Prabhupada Quotes

Necessity is no justification for criminality

Don’t concoct pleasure in imagining that dead relatives have been reborn

Illicit sex is not invisible

Abortionists will be aborted

How the association of a pure devotee can benefit the whole world

Iconophobes! Don’t poke your nose into that which you have no access.

The criterion of advancement of civilization

Protesting will not help at the time of transmigration

Material dependence on others is degrading

Don’t let laxity hamper the world’s most important movement

The cheating propensity pervades material existence

So much happiness is waiting for us

Civilization is meant to develop the potent spiritual instincts of human beings

Devotee’s sufferings are never the same as those of materialist’s

Krishna is the sun that enables us to see ourselves

Chastisement is preferable to debasement

The holy name solves our fear problem

Cater medicine to counter the catering of poison

No distinction between philosophical discourse and kissing by the Lord

Don’t just censor but also channelize the instinct to read

Aprakrta sound can be understood only by inspiration or initiation

Scripture in essence is a technical science of spiritual values

Devotees are interested in guiding, not governing

How to bring about a radical change in the atmosphere of the world

The Lord is not a shopkeeper in the mental speculator exchange

India has failed the world

The wonderful creative energy of the Lord

The root cause of quarrel

The first condition of devotional service

See the best in the worst

Speaking nonsense, receiving with no sense

Even the best material literature is spiritually impotent

Modern education fosters a doggish mentality

The Emblem of all knowledge

Devotee’s old age or diseases is impetus for guaranteed eternal life

Potent hearing requires pure living

The Mathematics of Religious Charity

How can we see Krishna in the pages of the Srimad Bhagavatam?

Use time for realizing identification of spiritual values

The two torchbearers for the dark age of Kali

Let us not leave behind a mere planmaking story

Real religion for a royal edition of the animals

No remedy for a pseudodevotee – except authentic devotional service

Bhagavatam gives specially selected historical facts

Sufficient hearing counters our polluted aim of life

Self-realization means to act for that which is the impetus for all activities

When machines victimize and degrade us…

The virat-rupa is an imaginary meditational tool for neophyte worshipers

Using our freedom to attain the truth

How far can we go in the cosmic hierarchy?

Intelligent introspection and implementation

Varying percentages of godly qualities in different personalities

Intelligence is like a father and comes from the Supreme Father

Human life is not meant for cheap happiness

Bhakti-yoga: The highest form of religion, the only source of happiness

Lord Buddha is the emblem of theism for atheists

How knowledge leads to renunciation

A self-test for assessing spiritual advancement

Polytheistic materialism is a perversity of religion

The danger in neglecting to think of the Lord

Krishna can be known not by challenging but by submitting

Temples are centers of learning that enable us to find the Lord within

Krishna is more anxious for our welfare than we are

Like a baby hankers for the mother, let us hanker for the Lord

The use and abuse of varnashrama.

Let’s stop searching for water in the desert

Spiritual enquiry frees us from material enquiry

Realize the nullity of the material phenomena

While negating the negative, don’t negate the positive

Bad association is suicidal

What is wrong with material enjoyment?

Don’t waste time in vain research for material happiness

Why is devotional service superior to material enjoyment?

History and historical persons are useless products of flickering time

There is no happiness in the material world

An insignificant jugglery of names like the babble of sea waves

Don’t concoct an incarnation by popular vote

Develop a factual reluctance to enjoy the temporary

The process is simple, but the application is difficult

What is liberation?

Be anxious to hear

Human life begins when religion begins

Original and pure sex psychology

God’s unique designing capacity

Is a devotee an escapist?

See disunity among devotees as spiritual

Exploitative attitude breeds misery

How our violence against animals rebounds on us

So-called happiness for a few at the cost of millions

Producing a new species of humanity

Which government is better?

Where is the progress?

The basic principle of economic development

A universal program for world governance

To consider man as God or God as man are both misconceptions

Cheap relation with the Lord is condemnable even materially, what to speak of spiritually

Why are the Vedic historical narrations not chronological?

Top-heavy administration of untrained rulers is useless spiritually and materially

What is the essence of the training in brahmacari life?

Ashrama-dharma is meant for releasing the prisoners of matter