Happy to announce the appearance day of Srimati Radharani, the most beloved consort of Lord Sri Krsna. Program begins at 4pm -8pm on Wednesday, the 15-th of September. As usual there will be chanting, dancing, reading & discussing the glories of Sri Radha, the internal pleasure potency of Sri Krsna. A wonderful feast will be served as well, don`t miss out.
Hare Krsna
For any clarification please call 514-500-1476

Hare Krishna dear friends,
All Glories to Srila Prabhupada!
We would like to inform you of some major Festivals that are just around the corner:
1) Balaram Purnima (Balarama's Birthday). This Festival is on the 24th of August. Fasting(voluntary) from food and water till 12 noon followed by a Transcendental Feast. Program begins at 8:00 am.
2)Krishna Janmastami on Thursday, 2nd of September. Fasting (voluntary) from food and water untill 12 midnight. Program shall consist of intensified hearing and chanting plus lively discussions. Program begins at 5 pm all the way up to midnight with the breaking of fast with some light prasadam refreshments. Main Feast shall take place the next day.
3)Srila Prabhupada's Vyasa-Puja (3rd of September). Fasting(voluntary) from food and water until 12 noon. Program begins at 7:15 am and shall consist of Puspanjali(flower offerings), Guru-puja, Lecture, Offerings of homage to Srila Prabhupada.


Your kind financial contributions towards any of the above-mentioned festivals shall be gladly appreciated.To make any further inquires please call (514)500-1476/(514)884-7691.

Krishna Janmastami on Thursday, 2nd of September. Fasting (voluntary) from food and water untill 12 midnight. Program shall consist of intensified hearing and chanting plus lively discussions. Program begins at 5 pm all the way up to midnight with the breaking of fast with some light prasadam refreshments. Main Feast shall take place the next day.

Srila Prabhupada Speaks Out

Prabhupāda: Keep your health nice, because Indian climate sometimes does not suit. Eat simple things. Fruits, vegetables. Don’t be miser in the matter of... But don’t eat voraciously. Eat sufficiently, nutritious.
Gargamuni: Yes. I have also told they should eat nice fruits and vegetable so they will keep healthy.
Prabhupāda: Oh, yes. Vegetable, fruits, very innocent, little milk. That’s all. Even if you don’t eat these foodgrains, that is preferred. Better. Vegetable and fruits and milk, that is sufficient nutritious. There is no question of disease. But for our tongue taste we eat so many cooked food, but if we eat vegetables, boiled vegetables and fruits and milk, ah, it is sufficient. Ekādaśī. (laughter) Daily ekādaśī.
And these peanuts, a few grains. Not much. That is also nice. Cashew, peanut. Yes.

Room Conversation
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August 22, 1976, Hyderabad

Prabhupāda: Yes, it is very nice. You decorate Kṛṣṇa very nicely, then you’ll forget the business of decorating your person. This is the effect. Because people are busy how to decorate himself. They are spending so much money. Huh? But if you decorate Kṛṣṇa nicely, you’ll forget this propensity. This is the process.
Kulaśekhara: You also said if you decorate Kṛṣṇa, make Kṛṣṇa beautiful, your heart will become beautiful.
Prabhupāda: Yes. It is not fashion, it is for our benefit. By seeing Kṛṣṇa beautifully decorated, he’ll be satisfied. He’ll have no more propensity, “Let me go to the market and find out some nice rag and decorate myself.” Finished. Hundreds and thousands of people in the temple, by seeing Kṛṣṇa nicely decorated, he’s satisfied. Everyone satisfied.

Room Conversation
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June 24, 1976, New Vrindaban

Srila Prabhupada

Prabhupāda: I am not only conscious, but the consciousness depends on me. Because I am there, therefore consciousness... So I am nitya. This is the proof of nitya, that many changes have taken place, but the changes, the phenomenal changes, they have gone out. They are no more existing. Therefore they are not nitya. Just like dream. At night I saw one dream, but the dream is no more existing, but I remember that last night I saw the dream. Therefore I am nitya. And the dream is anitya. The dream is anitya. Similarly, this phenomenal world, when I am not sleeping, but I am so-called awakened, so I am seeing. I am seeing you, I am seeing the table, this book, you see, but... (aside:) Don’t... But when I am asleep I forget all these things. I forget. I am in a different world. I am seeing different things. So this is also dream, and the dream at night, that is also dream. But I, the seer of this dream and that dream, I am the eternal.

Room Conversation with
Woman Sanskrit Professor
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February 13, 1975, Mexico

Bhagavad-Gita As It Is

Chapter 4. Transcendental Knowledge

TEXT 7

yada yada hi dharmasya
glanir bhavati bharata
abhyutthanam adharmasya
tadatmanam srjamy aham

SYNONYMS

yada--whenever; yada--wherever; hi--certainly; dharmasya--of religion; glanih--discrepancies; bhavati--manifested, becomes; bharata--O descendant of Bharata; abhyutthanam--predominance; adharmasya--of irreligion; tada--at that time; atmanam--self; srjami--manifest; aham--I.

TRANSLATION

Whenever and wherever there is a decline in religious practice, O descendant of Bharata, and a predominant rise of irreligion--at that time I descend Myself.

Srila Prabhupada

Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: Is there a Vedic definition of science?
Prabhupāda: Vijñāna. Jñāna-vijñāna. [break] ...not this science, experimental. That is not science. Vedic knowledge is science.
Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: So there is no experimental science in Vedic culture.
Prabhupāda: Experimental science is condemned. What you will make, ex... You are imperfect. What is the value of your experiment? Therefore it is rejected. Whatever you’ll do, that is imperfect. First of all you become perfect; then you make experiment. But you are... You remain imperfect, and you making experiment. What is the value of it? [break] ...is no experimental knowledge. All established truth. That is vijñāna, or science.
Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: Established truth.
Prabhupāda: Yes. The sun rises on the eastern side; that is established truth. You cannot change it. And that is vijñāna. Man dies. This is established truth. You cannot make any change by experimental knowledge. This is vijñāna. Nṛpa nirnita: “It is already settled.” In the Vedic knowledge there is no such thing as laboratory or experiment, discovery, nothing.

Morning Walk
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October 20, 1975, Johannesburg

Srila Prabhupada

Dear friends and devotees of Krishna!

We would like to invite you for the Saturday Program at the Sri Sri RadhaDamodara Temple. The program will consist of chanting(kirtana) and reading of Sacred Bhagavad-Gita As It Is. The adress of the Temple is -  7929 Champagneur st., apt. #1 (parc extension). The program will last for two hours (6pm-8pm) every Saturday.

Hare Krishna!

Bhagavad-gita As It Is

Chapter 3. Karma-yoga

TEXT 27

prakrteh kriyamanani
gunaih karmani sarvasah
ahankara-vimudhatma
kartaham iti manyate

SYNONYMS

prakrteh--of material nature; kriyamanani--all being done; gunaih--by the modes; karmani--activities; sarvasah--all kinds of; ahankara-vimudha--bewildered by false ego; atma--the spirit soul; karta--doer; aham--I; iti--thus; manyate--thinks.

TRANSLATION

The bewildered spirit soul, under the influence of the three modes of material nature, thinks himself to be the doer of activities, which are in actuality carried out by nature.

Srila Prabhupada

We are not Kṛṣṇa. But if we remain Kṛṣṇa conscious Vaiṣṇavas, then our position is strong, If there is slackness, then they will come to kill us. That we have to see. Āpani ācari’ prabhu jīve śikhāilā. Our behavior should be very clear. “Caesar’s wife must be above suspicion.” Then it will be... This Aghāsura, Bakāsura, will come and... In the beginning there was Aghāsura, Pūtanā. That Devānanda, “Hare Kṛṣṇa Film,” he wanted to do some harm. And he is gone, finished. Nobody talks of Devānanda. They talk of our movement. So if you remain strong in your spiritual activities, these Aghāsura, Bakāsura will come, go. But we should take precaution and counteract to reduce them. Real strength will remain from Kṛṣṇa-Balarāma’s strength. Balarāma. Balarāma means strength. Nāyam ātmā bala hīna na labhyaḥ.(?) If you are not supported by Balarāma, then it is not possible.

Room Conversation
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August 20, 1976, Hyderabad

Lord Nṛsiṁhadeva

Hare Krishna everyone!

This Thursday(27.05.2010) we will celebrate Appearance day of Lord Nṛsiṁhadeva at the Sri Sri RadhaDamodara Temple!

Chanting, dancing, honoring prasadam for the pleasure of Lord Nṛsiṁhadeva as well as reading about Lord Nṛsiṁhadeva will take place at 8045 Boul. Acadie, apt. # 2.

The program starts at 5 pm, don't miss out!

Please call (514)656-1335 for more info.

Lord Nṛsiṁhadeva ki Jaya!

Srila Prabhupada Speaks Out

Nitāi: One point that you made a few years ago in Vṛndāvana was that this demoniac civilization, especially in U.S.A., keeps a man so much engaged, they make them work so hard, just to earn the simple necessities of life, that they don’t have time to cultivate spiritual life.
Prabhupāda: Well, if he likes, he can get time because he is not in the factory twenty-four hours. But if one... That is explained, apratihatā. Kṛṣṇa consciousness cannot be checked by any material condition. If anyone wants to become Kṛṣṇa conscious, it is not checked. So there is nothing impediment, provided he wants to become. In any condition of life, sthane sthitaḥ, if he simply hears about Kṛṣṇa then everything is all right. He will gradually catch up everything and adjust things. But if he has no ears to hear about Kṛṣṇa, then it is difficult. Therefore śravaṇam. The first thing is that. The first qualification—he must be eager to hear about Kṛṣṇa. Then everything will come. Śravaṇaṁ kīrtanaṁ viṣṇoḥ smaraṇam pāda-sevanam, arcanaṁ vandanaṁ dāsyam [SB 7.5.23].

Morning Walk
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April 19, 1974, Hyderabad

Srila Prabhupada

saṁsāra-dāvānala-līḍha-loka-

trāṇāya kāruṇya-ghanāghanatvam

prāptasya kalyāṇa-guṇārṇavasya

vande guroḥ śrī-caraṇāravindam

The spiritual master is receiving benediction from the ocean of mercy. Just as a cloud pours water on a forest fire to extinguish it, so the spiritual master delivers the materially afflicted world by extinguishing the blazing fire of material existence. I offer my respectful obeisances unto the lotus feet of such a spiritual master, who is an ocean of auspicious qualities.

mahāprabhoḥ kīrtana-nṛtya-gīta-

vāditra-mādyan-manaso rasena

romāñca-kampāśru-taraṅga-bhājo

vande guroḥ śrī-caraṇāravindam

Chanting the Holy Name, dancing in ecstasy, singing, and playing musical instruments, the spiritual master is always gladdened by the saṅkīrtana movement of Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu. Because he is relishing the mellows of pure devotion within his mind, sometimes his hair stands on end, he feels quivering in his body, and tears flow from his eyes like waves. I offer my respectful obeisances unto the lotus feet of such a spiritual master.

śrī-vigrahārādhana-nitya-nānā-

śṛṅgāra-tan-mandira-mārjanādau

yuktasya bhaktāṁś ca niyuñjato 'pi

vande guroḥ śrī-caraṇāravindam

The spiritual master is always engaged in the temple worship of Śrī Śrī Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa. He also engages his disciples in such worship. They dress the Deities in beautiful clothes and ornaments, clean Their temple, and perform other similar worship of the Lord. I offer my respectful obeisances unto the lotus feet of such a spiritual master.

catur-vidha-śrī-bhagavat-prasāda-

svādv-anna-tṛptān hari-bhakta-saṅghān

kṛtvaiva tṛptiṁ bhajataḥ sadaiva

vande guroḥ śrī-caraṇāravindam

The spiritual master is always offering Kṛṣṇa four kinds of delicious food [analyzed as that which is licked, chewed, drunk, and sucked]. When the spiritual master sees that the devotees are satisfied by eating bhagavat-prasāda, he is satisfied. I offer my respectful obeisances unto the lotus feet of such a spiritual master.

śrī-rādhikā-mādhavayor apāra-

mādhurya-līlā guṇa-rūpa-nāmnām

prati-kṣaṇāsvādana-lolupasya

vande guroḥ śrī-caraṇāravindam

The spiritual master is always eager to hear and chant about the unlimited, conjugal pastimes of Rādhikā and Mādhava, and Their qualities, names, and forms. The spiritual master aspires to relish these at every moment. I offer my respectful obeisances unto the lotus feet of such a spiritual master.

nikuñja-yūno rati-keli-siddhyai

yā yālibhir yuktir apekṣaṇīyā

tatrāti-dākṣyād ati-vallabhasya

vande guroḥ śrī-caraṇāravindam

The spiritual master is very dear because he is expert in assisting the gopīs, who at different times make different tasteful arrangements for the perfection of Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa's conjugal loving affairs within the groves of Vṛndāvana. I offer my most humble obeisances unto the lotus feet of such a spiritual master.

sākṣād-dharitvena samasta-śāstrair

uktas tathā bhāvyata eva sadbhiḥ

kintu prabhor yaḥ priya eva tasya

vande guroḥ śrī-caraṇāravindam

The spiritual master is to be honored as much as the Supreme Lord because he is the most confidential servitor of the Lord. This is acknowledged in all revealed scriptures and followed by all authorities. Therefore I offer my respectful obeisances unto the lotus feet of such a spiritual master, who is a bona fide representative of Śrī Hari [Kṛṣṇa].

yasya prasādād bhagavat-prasādo

yasyāprasādān na gatiḥ kuto 'pi

dhyāyan stuvaṁs tasya yaśas tri-sandhyaṁ

vande guroḥ śrī-caraṇāravindam

By the mercy of the spiritual master one receives the benediction of Kṛṣṇa. Without the grace of the spiritual master, one cannot make any advancement. Therefore, I should always remember and praise the spiritual master. At least three times a day I should offer my respectful obeisances unto the lotus feet of my spiritual master.

Songs of the Vaisnava Acaryas  - first printing 1972

Bhagavad-Gita As It Is

Chapter 3. Karma-yoga

TEXT 37

sri-bhagavan uvaca
kama esa krodha esa
rajo-guna-samudbhavah
mahasano maha-papma
viddhy enam iha vairinam

SYNONYMS

sri-bhagavan uvaca--the Personality of Godhead said; kamah--lust; esah--all these; krodhah--wrath; esah--all these; rajah-guna--the mode of passion; samudbhavah--born of; maha-asanah--all-devouring; maha-papma--greatly sinful; viddhi--know; enam--this; iha--in the material world; vairinam--greatest enemy.

TRANSLATION

The Blessed Lord said: It is lust only, Arjuna, which is born of contact with the material modes of passion and later transformed into wrath, and which is the all-devouring, sinful enemy of this world.

PURPORT

When a living entity comes in contact with the material creation, his eternal love for Krsna is transformed into lust, in association with the mode of passion. Or, in other words, the sense of love of God becomes transformed into lust, as milk in contact with sour tamarind is transformed into yogurt. Then again, when lust is unsatisfied, it turns into wrath; wrath is transformed into illusion, and illusion continues the material existence. Therefore, lust is the greatest enemy of the living entity, and it is lust only which induces the pure living entity to remain entangled in the material world. Wrath is the manifestation of the mode of ignorance; these modes exhibit themselves as wrath and other corollaries. If, therefore, the modes of passion, instead of being degraded into the modes of ignorance, are elevated to the modes of goodness by the prescribed method of living and acting, then one can be saved from the degradation of wrath by spiritual attachment.
The Supreme Personality of Godhead expanded Himself into many for His ever-increasing spiritual bliss, and the living entities are parts and parcels of this spiritual bliss. They also have partial independence, but by misuse of their independence, when the service attitude is transformed into the propensity for sense enjoyment, they come under the sway of lust. This material creation is created by the Lord to give a facility to the conditioned souls to fulfill these lustful propensities, and when they are completely baffled by prolonged lustful activities, the living entities begin to inquire about their real position.
This inquiry is the beginning of the Vedanta-sutras, wherein it is said, athato brahma-jijnasa: one should inquire into the Supreme. And the Supreme is defined in Srimad-Bhagavatam as janmady asya yato 'nvayad itaratas ca, or, "The origin of everything is the Supreme Brahman." Therefore, the origin of lust is also in the Supreme. If, therefore, lust is transformed into love for the Supreme, or transformed into Krsna consciousness--or, in other words, desiring everything for Krsna--then both lust and wrath can be spiritualized. Hanuman, the great servitor of Lord Rama, engaged his wrath upon his enemies for the satisfaction of the Lord. Therefore, lust and wrath, when they are employed in Krsna consciousness, become our friends instead of our enemies.

Srimad - Bhagavatam Second Canto (1972 version)

Srimad Bhagavatam Second Canto (1972 version)

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Srila Prabhupada

Now, we’ve had two readings from your scriptures. Where did these scriptures comes from? Can you explain that briefly?
Prabhupāda: This is coming from Vedic literature, which is eternal. That is also eternal. But when there is creation, this creation, material creation, anything, material creation.... Just like this microphone is a material creation. So how to deal with it, there is some literature. Is it not?
Mike Robinson: How to deal with the microphone?
Prabhupāda: Yes. There is some literature.
Hari-śauri: There’s some literature explaining.
Mike Robinson: Yes, that’s right, there is.
Prabhupāda: Yes. So that literature comes along with the creation of the microphone. So similarly, the Vedic literatures comes immediately with the creation.
Mike Robinson: I see. So these scriptures have been in existence since we have, is what you’re saying. What about other scriptures, other religions have got their scriptures. Do you believe, do you accept them?
Prabhupāda: Any scriptures, any.... Just like the same example. The literature issued along with the manufacturer of this microphone is bona fide. So if anyone follows that bona fide literature, he can deal with it. Otherwise, a bogus.

Radio Interview
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July 27, 1976, London

organic vegetables

These organic vegetables were donated to us by the Sivananda Asram. We would like to thank Satya for bringing this to the Sri Sri Radhadamodara Temple! The vegetables will be used for the Sunday Feast!
Thank you!

Hare Krsna!

Srila Prabhupada

Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: The Christian conception of salvation was more one of being saved from hell rather than an attraction for some transcendental reality.
Prabhupāda: Christian conception... Mass of people, they do not know what is hell because they are living in the hell already. That was the story. When hell was described, he was undisturbed, but when he was informed that there was no newspaper in hell then he became... “Horrible. How one can live there without newspaper?” So so far hellish condition is there now... Pradyumna, where is Pradyumna Mahārāja?
Kuladri: He is showering.
Prabhupāda: He was describing about that factory. So they are working in the factory, what do they care for hell? Even if we go to hell, they will get some good salary, that’s all. Money required, then I can drink nicely. The standard is there.

Garden Discussion on
Bhagavad-gītā Sixteenth Chapter
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June 26, 1976, New Vrindaban

Bhagavad-Gita As It Is

Chapter 3. Karma-yoga

TEXT 35

sreyan sva-dharmo vigunah
para-dharmat svanusthitat
sva-dharme nidhanam sreyah
para-dharmo bhayavahah

SYNONYMS

sreyan--far better; sva-dharmah--one's prescribed duties; vigunah--even faulty; para-dharmat--from duties mentioned for others; svanusthitat--than perfectly done; sva-dharme--in one's prescribed duties; nidhanam--destruction; sreyah--better; para-dharmah--duties prescribed for others; bhaya-avahah--dangerous.

TRANSLATION

It is far better to discharge one's prescribed duties, even though they may be faultily, than another's duties. Destruction in the course of performing one's own duty is better than engaging in another's duties, for to follow another's path is dangerous.

PURPORT

One should therefore discharge his prescribed duties in full Krsna consciousness rather than those prescribed for others. Prescribed duties complement one's psychophysical condition, under the spell of the modes of material nature. Spiritual duties are as ordered by the spiritual master, for the transcendental service of Krsna. But both materially or spiritually, one should stick to his prescribed duties even up to death, rather than imitate another's prescribed duties. Duties on the spiritual platform and duties on the material platform may be different, but the principle of following the authorized direction is always good for the performer. When one is under the spell of the modes of material nature, one should follow the prescribed rules for particular situations and should not imitate others. For example, a brahmana, who is in the mode of goodness, is nonviolent, whereas a ksatriya, who is in the mode of passion, is allowed to be violent. As such, for a ksatriya it is better to be vanquished following the rules of violence than to imitate a brahmana who follows the principles of nonviolence. Everyone has to cleanse his heart by a gradual process, not abruptly. However, when one transcends the modes of material nature and is fully situated in Krsna consciousness, he can perform anything and everything under the direction of the bona fide spiritual master. In that complete stage of Krsna consciousness, the ksatriya may act as a brahmana, or a brahmana may act as a ksatriya. In the transcendental stage, the distinctions of the material world do not apply. For example, Visvamitra was originally a ksatriya, but later on he acted as a brahmana, whereas Parasurama was a brahmana, but later on he acted as a ksatriya. Being transcendentally situated, they could do so; but as long as one is on the material platform, he must perform his duties according to the modes of material nature. At the same time, he must have a full sense of Krsna consciousness.

Dänavér: I’m in charge of the New Bhakta program in Los Angeles, and yesterday one boy called up the temple, and he was seventeen years old, and he said, “Five years ago, when I was coming out of a store, I received this Back to Godhead magazine. So I took it home, I was twelve years old, and I began reading it. I read six pages, but my mother, she was a strict Baptist, and she took it away, I couldn’t read it. I never saw devotees again until this time.” He called up. Yesterday he came and joined the temple and became your disciple. (Prabhupäda chuckles)
Devotees: Jaya.
Rämeçvara: Just by reading one word of your books.
Prabhupäda: What is that word?
Rämeçvara: Any word. (laughter) Surrender to Kåñëa! [break] .... making almost ten devotees, new men, every month. And they’re all coming from your books, from reading your books, every one of them.
Prabhupäda: Therefore I am insisting, “Spread books.”

Morning Walk
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June 5, 1976, Los Angeles

"So the time is very bad, but nature’s law is very strict. We may defy it, “There is no God, there is no next birth, there is no nothing.” We may say like that, but when death will come, you cannot say anything. Mṛtyuḥ sarva-haraś cāham. Bas, all your talkings, all your intelligence taken away. Tathā dehāntara-prāptiḥ. Immediately transferred to another body. Daiva-netreṇa. Karmaṇā daiva-netreṇa jantur dehopapattaye [SB 3.31.1]. Kāraṇaṁ guṇa-saṅgo ’sya sad-asad-janma-yoniṣu. “No, no, I am Prime Minister!” “No, you must become a dog.” Immediately. How can you protest? You cannot protest. You have acted like dog, just become a dog. Kāraṇaṁ guṇa-saṅgo ’sya. Just like your medical science, you have infected the disease, you must suffer disease. Kāraṇaṁ guṇa-saṅgaḥ, guṇa-saṅgaḥ. There’s infection.
Indian Doctor: Only in nirguṇa, a man can become nirguṇa by...
Prabhupāda: Eh, don’t talk of nirguṇa, first of all (laughter) become a dog.
Indian Doctor: Because the only thing that can bring nirguṇa, then you may stop from getting a dog. If you do the bhakti. That is what I mean.
Prabhupāda: Nirguṇa means bhakti. Nirguṇa means bhakti. Sa guṇān samatītyaitān [Bg. 14.26]. That is nirguṇa. When you are untouched by the three guṇas, then you are nirguṇa. That is not very easy job. That is not easy.
māṁ ca yo ’vyabhicāreṇa
bhakti-yogena sevate
sa guṇān samatītyaitān
brahma-bhūyāya kalpate
[Bg. 14.26]
Brahma-bhūtaḥ prasannātmā na śocati [Bg. 18.54]. Nirguṇa is not so easy thing. This is nirguṇa. Sarva-dharmān parityajya mām ekaṁ śaraṇaṁ [Bg. 18.66]. This is nirguṇa. Otherwise, everything sa guṇān, everything sa guṇān. Only fully surrendered to Kṛṣṇa, nirguṇa."

Room Conversation
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August 14, 1976, Bombay

Lord Sri Ramacandra

Hare Krishna everyone! All Glories to Srila Prabhupada!

This Wednesday, don't miss out - The Appearance day of Lord Sri Ramacandra!

"Of all the aquatics the shark is one of the biggest and is certainly the most dangerous to man. Thus the shark represents Krsna. And of rivers, the greatest in India is the Mother Ganges. Lord Ramacandra, of the Ramayana, an incarnation of Krsna, is the mightest of warriors.."

(Bg. 10.31)

Chanting in ecstasy, dancing, feasting and reading about wonderful pastimes of Lord Sri Ramacandra.

The program starts at 6 pm on Wednesday, the 24-th of March.

Everyone is welcome!

Hare Krishna!

Sri Isopanisad

Sri Isopanisad

MANTRA EIGHT

sa paryagāc chukram akāyam avraṇam

asnāviram śuddham apāpa-viddham

kavir manīṣī paribhūḥ svayambhūr

yāthātathyato ’rthān vyadadhāc chāśvatībhyaḥ samābhyaḥ

sah—that person; paryagãt—must know in fact; sukram—the omnipotent; akãyam—unembodied; avranam—without any reproach; asnãviram—without any veins; suddham—antiseptic; apãpa-viddham—prophylactic; kavih—omni-scient; manïsï—philosopher; paribhüh—the greatest of all; svayambhüh-self-sufficient; yãthãtathyatah—just in pursuance of; arthãn—desirables; vyadadhãt—awards; sãsvatïbhyah—immemorial; samãbhyah—time.

TRANSLATION

Such a person must know in fact the Greatest of all, Who is unembodied, omniscient, beyond reproach, without veins, pure and uncontaminate, the self-sufficient Philosopher Who is award­ing everyone's desire since time immemorial.

PURPORT

Here is the description of the transcendental and eternal Form of the Absolute Personality of Godhead. The Supreme Lord is not formless. He has His own transcendental Form Which is not at all similar to those of the mundane world. The living entities in this world have their forms embodied by the material Nature, and they work like any material machines. The physiological and anatomical structure of the body of a living being must have a mechanical construction, with veins and so forth in the em­bodiment. But in the transcendental body of the Lord there is nothing like veins. It is clearly stated here that He is unem­bodied. That means that there is no difference between His body and soul, nor does He accept a body by the law of Nature as we do. In the material concept of bodily life, the soul is different from the gross embodiment and subtle mind. The Supreme Lord is apart from any such compartmentalized arrangement, however. There is nothing like a difference of body and mind in the Supreme Lord. He is the Complete Whole, and His mind and body and He Himself are all one and the same.

In the Brahma-samhitã there is a similar description of the body of the Supreme Lord. He is described there as the sac-cid-ãnanda-vigraha. This means that He is the eternal Form fully representing transcendental Existence, Knowledge and Bliss. The Vedic literature states clearly that He has a completely different kind of transcendental body, and thus He is sometimes described as formless. This formlessness means that He has no form like ours, or that He is devoid of a form which we can perceive. In the Brahma-samhitã it is further said that the Lord can do anything and everything with any one of the parts of His body. It is said there that with each and every one of the parts of His body, such as the hand, He can do the work of the other senses. This means that the Lord can walk with His hands, He can accept a thing by His legs, He can see by His hands and feet, and He can eat by His eyes. In the Sruti mantras it is said that He has no hands and no legs like us, but that He has a different type of hand and leg, by which He can accept all that we offer Him, and walk faster than anyone anywhere. These things are confirmed in this mantra of Srï Isopanisad by the use of words like omnipotent.

Srila Prabhupada is Honouring Prasadam

Chapter 9

The Most Confidential Knowledge

TEXT 26

patram puspam phalam toyam
yo me bhaktya prayacchati
tad aham bhakty-upahrtam
asnami prayatatmanah

SYNONYMS

patram--a leaf; puspam--a flower; phalam--a fruit; toyam--water; yah--whoever; me--unto Me; bhaktya--with devotion; prayacchati--offers; tat--that; aham--I; bhakti-upahrtam--offered in devotion; asnami--accept; prayata-atmanah--of one in pure consciousness.

TRANSLATION

If one offers Me with love and devotion a leaf, a flower, fruit or water, I will accept it.

PURPORT

Here Lord Krsna, having established that He is the only enjoyer, the primeval Lord, and the real object of all sacrificial offerings, reveals what types of sacrifices He desires to be offered. If one wishes to engage in devotional service to the Supreme in order to be purified and reach the goal of life--the transcendental loving service of God--then he should find out what the Lord desires of him. One who loves Krsna will give Him whatever He wants, and he avoids offering anything which is undesirable or unasked for. Thus, meat, fish and eggs should not be offered to Krsna. If He desired such things as offerings, He would have said so. Instead He clearly requests that a leaf, fruit, flowers and water be given to Him, and He says of this offering, "I will accept it." Therefore, we should understand that He will not accept meat, fish and eggs. Vegetables, grains, fruits, milk and water are the proper foods for human beings and are prescribed by Lord Krsna Himself. Whatever else we eat cannot be offered to Him, since He will not accept it. Thus we cannot be acting on the level of loving devotion if we offer such foods.
In the Third Chapter, verse thirteen, Sri Krsna explains that only the remains of sacrifice are purified and fit for consumption by those who are seeking advancement in life and release from the clutches of the material entanglement. Those who do not make an offering of their food, He says in the same verse, are said to be eating only sin. In other words, their every mouthful is simply deepening their involvement in the complexities of material nature. But preparing nice, simple vegetable dishes, offering them before the picture or Deity of Lord Krsna and bowing down and praying for Him to accept such a humble offering, enable one to advance steadily in life, to purify the body, and to create fine brain tissues which will lead to clear thinking. Above all, the offering should be made with an attitude of love. Krsna has no need of food, since He already possesses everything that be, yet He will accept the offering of one who desires to please Him in that way. The important element, in preparation, in serving and in offering, is to act with love for Krsna.
The impersonalist philosophers, who wish to maintain that the Absolute Truth is without senses, cannot comprehend this verse of Bhagavad-gita. To them, it is either a metaphor or proof of the mundane character of Krsna, the speaker of the Gita. But, in actuality, Krsna, the Supreme Godhead, has senses, and it is stated that His senses are interchangeable; in other words, one sense can perform the function of any other. This is what it means to say that Krsna is absolute. Lacking senses, He could hardly be considered full in all opulences. In the Seventh Chapter, Krsna has explained that He impregnates the living entities into material nature. This is done by His looking upon material nature. And so in this instance, Krsna's hearing the devotee's words of love in offering foodstuffs is wholly identical with His eating and actually tasting. This point should be emphasized: because of His absolute position, His hearing is wholly identical with His eating and tasting. Only the devotee, who accepts Krsna as He describes Himself, without interpretation, can understand that the Supreme Absolute Truth can eat food and enjoy it.

(Bhagavad-Gita 9.26)

Lord Caitanya

This Sunday, the 28-th of February! Sri Gaura-Purnima at the Sri Sri Radha Damodara Temple!*** 

Divine Appearance of Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu - the Father of the sankirtan movement:

"In this chapter the author has fully discussed the reason for the descent of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu. The Supreme Personality of Godhead, Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa, after displaying His pastimes as Lord Kṛṣṇa, thought it wise to make His advent in the form of a devotee to explain personally the transcendental mellow reciprocations of service and love between Himself and His servants, friends, parents and fiancees. According to the Vedic literature, the foremost occupational duty for humanity in this Age of Kali is nāma-saṅkīrtana, or congregational chanting of the holy name of the Lord. The incarnation for this age especially preaches this process, but only Kṛṣṇa Himself can explain the confidential loving service performed in the four principal varieties of loving affairs between the Supreme Lord and His devotees. Lord Kṛṣṇa therefore personally appeared, with His plenary portions, as Lord Caitanya. As stated in this chapter, only for that purpose did Lord Kṛṣṇa appear personally in Navadvīpa in the form of Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya Mahāprabhu."(Cc. Adi-lila : Adi 3)

 

Ecstatic chanting, dancing, feasting, reading about Lord Caitanya!

You are invited! Don't miss out!

The program starts at 5 pm.
*** The program continues on Monday at 7 pm with a big feast!

 

Call (514)656 1335 for more info.

 

 

Hare Krsna!

You must accept the standard way, then you’ll get siddhi, you’ll get sukha and parāṁ gati. Unless you follow the standard way, na sukhaṁ na parāṁ gatim. So if you have interest in bhakti-yoga, then you practice the bhakti-yoga properly. That will make you successful. Otherwise, teṣām asau kleśala eva śiṣyate, simply whatever labor you are doing, that is your profit and no other profit. Kleśala eva. Nānyad yathā sthūla-tuṣāvaghātinām. The example is tuṣa. Tuṣa you know? The skin of rice? Husk. Yes. So if there is paddy, if you beat it, you’ll get rice. But if you beat on the husk, then...
Yogi Amrit Desai: You won’t get anything.
Prabhupāda: But your gain is only that labor. So similarly, if you don’t know what is the substance, you go on laboring, that laboring is your only achievement and nothing else.
Yogi Amrit Desai: Such a beautiful example. If you keep on beating the husk...
Prabhupāda: What you’ll get?
Yogi Amrit Desai: The labor you get.
Prabhupāda: Śrama eva hi kevalam.
dharmaḥ svanuṣṭhitaḥ puṁsāṁ
viṣvaksena-kathāsu yaḥ
notpādayed yadi ratiṁ
śrama eva hi kevalam
[SB 1.2.8]
Śrama eva hi kevalam. What is the profit? (Hindi) Sewer. Pigs. These are the natural examples. (Hindi) Tapo divyaṁ putrakā yena śuddhyed sattvam. Just purify your existence, that tapasya. Then you’ll get... Yasmād brahma-saukhyam anantam. Ramante yoginaḥ anante. That is real yogic perfection. Satyānande cid-ātmani. (Hindi) So if you have taken the bhakti-yoga system, do it nicely. You’ll get success very quickly. Otherwise, śrama eva hi kevalam. So why should we waste our time, simply satisfied with the labor?

Conversation with
Yogi Amrit Desai of
Kripalu Ashram (PA USA)
--
January 2, 1977, Bombay

Bhagavad-Gita

TRANSLATION

In order to deliver the pious and to annihilate the miscreants, as well as to reestablish the principles of religion, I advent Myself millennium after millennium.

PURPORT

According to Bhagavad-gita, a sadhu (holy man) is a man in Krsna consciousness. A person may appear to be irreligious, but if he has the qualifications of Krsna consciousness wholly and fully, he is to be understood to be a sadhu. And duskrtam applies to one who doesn't care for Krsna consciousness. Such miscreants, or duskrtam, are described as foolish and the lowest of mankind, even though they may be decorated with mundane education; whereas another person, who is one hundred percent engaged in Krsna consciousness, is accepted as sadhu, even though such a person may neither be learned nor well cultured. As far as the atheistic are concerned, it is not necessary for the Supreme Lord to appear as He is to destroy them, as He did with the demons Ravana and Kamsa. The Lord has many agents who are quite competent to vanquish demons. But the Lord especially descends to appease His unalloyed devotees, who are always harassed by the demoniac. The demon harasses the devotee, even though the latter may happen to be his kin. Although Prahlada Maharaja was the son of Hiranyakasipu, he was nonetheless persecuted by his father; although Devaki, the mother of Krsna, was the sister of Kamsa, she and her husband Vasudeva were persecuted only because Krsna was to be born of them. So Lord Krsna appeared primarily to deliver Devaki, rather than kill Kamsa, but both were performed simultaneously. Therefore it is said here that to deliver the devotee and vanquish the demon miscreants, the Lord appears in different incarnations.

(Bhagavad-gita 4.8.)

This Wednesday, on the 3-rd of February we are celebrating appearance of the spiritual master of our spiritual master His Divine Grace Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Thakur Goswami Prabhupad at the Sri Sri Radhadamodara Temple!

Everyone is invited to join chanting, dancing, feasting, reading the pastimes of Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Thakur Goswami Prabhupad!

Program starts at 6 pm, do not miss out!

Please call: (514)656-1355 for more details!

Hare Krsna

Srila Prabhupada

Prabhupāda: Ah. They cannot understand what is the meaning of this Kṛṣṇa consciousness. They are such dull headed men. They have no brain to understand. They are coming down again. Just like the dog’s tail. Know, dog’s tail. You may, however grease it... (laughs) They are hearing about this Kṛṣṇa consciousness. The aim is the body, the dog’s tail. They are hearing daily about Kṛṣṇa na..., but they cannot understand. It is very difficult. These karmīs... Now they say... Because we are reading this Bhāgavatam, now gradually they dispersed. Gradually they dispersed. They are not interested. Hare Kṛṣṇa. And if you talk politics and all nonsense, oh, they will gather.
yasyātma-buddhiḥ kuṇape tri-dhātuke
sva-dhīḥ kalatrādiṣu bhauma-ijya-dhīḥ
yat-tīrtha-buddhiḥ salile na karhicij
janeṣv abhijñeṣu sa eva go-kharaḥ
[SB 10.84.13]
The go-khara class.

Morning Walk
--
May 9, 1974, Bombay

Sri Nityananda Prabhu, who is the incarnation of Godhead as divine master, delivered the typical naradhamas, the brothers Jagai and Madhai, and showed how the mercy of a real devotee is bestowed upon the lowest of mankind. (Bg. 7.15)

Celebrate Sri Nityananda Prabhu's Appearance Day at The Sri Sri Radhadamodara Temple!

Ecstatic chanting, dancing, reading the pastimes of Lord Sri Nityananda Prabhu.

Program starts at 6 pm on the 28-th of February, on Thursday!

Everyone is invited!

Celebrate Lord Sri Advaita's Appearance Day at the Sri Sri Radha Damodara Temple!

This Friday,on the 22nd of January you are invited to hear about and glorify Lord Sri Advaita Acarya.

Lord Advaita is the cause of the advent of Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu - the last form of Krsna appearing on this planet. 

The program starts at 6 pm.

Everyone is invited to chant Hare Krishna maha-mantra, dance in extasy, and hear the sublime commentaries of Srila Prabhupada on the topic and then feast to the fullest satisfaction on delicious, vegetarian, karma-free meal(prasadam)

If more info required, please call the temple: (514)656-1335 

vistarenatmano yogam
vibhutim ca janardana
bhuyah kathaya trptir hi
srnvato nasti me 'mrtam

Tell me again in detail, O Janardana [Krsna], of Your mighty potencies and glories, for I never tire of hearing Your ambrosial words.

Srila Prabhupada

Prabhupāda: Anyone who takes milk... Everyone takes milk. The cow is the mother. Mother gives milk. And mother, when she cannot supply milk, mother should be cut up. Is that a very good philosophy? Is it human philosophy? What is the answer? But if you say that somebody wants to, say in your country majority they want to eat meat. So, if you put that argument, then you can eat some lower animals. You can eat the pigs. You are eating also, pigs. Not in a massive scale. Massive scale—if you are Christian you should follow your religious scripture: “Thou shall not kill!” This should be the principle. But if you are a rākṣasa, if you want to eat meat, then at least don’t kill the cows. You can eat other, insignificant animals. You are eating also. You are eating everything. Except the moving cars, you are eating all the moving animals. The car also moves, but you cannot eat. Otherwise you are killing everything. You have become so civilized rascal that your business is to kill other animals and eat. You are so civilized. You are still in the crude form of human being, just like in the jungles, the aborigines, the Africans, they do not know how to develop civilization—crude methods, eating the animals. That also, they are not so uncivilized that they keep slaughterhouses. You are so uncivilized that you are keeping slaughterhouses, regularly. These Africans and other jungle people they eat meat, but they directly kill. They have no such civilization as to maintain a slaughterhouse. The tigers eat meat, but they do not keep a slaughterhouse. And you are civilized. You are keeping slaughterhouse. Why should you keep? The government shouldn’t allow you to keep slaughterhouses. If anyone wants to eat meat, let them eat like tigers and others. Individually, kill one animal—a lower animal, not cows. This should be the government law. You can kill one insignificant animal, like pigs or goats. It has not very much use. You kill it in your home, before your children and family, and eat. THe government may not have any objection. But why should you maintain slaughterhouses? So the agriculturist and the mercantile men, they should produce enough food, give protection to the cows, and if there is excess, sell it. Where there is not enough food grain produced you can make business. That is the instruction given in Bhagavad-gītā, kṛṣi-go-rakṣya vāṇijyam [Bg. 18.44]. That is really needed. Nobody is interested. Everyone comes to the city, the mercantile class. They are doing business, big, big skyscraper building, and they have artificial money, paper. And instead of eating food grains they are maintaining slaughterhouses. This is not good civilization. Hare Krsna.

Morning Walk
--
May 10, 1975, Perth

Srila Prabhupada

Material life means life of ignorance. And spiritual life means life of enlightenment. That is the difference. Material life is called tamas. Tamas means darkness. Tamaso mä jyotir gamaya. This is the Vedic mantra. Don’t remain in darkness. But people cannot understand. “I am living in the light. Why I’m darkness?” Darkness means without any spiritual enlightenment. That is darkness. So the Vedic injunction is “Don’t remain in darkness. Come to the light.” The light is my spiritual life, and material life means darkness. Because he does not know what is going to happen next. You are under the laws of material nature. The nature will act according to the association you make, exactly. You do not know that you are infecting some contagious disease. You may not know it, but it will act. In due course of time, you’ll develop that disease and suffer. Similarly, without knowledge, in ignorance, imperceptibly we are associating with a certain law of nature, and we shall be victimized. We may not know it, but we shall be victimized. That is the life of ignorance. A child does not know that if he touches the fire it will burn and it will cause some disease, some sore. He does not know. But he, somehow or other, if he touches fire, these things will come. This is the life of ignorance. You do something, you do not know what is the effect. But the effect will come, and you’ll have to suffer. You know or not know, it doesn’t matter. That is ignorance. Life of darkness. The Christian theologicians, they say that “Why shall I suffer for my...?” They do not believe in the karma, fruitive activity. But that means ignorance. They have no sufficient knowledge. Karma is there and effect is there, but they do not know it. Poor fund of knowledge. Therefore it is failing. They have failed, these Christian priest, to explain everything philosophically. So advanced Westerners, they are now educated in science philosophy, they are not attracted with these dogmatic views. So to remain in ignorance is animal life. To be enlightened is human life. And the topmost enlightenment is to understand God and to love Him. That is the topmost enlightenment. Unfortunately, there is no education to know what is God, and what to speak of loving Him. This is modern civilization. Ignorance. A civilization of ignorance. They do not know what is what. Simply speculating, wasting time, talking all nonsense. This is going on in the name of education, but actually they are in ignorance. They do not know what is what. They are reading so many philosophical speculation, horrible condition of the so-called philosopher, scientist. Simply “I believe,” “In this believe, that believe.” You believe.... Believe something. That is your (indistinct). But your belief is not final. That is creating chaotic condition. You believe some way, I believe something, he believes something. What is the profit? Chaos. So all these philosophers, scientists, they believe “I believe,” as if his belief will be a doctrine. Why he believes like that? People also accept like that. Nobody questions that a person says “I believe,” that means he is not in perfect knowledge. But in Vedic çästra, there is no question of belief. This is the fact. Jalajä nava-lakñäëi. It never says that “I believe there are so many aquatics.” No. Clear declaration: Jalajä nava-lakñäëi. There are nine hundred thousand different forms of life in the water. Bas. This is Vedic knowledge. It never says, “I believe.” What is the meaning of belief? You must know definitely and declare it. That is Vedic knowledge. Speculation is not allowed. Truth must be declared as it is.

Room Conversation with
Mother and Sons
--
June 13, 1976, Detroit

http://www.archive.org/details/HarinamAtMetroSnowdonInMontreal

Paramahaṁsa: When I first joined the movement, Śrīla Prabhupāda, I used to listen to your lectures and then go talk with my father. And he would argue with me, and I would find a question and come back and ask you and find the answer and go back and argue with him. But the thing I always came up against is that if he assumes that there’s life on other planets or that there is a supreme source, a supreme energy or God, then it destroys his entire life’s work, his study.
Prabhupāda: Then they are fools. They should stop all this education. This university should be broken. (laughter) Because they are producing only fools. That’s all. They should stop this education.
Bahulāśva: Donate all these buildings to you.
Prabhupāda: (laughs) Yes. The buildings will remain there, but they will be finished. What is this education? They do not know what is God, what is soul, and what is the meaning of education? Simply bodily concept of life like cats and dogs, so what is the use of education? They remain cats and dogs. That is no value.

Morning Walk
--
July 21, 1975, San Francisco

Srila Prabhupada Morning Walk

Prabhupāda: ...difference between our activities and general people’s activities.
Devotee (1): The result is different.
Hari-śauri: Our activities are liberating, and their activities are entangling.
Devotee (2): The difference in our activities is that because we see everything as Kṛṣṇa’s energy, we feel the material world is never disturbing to us. Whereas for the karmīs, the material world is always very disturbing for them.
Prabhupāda: Yes. But they want that disturbance. He’s trying to be happy, but they do not know what is eternal happiness. We’re also trying for happiness, but our aim is eternal happiness.
Devotee (3): They think that eternal happiness means the same happiness that we experience in the material world, but it lasts forever, because they cannot conceive of a different quality of blissfulness.
Prabhupāda: This is difference. One is eternal; one is temporary and miserable. Although it is so-called happiness, it is temporary. At any moment it is finished. Actually there is no happiness. Still, even they consider this is happiness, that is temporary. You cannot enjoy. At any moment you’ll be finished. Just like the surfers, they’re enjoying happiness. At any moment they can be finished.
Devotee (3): Danger also.
Prabhupāda: Yes. Any moment.
Devotee (3): So there’s anxiety in all of the happiness in this world.
Prabhupāda: Yes. (Sanskrit) asad grahāt. Because they have accepted something which is not happiness, temporary, they’re always full of anxiety. This is the nature. The bird flying, anxiety “Oh, so many men are coming.” He’s not in peace. He was eating something; as soon as he sees so many.... “Oh, away,” flying. Anxiety.

Morning Walk
--
May 30, 1976, Honolulu

Radhastami festival

Friday 28 Aug 2009

starting 6.30 PM

kirtan, philosophical discussion and prasadam(vegetarian refreshment)

Free entry

more information : 514 656 1335

Hare Krsna!

Janmastami

(The Appearance of The Supreme Personality of Godhead Sri Krsna)

Friday the 14th of August

The program starts at 6.30pm.

Kirtana(devotional chanting), lecture with a philosophical discussion and a vegetarian feast.

Vyasa Puja

(The appearance of our beloved spiritual master Srila Prabhupada)

Saturday the 15th of August

starts at 6.30pm

Kirtana, reading about Srila Prabhupadas divine lila (pastimes), discussions and another sumptuous feast

Everyone is welcome to join the festivities!

Hare Krsna

for more info do not hesitiate to call 514 656 1335

your servants

On Monday 22nd, we'll have a small festival in our temple. Everyone is welcome. We'll celebrate the disappearance of Srila Gadadhara Pandit and Srila Sachchidananda Bhaktivinoda Thakur. The program starts at 6.30 PM. Chanting, aratika, discussion and refreshments! Hare Krsna!

(from the introducation to Srila Prabhupada's book entitled Krsna
for which Sriman George Harrison has kindly contributed $ 19,000 to meet the cost of the entire volume.)

our dear spiritual master Srila Prabhupada

This explanation will hopefully make it clear to the honest seekers of Krsna Consciousness about the actual situation with the ISKCON institution. What is presented here is not a distortion but the actual facts. It is indeed a painful reality to face and we are not proud of it but the truth must be spoken to benefit others who may not be in awareness of the true happenings.

Dear friends,
Please accept our most respectful Obeisances,
All Glories to Srila Prabhupada.

We are sending out this most urgent appeal in the hope that a Sankirtana project here in Montreal can be saved. To put the whole thing to context it is helpful for all concerned that we briefly give its history, the present situtiation and what the devotees involved in this project hope to accomplish in the next few years ahead.   
       

In 1987, 10 years after physical departure of His Divine Grace A.C.Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, the founder of the Hare Krishna movement(ISKCON), George Harrison was interviewed by Sunday Tribune. Among other topics, they have discussed his involvement in the Hare Krishna movement. The following is a quote from this interview:

At the turn of the Seventies, George became a benefactor to the Hare Krishna movement. He not only made records with them and talked about them publicly but also forked out a quarter of a million pounds to buy them a 15-room Elizabethan mansion with 17 acres of land. Since then, George's friend His Divine Grace Guru Bhaktivechanta Swami, the leader and founder of the International Society For Krishna Consciousness, who was 77 when they met, has died. George feels that some of the remaining Krishnas have at times abused his patronage, and he cites letters from people who wrote saying that they were hassled at airports by devotees using Harrison's name. Nevertheless, he still subscribes to "the Swami's ancient Vedic way of having God consciousness. The technique of chanting, just like the monks and Christians, they do it too really but it's just using beads and chanting these ancient mantras... they do have great affect. I wouldn't knock them at all. I am always a bit dubious about organisations and since the swami died it does seem to be chaotic, with all kinds of guys thinking they're the gurus. To me, it's not important to be a guru, it's more important just to be, to learn humility." And George still chants. "I've still got my bag of beads and they're really groovy now, all polished up."

The Sunday Tribune October 18 1987
source:

http://www.bpfallon.com/article_harrison.html