Karma – Action & Reation – Destiny
≻ Hunter gets lesson in karma By killing animals, not only will we be bereft of the human form but we will have to take an animal form and somehow or other be killed by the same type of animal we have killed. More
≻ Imitating shark food So the person who is taking very much pleasure, dancing in the sea like fish, so he is contaminating that modes of nature so that in next life he will become a fish. He'll be very free to dance with the ocean. More
≻ Violence to Vegetables A human being is not to eat anything which is not offered to the Supreme Personality of Godhead.. More
≻ Above the Law "The intricacies of action are very hard to understand. Therefore one should know properly what action is, what forbidden action is, and what inaction is." More
≻ Culling the Herds ...They are killing cows in the thousands. Therefore they are unfortunate in spiritual consciousness, and nature disturbs them in so many ways, especially through incurable diseases like cancer and through frequent wars and among nations.. More
≻ Oil Karma We have created a facility for transport by motorcar or by aeroplane, but side by side, we have created another difficulty, that a man has to go to his work three hundred miles away. More
≻ BP Gulf of Mexico Disaster: At the Front Line and Behind the Scenes Just like a mad driver drinking drives recklessly to die, that's all. But he is thinking, "Oh, I am going with so much great speed." He does not know that he is going to die after few minutes. And that is their development. 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
≻ Judge injured in crash by drunk driver whom he spared from jail 11 years before Sometimes, however, a criminal may escape punishment by the state, but this is not the case with God's law.. More
≻ The Futility of Blockades and Flotillas Like small particles of sand, bodies come together and are separated by the force of time, and people falsely lament for unification and separation. More
≻ Turning over a new leaf Anyone who takes to Krishna consciousness, he doesn't require to endeavor for becoming a good man separately. More
≻ The Daily Kill What is the news value of a story of traditional ritual animal sacrifice in distant Nepal? "Sacrifice of 250,000 animals" grabs our attention momentarily, but it is scarcely noteworthy in comparision to the number of animals slaughtered day to day for tables around the world. Let's put things into perspective. More
≻ If lobsters could scream... Those who kill animals and give them unnecessary pain—as people do in slaughterhouses—will be killed in a similar way in the next life and in many lives to come. More
≻ The Weather Emergency In Vedic times the people's high level of God consciousness resulted in benevolent weather conditions everywhere. More
≻ World Farm Animals Day - Why not every day? In this age animals are kept nicely sheltered, completely confident that their masters will protect them, but unfortunately as soon as the animals are fat, they are immediately sent for slaughter. More
≻ Who can save you? Everyone is thinking like that. My nation, my community, my philosophy, my politics will save me. No. Nothing can save you. More
≻ Capital Punishment By killing a murderer the government shows mercy to him because if a murderer is not killed in this life, he will be killed and forced to suffer many times in future lives. More
≻ The business of saints Philanthropists and altruists do not realize that it is impossible to improve people's material conditions. Material conditions are already established by the superior administration according to one's karma. 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
≻ Vegan is not Prabhupada's teaching To adopt veganism is to adopt vegetarianism under a more atheistic philosophy - but masked by a purported "concern" for the suffering of the animals in the present system. It denies the purpose of the Lord behind HIS creation of the cow and bull in the first place. More
≻ The Price of Pork The laws of prakriti (nature) are very stringent. No one should think that he has the freedom to kill animals and not suffer the consequences. One cannot be safe by doing this. 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
≻ Death Camps Beget More Death Camps Sometimes during war, soldiers keep their enemies in concentration camps and kill them in very cruel ways. These are reactions brought about by unrestricted animal-killing... More
≻ We're all on Death Row Death destroys the body made up of the five gross elements, but the subtle body, consisting of mind, intelligence, and false ego, remains. As the air carries the scent of the place it blows over, so the soul carries a person's subtle body of mind, intelligence, and false ego, along with his state of consciousness, on to his next birth... More
≻ Quake Damage in Italy They are thinking, "We are going to dominate," but they are dominated always. Therefore, because they have no intelligence, they cannot understand. One earthquake can finish all this. More
≻ Going vegetarian is not enough The plants, the grass, the trees, the fruits, the flowers, they have also life. They are not dead. So simply becoming vegetarian is no great qualification. More
≻ Luck and Chance ...Natural conclusion is when there are so many varieties of life in our presence and they are, although in the same place, they haven't got the same facility, so there must be somebody who decides on this point. More
≻ Government's duty to intervene and protect the cows In modern human society, spiritual knowledge is neglected, and cow killing is encouraged. It is to be understood, then, that human society is advancing in the wrong direction and is clearing the path to its own condemnation. A civilization which guides the citizens to become animals in their next lives is certainly not a human civilization. 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
≻ Indian Government Official: "Let them eat rats" People are now addicted to eating animals, in spite of having an ample supply of grains, fruits and milk. More
≻ Tigers are for Killing and Getting Killed This demonic civilization is simply meant for being shot down by the laws of nature. Therefore you'll find revolution, war, in the western part of the world. They are being shot down by the laws of nature. They are thinking, "If we become tigerlike, our life is successful." But they do not know that if you become tigerlike, demon, you are just become suitable for being shot down. More
≻ Who gets to decide what is right and what is wrong, what is good and what is evil? GUEST: How does one find out that this act is pleasing Krishna or not? PRABHUPADA: Yes. GUEST: For example, a soldier fighting in a war... PRABHUPADA: Yes. Then you have got to talk with Krishna... GUEST: Or somebody... PRABHUPADA: Just like Arjuna talked. GUEST: No, I mean, for example, you know, somebody dropping bomb in Hiroshima or Nagasaki. How does he know...? More
≻ Beef and the degradation of the human race Beef is forbidden in the scriptures, and the bulls and cows are offered special protection by followers of the Vedas. But in this age of Kali, people will exploit the body of the bull and the cow as they like, and thus they will invite sufferings of various types. More
≻ The real calamity is unpreparedness The modern setup of human civilization is a risky one because it offers no education about relevant inquiries into the essential principles of life. Like animals, people do not know that they are going to be slaughtered by the laws of nature. More
≻ Cockroach on the 24th Floor High living, poor thinking [laughter]. No idea that "Now I am living in the skyscraper building on the twenty-fourth story, and next life I'm going to be cockroach here." More
≻ Animal Welfare vs Sacred Cow We are drinking the milk of the cow, and in exchange, if we cut the throat of our mother, that is not civilization. More
≻ Female feticide commonplace in India, the Land of Dharma The practice of killing children has existed in human society for a long time—since time immemorial—but in the days of yore it was very rarely performed. More
≻ Killing Them Softly? They are completely in the mode of darkness, just like the animals they slaughter. There may be many animals in a pasture, and if one takes an animal aside and cuts its throat, the other animals will simply stand, look, and continue eating grass. They do not realize that the next time they may be slaughtered. The people in Kali-yuga are in the same situation... More
≻ Violence at the Table According to Vedic scriptures, civilization begins with the cultivation of food. Barbarians are those who do not know how to cultivate the land and instead eat animals. More
≻ Evolution Interrupted If an animal is staying in a particular body for so many days or so many years and is untimely killed, then he has to come back again in that form of life to complete the remaining days in order to be promoted to another species of life. More
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≻ Imitating shark food So the person who is taking very much pleasure, dancing in the sea like fish, so he is contaminating that modes of nature so that in next life he will become a fish. He'll be very free to dance with the ocean. More
≻ Violence to Vegetables A human being is not to eat anything which is not offered to the Supreme Personality of Godhead.. More
≻ Above the Law "The intricacies of action are very hard to understand. Therefore one should know properly what action is, what forbidden action is, and what inaction is." More
≻ Culling the Herds ...They are killing cows in the thousands. Therefore they are unfortunate in spiritual consciousness, and nature disturbs them in so many ways, especially through incurable diseases like cancer and through frequent wars and among nations.. More
≻ Oil Karma We have created a facility for transport by motorcar or by aeroplane, but side by side, we have created another difficulty, that a man has to go to his work three hundred miles away. More
≻ BP Gulf of Mexico Disaster: At the Front Line and Behind the Scenes Just like a mad driver drinking drives recklessly to die, that's all. But he is thinking, "Oh, I am going with so much great speed." He does not know that he is going to die after few minutes. And that is their development. 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
≻ Judge injured in crash by drunk driver whom he spared from jail 11 years before Sometimes, however, a criminal may escape punishment by the state, but this is not the case with God's law.. More
≻ The Futility of Blockades and Flotillas Like small particles of sand, bodies come together and are separated by the force of time, and people falsely lament for unification and separation. More
≻ Turning over a new leaf Anyone who takes to Krishna consciousness, he doesn't require to endeavor for becoming a good man separately. More
≻ The Daily Kill What is the news value of a story of traditional ritual animal sacrifice in distant Nepal? "Sacrifice of 250,000 animals" grabs our attention momentarily, but it is scarcely noteworthy in comparision to the number of animals slaughtered day to day for tables around the world. Let's put things into perspective. More
≻ If lobsters could scream... Those who kill animals and give them unnecessary pain—as people do in slaughterhouses—will be killed in a similar way in the next life and in many lives to come. More
≻ The Weather Emergency In Vedic times the people's high level of God consciousness resulted in benevolent weather conditions everywhere. More
≻ World Farm Animals Day - Why not every day? In this age animals are kept nicely sheltered, completely confident that their masters will protect them, but unfortunately as soon as the animals are fat, they are immediately sent for slaughter. More
≻ Who can save you? Everyone is thinking like that. My nation, my community, my philosophy, my politics will save me. No. Nothing can save you. More
≻ Capital Punishment By killing a murderer the government shows mercy to him because if a murderer is not killed in this life, he will be killed and forced to suffer many times in future lives. More
≻ The business of saints Philanthropists and altruists do not realize that it is impossible to improve people's material conditions. Material conditions are already established by the superior administration according to one's karma. 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
≻ Vegan is not Prabhupada's teaching To adopt veganism is to adopt vegetarianism under a more atheistic philosophy - but masked by a purported "concern" for the suffering of the animals in the present system. It denies the purpose of the Lord behind HIS creation of the cow and bull in the first place. More
≻ The Price of Pork The laws of prakriti (nature) are very stringent. No one should think that he has the freedom to kill animals and not suffer the consequences. One cannot be safe by doing this. 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
≻ Death Camps Beget More Death Camps Sometimes during war, soldiers keep their enemies in concentration camps and kill them in very cruel ways. These are reactions brought about by unrestricted animal-killing... More
≻ We're all on Death Row Death destroys the body made up of the five gross elements, but the subtle body, consisting of mind, intelligence, and false ego, remains. As the air carries the scent of the place it blows over, so the soul carries a person's subtle body of mind, intelligence, and false ego, along with his state of consciousness, on to his next birth... More
≻ Quake Damage in Italy They are thinking, "We are going to dominate," but they are dominated always. Therefore, because they have no intelligence, they cannot understand. One earthquake can finish all this. More
≻ Going vegetarian is not enough The plants, the grass, the trees, the fruits, the flowers, they have also life. They are not dead. So simply becoming vegetarian is no great qualification. More
≻ Luck and Chance ...Natural conclusion is when there are so many varieties of life in our presence and they are, although in the same place, they haven't got the same facility, so there must be somebody who decides on this point. More
≻ Government's duty to intervene and protect the cows In modern human society, spiritual knowledge is neglected, and cow killing is encouraged. It is to be understood, then, that human society is advancing in the wrong direction and is clearing the path to its own condemnation. A civilization which guides the citizens to become animals in their next lives is certainly not a human civilization. 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
≻ Indian Government Official: "Let them eat rats" People are now addicted to eating animals, in spite of having an ample supply of grains, fruits and milk. More
≻ Tigers are for Killing and Getting Killed This demonic civilization is simply meant for being shot down by the laws of nature. Therefore you'll find revolution, war, in the western part of the world. They are being shot down by the laws of nature. They are thinking, "If we become tigerlike, our life is successful." But they do not know that if you become tigerlike, demon, you are just become suitable for being shot down. More
≻ Who gets to decide what is right and what is wrong, what is good and what is evil? GUEST: How does one find out that this act is pleasing Krishna or not? PRABHUPADA: Yes. GUEST: For example, a soldier fighting in a war... PRABHUPADA: Yes. Then you have got to talk with Krishna... GUEST: Or somebody... PRABHUPADA: Just like Arjuna talked. GUEST: No, I mean, for example, you know, somebody dropping bomb in Hiroshima or Nagasaki. How does he know...? More
≻ Beef and the degradation of the human race Beef is forbidden in the scriptures, and the bulls and cows are offered special protection by followers of the Vedas. But in this age of Kali, people will exploit the body of the bull and the cow as they like, and thus they will invite sufferings of various types. More
≻ The real calamity is unpreparedness The modern setup of human civilization is a risky one because it offers no education about relevant inquiries into the essential principles of life. Like animals, people do not know that they are going to be slaughtered by the laws of nature. More
≻ Cockroach on the 24th Floor High living, poor thinking [laughter]. No idea that "Now I am living in the skyscraper building on the twenty-fourth story, and next life I'm going to be cockroach here." More
≻ Animal Welfare vs Sacred Cow We are drinking the milk of the cow, and in exchange, if we cut the throat of our mother, that is not civilization. More
≻ Female feticide commonplace in India, the Land of Dharma The practice of killing children has existed in human society for a long time—since time immemorial—but in the days of yore it was very rarely performed. More
≻ Killing Them Softly? They are completely in the mode of darkness, just like the animals they slaughter. There may be many animals in a pasture, and if one takes an animal aside and cuts its throat, the other animals will simply stand, look, and continue eating grass. They do not realize that the next time they may be slaughtered. The people in Kali-yuga are in the same situation... More
≻ Violence at the Table According to Vedic scriptures, civilization begins with the cultivation of food. Barbarians are those who do not know how to cultivate the land and instead eat animals. More
≻ Evolution Interrupted If an animal is staying in a particular body for so many days or so many years and is untimely killed, then he has to come back again in that form of life to complete the remaining days in order to be promoted to another species of life. More
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≻ Out from the frying pan, out from the fire
Actually no one can counteract these threefold miseries. All three may assail one at one time, or one misery may be absent and the other present. Thus the living entity is full of anxiety, fearing misery from one side or the other. More
≻ Rough Times In this age, if one man can maintain his wife and children, he will be considered a great man. More
≻ Package Deal: Food, Clothing and Shelter Included But to give food, clothing and shelter without giving knowledge of Krishna is useless, because the original cause of his suffering will remain; and it will continue to aggravate him in the future, not only in this life, but in the next life and the next, until he becomes enlightened as to why he is suffering. More
≻ War Karma The Bible says, "Thou shalt not kill," and they are simply engaged in killing business, and still they want to be happy. Just see the fun. Therefore Krishna says, "Yes, you be killed by occasional world war. You must be killed. You have created this situation. More
≻ Get to the Root Cause Ultimate welfare, or ultimate charity, is to give the knowledge of Krishna. Christ called the fishermen and said, "Now you become fishers of men." He was concerned with missionary work, not with feeding and clothing people. He was concerned with enlightening people about their eternal relationship with God. More
≻ Nature Doesn't Forgive If a child unknowingly touches fire, does it mean that the fire will excuse the child and not burn? No. Nature's law is so strict, so stringent, that there is no question of an excuse. More
≻ Bid to Escape Punishment Sometimes, however, a criminal may escape punishment by the state, but this is not the case with God's law. One can cheat others, commit theft and hide, thereby saving himself from the punishment of the state, but one cannot save himself from the superior law, the law of nature. More
≻ Losing Karma Just as this woman's karma is pursuing her in this very lifetime wherever she goes, we also have to endure the reactions to our actions from our previous life, and in acting upon them or trying to counteract them, we incure new reactions which will carry over to our next life. More
≻ Good War, Bad War and Collective Responsibility In war either the husband or the brother or even the father or sons go to fight. And when they are killed, a fresh enmity is created, and thus a chain of actions and reactions increases... More
≻ Less Than Human After sex, the living entity takes shelter within the semina and ovum of the father and mother, and the formation is just like a small grain. That grain develops because the spirit soul has taken shelter. It is not that the body develops automatically, and at seven months there is life. More
≻ God doesn't play by our rules Whether I shall show mercy or I shall be very strong and strict, that is my will, freedom. I may show you mercy, I may not show. You cannot force me, that "You must become merciful." More
≻ Aid that Doesn't Work Philanthropists and altruists do not realize that it is impossible to improve people's material conditions. More
≻ Natural Consequences Laws of nature means laws of God. It is executed through the machine of nature. 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
≻ Your Next Body Determined by Higher Authorities You have to change your body. Next body you can get a cat's body or dog's body, a tree's body or a demigod's body or a Brahma's body or a Indra's body, Indian body, American body, serpent body, insect body, bird's body, aquatic, any, any... There is no guarantee. 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
≻ "Again Become a Mouse" By the grace of God, Krishna, you have become so powerful nation, rich, beautiful, educated. By grace of Krishna you have become, but if you forget Krishna, then you are again going to be mouse. 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? And especially when I engage myself in His service? More
≻ Outcry Over Boatload of Animals So you can eat dogs, hogs, so many other animals. But don't touch the cows. This is God's instruction. More
≻ Hospital Staff Indifference Kills Woman There may be many animals in a pasture, and if one takes an animal aside and cuts its throat, the other animals will simply stand, look, and continue eating grass. More
≻ Discriminating Against the Poor
But just consider: if a poor man is lying helpless in the street, can I kill him? Will the state excuse me? I may say, "I have only killed a poor man. There was no need for him in society. Why should such a person live?" More
≻ Get Out of Jail To get yourself promoted in higher standard of life, from C-class prisoner to become A-class prisoner, that is not required. More
≻ There must be some mistake - I'm not this body So why there are different types of bodies? Because you wanted a particular type of enjoyment under the influence of material nature. More
≻ Who is this person I knew to be my son, my brother? The so-called father and mother have nothing to do with the living entity. As a result of his own choice and karma, the living being takes different bodies through the agency of so-called fathers and mothers. More
≻ Biodiesel and Blood When animals are killed in a slaughterhouse, six people connected with the killing are responsible for the murder. More
≻ Wolf by Degrees Because Krishna knows that I wanted to enjoy something in this material world, He gives me the chance. "Now I give you the opportunity. Enjoy. You wanted a body like this? All right, You take this body." More
≻ Thou Shalt Not Kill It is said in the Bhagavad-gita, samo 'ham sarva-bhuteshu: [Bg. 9.29] "I am equal to everyone." Otherwise how He is God? God is not partial, that somebody should be killed and somebody should be rewarded with ten thousand dollars. No. It is our own work, we create such situation. More
≻ God Is Not Your Order Supplier Krishna has come. Welcome Krishna. But if you noncooperate with Krishna, then how you'll get happiness? Krishna has already come by this Krishna consciousness movement. You receive Him. More
≻ Tenuous Shelter: From Conception to Birth Lord Kapila’s instructions on the movements of the living entities, how the living entity is conceived within the womb of the mother, how its body develops, and what its situation is. More
≻ Save the Cow! GUEST: There's an organization of people who are very concerned about people killing whales and baby seals. HANSADUTTA: But they themselves are killing cows and eating them. More
≻ Who is Mischievous? If a person is devoid of God consciousness and yet has many good qualities, his good qualities are to be considered useless. More
≻ Changing Bodies in this Lifetime As you are changing your body, we have changed, every one of us, we have changed body. I was a baby. I was a child. I was a boy. I was young man. Now I have got a different body. Where have those bodies gone? 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
≻ Not Meant for Money At the present moment, because the whole population are shudras, as soon as they get money, they spend it for wine, women, and squander it away. More
≻ Shelter from the Storm The wealth of the world actually belongs to Krishna, and every living entity, man and animal, has the birthright to use God's property for his maintenance. When one takes more than his maintenance requires—be he a capitalist or a communist—he is a thief, and as such he is liable to be punished by the laws of nature. More
≻ Consequences of Choice There is abortion. The body is killed. Contraception... The body is killed. But the soul, he's not killed. If you make some inconvenience to the soul, who has taken shelter in the womb, and you kill the body, then he'll have to search out another body. More
≻ You Too Will Be Kicked Out 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
≻ 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
≻ "Who is my Father? Who is my Mother?"
"According to the results of my fruitive activities, I, the living being, transmigrate from one body to another... in which birth were these two my mother and father?" More
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≻ Rough Times In this age, if one man can maintain his wife and children, he will be considered a great man. More
≻ Package Deal: Food, Clothing and Shelter Included But to give food, clothing and shelter without giving knowledge of Krishna is useless, because the original cause of his suffering will remain; and it will continue to aggravate him in the future, not only in this life, but in the next life and the next, until he becomes enlightened as to why he is suffering. More
≻ War Karma The Bible says, "Thou shalt not kill," and they are simply engaged in killing business, and still they want to be happy. Just see the fun. Therefore Krishna says, "Yes, you be killed by occasional world war. You must be killed. You have created this situation. More
≻ Get to the Root Cause Ultimate welfare, or ultimate charity, is to give the knowledge of Krishna. Christ called the fishermen and said, "Now you become fishers of men." He was concerned with missionary work, not with feeding and clothing people. He was concerned with enlightening people about their eternal relationship with God. More
≻ Nature Doesn't Forgive If a child unknowingly touches fire, does it mean that the fire will excuse the child and not burn? No. Nature's law is so strict, so stringent, that there is no question of an excuse. More
≻ Bid to Escape Punishment Sometimes, however, a criminal may escape punishment by the state, but this is not the case with God's law. One can cheat others, commit theft and hide, thereby saving himself from the punishment of the state, but one cannot save himself from the superior law, the law of nature. More
≻ Losing Karma Just as this woman's karma is pursuing her in this very lifetime wherever she goes, we also have to endure the reactions to our actions from our previous life, and in acting upon them or trying to counteract them, we incure new reactions which will carry over to our next life. More
≻ Good War, Bad War and Collective Responsibility In war either the husband or the brother or even the father or sons go to fight. And when they are killed, a fresh enmity is created, and thus a chain of actions and reactions increases... More
≻ Less Than Human After sex, the living entity takes shelter within the semina and ovum of the father and mother, and the formation is just like a small grain. That grain develops because the spirit soul has taken shelter. It is not that the body develops automatically, and at seven months there is life. More
≻ God doesn't play by our rules Whether I shall show mercy or I shall be very strong and strict, that is my will, freedom. I may show you mercy, I may not show. You cannot force me, that "You must become merciful." More
≻ Aid that Doesn't Work Philanthropists and altruists do not realize that it is impossible to improve people's material conditions. More
≻ Natural Consequences Laws of nature means laws of God. It is executed through the machine of nature. 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
≻ Your Next Body Determined by Higher Authorities You have to change your body. Next body you can get a cat's body or dog's body, a tree's body or a demigod's body or a Brahma's body or a Indra's body, Indian body, American body, serpent body, insect body, bird's body, aquatic, any, any... There is no guarantee. 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
≻ "Again Become a Mouse" By the grace of God, Krishna, you have become so powerful nation, rich, beautiful, educated. By grace of Krishna you have become, but if you forget Krishna, then you are again going to be mouse. 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? And especially when I engage myself in His service? More
≻ Outcry Over Boatload of Animals So you can eat dogs, hogs, so many other animals. But don't touch the cows. This is God's instruction. More
≻ Hospital Staff Indifference Kills Woman There may be many animals in a pasture, and if one takes an animal aside and cuts its throat, the other animals will simply stand, look, and continue eating grass. More
≻ Discriminating Against the Poor
But just consider: if a poor man is lying helpless in the street, can I kill him? Will the state excuse me? I may say, "I have only killed a poor man. There was no need for him in society. Why should such a person live?" More
≻ Get Out of Jail To get yourself promoted in higher standard of life, from C-class prisoner to become A-class prisoner, that is not required. More
≻ There must be some mistake - I'm not this body So why there are different types of bodies? Because you wanted a particular type of enjoyment under the influence of material nature. More
≻ Who is this person I knew to be my son, my brother? The so-called father and mother have nothing to do with the living entity. As a result of his own choice and karma, the living being takes different bodies through the agency of so-called fathers and mothers. More
≻ Biodiesel and Blood When animals are killed in a slaughterhouse, six people connected with the killing are responsible for the murder. More
≻ Wolf by Degrees Because Krishna knows that I wanted to enjoy something in this material world, He gives me the chance. "Now I give you the opportunity. Enjoy. You wanted a body like this? All right, You take this body." More
≻ Thou Shalt Not Kill It is said in the Bhagavad-gita, samo 'ham sarva-bhuteshu: [Bg. 9.29] "I am equal to everyone." Otherwise how He is God? God is not partial, that somebody should be killed and somebody should be rewarded with ten thousand dollars. No. It is our own work, we create such situation. More
≻ God Is Not Your Order Supplier Krishna has come. Welcome Krishna. But if you noncooperate with Krishna, then how you'll get happiness? Krishna has already come by this Krishna consciousness movement. You receive Him. More
≻ Tenuous Shelter: From Conception to Birth Lord Kapila’s instructions on the movements of the living entities, how the living entity is conceived within the womb of the mother, how its body develops, and what its situation is. More
≻ Save the Cow! GUEST: There's an organization of people who are very concerned about people killing whales and baby seals. HANSADUTTA: But they themselves are killing cows and eating them. More
≻ Who is Mischievous? If a person is devoid of God consciousness and yet has many good qualities, his good qualities are to be considered useless. More
≻ Changing Bodies in this Lifetime As you are changing your body, we have changed, every one of us, we have changed body. I was a baby. I was a child. I was a boy. I was young man. Now I have got a different body. Where have those bodies gone? 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
≻ Not Meant for Money At the present moment, because the whole population are shudras, as soon as they get money, they spend it for wine, women, and squander it away. More
≻ Shelter from the Storm The wealth of the world actually belongs to Krishna, and every living entity, man and animal, has the birthright to use God's property for his maintenance. When one takes more than his maintenance requires—be he a capitalist or a communist—he is a thief, and as such he is liable to be punished by the laws of nature. More
≻ Consequences of Choice There is abortion. The body is killed. Contraception... The body is killed. But the soul, he's not killed. If you make some inconvenience to the soul, who has taken shelter in the womb, and you kill the body, then he'll have to search out another body. More
≻ You Too Will Be Kicked Out 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
≻ 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
≻ "Who is my Father? Who is my Mother?"
"According to the results of my fruitive activities, I, the living being, transmigrate from one body to another... in which birth were these two my mother and father?" More
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≻ 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. If someone, however, gives him information that he is simply suffering because he has left his father's home and that his father, a very wealthy man and owner of vast property, is anxious to have him return—the person is a great benefactor. More
≻ Blessed Art Thou Without Soul? May, may I ask you one question? Jesus says: "Thou shalt not kill." So why Christian people are killing? More
≻ Karma-free Welfare Work We may perform work which may be very altruistic or humanitarian in the opinion of the world and yet be bound to material activity. So it is not the action itself which is important but the consciousness in which the action is carried out. More
≻ Out to Destroy The unwanted administrators, puffed up by false power and military strength, thus become engaged in fighting amongst themselves over ideological conflicts and so exhaust themselves of all powers. More
≻ Nobody Survives Nobody wants death, but we are talking of survival. Who can escape death? There is no possibility. More
≻ If we all did it... In the act of killing an animal, there is a regular conspiracy by the party of sinners, and all of them are liable to be punished as murderers exactly like a party of conspirators who kill a human being combinedly. More
≻ Who's Wrong When Your Right is My Left? Somebody says "Keep to the left is right," somebody says "Keep to the left, it is wrong." More
≻ Mercy Killing or Killing Mercy? The living entity gets a suitable body with a material mind and senses, according to his fruitive activities. When the reaction of his particular activity comes to an end, that end is called death, and when a particular type of reaction begins, that beginning is called birth. 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
≻ War of the Politicians At the present moment, the law is the civilians are not attacked. The military target is attacked. That is the law. But they do all nonsense. More
≻ Iron Curtain Deja Vu and Welcome (Not!) to the Nuke Club Very quickly this Communistic feeling is aroused, and they fight, like cats and dogs. "Oh, here is another dog! Here is another dog, coming from another neighborhood." 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
≻ Poignant Reminder: Nobody's Safe 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
≻ Cows and Karma We don't want to stop trade or the production of grains and vegetables and fruit. But we want to stop these killing houses. It is very, very sinful. That is why all over the world they have so many wars. Every 10 or 15 years there is a big war—a wholesale slaughterhouse for humankind. But these rascals—they do not see it, that by the law of karma, every action must have its reaction. 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
≻ Transmigration of the Soul What does make it migrate? It is jiva's own karma or action. The apparent self being the handiwork of Maya, falls an easy prey to her temptations, and acting up to these temptations it does certain things, the resultant force of which propels it for fresh and very often entirely new actions, which necessitate new births for their accomplishment. More
≻ First to Drop the Bomb The first party who will drop the bomb on the other party, he will be victorious, and immediately the war will stop. More
≻ Nonviolence and Weisswurst on the Same Tongue But if we take the words he quoted from the Byzantine emperor— "I quote, 'Show me just what Muhamad brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached.'" and substitute the name Muhamad with that of Pope Urban II, we have the history of the Crusades. More
≻ Nirvana and the Noble Path, Morality and Krishna The conclusion is that this material morality has no value. Spiritual morality. Spiritual morality means to abide by the order of Krishna. That is morality. More
≻ Water Supply Turned Off for Unpaid Debts If you don't pay debts, if you don't perform sacrifices, then there will be scarcity of water. And one day it will come there will be no water. More
≻ Stop the Killing, Stop the Cheating Ignorance is going as science. Irreligion is going as religion. So how long it will go? People are becoming intelligent. More
≻ What is the Matter with the World? The atheistic civilization is to be troubled more and more with the progress of materialism. We have such foretellings in the pages of Srimad-Bhagavatam. The more the people are turning to the atheistic, the more things of disturbing elements do appear before us. And that is the thing which matters at present. This is a wrong type of civilization. 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. You cannot check it. Best thing is that you mold your life and go back to home, back to Godhead. "Oil in your own machine." More
≻ The Worst Things are Already Happening In the last stage of Kali-yuga there will be no food grains, no milk, no fruits. It will be a very horrible time. People will kill their own children and eat them, just like animals. More
≻ An Open Letter to Pope Paul VI from A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami 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
≻ "Where was God?" Pope Benedict XVI doesn't know where God was at the time of the holocaust. Does he forget where he himself and the rest of us are? More
≻ Meat Eating, Animal Protection and Good Friday GUEST: I don't think God intended us to take "Thou shalt not kill" so literally. HANSADUTTA: What is the use of Jesus talking, if you are going to interpret everything he says? He must be intelligent enough to say what he means. Why should you assume that he did not mean what he said? More
≻ To War or Not? We are always in perplexity like Arjuna, what to do, what not to do. But if we take this principle, that "We must do for Krishna..." So take direction from Krishna and take direction from Krishna's representative and you do it; then there is no karma-bandhanah. ... Otherwise, we are bound up by the reaction of every act. More
≻ Kill and Be Killed Even the heads of religions indulge in killing animals while trying to pass as saintly persons. This mockery and hypocrisy in human society bring about unlimited calamities; therefore occasionally there are great wars. Masses of such people go out onto battlefields and kill themselves. Presently they have discovered the atomic bomb, which is simply waiting to be used for wholesale destruction. More
≻ War and More War, As Far As We Can See It is the person who rules, and not the impersonal government. If the person is perfect, the government is perfect. If the person is a fool, the government is a fool's paradise. More
≻ Nuclear Reaction - Collective Karma The general idea of the public is that it is the political leaders who are the cause of nuclear armament, nuclear arms race, stockpiles of nuclear weapons, of which statistics tell us there are at least fifty thousand. More
≻ Live And Let Die—Wars Fought For Whim So these wars are declared not for Krishna's sake; by the politicians' whims. So they must be responsible for this war. 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
≻ Karma Whatever is coming by the grace of Krishna we can accept. Every one of us has an account, like a savings account, and that is called karma. It is what we have brought from the last life--our savings, or the reactions to our work in the last life. It may be good (credit) or it may be bad (debit). More
≻ Reincarnation There are different styles of clothing in the department store, and we purchase a suit of clothing according to our capacity to pay for it. More
≻ Food for Life "Of what use are all your sacrifices to Me? I have had enough of the roasted carcasses of rams and of the fat of fattened beasts. I take no pleasure in the blood of calves, lambs and goats . . . When you spread out your hands, I close My eyes to you; despite however much you pray, I will not listen. Your hands are full of blood! Wash yourselves clean! Put away your misdeeds from before My eyes and stop doing evil." (Isaiah 1:11, 1:15-16) More
≻ You Want to be Rockefeller? Shripada Shankaracharya is advising us that we should not unnecessarily endeavor to increase our wealth or waste time trying to improve our economic situation. That is the negative. The positive instruction is instead of trying to improve our economic standard, we should rather try to cultivate spiritual intelligence and improve our spiritual standing. More
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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. If someone, however, gives him information that he is simply suffering because he has left his father's home and that his father, a very wealthy man and owner of vast property, is anxious to have him return—the person is a great benefactor. More
≻ Blessed Art Thou Without Soul? May, may I ask you one question? Jesus says: "Thou shalt not kill." So why Christian people are killing? More
≻ Karma-free Welfare Work We may perform work which may be very altruistic or humanitarian in the opinion of the world and yet be bound to material activity. So it is not the action itself which is important but the consciousness in which the action is carried out. More
≻ Out to Destroy The unwanted administrators, puffed up by false power and military strength, thus become engaged in fighting amongst themselves over ideological conflicts and so exhaust themselves of all powers. More
≻ Nobody Survives Nobody wants death, but we are talking of survival. Who can escape death? There is no possibility. More
≻ If we all did it... In the act of killing an animal, there is a regular conspiracy by the party of sinners, and all of them are liable to be punished as murderers exactly like a party of conspirators who kill a human being combinedly. More
≻ Who's Wrong When Your Right is My Left? Somebody says "Keep to the left is right," somebody says "Keep to the left, it is wrong." More
≻ Mercy Killing or Killing Mercy? The living entity gets a suitable body with a material mind and senses, according to his fruitive activities. When the reaction of his particular activity comes to an end, that end is called death, and when a particular type of reaction begins, that beginning is called birth. 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
≻ War of the Politicians At the present moment, the law is the civilians are not attacked. The military target is attacked. That is the law. But they do all nonsense. More
≻ Iron Curtain Deja Vu and Welcome (Not!) to the Nuke Club Very quickly this Communistic feeling is aroused, and they fight, like cats and dogs. "Oh, here is another dog! Here is another dog, coming from another neighborhood." 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
≻ Poignant Reminder: Nobody's Safe 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
≻ Cows and Karma We don't want to stop trade or the production of grains and vegetables and fruit. But we want to stop these killing houses. It is very, very sinful. That is why all over the world they have so many wars. Every 10 or 15 years there is a big war—a wholesale slaughterhouse for humankind. But these rascals—they do not see it, that by the law of karma, every action must have its reaction. 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
≻ Transmigration of the Soul What does make it migrate? It is jiva's own karma or action. The apparent self being the handiwork of Maya, falls an easy prey to her temptations, and acting up to these temptations it does certain things, the resultant force of which propels it for fresh and very often entirely new actions, which necessitate new births for their accomplishment. More
≻ First to Drop the Bomb The first party who will drop the bomb on the other party, he will be victorious, and immediately the war will stop. More
≻ Nonviolence and Weisswurst on the Same Tongue But if we take the words he quoted from the Byzantine emperor— "I quote, 'Show me just what Muhamad brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached.'" and substitute the name Muhamad with that of Pope Urban II, we have the history of the Crusades. More
≻ Nirvana and the Noble Path, Morality and Krishna The conclusion is that this material morality has no value. Spiritual morality. Spiritual morality means to abide by the order of Krishna. That is morality. More
≻ Water Supply Turned Off for Unpaid Debts If you don't pay debts, if you don't perform sacrifices, then there will be scarcity of water. And one day it will come there will be no water. More
≻ Stop the Killing, Stop the Cheating Ignorance is going as science. Irreligion is going as religion. So how long it will go? People are becoming intelligent. More
≻ What is the Matter with the World? The atheistic civilization is to be troubled more and more with the progress of materialism. We have such foretellings in the pages of Srimad-Bhagavatam. The more the people are turning to the atheistic, the more things of disturbing elements do appear before us. And that is the thing which matters at present. This is a wrong type of civilization. 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. You cannot check it. Best thing is that you mold your life and go back to home, back to Godhead. "Oil in your own machine." More
≻ The Worst Things are Already Happening In the last stage of Kali-yuga there will be no food grains, no milk, no fruits. It will be a very horrible time. People will kill their own children and eat them, just like animals. More
≻ An Open Letter to Pope Paul VI from A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami 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
≻ "Where was God?" Pope Benedict XVI doesn't know where God was at the time of the holocaust. Does he forget where he himself and the rest of us are? More
≻ Meat Eating, Animal Protection and Good Friday GUEST: I don't think God intended us to take "Thou shalt not kill" so literally. HANSADUTTA: What is the use of Jesus talking, if you are going to interpret everything he says? He must be intelligent enough to say what he means. Why should you assume that he did not mean what he said? More
≻ To War or Not? We are always in perplexity like Arjuna, what to do, what not to do. But if we take this principle, that "We must do for Krishna..." So take direction from Krishna and take direction from Krishna's representative and you do it; then there is no karma-bandhanah. ... Otherwise, we are bound up by the reaction of every act. More
≻ Kill and Be Killed Even the heads of religions indulge in killing animals while trying to pass as saintly persons. This mockery and hypocrisy in human society bring about unlimited calamities; therefore occasionally there are great wars. Masses of such people go out onto battlefields and kill themselves. Presently they have discovered the atomic bomb, which is simply waiting to be used for wholesale destruction. More
≻ War and More War, As Far As We Can See It is the person who rules, and not the impersonal government. If the person is perfect, the government is perfect. If the person is a fool, the government is a fool's paradise. More
≻ Nuclear Reaction - Collective Karma The general idea of the public is that it is the political leaders who are the cause of nuclear armament, nuclear arms race, stockpiles of nuclear weapons, of which statistics tell us there are at least fifty thousand. More
≻ Live And Let Die—Wars Fought For Whim So these wars are declared not for Krishna's sake; by the politicians' whims. So they must be responsible for this war. 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
≻ Karma Whatever is coming by the grace of Krishna we can accept. Every one of us has an account, like a savings account, and that is called karma. It is what we have brought from the last life--our savings, or the reactions to our work in the last life. It may be good (credit) or it may be bad (debit). More
≻ Reincarnation There are different styles of clothing in the department store, and we purchase a suit of clothing according to our capacity to pay for it. More
≻ Food for Life "Of what use are all your sacrifices to Me? I have had enough of the roasted carcasses of rams and of the fat of fattened beasts. I take no pleasure in the blood of calves, lambs and goats . . . When you spread out your hands, I close My eyes to you; despite however much you pray, I will not listen. Your hands are full of blood! Wash yourselves clean! Put away your misdeeds from before My eyes and stop doing evil." (Isaiah 1:11, 1:15-16) More
≻ You Want to be Rockefeller? Shripada Shankaracharya is advising us that we should not unnecessarily endeavor to increase our wealth or waste time trying to improve our economic situation. That is the negative. The positive instruction is instead of trying to improve our economic standard, we should rather try to cultivate spiritual intelligence and improve our spiritual standing. More
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