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Lecture on Bhagavan ke Naam aur Bhagavan mai Koi Antar nahi hai by HH Bhakti Charu Swami on 04 Oct 2010 at ISKCON Surat

(Bhakti Charu Swami is from a Bengali family and spent most of his early childhood in urban Kolkata. He met with Srila Prabhupada at the end of 1976 after a long and intense search for a spiritual teacher. This initial meeting resulted in Bhakti Charu Swami being assigned to translate the books of the Bhaktivedanta Book Trust into the Bengali language.)

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Lecture on Smaller than a Period on a page by HH Prahladananda Swami on 04 July 2014

(HH Prahladananda Swami was born in 1949, in Buffallo, New York. He studied at the University of Buffalo, where he received a full scholarship. In January 1969 he joined ISKCON and received both initiations that year from Srila Prabhupada.)

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Ever heard of the 3-minute round? Ever seen Krishna devotees who chant relatively slow finish their 16 rounds in one and a half hour? I have, and still do, and it never fails to amaze me.

The maha-mantra consists of 16 names, of 2 syllables each:

hare krishna hare krishna
krishna krishna hare hare
hare rama hare rama
rama rama hare hare

You will find that with some practice, you can chant this mantra fairly quickly and still maintain an accurate pronunciation. However, to chant 108 of these man

Hare Krsna,

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada & Srila Gopal Krishna Maharaj.

षड-भक्ति:

प्रहलाद महाराज ने अपने पिता दैत्य-राज हिरन्यकशिपू के पूछने पर सर्वश्रेष्ठ  शिक्षा के रूप में नवधा भक्ति का वर्णन किया था | प्रह्लाद महाराज अपने पिता के भगवान द्वारा मारे जाने पर भगवान नरसिंह की प्रार्थना करते हुए भक्ति की श्रेष्ठता का वर्णन करते हुए कहते हैं: “न तो भौतिक प्रकृति के तीन गुण, न इन तीन गुणों के नियामक अधिष्ठाता देव, न पांच स्थूल तत्व, न देवता, न मनुष्य ही आपको समझ सक

TEXT 28

yatha nadinam bahavo 'mbu-vegah
samudram evabhimukha dravanti
tatha tavami nara-loka-vira
visanti vaktrany abhivijvalanti

SYNONYMS

yatha--as; nadinam--of the rivers; bahavah--many; ambu-vegah--waves of the waters; samudram--ocean; eva--certainly; abhimukhah--towards; dravanti--gliding; tatha--similarly; tava--Your; ami--all those; nara-loka-virah--the kings of human society; visanti--entering; vaktrani--into the mouths; abhivijvalanti--blazing.

TRANSLATION

As the rivers flow into the sea, s

TEXT 26-27

ami ca tvam dhrtarastrasya putrah
sarve sahaivavani-pala-sanghaih
bhismo dronah suta-putras tathasau
sahasmadiyair api yodha-mukhyaih

vaktrani te tvaramana visanti
damstra-karalani bhayanakani
kecid vilagna dasanantaresu
sandrsyante curnitair uttamangaih

SYNONYMS

ami--all those; ca--also; tvam--You; dhrtarastrasya--of Dhrtarastra; putrah--sons; sarve--all; saha eva--along with; avani-pala--warrior kings; sanghaih--the groups; bhismah--Bhismadeva; dronah--Dronacarya; suta-putrah--Karna; t

Prabhupada: To become faithful, surrender. That is. Therefore Krsna says, "You rascal, surrender. You are not faithful; therefore you are condemned. You surrender first. Then next thing." So unless he becomes a surrendered soul, there is no hope. There is no hope. He will never understand.

By H.D.G. Srila Prabhupada

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Hare Krishna.

19th July, 2014. Gurgaon.

Q : How do we define an Uttama, madhyama and Kanishtha Adhikari ?

Ans : Sri Chaitanya Mahāprabhu teaches Sri Sanatana Goswami :

CC Madhya 22.64: “A faithful devotee is a truly eligible candidate for the loving service of the Lord. According to one’s faith, one is classified as a topmost devotee, an intermediate devotee or an inferior devotee.

Srila Prabhupada writes in his purport:
The word śraddhāvān (faithful) means understanding Kṛṣṇa to be the summum bonum

Lecture on Bhakti Ka Margdarshan by Subhag Swami

(Srila Prabhupada gave His Holiness specific services of translating Gaudiya Vaishnava scriptures & Prabhupada’s books. Also Srila Prabhupada ordered him to preach Krishna Consciousness all over the world.)

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Lecture on Different kinds of Perfected Devotees by Sivarama Swami on 30 June 2014 at Romania

(Sivarama Swami was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1949. In 1956, during the failed Hungarian revolution, he emigrated with his family to Canada. Sivarama Swami first came in contact with the books of A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada in 1970, becoming an initiated disciple of Prabhupada in 1973.)

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Lecture on ISKCON's New Theology by HH Bhakti Vikasa Swami on 10 June 2014 at North Carolina

(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 Dhruva Charitra by HG Nitaisevini Mataji on 26 Jan 2014 at ISKCON Vizag

Nitaisevini Devi Dasi was born in Mumbai in a Gujarati Business family, conventional followers of the Pushtimarg. Later she with her family shifted to Hyderabad in 1984, since then she was closely connected to ISKCON Secunderbad. Inspired by Visits of many senior devotees, she later joined as a Full time devotee in 1997 and took initiation in the year 1998 in Atlanta,USA from H.H.Jayapataka Swami.

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Lecture on The Difference between Mechanical Religion and Bhakti by HG Madhavananda Prabhu on 22 May 2014 at Durban

(Madhavananda Das, joined ISKCON in Los Angeles in 1982. He moved to Bhubaneswar Orissa in 1993 where he has been living since. He was instructed by Sri Srimad Gour Govinda Swami Maharaj to edit his lectures into publications.)

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Lecture on Does Guru looks for Disciple or Disciple looks for Guru by HH Bhakti Charu Swami on 22 Aug 2013 at ISKCON Pune

(Bhakti Charu Swami is from a Bengali family and spent most of his early childhood in urban Kolkata. He met with Srila Prabhupada at the end of 1976 after a long and intense search for a spiritual teacher. This initial meeting resulted in Bhakti Charu Swami being assigned to translate the books of the Bhaktivedanta Book Trust into the Bengali language.)

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Dear Devotees
Please accept my humble obeisances
All Glories To Srila Prabhupada

We are immensely happy to invite you for the Grand Inauguration of Srila Prabhupada's "Dream-Come-True Palace" of Sri Sri Radha Madhava Temple, ISKCON Kanpur. Srila Prabhupada said " We should certainly have a centre in Kanpur." (Letter to Aksayananda, 29th January ,1976). To fulfill his desire we started the construction in Oct 2011. We are celebrating the Pran Pratishtha for Sri Sri Radha Madhavaji Lalita-Vishak

Lecture on Reading and Commentary by HH Bhakti Vikasa Swami on 09 June 2014 at Carolina

(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 How we Come to Krishna Consciousness by HH Niranjana Swami on 15 July 2014 at Kishinev

(The management and spiritual leadership experience Niranjana Swami gained during his tenure as president of ISKCON Boston from 1979 to 1983, and his service as regional secretary of New England in 1984, readied him for his GBC appointment in 1987.)

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