>Letter On Constructing the Vrndavana ISKCON Krishna-Balarama Temple > I am pleased to hear how you are completely absorbed in the project of our Vrindaban temple and taxing your brain how it can be carried out. I am also always praying to Krishna that He may give you intelligence to carry it out rightly.

>Prabhupada's Godbrothers AVOID THEM! [Gaudiya Matha] > My Godbrothers have no life for preaching work. All are satisfied with a place for residence in the name of a temple, they engage disciples to get foodstuff by transcendental devices and eat and sleep. They have no idea or brain how to broacast the cult of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu.

>Letter to Scientist -- Life Comes From Life > If we can prove that life comes from life, or the soul is from the supper soul, then all other things can be brought into serious consideration. So you try to prove that chemical combination can never bring about life, this is our main argument. If we can prove this, gradually we can prove that vedic knowledge is perfect.

>Krishna Conscious Art > Yes, I would ilke each and every one of our books to have pictures as many as possible. That is my desire. Our KRSNA book with pictures has been very much attractive.

>Turn the Churches Into Temples... > Gradually you should buy all the churches and make them into temples. There are so many churches actually they should give us these churches free, if they were God-conscious. But they are sectarian.

>Letter: Scientists Vast Research and Display of Intelligence Misplaced > We are discussing Darwin and other scientists. Because they have missed the central point that we are not the controllers of nature, rather we are controlled by nature, and because they do not see that there is a Supreme Controller, therefore their vast research and display of intelligence is only so much waste of time.

>Democratic Government > The so called democratic government means some of the sudras, rascals without any knowledge of the highest aim of life. By hook and crook they get some votes and get the responsible chair in government. Naturally they can whimsically enact any law which is against the interest of the people in general.

>The International Congress for Cultivating Human Spirit, Japan 1961. > Present advancement of material civilization, in the opinion of the Indian sages, is going in the wrong way because it has neglected the spiritual side of human constitution. All living beings are spiritual sparks covered by material encagement. In his pure spiritual form a living being eternal, cognizant and blissful...

>If I see our leaders are enthusiastic, that gives me more enthusiasm. > You propose to induce the American people to surrender to Lord Caitanya by expansion of book distribution, that is wanted. When you come to that, that is success. Then you can take charge of the government. And, as soon as in America the Krsna conscious boys are in power the whole world will be changed.

>Brahmana Means Pandita. Therefore I Am Suggesting Examinations. > I have also suggested for the GBC's consideration, that we introduce a system of examinations for the devotees to take. Sometimes there is criticism that our men are not sufficiently learned, especially the brahmanas.

>Following the Path of the Gopis > As for your desire to follow the path of the gopis, that can only be done by following the rules and regulations of devotional service in the association of devotees.

>Vedanta, Impersonalists and Buddhists > The impersonalists masquerade as Vedantists, but actually they are defying Vedanta. All the Vedas affirm it vehemently that the Supersoul and the soul are two different identities, although qualitatively one. But the impersonalists they accept Vedas as authority, but they go against the verdict of the Vedas.

>Hare Krishna In Every Town And Village > So far a Temple place is concerned, even there is no place, we can sit down underneath a tree and chant as I did in New York. Krsna will give a nice place.

>Krishna Personally Carries the Necessities of His Devotee > Let us all believe in the words of Krsna and serve Him to our best capacity and thus we will come out victorious in every field of action.

>We Want to Unite the Nations > The Krishna Consciousness mission is not sectarian. We want to do what the United Nations has failed to do.

>The more the books are distributed, the more the ignorance of the Age of Kali will be smashed. > The world is feeling the weight of this Hare Krishna Movement, especially in your country. We have to increase this book distribution work more and more to firmly establish this Movement, which is the only hope for the suffering living entities.

>Plain Living and High Thinking > It is my ambition that all devotees may remain self independent by producing vegetables, grains, milk, fruits, flowers, and by weaving their own cloth in handlooms. This simple life is very nice. Simple village life saves time for other engagements like chanting the Hare Krishna Maha Mantra

>Kirtana [chanting Hare Krishna] in Every Town and Village > If you vibrate these transcendental sounds everywhere continually, it will pierce their ears and enter their hearts, and then their natural attraction for Krsna will be revived.

>Preaching--First Become and Ideal Devotee > Lord Caitanya said that one should first make himself perfect and then attempt to instruct others. There is no point in telling another man to stop smoking if you yourself are smoking cigarettes.

>Srila Prabhupada Writes to George Harrison > By the grace of Krsna, you have already realized to some extent about the necessity and importance of Hare Krsna movement in the world. Similarly, if John also does so, it will be a great event.

>United Nations Organization and World Health Organization > They have invented the United Nations and world health organizations. But all these attempts are exactly the same process as to water the leaves and the twigs. They don't know the missing point: Krishna.

>Letter to Hayagriva dasa > As you are remembering our old meeting days on the second avenue, when I first started my lectures there, similarly I also remember the incidents and speak to so many friends and disciples. So our meeting was Krishna's desire. Apparently it was accidental but actually it was Krishna's plan.

>Yoga and the Master of Yoga > I can challenge all these so-called yoga societies in the western countries that they are not standard in terms of Vedic yoga system. The preliminary processes of yoga system is to control the senses... But none of them practice like that, generally they are attracted by the bodily exercises only, haphazardly.

>George Harrison's Assistance in Printing Krsna Book > Sriman George Harrison has certainly done an unique service by contributing $19,000 for publishing my Krsna book. When I was in London, he saw me four times and he was very submissive and devout and he was not at all proud of his very well-to-do material position.

>Maintaining the Routine Work > This routine work, such as chanting, speaking, rising early, cleaning, cooking and offering prasadam, arati, reading books--these activities are the backbone of our Society, and if we practice them nicely in a regulative manner, then our whole program will be successful. If we become slack or neglect these things, then everything else we may try will fail.

>Ideal Householder Life--Better than Many Sannyasis > I am so pleased upon you that you are showing the example of an ideal householder. Srila Bhaktivinode Thakura was also a householder, but he lived in so perfect Krishna Consciousness that he is better than many Sannyasis like us.

>Reading Srila Prabhupada's Books > I am requesting all of my students to read my books very seriously every day without fail. In this way, if your mind becomes absorbed at least one or two hours daily in the transcendental subject matter of Srimad-Bhagavatam, Bhagavad-gita, and other books then very easily you will make your advancement in Krishna Consciousness.

>Perfect Communism > Your great founder of your nation, Mr. Nikolai Lenin, was very much intelligent, and he could understand that people become united only under the guiding principles of a commonly accepted philosophy or standard of truth. But if we examine the course of history, we must conclude, with Mr. Karl Marx, that this so-called standard of truth constantly changes.