Initiation of Ambarīṣa dāsa
Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement means we, all conditioned soul, we have come to this material world just to enjoy sense gratification independently.
1975
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Morning Walk in the Botanical Gardens
It is better not to have fruit tree than to have a poison fruit.
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.28.1, Sunday Feast
So this word yoga is very popular in the Western countries. Practically everyone knows the word at least, yoga.
Morning Walk on Waikiki Beach
This glorification of God is especially done by persons who are completely free from material attachment.
Morning Walk on Waikiki Beach
He will be so confident, that \"I have come to a friend's house.\" This is Vedic civilization.
Morning Walk on Waikiki Beach
Because with the progress of so-called civilization, people are becoming more and more demons, so they cannot understand.
Morning Walk on Waikiki Beach
As soon as people will become godless, nature will chastise them—no food, no rain, suffer.
Arrival Lecture on Farm
Mad-bhāvam: there is another nature, that is spiritual nature.
Arrival
But if you develop this kind of civilization—plain living and high thinking—save time for advancing Kṛṣṇa consciousness, that is real profit of life.
Radio Interview
Nivṛtti-mārga means stop material way of life; begin spiritual way of life and come to Godhead, Kṛṣṇa, back to home, back to Godhead.
Lecture after Prahlāda-caritra Play
This is religion: you surrender unto Me.\" So if you become a surrendered soul to God—that means you become a devotee—then you are religionist.
Bhagavad-gītā 7.1
Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is meant for this purpose, that everyone should be raised to the platform of God consciousness.
Morning Walk in the Botanical Gardens
Similarly, this material nature is a machine and the operator is God.
Morning Walk in Botanical Gardens
Hell means anywhere where material happiness is given more importance.
Room Conversation with Two Lawyers and Photographer
We cannot understand Kṛṣṇa, because our heart is piled up with many garbage.
Room Conversation with Raymond Lopez, Wally Strobes, Bob Bourne
Madhudviṣa: ...one of our very dear friends, Raymond Lopez. He is a barrister and a visitor who has helped us out tremendously with some of the legal...—
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 6.1.1-2
The living entity, spirit soul, is the same, but they are passing through different forms of life.
Morning Walk
Spiritual life means curing the contamination of material disease.
Room Conversation with Director of Research of the Dept. of Social Welfare
That is māyā's entrapping machine to keep the living entity within this material world.
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 6.1.1
Therefore, if you actually always remain in spiritual understanding, that means to understand Kṛṣṇa, or God.
Morning Walk in the Botanical Gardens
This material world is full of miseries because most people are godless.
Room Conversation with Dr. Copeland, Professor of Modern Indian History
\"By loving humanity, you love Kṛṣṇa, or God.\" These things are very palatable.
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 6.1.1-4
The whole idea, spiritual knowledge, means to understand God.
Morning Walk
In the spiritual world and the material world the varieties are the same, but the spiritual world is light, and the material world is darkness.
Room Conversation with Journalist
In this way this godless society will have to meet so many problems of life, and if they want solution of all these problems, they must take to God consciousness, or Kṛṣṇa consciousness.
Room Conversation with Jesuit
Nivṛtti-mārga means stopping the material way of life and go to the spiritual world, back to home, back to Godhead.
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam Lecture
Vedic religion means to accept the Supreme Personality of Godhead as the Supreme Person Absolute Truth.
Morning Walk
Amogha: Well, he’s a very..., actually he’s a big man, and therefore he’s very busy. In their terms he’s a big man. He had a lot of seminars...—
Room Conversation
The cats and dogs, they are thinking, \"Oh, lion is so big, so powerful.\" But human being is thinking this is also an animal, big animal.
Morning Walk
That one, Kṛṣṇa consciousness, will make this material civilization hundred times important.
Room Conversation
Amogha: There are three or four men coming at ten o’clock. One Mr. Nela from the... They’re all from one place where they deal with alcoholics and...—
Room Conversation with Alcohol and Drug Hospital People
Amogha: ...to solve the problem of drug and alcohol addiction and, of course, they’re concerned with the causes of it and things like that....—
Morning Walk
In this world everything is relative, so it's not expected that the same things will please everyone.
Morning Walk
As soon as one is advancing in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, his sense enjoyment spirit will be reduced.
Morning Walk
Pravṛtti means material civilization, and nivṛtti means spiritual civilization.
Room Conversation with Justin Murphy [Geographer]
At the present moment the whole civilization, throughout the whole world, everyone is trying to get more money.
Room Conversation
Amogha: He said that... When we were walking to the car, he said... I was talking to him a little bit it, and I gave him some magazines to read. He...—
Room Conversation with Gaṇeśa dāsa’s Mother and Sister
Morning Walk
Material world means they want some material gain, some adoration and some fame.
Room Coversation with Psychiatrist and Indian Boy
Our viewpoint is that in the material world, who has accepted this material body—anyone, but we specially take the human society—they require treatment, everyone.
Morning Walk
Further progress means, being situated in sattva-guṇa, if he advances in devotional service, Kṛṣṇa consciousness, then he surpasses all the material qualities.
Morning Walk
Unless there is a class which is very intelligent, who know what is God, what is soul, then what is the civilization?
Room Conversation with Carol Cameron
Love means that I want to eat something, and if I love somebody, then I will see that my beloved also eats.
Morning Walk on Beach
Nobody wants to be degraded, but if in degradation one forgets his past life, if that kind of happiness is happiness, you can do it.
Morning Walk
Preaching means to make him strong, preaching, to become firmly convinced in Kṛṣṇa consciousness.
Room Conversation with Kim Cornish
Therefore ātmā's nature is eternal, full of knowledge and full of bliss.
Morning Walk
That means from the supreme down to the rascal, everyone is rascal.
Evening Discussion
All the Vaiṣṇavas, they understand that Viṣṇu is the Supreme.
Morning Walk
\"Whatever opinion you have got, that is also nice.\" That means even if we differ, your opinion, my opinion, your is good and my is good.