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“Anyone who is steady in his determination for the advanced stage of spiritual realization and can equally tolerate the onslaughts of distress and happiness is certainly a person eligible for liberation.”
― A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, The Bhagavad-gita

“Religion means to know God and to love Him.”
― A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, The Science of Self-Realization

“Concerning Concealment as a symptom of love for Krsna:

"It has been stated, 'although Srimati Radharani developed a deep loving affection for Krsna, She hid Her attitude in the core of Her heart so that others could not detect Her actual condition.”
― A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, The Nectar of Devotion: The Complete Science of Bhakti-Yoga

“One whose happiness is within, who is active within, who rejoices within and is illumined within, is actually the perfect mystic. He is liberated in the Supreme, and ultimately he attains the Supreme.”
― A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda, Bhagavad-gita As It Is

“Our only business is to love God, not to ask God for our necessities.”
― A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, The Science of Self-Realization

“Religion without philosophy is sentiment, or sometimes fanaticism, while philosophy without religion is mental speculation.”
― A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda, Bhagavad-Gita As It Is

“First-class religion teaches one how to love God without any motive. If I serve God for some profit, that is business-not love.”
― A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, The Science of Self-Realization

“Such deluded persons, symptomatically, dwell in dualities of dishonor and honor, misery and happiness, woman and man, good and bad, pleasure and pain, etc., thinking, "This is my wife; this is my house; I am the master of this house; I am the husband of this wife." These are the dualities of delusion. Those who are so deluded by dualities are completely foolish and therefore cannot understand the Supreme Personality of Godhead.”
― A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda, Bhagavad-Gita As It Is

“Out of many thousands among men, one may endeavor for perfection, and of those who have achieved perfection, hardly one knows Me in truth.”
― A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda, Bhagavad-Gita As It Is

“For man, mind is the cause of bondage and mind is the cause of liberation. Mind absorbed in sense objects is the cause of bondage, and mind detached from the sense objects is the cause of liberation.”
― A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda, Bhagavad-Gita As It Is

“Because materialists cannot understand Krsna spiritually, they are advised to concentrate the mind on physical things and try to see how Krsna is manifested by physical representations.”
― A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda, Bhagavad-Gita As It Is

“A yogī is greater than the ascetic, greater than the empiricist and greater than the fruitive worker. Therefore, O Arjuna, in all circumstances, be a yogī.”
― A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda, Bhagavad-gita As It Is

“My dear Arjuna, only by undivided devotional service can I be understood as I am, standing before you, and can thus be seen directly. Only in this way can you enter into the mysteries of My understanding.”
― A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda, Bhagavad-Gita As It Is

“The humble sage, by virtue of true knowledge, sees with equal vision a learned and gentle brāhmaṇa, a cow, an elephant, a dog, and a dog-eater.”
― A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, The Science of Self-Realization

“For sense gratification, a man in the mode of passion wants some honor in society, or in the nation, and he wants to have a happy family, with nice children, wife and house. These are the products of the mode of passion. As long as one is hankering after these things, he has to work very hard. Therefore it is clearly stated here that he becomes associated with the fruits of his activities and thus becomes bound by such activities. In order to please his wife, children and society and to keep up his prestige, one has to work. Therefore the whole material world is more or less in the mode of passion.”
― A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda, Bhagavad-Gita As It Is

“Devotional service is more or less a declaration of war against the illusory energy.”
― A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda, Bhagavad-Gita As It Is

“One cannot reach the real point of factual knowledge without being helped by the right person who is already established in that knowledge. There”
― A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda, Bhagavad-gita As It Is

“To become free from sinful life, there is only simple method: if you surrender to Kṛṣṇa. That is the beginning of bhakti.”
― A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

“Don't Feel Yourself To Be Alone Because GOD is always with you.”
― A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda, The Science of Self-Realization

“O son of Kunti, the nonpermanent appearance of happiness and distress, and their disappearance in due course, are like the appearance and disappearance of winter and summer seasons. They arise from sense perception, O scion of Bharata, and one must learn to tolerate them without being disturbed.”
― A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda, Bhagavad-Gita As It Is

“The living being is in the state of forgetfulness of his relation with God due to his being overly attracted to material sense gratification from time immemorial.”
― A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda, Srimad Bhagavatam: First Canto

“Kshatriya, or the man who is qualified to protect the sufferers, is meant to rule the state. Untrained, lower class men or men without ambition to protect the sufferers cannot be placed on the seat as an administrator. Unfortunately in the age of Kali the lower class men without training occupy the post of a ruler by strength of popular votes and instead of protecting the sufferers, such men create a situation quite intolerable for everyone. Such rulers illegally gratify themselves at the cost of all comforts of the citizens, and thus the chaste mother earth cries to see the pitiable condition of her sons, both men and animals.”
― A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

“If a person hears about, glorifies, meditates upon, worships or simply offers great respect to the Supreme Lord, who is situated within the heart, the Lord will remove from his mind the contamination accumulated during many thousands of lifetimes.”
― A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda, Srimad-Bhagavatam, Twelfth Canto

“The four major vices of Kali-yuga are (1) illicit connection with women, (2) animal slaughter, (3) intoxication, (4) speculative gambling of all sorts.”
― A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda, Srimad Bhagavatam: First Canto

“The whole system of education is geared to sense gratification, and if a learned man thinks it over, he sees that the children of this age are being intentionally sent to the slaughterhouses of so-called education.”
― A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda, Srimad Bhagavatam: First Canto

“In Vaikuṇṭhaloka there is no occupation but the service of the Lord, and this service is not rendered with a purpose. Although every service has a particular result, the devotees never aspire for the fulfillment of their own desires; their desires are fulfilled by rendering transcendental loving service to the Lord.”
― A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda, Srimad-Bhagavatam, Third Canto

“Those who are devoted to the cause of the Personality of Godhead live only for the welfare, development and happiness of others. They do not live for any selfish interest.”
― A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda, Srimad-Bhagavatam: Bhagavata Purana

“The Lord and His devotees reside in the Vaikuṇṭha planets, and they are of the same transcendental quality, namely śuddha-sattva, the mode of pure goodness. The Vaikuṇṭha planets are very dear to the Vaiṣṇavas, and for the progressive march of the Vaiṣṇavas toward the kingdom of God, the Lord Himself helps His devotees.”
― A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda, Srimad-Bhagavatam, Third Canto

“The art of focusing one’s attention on the Supreme and giving one’s love to Him is called Kṛṣṇa consciousness.”
― A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda, Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead

“There are five kinds of liberation, the least important of which is called sāyujya, to become one with the Supreme. Devotees don’t care for such liberation because they are actually intelligent. Nor are they inclined to accept any of the other four kinds of liberation, namely to live on the same planet as the Lord, to live with Him side by side as an associate, to have the same opulence, or to attain the same bodily features. They are concerned only with glorifying the Supreme Lord and His auspicious activities. Pure devotional service is śravaṇaṁ kīrtanam. Pure devotees, who take transcendental pleasure in hearing and chanting the glories of the Lord, do not care for any kind of liberation; even if they are offered the five liberations, they refuse to accept them, as stated in the Bhāgavatam in the Third Canto. Materialistic persons aspire for the sense enjoyment of heavenly pleasure in the heavenly kingdom, but devotees reject such material pleasure at once. The devotee does not even care for the post of Indra. A devotee knows that any pleasurable material position is subject to be annihilated at a certain point. Even”
― A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda, Srimad-Bhagavatam, Third Canto