Aim of Life
≻ Church of Money and Consumerism This ignorance about the eternity of the living being and the change of covering in the material world has played havoc in the structure of modern human society. Consequently there are many problems, multiplied by various plans of modernized man. The plans for solving the problems of society have only aggravated the troubles. More
≻ Pandora's Box To improve from the castor seed lamp, castor oil lamp, to this electricity, you have to work so hard. You have to go to the middle of ocean and drill it and get out petroleum and... In this way your real business of life is finished. More
≻ Going for the Goal Those who are engaged in Krishna consciousness should not care for the so-called morality of the material world if that morality opposes the service of the Lord. More
≻ BP stands for BIG PROBLEM They are trying also to solve the problems of the world in different ways, but they cannot do anything. It is impossible. They cannot do anything. They are themselves blind. They do not know actually what is the objective of life. More
≻ Phantasmagoria The great ocean of material nature is tossing with the waves of time, and the so-called living conditions are something like foaming bubbles, which appear before us as bodily self, wife, children, society, countrymen, etc. More
≻ Stay with the boat while it's still afloat It is said that this human form of life is a good boat by which one can cross the ocean of nescience. More
≻ A Question of Loyalty Your international feeling and my international feeling, your national feeling and my national feeling, are overlapping and conflicting. More
≻ The Primary Problem is Set Aside Here is the typical example of Bhagavatam's teaching how "the solution undertaken to solve one material problem becomes a bigger problem than the original problem attempted to be solved." More
≻ Gruesome facts of material life Reading this book, I thought everyone on this planet is a condemned homeless refugee on a long death march beginning with birth, ending with death in one way or another ... More
≻ Make a Life, Not a Living "I am interested to eat four chapatis, which can be very easily available. So why I am working so hard?" But that sense does not come. He is working, working, working, "More money, more money, more money, more money, more money." More
≻ Aiming for the Good Life There are so many millions of people, they are trying for economic development, but still you'll find somebody is living in palace building and somebody is living in slum. More
≻ Finding comfort in misery According to the law of karma, everyone is destined to suffer or enjoy according to a certain material standard, but the mercy of Lord Krishna is so powerful that the Lord can change all the reactions of one's past karma. More
≻ Mirage in the Desert As one has subtle dreams at night, when the living entity is awake he lives in gross dreams of nation, community, society, possessions, skyscrapers, bank balance, position and honor. more
≻ A life of eating, sleeping, mating and defending Only when we reach the human form of life do we have the opportunity to ask the question, What am I? If we do not understand what we are, then we miss the opportunity of human life. We simply waste our time in the propensities of animal life—eating, sleeping, mating, and defending. More
≻ Investment Wisdom Just see the value that you cannot get back even a moment of your life by paying millions and millions of dollars. How time is valuable, just calculate. Therefore Chanakya Pandit said, sa chet nirarthakam nitah ka no hanis tato 'dhika: if you waste your time, such valuable time, for nothing, just imagine how much loser you are. More
≻ Our false standard of living, no longer sustainable PRABHUPADA: Here is a revolution against this modern civilization. They are simply after economic development, and here it is condemned. It is condemned that this kind of endeavor is simply wasting the balance of our life. More
≻ Artificial Necessities and Artificial Money Everyone is engaged in earning money, and the money is kept in the bank, which then offers money to the public. In this cycle of activities, everyone is engaged in getting more and more money, and therefore the ideal goal of human life is being lost. More
≻ No Exceptions to the Rule Death is always there. We should not optimistically think, "Everyone is dying, but I shall live." More
≻ India's culture given up to imitate the West Material advancement will never make us happy, that's a fact. People have not become happy. In India they say that we neglected this material side, therefore not developed. But actually that is not the fact. They have lost their own spiritual culture; therefore they are not... More
≻ All paths do not lead to Rome, nor all buses take you home One has to come to the point of Krishna consciousness. You may follow the yoga process, you may follow the philosophical process, you may follow the ritualistic process, or you may perform penances or engage in studying the Vedas. But unless you reach the point of Krishna consciousness, you will succeed only to a certain degree. More
≻ Taking Unnecessary Risks - from the top down In the material world one has to work for the maintenance of the body and soul, but how can one perform such work in a way that is favorable for the execution of Krishna consciousness? More
≻ Thrown Into the Wilderness The nature is made so, whatever you do, for the time being you relish that "I have done something, I am now very comfortably situated," and so on, so on, but time will come, you will be kicked off from your position. You will be again thrown into the wilderness. More
≻ Don't wait for a cure You cannot cure even one disease. You are embarrassed by the cancer disease. So, find out how the cells are working and how they can be changed, and then there will be no more cancer. No, that you cannot do. You go on studying and simply waste your time. More
≻ Snuffed out without notice We must always know that There is death behind me. At any moment he can capture my neck and take it away. That's a fact. Is there any guarantee that you shall live hundred years? No. Even just after few seconds, if you go to the street, you may immediately meet death. There may be heart failure. There may be motor accident. More
≻ Technology Giveth and Technology Taketh Away If, in this life, by technological advancement you live very comfortably, and next life you become a dog, then where is the advancement? More
≻ End of a Lifetime of Unfinished Work So human life should be for determining where I am going when I finish this life. When this body is finished, am I going to take another body because I have so many plans and desires which I could not fulfill in this body? Or am I going to be liberated and not accept another body to repeat the struggle of existence? More
≻ Vegetarianism is Not the Goal We are not advocating vegetarianism. We are advocating that "You take Krishna prasadam [food which has been offered to Krishna]." How perfect it is. We are not so nonsense that "Because we have become vegetarian, we are perfect." The goats are vegetarian. More
≻ Something Rare Worth Finding Chanakya Pandit says that one must catch what is right from any source. If there is a glass of poison with some nectar in it, he says, one should take out the nectar and leave the poison. In the same way, if one finds gold in a filthy place, he should take it. More
≻ The War Against Evil If society creates animals, then how can it expect peace and prosperity? In spite of so many big universities and all educational facilities, this society is producing hippies and frustration amongst the youth because we are spirit soul and cannot become happy simply by amassing material comforts. We must have spiritual life. More
≻ In Search of Something From among these intelligent souls, those who are especially pious begin to keenly enquire about God and other spiritual topics. Others, who pursue ignoble material knowledge, cannot become successful in life and end up beating the chaff. More
≻ Born to Die You are experiencing that "I was a child, I was a boy, I was a young man. So my body, childhood body, boyhood body, youthhood body is gone. This body is not that body." More
≻ Gold price skyrocketing, but it's time we can't afford So suppose today is 6th December. Now seven o'clock, morning, seven o'clock, 6th December, passed. Can you bring it again by paying one crores of gold coins? More
≻ Too Embarrassing When one is alone, brahmachari [unmarried], he has no condition, he lives freely. But as soon as he's married, so many obligations. More
≻ The Mother of All Mistakes They are taking care of the shirt and coat, not the person who is putting on the shirt and coat. This is the mistake of the modern civilization. More
≻ Can You See Where You're Going? The sun immediately dissipates mist or fog as well as darkness. As stated before, we should try to make the sun of Krishna rise within our hearts. More
≻ Building on a Solid Foundation Our Krishna consciousness movement is trying to educate people on this science of sciences to understand first of all that "What you are? Are you this body or different from this body?" This is essential. And if you go on constructing your big building on a defective foundation, then it will not stay. There will be danger. More
≻ Trading in Junk The central point is how to become advanced in Krishna consciousness by cooperation. This is India's civilization. There is no question of industry. Ugra-karma. It has been condemned in the Bhagavad-gita as ugra-karma, laboring very hard for livelihood. More
≻ Human Animals and Animal Humans This life, human life, is distinguished from animal life because the animal cannot inquire about transcendence. The human life, if it is not interested in transcendence, then he is animal. More
≻ Blind man, lame man Our knowledge in spiritual life and your help, material opulence, combined together, there will be great change in the whole world. Cooperate with us. There is no loss on your part, but there is great benefit to the whole world. More
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≻ Pandora's Box To improve from the castor seed lamp, castor oil lamp, to this electricity, you have to work so hard. You have to go to the middle of ocean and drill it and get out petroleum and... In this way your real business of life is finished. More
≻ Going for the Goal Those who are engaged in Krishna consciousness should not care for the so-called morality of the material world if that morality opposes the service of the Lord. More
≻ BP stands for BIG PROBLEM They are trying also to solve the problems of the world in different ways, but they cannot do anything. It is impossible. They cannot do anything. They are themselves blind. They do not know actually what is the objective of life. More
≻ Phantasmagoria The great ocean of material nature is tossing with the waves of time, and the so-called living conditions are something like foaming bubbles, which appear before us as bodily self, wife, children, society, countrymen, etc. More
≻ Stay with the boat while it's still afloat It is said that this human form of life is a good boat by which one can cross the ocean of nescience. More
≻ A Question of Loyalty Your international feeling and my international feeling, your national feeling and my national feeling, are overlapping and conflicting. More
≻ The Primary Problem is Set Aside Here is the typical example of Bhagavatam's teaching how "the solution undertaken to solve one material problem becomes a bigger problem than the original problem attempted to be solved." More
≻ Gruesome facts of material life Reading this book, I thought everyone on this planet is a condemned homeless refugee on a long death march beginning with birth, ending with death in one way or another ... More
≻ Make a Life, Not a Living "I am interested to eat four chapatis, which can be very easily available. So why I am working so hard?" But that sense does not come. He is working, working, working, "More money, more money, more money, more money, more money." More
≻ Aiming for the Good Life There are so many millions of people, they are trying for economic development, but still you'll find somebody is living in palace building and somebody is living in slum. More
≻ Finding comfort in misery According to the law of karma, everyone is destined to suffer or enjoy according to a certain material standard, but the mercy of Lord Krishna is so powerful that the Lord can change all the reactions of one's past karma. More
≻ Mirage in the Desert As one has subtle dreams at night, when the living entity is awake he lives in gross dreams of nation, community, society, possessions, skyscrapers, bank balance, position and honor. more
≻ A life of eating, sleeping, mating and defending Only when we reach the human form of life do we have the opportunity to ask the question, What am I? If we do not understand what we are, then we miss the opportunity of human life. We simply waste our time in the propensities of animal life—eating, sleeping, mating, and defending. More
≻ Investment Wisdom Just see the value that you cannot get back even a moment of your life by paying millions and millions of dollars. How time is valuable, just calculate. Therefore Chanakya Pandit said, sa chet nirarthakam nitah ka no hanis tato 'dhika: if you waste your time, such valuable time, for nothing, just imagine how much loser you are. More
≻ Our false standard of living, no longer sustainable PRABHUPADA: Here is a revolution against this modern civilization. They are simply after economic development, and here it is condemned. It is condemned that this kind of endeavor is simply wasting the balance of our life. More
≻ Artificial Necessities and Artificial Money Everyone is engaged in earning money, and the money is kept in the bank, which then offers money to the public. In this cycle of activities, everyone is engaged in getting more and more money, and therefore the ideal goal of human life is being lost. More
≻ No Exceptions to the Rule Death is always there. We should not optimistically think, "Everyone is dying, but I shall live." More
≻ India's culture given up to imitate the West Material advancement will never make us happy, that's a fact. People have not become happy. In India they say that we neglected this material side, therefore not developed. But actually that is not the fact. They have lost their own spiritual culture; therefore they are not... More
≻ All paths do not lead to Rome, nor all buses take you home One has to come to the point of Krishna consciousness. You may follow the yoga process, you may follow the philosophical process, you may follow the ritualistic process, or you may perform penances or engage in studying the Vedas. But unless you reach the point of Krishna consciousness, you will succeed only to a certain degree. More
≻ Taking Unnecessary Risks - from the top down In the material world one has to work for the maintenance of the body and soul, but how can one perform such work in a way that is favorable for the execution of Krishna consciousness? More
≻ Thrown Into the Wilderness The nature is made so, whatever you do, for the time being you relish that "I have done something, I am now very comfortably situated," and so on, so on, but time will come, you will be kicked off from your position. You will be again thrown into the wilderness. More
≻ Don't wait for a cure You cannot cure even one disease. You are embarrassed by the cancer disease. So, find out how the cells are working and how they can be changed, and then there will be no more cancer. No, that you cannot do. You go on studying and simply waste your time. More
≻ Snuffed out without notice We must always know that There is death behind me. At any moment he can capture my neck and take it away. That's a fact. Is there any guarantee that you shall live hundred years? No. Even just after few seconds, if you go to the street, you may immediately meet death. There may be heart failure. There may be motor accident. More
≻ Technology Giveth and Technology Taketh Away If, in this life, by technological advancement you live very comfortably, and next life you become a dog, then where is the advancement? More
≻ End of a Lifetime of Unfinished Work So human life should be for determining where I am going when I finish this life. When this body is finished, am I going to take another body because I have so many plans and desires which I could not fulfill in this body? Or am I going to be liberated and not accept another body to repeat the struggle of existence? More
≻ Vegetarianism is Not the Goal We are not advocating vegetarianism. We are advocating that "You take Krishna prasadam [food which has been offered to Krishna]." How perfect it is. We are not so nonsense that "Because we have become vegetarian, we are perfect." The goats are vegetarian. More
≻ Something Rare Worth Finding Chanakya Pandit says that one must catch what is right from any source. If there is a glass of poison with some nectar in it, he says, one should take out the nectar and leave the poison. In the same way, if one finds gold in a filthy place, he should take it. More
≻ The War Against Evil If society creates animals, then how can it expect peace and prosperity? In spite of so many big universities and all educational facilities, this society is producing hippies and frustration amongst the youth because we are spirit soul and cannot become happy simply by amassing material comforts. We must have spiritual life. More
≻ In Search of Something From among these intelligent souls, those who are especially pious begin to keenly enquire about God and other spiritual topics. Others, who pursue ignoble material knowledge, cannot become successful in life and end up beating the chaff. More
≻ Born to Die You are experiencing that "I was a child, I was a boy, I was a young man. So my body, childhood body, boyhood body, youthhood body is gone. This body is not that body." More
≻ Gold price skyrocketing, but it's time we can't afford So suppose today is 6th December. Now seven o'clock, morning, seven o'clock, 6th December, passed. Can you bring it again by paying one crores of gold coins? More
≻ Too Embarrassing When one is alone, brahmachari [unmarried], he has no condition, he lives freely. But as soon as he's married, so many obligations. More
≻ The Mother of All Mistakes They are taking care of the shirt and coat, not the person who is putting on the shirt and coat. This is the mistake of the modern civilization. More
≻ Can You See Where You're Going? The sun immediately dissipates mist or fog as well as darkness. As stated before, we should try to make the sun of Krishna rise within our hearts. More
≻ Building on a Solid Foundation Our Krishna consciousness movement is trying to educate people on this science of sciences to understand first of all that "What you are? Are you this body or different from this body?" This is essential. And if you go on constructing your big building on a defective foundation, then it will not stay. There will be danger. More
≻ Trading in Junk The central point is how to become advanced in Krishna consciousness by cooperation. This is India's civilization. There is no question of industry. Ugra-karma. It has been condemned in the Bhagavad-gita as ugra-karma, laboring very hard for livelihood. More
≻ Human Animals and Animal Humans This life, human life, is distinguished from animal life because the animal cannot inquire about transcendence. The human life, if it is not interested in transcendence, then he is animal. More
≻ Blind man, lame man Our knowledge in spiritual life and your help, material opulence, combined together, there will be great change in the whole world. Cooperate with us. There is no loss on your part, but there is great benefit to the whole world. More
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≻ Truth to Atheist's Claim that America's Religiosity is Exaggerated
But even they do not follow the moral principles. Then what is the..., where is the religion? Just like Christian religion, it is said that "Thou shalt not kill.'' But everyone is killing. More
≻ Graduating to gut fish and sweep floors So at the present moment people are being educated to serve under somebody. Technology, one is very expert in some particular line of technology, say, computer machine... You know how to operate. It is a big qualification. But unless he gets a job under some big establishment, he is useless. He cannot live independently. More
≻ They've Sold Their Souls The grossly materialistic demons are so completely bereft of spiritual knowledge that although at every moment they perceive the transience of the material body, all their activities center on the body. More
≻ The Value of Longevity Being so engaged, we may wish to live for many, many years; otherwise a long life in itself has no value. More
≻ Human Civilization Downgraded The human being, if he does not realize God, he's simply engaged in animalistic way of life—eating, sleeping, mating—then nature will call, "All right, sir, again become animal." More
≻ Why Ask Anything from God? That is higher intelligence, that "Why shall I ask food from God? God is supplying food to the cats, dogs, ants, elephants, and I want little food, he will not supply me? More
≻ Checking In to Check Out "Now it is settled that I am going to die. The time is fixed already. Within a week, I shall be dying. Now what is my duty?" More
≻ Loyalty to Unworthy Masters Today you are a nationalist, you are a very great follower of your country, but tomorrow if you stay in your country you may be a cow being taken to the slaughterhouse. More
≻ Cheaters and the Cheated That means it is a association of cheaters and cheated. Somebody wants to cheat and somebody's being cheated. More
≻ Disappointed he didn't die on time Parikshit Maharaja had at least time limit seven days, but we do not know whether we will live again seven minutes. Any moment your heart can failure. You do not know. More
≻ Whose Nature is it, after all? There is a mechanism that we call "nature." And from it is coming everything we see around us. Now, how is it that this mechanism is so perfect? And who is it that has devised this mechanism? More
≻ Endangered Species Where there is danger in every step, but we are thinking we are very happy, we are advancing in material civilization, and, as far as we can imagine, that we are very prosperous and everything. This is called maya. More
≻ A book review: The Secret is out - Bhagavad-gita As It Is has the answers All the other books of the world... if they are burned, nothing will be lost, because it is all just deception. More
≻ Press Conference - Zero Without God Religion means these four principles: What is God, what we are, what is our relationship with God, and act accordingly and achieve the goal of life. This is religion. So any religious system which does not consider all these things, that is not religion. More
≻ Violence at School When A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami (Srila Prabhupada) spoke these words in 1973, he was referring to the misdirection of modern education, which back then was churning out hippies, but now we see the literal truth of his words. More
≻ A Friend in Need If someone is in distress and wants to get relief from his friend, sometimes it so happens that his friend does not appreciate the volume of distress he is suffering. More
≻ Servant of Dog I have no shame that I have become servant of dog and I refuse to be servant of God. More
≻ Recovery from Amnesia The spiritual master's duty is to lead a person, a forgotten soul, to the right way in terms of the shastra and scripture, and when he begins sincerely and with love and seriously, then the next stage is that God within, who is sitting within you, He'll dictate, "Yes, you do like this." More
≻ Big Thief, Small Thief Alexander the Great arrested one thief, and he was going to punish him. The thief pleaded, "Sir, you are going to punish me, but what is the difference between you and me? I am a small thief, you are a great thief." More
≻ Caught in the Economy Trap And bank will say that "You take money. You pay your bills. We'll give you loan, we'll charge interest. And when you get your salary, then you have to deposit it in the bank." And they'll adjust. And again you are penniless. Again you take loan. More
≻ Habituated to Unnecessary Things Chanakya Pandit asks, "Who is happy?" He answers, "The man who does not work away from home and who is not a debtor—he is happy." More
≻ Karma Yoga - Applying the Principles of Bhagavad-gita to Your Life The arrangement is so nice in the administration of nature that we shall get all our necessities of life by the grace of God, and our duty is to advance ourself in the right knowledge of our spiritual existence without unnecessarily engaging ourself for sense gratification. More
≻ Howling in the Market What I am? What is God? What is this material world? Why I have come here? Why I am put into so much trouble? These are the inquiries. Not that everyday go to the share market. That is not tattva-jijñasa. That is indriya pritih, howling in the market. More
≻ Get Over the Obsession with Money Persons who are interested in going back home, back to Godhead, should not only engage in the service of realized souls but should give up the company of materialistic persons. More
≻ Shelter from the Storm Simply transferring wealth from capitalists to communists cannot solve the problem of modern politics, for it has been demonstrated that when a communist gets money, he uses it for his own sense gratification. More
≻ A Safe Prescription for Epidemic of Misplaced Faith Let this be the motto of life. We should not associate with the materialistic person, try to associate with devotee, and always think that this world is for few days. That's all. More
≻ Four Wheels Off Track In human society either you become Christian, Muhammadan, Hindu, or Buddhist; it doesn't matter. There must be some system of religion. Human society without religion is animal society. More
≻ Give Your Life to Krishna
Why you are thinking that you can give in charity? Therefore God says, dadasi yat: "If you are thinking to make some charity, give it to Me." More
≻ All of Us Transients If a rich man's son forgets his father, leaves home and becomes mad, he may lie on the street to go to sleep, or he may beg money for food, but all of this is due to his forgetfulness. More
≻ Living a Life of Deception
For a transcendentalist, it is a suicidal policy to be intimately in touch with the sense gratifiers of the world, because such a policy will frustrate the ultimate gain of life. More
≻ Back to Godhead - Part 1
The devotees are actually saintly persons, or sadhus. The first qualification of a sadhu, or devotee, is ahimsa, or nonviolence. Persons interested in the path of devotional service, or in going back home, back to Godhead, must first practice ahimsa, or nonviolence. More
≻ Shortcomings of Marxism We can say with confidence—and they may note it carefully—that after the Bolshevik Revolution there will be many other revolutions, because as long as people live on the mental plane there will be only revolution. More
≻ A Case of Mistaken Identity The basic principle of civilization—accepting this body as the soul—is the beginning of all problems. More
≻ Power Beyond Us If we do not believe in God, we must believe in some power beyond us which is controlling us at every step, call that power God or nature or whatever. More
≻ Purify the Pollution The progress which is going on, let it go. But let it go, we do not want that, but it has come so far, it is not possible to stop it. But here is the remedy. You can purify it. More
≻ Educated Asses If one does not understand what is God, his education is useless. It has no meaning. What is that education? Will that education save him from death? More
≻ Mud Eruption and Water Shortages: misuse of industry The more we go on increasing such troublesome industries to squeeze out the vital energy of the human being, the more there will be unrest and dissatisfaction of the people in general, although a few only can live lavishly by exploitation. More
≻ When Insurance Fails
This body we have got at a certain date, and it will continue up to certain date, then it will vanish. You will get never again this body, finished. More
≻ The Cost of Unrestricted Sex
When men have more sex, they lose the power to beget a male child. If the woman is sexually more powerful, a girl is born, and when the man is more powerful, a boy is born. This is Ayur-vedic science. More
≻ Whole Human Society at Risk
ISKCON MUST NEVER SEEK ACCEPTANCE FROM THE RELGIOUS. ISKCON, SRILA PRABHUPADA'S ASHRAM, SITS ABOVE ALL RELIGION. WE DEFINE THAT WHICH MOST CLOSELY RESEMBLES HUMAN SOCIETY, or that social model created by Lord Krishna, God Himself, to make this human birth OUR LAST! More
≻ Modern Education Missing the Aim of Life This Krishna consciousness movement is not any sectarian movement. It is practically postgraduate movement of all religion. Any religion, they have got some idea of God. But here, we are explaining what is God, how great He is, how you can establish your relationship with Him. More
≻ You Always Get What's Coming to You "You always get what's coming to you. No one can avoid the laws of destiny. Therefore I regret nothing, and nothing astonishes me. What destiny gives me, no one can take away." More
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≻ Graduating to gut fish and sweep floors So at the present moment people are being educated to serve under somebody. Technology, one is very expert in some particular line of technology, say, computer machine... You know how to operate. It is a big qualification. But unless he gets a job under some big establishment, he is useless. He cannot live independently. More
≻ They've Sold Their Souls The grossly materialistic demons are so completely bereft of spiritual knowledge that although at every moment they perceive the transience of the material body, all their activities center on the body. More
≻ The Value of Longevity Being so engaged, we may wish to live for many, many years; otherwise a long life in itself has no value. More
≻ Human Civilization Downgraded The human being, if he does not realize God, he's simply engaged in animalistic way of life—eating, sleeping, mating—then nature will call, "All right, sir, again become animal." More
≻ Why Ask Anything from God? That is higher intelligence, that "Why shall I ask food from God? God is supplying food to the cats, dogs, ants, elephants, and I want little food, he will not supply me? More
≻ Checking In to Check Out "Now it is settled that I am going to die. The time is fixed already. Within a week, I shall be dying. Now what is my duty?" More
≻ Loyalty to Unworthy Masters Today you are a nationalist, you are a very great follower of your country, but tomorrow if you stay in your country you may be a cow being taken to the slaughterhouse. More
≻ Cheaters and the Cheated That means it is a association of cheaters and cheated. Somebody wants to cheat and somebody's being cheated. More
≻ Disappointed he didn't die on time Parikshit Maharaja had at least time limit seven days, but we do not know whether we will live again seven minutes. Any moment your heart can failure. You do not know. More
≻ Whose Nature is it, after all? There is a mechanism that we call "nature." And from it is coming everything we see around us. Now, how is it that this mechanism is so perfect? And who is it that has devised this mechanism? More
≻ Endangered Species Where there is danger in every step, but we are thinking we are very happy, we are advancing in material civilization, and, as far as we can imagine, that we are very prosperous and everything. This is called maya. More
≻ A book review: The Secret is out - Bhagavad-gita As It Is has the answers All the other books of the world... if they are burned, nothing will be lost, because it is all just deception. More
≻ Press Conference - Zero Without God Religion means these four principles: What is God, what we are, what is our relationship with God, and act accordingly and achieve the goal of life. This is religion. So any religious system which does not consider all these things, that is not religion. More
≻ Violence at School When A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami (Srila Prabhupada) spoke these words in 1973, he was referring to the misdirection of modern education, which back then was churning out hippies, but now we see the literal truth of his words. More
≻ A Friend in Need If someone is in distress and wants to get relief from his friend, sometimes it so happens that his friend does not appreciate the volume of distress he is suffering. More
≻ Servant of Dog I have no shame that I have become servant of dog and I refuse to be servant of God. More
≻ Recovery from Amnesia The spiritual master's duty is to lead a person, a forgotten soul, to the right way in terms of the shastra and scripture, and when he begins sincerely and with love and seriously, then the next stage is that God within, who is sitting within you, He'll dictate, "Yes, you do like this." More
≻ Big Thief, Small Thief Alexander the Great arrested one thief, and he was going to punish him. The thief pleaded, "Sir, you are going to punish me, but what is the difference between you and me? I am a small thief, you are a great thief." More
≻ Caught in the Economy Trap And bank will say that "You take money. You pay your bills. We'll give you loan, we'll charge interest. And when you get your salary, then you have to deposit it in the bank." And they'll adjust. And again you are penniless. Again you take loan. More
≻ Habituated to Unnecessary Things Chanakya Pandit asks, "Who is happy?" He answers, "The man who does not work away from home and who is not a debtor—he is happy." More
≻ Karma Yoga - Applying the Principles of Bhagavad-gita to Your Life The arrangement is so nice in the administration of nature that we shall get all our necessities of life by the grace of God, and our duty is to advance ourself in the right knowledge of our spiritual existence without unnecessarily engaging ourself for sense gratification. More
≻ Howling in the Market What I am? What is God? What is this material world? Why I have come here? Why I am put into so much trouble? These are the inquiries. Not that everyday go to the share market. That is not tattva-jijñasa. That is indriya pritih, howling in the market. More
≻ Get Over the Obsession with Money Persons who are interested in going back home, back to Godhead, should not only engage in the service of realized souls but should give up the company of materialistic persons. More
≻ Shelter from the Storm Simply transferring wealth from capitalists to communists cannot solve the problem of modern politics, for it has been demonstrated that when a communist gets money, he uses it for his own sense gratification. More
≻ A Safe Prescription for Epidemic of Misplaced Faith Let this be the motto of life. We should not associate with the materialistic person, try to associate with devotee, and always think that this world is for few days. That's all. More
≻ Four Wheels Off Track In human society either you become Christian, Muhammadan, Hindu, or Buddhist; it doesn't matter. There must be some system of religion. Human society without religion is animal society. More
≻ Give Your Life to Krishna
Why you are thinking that you can give in charity? Therefore God says, dadasi yat: "If you are thinking to make some charity, give it to Me." More
≻ All of Us Transients If a rich man's son forgets his father, leaves home and becomes mad, he may lie on the street to go to sleep, or he may beg money for food, but all of this is due to his forgetfulness. More
≻ Living a Life of Deception
For a transcendentalist, it is a suicidal policy to be intimately in touch with the sense gratifiers of the world, because such a policy will frustrate the ultimate gain of life. More
≻ Back to Godhead - Part 1
The devotees are actually saintly persons, or sadhus. The first qualification of a sadhu, or devotee, is ahimsa, or nonviolence. Persons interested in the path of devotional service, or in going back home, back to Godhead, must first practice ahimsa, or nonviolence. More
≻ Shortcomings of Marxism We can say with confidence—and they may note it carefully—that after the Bolshevik Revolution there will be many other revolutions, because as long as people live on the mental plane there will be only revolution. More
≻ A Case of Mistaken Identity The basic principle of civilization—accepting this body as the soul—is the beginning of all problems. More
≻ Power Beyond Us If we do not believe in God, we must believe in some power beyond us which is controlling us at every step, call that power God or nature or whatever. More
≻ Purify the Pollution The progress which is going on, let it go. But let it go, we do not want that, but it has come so far, it is not possible to stop it. But here is the remedy. You can purify it. More
≻ Educated Asses If one does not understand what is God, his education is useless. It has no meaning. What is that education? Will that education save him from death? More
≻ Mud Eruption and Water Shortages: misuse of industry The more we go on increasing such troublesome industries to squeeze out the vital energy of the human being, the more there will be unrest and dissatisfaction of the people in general, although a few only can live lavishly by exploitation. More
≻ When Insurance Fails
This body we have got at a certain date, and it will continue up to certain date, then it will vanish. You will get never again this body, finished. More
≻ The Cost of Unrestricted Sex
When men have more sex, they lose the power to beget a male child. If the woman is sexually more powerful, a girl is born, and when the man is more powerful, a boy is born. This is Ayur-vedic science. More
≻ Whole Human Society at Risk
ISKCON MUST NEVER SEEK ACCEPTANCE FROM THE RELGIOUS. ISKCON, SRILA PRABHUPADA'S ASHRAM, SITS ABOVE ALL RELIGION. WE DEFINE THAT WHICH MOST CLOSELY RESEMBLES HUMAN SOCIETY, or that social model created by Lord Krishna, God Himself, to make this human birth OUR LAST! More
≻ Modern Education Missing the Aim of Life This Krishna consciousness movement is not any sectarian movement. It is practically postgraduate movement of all religion. Any religion, they have got some idea of God. But here, we are explaining what is God, how great He is, how you can establish your relationship with Him. More
≻ You Always Get What's Coming to You "You always get what's coming to you. No one can avoid the laws of destiny. Therefore I regret nothing, and nothing astonishes me. What destiny gives me, no one can take away." More
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≻ Utilize for
Krishna Don't
consider what will happen to this world. The nature will take care of
it. You don't puzzle your brain with these thoughts. You utilize
whatever time you have got in your possession and go back to home, back
to Godhead. More
≻ Premise is the Problem
The whole premise of modern civilization, based on the idea of advancement of education, technology, industry and economics is dismissed by us (VAISHNAVAS) as ERRONEOUS and therefore IRRELEVANT for the well being of this planet earth with its 4 to 5 billion human beings and innumerable animals, insects. More
≻ Human Life is Meant for Inquiry
The whole Vedic instruction is just to deliver all suffering humanity from the threefold miseries of material existence. That is the aim and object of Vedic civilization. That means this human form of life is meant for finishing all kinds of troubles. More
≻ An Open Letter to Pope Paul VI
I beg to introduce myself as an Indian monk, following the Vedic principles of religious life. At the present, I am in the renounced order of Sannyas, aged 72 years, and am preaching God consciousness all over the world. More
≻ Aim to love The aim of life is to love Krishna. It is not necessary to know how Krishna is God. Just like the child loves mother and father. The child has no knowledge of what is or how it is that the parents are mother and father. It is simply love. More
≻ Working like Asses He is loading so much, and what he is eating? Little grass. So the ass does not know, "The grass is available here. Why shall I work for him?" That is ass. He is working so hard for a few morsel of grass, and the grass is all over the world, but he will take the load. More
≻ Hog Civilization Life can be easily maintained by agriculture and cow protection. No. They will start big, big mills, factories, motor tires, cars, instruments... In the Bhagavad-gita it is called ugra-karma, fierce... Fierceful activities. Kashtan kaman. Unnecessarily creating problems. ...One after another, one after another. More
≻ Fire in the Forest We are not submitting to suffering. Then what is the civilization? What is human civilization: We don't want suffering. That is our position. Why this rascal says that "We shall suffer"? More
≻ Don't Waste a Single Moment: You Cannot Get It Back Don't expect another life to prepare. "It is guaranteed human life?" somebody's asking. Even if it guaranteed, why should you take the chance of another life? Finish this business within this life. More
≻ Vagina Worshipers It is the vagina that makes man to rise and certainly sends them to sleep at night. The vagina is the almighty Goddess that locks the each man in the whirlpool of birth-death-rebirth engaging his talents and intelligence in never-ending and ultimately useless work. More
≻ Rascal Culture Based on Sex
Disciple: Srila Prabhupada, people sometimes criticize, "Your Vedic culture was most solidly established in India. And India is now considered relatively poor and unfortunate. So why should we respect the Vedic culture?" More
≻ Ocean of Fiction That's what America has created and is continuing to create through technology and media like TV, movies, computers, magazines and books: an ocean of fiction. More
≻ Something's Missing In the primary stage a child loves his parents, then his brothers and sisters, and as he daily grows up he begins to love his family, society, community, country, nation, or even the whole human society. But the loving propensity is not satisfied even by loving all human society. More
≻ The Lowest of the Mankind The civilized human being are those who have regulated principles of social, political and religious life. Those who are socially and politically developed but have no religious principles must be counted amongst the Naradhamas. More
≻ No Time They say that they are too busy in earning money for maintaining the body and soul together. But when we ask them what do they mean by the "Soul", they have nothing to reply. More
≻ "Sir, We Have No Time" They have got sufficient time to smoke, they have got sufficient time for playing cards, they have sufficient time for drinking, going to the cinema, going to the sports. But they have no time for developing Krishna consciousness. More
≻ Uncontrolled Mind and Senses
Fifty years are wasted in sleeping, twenty years in childhood and boyhood, and twenty years in invalidity. More
≻ Wake Up to Your Real State of Consciousness When we're sleeping, we are not aware of the fact that we're sleeping. We think we're awake. More
≻ Polished Animals A human being has higher duties to perform than animals who are always engaged in simply feeding their hungry stomachs. Yet modern soul-killing civilization has only increased the problems of a hungry stomach. More
≻ Enough School Already—I'm Ready to Learn Something Useful I've only learned superficial things which can't help me or satisfy me. Therefore my heart is vacant and empty. I want my heart to be filled up with joy, with meaning, with purpose, and I want to exhibit my energies, my enthusiasm, my talents in some way where there is no reservation, no doubt, but I can't, because I don't know what I am. More
≻ Nothing Else Needs to be Done We are living in a society that is based on something that is so fundamentally erroneous, as a result we are working for nothing, working for things we don't need. More
≻ Dirty Hearts and Dusty Brains In the material world, everyone is trying to become prominent. There is always a great competition or struggle for supremacy. More
≻ World of Terror We speak of terrorism from the Islam world, but more terrifying than all the terrorists combined is the terror of old age, disease, and unavoidable and inevitable DEATH awaiting every living being, be he Arab, American, black, white, man, woman, rich or poor. More
≻ Over-intelligent, Uncommonly Stupid The more educated they are, the more stupid they are. That means they made bigger calculations on the same mistake. They have invested more time and energy on a mistake than the common man. So they are uncommon. Uncommonly stupid. More
≻ It is for the Greatest Scholar, It is for the Innocent Boy This Krishna consciousness movement is not a blind, imposing dogma. Everyone who actually wants to give some service to society, to humanity, must study this philosophy. And we are prepared to meet anyone—scientists, philosophers, poets, thoughtful men—and give the answers to all their questions. More
≻ Oil and Water Never Mix You eat every day, you buy house or apartment, you have car, so much. Everything is for this body! Whatever investment you make, it will be lost. That means we’re all heading for bankruptcy. The whole human civilisation is on a bankrupt course of investment. More
≻ Who are the Terrorists? The government leaders, the educators, the scientists and pseudo-religionists who perpetuate by conventional habit the bodily concept—all of them are terrorists. They are waging a war for and of sense gratification. Everyone is planning on increasing their sense gratification, up to the point of suicide bombing. More
≻ Picture Puzzles & Government Cover-ups Unless one knows the goal, everything in life remains a puzzle. Just like a child's puzzle… unless the complete picture is known, it is impossible to put the pieces of the puzzle together, and if a wrong picture is supplied, it becomes even more puzzling and impossible to put the puzzle together properly. More
≻ The Premise is the Problem The premise that the material world is a place of enjoyment for the living entity is the problem. Actually, the material world is a place of perpetual suffering, and material activities are a perpetual struggle to avoid or counteract these sufferings. More
≻ The Beginning, Middle and End of Spiritual Life So the process of seeing is to hear. We have to hear Krishna. We hear about Krishna from the pure devotee, from the self-realized soul. More
≫ What is Hare Krishna? Krishna consciousness is the original consciousness of every living being, and it is explained in different Vedic literatures. More
≻ I Got So Much Time On My Hand Everyone thinks, "When we are grown-up, when we are older, we then can practice spiritual life. Now, let us have a good time." More
≻ It's All Vanity Everyone is in illusion. We have accepted this material body as the self, and we are engaged in activities for satisfying this temporary bodily existence. This is called maya (illusion), because the body is actually only a dress covering the real self known as the eternal soul (jivatma). More
≻ Warning!!! Pride Proceeds a Fall Three things are mentioned in this verse: wealth, followers or admirers and our youth. These are the three objects of material enjoyment. More
≻ This Struggle for Existence is Unnatural Time is driving us as the wind drives the clouds, scattering us hither and thither, and no one is ever satisfied in any position, however grand and comfortable it may be. We find everyone is unhappy. More
≻ Good Dreams Are Useless and Bad Dreams Have No Importance The living entity is just assuming a role on the stage of material life, but his real identity is something else completely. More
≻ Material Opulence - Blessing or Curse? Generally everyone is trying to improve his material condition by accumulating money, by increasing his prestige or by sense gratification with the opposite sex. These are the three allurements of material life: wealth, women and prestige. More
≻ Sitting on Death Row When the living force animates the body, the body appears very nice, beautiful, it's very attractive. But when the living force is withdrawn or is absent, then the body is abominable. It immediately becomes repulsive to us, and fearful. More
≻ The Cause of Misery Sufferings are always there. Everyone is trying to get out of sufferings, that is a fact. The whole struggle for existence is to get out of the suffering. But there are different kinds of prescription. More
≻ Impetus to Act The attitude of the devotee is he is always looking to see what is the desire of Krishna and what is the desire of the spiritual master. He doesn't initiate anything except when he gets that inspiration from them. Then he acts. More
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≻ Premise is the Problem
The whole premise of modern civilization, based on the idea of advancement of education, technology, industry and economics is dismissed by us (VAISHNAVAS) as ERRONEOUS and therefore IRRELEVANT for the well being of this planet earth with its 4 to 5 billion human beings and innumerable animals, insects. More
≻ Human Life is Meant for Inquiry
The whole Vedic instruction is just to deliver all suffering humanity from the threefold miseries of material existence. That is the aim and object of Vedic civilization. That means this human form of life is meant for finishing all kinds of troubles. More
≻ An Open Letter to Pope Paul VI
I beg to introduce myself as an Indian monk, following the Vedic principles of religious life. At the present, I am in the renounced order of Sannyas, aged 72 years, and am preaching God consciousness all over the world. More
≻ Aim to love The aim of life is to love Krishna. It is not necessary to know how Krishna is God. Just like the child loves mother and father. The child has no knowledge of what is or how it is that the parents are mother and father. It is simply love. More
≻ Working like Asses He is loading so much, and what he is eating? Little grass. So the ass does not know, "The grass is available here. Why shall I work for him?" That is ass. He is working so hard for a few morsel of grass, and the grass is all over the world, but he will take the load. More
≻ Hog Civilization Life can be easily maintained by agriculture and cow protection. No. They will start big, big mills, factories, motor tires, cars, instruments... In the Bhagavad-gita it is called ugra-karma, fierce... Fierceful activities. Kashtan kaman. Unnecessarily creating problems. ...One after another, one after another. More
≻ Fire in the Forest We are not submitting to suffering. Then what is the civilization? What is human civilization: We don't want suffering. That is our position. Why this rascal says that "We shall suffer"? More
≻ Don't Waste a Single Moment: You Cannot Get It Back Don't expect another life to prepare. "It is guaranteed human life?" somebody's asking. Even if it guaranteed, why should you take the chance of another life? Finish this business within this life. More
≻ Vagina Worshipers It is the vagina that makes man to rise and certainly sends them to sleep at night. The vagina is the almighty Goddess that locks the each man in the whirlpool of birth-death-rebirth engaging his talents and intelligence in never-ending and ultimately useless work. More
≻ Rascal Culture Based on Sex
Disciple: Srila Prabhupada, people sometimes criticize, "Your Vedic culture was most solidly established in India. And India is now considered relatively poor and unfortunate. So why should we respect the Vedic culture?" More
≻ Ocean of Fiction That's what America has created and is continuing to create through technology and media like TV, movies, computers, magazines and books: an ocean of fiction. More
≻ Something's Missing In the primary stage a child loves his parents, then his brothers and sisters, and as he daily grows up he begins to love his family, society, community, country, nation, or even the whole human society. But the loving propensity is not satisfied even by loving all human society. More
≻ The Lowest of the Mankind The civilized human being are those who have regulated principles of social, political and religious life. Those who are socially and politically developed but have no religious principles must be counted amongst the Naradhamas. More
≻ No Time They say that they are too busy in earning money for maintaining the body and soul together. But when we ask them what do they mean by the "Soul", they have nothing to reply. More
≻ "Sir, We Have No Time" They have got sufficient time to smoke, they have got sufficient time for playing cards, they have sufficient time for drinking, going to the cinema, going to the sports. But they have no time for developing Krishna consciousness. More
≻ Uncontrolled Mind and Senses
Fifty years are wasted in sleeping, twenty years in childhood and boyhood, and twenty years in invalidity. More
≻ Wake Up to Your Real State of Consciousness When we're sleeping, we are not aware of the fact that we're sleeping. We think we're awake. More
≻ Polished Animals A human being has higher duties to perform than animals who are always engaged in simply feeding their hungry stomachs. Yet modern soul-killing civilization has only increased the problems of a hungry stomach. More
≻ Enough School Already—I'm Ready to Learn Something Useful I've only learned superficial things which can't help me or satisfy me. Therefore my heart is vacant and empty. I want my heart to be filled up with joy, with meaning, with purpose, and I want to exhibit my energies, my enthusiasm, my talents in some way where there is no reservation, no doubt, but I can't, because I don't know what I am. More
≻ Nothing Else Needs to be Done We are living in a society that is based on something that is so fundamentally erroneous, as a result we are working for nothing, working for things we don't need. More
≻ Dirty Hearts and Dusty Brains In the material world, everyone is trying to become prominent. There is always a great competition or struggle for supremacy. More
≻ World of Terror We speak of terrorism from the Islam world, but more terrifying than all the terrorists combined is the terror of old age, disease, and unavoidable and inevitable DEATH awaiting every living being, be he Arab, American, black, white, man, woman, rich or poor. More
≻ Over-intelligent, Uncommonly Stupid The more educated they are, the more stupid they are. That means they made bigger calculations on the same mistake. They have invested more time and energy on a mistake than the common man. So they are uncommon. Uncommonly stupid. More
≻ It is for the Greatest Scholar, It is for the Innocent Boy This Krishna consciousness movement is not a blind, imposing dogma. Everyone who actually wants to give some service to society, to humanity, must study this philosophy. And we are prepared to meet anyone—scientists, philosophers, poets, thoughtful men—and give the answers to all their questions. More
≻ Oil and Water Never Mix You eat every day, you buy house or apartment, you have car, so much. Everything is for this body! Whatever investment you make, it will be lost. That means we’re all heading for bankruptcy. The whole human civilisation is on a bankrupt course of investment. More
≻ Who are the Terrorists? The government leaders, the educators, the scientists and pseudo-religionists who perpetuate by conventional habit the bodily concept—all of them are terrorists. They are waging a war for and of sense gratification. Everyone is planning on increasing their sense gratification, up to the point of suicide bombing. More
≻ Picture Puzzles & Government Cover-ups Unless one knows the goal, everything in life remains a puzzle. Just like a child's puzzle… unless the complete picture is known, it is impossible to put the pieces of the puzzle together, and if a wrong picture is supplied, it becomes even more puzzling and impossible to put the puzzle together properly. More
≻ The Premise is the Problem The premise that the material world is a place of enjoyment for the living entity is the problem. Actually, the material world is a place of perpetual suffering, and material activities are a perpetual struggle to avoid or counteract these sufferings. More
≻ The Beginning, Middle and End of Spiritual Life So the process of seeing is to hear. We have to hear Krishna. We hear about Krishna from the pure devotee, from the self-realized soul. More
≫ What is Hare Krishna? Krishna consciousness is the original consciousness of every living being, and it is explained in different Vedic literatures. More
≻ I Got So Much Time On My Hand Everyone thinks, "When we are grown-up, when we are older, we then can practice spiritual life. Now, let us have a good time." More
≻ It's All Vanity Everyone is in illusion. We have accepted this material body as the self, and we are engaged in activities for satisfying this temporary bodily existence. This is called maya (illusion), because the body is actually only a dress covering the real self known as the eternal soul (jivatma). More
≻ Warning!!! Pride Proceeds a Fall Three things are mentioned in this verse: wealth, followers or admirers and our youth. These are the three objects of material enjoyment. More
≻ This Struggle for Existence is Unnatural Time is driving us as the wind drives the clouds, scattering us hither and thither, and no one is ever satisfied in any position, however grand and comfortable it may be. We find everyone is unhappy. More
≻ Good Dreams Are Useless and Bad Dreams Have No Importance The living entity is just assuming a role on the stage of material life, but his real identity is something else completely. More
≻ Material Opulence - Blessing or Curse? Generally everyone is trying to improve his material condition by accumulating money, by increasing his prestige or by sense gratification with the opposite sex. These are the three allurements of material life: wealth, women and prestige. More
≻ Sitting on Death Row When the living force animates the body, the body appears very nice, beautiful, it's very attractive. But when the living force is withdrawn or is absent, then the body is abominable. It immediately becomes repulsive to us, and fearful. More
≻ The Cause of Misery Sufferings are always there. Everyone is trying to get out of sufferings, that is a fact. The whole struggle for existence is to get out of the suffering. But there are different kinds of prescription. More
≻ Impetus to Act The attitude of the devotee is he is always looking to see what is the desire of Krishna and what is the desire of the spiritual master. He doesn't initiate anything except when he gets that inspiration from them. Then he acts. More
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