Your Material Formulas Will Not Help You by Satsvarupa Dasa Goswami
SRILA PRABHUPADA told us that a devotee doesn't make plans. As a matter of fact, he said that not making plans is the first symptom of a person fixed in Krsna consciousness. How can he live without making plans? He depends on Krsna. Often when people hear that,... read more
Where Are the Enemies? by Satsvarupa Dasa Goswami
Most people think that certain people are their friends and certain people their enemies and to succeed in this world one had better learn how to befriend one's friends and defeat one's enemies. That's practical worldly wisdom. But devotees see things... read more
Idealism, Maturity, and Realism by Satsvarupa Dasa Goswami
When I was eighteen years old I wrote an essay for the college newspaper about maturity. In the essay, I examined the word maturity and commented that most of my elders equated maturity with selling out on idealistic values. Of course, although my concerns... read more
Between Two Worlds by Satsvarupa Dasa Goswami
THERE ARE TWO WORLDS, the material world and the spiritual world. Great liberated devotees can experience the spiritual world, even while in their present bodies. When Uddhava, Krsna's chief associate in Dvaraka, was fully absorbed in the transcendental ecstasy of... read more