Spiritual Wisdom & Insights

Speaker: Radhanath Swami
Source: Servant of the ServantOne time in Mayapura big big leaders of ISKCON were giving presentations, Prabhupada looked at the open field and pointed his cane and said “can’t you see”. They were puzzled, again he raised his voice and said “can’t you see”. Devotees thought may be Prabhupada is...

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: 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: 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...

Speaker: Srila Prabhupada
Source: How not to be in the material worldJust like in krsna-lila, Krsna was stealing butter. So the neighboring friends of Yasoda-mata, was complaining… It is not a complaint; it was just to see the fun of Krsna. Krsna was sitting, and they were complaining. They were seeing the bodily feature, how Krsna is...

Speaker: Indradyumna Swami
Source: The Hourglass

This story about the sculptor, I heard three times in Srila Prabhupada’s lectures. He finds exact time he is going to die and makes 9 replicas of himself. Seeing Yamaraja confused, he laughs within. Yamaraja criticises the sculptor and he gets caught.