Decorating our temple

Regarding beautifying the temple, we should always know that every place is temporary, but wherever we live we should decorate and beautify it for Krishna, so go on decorating our temple as nicely as possible.

 

Srila Prabhupada's Letter to Brahmananda, ( Calcutta, December 7, 1967 )

Confidential servitor of Krishna

We should always remember that Krishna is the only order giver. His order is received through the agency of the spiritual master. The bona fide spiritual master is the manifest representative of Krishna. The spiritual master is described in the scriptures as good as Krishna because he is the most confidential servitor of Krishna. To please the spiritual master is to please Krishna.

 

Srila Prabhupada's Letter to Nandarani, (Krishna Devi, Subala, Uddhava,  Delhi, October 3, 1967)

People in the Spell of Maya

People in the spell of maya are trying to squeeze out gross pleasure from the senses, which is not possible to derive to our heart's content. Therefore we are confused and baffled in our attempt to eschew eternal pleasure from gross matter. Actually, joyful life is on the spiritual platform, therefore we should try to save our valuable time from material activities and engage them for Krishna Consciousness.

 

Srila Prabhupada's Letter to Hayagriva, Montreal, June 14, 1968

Serve Krishna

On the Absolute world there is no such relativities as success and failure. The one thing in the Absolute world is to serve Krishna. Don't care for the result. Krishna must know that we are working very seriously and that is our success of life.

 

Srila Prabhupada's Letter to Subala, (San Francisco, December 16, 1967)

Krishna Consciousness is the Life of Eternity

Less intelligent persons are very much interested in dreaming life, but one who is intelligent enough he searches after eternal life. The modern civilization does not understand what is eternal life. They are busy with the spot life of 50 or 100 years. Fools cannot think that one is not for 50 or 100 years, but one is for eternity. Krishna consciousness is the life of eternity.  Krishna consciousness is the process of eternal life. The process is simple and the results are sublime. You follow it and you will be happy in this life as well as in the next.

Srila Prabhupada's Letter to Nanda Kisora, (San Francisco, December 24, 1967)

Maya and Krishna

The darkness has no existence in the presence of sunlight, similarly Maya cannot exist in the presence of Krishna. As darkness and light exist eternally, similarly, Maya and Krishna exist eternally, but Maya has no existence in the presence of Krishna. Try to understand this simile.

 

Srila Prabhupada's Letter to Balai, (Los Angeles, January 25, 1968)

Saving from all kinds of Sinful Reactions

If a man thinks that chanting will save him from all kinds of sinful reaction deliberately committed by him, then he becomes the greatest offender. By chanting Hare Krishna, certainly we become free from all sinful reactions, but that does not mean that we shall deliberately commit sins and counteract it by chanting.

Srila Prabhupada's Letter to Umapati, (Calcutta, November 23, 1967)