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TEXT 14

tatah sa vismayavisto
hrsta-roma dhananjayah
pranamya sirasa devam
krtanjalir abhasata

SYNONYMS

tatah--thereafter; sah--he; vismaya-avistah--being overwhelmed with wonder; hrsta-roma--with his bodily hairs standing on end due to his great ecstasy; dhananjayah--Arjuna; pranamya--offering obeisances; sirasa--with the head; devam--to the Supreme Personality of Godhead; krta-anjalih--with folded hands; abhasata--began to say.

TRANSLATION

Then, bewildered and astonished, his hair standing on end

TEXT 13

tatraika-stham jagat krtsnam
pravibhaktam anekadha
apasyad deva-devasya
sarire pandavas tada

SYNONYMS

tatra--there; eka-stham--one place; jagat--universe; krtsnam--completely; pravibhaktam--divided in; anekadha--many kinds; apasyat--could see; deva-devasya--of the Supreme Personality of Godhead; sarire--in the universal form; pandavah--Arjuna; tada--at that time.

TRANSLATION

At that time Arjuna could see in the universal form of the Lord the unlimited expansions of the universe situated in

In the Fall of 2011 I was privileged to visit a place which I found after walking the ground to be a sort of heaven on earth.  I fell in love with this piece of land set back in the hill of West Virginia.  I also fell in love with the people who lived there, the devotee of Krishna.  One person in particular, after being introduced to her, became a mother to me and took me under her wing.  She loved me even though I am a stubborn quirky sort.  This is her grace Malati Devi Dasi.  She gave me less

The pioneer of 24 Hours Kirtan

H.G. Aindra Prabhu received harinama-diksa on Nityananda Trayodasi in 1974 from A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada in Washington D.C. For many years, he was serving as a pujari at the temple and was regularly going out on harinama-sankirtana and book distribution in that area.

After several visits to Sri Vrindavan-dhama, he then got the inspiration within his heart to re-inaugurate the 24 hour-kirtana which had originally been established by Srila Prabhupada i

I have a very eclectic spiritual belief system.  I was brought up on a wonderful foundation of Judaism and Christianity. Most of my life I have been a Christian minister, preacher, teacher, and counselor.  I studied Krishna Consciousnesses as a teenager when questioning everything, parents encouraged me to find my path.  I then put it away, as accepting it as a part of God, but not for me at the time.  Later in life I picked it up again.  I am one to read all ancient scripture and accept as rele

TEXT 12

divi surya-sahasrasya
bhaved yugapad utthita
yadi bhah sadrsi sa syad
bhasas tasya mahatmanah

SYNONYMS

divi--in the sky; surya--sun; sahasrasya--of many thousands; bhavet--there were; yugapat--simultaneously; utthita--present; yadi--if; bhah--light; sadrsi--like that; sa--that; syat--may be; bhasah--effulgence; tasya--there is; maha-atmanah--of the great Lord.

TRANSLATION

If hundreds of thousands of suns rose up at once into the sky, they might resemble the effulgence of the Supreme Person

Dear devotees and friends,

A new audio book is out now –

“The Nectar of Instruction” by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada: http://bbtmedia.com/en/audiobook/en-noi

There have also been a few additions to our ebooks family recently –

Sri Brhad-bhagavatamrita, Part One, by Srila Sanatana Goswami: http://bbtmedia.com/en/ebook/en-bb1

Srimad-Bhagavatam, Canto One, in Russian: http://bbtmedia.com/en/ebook/ru-sb-1

As well as two Bhagavad-gitas:

In Hungarian:  http://bbtmedia.com/e

Hare Krsna,

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada & Srila Gopal Krishna Maharaj.

शुद्ध भक्त की संगति की महानता- मृगारि शिकारी की कथा

श्री चैतन्य महाप्रभु ने श्रील सनातन गोस्वामी को (CC.मध्य लीला भाग 5 अध्याय 24) आत्माराम श्लोक की 61 व्याख्याएँ सुनाते समय एक शिकारी जिसका नाम मृगारि था, की कथा सुनाई कि किस तरह वह नारद मुनि जैसे महापुरुष की संगति से महान भक्त बना |   यही कथा हमारे गुरु महाराज परम पूज्य श्री गोपाल कृष्ण गोस्वामी ने 31 दिसम्बर,2013 की संध्या को नव वर्ष के स्

Lecture on Krishna Protects his Devotees by HG Madhavananda Prabhu on 24 May 2014 at Durban

(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 How to use Srila Prabhupada books to remember Krishna by HH Bhakti Charu Swami on 05 Oct 2011 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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Lecture on Meditation on Bhaktivinoda Thakura 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 The Challenge of Combating Applied Mayavada by HH Bhakti Vikasa Swami on 24 May 2014 at San Diego

(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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Sri Vakresvara Pandita

Read more about Sri Vakresvara Pandita on www.gaudiyahistory.com

Hare Krsna,

PAMHO.

Dandvat Pranam to all devotees.

I was in Hyderabad for this year's Rath Yatra celebrations. It is very beautifully organised by the Hyderabad temple. Its a one day function - they take their lordships on Rath to a venue, do a program there, distribute prasadam and then disperse.

I was in the Rath Yatra procession. At one point, we were walking very close to the rath. I went ahead trying to catch some maha prasad being thrown from the rath. I had my saree pallu out. In front of the

TEXT 10-11

aneka-vaktra-nayanam
anekadbhuta-darsanam
aneka-divyabharanam
divyanekodyatayudham

divya-malyambara-dharam
divya-gandhanulepanam
sarvascarya-mayam devam
anantam visvato-mukham

SYNONYMS

aneka--various; vaktra--mouths; nayanam--eyes; aneka--various; adbhuta--wonderful; darsanam--sights; aneka--many; divya--divine; abharanam--ornaments; divya--divine; aneka--various; udyata--uplifted; ayudham--weapons; divya--divine; malya--garlands; ambara dharam--covered with the dresses; divya--divine; g

Seminar on Sampurna Bhagawat Katha by HH Nava Yogendra Swami at Udhampur in May 2014

(Nava Yogendra Swami Naishtik Brahmachari left home at a very young age of 9 years to become Sadhu and lived in jungles. Returned home and again left at the age of 17 years and lived at Shri Vrindavana dham.)

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Ramaraya Prabhu has been valiantly singing the Holy Names of Krishna in Union Square Park for the last 2 and half years and has built up a team of steady team of devotees to help, so that we regularly have Hari Nam parties of 25 or more, every single day, without fail on the streets of New York City. When he began this yajna, things were not so easy; already in his mid-fifties, he started this with only a few devotees and had no financial support or even a place to stay. Today they stay in a br

The Jagannath Ratha Yatra (cart festival of Lord Jagannath) is a centuries-old festival which takes place in Jagannath Puri, India. It celebrates the return of Krishna (Jagannath) along with His brother and sister (Balarama and Subhadra) to Vrindavan, the place of the pastimes of His youth.

It is mentioned in the scriptures by Lord Krishna to Shri Narada that “you will find me wherever my devotees come together to remember me and chant my names and glories”. Today thousands of us have come toget

TEXT 9

sanjaya uvaca
evam uktva tato rajan
maha-yogesvaro harih
darsayam asa parthaya
paramam rupam aisvaram

SYNONYMS

sanjayah uvaca--Sanjaya said; evam--thus; uktva--saying; tatah--thereafter; rajan--O King; maha-yoga-isvarah--the most powerful mystic; harih--the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Krsna; darsayam asa--showed; parthaya--unto Arjuna; paramam--divine; rupam--universal form; aisvaram--opulences.

TRANSLATION

Sanjaya said: O King, speaking thus, the Supreme, the Lord of all mystic power, t