Prabhupada Quotes

Avidya is the foundation for ahankara

False shelters perpetuate the struggle for material existence

Imitation of a good thing is desired

Recover spiritual health by regular cultivation of Krishna consciousness

Misdirected interest is sign of disease

No room for jealousy in transcendental science

Associate with those who have not forgotten Krishna

To be both honest and wise, be Krishna conscious

The way to forming an ideal society

How the Krishna consciousness movement contributes to world peace

Materialists are conspicuous by their ability to exploit others

The natural principle for bodily maintenance

Mistaking spiritual focus as old-fashioned is unfortunate

Distress doesn’t disturb a devotee’s devotional service

Krishna helps us from within and without

God is all-good; God is all-merciful

What is the purpose of the Bhagavad-gita?

Matter, not spirit, is formless

See miseries as reminders of spiritual reality

God is more sorry than we are for our sufferings

A child is born not just through the genitals but through the heart

Spiritual irresponsibility plunges us into an ocean of reproachment

Go beyond piety to spirituality to gain liberation

The human junction calls for an intelligent decision

Why work harder than the animals for what the animals get?

Everything in the spiritual world is pleasantly scented – even stool and urine

Don’t mistake the Lord’s pervasion of everything to be pantheism

A Vaishnava worships demigods by glorifying their devotion to the Supreme

Don’t compromise with misery; cure it

The Lord doesn’t need a temple; we do

God does not belong to any religion

No one is more attractive or more authoritative than Krishna

Recite Bhagavatam to extinguish the fire of material existence, not the fire of the belly

What is the main purpose of life?

Worshiping matter instead of Vishnu is not progress; it is blindness

How material enjoyment increases our suffering

Be not the deluded by maya’s promises of happiness

We are always vulnerable, never safe

Material happiness is an illusion

The two phases of Maya’s activities

How we are victimized by sense gratification

Sense gratification blinds us to the consequences

All other processes are tributaries in the river of devotional service

What the spiritual master’s training should do to us

The motive of social decoration blocks philosophical illumination

Those who are sectarian mistake devotional service to be sectarian

Why different seekers see the same Absolute Truth differently

All the demigods are material representations of the Supreme Lord

Are we trying to cleanse ourselves with drain water instead of Ganges water?

Uncover consciousness with the sunlight of scriptural wisdom

All that glitters may not be gold but it is not nothing

The unified spiritual perception underlying the diversified sense perception

Control the senses by offering them the supreme engagement

The only way to see the Lord face to face

Perception of the disagreeable arises from attachment

Real brahma-darshanam happens by bhakti

When Krishna gives everything why go to anyone else?

The only process that takes us beyond falldown

Partial interest in elevating principles can obstruct ultimate elevation

Any God-centered literature is preferable to mundane literature

Impersonalism can cause even the greatest to fall back to the material world

Both Mayavadis and Vaishnavas want to merge into the Supreme

The difference between unpurified consciousness and purified consciousness

How impersonlism aggravates religious materialism

Vedic animal sacrifice was not a substitute for a slaughterhouse

Bodily fitness is the side-result, not the main result, of yoga practice

The perfection of yoga and the imitation of yoga

Why the Puranas sometimes glorify demigods to be supreme

The best souls not only see the good in others but also magnify it

See every body as a temple of the Lord

Our relatives can hurt us more than our enemies

How good qualities become bad

How spiritual distress is also blissful

Degradation of the defiant vindicates the Vedic principles

How the varnashrama system is sanatana

The Vedas are the bridge across the ocean of material existence

Offenses open the door to further abominable actions

A perfection that is a concoction

A new phase of progressive life

The darkest region of craziness

What human society needs to understand

Awarding fearlessness is the greatest act of charity

Pure Krishna consciousness is our birthright

How all living beings manifest different gradations of Brahman

Don’t mistake lack of qualification as sectarian discrimination

Material varieties are not exactly illusions but reflections

Inferring the transcendence of the Lord

No spiritual advancement without sense control

We need to come to goodness to start getting inner guidance

Be broad-minded, not cripple-minded

Cherish the attitude to become a perfect gosvami

Waste of time is an incalculable loss

How renunciation helps one maintain one’s self-respect

Seek real family association with Krishna

The spiritual master helps us discover how best to serve Krishna

How the spiritual master’s grace is received through the ears

Scriptural revelation is an expression of the Lord’s inconceivable power

Bodily dresses that offer more or less opportunity for liberation

Madanamohana alone protects us from the infatuation of Madana

New life comes not from sex but from the soul