Prabhupada Quotes

How bhakti-yoga is the best yoga

A propaganda that is simply bogus

God consciousness should engender respect for all living beings

God’s presence in us make us temples, not the Deity in the temples

We cannot bribe the Personality of Godhead

KC doesn’t cause miseries to disappear, but it makes them ineffective

Let us remember the basic principle of love

Imagination leads only to further imagination, not to reality

Redirect reading propensity from fiction to the Lord’s pastimes

The goal of yoga is not mystic power, but spiritual insight

How material activity can be spiritualized

Wake up from the dream of material consciousness by Krishna consciousness

How to ensure that disturbances don’t disturb us

Don’t invent unnecessary necessities

Time is absolute and real

Why demigod worship is recommended – and why it is unnecessary

Avoid association of those with poor character – even if they are devotees

Service attitude makes disordered society orderly

Absence of sevice attitude makes brahmana worse than shudra

False mastership makes us real servant

Don’t make a minor controvery major

Human life is meant for cooperating with the whole

How the unseen guidance of Krishna wakes us up to real life

What is the highest perfectional charity?

The last reaction of avidya

How the senses can be stopped from mischievous activities

How our miseries are hallucinations

Laborious jugglery of words is a gift of the illusory energy

Devotees stay free from hankerings

The antiseptic against material infection

No retirement in spiritual life

The purpose of temples

The significance of the Lord’s cakra

Pure bhakti is the only way to avoid sinful action and suffering

When government turns predator…

The standard of pure devotion is to regret past sinful activities

Spread the Hare Krishna movement to counter governmental mismanagement

Devotional service can protect us in all circumstances

Do devotees need to consult horoscope for marriage?

All incarnations have a coherent purpose

For self-control, we need the protection of the Lord

Chanting is always superbly effective

Dovetailing our natural tendencies

The basic principle of spiritual life

Krishna becomes our internal spiritual master through the external spiritual master

Playboys are shudras

Conceptions of oneness – manufactured and authentic

The only insurance against falldown is stage

Throw yourself on the bow of the holy name towards Krishna

Sharpen the weapon of jnana by service

Varieties in the material world originate in real prototypes in the spiritual world

Deviations in the four ashramas

No need to spend lavishly on ritualistic ceremonies

Animal killing for both religion and food is abominable

Overcome lusty desires by determination

Austerity for spiritual advancement is not as dangerous as struggle for material improvement

What is time?

Avoid an argumentative attitude

What temples are meant for – and not meant for

How the time factor enables us to come closer to Krishna

Observe the time factor intelligently

Genuine devotees feel themselves lower than other devotees

Victimized by sex because of lack of education and culture

We are not interested in a bluff of spiritual advancement

How the entire material world becomes spiritualized

Yoga-nidra is not nidra

Bad association makes material existence intolerably miserable

So-called distress is a gift from Krishna

There is no difference between happiness and distress

Suffering in the name of happiness

See beyond appearances while taking shelter

Devotee’s life span is not limited by karma

Why live in a kingdom of hallucinations?

Expert management of pious and impious activities

The two side effects of devotional service

What is real desirelessness?

The Lord never gives condemned benedictions

Is manufacture of gold the criterion for godhood?

Be careful to choose a right guru

Even if we can’t render full service, the Lord understands and accepts

Humility amidst opulence is the Lord’s special mercy

The consequences of false prestige

How is the demoniac mentality vanquished?

How the Lord establishes a devotee in devotional service

Use the temporary body to attain the eternal

The self-contradictions of the Mayavadis

Disciples shouldn’t dump their karma on the spiritual master

Krishna always acts to save us from deviation

Can a devotee ask the Lord for material benedictions?

Krishna is attentively, incessantly and tolerantly trying to deliver us

Fight from a position of safety and strength

No need to be obsessed with economic development

The most dangerous of the dirty things within our hearts

Krishna consciousness is meant for all-embracing welfare activities for the world

Everything is encouraging and inspiring in Krishna consciousness

To go back to Godhead means to reject this material world

Understanding how we are not proprietors

Is bhakti for the less intelligent?

Devotees are compassionate like Krishna

Chanting equally powerful in all ages and especially powerful in this age