Sense Gratification to Sense Purification

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

Engaging Everyone

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,

Energy Conservation and Mayavada

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

Direct v/s Indirect Services

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