Prabhupada Quotes

May 2013

• SB 1.5.12 Re-education of values is essential for the redirection of the heart
• 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
• How bhakti-yoga is the best yoga
• A propaganda that is simply bogus
• God consciousness should engender respect for all living beings

April 2013

• 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

March 2013

• 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

February 2013

• 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
• Is a devotee an escapist?
• 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

January 2013

• 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
• 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

December 2012

• 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?

November 2012

• 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

October 2012

• 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?
• 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

September 2012

• 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

August 2012

• 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

July 2012

• 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

June 2012

• 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
• Varna is for the body, ashrama is for the soul
• Fashion for few, famine for many is not the standard of civilization
• Killing of animals is a symptom of barbarian society
• Why education causes the misuse of human intelligence
• The only desire of a pure devotee
• The best way to establish our relationship with the Lord
• Absolute dependence on the Lord is the source of the greatest happiness
• Through tribulation, the Lord snatches a fallen soul from the mire of material existence
• Faith in authority is unavoidable while acquiring knowledge
• Ungrudgingly accept tribulations as benedictions
• No need to lament if the cause of suffering is beyond human control
• Aim for not avoidance of suffering, but adherence to dharma
• How capital punishment is beneficial
• Krishna’s bent of mind
• Krishna descends to eradicate our false sense of enjoyment
• Transcendence is not just blissful, but also variegated
• Don’t be gullible in the name of being gentle
• What makes historical facts transcendental…
• How the Lord frees us from all material hankerings
• The Lord steals our mind away from miseries
• The theme of Shrimad-Bhagavatam
• Hearing and chanting, even if mechanical, is beneficial, though not fully
• Unscrupulous imaginations of the monists

May 2012

• Unholy contact is the cause our suffering
• The feeling of worldly happiness is an illusion
• There’s nothing new in the material world; so why waste time in archaeology?

January 2012

• Are the Puranas authoritative?
• The Lord is not affected by worldly emotions