Consciousness Expansion: Humbler Than a Blade of Grass by Satsvarupa Dasa Goswami
SPIRITUAL INTELLIGENCE helps us discriminate between what is to be done and what is not to be done. That discrimination in turn helps us rise higher and higher in spiritual life until our consciousness expands and blossoms into the spiritual world. Consciousness... read more
Eagerness to Attain Krsna Consciousness by Satsvarupa Dasa Goswami
Srila Prabhupada often instructed us on the importance of cultivating eagerness, or the strong desire to attain Krsna. He said we should desire and hanker after the supreme kingdom if we really want to achieve it. Once, a young man asked him what it was like to desire... read more
In Happiness and Distress by Satsvarupa Dasa Goswami
MISERY AND HAPPINESS come and go in this world, just like winter and summer. The Bhagavad-gita advises us to tolerate both happiness and distress. We are meant to tolerate while we keep performing our duties, and we are meant to keep worshiping Krsna despite... read more
Italy Diary by Satsvarupa Dasa Goswami
May 11, Vicenza THE PADUA TEMPLE MOVED since I was here last year. The devotees purchased a three-hundred-year-old villa. They call it Prabhupada-desa, "Srila Prabhupada's estate." They have already done lots of work to make the place habitable and... read more