Lecture on Don't Be A Miser by HH Bhakti Vikasa Swami on 29 Jan 2009 at Salem
(His Holiness Bhakti Vikasa Swami appeared in this world in 1957 in England. He joined the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) in London in 1975 and was initiated in that year with the name Ilapati dasa by ISKCON's founder-acarya, His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada.)
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Lecture on Repetition of Birth and Death by HG Jivananda Prabhu on 14 Oct 2012 At Tucson
(The mother, a connoisseur of all Protestant faiths, began to attend Presbyterian churches, and there the future swami, at the age of thirteen, delivered his first Sunday sermon. Noting her son’s boredom and lack of challenge at school, his mother pushed for his acquiring a full scholarship plus living expenses to private boarding schools in New Hampshire, where he attended Exeter Academy during the summer and Holderness School for Boys during the regular school year.)
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Lecture on Narsimhadev Appearance Day by Sankarsana Das Adhikari Prabhu on 13 May 2014 at Kaunas
(Sankarshan Das fully dedicated his life for serving the order of his spiritual master to become a guru and deliver the world. For the last 40 years he has uninterruptedly served his spiritual master’s movement, the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), in various capacities.)
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Lecture on Srivasa Thakura - The Summit of selfless service in offering everything for the Lord's Pleasure by HG Chaitanya Charan Prabhu
(His Grace Caitanya Charan Prabhu is a monk and spiritual teacher in the time honored tradition of bhakti yoga. He is a editor of Back to Godhead, which is the official international magazine of the Hare Krishna movement.)
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Lecture on Never miss track of ultimate Goal of Life by HG Radhe Shyam Prabhu on 13 Junr 2014
(President of the Pune branch of ISKCON (International Society for Krishna Consciousness) that has over 600 centres worldwide Director of Vedic Oasis for Inspiration, Culture & Education (VOICE) Holds an M.Tech from IIT-Bombay)
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Lecture on Lord Vamana by HH Bhakti Caitanya Swami on 18 Aug 2010 at South Africa
(Originally from New Zealand, Bhakti Caitanya Swami joined the Hare Krishna movement in London, early in 1973. Almost a year before, as a philosophy student at Auckland University, he had first seen his future spiritual master walking across the campus with his followers. Srila Prabhupada initiated Bhakti Caitanya Swami later in 1973, giving him the name Raghubir Dasa. )
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Lecture on How the living entity acts as his own guru by HH Sivarama Swami on 17 June 2014 at ISKCON New Vraja Dham
(Sivarama Swami was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1949. In 1956, during the failed Hungarian revolution, he emigrated with his family to Canada. Sivarama Swami first came in contact with the books of A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada in 1970, becoming an initiated disciple of Prabhupada in 1973. )
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Lecture on The Advantage the Present Age of Kali by HH Bhakti Charu Swami on 15 June 2014 at Los Angeles
(Bhakti Charu Swami is from a Bengali family and spent most of his early childhood in urban Kolkata. He met with Srila Prabhupada at the end of 1976 after a long and intense search for a spiritual teacher. This initial meeting resulted in Bhakti Charu Swami being assigned to translate the books of the Bhaktivedanta Book Trust into the Bengali language.)
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Lecture on Lying and Honesty by Hh Sivarama Swami on 19 June 2014 at Budapest
(Sivarama Swami was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1949. In 1956, during the failed Hungarian revolution, he emigrated with his family to Canada. Sivarama Swami first came in contact with the books of A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada in 1970, becoming an initiated disciple of Prabhupada in 1973. )
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Lecture on What is Spiritual Intelligence by HG Jivananda Prabhu on 16 June 2013 At Tucson
(The mother, a connoisseur of all Protestant faiths, began to attend Presbyterian churches, and there the future swami, at the age of thirteen, delivered his first Sunday sermon. Noting her son’s boredom and lack of challenge at school, his mother pushed for his acquiring a full scholarship plus living expenses to private boarding schools in New Hampshire, where he attended Exeter Academy during the summer and Holderness School for Boys during the regular school year.)
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Lecture on The Meaning of Cleaning the Heart by HG Radhe Shyam Prabhu
(President of the Pune branch of ISKCON (International Society for Krishna Consciousness) that has over 600 centres worldwide Director of Vedic Oasis for Inspiration, Culture & Education (VOICE) Holds an M.Tech from IIT-Bombay)
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Lecture on Real Yoga and Cheating Yoga by HH Bhakti Vikasa Swami at Sacramento on 17 May 2014
(His Holiness Bhakti Vikasa Swami appeared in this world in 1957 in England. He joined the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) in London in 1975 and was initiated in that year with the name Ilapati dasa by ISKCON's founder-acarya, His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada.)
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There is a beautiful verse written in the avadhi language which reveals the greatness of unalloyed love to the Supreme Lord over years and years of attempt to understand Him through jnana marga.
H H Mahavishnu Goswami Maharaj liked this verse very much because it gives the complete essence of pure bhakti as revealed in Srimad Bhagavatam and has written it in his notes.
sesha mahesha dinesha ganesha sureshahu jahi nirantar gaavain
jahi anaadi ananta akhanda acheda abheda suveda bataavain
narada se sukh, vyasa rattain, pachi hare taun puni paar na paavain
tahi ahir ki chohariyaan chachiyaa bhar chaach pe naach nachaavain
"Great personalities like Anantasesha, Lord Siva, Sun god, Ganesh, Indra - all of them always sing about this same Lord (Krishna). This same Lord Krishna is glorified in the vedas as the one who has no beginning, no end, unlimited, indestructible, without difference etc. Great personalities like Narada, Sukha, and Vyasa are exhausted from searching for Him — they can never fathom His limits. Yet, the humble cowherd girls of Vrindavan makes Him dance – for a sip of buttermilk from the palm of their hands!"
The gopis did not even recognize Krishna as the Supreme Lord. They just had unflinching love for Him and regarded Him as all-in-all. This complete dependency of the gopis on Lord Krishna made Him come under their complete control. This is the result of pure devotional service.
We heard a very beautiful pastime of Lord Srinathji in Nathdwar which occurred many years ago. In those days there was a sweeper who would be very busy engaged in sweeping the temple premises of Nathdwar. Every day he used to see thousands of devotees rushing to see the Lord and would hear from the temple hall the joyful chorus chanting of "Jai Srinathji", "Giriraj dharan ki jai", "Aaj ke anand ki jai". He had never taken darshan of the Lord being always engaged in his menial service. So he was wondering what is it that is making these devotees so happy and was hankering when he would be able to relish the same happiness of seeing the Lord. At that time, amazingly the bricks of a portion of the wall broke open and the sweeper could get the transcendental darshan of Lord Srinathji directly and attain the same supreme bliss. Till date that window is known as "The mercy window of Srinathji" and all the devotees pay obeisances to that place.
Similarly we also have the example of Lord Sri Krishna in Udupi temple turning Himself 180 degrees, to give darshan to the unalloyed devotee Kanaka dasa (from the back window), who was not allowed to enter through the main entrance of the sanctum sanctorum for his being of lower birth.
This is the victory of unalloyed bhakti of the Lord over all other modes of attempt to see Him or understand Him.
Let us pray to the Lord to attain this simple and humble love for the Lord in this life time instead of hankering to attain name, fame, wealth and other kind of material happiness in this world.
Srila Prabhupada called Krishna consciousness the kitchen religion. He trained us to understand the importance of prasadam distribution, both to the devotees and the masses. However, there has never been an organized collection of quantity cooking recipes.....until now. Announcing: the Kitchen Religion quantity cooking cookbook series.
Designed as kitchen workbooks with room for notes and a metric equivalents chart for non-U.S. cooks, the recipes are presented in a graph-like format with ingredient quantities to cook for 10 – 1,000 people. Each volume also contains specific General Cooking Notes and Tips, a Kitchen Standards document based on Srila Prabhupada’s instructions in this regard, and quotes from Srila Prabhupada on every page related to food in Krishna consciousness. Thus, they are also an invaluable educational tool for training new devotees and prospective temple Brahmins.
Devotees who have seen advance copies have all unanimously agreed that this is a cookbook whose time has come, and that every ISKCON temple kitchen, householder “temple” kitchen, restaurant, Food For Life program, catering program, etc. should have one. Gift shops can sell them as well.
I am very happy to announce the availability of the first volume, Quantity Rice Cooking, containing 65 International rice recipes that are surprisingly easy to prepare. You will have more than a year’s worth of rice recipes for your temple Sunday Feast.
For more information on individual and bulk ordering go to the
website: www.kitchenreligionbooks.com
Email-id: kitchenreligionbooks@gmail.com
It’s time to cook it up and distribute the mercy of the kitchen religion.
Lecture on Why We Should Be Attached to Prabhupada by HH Niranjana Swami on 14 June 2014 at Ukraine
(The management and spiritual leadership experience Niranjana Swami gained during his tenure as president of ISKCON Boston from 1979 to 1983, and his service as regional secretary of New England in 1984, readied him for his GBC appointment in 1987.)
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Lecture on Entry into the Lord's circle of love through intimate service by HG Chaitanya Charan Prabhu
(His Grace Caitanya Charan Prabhu is a monk and spiritual teacher in the time honored tradition of bhakti yoga. He is a editor of Back to Godhead, which is the official international magazine of the Hare Krishna movement.)
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Lecture on Depending Upon Krishna by HH Bhakti Vikasa Swami at Rishikesh
(His Holiness Bhakti Vikasa Swami appeared in this world in 1957 in England. He joined the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) in London in 1975 and was initiated in that year with the name Ilapati dasa by ISKCON's founder-acarya, His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada.)
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Lecture on Srila Bhakti Vinoda Thakur - Disappearance Day by HH Bhakti Charu Swami on 30 June 2011 at Los Angeles
(Bhakti Charu Swami is from a Bengali family and spent most of his early childhood in urban Kolkata. He met with Srila Prabhupada at the end of 1976 after a long and intense search for a spiritual teacher. This initial meeting resulted in Bhakti Charu Swami being assigned to translate the books of the Bhaktivedanta Book Trust into the Bengali language.)
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