For all his cruelty, some Bengalis regard Hitler as one of the founding fathers of mother India. Why? He disliked the English and their empire so much that he actually helped Subash Chandra Bose build up his Indian National Army. He returned captured Indian soldiers (mostly Gurkhas and Sikhs) who had been fighting on the side of the British, helping them expand their empire. This assistance helped Bose to eventually dishearten the British nation, causing it to pull out of India permanently.

Although Prabhupada himself was once a follower of Gandhi’s non-cooperation movement, he said himself that it was Subash Chandra Bose who raised the Indian National Army and was ultimately responsible for securing national independence for India as a nation.

Contrary to the Darwinian theory of (genetic) evolution, the Vedas and Prabhupada taught that there is a gradual evolution of consciousness. After aquatic life, punishment exists in the form of the non-moving entities who have to withstand, sometimes for hundreds of years, wind, piercing cold, searing heat, rain and snow and lack of shelter. A further evolution to insects allows them to find shelter by crawling or flying. Then they become birds, then beasts and then finally humans.

On one walk Srila Prabhupada said that as a small child he thought there was a ghost in a loudspeaker. In this way he was indicating that everything, including God, has a personality.

British propaganda was so effective that even the Indians themselves came to think that products made in India were inferior to products made in England. An example was cutlery “Made in Sheffield.”

“Just like sometimes we take pleasure in a swimming pool, lie down and closing our eyes. Who expert swimmer, they’re lying down. Why it is not possible for the Supreme Lord? What is the difficulty? Sukhanubhavah. We take that pastime for pleasure, for pleasure, lying down on the water, closing eyes. So when we speak, The Garbhodakasayi Visnu lying down in the Causal Ocean,' these rascals, fools, they sometimes criticize,And how it is possible?’ How it is not possible? If a ordinary man can take pleasure lying down on the water, closing and lying for hours-we have seen it-so what is the difficulty for the Supreme Lord? You have got this tendency to lie down on water, half on the water, and close your eyes. So where your tendency has come? Your tendency has come because the same tendency is there in the Supreme Lord. This is the explanation.” (Extract from a Mayapur lecture on March 10, 1976)

We’re taught that all stars are suns, and that the moon is a satellite of the earth. But Srila Prabhupada talks about the moon and stars in a different perspective, e.g., “Just like in the sky, there is one moon only and there are millions of stars. They’re useless. What is the value of the millions of stars? But one moon, oh, dissipate the whole darkness of night.” (From a New York lecture on November 29, 1973)

In Krsna Book, Srila Prabhupada writes (Narada Muni speaking), ” `My dear Lord, You are the Supreme, Parabrahman, and Your pastimes as an ordinary human are another tactical resource, exactly like a play on the stage in which the actor plays parts different from his own identity. Because the Pandavas are Your cousins, You have inquired about them in the role of their well-wisher, and therefore I shall let You know about their intentions. Now please hear me.’ “

In Los Angeles, Srila Prabhupada warns devotees that his and ISKCON’s definition of God should be characterized as THE definition, not A definition ACCORDING to certain sastras or Vedic writings. (December 13, 1973).

It was the brainstorm of Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati to produce a “spiritual newspaper” called Nadia Prakash. Apparantly someone had once challenged him that it would not be possible to produce news of the spiritual world frequently and regularly. Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati is said to have replied that there is enough news from the spiritual world to result in a newspaper being published every second. “The fallen souls are very eager to receive novel information every day, and the transcendentalists like Vyasadeva or Narada can supply such eager people in general with unlimited news from the spiritual world.” (excerpt from Srila Prabhupada in conversation, June 25, 1976, New Vrndavan, USA).