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We’re not denying it.

Timothy Leary about LSD’s place in a person’s spiritual life, Śrīla Prabhupāda said that drugs were not necessary for spiritual life, that they could not produce spiritual consciousness, and that all drug-induced To realize God was not so easy or cheap that one could do it just by taking a pill or smoking.9

But he was not here to convert the British to his religion; he was not concerned with such sectarian Christian denominations in Ireland, which by 1969 had reached new levels of violence, Prabhupāda did not “We are not Christians or Hindus or Muslims. We are God’s servants.

Śrīla Prabhupāda: But if you don’t receive the mantra through the proper channel, it may not really be

Like I said in the song, this place’s not really what’s happening.

Śrīla Prabhupāda: No, it’s not a waste of time. So, He was criticized by great sannyāsīs, who said, “You have become a sannyāsī, and yet You do not read But when Caitanya Mahāprabhu met such stalwart scholars, He did not remain silent.

First, the complete mantra is chanted (not just a fragment of a mantra) and second, the mantra is chanted aloud (not silently).

And if one does not receive his mantra through one of these sampradāya channels, then it will not act ; it will not give fruit.

d) No illicit sex (sex outside of marriage or not meant for the procreation of God conscious children

to understand the Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra through philosophy, through study, through Vedānta, then we do not But it is not that the Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra is somehow insufficient and therefore we are recommending books So, we should not be dumb. It does not require any education, any reading, or anything else.

If your mantra does not come through the disciplic succession, it will not be effective. Niṣphalā means that it will not produce the desired result. So the mantra must be received through the proper channel, or it will not act.

Śrīla Prabhupāda: It is not that you can go to just any spiritual master.

Sanātana Gosvāmī informed him, “Actually, that touchstone is not the best gift.

he had dipped into the Gītā during his three-month stay at Maharishi’s ashram in Rishikesh but had not

Not long ago Paul met a devotee near his London studio and wrote a song about it. I’m not a Hare Kṛṣṇa myself, but I’m very sympathetic.”

dry grass is set afire, either by an elderly man who knows the power of fire or by a child who does not Similarly, one may or may not know the power of chanting the Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra, but if one chants the

There are things which we hear but do not see – the wind may be whistling past our ears, and we can hear Śrī Kṛṣṇa Himself says, “I am not there in My abode or in the heart of the meditating yogi but where

And I’ve given a lot of Prabhupāda’s books to many people, and whether I ever hear from them again or not

sincere service was better than some people who had delved more deeply into Kṛṣṇa consciousness but could not

Therefore, your attraction for a particular flower is not the solution to the question of which is actually In the same way, personal attraction is not the solution to choosing the best spiritual process. You may want a yellow flower, and that flower may not have any fragrance.