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"These books are so potent that anyone who reads them is sure to become Krishna Conscious. So it is very valuable service to distribute our books."

By H.D.G. Srila Prabhupada.

Sunday Feast Lecture on Bhagavad Gita Chapter 03 Text 43 by HH Rtadhvaja Swami on 14 Dec 2014 at ISKCON Alachua

(HH Rtadhvaja Swami Maharaja was born and raised in a rural farming community in North Dakota, U.S.A. His first encounter with the devotees was in 1972. It was a few years later, in 1975, that he first came upon Srila Prabhupada's books, started chanting, visited a temple.)

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Lecture on Srimad Bhagavatam Canto 04 Chapter 14 Text 20 Futility of Material Life by HH Indradyumna Swami on 21 May 1990 at New Zealand

(Indradyumna Swami is a disciple of A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada founder of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), a Sannyasi traveling preacher, and a guru or spiritual teacher in the Chaitanya Vaishnava tradition.)

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Lecture on It's Only A Test by HG HG Charu Prabhu

(Caru Das was initiated by Srila Prabhupada in 1970. He has been President, variously, of the Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, and Berkeley (USA) temples. He served on the BBT library party in 1976, received Bhakti Shastra in 1979, and was Life Membership Director in Los Angeles for 10 years in the 1980's.)

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TEXT 27

brahmano hi pratisthaham
amrtasyavyayasya ca
sasvatasya ca dharmasya
sukhasyaikantikasya ca

SYNONYMS

brahmanah--of the impersonal brahmajyoti; hi--certainly; pratistha--the rest; aham--I am; amrtasya--of the immortal; avyayasya--of the imperishable; ca--also; sasvatasya--of the eternal; ca--and; dharmasya--of the constitutional position; sukhasya--happiness; aikantikasya--ultimate; ca--also.

TRANSLATION

And I am the basis of the impersonal Brahman, which is the constitutional position of ul

"Our Most Important Activity"   "There is no doubt about it: to distribute books is one most important activity. The temple is not a place for eating & sleeping, but a base from which we send out our soldiers to fight with maya. Fight with maya means to drop thousands and millions of books […]

By H.D.G. Srila Prabhupada

Lecture on Meditation and the Soul in Bhakti Yoga by HG Drutkarma Prabhu on 14 Dec 2014 at Los Angeles

(Michael A. Cremo, also known as Drutakarma dasa was born in July 15, 1948 in the United States. In 1966 he entered the School of International Affairs at the George Washington University in Washington, D.C., in preparation for a career in diplomacy or one of the intelligence services.)

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Lecture on Bhakti-Your Best Investment by HG Vaisesika Prabhu on 13 July 2014 at Washington DC

(In his youth, William Suczek spent years searching for God and for the meaning of life. His prayers and intense austerities, which included vows of poverty, fasting and silence- unusual for a teenager were answered when a friend gave him a copy of Back to GodHead magazine in 1973.)

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Lecture on Importance of Brahmin Initiation by HH Bhakti Rasamrita Swami on 07 Dec 2014 at Bhaktivedanta Manor

(His Holiness Bhakti Rasamrita Swami completed his B.E. from M.S University Baroda, MBA from Bombay University & worked for some time in a multinational Bank. He was initiated by the spiritual name His Grace Devamrita Dasa.)

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Hare Krishna,

Dear Maharaja,

Please accept my humble obeisances.__/\`o_  All glories to Srila Prabhupada. All glories to Sri Guru and Sri Gauranga.

It is with great joy that we would like to invite you to Jagannath Rathyatra on Saturday, 31st January and 1st Anniversery of the Sri Sri Radha Govind Dev temple and Bhaktivedanta Academy on Nityananda Trayodashi Sunday, 1st Feburary 2015. The organising team will like to welcome you to be part of this spiritually promising, powerful and sacred e

TEXT 26

mam ca yo 'vyabhicarena
bhakti-yogena sevate
sa gunan samatityaitan
brahma-bhuyaya kalpate

SYNONYMS

mam--unto Me; ca--also; yah--person; avyabhicarena--without fail; bhakti-yogena--by devotional service; sevate--renders service; sah--he; gunan--all the modes of material nature; samatitya--transcending; etan--all this; brahma-bhuyaya--to be elevated to the Brahman platform; kalpate--is considered.

TRANSLATION

One who engages in full devotional service, who does not fall down in any circumsta

Asmin dehe, in this body, there is the proprietor of the body. That is soul. Asmin dehe, on this body, there is the proprietor of the body. this proprietor of the body constantly changing different types of bodies. The example is given that kaumaram yauvanam jara. Just like a child is changing his body to boyhood, the boy is changing his body to youthhood, and young man is changing, his body to old body. Similarly when the old man dies, he does not die. He accepts another body. This knowledge. D

Hare Krishna.

15th December, 2014, Gurgaon.

I heard about someone not being well today and it made me think how I used to behave, when ill, before coming into Krishna consciousness.

Basically, not unlike a spoiled brat, I would raise a big hue and cry and ensure that the whole house would know how much I am suffering. And this would be for anything from a mild fever to a bad throat. My family would dread my ever falling ill. Priti, my wife, used to say that she prays to God that I should be the las

TEXT 22-25

sri-bhagavan uvaca
prakasam ca pravrttim ca
moham eva ca pandava
na dvesti sampravrttani
na nivrttani kanksati

udasina-vad asino
gunair yo na vicalyate
guna vartanta ity evam
yo 'vatisthati nengate

sama-duhkha-sukhah sva-sthah
sama-lostasma-kancanah
tulya-priyapriyo dhiras
tulya-nindatma-samstutih

manapamanayos tulyas
tulyo mitrari-paksayoh
sarvarambha-parityagi
gunatitah sa ucyate

SYNONYMS

sri-bhagavan uvaca--the Supreme Personality of Godhead said; prakasam ca--and illumination; pravrtti

Ultimately, all our miserable conditions have been summarized into four, birth, death, old age and disease. Janma-mrtyu-jara-vyadhi-duhkha-dosanudarsanam [Bg. 13.9]. We are trying to have, become happy by our scientific knowledge, by advancement of knowledge, but Krsna says that you cannot make any solution of these four problems. What is that? Birth, death, old age and disease. That is not possible. So we are happy by false happiness. This is called maya. 

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Hare Krishna.

11th November, 2014. Gurgaon.

jaya jaya śrī-caitanya jaya nityānanda
jayādvaita-candra jaya gaura-bhakta-vṛnda

Question : What were the three external reasons for appearance of Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu ?

Ans: Srila Prabhupada writes in the summary of third chapter of Adi Lila :

The Supreme Personality of Godhead, Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa, after displaying His pastimes as Lord Kṛṣṇa, thought it wise to make His advent in the form of a devotee to explain personally the transcendental mellows of rec

Lecture on Fractals the Fingerprint of God by HG Yogesvara Prabhu on 04 Dec 2014

(Yogesvara Prabhu was initiated by Srila Prabhupada in 1969. After 13 years in temples of Europe and America, he returned to New York. He is Adjunct Professor of Religious Studies at Hofstra University and teaches weekly classes at Jivamukti Yoga School.)

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