Srila Prabhupada's
Hare Krishna Society
Uniting devotees under the inspiration, guidance and authority of
His Divine Grace AC Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

Founder Acharya of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness, also known as the Krishna Consciousness Movement.
"I wish that each and every branch shall keep their independent identity and cooperate keeping the Acarya in the centre .
On this principle we can open any number of branches all over the world."

"From now on unless I order you do something change or in addition, go on with the usual standard way. ."

System is Authorized How to behave with the acarya
List of The Writings of
Baladeva Vidyabhusana
Book Changes and BBT Oversight
Prabhupada: Who said?
Who is that rascal?
Qualifications of the Bona Fide Guru

RITVIK SUMMARY

Elementary, My Dear Watson Simple Matter
"Just by reading my books
they are initiated."

Hare Krishna Society
Janmastami Celebration
Vyasa-Puja Offering To
Srila Bhaktivedanta
Swami Prabhupada

Author of the July 9th Letter
Srila Prabhupada on Vapu and Vani
Srila Prabhupada Speaks about
 his Gaudiya Math Godbrothers

Church of"Arddha Kukkuti Nyaya"
The Greenhorn Factor
Siksa-Diksa Reply
Chakra Torpedoes Main
GBC Evidence

Inciting Hatred For Ritviks
A Reply toSri Rama das
Scholars Review
Srila Prabhupada's Books

How The Parampara Is Lost
Srila Prabhupada's Authorized
System of Initiations

Reply to Rocana dasa's speculation
Glories of Lord Nityananda
Prabhu Avadhuta
Practical Benefits of
Devotion to Lord Krsna

Malaysia Vaisnavas
Worshipping Srila Prabhupada

Srila Prabhupada on Vaisnavas
Prasadam Ki Jaya
The Infallible One in Unlimited Forms
VRINDAVANE BHAJANA
Srila Prabhupada's Ritvik
System is authorized

The Importance of Initiation
Lazy Man's Way to Riches
Srila Prabhupada's Godbrothers
Srila Prabhupada's System
for Initiations part 2

Srila Prabhupada's System for Initiations
Who is Srila Prabhupada's Disciple?
Simple Quotes Easy to Follow

Gaura Purnima festival   
Sedro Woolley 2007

Kirtan Is Meant For Krsna,
Not An Audience

Nectar from Srila Prabhupada
on how to become perfect

Gaura Pur Nim at
Toronto's New Remuna Dahm

My Grandaughter's
first hari-nama

Sri Govardhana Puja
Sedro Woolley, WA 2006

Srila Prabhupada Writing at
Sri Radha Damodara

Packed Temple Celebrates Lord Krishna's Appearance
With Great Pomp

The Skagit Magic Music Festival
Proposal for Starting a

Please Prabhu
Key Events
Society Friendship and Love
If You Stay With Krsna
The Tradition of Debate
Hare Krishna Society Panama
Potency of Krsna Book
Authority of the Acarya
Atheists-Blind Bluffers

Death Is God
Letter to Karandhar
Tittenhurst,  October 1969
Why not become a wise man?
Simple Method of
Krishna Consciousness

HKS Montreal, Canada
Festival of Nityananda
The Position of Imitation
Spiritual Masters

What is a Devotee?
If Only 5% Becomes
Krishna Conscious

HKS Montreal Gaura Purnima Festival
Gaura Purnima Sedro Woolley, WA
For Your Viewing Pleasure
A Quote To Inspire Us...
Prabhupada On
Sadhana Bhakti
Varna-asrama: Duties of
a Brahmana

Prabhupada Stotram
Vishnujana on Chanting
An Open Invitation

Gaudiya Vaisnava Biographies
Unique Acarya  
Jagat Guru

Archives  FAQs

Book Changes

Changes to
Sri Caitanya-caritamrta

It is a very great mistake
Detecting Srila Prabhupada's
Original Books

Do Not Change My Words
Book Changes and BBT Oversight
HIDDEN CO-AUTHORS

Krishna Consciousness
Fundamental
Documents

Constitution of 
Association

Direction of 
Management

Analysis of  Srila Prabhupada's 
July 9th Letter 

July 9th Letter
Letters to Rtviks
Last Will and Testament

Hari Nama

Glories and Pitfalls part 4
Glories and Pitfalls part 3
Glories and Pitfalls Part 2
Glories and Pitfalls of
Chanting the Holy Names

Photo Galleries Vrindavana
Sedro Woolley,WA
Los Angeles, CA

Hare Krishna Society Network

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www.jayaprabhupada.com
Prabhupadanugas' Press
Prabhupada's Letters

Adi-vani.org
Kusakratha Prabhu Memorial 
Hare Krishna Society

Toronto
Krishna Meditations
Jayananda Prabhu
Radha Damodara Temple
Association of Devotees
Becoming-Perfect
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Spiritual World

Srila Prabhupada explains that the majority of souls are in the spiritual world

Devotee: Srila Prabhupada, you wrote that we don't have to be concerned that this Krsna consciousness movement will deliver the whole world, because it will fill up again. Even if we can bring everyone back to Godhead, it will just be finished up again with more conditioned souls.

Srila Prabhupada: That means there are so many conditioned souls, one after another, coming. And the conditioned souls are the few of the whole living entities. Just imagine what is the total! (laughs) Devotee: It can't be imagined.

Srila Prabhupada:
    And majority in the spiritual world, and one fourth, minority, is here in so many innumerable universes.
Srila Prabhupada Morning Walk, June 9, 1976, Los Angeles, California
    Perfect devotee is transferred to spiritual world.
    Srila Prabhupada defines moksha, liberation.
    Srila Prabhupada explains how the spiritual world is never annihilated.


Srila Prabhupada: Birth and death you stop as soon as you give up this material body. Material body, the birth question comes of the material body. And death also material body. Therefore it is clearly said in the Bhagavad-gita, na jayate na mriyate va.

Indian man: Yes, you are trying to do sadhanas to see what...
Srila Prabhupada: First of all, understand this, that the soul is never born, never dies. But we are seeing birth and death. What is that birth and death? It is of the body. But you are different from the body.
Indian man: Yes, I am different. My soul is different, the atma different from the body. That is the conclusion.
Srila Prabhupada: Birth and death applies to the body. Not to the soul.
Indian man: Yes. That, your karmas, you enjoy and suffer according to your karma.
Srila Prabhupada: That is body, all body.
Indian man: That is body. How long you are going to do that?
Srila Prabhupada: So long you are not a devotee.
Indian man: I mean even if I am a devotee, I go on doing some sins...
Srila Prabhupada: You become devotee, then immediately transfer to the nitya-yukta upasate.
Indian man: Yes, I become a devotee, a true devotee...
Srila Prabhupada:
    When you become a perfect devotee then you are transferred to the eternal world and your engagement is upasana eternally.

Indian man: The eternal world. What is that eternal world?
Srila Prabhupada: That you do not know? You read, study? Have you studied Bhagavad-Gita? Do you know that there is an eternal world? There is an eternal world? Do you know that?
Indian man: Our sastras say eternal world...
Srila Prabhupada: Then why do you...?
Indian man: Man is eternal world by going and enjoying there in moksa there.
Srila Prabhupada: So that is moksa.
    When you go to the eternal world, that is moksa. That is moksa.

Indian man: Do you separate the eternal world from the Paramatma? It is something, a world like our material world that we have got, physical world that we have got, is going to be out of, the eternal world?
Srila Prabhupada: Yes. Yes. Paras tasmat tu bhavo 'nyo 'vyakto 'vyaktat sanatana [Bg. 8.20]. This word is used, sanatana. Sanatana means eternal. There is another world. Paras tasmat tu bhavo 'nyo 'vyakto 'vyaktat sanatana [Bg. 8.20]. Find out this verse. Everything is there. Devotee: We have to start packing up now. It's quarter past six. We have to leave in ten minutes.
Srila Prabhupada: So now we have to stop. We have to leave. You just refer that verse. Devotee: paras tasmat tu bhavo 'nyo 'vyakto 'vyaktat sanatanah /yah sa sarvesu bhütesu nasyatsu na vinasyati [Bg. 8.20]
Srila Prabhupada: Na vinasyati. The material world will be finished and that will remain.
Devotee: "Yet there is another nature which is eternal and is transcendental to this manifested and unmanifested matter. It is supreme and is never annihilated. When all in this world is annihilated, that part remains as it is."
Srila Prabhupada: That is sanatana. Devotee: "Krsna's superior spiritual energy is transcendental and eternal. It is beyond all the changes of material nature, which is manifest and annihilated during the days and nights of Brahma. Krsna's superior energy is completely opposite in quality to material nature. Superior and inferior nature are explained in the Seventh Chapter." And the next verse?
Srila Prabhupada: No, that's all right.
    There is an eternal world, sanatana. That is never annihilated. So when you go to that sanatana-dhama, God is there, sanatana, and there you live eternally and go on rendering service to God. That is (indistinct). There is no question of oneness. The variety is there, but there the varieties are eternal, here the varieties are temporary. That is difference. Everything is there.
Srila Prabhupada Room Conversation, August 25, 1976, Hyderabad, India
    Srila Prabhupada explains the spiritual world is full of cows.
Guest (2): What exists between the planet Gokula and the (indistinct) Krsna? Srila Prabhupada: There is a planet who is full of cows, Gokula. That's it. Surabhir abhipalayantam. Cintamani-prakara-sadmasu kalpa-vrksa-laksavrtesu surabhir abhipalayantam [Bs. 5.29]. Krsna is engaged there in tending cows, surabhi cows. That is Gokula. That planet is full of cows. Srila Prabhupada morning walk, December 5, 1976, Hyderabad, India
    Srila Prabhupada explains that the Gopis are the highest devotees in the spiritual world.
Devotee: Srila Prabhupada, two boys are here. They are from Caracas. This one boy is Ramanujacarya. He distributed over three thousand Bhagavatams in the month of December. He did over a hundred books every day. (devotees exclaim)
Srila Prabhupada: Wonderful. Thank you very much.
Devotee: This is him, this boy.
Srila Prabhupada: Oh. Very good. The more you distribute books, the more you are blessed. There is no more or less. Everyone is blessed... (laughter) There is no such discrimination, but still, there is some competition. (laughter) In Vrndavana there is no discrimination that gopis are the highest and others... No. Every one is all right. Still, from neutral point of view, the gopis are the highest. Caitanya Mahaprabhu..., ramya kascid upasana vraja-vadhu vargabhir ya kalpita,(?) that "There is no standard of worship, what was conceived by the gopis." Caitanya Mahaprabhu said. There is no distinction between the cowherd boys and the gopis or the trees and the flowers and the calves and cows. It is the absolute platform. But still, in the spiritual world also there is distinction between living entities. That is variety, spiritual variety, visesavada. Srila Prabhupada evening darsana,

February 25, 1977, Mayapura, India