“The verdict of all revealed scriptures is that by even a moment’s association with a pure devotee, one can attain all success.”

These books of oral histories is a word for word transcription of the video series, “Memories of Srila Prabhupada” which are interviews of those fortunate souls who had that all important association with a pure devotee, in the person of His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. Also known as “Srila Prabhupada”, the founder-acarya of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness, His Divine Grace has been well recognized by scholars, religionists and lay-persons alike, as one of the most prominent ambassadors of India’s spiritual culture in modern times and whose character was beyond reproach. <read more>

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Quotes From Back Cover
Volume 1

One day while I was searching for a story to read, he said, “Just read from anywhere. Krishna is like a sweet ball. Wherever you bite, it’s sweet." Then I quickly went to the next page and began reading.

One morning we were walking on Juhu beach while birds were flying overhead in perfect formation. These birds would fly in a line or make a "U" turn all together. So I asked Prabhupada, “How do these birds fly in a perfect formation? How do they communicate with each other?” And Prabhupada’s response was, “They are not less intelligent like you are.” <read more>

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Quotes From Back Cover
Volume 2

At the end of his lecture Prabhupada said, “So if you will just follow these four regulative principles and chant sixteen rounds then you will go back to home, back to Godhead. I guarantee it.” He paused and looked around at all of us. Then he said again, “I guarantee it.”

Tamal had asked, “What is more important, sankirtan, rounds, devotional service, or our health?” Prabhupada answered, “The highest principle is to save yourself.”

I said to Srila Prabhupada, “I must have fallen in maya.” Srila Prabhupada said, “You’re always in maya, but sometimes you fall into Krishna.”

I asked, “Prabhupada, sometimes I have problems and the spiritual master isn’t there and it’s too detailed for the scriptures. What should I do?” And he said, “If you chant Hare Krishna very nicely, all the answers will come from within.”

Prabhupada’s compassion is that in his old age he left Vrindavan to bring us Krishna consciousness in the hell of New York. That’s compassion.

I asked, “Prabhupada, if devotees are transcendental then…” Again Prabhupada cut me off in mid-sentence. He said, “Not transcendental. Trying to be transcendental.”

Bahulasva said, “Srila Prabhupada, one of the arguments is that no one has seen God.” Prabhupada stopped and said, “No fool has seen God. I am not a fool like you. I have seen God.”

I asked him once, “Have you seen Krishna?” And he said, “Yes.” I said, “What does Krishna look like?” And he said, “You have seen this acetylene torch, you cannot look with your eye?”

Prabhupada said to me, “Everything is so nice in the Western countries; if they would simply stop eating the cow. Isn’t there any other kind of meat they can eat besides the cow?”