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Here’s a letter by Srila Prabhupada, dated June 14, 1972, to his disciple Himavati Devi Dasi explaining that devotees should dress nicely. My Dear Himavati, Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated May 30, 1972, and I have noted the contents. I don’t know who has given you this […]
“It is simply a relationship of mutually helping each other, man and wife, to make advancement in spiritual life, nothing more. We are not after home, money, fame, like that. But that does not mean that he shall not support her nicely, no. It is the duty of husband to protect wife in every way […]
“I know in India there are many foolish persons who think that by reading Bhagavad-Gita one is apt to renounce this world. This is completely foolishness. Arjuna was a family man, a soldier, and he was directly taught the principles of Bhagavad-Gita, but he never renounced the world nor the battlefield. I do not know […]
I was in a relationship an year ago and I am finding it hard to get over it. On New Year’s Eve, I heard she is seeing someone I know. Two days later, I found out she is getting engaged to him that week. It feels like I have lost the will to live because […]
“A grhistha is not meant to enjoy sex life without restriction. Indeed, the whole purpose of Vedic life is to become free from sexual indulgence. All the asramas are recognized for spiritual progress, and therefore although the gṛhastha-asrama gives a kind of license for sex life for a certain time, it does not allow unrestricted […]
Worse than being alone is to be with a person who doesn’t like you; too many people have experienced the anguish and chaos caused by an incompatible marriage. Such travesties are systematically avoided in Vaishnava culture because, besides training and restraint in behaviour prior to marriage, all care is taken in matchmaking: “Formerly, boys and […]
Here’s a letter by Srila Prabhupada to his disciples in March 1969 encouraging them to serve him by preaching Krishna Consciousness as a duly married devotee couple and achieve both material and spiritual happiness. My Dear Isana das and Vibhavati dasi, Please accept my blessings. I thank you very much for your kind letter of […]
“The practice of killing children has existed in human society for a long time—since time immemorial—but in the days of yore it was very rarely performed. At the present moment, however, in this age of Kali, abortion—killing of the child within the womb—has become very common, and sometimes a child is even killed after birth. […]
Dear Matajis, Sometimes we can hear from certain matajis in our movement that dressing nicely and in an attractive way is “maya”. H.H. Bhakti Vidya Purna Swami was quoting a Bengali lady who said: “The problem in ISKCON is that unmarried women dress as if they are married, and married women dress as if they […]
“According to Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura also, a husband and wife can turn the home into a place as good as Vaikunṭha, even while in this material world. Being absorbed in Krishna consciousness, even in this world husband and wife can live in Vaikunṭha simply by installing the Deity of the Lord within the home and serving […]
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