1) This short essay based on scientific research, is presented to help aspiring Krsna devotees recognise the need to take rest early each night (latest by 10 p. m.) and to rise by 4 a. m. each morning in order to chant the Hare Krsna Mahamantra and attain the perfection of human life.

1) namo namaste tri-dasheshvaraya
bhutadi nathaya mridaya nityam
gagga-taraggotthita-bala-chandra-
chudaya gauri-nayanotsavaya

I repeatedly offer my obeisances unto you, the controller of the thirty primal demigods; unto you, the original father of all created beings; unto you, whose character is gracious; unto you, whose head is crested by the sickle moon arisen from the waves of the Ganga and unto you, who are a festival for the eyes of the fair goddess Gauri."

(Excerpt from lecture series on Caitanya Caritamrta, Kartik 2006, Part 2, Lecture 3 - Mahaprabhu sends Damodara Pandita to Saci Mata)

There is a principle in management, I don’t know how many of you have ever managed devotees, but it's a good principle for managing a family or whatever, it said that the principle is – ‘Praise in public, chastise in private.’

Guru Tattva – Part 2 – 17

Nowadays there is so much information – IT, G.I.T. – Guru Information Technology, GIT. So many websites, so many books, so many CDs, so many asramas, so many movements, so many sampradayas, so many mantras, so many sadhanas, so many sadhyas, so many charismatic personalities on the television, Star TV and Sony TV and so many spiritual channels, day and night, broadcasting so many saptahas.

Tattva Darsan 3 – 2

Sometimes people think they can’t advance in household life, but they can actually make tremendous advancement to the point of pure devotion in household life because household life is based on honesty and responsibility.