If a person speaks without realization, it is only speculation. Anything he says is ineffective and cannot help others. However, if you yourself are trying to practice and realize, then you can inspire others to also practice. But if you try to bribe people to follow something you yourself are not following, no one will hear you…
They must think and they will go where their divine love for Krsna will advance. Also, their faith and honor for Svamiji will increase. They must go there and they will go. Anyone cannot check. Even Hiranyakasipu and Kamsa could not check; It is out of their control. You see that…
I am the same person as I was when I was serving Svamiji and I will continue to be the same person. I will never do anything against Svamiji or ISKCON. I am a follower of ISKCON; I know that I belong to ISKCON because Svamiji has given this right to me. But I don’t know…
We should read and offer prayers (vandana). We should chant more and more with deep mindedness. Your mind should not go here and there. Our minds should be absorbed for hours and hours. So we should try to do like this. We should follow Rupa Gosvami’s teachings…
Our Guru Maharaja would often say, “If you reset or tune your watch by twenty-fours and after twenty-fours have passed, you have forgotten about the watch, then the watch will stop functioning for it has been reset for only twenty-four hours…
Today is Christmas Day, the birthday of Jesus Christ. In Europe and other countries, hardly anyone knows what Jesus Christ was doing in his youth, at around 15 years of age. Indian history shows that he was in India, where he visited Vrndavana, Ayodya, Jagannatha Puri…
So, Hanuman’s service to Rama was incomparable, but he cannot go to Vrindavana. He cannot go. Why? If he sees Mother Yasoda disciplining her son, Krishna, Hanuman will think, “My Lord is being disciplined?” Thinking so, he will be upset. With his club, he might do something wrong. If he will see that in the groves of Vrindavana, Srimati Radhika and the gopis order Krishna and tell Him, “Come on! Come on…!”
We know that Ajamila was a bad person. At first, he was a good person. He was the son of a Brahmin, and of good character. He diligently served his parents, his wife was very chaste and good. His children were educated. But despite having a good family, he fell in the trap of a prostitute and he could not change his mind. He started living with the prostitute, and bore many sons from her…
If Jiva Gosvami had not written Sad-Sandarbha, if he had not written Sri Gopala Campu, if he had not revealed his commentaries on Sri Ujjvala Nilamani, Sri Bhakti-rasamrita-sindu and so many other books, we would not be able to know the mercy of Srila Rupa Gosvami. We therefore offer our obeisances today unto the lotus feet of Srila Jiva Gosvami. We pray that we may serve our gurudeva as he served Srila Rupa Gosvami…