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TEXT 18

jnanam jneyam parijnata 
tri-vidha karma-codana 
karanam karma karteti 
tri-vidhah karma-sangrahah

SYNONYMS

jnanam--knowledge; jneyam--objective; parijnata--the knower;tri-vidha--three kinds; karma--work; codana--impetus; karanam--the senses; karma--work; karta--the doer; iti--thus; tri-vidhah--three kinds; karma--work; sangrahah--accumulation.

TRANSLATION

Knowledge, the object of knowledge and the knower are the three factors which motivate action; the senses, the work and the doer comprise the

Lecture on Simplicity and Being Satisfied by Sivarama Swami on 08 April 2015 at New Vraja Dham

(Sivarama Swami was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1949. In 1956, during the failed Hungarian revolution, he emigrated with his family to Canada.)

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Lecture on Only A Devotee Can Conquer the Lord by HH Romapada Swami on 15 Mar 2015  at St.Louis

(Romapada Swami‘s first encounter with Krishna consciousness came in Buffalo, in the shape of a lecture at the State University of New York in 1969. The lecturer was His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. The following year, Romapada Swami joined the movement in Boston and was initiated in 1971.)

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TOVP Tour Diary Days 33-34 – Home Programs in Montreal, Canada

Monday and Tuesday, April 13 & 14 in Montreal were spent visiting devotees in their homes, giving darshan of the Padukas and association with Jananivas prabhu. The following devotees and their families opened their homes for our visit and TOVP programs:
Monday mid-day: Yashomati Sundari and family
Monday evening: Kirti Patel and family
Tuesday mid-day: Narain Prasad and family
Tuesday evening: Carith Sairam and family

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Lecture on Pastimes of Lord Rama by Devakinandan Prabhu on 28 Mar 2015 at ISKCON Juhu

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Lecture on Movement of Pure Devotional Service by HH Kadamba Kanana Swami on 27 Mar 2015 at Benoni

(HH Kadamba Kanana Swami coordinated the construction of Srila Prabhupada’s samadhi in Mayapur. He took sannyasa in 1997 and is now an initiating guru.)

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In this age, Kali, you cannot execute any severe austerity or penances. Simply chant Hare Krsna. That also we are not able to do. Just see. How unfortunate we are. So this is the position of the Kali-yuga. Mandah sumanda-matayo manda-bhagya upadrutah [SB 1.1.10]. They are very rascals, manda. Manda means very bad, manda. And sumanda-matayah. And if they want to improve something, they will accept some rascal Guruji Maharaja. Mandah sumanda-matayah. And some party which has no bona fide contribut

TOVP Tour Diary Days 26-27 – New Jersey Home Visits

After the New Jersey weekend TOVP presentations, on Monday and Tuesday, April 6 and 7, Radha Jivan and Vraja Vilas prabhus left New Jersey ahead of the others and Jananivas and Sunanda prabhus visited various devotees’ homes at their request for prasadam and sanga.

Visits included the homes of Madhupati prabhu (the Temple President of both New Jersey temples), Ramachandra prabhu and his family, and Murali Krishna prabhu and his family.

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TEXT 17

yasya nahankrto bhavo 
buddhir yasya na lipyate 
hatvapi sa imal lokan 
na hanti na nibadhyate

SYNONYMS

yasya--of one who; na--never; ahankrtah--false ego; bhavah--nature; buddhih--intelligence; yasya--one who; na--never; lipyate--is attached; hatva api--even killing; sah--he; iman--this; lokan--world;na--never; hanti--kills; na--never; nibadhyate--becomes entangled.

TRANSLATION

One who is not motivated by false ego, whose intelligence is not entangled, though he kills men in this world, is not

Lecture on Divya Prabodhan by Lokanath Swami on 19 Mar 2015 at Solapur, India

(Born in Aravade, a small village Maharashtra, Indian, he went to Mumbai for studying. In the year 1971, His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada was touring India with his foreign disciples and had organized a pandal program in Mumbai.)

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Lecture on Bhagavad Gita (02.22) by Lilasuka Prabhu on 20 Jan 2015 at Leicester

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Lecture on Bhagavad Gita Has Special Significance by HH Indradyumna Swami on 06 Nov 1993 at London

(Indradyumna Swami is a disciple of A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada founder of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), a Sannyasi traveling preacher, and a guru or spiritual teacher in the Chaitanya Vaishnava tradition. Each year Indradyumna Swami circles the globe teaching the message of the Bhagavad Gita and introducing people to kirtan chanting of the Hare Krishna maha

Lecture on Keeping your Trust by Charu Prabhu

(Charu Das was initiated by Srila Prabhupada in 1970. He has been President, variously, of the Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, and Berkeley (USA) temples.)

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By Rasikananda Das (Co-president of the ISKCON Bhubaneswar temple):

Dear Devotees,

Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

Firstly I’d like to thank all the devotees who have been helping us in respect to Sri Srimad Gour Govinda Maharaja’s samadhi mandir and Srila Prabhupada’s Bhajan Kutir. After a concerted and determined effort, for some years, the situation has finally been resolved.

The Highway authority had previously broken Srila Prabhupada’s Bhajan kutir (Whe

The pastimes of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu are completely spiritual and transcendental. They are elaborately described in several sixteenth-century Gaudiya Vaishnava texts such as Sri Caitanya-carita by Murari Gupta, Sri Caitanya-mangala by Locana dasa Thakura, Sri Caitanya-bhagavata by Vrndavana dasa Thakura and Sri Caitanya-caritamrta by Krsnadasa Kaviraja Goswami. As the divine incarnation of Radha and Krsna combined, Lord Gauranga tasted the ecstatic moods of not only Srimati Radharani but also

To say that most politicians are incompetent, and in many cases downright dishonest, isn’t very controversial. We’ve all read about their blunders, their tricks, and their schemes. So the aim of this article is not to give proof of their failure to bring about world peace and prosperity; it is rather to show that the root cause of their incompetence is selfish materialism, and that the remedy is the re- spiritualization of society through the worldwide propagation of Krishna consciousness.

The

TEXT 16

tatraivam sati kartaram 
atmanam kevalam tu yah 
pasyaty akrta-buddhitvan 
na sa pasyati durmatih

SYNONYMS

tatra--there; evam--certainly; sati--being; kartaram--of the worker; atmanam--the self; kevalam--only; tu--but; yah--anyone;pasyati--sees; akrta-buddhitvat--due to unintelligence; na--never;sah--he; pasyati--sees; durmatih--foolish.

TRANSLATION

Therefore one who thinks himself the only doer, not considering the five factors, is certainly not very intelligent and cannot see things as they ar

Actually, spiritual body means eternal life of bliss and knowledge. This body which we are possessing now, material body, it is neither eternal, nor blissful, nor full of knowledge. Every one of us, we know that this material body will be finished. And it is full of ignorance. We cannot say anything, what is beyond this wall. We have got senses, but they are all limited, imperfect. Sometimes we are very much proud of seeing and challenge, "Can you show me God?" but we forget to remember that as

Candana yatra starts on the third lunar day of the waxing moon of Vaisakha month, and continues for twenty days. Lord Jagannatha gave direct instructions to King Indradyumna to perform this festival at this time. Smearing the body of the Lord with ointments is an act of devotion, and the best of ointments is sandalwood paste. Since the month of Vaisakha is very hot in India, the cooling effect of the sandalwood is very pleasing to the body of the Lord.

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From July 18th to 23rd 1974, Srila Prabhupada visited New Vrindaban for the third time, to further establish his vision for it as a sacred place known worldwide for five primary things: cow protection, simple-living, holy pilgrimage, spiritual education, and above all, loving Krishna.

In a letter one year earlier, the ISKCON Founder-Acharya had written to encourage the expanding farm community: “Yes! Go on acquiring the surro