One of the problems that we often see in these grhastha communities is maintaining standards, because often they go down and sometimes, you know, even like grossly breaking the regulative principles. Another thing that sometimes really spoils the communities is people mix up with each other's wife. Then it becomes really bad. So that we shouldn't do.
Lecture on “Simple Life on Farm Communities” (Pula Farm, Croatia, 20 October 2000)
You have to be very careful, because it just needs one or two bad people to come and they can really spoil other persons. You have to be very careful, actually, who you allow to come. You should be strong on principles; without that, everything just becomes a sort of distress.
Lecture on “Simple Life on Farm Communities” (Pula Farm, Croatia, 20 October 2000)
Often when we think about culture, we think of music, art, literature, dance — all these things. So that is one facet of culture. But in a broader sense, culture means the whole way of life, the people — how they do everything, what they do, what their goals are, how they interact with each other — come to minute details.
Lecture on "Vaisnava Culture" – 13th Oct 2000
The center of Vaisnava culture is hearing and chanting about Krishna, serving Krishna in the association of devotees. But there are many details. Just like in Nectar in Devotion there are listed sixty-four angas, or parts, of devotional service.
Lecture on "Vaisnava Culture" – 13th Oct 2000