Prabhupada:sa vai pumsam paro dharmoyato bhaktir adhoksajeahaituky apratihatayayatma suprasidati[SB 1.2.6]Yayatma suprasidati. Everyone is seeking after happiness. Atyantika-duhkha-nivrttih. The struggle for existence is to minimize miserable conditi
Nitai: (leads chanting, etc.)sa vai pumsam paro dharmoyato bhaktir adhoksajeahaituky apratihatayayatma suprasidati[SB 1.2.6]Translation: "The supreme occupation, dharma, for all humanity is that by which men can attain to loving devotional service un
Pradyumna: Translation: "The Blessed Lord said: Many, many births both you and I have passed. I can remember all of them, but you cannot, O subduer of the enemy."Prabhupada: Sri bhagavan uvaca. We have already explained the meaning of bhagavan in con
Prabhupada:sa evayam maya te 'dyayogah proktah puratanahbhakto 'si me sakha cetirahasyam hy etad uttamam[Bg. 4.3]Last day we were discussing about the process of understanding Bhagavad-gita. This is to receive the knowledge in disciplic succession, b
Prabhupada: Where is the book? All right. Page?Madhudvisa: Page 108.Prabhupada: Page?Madhudvisa: One hundred eight. The beginning of Chapter Four.Prabhupada: All right. Begin. Read.Madhudvisa: Chapter Four: "Transcendental Knowledge."One: "The Blesse
Pradyumna: (leads chanting of synonyms) "Whenever and wherever there is a decline in religious practice, O descendant of Bharata, and a predominant rise of irreligion -- at that time I descend Myself."Prabhupada:yada yada hi dharmasyaglanir bhavati b
Pradyumna: (leads text chanting) Translation: "One who knows the transcendental nature of My appearance and activities, does not, upon leaving the body, take his birth again in this material world, but attains My eternal abode, O Arjuna."Prabhupada:j
Nitai: (leads chanting of verse and synonyms) "In order to deliver the pious and to annihilate the miscreants, as well as to reestablish the principles of religion, I advent Myself millennium after millennium."Prabhupada:paritranaya sadhunamvinasaya
Pradyumna: Translation: "Arjuna said: The sun-god Vivasvan is senior by birth to You. How am I to understand that in the beginning You instructed this science to him?"Prabhupada: Hm. Where is book?aparam bhavato janmaparam janma vivasvatahkatham etad
(Kirtana followed by Prema-dhvani prayers)Prabhupada:yada yada hi dharmasyaglanir bhavati bharataabhyutthanam adharmasyatadatmanam srjamy aham[Bg. 4.7]In last night we have discussed that how the Supreme Personality of Godhead, He descends, what is t
Prabhupada:ajo 'pi sann avyayatmabhutanam isvaro 'pi sanprakrtim svam adhisthayasambhavamy atma-mayaya[Bg. 4.6]Now, Lord Sri Krsna is describing how He incarnates Himself for the benefit of conditioned souls in the material world. The Supreme Persona
Pradyumna: Translation: "Being freed from attachment, fear and anger, being fully absorbed in Me and taking refuge in Me, many, many persons in the past became purified by knowledge of Me, and thus they all attained transcendental love for Me."Prabhu
Prabhupada:janma karma (ca) me divyam(evam) yo vetti tattvatahtyaktva deham punar janmanaiti mam eti kaunteya[Bg. 4.9]Lord Krsna says that "The process of My birth and the process of My activities, they are all transcendental." And anyone who can und
Prabhupada: But if you have got simply the belly and legs, then it is a dead body. It cannot work properly. The brain is lost; therefore they are mad after so much advancement of civilization. They are exactly like cats and dogs. As soon as you enter
Prabhupada: Very plain word. Avinasi tu tad viddhi. Just try to understand that thing which is spreading consciousness all over the body. Just like a small grain of poison. As soon as you take it, immediately it will spread all over the blood. Even a
Prabhupada: ...need of God or not? Whether there is need of God?Prajapati: The scientists say no, Srila Prabhupada.Prabhupada: That is rascaldom.Prajapati: They say there's neither need, nor usefulness.Prabhupada: That is their rascaldom. What is you
Svarupa Damodara: I am just collecting what Srila Prabhupada explained, the different acintya-saktis that we observe.Prabhupada: Here the acintya-sakti is working, this mist, fog. You have no power to drive it away. Beyond your power. You can explain
By constant chanting, then one come to realize Parabrahman (the Supreme Brahman), or the Absolute Truth.Any person, under any circumstances, can reach an elevated state of consciousness by properly hearing the Bhagavad-gītā, and then, by constantly c
