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TEXT 21

adityanam aham visnur
jyotisam ravir amsuman
maricir marutam asmi
naksatranam aham sasi

SYNONYMS

adityanam--of the Adityas; aham--I am; visnuh--the Supreme Lord; jyotisam--of all luminaries; ravih--the sun; amsu-man--radiant; maricih--Marici; marutam--of the Maruts; asmi--I am; naksatranam--of stars; aham--I am; sasi--the moon.

TRANSLATION

Of the Adityas I am Visnu, of lights I am the radiant sun, I am Marici of the Maruts, and among the stars I am the moon.

PURPORT

There are twelve Adityas,

Prabhupada: Yes. That is... Bodily concept of life means animal life. The animal does not know. Sa eva go-kharah [SB 10.84.13]. Go-kharah. Go means cows, and kharah means ass. One who is in the, under bodily concept of life, he is no better than animals. So when the animal talks of knowledge, an intelligent man laughs. That is our position. The animals, they are talking of knowledge.

By H.D.G. Srila Prabhupada

TEXT 20

aham atma gudakesa
sarva-bhutasaya-sthitah
aham adis ca madhyam ca
bhutanam anta eva ca

SYNONYMS

aham--I; atma--soul; gudakesa--O Arjuna; sarva-bhuta--all living entities; asaya-sthitah--situated within; aham--I am; adih--origin; ca--also; madhyam--middle; ca--also; bhutanam--all living entities; antah--end; eva--certainly; ca--and.

TRANSLATION

I am the Self, O Gudakesa, seated in the hearts of all creatures. I am the beginning, the middle and the end of all beings.

PURPORT

In this verse Arj

Prabhupada: Yes. Thoughts actually made by spirit, but it is covered by matter. Therefore in the material condition you can think only of matter. Just like this body is covered by so many material things, but actually, the spirit is covered. So the soul being spirit, so long it is covered by matter, it cannot act spiritually. It is obstructed. Not obstructed. Covered. It cannot be obstructed. If you like, you can get out of the covering of the matter. So matter cannot obstruct. But it is the wil

Lecture on Sunday Feast, Formula for Peace by HG Jivananda Prabhu on 27 May 2012 At Dallas

(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

Lecture on Srimad Bhagavatam Class (03.16.19) Obtaining the Lord%27s Favor by Niranjana Swami on 26 April 2014 At Minsk

(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. As a GBC member)

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Lecture on Appearance Day of Sri Srivasa Pandit by Bhakti Vijnana Goswami on 24 March 2014 at ISKCON Vrindavan

(Since 1997 Bhakti Vijnana Goswami has acted as a member of ISKCON’s Governing Body Commission and since 2005 has served as one of the initiating gurus of ISKCON.)

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Lecture on Suddha Bhakta Aiswarya se Anasakta hoke Aiswaryavan Hote hai by Bhakti Vikasa Swami on 11 March 2011 at Surat

(From 1977 to 1979 His Holiness was based in India, mostly traveling in West Bengal preaching Krishna consciousness and distributing Srila Prabhupada's books. He then spent the following ten years helping to pioneer ISKCON's preaching in Bangladesh, Burma, Thailand, and Malaysia.)

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Hare Krsna,

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

Excerpts from the discussions of Sri Ramananda Roy with Lord Chaitanya; questions by Lord Chaitanya and answers by Sri Ramananda Roy :

"What is the highest standard of education?"

The highest standard of education is to know the science of Krishna. The standard of material education is sense gratification, but the standard of spiritual education, especially the highest standard, is to know t

Prabhupada: Yes, with senses, senses. That is... Our Krsna consciousness movement means that we have got relationship with God and senses, our senses. That is hrsikena hrsikesa-sevanam bhaktir ucyate [Cc. Madhya 19.170]. When the senses are engaged with the Supreme, in relationship, that is called bhakti. It is a question of senses. It is not vague. We apply everything, we go with our senses. Just like the leg, we go, take our legs to the temple. We use our tongue for glorifying, for eating the

TEXT 19

sri-bhagavan uvaca
hanta te kathayisyami
divya hy atma-vibhutayah
pradhanyatah kuru-srestha
nasty anto vistarasya me

SYNONYMS

sri-bhagavan uvaca--the Supreme Personality of Godhead said; hanta--yes; te--unto you; kathayisyami--I shall speak; divyah--divine; hi--certainly; atma-vibhutayah--personal opulences; pradhanyatah--principally; kuru-srestha--O best of the Kurus; na asti--there is no; antah--limit; vistarasya--to the extent; me--My.

TRANSLATION

The Blessed Lord said: Yes, I will tell

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TEXT 18

vistarenatmano yogam
vibhutim ca janardana
bhuyah kathaya trptir hi
srnvato nasti me 'mrtam

SYNONYMS

vistarena--in description; atmanah--of Yourself; yogam--mystic power; vibhutim--opulences; ca--also; jana-ardana--O killer of the atheists; bhuyah--again; kathaya--describe; trptih--satisfaction; hi--certainly; srnvatah--hearing; na asti--there is not; me--my; amrtam--nectar.

TRANSLATION

Tell me again in detail, O Janardana [Krsna], of Your mighty potencies and glories, for I never tire of h

Prabhupada: No. We are all set of puppets of Krsna. I am also puppet. Puppet. This is disciplic succession. We, we have to become puppet. That's all. As I am puppet of my Guru Maharaja, if you become my puppet, then that is success. Our success is there when we become puppet of the predecessor. Tandera carana sevi bhakta sane vasa. To live in the society of devotees and to become puppet of the predecessor acarya. This is success. So we are trying to do that. Krsna consciousness society and serve

TEXT 17

katham vidyam aham yogims
tvam sada paricintayan
kesu kesu ca bhavesu
cintyo 'si bhagavan maya

SYNONYMS

katham--how; vidyam aham--shall I know; yogin--O supreme mystic; tvam--You; sada--always; paricintayan--thinking; kesu--in which; kesu--in which; ca--also; bhavesu--nature; cintyah asi--You are remembered; bhagavan--O Supreme; maya--by me.

TRANSLATION

How should I meditate on You? In what various forms are You to be contemplated, O Blessed Lord?

PURPORT

As it is stated in the previous chap

A few days ago we were engaged in maha cleaning (grand cleaning) of a room in ISKCON Pune. One of the tasks was to clean the ceiling of the room, which was quite high. We enthusiastically and immediately braced up to the task. We got up on the ladder and started cleaning the ceiling with wet cloth.

The work was certainly demanding. It involved balancing ourselves on the ladder and simultaneously focusing on the ceiling. It was hard work and the results were not spectacular.

Just then, His Grace Sa

Prabhupada: Krsna is the friend of everyone. We don't take His help, that is the difficulty. He says, He's guaranteed, that "If you just surrender to Me, I'll give you all protection." Such a friend who can give, there. But they'll not do that. Actually if one trusts in God, then everything is there, perfectly.

By H.D.G. Srila Prabhupada

Hare Krishna

22rd April, 2014, Gurgaon.

I had written in my previous two blogs about power of prayer (blog1, blog2) and then in another two blogs about most merciful Tulasi maharani (blog3, blog4). As I experience new realisations they make my faith firm in this most unusual spiritual journey.

During the last winter, unlike in the past, all the Tulasi Maharanis remained very healthy this year. Unfortunately, Gurgaon had some unseasonal rains after the winter was over and one of the eldest Tulasi

Lecture on Srimad Bhagavatam Class (07.07.29) by HG Radhe Shyam Prabhu

(His Grace Radheshyam Prabhu President of the Pune branch of ISKCON (International Society for Krishna Consciousness) that has over 600 centres worldwide)

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