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Krishna kripa saagaram�..
Krishna kripa saagaram
Guruvayoopuram janimokshakaram
Guruvayoopuram janimokshakaram (Krishna)
Munijana vanditha murahara baalam (munijana)
Muralee lolam mukura kapolam
Muralee lolam mukura kapolam

Ananthasayaanam aravinda nayanam
Ananthasayaanam aravinda nayanam
Vandhe madhusoodhanam��. (Krishna)
Gamapa padhani sari sani sanidhapa
Gamapa padhani gari sanisa
Raadhaa hrudhayam hari madhu nilayam (raadhaa)
Adharam shonam manasija baanam
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Talk About the Absolute

Talk About the Absolute

by Srila Bhakti Siddhanta Saraswati Goswami Prabhupad

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[A Talk to Mr. William Henri John Vandorstok of Batavia on 26.12.1935.]

In India as in Europe we find people hold different views but all of them may be classed into three divisions. One class of people are seekers of fruits by their action. Another class wish to annihilate themselves. And the third class want in their true selves as absolute infinitesimals, to be in touch with the Absolute Infinity rejecting all non-abso

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Krishna Consciousness

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

 

The aim of this Krishna consciousness movement is to bring all living entities back to their original consciousness. All living entities within the material world are, to varying degrees, afflicted with a type of madness. This Krishna consciousness movement aims at curing man of his material disease and reestablishing his original consciousness. In a Bengali poem a great Vaisnava poet has written, "When a man is haunted

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Srivas’ Level of Surrender

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Sri Srimad Gour Govinda Swami Maharaja

 
We should completely depend on the will of Krishna. Krishna says in the Bhagavad-gita that he will take up the responsibility to maintain a surrendered devotee. "Whatever the devoteelacks," Krishna says, vahamy aham — "I personally carry it."
Srivas Pandit was not doing any business or going out to earn money. Day and night, twenty-four hours, he was engaged in sravana-kirtana and b
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On the Way to Krsna

In this way there are different degrees of happiness.  Yet of all of them, what is the highest happiness. Sri Krsna tells Arjuna:

sukham atyantikam yat tad

buddhi-grahyam atindriyam

vetti yatra na caivayam

sthitas calati tattvatah

 

"In that joyous state (samadhi), one is situated in boundless transcendental happiness and enjoys himself through transcedental senses. Established thus, one never departs from the truth." (Bg. 6.21)

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Rama and Krishna

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His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

An explanation of the word rama is given in the Padma Purana. The word comes from the Sanskrit root ram, which transforms to ramanteRamante means fulfilling pleasures and desires. ramante  yogino `nante — Amongst those who are yogis, thebhakti-yogi is the topmost. Bhagavad-gita (6.47) says
 
yoginam api sarvesam mad-gatenantar-atmana
sraddhavan bhajate yo mam sa me yukt
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KRSNA'S MOST INTIMATE COMPANIONS

KRSNA'S MOST INTIMATE COMPANIONS 

by Swami B.V. Tripurari

"Priyanarma sakhas like Subala taste mahabhava in a way similar to the gopis. Thus their development of prema exceeds that of devotees in vatsalya rasa."

Q. Where can I find information as to how Gaudiya Vaisnavism refutes other Vaisnava philosophies? What are the source references wherein these issues have been specifically addressed?

A. The Gaudiya position on all issues of tattva is clearly presented in Sri Jiva Goswami's sixfold treatise

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Chant in all Situations

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Vaisnava-kantha-bharaniyanama-mahatmya
 
uttisthata prasvapata prasthitena gamisyata
govindeti sada vacyam ksut-trt-praskhalanadisu
cakrayudhasya namani sada sarvatra kirtayet
nasaucam kirtane tasya sa pavitrakaro yatah
 
The name of Lord Govinda should always be chanted in all situations, such as while waking up, before sleeping, while getting ready to go somewhere, and while going there, and even when one is embarrassed due
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Prayers to the Bhagavatam

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Srila Sanatan Goswami

 
sarva-sastrabdhi-piyusa sarva-vedaika-sat-phala
sarva-siddhanta-ratnadhya sarva-lokaika-drk-prada
sarva-bhagavata-prana srimad-bhagavata-prabho
kali-dhvantoditaditya sri-krsna-parivartita
 
O Srimad Bhagavatam! O nectar churned from the ocean of all the Vedic scriptures! You are the most prominent transcendental fruit of the Vedas and are enriched with the jewels of all philosophical conclusions. You gr
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Thought Of The Day

So the Krsna consciousness movement is so important. If people simply learn this, that everything belongs to Krsna... Isavasyam idam sarvam. Sarvam means "everything." Not that "This much is mine, this much is Krsna's." No. Sarvam. Isavasyam idam sarvam yat kinca jagatyam jagat, tena tyaktena bhunjithah... Simply we shall use as much He has allotted for us. Then there is peace and prosperity, without any difficulty. Otherwise, you go on adjusting your material possessions; the time will take awa
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The Scar Of Love

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Some years ago on a hot summer day in south Florida a little boy decided to go for a swim in the old swimming hole behind his house. In a hurry to dive into the cool water, he ran out the back door, leaving behind shoes, socks, and shirt as he went.
He flew into the water, not realizing that as he swam toward the middle of the lake, an alligator was swimming toward the shore. His mother in the house was looking out the w
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The Wings Of Burden

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An old legend relates that long ago God had a great many burdens which He wished to have carried from one place to another on earth, so He asked the animals to lend a hand. But all of them began to make excuses for not helping: the elephant was too dignified; the lion, too proud; and so on. Finally the birds came to God and said, "If you will tie the burdens into small bundles, we'll be glad to carry them for you. We ar
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On the Way to Krsna

tesam jnani nitya-yukta

eka-bhaktir visisyate

priyo hi jnanio tyartham

aham sa ca mama priyah

 

"Of these, the wise one who is in full knowledge in union with Me through pure devotional service is the best.  For I am very dear to him, and he is dear to Me." (Bg. 7.17)

 

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A beautiful instruction by Srila Prabhupada

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“Once in Bombay Srila Prabhupada ordered me to come to his room and listen to him preach to some life members. I sat there and listened for almost an hour. After they left he started to chastise me. Why are you not coming here everyday to listen to me preach. You are one of my leaders if you do not learn how to preach from me then what will happen? Then he quoted a verse in Sanskrit from Bhagavad Gita and asked me if I knew this verse in English, where it was in the Gita, and what the meaning wa

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Thought Of The Day

Prabhupada:. Yes. So Krsna is within you. He knows whether you are cheater and whether you are sincere. So therefore He says, "Those who are sincere and twenty-four hours engaged in My service, I give them intelligence." What kind of intelligence? "To... As he may come back to Me, that kind of intelligence." Because that is our aim, back to home, back to Godhead.

 

By H.D.G. Srila Prabhupada

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Question & Answer

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Question: Why do some people commit horrible crimes without the slightest remorse? Do they have no conscience?


Answer: Our conscience is like our internal watchdog. It barks and warns us whenever the thief of immorality comes to plunder our integrity. Those who heed the watchdog's warning drive away the thief; they reject the immoral temptation by activating their intelligence. Others get so allured by the temptation tha

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Meeting with Dixon

Devotees were interested to learn that Brian Dixon, the State Minister for Sport and Recreation, had been invited to speak with Srila Prabhupada. Many devotees knew him in his previous capacity as a famous Melbourne footballer, who rose to fame in the late '60s. The strongly-built man, who was accompanied by his attractive young secretary, was introduced to Srila Prabhupada by Sabhapati, who continued to successfully arrange all Srila Prabhupada's interview liaisons.

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Letter from Srila Prabhupada

Later Prabhupada dictated a letter of encouragement and gratitude to his Australian disciples.

Melbourne,
23rd April, 1976
The Assembled Devotees,
Australian Yatra.



My Dear Sons and Daughters,

Please accept my blessings. I am very grateful for all your offerings of daksina to your spiritual master. This is the system. Now all of you must very sincerely follow the regulative principles. Four 'don'ts' and one 'do': No illicit sex life, no intoxication, no gambling, no meat-ea

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Initiation ceremony

Friday, 23 April 1976

The early morning was set aside for a ceremony in the temple. About a dozen young men and women were to receive initiation into the chanting of the Hare Krsna maha-mantra. A few others would receive their gayatri mantra, enabling them to become brahmanas and worship the temple Deities. Prabhupada spoke on the significance of initiation.

"In the Caitanya-caritamrta, while teaching Srila Rupa Goswami, Caitanya Mahaprabhu said, ei rupe brahmanda brahmite kona

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Evening program

In the temple room packed with devotees and guests, Prabhupada continued to speak on Bhagavad-gita, Chapter 9, verse 3. Human life, he explained, was a junction between two destinations. One was to go back to home, back to Godhead and the other was to be involved in the cycle of birth and death. Prabhupada described how the Vedic literature, particularly the Bhagavad-gita, pointed out the correct path to be followed by human beings. The many branches of the Krsna consciousness mov

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