A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Picture Quotes
Detached branches and leaves dry up gradually despite all watering attempts. Similarly, human society, when it is detached from the Personality of Godhead like detached branches and leaves, is not capable of being watered, and one attempting to do so is simply wasting his energy and resources.
Srimad Bhagavatam 1.1.4,
Srila Prabhupada
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Picture Quotes
The more one is addicted to material pleasures, the more he is entangled in the material world.
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Picture Quotes
When we see beautiful thing, what is it? It is just some light entering into our eyes and it is making us mad. Some frequency entering our ear & we get mad. Something scraping our tongue which is just a lump of flesh wiggling around. But when something touches its surface we go mad. This is material enjoyment & we take it seriously.
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Picture Quotes
One need only chant the Hare Krishna mahamantra. Everyone engaged in the practice of chanting the Hare Krishna mahamantra will be completely cleansed, from the core of his heart, and be saved from the cycle of birth and death.
Srimad Bhagavatam 7.6.1,
Srila Prabhupada.