Aim of Life

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

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

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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

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

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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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The Bhaktivedantas World Sankirtan Party - Aim/

Aim of Life

Hansadutta das

Rittvik Representative of His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Trustee, BHAKTIVEDANTA BOOK TRUST
WORLD SANKIRTAN PARTY

Aim of Life

Hansadutta das

Rittvik Representative of His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami PrabhupadaTrustee, BHAKTIVEDANTA BOOK TRUSTWORLD SANKIRTAN PARTY

Rittvik Representative of His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Trustee, BHAKTIVEDANTA BOOK TRUST
WORLD SANKIRTAN PARTY