The material world and virtual reality This material world is only imitation. This material sky and everything, whatever you see—all imitation, shadow. It is shadow. Just like in cinematographic picture you see the shadow of the real thing behind, similarly, this is only shadow. More
Krishna consciousness vs unconsciousness It's just like there are two fish. One fish says, "Didn't you see the water?" And the other fish says, "No. Where is it?" More
Value of the Real Thing As soon as you try to sell a diamond, you cannot expect many customers. Nonetheless, a diamond is a diamond, even if there are no customers. The number of customers is not the test. The customer must pay the value of the item. More
Admitting to madness Anyone who is in this material world—more or less crazy, madman. Because he doesn't care for God, therefore he's crazy. He is completely under the control of God, but still, he has the audacity to say, "No, I don't believe in God." More
Murder and Madness Our viewpoint is that in the material world, who has accepted this material body—anyone, but we specially take the human society—they require treatment, everyone. Everyone is mentally diseased, and therefore he is unhappy. Everyone. 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
Perverted Reflection All our relationships here, either as master and servant or as friend and friend or as parents and child or as husband and wife or as lover and the beloved, any relationship, whatever we see here, that is the perverted reflection of our eternal relationship with God. More
Serving the Wrong Masters You can go on giving service in this material world under so many designation, but you will never be happy, and the person to whom you are giving service, he will be not happy. 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
Just One More Thing Everyone feels spiritual life is very nice, but "I have to do this, I have to do that." One Christian saint prayed, "O Lord, please save me, but not today." More
No Sir, You are Not Safe I am thinking, "Now I have got good home, good wife, nice children, nice bank balance. So I am safe now." More
Maya On a morning walk with Prabhupada in Stockholm, Sweden, we were suddenly blinded by what appeared to be the light of the sun. It was only the sun being reflected from a large glass window. Prabhupada stopped and pointed in the direction of the glare. "This is maya. More
Virtual Reality: First Subtle, Then Gross The mind is the subtle substance in which the body is created, as we actually experience in our dreams and also when we are awake in contemplation. One must understand that the process of mental speculation develops a new type of body that does not actually exist. More

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Waking Up Whether I am intelligently working during the time when I am awake, or whether I am working under dreams, or whether I am being transferred to another body—I am having sound sleep under chloroform—I am the same. I am the same. I am that eternal soul. 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
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
Psychological Breakdown Disciple: Another reason they feel very depressed is that they feel powerless, that they have no power to control their destiny, that all the big social forces, all the big social powers, they're controlling their lives, and... More
Servant of Dog I have no shame that I have become servant of dog and I refuse to be servant of God. 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. You do like this." So in every respect the Lord is trying to help us. 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
The Real American Idols Karandhara: They trust the doctors the first, and they trust television the second. Prabhupada: Television. Karandhara: Whatever they see on television, they accept. Prabhupada: Why they give so much authority to television? More
Propensity for Amnesia After creating in bodily relationships so many unwanted things, I am absorbed in thought, that "I am, I belong to such and such nation. Therefore I have got my duty to do this, do that for the nation, or to the society, or to the family, or to my personal self, or to my wife, my children." This is, according to Vedic conception, this is illusion. More
Day Dream, Night Dream Just like in dream we see so many things. But it has nothing to do with me. So this is night dream. At night, we forget all these things about the day dream.  More
The Clock is Ticking, But Time is Not About to Run Out Just Yet The duration of the material universe is limited. It is manifested in cycles of kalpas. A kalpa is a day of Brahma, and one day of Brahma consists of a thousand cycles of four yugas or ages: Satya, Treta, Dvapara, and Kali. 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

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Free from Anxieties It is a drug. It is oblivion. Sometimes, for sometimes we forget everything, but again when you come to your consciousness the same anxieties and same thing are there. 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. There is a controlling power in the universe, and no sane man can deny it. More
Believe or Not Believe; Fact is Fact This is not science. But they are going on like that. Whole Darwin's theory is based on this, "Maybe millions of years past..." More
Quarrels Breaking Out over Trifles These literatures in the modes of passion and ignorance are distributed under different labels, but they can hardly help the spiritual urge of the human being. More
No Such Thing as Non-reality It is spiritual as soon as you become a devotee, spiritual. We are living in the spiritual world. That I explained last night. So ultimately there is nothing material. Material means when you forget Krishna. 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
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
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
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
Description of the Age of Quarrel A person's spiritual position will be ascertained merely according to external symbols, and on the same basis people will change from one spiritual order to the next. A person's propriety will be seriously questioned if he does not earn a good living. And one who is very clever at juggling words will be considered a learned scholar. More
Out from Delusion The material world is not a place for enjoyment; it is a place for suffering. But because we are mad… nunam pramattah kurute vikarma: when one makes the aim of life sense gratification, he becomes mad. He becomes deranged, deluded. He is in hallucination. More
Who is Crazy? The body may change, yet we have the feeling that we do not change. “I am the same man,” we think, “and in my childhood I looked like this or like that.” More
Do You Really Know Who You Are? It is said that just as travelers at an inn meet for some time during their meal and when their meals are finished again go their separate ways, similarly, living entities are brought together by the force of karma...  More
Lust, Anger, Greed; Don't Walk the Road to Hell The disease of the conditioned soul is that he wants to lord it over material nature. He wants to usurp the position of the supreme living entity. Everyone is trying to become the greatest person in his field. That is called ahankara. Ahankara means false ego, or false identity. More

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The material world and virtual reality
Krishna consciousness vs unconsciousness
Value of the Real Thing
Admitting to madness
Murder and Madness
The Mother of All Mistakes
Perverted Reflection
Serving the Wrong Masters
Can You See Where You're Going?
Just One More Thing
No Sir, You are Not Safe
Maya
Virtual Reality: First Subtle, Then Gross
Waking Up
Cheaters and the Cheated
Endangered Species
Psychological Breakdown
Servant of Dog
Changing Bodies in this Lifetime
Recovery from Amnesia
Big Thief, Small Thief
The Real American Idols
Propensity for Amnesia
Day Dream, Night Dream
The Clock is Ticking, But Time is Not About to Run Out Just Yet
Living a Life of Deception
Free from Anxieties
Power Beyond Us
Believe or Not Believe; Fact is Fact
Quarrels Breaking Out over Trifles
No Such Thing as Non-reality
Wake Up to Your Real State of Consciousness
World of Terror
Who are the Terrorists?
The Premise is the Problem
Description of the Age of Quarrel
Out from Delusion
Who is Crazy?
Do You Really Know Who You Are?
Lust, Anger, Greed; Don't Walk the Road to Hell


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