Bombay 17 March, 1971 My Dear Jayadvaita, Please accept my blessings. I am in due receipt of your letter dated 21st February, 1971 and noted the contents carefully. I do not know what may have happened to the letter dated 9th January, 1971, but I have not received it. Regarding your questions: 12:12: The ultimate point is to come to the stage of loving Krsna and all other indirect processes are subsidiary. We are concerned here with approaching Krsna by the direct process of devotional service.

nikhila-bhuvana-māyā-chhinna-vichchhinna-kartrī
vibudha-bahula-mṛgyā-mukti-mohānta-dātrī
śithilita-vidhi-rāgārādhya-rādheśa-dhānī
vilasatu hṛdi nityaṁ bhakti-siddhānta-vāṇī
            —Srila Bhakti Raksak Sridhar Dev-Goswami Maharaj

“The message of Sri Bhakti-siddhanta demolishes the illusion of the entire world, finishes the intellectual’s mad pursuit of liberation, properly adjusts scriptural regulations, and is an abode of loving attachment for Sri Radha’s Lord. May that message play within o

Presiding Deities: Sri Sri Radha-Madhava, Sri Sri Pancha-tattva and Srila Prabhupada.

Temple Style: Residential two-storey Filipino-style house. Originally designed as a Protestant church, it was renovated to include an altar for Sri-Sri-Radha-Madhava, as well as two kitchens—one for the Deities, and one for the devotees and locally run Food For Life program.

Number of visitors: Seventy to eighty people during a normal week, 150 to 200 during smaller festivals, and 1,200 to 1,500 on major festival

Srila Prabhupada on Bhaktivinod Thakur's song

(jaya) radha-madhava,
(jaya) kunja-bihari
(jaya) gopi-jana-vallabha,
(jaya) giri-vara-dhari
(jaya) yashoda-nandana,
(jaya) vraja-jana-ranjana
(jaya) yamuna-tira-vana-chari

“Krishna is the lover of Radha. He displays many amorous pastimes in the groves of Vrindavana. He is the lover of the cowherd maidens of Vraja, the holder of the great hill named Govardhana, the beloved son of mother Yashoda, and the delighter of the inhabitants of Vraja. He wanders

YASHODA’S VATSALYA BHAKTI Mother Yashoda and Lord Krishna After Dasya Bhakti comes affectionate devotion, the Vatsalya Bhakti. None can understand the delusion hidden behind the sentiment of affection. Yashoda witnessed all the fourteen worlds, in the mouth of Krishna. But, overcome by delusion, she told herself, “This is, of course, my own son. How is it possible that the vast worlds are seen within such a small mouth?” So, she forgot all that she had seen. Affection is related only to the body

TEXT 22

purusah sa parah partha
bhaktya labhyas tv ananyaya
yasyantah-sthani bhutani
yena sarvam idam tatam

SYNONYMS

purusah--the Supreme Personality; sah--He; parah--the Supreme, than whom no one is greater; partha--O son of Prtha; bhaktya--by devotional service; labhyah--can be achieved; tu--but; ananyaya--unalloyed, undeviating devotion; yasya--whom; antah-sthani--within; bhutani--all of this material manifestation; yena--by whom; sarvam--all; idam--whatever we can see; tatam--distributed.

TRAN

Must be uttama-adhikari who can never fall down
“One should not become a spiritual master unless he has attained the platform of uttama-adhikari .” (The Nectar of Instruction, text 5, purport)

“There is no possibility that a first-class devotee will fall down, even though he may mix with non-devotees to preach. Conviction and faith gradually increase to make one an uttama-adhikari, a first-class devotee.” (Sri Caitanya-caritamrta, Madhya-lila 22.71, purport)

Must be mahabhagavata
“When one has at

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This recording was in Bengali, and that's
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Srila Prabhupada: Narayana Maharaja. He will come tomorrow?

Tamal Krsna Gosvami: He will come when we (discussing with others). If we pick him up he might come tonight.

Srila Prabhupada: Hmm.

Tamal Krsna Gosvami: If we go just now with the car. Bhakticaru is going just now with the car. Maharaja may come tonight.

(Someone begins to sing govindam adi p

That birth, that deed, that mind or that word of the people which is conducive to and acceptable for service of Sri Krishna is worth its name.

--- Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu
bullet The greatest benefactor is he who can enlighten us with the knowledge of God thus removing our age-long gloom of ignorance.

--- Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu
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Intelligence cannot be purified without devotion to God. By severe austerities those having come near liberation are hurled down by their lack of devotion to God

Lecture on Brahmachari life matlab Sukhi life by HH Bhakti Rasamrita Swami

(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. Inspired by the teachings of His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, the founder acharya of The International Society for Krishna Consciousness.)

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Lecture on Sweetness of Krishna's Love by Radhanath Swami on 11 Jan 2014 at ISKCON Chowpatty

(Radhanath Swami has a special interest in the holy places in India and leads thousands of devotees on pilgrimage each year. Radhanath Swami is a trustee of Bhaktivedanta College, Belgium, by providing his spiritual support and encouragement.)

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Devotees and ISKCON supporters and members worldwide are hearing more and more about the progress of the Temple of the Vedic Planetarium, and in great anticipation await its completion. This historic landmark project is the fulfillment of the vision of Srila Prabhupada, our acharyas and Lord Nityananda Himself, and will certainly be ISKCON’s foremost preaching project for spreading the sublime teachings of Gaudiya Vaishnavism throughout the world.

With the aim of regularly inspiring and infor

Dear follower of Srila Prabhupada,
Please accept our humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada!

This year, as always, we request you to submit your homage to Srila Prabhupada for his Vyasa-puja book by April 15.

In addition, if you're a direct disciple of Srila Prabhupada, please check out www.sptributes.com to learn about a Vyasa-puja book open to all of his disciples. The deadline for submission to this book is also April 15.

The standards for submitting an offering to the tradi

Lecture on Demons in the Guise of Devotees by HG Madhavananda Prabhu

(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 Devotional Service Vs Liberation by HH Bhakti Caitanya Swami

(Originally from New Zealand, Bhakti Caitanya Swami joined the Hare Krishna movement in London, early in 1973. Almost a year before, as a philosophy student at Auckland University, he had first seen his future spiritual master walking across the campus with his followers. Srila Prabhupada initiated Bhakti Caitanya Swami later in 1973, giving him the name Raghubir Dasa. )

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In Srimad Bhagavatam (7.11.2) we see that Once yudhisthira Maharaja asked Narada Muni what is that principles of religion by following which people in general can attain the ultimate goal of life – That is loving devotional service to the supreme personality of Godhead.

Before Narada Muni’s reply Yudhisthira Maharaja first explains those virtues the person must possess who is eligible to answer this kind of important question about life. And he also shows how Narada muni is the most appropriate p