Lazy, less intelligent…

Lazy, less intelligent…

Let me walk up to the tape recorder and push the button just so that I will hear something, even if it’s for 5 minutes, even if it’s just 10 minutes. But just to do that, to push that button takes so much will power. This is actually our situation that we just don’t...
Guru Is Special

Guru Is Special

HH KKS: So Maharaja Pariksit was preparing to leave this world after he had been cursed to leave his body within seven days and in the midst of that…Sukadeva Goswami, a bona fide spiritual master appeared. Maharaja Pariksit could understand that this was the mercy of...
Krsna’s will…

Krsna’s will…

Krsna is not running a super computer: control R and it starts raining, control S- sunshine, control RY- Ratha Yatra! It is not Krsna who is controlling these things directly in this way. Everything goes on simply by His will and the material energy moves...
More and more dense…

More and more dense…

A devotee may have a different meditation at different points in time. For example, in the beginning, when one is not yet following all the regulative principles, one’s meditation may be- how can I come to this point? How can I get there? When one is not yet chanting...
Hooked again…

Hooked again…

Maya has a fishing rod and this fishing rod is coming down into to the water and there’s a line and on there, there’s a hook. And on that hook there is a delicious piece of bait and we sort of swim past and we see that hook- we’ve got hooked before, if you know what I...
16 and no less…

16 and no less…

16- no less! It is there where the mercy of Srila Prabhupada is present. Even if we would chant a very good round, even if we would chant so many good rounds, still where are we on our own strength? What is the value of our attention? Even if we are attentive to...