Mukunda Goswami famous quotes

When one chants the holy name of Krishna, Krishna dances on the tongue and one wishes one had thousands of ears and thousands of mouths with which to better appreciate the holy names of God.
-- Mukunda Goswami

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If people can understand the Lord's message in Bhagavad-gita, they can become truly happy.
-- Mukunda Goswami

#People #Gita #Messages

The Vedas inform us that because God is absolute, there is no difference between God the person and His holy name; the name is God.
-- Mukunda Goswami

#Names #Differences #Vedas

Although many swamis and yogis had come from India to the West, Prabhupada was the only one with the purity and devotion to establish India's ancient Krishna conscious philosophy around the world on its own terms-not watered down, but as it is.
-- Mukunda Goswami

#Philosophy #India #World

A lot of people have come to Krishna consciousness through prasadam. I mean, this process is the only kind of yoga that you can actually practice by eating.
-- Mukunda Goswami

#Yoga #Mean #Practice

The maha-mantra was prescribed for modern times because of the fast-paced nature of things today. Even when people do get into a little quiet place, it's very difficult to calm the mind for very long.
-- Mukunda Goswami

#Long #People #Mind

The Vedic literatures predicted that after the advent of Lord Caitanya five hundred years ago, there would be a Golden Age of ten thousand years, when the chanting of the holy names of God would completely nullify all the degradations of the modern age, and real spiritual peace would come to this planet.
-- Mukunda Goswami

#Spiritual #Real #Years

Anyone who is sincere about making spiritual advancement, whatever one's religion may be, can usually see the value of chanting. I mean if that person was really trying to be God conscious and trying to chant sincerely.
-- Mukunda Goswami

#Spiritual #Mean #Trying

The Vedic literatures reveal that prasadam conveys spiritual realization, just as chanting does, but in a less obvious or conspicuous way. You make spiritual advancement just by eating it.
-- Mukunda Goswami

#Spiritual #Advancement #Doe

I have little shame, no dignity – all in the name of a better cause.

War is death. If we are to engage in war, then we should have to stare it straight in the face and call it by its rightful name.

What I try to do is to appreciate every job I have while I'm working on it.

I appreciate good criticism and I think it's really important. I don't like it when it's consumer advocacy, like how you should spend your $60. Great criticism is a kind of literature. I've written some criticism, and I really enjoy it because I think it's important for people to know that theatre is vital. Criticism is really unevenly distributed in this town. Obviously the power of the Times is discouraging. It's killing new plays, demolishing one after another.

It definitely has learning a lesson about the way you're living your life. I wouldn't compare our movie to that, but it has a structure where it's about a man who doesn't appreciate all that he has and finds out at the end that life has been great and he has to enjoy that.

I married an archeologist because the older I grow, the more he appreciates me.

There is something frightful in being required to enjoy and appreciate all masterpieces; to read with equal relish Milton, and Dante, and Calderon, and Goethe, and Homer, and Scott, and Voltaire, and Wordsworth, and Cervantes, and Molière, and Swift.

These are times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed.

To-day is ours; what do we fear? To-day is ours; we have it here. Let's treat it kindly, that it may Wish, at least, with us to stay. Let's banish business, banish sorrow; To the gods belong to-morrow.

I wish all men to be free. I wish the material prosperity of the already free which I feel sure the extinction of slavery would bring.