Lecture on Asharam ka Mukhya Dosh by HH Bhakti Vikas Swami on 09 Oct 2013 at Kanhaiyadesh
(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 Spiritual Vision Requires Purification by HH Devamrita Swami on 12 Nov 2013 at ISKCON Melbourne
(His Holiness Devamrita Swami entered this life on October 16, 1950 in New York City, as the firstborn in a family dominated by a very devout and education-motivated Christian mother. Later in life his mother confided to him that during the time of his conception, she was praying to God that He send her a “servant of the Lord.” Observing her infant crawling to bookshelves, trying to grab bo
Lecture on Caitanya Caritamrta - Madhya Lila Volume 06 Text 95 by HH Bhakti Madhurya Govinda Swami on 21 Oct 2013 at Punjabi Bagh
(Bhakti Madhurya Govinda Swami was initiated by His Divine Grace Srila A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada in October 1968, about two months before HH Jayapataka Swami, awarding him the name “Makhanlal das”. 65 years old, he is one of the original 100 disciples of Srila Prabhupada. He started one of ISKCON’s first university preaching programs at the University of San
Lecture on Srimad Bhagavatam Class by HH Bhakti Marga Swami on 13 Nov 2013 at ISKCON Alachua
(Bhakti Marga Swami was born on October 5, 1952. His first major encounter with devotees was in Toronto, at the college campus where he studied fine arts. He invited them to his apartment for an overnight stay, and without delay he gave up bad habits, went to the temple, and never left. He was initiated by Srila Prabhupada in 1973.)
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TEXT 15
na mam duskrtino mudhah
prapadyante naradhamah
mayayapahrta-jnana
asuram bhavam asritah
SYNONYMS
na--not; mam--unto Me; duskrtinah--miscreants; mudhah--foolish; prapadyante--surrender; nara-adhamah--lowest among mankind; mayaya--by the illusory energy; apahrta--stolen by illusion; jnanah--knowledge; asuram--demonic; bhavam--nature; asritah--accepting.
TRANSLATION
Those miscreants who are grossly foolish, lowest among mankind, whose knowledge is stolen by illusion, and who partake of the ath
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Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada
Hare Krsna
Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada
A long time ago, there was a huge apple tree. A little boy loved to come and play around it everyday. He climbed to the tree top, ate the apples, and took a nap under the shadow.
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Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada
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Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada
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Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada
Anecdotes of His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakur Prabhupada, the exalted Spritiual Master of Srila A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
In Māyāpur, especially at the time of the international festivals, different disciples would take the service to guard Śrīla Prabhupāda’s door. Their function was mostly to screen potential visitors so that Śrīla Prabhupāda was not
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By His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
mātrā svasrā duhitrā vā nāviviktāsano bhavet balavān indriya-grāmo vidvāmsam api karsati [SB 9.19.17]
A grhastha, vānaprastha, sannyāsī and brahmacārī should be very careful when associating with women. One is forbidden to sit down in a solitary place even with one’s mother, sister or daughter. In our Krishna consciousness movement it has been very difficult to dis
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Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada
Everyone in the material world is engaged in all kinds of political, philanthropic and humanitarian activities to make material life happy and prosperous, but this is not possible. One should understand that in the material world, however one may try to make adjustments, he cannot be happy. To cite an example, if you take a fish out of water, you can give it a very comfortable velvet bedstead, but still the fish cannot b
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You are falsely thinking "I am everything. I can, by technological understanding, improve the condition." But the real problem is, as it is put forward by Bhagavad-gita, janma-mrtyu-jara-vyadhi-duhkha-dosanudarsanam [Bg. 13.9]. We are eternal, na hanyate hanyamane sarire [Bg. 2.20]. We are put under the laws of material nature, by which we have to accept birth, death, old age and disease. This is our real problem. So unless you make a solution of these problems, there is actually no advancement
Lecture on Acceptance of Sannyasa by Srila Prabhupada by HH Gopal Krishna Goswami on 20 Sept 2013 at Yaroslavi
(After visiting the ISKCON temple in Montreal, Canada in September of 1967, Gopal Krishna Goswami yearned to meet a Vaishnava guru and got the opportunity to meet Srila Prabhupada there in 1968.)
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Lecture on Srimad Bhagavatam Class by Vedavyasapriya Swami on 01 Nov 2013 at ISKCON Melbourne
(Srimad Bhagavatam Canto 02, Chapter 04, Text 13)
(Vedavyasapriya Swami worked as a research biochemist first in East Africa and then later when he migrated to USA. Within a week of arrival in the USA, he met the devotees, disciples of His Divine Grace, A.C. Bhaktivedanta Srila Prabhupada)
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