishna consciousness routinely carries out his material activities, but in a spirit of devotion to Krishna.
Madhudvisa: Is there any way for a Christian to, without the help of a spiritual master, to reach the spiritual sky through believing the words of Jesus Christ and trying to follow his teachings? Srila Prabhupada: I don’t follow. Tamal Krsna Goswami: Can a Christian in this age, without a spiritual master, … Read more
Srila Prabhupada, clearly overwhelmed with pure and uncontrollable love of Krsna, with eyes tightly closed and crashing the kartals madly, interrupted Visnujana at the crescendo of his chanting. Prabhupada seemed to have no choice. He had to take the lead away from Visnujana, and began chanting Hare Krsna so strongly, and so beautifully. Then he began crying. He tried to chant through his tears. Prabhupada couldn’t hold himself back. Everyone went mad. They began screaming and crying because it was such ecstasy. The devotion was so tangible that everyone was crying.
My dear Lord, one who earnestly waits for You to bestow Your causeless mercy upon him, all the while patiently suffering the reactions of his past misdeeds and offering You respectful obeisance with his heart, words and body, is surely eligible for liberation, for it has become his rightful claim. (Srimad Bhagavatam 10.14.8)
“The idea of an organized church in an intelligible form, indeed, marks the close of the living spiritual movement. The great ecclesiastical establishments are the dikes and the dams to retain the current that cannot be held by any such contrivances. They, indeed, indicate a desire on the part of the masses to exploit … Read more