Spiritual Wisdom & Insights

Speakar: Srila Prabhupada
Source: On the BoweryHis duty, whether on the fourteenth floor of a Riverside Drive apartment building or in a corner of a Bowery loft, was to establish Kṛṣṇa consciousness as the prime necessity for all humanity. He went on with his translating and with his constant vision of a...

Speaker:  Indradyumna Swami
Source:Indradyumna Swami with Srila Prabhupada Indradyumna Swami: “Srila Prabhupada you’ve mentioned several times in recent lectures that a pure devotee can see Krsna everywhere – that He’s never out of your vision. And at the same time in Siksastakam prayers Lord Chaitanya explains that, Govinda, I...

Speaker: Srila Prabhupada
Source: Swami Invites the HippiesAs they passed the shuffleboard courts and the old men playing checkers, Prabhupāda stopped and turned to the boys. “Just see,” he said. “Old people in this country do not know what to do. So they play like children, wasting their last days, which should be...

Speaker: Srila Prabhupada
Source: Relatively Dirty Or Absolutely Clean
We receive knowledge from the authority. Everyone receives knowledge from the authority, but general authority, and our process of accepting authority is little different. Our process of accepting one authority means he is also accepting his previous authority. One cannot...

Speaker: Srila Prabhupada
Source: Demonic Communists Prabhupada: Oh. Oh. We have got an idea of thunderbird. The bird flies in the, near the cloud in expectation of water, and they are not afraid of thunder. That is called cataka. That example is given by Rupa Gosvami. The cataka does not...

Speaker: Srila Prabhupada
Source: Srila Prabhupada’s letter to Jayapataka
If you have got some time, the best thing would be to chant Hare Krishna more and more. Because our life is very short, and we have to finish our Krishna Consciousness this life very quickly. We do not know when we shall meet our...