jaya srila prabhupada

hare krishna

I used to sit in the back and listen to his meetings silently. He was speaking all impersonal nonsense, and I kept my silence. Then one day he asked if I would like to speak, and I spoke about Krishna consciousness. I challenged that he was speaking manufactured philosophy and all nonsense from Sankaracarya. He tried to back out and said he was not speaking, Sankaracarya was speaking. I said, "You are representing him. That is the same thing." He then said to me, "Swamiji, I like you very much, but you cannot speak here." But although our philosophies differed and he would not let me speak, he was kind, and I was nice to him.
-Srila Prabhupäda in conversation

prahlada in SB action

sugar cane extractor

hare krishna

This photograph of a man behind his sugarcane juice
extractor was taken on the Vrndavana parikrama marg during Kartika last year.
There is a Sanskrit Maxim: iksurasanyayah.
"You cannot extract the juice out of sugarcane without first
crushing it. So to obtain a particular result, one in certain
cases may have to to assume a severe, stern, and unyielding attitude."
Does spiritual life at times feel as if one is processed through a sugarcane - juice extractor?
Blessed are the flexible, for they shall not be bent out of shape.
Faith is the ability to not panic.

with or without you

hare krishna

how liberal that is ? ...we forgot to grow [food].
surely we will die, not even afraid of pain.
i am trying something else - perfection as to be progressive,
for more than just an romantic idea of survival.

Silence is often misinterpreted, but never misquoted

gaura nityananda bol

hare krishna