Prabhupada Quotes

What is materialistic education?

Deity worship is essential for householders

How deliberation leads to God consciousness

A learned person doesn’t differentiate between enemies and friends

Which is easier: going to hell or going back to godhead?

Why the soul is so difficult to understand

The expert management of the supreme expert

Devotee’s material position is not material

Don’t magnify material goals as desirable

Pleasing Narayana is much easier than pleasing people

Aspire for the Lord’s benedictions, not the demigods’ benedictions

The cruelty of modern civilization

Distress is an opportunity

How the bodily concept deludes even scientists

Neither friends can help, nor enemies harm

Not all benedictions are benedictions

Should one worship Krishna unfavorably?

Is the world an illusion?

Is Krishna partial?

Know people by their actions

Envy and devotion don’t go together

How a devotee transcends bodily consciousness

Why the upper planets can’t be perceived

The Lord’s partiality is his qualification, not disqualification

From survival of the fittest to survival in eternal life

Krishna is always pleased with all those who practice devotional service

Demanding to see God is ludicrous

Are we forgetting the central reality?

How milk is like nectar

“Accident” theories are more unbelievable than the Lord’s mystic power

The goddess of fortune is the exclusive property of the Lord

How a devotee is never alone

How the Lord’s birth is transcendental

The opulence of a devotee is different from that of a materialist

What is the aim of varnashrama divisions?

Extravagance is the cause of all distresses

How scripture protects one in household life…

Who is jagad-guru and who is not?

What to do when perplexed

When spirituality becomes envious and atheistic…

Why a disciple shouldn’t demand from guru or Krishna…

The necessity of following scriptures cuts across sectarian boundaries

The key to extraordinary spiritual power

What is liberation? What is bondage?

Be bold but not foolhardy

What is the substance of devotional service?

Endeavor either for the Absolute Truth or for illusion

Poverty means poverty of knowledge

There is nothing but God within and without

Are we mistaking the slaps to be pleasures?

How to see the Lord eye to eye

Why fight a losing battle when we can fight a winning battle?

Are we leading a colossal hoax of a life?

The patchwork doesn’t work

Actual life begins after material life ends

Don’t curb desires; change their quality

How Krishna consciousness removes disturbance of the mind…

When yoga becomes a vain search after a phantasmagoria…

Identifying our ultimate enemy

Sound creates and destroys material creation

Prepare for death by learning the art of denial

The central point of the Bhagavad-gita

“Yoga means cooperation with the Supreme”

Devotees shouldn’t be afraid of material danger

How the best philosophers understand demigod worship

The Lord cannot be understood by picking up expressions from a dictionary

The first principle of spiritual life

Meat-eaters can kill other animals but not cows

Cowardly heads of state make society hellish

Tolerance saves us from the darkest regions of material anxiety

The consciousness that can free us from envy

How ghosts suffer and cause suffering to others

In addition to food for the body, humanity needs food for the mind and ear

Scarcity can be removed not by humanitarian relief alone but by transcendental relief

The slippery slope from non-vegetarianism to cannibalism

Seek guidance not from inexeperienced politicians but from liberated souls

The singular Lord acts in plural ways

Krishna pushes the button of creation and starts a chain reaction

How the devotee becomes transcendental like the Lord

The cause of scarcity is not over-population but mismanagement

Beware of upstart spiritual groups

How to examine incarnation-claimant and penalize pretender

One’s actions are one’s natural advertisements

What tax exaction is meant for and is not meant for…

The test of good government

Untrue praise is an insult

The present government is like hell

Don’t be misled by the bodily conception that is the basic principle of suffering

What is the basis of the whole process of Vedic civilization?

Be very expert in disobeying the mind’s orders

It is time to put an end to our nonsensical stage performance

How can we become free from service to the mind?

A good dream is no good

The veda-vadi must becomea a tattva-vadi

Never try to overtake the spiritual master

Worldly events will go their own way; why waste time talking unnecessarily about them?

Tricks do not mitigate the miseries of material life

How simian monkeys lose their sex glands to human monkeys…

Tolerate bodily pains and pleasures, and focus on the Absolute Truth

Is happiness in the gaps between miseries really happiness?