December 11, 1970 Indore – Room Conversation Prabhupāda: These are not legends; they are fact. Those who are not intelligent, they take it as legend. There are so many descriptions which is not within our experience—we take it as legend. Now, I gave some gentleman the example that the coconut tree. On the tree there
Room Conversation, July 16, 1968 Montreal Pradyumna: What is that type of pleasure that is material pleasure, that a person feels engaged in material pursuit. He feel some kind of pleasure. It’s not very much pleasure, but it’s some pleasure. What is that pleasure made of? Because if he is enjoying sense gratification… Prabhupāda: That
Room Conversation, 21st January 1977, Bhubaneshwar Hari-śauri: A devotee is actually getting a higher taste. He’s getting some real enjoyment, so he doesn’t care for the other things. Prabhupāda: So unless there is enjoyment he cannot stick. But that enjoyment is Kṛṣṇa. Hari-śauri: Just that chanting is enough. It’s just so much nectar. Prabhupāda: No,
Prabhupāda: Very soon we shall have our own publication, Macmillan Company.[pause] What is your report? Devotee (1): I had a rough day today. Prabhupāda: Huh? Devotee (1): I didn’t get any new members today. I went all over… I went over to McGill, and not very many teachers, professors there, know about the temple, especially
December 20,1973 – LA Prabhupāda: …that the energy is displayed. It works; again it comes back to the original. That’s all. So what is their idea of conservation of energy? The same thing? Karandhara: Well, they say that there is no original. It never began, so there’s no original. Hṛdayānanda: They also say that there’s
BG 2.13-17, Nov 29, 1968 LA Nandarāṇī: When householder women raise their children in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, this seems to be an indirect service for Kṛṣṇa. Should they try to serve Him more directly by, you know, maybe cooking in the temple or painting, or something like this, more directly, or is raising children and just
October 3, 1972, Los Angeles Svarūpa Dāmodara: When I came here, I was walking and I saw big house and the restaurants. So I didn’t know what… So I asked somebody, “Oh, this is just [indistinct].” And afterward I found out it was some food made out of… Devotee (2): Meat. Svarūpa Dāmodara: Yes. But
Both mind and words are material products, therefore, even untiring efforts in their application are unable to approach transcendental topics. Hence, in the Vedas, Taittirīya Upaniṣad, 2.4.1, we find: yato vāco nivartante aprāpya manasā saha “’That is Brahman. If mind and words are searching for Him, they return unsuccessfully.’ Many a times we may use
