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Srimad Bhagavatam Class (5.3.18) by Hanumat Presaka Swami on 27 Feb 2014 at ISKCON Vrindavan

(Hanumat Presaka Swami grew up in California and graduated in psychology from the University of California in 1970, with a minor in biology and electrical engineering.)

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Lecture on Understanding Radha and Krishnas Pastimes by Sivarama Swami 19 April 2014 at Budapest

(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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Question: How is it possible to control sex desire?

Answer: Krishna explains in the Bhagavad-gita that lust arises from contemplating the objects of the senses. Therefore try to avoid thinking about or seeing the opposite sex as far as possible. And the secret--accordin g to Krishna--is to get a higher taste from spiritual activities.

Practice makes improvement. Try to engage the mind in practical service, as well as hearing and chanting about Krishna. The more we do that, our mind will have le

Real life means you have to minimize your bodily activities so that you can save time and devote for spiritual understanding. That is real life. And the present civilization based on bodily concept of life is animal life. It is not civilized life. Civilized life means athato brahma jijnasa. When one is advanced so much so that he inquires about the spirit soul. But there is no such inquiry. Like the cats and dogs, they cannot inquire what is spirit soul. So Vedic life means to become free as muc

Lecture on Second hand stool and staying in ISKCON by HH Bhakti Vikasa Swami on 22 Nov 2006 at Hyderabad, India

(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 Rama Navami by HH Kadamba Kanana Swami at South Africa on 06 April 2014
(Srimad Bhagavatam Canto 05 Chapter 19 Text 16-18)

(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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Lecture on Srimad Bhagavatam Class (10.39.46-47) by Laxmimoni Mataji on 16 April 2014 at ISKCON Alachua

(HG Laxmimoni Dasi was initiated by Srila Prabhuada in 1969 while attending the State University of New York at Buffalo. She received a B.A. in psychology after getting an "A" for her senior sociology project: "Life in a Krishna Temple.")

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Lecture on Vasudeva's plan be to stave off Catastrophe by HG Chaitanya Charan Prabhu

(His Grace Caitanya Charan Prabhu is a monk and spiritual teacher in the time honored tradition of bhakti yoga. He is a editor of Back to Godhead, which is the official international magazine of the Hare Krishna movement.)

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Lecture on Nanda and other Vrajavasis are not Attached Householders by HH Bhakti Vikasa Swami on 07 Oct 2007 at Madhya Pradesh, India

(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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TEXT 15

svayam evatmanatmanam
vettha tvam purusottama
bhuta-bhavana bhutesa
deva-deva jagat-pate

SYNONYMS

svayam--personality; eva--certainly; atmana--by Yourself; atmanam--Yourself; vettha--know; tvam--You; purusa-uttama--O greatest of all persons; bhuta-bhavana--O origin of everything; bhuta-isa--O Lord of everything; deva-deva--O Lord of all demigods; jagat-pate--O Lord of the entire universe.

TRANSLATION

Indeed, You alone know Yourself by Your own potencies, O origin of all, Lord of all beings,

Prabhupada: Yes. Foolish person means busy rascal. There are four kinds of division: lazy intelligent and busy intelligent and lazy rascal and busy rascal. The first-class man is lazy intelligent, and second class, busy intelligent, and third class, lazy rascal, and fourth class, busy rascal. A rascal, if he's busy, then what he will do? He'll simply do harm. That's all.

By H.D.G. Srila Prabhupada

Lecture on An Almost Real Tree by HH Bhakti Vikasa Swami on 09 Feb 2014 at Panvila, Sri Lanka

(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 Sannyasa In Kali Yuga by HH Bhakti Caitanya Swami on 06 Feb 2014 at ISKCON Durban

(Originally from New Zealand, Bhakti Caitanya Swami joined the Hare Krishna movement in London, early in 1973. Almost a year before, as a philosophy student at Auckland University, he had first seen his future spiritual master walking across the campus with his followers. Srila Prabhupada initiated Bhakti Caitanya Swami later in 1973, giving him the name Raghubir Dasa. )

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Srimad Bhagavatam Class by Sarvabhauma Prabhu on 05 April 2014 at ISKCON Juhu

(Sarvabhauma Prabhu was born on 6th Feb 1952, in a Puskarana Vaishnava Brahmin family, having a Radha Krishna temple for eight generations in Mithi, which is part of Rajasthan in Sindh province of Pakistan.)

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Lecture on Dont be Blind by HH Niranjana Swami on 18 April 2014 at Moscow

(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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Lecture on The Previous Lives of Kamsa by HG Chaitanya Charan Prabhu

(His Grace Caitanya Charan Prabhu is a monk and spiritual teacher in the time honored tradition of bhakti yoga. He is a editor of Back to Godhead, which is the official international magazine of the Hare Krishna movement.)

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Hare Krishna,

Come November and I will be in my Sade Sati. Please suggest how to retain Krishna Consciousness if Im an insignificant believer in Krishna.

Hare Krsna,

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

गीता में श्री कृष्ण के द्वारा अर्जुन के माध्यम से समस्त जीवों को मुक्ति का ज्ञान :

अनेक जन्म जन्मान्तर के बाद जिसे सचमुच ज्ञान होता है वह मुझको समस्त कारणों का कारण जानकर मेरी शरण में आता है (B.G.7.19) | बहुत से जन्म-जन्मान्तरों के बाद तत्व-ज्ञान को प्राप्त जीव मुझे (वासुदेव) सब कारणों का परम कारण जान कर मेरी शरण में आता है ऐसा महात्मा अत्यंत दुर्लभ है  (B.G.7.9) | मै इस सृष्टि का कारणस्वरु

All are invited for this glorious event