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Śrī Bāla Gopālāshṭakam

Octet to Lord Kṛishṇa as our Child Protector of Cattle

(1) Grant strength, I pray, Gopāla, superhuman powered Tot

Who raised the hill, pulled down two trees, & kicked apart the cart!

And as Thou pilfered from the sleeping cowherd’s yogurt pot,

So please steal sweet devotion from my simple dormant heart.

(2) All poison draughts from Pūtanā Thy cursèd nurse Thou suckled:

Thus, Hari, drain away all evils sickening my breast!

As Gopi wives seduced by flute for Thee made cowherds cuc

. The Hare Krishna Movement, The Positive Alternative 

This is the story of one young teenager who eventually became a devotee of Srila Prabhupada and Krishna by first going into the main Cathedral in Melbourne to pray to Jesus in February 1972. 

When this young man entered the Church as a last resort to find some meaning and purpose to life, he went down on his knees in total helplessness and, with tears in his eyes, prayed to Jesus, “Please use me in your service, in your plan, my life is now us

Hare Krishna.

2nd August, 2014, Gurgaon.

I was sharing yet another mercy of Tulasi maharani at our home with ShyamSundar prabhu yesterday morning. While continuing our conversation over phone, as usual, our discussions went over from one topic to another and in the end we discussed how some devotees should have done such and such thing better and then the conversation ended. After ending our conversation I realised that from sharing a realisation and mercy I went into a judging mood about other de

Lecture on Jeevan ka Antim Lakshya by HH Bhakti Charu Swami on 10 Feb 2014 at ISKCON Ujjain

(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 The Only Option by Prahladananada Swami on 18 July 2010 at Los Angeles

(Prahladananda Swami was born in 1949, in Buffallo, New York. He studied at the University of Buffalo, where he received a full scholarship.)

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Lecture on Need of the bonafide Spiritual Master by HH Bhakti Charu Swami on Aug 1986 at Mumbai

(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 What does Make a Devotee Senior by HH Bhakti Vikasa Swami on 026 June 2013 at Gujrat

(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 Destroying all that is troublesome to heart by HG Radhe Shyam Prabhu on 17 March 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 What happens in Nandagrama when Nanda Maharaja is away by Sivarama Swami on 30 July 2014 atBudapest

(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 Vaishnava Tejas Is Greater Than Brahma Tejas by HG Madhavananda Prabhu on 27 May 2014

(Madhavananda Das, joined ISKCON in Los Angeles in 1982. He moved to Bhubaneswar Orissa in 1993 where he has been living since. He was instructed by Sri Srimad Gour Govinda Swami Maharaj to edit his lectures into publications.)

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Lecture on Vasudeva's plan be to stave off Catastrophe by HG Chaitanya Charan Prabhu on April 2014

(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 Should we first please Nityananda Prabhu or chant Hare Krishna by HH Bhakti Charu Swami on 03 March 2007 at Ujjain

(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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TEXT 36

arjuna uvaca
sthane hrsikesa tava prakirtya
jagat prahrsyaty anurajyate ca
raksamsi bhitani diso dravanti
sarve namasyanti ca siddha-sanghah

SYNONYMS

arjunah uvaca--Arjuna said; sthane--rightly; hrsika-isa--O master of all senses; tava--Your; prakirtya--glories; jagat--the entire world; prahrsyati--rejoicing; anurajyate--becoming attached; ca--and; raksamsi--the demons; bhitani--out of fear; disah--directions; dravanti--fleeing; sarve--all; namasyanti--offering respect; ca--also; siddha-sa

The surest path to happiness is to live by the principles laid down by the Lord and not disobey His established laws, which are enacted in the Vedas and the Puranasfor the forgetful living entities. Srimad Bhagavatam 3.3.13, Srila Prabhupada

By H.D.G. Srila Prabhupada

Śrī Hari Bol Sūktā

Reverend Quatrains on the Injunction to Chant Hari’s Names

Supreme His Names, this Names sublime

Of Substrate & of Supersoul!

Repeat Rām Rām, released from time

And māyā’s measures, Hari bol!

No noun His Name beyond declension,

Unbound by sound or rounds that toll,

For transcendental of dimension,

This unstruck noise AUM, Hari bol!

All speech doth reek with karma’s taint

But for God’s Glories, Lore, & Rule;

With no ill echo, as a saint

Speak solely holy—Hari bol!

Through all thoughts ke

Lecture on CC Madhya Lila 09-15-29, Smaller than a Period on a page by Prahladananada Swami on 04 July 2010 at Los Angeles

(Prahladananda Swami was born in 1949, in Buffallo, New York. He studied at the University of Buffalo, where he received a full scholarship.)

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Lecture on What does Make a Devotee Senior by HH Bhakti Vikasa Swami on 06 June 2014 at Gujrat

(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 What happens in Nandagrama when Nanda Maharaja is away by HH Sivarama Swami on 30 July 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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Following is a stotra a glorification for Srila Prabhupada composed and recited by a scholar in vrndavana named Ananta Shastri in front of Srila Prabhupada in the presence of devotees is his last days. This prayer used to be recited in front of Srila Prabhupada Samadhi Mandir before Prabhupada Samadhi Mangala Arati in 1980-1990. Its very good prayer so devotees can take advantage and recite everyday and get special mercy of Srila Prabhupada. Translated by - Prem Nidhi Das (Vrindavana)

Srila Pra

TEXT 35

sanjaya uvaca
etac chrutva vacanam kesavasya
krtanjalir vepamanah kiriti
namaskrtva bhuya evaha krsnam
sa-gadgadam bhita-bhitah pranamya

SYNONYMS

sanjayah uvaca--Sanjaya said; etat--thus; srutva--hearing; vacanam--speech; kesavasya--of Krsna; krta-anjalih--with folded hands; vepamanah--trembling; kiriti--Arjuna; namaskrtva--offering obeisances; bhuyah--again; eva--also; aha krsnam--said unto Krsna; sa-gadgadam--faltering; bhita-bhitah--fearful; pranamya--offering obeisances.

TRANSLATION

San