daily program

Prabhupada: No. Just like we are teaching these boys how to live, Krsna conscious. Then... [to devotees:] What is our program, just explain. What is our program in the temple from the early in the morning.    (More...)

Hamsadūta: The temple. Rising at three-thirty, take bath, then go to the temple for kirtana and lecture. Then chant our rounds, take breakfast, and then do duties.    (More...)

Reporter: What time do you take breakfast?    (More...)

Hamsadūta: Eight o'clock, eight-thirty. So before taking breakfast, we are already awake four hours. Most people sleep till eight.    (More...)

Hamsadūta: Through the day we're engaged. Some people are typing, some people are painting, some people are preaching, some people are printing books. We do everything, because this Society is complete. As Krsna says, "Whatever you do as work, whatever you eat, whatever you give away, everything should be done as an offering unto Me. By this principle of work you are freed from all sinful reaction and you come to Me." So the goal of life, or the goal of this Society, or human society, should be to go back home, back to Godhead, back to Krsna.    (More...)

The other day in Paris one press reporter came to me, the Socialist press. So I informed him that "Our philosophy is that everything belongs to God." Krsna says-what is that?-bhoktaram yajna-tapasam sarva-loka-mahesvaram [Bg 5.29]: "I am the enjoyer, bhokta." Bhokta means enjoyer. So bhoktaram yajna-tapasam. Just like this body is working. The whole body is working, everyone's, to enjoy life, but wherefrom the enjoyment begins? The enjoyment begins from the stomach. You have to give sufficient nice foodstuff to the stomach. If there is sufficient energy, we can digest. If sufficient energy, then all other senses become strong. Then you can enjoy sense gratification. Otherwise not possible. If you cannot digest.... Just like we are now old man. We cannot digest. So there is no question of sense enjoyment.    (More...)