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Śrīla Prabhupāda: Certainly it is a waste, because the result is not useful.

Dr. Benford: Well, what is “useful”?

Śrīla Prabhupāda: It is useful to know yourself – what you are.

Dr. Benford: Why is knowledge of myself better than knowledge of a plant?

Śrīla Prabhupāda: If you understand what you are, then you understand other things. That is called ātma-tattva, ātma-jñāna, self-knowledge. That …

Understanding the Living Force

In a statement delivered at a press conference in Los Angeles in December of 1968, Śrīla Prabhupāda challenges the world’s …

The International Society for Krishna Consciousness is a movement aiming at the spiritual reorientation of mankind through the simple process …

The reason is that the human being is essentially a spirit soul. It is the spirit soul which is the …

The body is changing – from one form to another – but the spirit soul is existing eternally, without changes. …

On this earth we see change of day and night and change of season. The more primitive mentality attributes this …

Similarly, we experience bodily changes: from embryo to child to youth to maturity to old age to death. The less …

People do not care about the constitutional position of the soul. There are different departments of knowledge in different universities …

People are enamored of the glittering manifestation of the cosmic body or the individual body, but they do not try …

The Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement, therefore, is basically trying to teach this science of the soul, not in any dogmatic way, …

The Absolute Truth is systematically explained in the Vedānta-sūtra (generally known as the Vedānta philosophy), which in turn is elaborately …

An individual soul is understood in three aspects: first as the consciousness pervading the entire body, then as the spirit …

The individual person and the Supreme Person are qualitatively one but quantitatively different. Just like the drop of seawater and …

The Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement upholds the individuality of the soul and the Supreme Soul. From the Vedic Upaniṣads we can …

So it is understood from every source of scriptural injunction that the Supreme Lord, or Kṛṣṇa, is the maintainer of …