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1. Uttama Adhikari – Expert in putting arguments in terms of scriptures

2. Madhyama Adhikari – Not Expert but has strong faith in the process of Devotional Service

3. Kanista adhikari - Those who go to the temples of the Lord and offer worshipful respect to the Deity without sufficient knowledge in the theological science and therefore without any respect for the devotees of the Lord are called materialistic devotees

My Dear Amarendra,
Please accept my blessings. I am in due receipt of your letter dated 5-30-72, along with newsclippings about your attempt to get the political post in Gainesville, Florida. I am very glad to hear from you that you are enthusiastically pushing forward with our Krishna Consciousness programs there.
 
I was very pleased to see in the newspaper clippings that you were voicing our Krishna Consciousness platform very nice

Srila Prabhupada always stresses the need and impact of Theater play. In short he says Theaters are very powerful preaching tool. So please be the part of it.

Reference 1: Srimad-Bhagavatam, 1.11.20

TRANSLATION: "Expert dramatists, artists, dancers, singers, historians, genealogists and learned speakers all gave their respective contributions, being inspired by the superhuman pastimes of the Lord. Thus they proceeded on and on."

PURPORT
"Even one hundred years ago in India, all dramatic performanc

While I was in Dhaka, Bangladesh, one of the temple leaders there Jagat Guru Prabhu invited me to join him at a university program. At the school there was a festival in honor of Goddess Sarasvati. "We have a book table there," he explained, "and book distribution should be good." I took him up on his invitation and went to check out the Sarasvati festival, hoping that by Krsna's mercy I could distribute some books. When I arrived I was amazed there were thousands of people there! This is a pred

Gopal Jiu Publications is pleased to announce the release of a new 520 page book, "When Good Fortune Arises, the Life and Teachings of Sri Srimad Gour Govinda Maharaja". Over five years in the making this book contains many little known stories about Gour Govinda Swami, including his association with Srila Prabhupada. "When Good Fortune Arises" has a foreword by HH Radhanath Swami and includes dozens of interviews with various senior devotees, sannyasis, friends, followers and disciples of Gour

Dear Vaisnavas,
Please accept my respectful obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

The ISKCON Leadership Sanga (ILS), in Sridham Mayapur, is scheduled from February 10th to 17th. The ILS will provide an opportunity for GBC members to share with ISKCON’s initiating gurus, sannyasis, temple presidents, project leaders, and congregational leaders the process of strategic planning they have undergone and the progress they have achieved. In turn, the GBC hope that those devotees who are attending

indriyesu manas tani
tan-matresu yathodbhavam
bhutadinamuny utkrsya
mahaty atmani sandadhe
 

TRANSLATION: He amalgamated the mind with the senses and the senses with the sense objects, according to their respective positions, and he also amalgamated the material ego with the total material energy, mahat-tattva.

PURPORT: In respect to the ego, the total material energy is sundered in two parts -- one agitated by the mode of ignorance and the other agitated by the modes of passion and goodness. Due to a

"I bow down to the Supreme Lord Nityananda Prabhu, who is the awarder of the highest joy to all, the bestower of the holy name and the crest jewel of all paramahamsa mendicants."

sankarsanah karana-toya-shayi
garbhoda-shayi cha payobdhi-shayi
sheshash cha yasyamsha-kalah sa nitya-
nandakhya-ramah sharanam mamastu

"May Sri Nityananda Rama be the object of my constan

According to expert opinion, Balarama, as the chief of the original quadruple forms, is also the original Sankarsana. Balarama, the first expansion of Krsna, expands Himself in five forms:

(1) Maha-sankarsana,

(2) Karanodakasayi,

(3) Garbhodakasayi,

(4) Ksirodakasayi, and

(5) Sesa.

These five plenary portions are responsible for both the spiritual and material cosmic manifestations. In these five forms Lord Balarama assists Lord Krsna in His activities. The first four of these forms are responsible fo