We are not proprietor of this body. We are occupier. Just like a rented house: the proprietor and the tenant are different. So I am the spirit soul. I am not proprietor; I am simply occupier. The proprietor is the Supreme Personality of Godhead. He is giving me a particular apartment according to my capacity […]
Hare Krishna Movement Quotes
Do not live in imagined future
If you want to be a happier, less-stressed person, there is no better place to start than with becoming aware of “anticipatory thinking,” or an imagined future. Essentially, this type of thinking involves imagining how much better your life will be when certain conditions are met – or how stressful, or difficult something is going […]
Seven Wonders of the World, Seven Wonders of our Life
A group of students were asked to list what they thought were the present “Seven Wonders of the world.” Though there were some disagreements, the following received the most votes: Egypt’s Great Pyramids Taj Mahal Grand Canyon Panama Canal Empire State Building St. Peter’s Basilica China’s Great Wall While gathering the votes, the teacher noticed […]
Today before you complain about…
Today before you think of saying an unkind word – Think of someone who can’t speak. Today before you complain about the taste of your food – Think of someone who has nothing to eat. Today before you complain about life – Think of someone who went too early to heaven. Today before you argue […]
The Real Peace Formula
The great mistake of modern civilization is to encroach upon others’ property as though it were one’s own and thereby create an unnecessary disturbance of the laws of nature. These laws are very strong. No living entity can violate them. Only one who is Krishna conscious can easily overcome the stringent laws of nature and […]
Work with transcendental results
The learned sages inform us that one takes his birth in India, the holy land of Bharata-varsa, after the gradual process of evolution through 8,400,000 species of life, including 900,000 aquatic species, 2,000,000 nonmoving species such as vegetables and hills, 1,100,000 germ and insect species, 1,000,000 bird species, 3,000,000 lower-animal species, and 400,000 human species. […]
The Superintendence of God
We should always know that God is ever kind to us. Despite our gross disobedience to the laws of God’s nature, the Lord is kind enough to look after our maintenance. Water is one of the most important items for our maintenance, because without water we can neither produce food grains nor quench our thirst. […]
Throughway to Happiness
Every one of us is searching after happiness, but we do not know what real happiness is. We see so much advertised about happiness, but practically speaking we see so few happy people. This is because so few people know that the platform of real happiness is beyond temporary things. It is this real happiness […]
The Champion’s Edge
The champion’s edge is not in a gifted birth; a high Intelligent Quotient (IQ) or in talent. The champion’s edge is all in the ATTITUDE (how you do what you do); not aptitude. How you do what you do determines the quality of the results you get in your life. It is what you do […]
Your Future Lies with God
Your future is not determined by who YOU know and who YOU don’t know, who likes YOU and who doesn’t like YOU? The power to fulfill YOUR destiny is within YOU! Almighty GOD put it in there… YOU should make every effort to discover it… harness it… master it and exhibit it to HIS glory. […]
What is an Over-active Mind?
Our minds are more creative, solution-oriented, clever, and receptive to new answers when we aren’t trying so hard – when we relax. This is difficult to accept because it seems important to work hard. And, of course, it is important to work hard. It’s just that it’s not always to your advantage to think so […]
Life From Your Own View
Life, as we have heard, is how we make it. If we took time reflecting on this statement we might discover it is actually true. People often say life is not fair, actually that’s true. Life doesn’t choose who will be rich or poor, who will be successful or not. Who does then? Actually it’s […]
Important to remember…
Here is a 7-poniter list which everyone has to remember. Never think or speak negatively about yourself. Meditate on your God-given strengths and learn to encourage yourself, for much of the time nobody else will. Don’t compare yourself to anybody else. So don’t settle for being a copy. Focus on your potential, not on your […]
Recognize patterns of behavior
Take an honest look at your own patterns of behavior. Perhaps you’re the one who starts some of the arguments, or you are a willing participant once they get going. This type of reflective wisdom allows you to better choose what to say and what not to say; who to spend time with and who […]
Discovering the Self, Who are You??
Who are you? Are you your body? Or your mind? Or are you something higher? Do you know who you are, or do you merely think you know? And does it really matter? Our materialistic society, with its unenlightened leadership, has made it virtually taboo to inquire into our real, higher self. Instead we use […]
The Perfect Theistic Science
Bhagavad-gita is the widely read theistic science summarized in the Gita-mahatmya (Glorification of the Gita). There it says that one should read Bhagavad-gita very scrutinizingly with the help of a person who is a devotee of Sri Krishna and try to understand it without personally motivated interpretations. The example of clear understanding is there in […]
Do not react wrongly to “problems”
A study of three hundred highly successful people, people like Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Helen Keller, Winston Churchill, Albert Schweitzer, Mahatma Gandhi, and Albert Einstein, reveals that one-fourth had handicaps, such as blindness, deafness, or crippled limbs. Three-fourths had either been born in poverty, came from broken homes, or at least came from exceedingly tense or […]
Different people have different perceptions
A couple bought a donkey from the market. On the way home, a boy commented, “Very stupid. Why neither of them rides on the donkey?” Upon hearing that, the husband let the wife ride on the donkey. He walked besides them. Later, an old man saw it and commented, “The husband is the head of […]
Ease off your thinking
It’s tempting, when you don’t know what to do, when you don’t have an immediate answer, to try to force the issue. You try harder, think faster, attempt to figure things out, and struggle to come up with something. The most powerful and productive thing to do when you don’t have an immediate answer to […]
Relationships are hard to handle & might even seem impossible at times
Relationships are hard to handle and might even seem impossible at times. There will be many fights and many quarrels, many disagreements and many tears….. The easiest thing would be to give up. But if we instead spend half the energy we use in fighting with each other, to keep the relationship strong, then that […]