You see in many homes that the TV is just on, even if no one is watching and all the time this polluted sound vibration is coming and that creates bad feelings, and then family members are fighting with each other over nothing. Why? Because this polluting sound is coming and disturbing their consciousness.
Lecture on “Simple Life on Farm Communities” (Pula Farm, Croatia, 20 October 2000)
Life is possible without TVs. It’s possible, and actually it’s much better. I can say, maybe twenty-seven years I haven’t watched TV. Yes, I am still alive. You can touch me; I’m not a ghost.
Lecture on “Simple Life on Farm Communities” (Pula Farm, Croatia, 20 October 2000)
Live simply, grow your own food, chant Hare Krishna, develop higher consciousness, study the philosophy of Bhagavad Gita and Srimad Bhagavatam.
Lecture on “Simple Life on Farm Communities” (Pula Farm, Croatia, 20 October 2000)
Without spiritual life, even if you live very simply, very clean and a very natural life, there is no use because the animals are also living a simple,natural life. So simple living is not the goal, but it’s very conducive for Krishna consciousness.
Lecture on “Simple Life on Farm Communities” (Pula Farm, Croatia, 20 October 2000)
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
Any culture, or way of life of people, is based on the worldview of that people, or the philosophical outlook of that people.
Lecture on "Vaisnava Culture" – 13th Oct 2000
Vaisnava culture is based on the philosophy of understanding the Absolute Truth as described in the Vedic literature, that human life is meant for God-realization. That’s Vaisnava culture.
Lecture on "Vaisnava Culture" – 13th Oct 2000