Lord Caitanya’s indirect reasons for appearing on earth was to detach people from everything material. Therefore as a child, he trashed many items, especially in his mother’s kitchen. Vrindavana Das Thakura describes the phenomenon and why it occurs in Caitanya Bhagavat.

Srila Prabhupada once pointed out in a lecture that brahmanas (as teachers) used to work for free, that the relationship with their students was one of love. He said, “Just like in our institution, I am your teacher, but there is no such contract that you have to pay me. But you pay me more than anything.” (May 27, 1972, Los Angeles, Srimad Bhagavatam 7.5.22-34).

A Judeo-Christian proverb says: “the only sin is not loving God enough. “Srila Prabhupada has told us many times that sin is acting against the laws of God. If, as Bhatki-tirtha Maharaja has written, “God’s mercy is greater than God’s law,” then not learning to love Krsna can be considered the original sin (papa in Sanskrit means `sin’). In one lecture, Srila Prabhupada says pinning a flower in the hair instead of offering it to Krsna is papa (lecture in Mumbai on SB3.16.28 on 15 January 1975).

We have heard that the residents of the spiritual world can change their forms. “They have assumed forms with colors and shapes similar to those of the Lord they have worshiped as most dear, and even non human forms, such as those of some animals. This verse indicates that Vaikuntha devotees who appear in nonhuman forms, such as those of some animal or plant, have worshiped similar forms of Lord Narayana, who by His expansion appeared in those same species. These devotees, each in his own way, have realized the perfection of sarupya, having attained forms that look just like those of the Supreme Lord.” ( Brhad-bhagavatamrta, Part Two, chapter entitled, “The Spiritual Kingdom,” text 141.)

In Srimad Bhagavatam 1.17.38 (purport) Srila Prabhupada presents recommendations for the establishment of better state government. He writes, “The state which wants to eradicate corruption by majority may introduce the principles of religion in the following manner: 1. Two compulsory fasting days in a month, if not more (austerity). Even from the economic point of view, such two fasting days in a month in the state will save tons of food, and the system will also act very favorably on the general health of the citizens. 2. There must be compulsory marriage of young boys and girls attaining twenty-four years of age and sixteen years of age respectively. There is no harm in coeducation in the schools and colleges, provided the boys and girls are duly married, and in case there is an intimate connection between a male and female student, they should be married properly without illicit relation. The divorce act is encouraging prostitution, and this should be abolished. 3. The citizens of the state must give in charity up to fifty percent of their income for the purpose of creating a spiritual atmosphere in the state or in human society, both individually and collectively. They should preach the principles of Bhagavatam by (a) karma-yoga, or doing everything for the satisfaction of the Lord, (b) regular hearing of the Srimad-Bhagavatam from authorized persons or realized souls, (c) chanting of the glories of the Lord congregationally at home or at places of worship, (d) rendering all kinds of service to bhagavatas engaged in preaching Srimad-Bhagavatam and (e) residing in a place where the atmosphere is saturated with God consciousness. If the state is regulated by the above process, naturally there will be God consciousness everywhere.”

In a lecture on July 7, 1973 in London, Srila Prabhupada talks about Sanjaya’s ability to see and hear details of the battle of Kuruksetra many miles away from his location, without the use of technology. He explains this by referring to modern methods of image transferral: “Kim akurvata sanjaya. Sanjaya, [was] a very faithful secretary. And he is explaining the Bhagavad-gita, by experiencing, by television within the heart. That art is not yet developed. You have got television through machine, but there is another television-you can see within your heart everything, what is going on outside. So that television was known to… That will be explained by Sanjaya, that by the grace of Vyasadeva, he learned this televisioning, and he was sitting with his master within the room and he was actually seeing how the fighting is going on.”

An age-old debate about how and why we fell from the spiritual world is a topic Srila Prabhupada dispenses with in this pithy remark from his purport to Srimad Bhagavatam 3.16.23-24: “We cannot argue about why false ego arises from pure consciousness.”

For those who say evolution is mistaken, it appears that Srila Prabhupada thought Darwin was a least partially correct, even if he “plagiarized” some of his findings from the Padma Purana. Today’s “jury” of anthropologists believe that two million species have been named to date, and that there are up to 30,000,000 more to be discovered and categorized.

Both our voice and the breath are given by Krsna, and therefore our words and our very life should be dedicated in His service, if we are to be rightly situated, i.e. grateful and understanding of our position.

Terrorism is possible because terrorists don’t see the soul. Their attitude is that all humans and other living beings may be killed indiscriminately. Some even believe in reincarnation but lack any knowledge of its purpose.