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TEXT 1

sri-bhagavan uvaca
param bhuyah pravaksyami
jnananam jnanam uttamam
yaj jnatva munayah sarve
param siddhim ito gatah

SYNONYMS

sri-bhagavan uvaca--the Supreme Personality of Godhead said; param--transcendental; bhuyah--again; pravaksyami--I shall speak; jnananam--of all knowledge; jnanam--knowledge; uttamam--the supreme; yat--which; jnatva--knowing; munayah--the sages; sarve--all; param--transcendental; siddhim--perfection; itah--from this world; gatah--attained.

TRANSLATION

The Blessed Lord

Lecture on How does envy appear in the Pure Living Entitiy by HH Sivarama Swami on 03 Nov 2014 at India

(Sivarama Swami was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1949. His family immigrated to Canada where some years later in 1970 he first came in contact with Srila Prabhupada's teachings, via his transcendental books. He became an initiated disciple of His Divine Grace in 1973 and accepted the renounced order of life in 1979.)

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Lecture on Krishna and the Spiritual World is Within Us by HG Urmila Mataji on 21 Sep 2014 at Munich

(Urmila Devi Dasi (Dr. Edith Best) joined ISKCON in 1973 in Chicago. She received first initiation in 1973 and second initiation in 1975 from His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. In 1996, Urmila and her husband, Pratyatosa, entered the renounced order of vanaprastha.)

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Lecture on Srimad Bhagavatam Canto 03 Chapter 01 Text 20 India's Pride and Shame by HH Bhakti Vikas Swami on 07 Oct 2014 at Telangana

(HH 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 Srimad Bhagavatam Canto 02 Chapter 05 Text 31-32 Favourable Devotional Service by HH Indradyumna Swami on 29 Aug 1988 at Durban

(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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TEXT 35

ksetra-ksetrajnayor evam
antaram jnana-caksusa
bhuta-prakrti-moksam ca
ye vidur yanti te param

SYNONYMS

ksetra--body; ksetra-jnayoh--of the proprietor of the body; evam--that; antaram--difference; jnana-caksusa--by vision of knowledge; bhuta--living entity; prakrti--material nature; moksam--liberation; ca--also; ye--one who; viduh--knows; yanti--approaches; te--they; param--Supreme.

TRANSLATION

One who knowingly sees this difference between the body and the owner of the body and can underst

So this instruction should be taken by all of us. The purificatory process is chanting Hare Krsna. And as soon as our heart is purified, we completely become convinced that "The Lord is Supreme. I am His eternal servant. I have forgotten this. Servant, my servitorship is there, but instead of serving the Lord, I am serving my senses. That's all. I have never become the master. I am not master of my sense; I am the servant of my senses. That is my position." So why not becoming the servant of the

Lecture on Answering the Call of Krishna's flute by HH Sivarama Swami on 06 Nov 2014 at India

(Sivarama Swami was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1949. His family immigrated to Canada where some years later in 1970 he first came in contact with Srila Prabhupada's teachings, via his transcendental books. He became an initiated disciple of His Divine Grace in 1973 and accepted the renounced order of life in 1979.)

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Lecture on Made to Stick How to teach so that people remember and apply by HG Urmila Mataji on 22 Oct 2014 at Budapest

(Urmila Devi Dasi (Dr. Edith Best) joined ISKCON in 1973 in Chicago. She received first initiation in 1973 and second initiation in 1975 from His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. In 1996, Urmila and her husband, Pratyatosa, entered the renounced order of vanaprastha.)

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Lecture on Our first responsibility is to be Krishna Conscious by HH Indradyumna Swami on 18 Oct 1988 at Mauritius

(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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Hare Krishna

24th October, 2014. Govardhan.

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

21st October : I was itching since morning to make a program to do Govardhan parikarma on Govardhan Puja day on 24th October but somehow the program was not get getting materialised. We, the whole family, came from Vrindavan 3 days back and they were reluctant to go again as its 10th class of my daughter and Priti, my wife, didn’t want more off from her coaching classes. Then

Lecture on Bali Maharaj by HG Gaur Krishna Prabhu at ISKCON Mayapur

(H.G. Gaur Krishna Prabhu, who is 48 years old, has been aspiring to take sannyasa from HH Radha Govinda Swami and has been in the sannyasa waiting list for the past 3 years (as of 2012).)

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Hong Kong, famously called as gateway to China, is an important city with a booming economy and massive influx of people. ISKCON in Hong Kong is a growing and dedicated community of devotees.

Please find below a link to watch a brief report by GBC Member Tirtharaj Prabhu on the unique preaching programs being carried out in Hong Kong to spread Krishna Consciousness.

TEXT 34

yatha prakasayaty ekah
krtsnam lokam imam ravih
ksetram ksetri tatha krtsnam
prakasayati bharata

SYNONYMS

yatha--as; prakasayati--illuminates; ekah--one; krtsnam--the whole; lokam--universe; imam--this; ravih--the sun; ksetram--this body; ksetri--the soul; tatha--similarly; krtsnam--all; prakasayati--illuminates; bharata--O son of Bharata.

TRANSLATION

O son of Bharata, as the sun alone illuminates all this universe, so does the living entity, one within the body, illuminate the entire body

So sufferings are always there. But we are trying to adjust by patchwork. Sufferings are always there. Everyone is trying to get out of sufferings, that is a fact. The whole struggle for existence is to get out of the suffering. But there are different kinds of prescription. Somebody says that you get out of the sufferings in this way, somebody says you get out of the sufferings in that way. So there are prescription offered by the modern scientists, by philosophers, by atheists or by theists, b

Kartika is over for another year

Hare Krishna dear spiritual family!

Please accept my humble obeisance.

All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

As the last day of Kartika had dawned, and gone by, I had cause to reflect upon the glorious benedictions of His Divine Grace Srila Prabhupada; upon the people of the world in general, and upon us, who have sheltered in the House that he so graciously built, in particular. We must certainly be the most fortunate citizens of this planet. Srila Prabhupada’s bringing

Lecture on Qualities of Devotee-Steadiness by HH Krishna Kshetra Swami on 23 Sep 2014 at Radhadesh

(HH Krishna Kshetra Swami - Travelling Teacher and Writer has been serving as a disciple of Srila Prabhupada since 1972, when he joined devotees in Germany. In addition to travels in western Europe.)

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Lecture on Chaitanya Charitamrita Madhya Lila Chapter 23 Text 56 by HH Yadunanadana Swami on 14 Sep 2014 at Radhadesh

(Yadunandana Swami — principal of Bhaktivedanta College, teacher, and spiritual counselor — is a sannyasi (monk, religious mendicant) in the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON). He is an initiated disciple of HH Satsvarupa Dasa Goswami and a sannyasa disciple of HH Jayadvaita Swami.)

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Lecture on The Power of the Holy Name by HH Indradyumna Swami on 05 Jan 1988 at New Mayapur France

(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 Book Distribution by HG Vijaya Prabhu at ISKCON Nairobi

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