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Transcription : Sacikumara Dasa
Editing : Ramananda Raya Dasa
Hare Krishna! So did everybody get the summary of the first sixchapters? So today I will cover all the six chapters in one go. Are youall ready for that? With rapt attention? What is Bhagavad-Gita?Bhagavad-Gita is the essence of the Vedas. The Vedas are vast,therefore Vyasadeva considered, or Krishna actually considered, thatthe essence of the Vedas should be giv
Hare Krishna !
The wood-cutter and the axe
Once upon a time a strong wood-cutter asked a timber merchant for a job. The timber merchant was happy to oblige. The pay was good and so were the work-conditions. Therefore, the wood-cutter was determined to do his best.
The timber merchant presented the wood-cutter with an axe and showed him where to work. The first day, the wood-cutter brought eighteen trees.
“Congratulations !” the boss said. “Go on working like that.”
Motivated by the boss’s words
Transcription & Editing : Syama-Mohini Dasi, Sacikumara Dasa, Atul Krishna Dasa, Premalila Dasi, Ramananda Raya Dasa
THE FOL LOW ING IS A CLASS GIVEN BY HIS HOLINESS BHAKTI CHARU SWAMI ON TURSDAY SEPTEMBER 16TH 2010, AT ISKCON UJJAIN.
Six limbs of saranagati are humility, surrender of the self,accepting Krsna as the Lord and Master, only shelter and having thefull faith that Krsna will always protect. This one we have not done.In the last three classes, we discusse
Transcription & Editing : Atul Krishna Dasa, Ashim Krishna Dasa, Nimesh, Ranga Radhika Dasi and Ramananda Raya Dasa
THE FOLLOWING IS A CLASS GIVEN BY HIS HOLINESS BHAKTI CHARU SWAMI ON WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 15TH 2010, AT ISKCON UJJAIN
What is today topic? Who remembers? How many we have covered so far?Out of six we covered only two – dainya and atmanivedan. So, what isthe third one? Third one is, very good, goptritve varan. Saranagati,surrender to Krishna has six an
Transcription and Editing : Bhakta Nimesh, Bhaktin Ramola,Sacikumara Dasa, Haripriya Dasi, Ashim Krishna Dasa, Ramananda RayaDasa
So, going back to our Sharanagati, Shri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu came toteach us the process of sharanagati, do you remember the first line, orfirst four lines of the song that we sang, the first day? How many ofyou remember that? [devotees reply] Ok, what about others? Ok, let’srecite. Shri
Transcription and Editing : Nimesh, Ranga Radhika Dasi, Ramananda Raya Dasa
Hare Krishna, so now we are having theseminar, and so we have some special classes. In the morning, we arehaving the classes on “Saranagati,” instead of Bhagavatam class.Actually, this is also Bhagavatam class, because the ultimate goal ofBhagavatam is sharanagati, surrender to Krishna. Bhagavatam has tenaspects, dasha lakshanam, ten symptoms,
Transcription : Bhaktin Ramola
Editing : Hemavati Radhika Dasi
Prabhupada Realizations by HH Bhakti Charu Swami – Friday Morning- HH Bhakti Caru Swami -Drakenberg Seminar South Africa
Ramayana means the glorious activities of Lord Ramacandra.But to understand the glories of the Sri Ramachandra, we have tounderstand the glory of Srila Prabhupada. Rather to understand the –Themore we recognize and appreciate the glory of Srila
Transcription : Ranga Radhika Dasi, Bhaktin Ramola, Shyama-Mohini Dasi, Sacikumar Dasa, Ramananda Raya Dasa
Editing : Hemavati Radhika Dasi
THE FOLLOWING IS A CLASS GIVEN BY HIS HOLINESS BHAKTI CHARU SWAMI ON THURSDAY JULY 1ST 2010, AT THE NORTH AMERICAN RETREAT, VRAJ, PENNSYLVANIA (RAMAYAN DAY 5)
Paramahamsa Parivrajakacarya Asatotara Sri SrimanAbhayaCaranaravinda Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada ki Jaya! Ananta kotiVaisnava Vrinda ki Jaya! Namacarya Srila H
THE FOLLOWING IS A CLASS GIVEN BY HIS HOLINESS BHAKTI CHARUSWAMI ON THURSDAY JULY 1ST 2010, AT THE NORTH AMERICAN RETREAT, VRAJ,PENNSYLVANIA (RAMAYAN DAY 4)
Transcription : Suvarna Manjari Dasi
Editing : Hemavati Radhika Dasi
HH Bhakti Charu Swami leads a sweet, melodious kirtan, thereafterstarts the class. Hare Krishna So out of seven kandas we have coveredup to five, until yesterday. We did up to Sundara kanda. Hanumanbringing the message of Sita Devi from
THE FOLLOWING IS A SPECIAL PRABHUPADA KATHA GIVEN BY HIS HOLINESS BHAKTI CHARU SWAMI ON JULY 2010, AT ISKCON NEW YORK MANHATTEN
Transcribers : Sacikumar Dasa, Shyama Mohini Dasi, Bhaktin Ramola, Ranga Radhika Dasi, Ramananda Raya Dasa
Editing : Hemavati Radhika Dasi
Welcome to the Sri Sri Radha-Murlidhara here at the Bhakti-centre.Thank you very much for coming. This evening we have a very greatspeaker, we are very fortunate, one of the intima
Speaker: HH Bhakti Charu Swami
Venue: Sri Sri Nitai Gaura-Hari Mandir, Johannesburg, South Africa
Occasion: Evening program on the eve of Randburg Ratha Yatra
Transcription sent in by Madri Dasi
[The class continued after chanting Madhurastakam.]
Hare Krishna. I am sorry that this is a little complicated tune butyou did very well. Generally the way we sing it, we sing first twolines together and then the third line single. O
Speaker: HH Bhakti Charu Swami
Venue: Sri Sri Nitai Gaura-Hari Mandir, Johannesburg, South Africa
Occasion: Evening program on the eve of Randburg Ratha Yatra
Transcription sent in by Madri Dasi
Hare Krishna. [Chants Jaya Radha Madhava]
Gaurapremanande Hari-hari bol!
nama om visnu-padaya krsna-presthaya bhu-tale
srimate bhaktivedanta-svamin iti namine
namas te sarasvate deve gaura-vani-pracarine
nirvisesa-sunyavadi-pascatya-desa-tarine
Hare Krishna. So how is eve
Hare Krishna!!!!!! AGTSP , All glories to guru and gauranga.......
Please forgive my offences if i am wrong somewhere.
Kunti maharni prays to lord Krishna 'O Lord please give me more and more troubles so that i can remember you more and more during these times of trouble'.
If we see the history of Pandavas life, we can observe that it was full of troubles.They had to go to forest for 12 years and then 1 yr agatvas, although they were pure devotees of Lord. So Lord keeps testing us how staunch our
Seeing Krishna through hearing. Nectarean Mellows
We cannot see Krishna through our eyes but we see Krishna through hearing the subject matter from the scriptures and from the vaisnavas.
Bhaktisiddhant Saraswati Thakur, when he would go to Jagannath temple in Puri, he would stand behind the Garuda Sthamba, same place Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu would stand. The reason He did this? He said, “It is because Garuda is a param vaisnava. He is a great devotee. He is a lover of Lord Jagannath.
Jagannath would
Hare Krishna…
I have received a call from one of our God Brothers from Pune, who has got my mobile number on iskcondesiretree.net and inquired me how to cultivate Bhakti???
With whatever little knowledge I am acquiring by washing my feet with the waves, coming from the Ocean of ISKCON (under the guidance of my Counselor Shri Adbhuta Gauranga Das (Anand) Prabhuji of Hyderabad), I am sharing my Spiritual Realizations with you.
Krishna’s first mercy on a person is to crush him & thus the wretched f
