A.c. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda Quotes

Anyone who is steady in his determination for the advanced stage of spiritual realization and can equally tolerate the onslaughts of distress and happiness is certainly a person eligible for liberation.

~ A.c. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda

Concerning Concealment as a symptom of love for Krsna:It has been stated, 'although Srimati Radharani developed a deep loving affection for Krsna, She hid Her attitude in the core of Her heart so that others could not detect Her actual condition.

~ A.c. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda

First-class religion teaches one how to love God without any motive. If I serve God for some profit, that is business-not love.

~ A.c. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda

Our only business is to love God, not to ask God for our necessities.

~ A.c. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda

The humble sage, by virtue of true knowledge, sees with equal vision a learned and gentle brāhmaṇa, a cow, an elephant, a dog, and a dog-eater.

~ A.c. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda

So it is our request that you try to study Bhagavad-gītā as it is. Don't try to distort it by your so-called education. Try to understand Kṛiṣṇa as He is saying. Then you will be benefited. Your life will be successful.

~ A.c. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda

Out of many thousands among men, one may endeavor for perfection, and of those who have achieved perfection, hardly one knows Me in truth.

~ A.c. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda

Because materialists cannot understand Krsna spiritually, they are advised to concentrate the mind on physical things and try to see how Krsna is manifested by physical representations.

~ A.c. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda

...only a fool would believe in miracles because - let us say you are a child and an adult lifts this table. That's a miracle. Or you're a chemist and you combine acid and base and you make smoke, an explosion or whatever. To somebody ignorant, that's a miracle. But for everything there is a process, and so when you see a miracle, it's just ignorance of the process. So that only a fool would believe in miracles...

~ A.c. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda

Religion without philosophy is sentiment, or sometimes fanaticism, while philosophy without religion is mental speculation.

~ A.c. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda

If by studying Bhagavad-gītā one decides to surrender to Kṛṣṇa, he is immediately freed from all sinful reactions.

~ A.c. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda

By studying Bhagavad-gītā, one can become a soul completely surrendered to the Supreme Lord and engage himself in pure devotional service. As the Lord takes charge, one becomes completely free from all kinds of materialistic endeavors.

~ A.c. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda

Kshatriya, or the man who is qualified to protect the sufferers, is meant to rule the state. Untrained, lower class men or men without ambition to protect the sufferers cannot be placed on the seat as an administrator. Unfortunately in the age of Kali the lower class men without training occupy the post of a ruler by strength of popular votes and instead of protecting the sufferers, such men create a situation quite intolerable for everyone. Such rulers illegally gratify themselves at the cost of all comforts of the citizens, and thus the chaste mother earth cries to see the pitiable condition of her sons, both men and animals.

~ A.c. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda

To become free from sinful life, there is only simple method: if you surrender to Kṛṣṇa. That is the beginning of bhakti.

~ A.c. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda

For man, mind is the cause of bondage and mind is the cause of liberation. Mind absorbed in sense objects is the cause of bondage, and mind detached from the sense objects is the cause of liberation.

~ A.c. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda

My dear Arjuna, only by undivided devotional service can I be understood as I am, standing before you, and can thus be seen directly. Only in this way can you enter into the mysteries of My understanding.

~ A.c. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda

For sense gratification, a man in the mode of passion wants some honor in society, or in the nation, and he wants to have a happy family, with nice children, wife and house. These are the products of the mode of passion. As long as one is hankering after these things, he has to work very hard. Therefore it is clearly stated here that he becomes associated with the fruits of his activities and thus becomes bound by such activities. In order to please his wife, children and society and to keep up his prestige, one has to work. Therefore the whole material world is more or less in the mode of passion.

~ A.c. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda

O son of Kunti, the nonpermanent appearance of happiness and distress, and their disappearance in due course, are like the appearance and disappearance of winter and summer seasons. They arise from sense perception, O scion of Bharata, and one must learn to tolerate them without being disturbed.

~ A.c. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda

The perfection of yoga, therefore, does not terminate in voidness or impersonalism; on the contrary, the perfection of yoga is attained when one actually sees the Personality of Godhead in His eternal form.

~ A.c. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda

Religion means to know God and to love Him.

~ A.c. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda

His [Vyāsadeva's] son was a great devotee, an equibalanced monist, whose mind was always concentrated in monism. He was transcendental to mundane activities, but being unexposed, he appeared like an ignorant person.

~ A.c. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda