Simply by changing dress, one does not improve unless he seriously takes the principles of devotional service. But in Kali-yuga, they’ll think, Because I have changed my dress, I have become a big sannyasi. You see? Because I have got a sacred thread, now I am a brahmana. No. There must be regular training.

Vrindavan, March 12, 1974

It is the duty of the disciple that even if the Spiritual Master, or Senior Acharya, agrees to be defeated, it is the duty of the disciple to see that his Spiritual Master and Superior is not defeated.

Vrindavan, March 11, 1972

In this age, Kali-yuga, to kill the demons means to stop their demonic activities by the weapon of kirtana, hari-sankirtana, which is spread by Lord Chaitanya’s associates.

London, March 10, 1975

Sometimes somebody takes his bird in the field and lets him loose, out of the cage, and the bird goes and then again comes into the cage. This human form of body is just like being let loose. Now you get the freedom of flying away from this cage of birth and death, but that we’ll not do. We’ll enter again. We are not interested how to get out of the cage. We are again and again coming back to the cage.

Calcutta, March 9, 1972

Temple means people should come, people should learn the science of God. Not that to make a business of temple. Temple means spiritual educational shelter. People should come and learn what is spiritual life, what is God, what is my relationship with God.

Calcutta, March 8, 1972

Keep your health in good condition and work very hard for Krishna. That is our motto of life.

Letter to Rayarama, March 6, 1969

Hare Krishna All.

Due to some unavoidable reasons (problems with my PC), I was not able to send the messages in the past week.

Krishna Willing, I will start sending them from now on. Please forgive me for the delay in the messages till now.

Your humble servant
Saravana

God’s another name is ajita. A means not, and jita means conquered. Nobody can conquer God. He conquers everyone. But devotee can conquer. Although God is ajita, He becomes jita, conquered by His devotee.

New York, March 5, 1975

Always remember Krsna Who is your dearmost friend and always serve Him just to please Him, and He will give you all intelligence how to be a first-class devotee.

Letter to Mr. DDD, March 3, 1970

Dedicate your life for Krishna. That is the perfection. Even if there are most faults, dedicated life is noble life. Maybe, due to our past habits, we may commit some faulty action, but that dedicated life is sublime.

Mayapur, March 4, 1974

Vedic civilization means the husband should be a sincere servant of Krishna, and the wife should be a sincere maidservant of the husband.

Mayapur, March 2, 1976

The sufferings are there, here or India or hell or heaven—anywhere within this material world—there is suffering. But people are so foolish that simply having a nice motorcar or a skyscraper building, he thinks My all problems are solved. He does not know that this life is a flash only. I am eternal.

San Franscisco, March 1, 1967

Two Lords, Nityananda Prabhu and Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, They have appeared just to reclaim the fallen souls of this age. They are more kind than Krishna. Krishna, He is also very kind. He comes to deliver. But Krishna demands that first of all surrender. He is so kind. (voice choking) So take shelter of Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu and be happy. Thank you very much.(weeping)

Atlanta, February 28, 1975

Two Lords, Nityananda Prabhu and Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, They have appeared just to reclaim the fallen souls of this age. They are more kind than Krishna. Krishna, He is also very kind. He comes to deliver. But Krishna demands that first of all surrender. He is so kind. (voice choking) So take shelter of Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu and be happy. Thank you very much.(weeping)

Atlanta, February 28, 1975

Sometimes when Radharani would go out, Krishna would attack Her, and when She would fall down, Krishna, don’t torture Me in that way — They would fall down, and Krishna would take the opportunity and kiss her. Radharani was very pleased, but superficially Krishna was the greatest rascal. Unless rascaldom is in Krishna, how could rascaldom be existent in the world? Our formula of God is that He is the source of everything. But His rascaldom is so nice that everyone worships His rascaldom.

Mayapur, February 27, 1972

If somebody takes your legs and catches you and your and your head is down, then it is not very comfortable. This whole material world is like that. It is uncomfortable. It is perverted reflection. On the bank of a pond, a tree is standing, but the reflection in the water, of the tree, is not real. Real tree is up. Similarly, real enjoyment, real varieties—everything is in the spiritual world.

Calcutta, February 26, 1974

In the transcendental loving service of the Lord, it doesn’t matter whether we are working, cooking, painting, writing, chanting, or whatever, they are all the same. There are no such distinctions of higher and lower on the transcendental platform. The important thing is that we are engaging our time and energy in the service of the Lord. After all, we are so tiny, what can we do? Krishna sees simply that this time is being spent in His service.

Letter to Karunamayi, February 25, 1968

A man has served the family with heart and soul throughout the whole life, and when he is old man, if he asks permission from his wife, My dear wife, now I have served so much. Let me take sannyasa now. The wife will never give permission. She will say What have you done? This son is not yet settled up, this daughter is not yet married. How you can take sannyasa? So you cannot do. So actually, he is the servant of the wife, but he is thinking, I am master of the family, This is called maya.

Bombay, February 24, 1975

Unless one becomes detestful of this material world, it is to be understood that he has not yet entered in the spiritual understanding. This is the test of bhakti. If one has entered the domain of devotional service, this material world will be not at all tasteful for him.

Mayapur, February 22, 1976

An old father required massaging so all the children wanted to serve the father. The father divided the right and left portion of his body to be served by the children. Later along with the service, there was some quarrel between the children, and they were competing by hitting the parts of the father that was assigned to the opposing party. The father said that you are hitting my different parts due to your opposition to one another, but I am therefore dying. If there is any misunderstanding please live peacefully.

Letter to Rayarama, February 20, 1969