Srila Prabhupada once said that there is no envy in the spiritual word.
He gave the examples of the trees and grass in Krsna's planet. He said
the trees are saying to the grass, "you are providing a wonderfully
soft carpet for Their Lordships to walk upon." And the grass says to
the trees, "You are giving a beautiful visage for Radha and Krsna to
gaze upon as They stroll in the forest."

Plastic surgery and other attempts to arrest the aging process are
popular, and on the rise. As Srila Prabhupada points out, a dead body
is disgusting, regardless of how beautiful he or she may have been when
alive. In fact a beautiful dead person is downright scary, especially
if you think at first that they're alive, isn't it so?

It helps us remember the fragility of life when we realize that every
time we drive a car we're wielding a lethal weapon. A ten-inch wide
painted line is often all that separates us from oncoming cars. When we
drive on these kinds of roads we are only a few feet away from death. Padam padam yat vipadam ne tesam.

At least ten times, Srila Prabhupada said, "You Are What You Eat," attributing it to George Bernard Shaw.

In a letter to Mandali Bhadra dated 25 May 1969, Srila Prabhupada
wrote: "But in everything we do devotion and sincerity are the real
things. There is a word in Sanskrit; bhava grahi Janardana:
This means the Lord accepts service in devotional emotion. If we are
sincere in offering something to the Lord in devotional love, He will
accept it. The procedure may not be very right, but the desire being

The influence of the age is so pervasive that even Krsna's own peers
suspected him 10. 57.41: "After the almighty Lord had shown the
Syamantaka jewel to His relatives, thus dispelling the false
accusations against Him, He returned it to Akrura."

PURPORT

The fourth verse of Upadesamrita,

"dadati pratigrhnati, guhyam akhyati prcchati, bhunkte bhojayate caiva, sad-vidham priti-laksanam

In Srila Prabhupada's printed word, there are over 30 instances of him
saying that all the problems of the world can be solved by Krishna
consciousness. This is a fact we should be convinced about, by thinking
or speaking of these problems one by one, seeing how individual and
collective Krishna consciousness can solve them.

Population studies experts predict that our planet's population will
reach equilibrium in the first half of this century, and then begin a
sharp decline. All of earth's human inhabitants could fit into the
country of France with 1000 square feet (100 square meters) of living
space for each man, woman and child. Some countries are already
noticing they don't have enough people to run their factories. The
earth can easily support 10 times its present population on a diet that
includes meat, and 10-25 its current population on a meatless diet.

The practice of 'voluntary austerity' has become fashionable in parts
of the USA. People have opted out of high-paying corporate positions,
taken a severe salary cut and sometimes moved to country-like
surroundings, professing to be happier and far more at peace with
themselves and their families. Many of them home-school their children,
live in communities of like-minded families and periodically meet with
their neighbors to discuss and reinforce their new-found fortune.