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The following excerpts from Śrīla Prabhupāda's room conversations and letters give further insights into his voyage to America and the incidents surrounding it. These selections have been obtained from the computer database "The Complete Works of His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami." Excerpt from a room conversation with His Divine Grace in Bombay on November 7, 1970.

Prabhupāda: So I went in U.S.A. without any sponsor. No, I... That is the... One gentleman sponsored for one month; one mont

Srila Sridhara Maharaja Glorifies Srila Prabhupada and ISKCON

Srila Sridhara Mj & Srila Prabhupada Srila Sridhara Maharaja has on numerous occasions resolved problems that arose between Srila Prabhupada and his godbrothers. An example of this is the controversy that arose amongst Prabhupada's godbrothers when his disciples began addressing him as "Prabhupada," and later chanting "Jaya Prabhupada" in his glorification. Some of Srila Prabhupada's disciples, in the early days of ISKCON, while visiti

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The Yogi Hall, Dadar (E), Mumbai
Opposite Dadar (cr) station 

Kirtan Mela on 6th , 7th & 8th Feb 2014.

Kirtaneers coming for this years Kirtan Festival are :
HH Radhanath Swami, HH BB Govinda Swami, Vyasakhi Prabhu, Sri Prahlad Prabhu, Uttam Prabhu, Vishvambhar Prabhu, Acyuta Gopi Mataji and Many More. 

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ISKCON Mumbai Juhu guest reception, Govindas Chowpatty

TEXT 12

sarva-dvarani samyamya
mano hrdi nirudhya ca
murdhny adhayatmanah pranam
asthito yoga-dharanam

SYNONYMS

sarva-dvarani--all the doors of the body; samyamya--controlling; manah--mind; hrdi--in the heart; nirudhya--confined; ca--also; murdhni--on the head; adhaya--fixed; atmanah--soul; pranam--the life air; asthitah--situated; yoga-dharanam--the yogic situation.

TRANSLATION

The yogic situation is that of detachment from all sensual engagements. Closing all the doors of the senses and fixing th

Prabhupada: Therefore.... Therefore, they're rascals. And for the rascals, the Bhagavad-gita teaching is there. Learn! They are giving the stress on the body, that "The body is finished, everything finished." They do not know beyond the body. But the real knowledge begins, "No, you are beyond this body." That is real knowledge. That is the beginning of knowledge. Any other knowledge except this, that is ignorance. That is not knowledge. They are accepting ignorance as knowledge.

By H.D.G. Srila P

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

When I was walking today, on the Island Mali Losinj, I felt my mind
reach out over the blue sea to an island shimmering in the distance.
When my mind returned, it brought a story with it, a story of
spiritual instruction. Strange are the ways of inspiration.

Here is the story:

When Mohan returned from his journey to Jagannatha Puri, he was a
changed man. Those who had never met him were impressed with his
character, but those

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

"No one will disagree to partake in a function where good singing, dancing and refreshment are administered. Everyone will attend such a function, and everyone is sure to feel individually the transcendental presence of the Lord. This alone will help the attendant associate with the Lord and thereby purify himself in spiritual realization. The only condition for successfully executing such spiritual activities is that t

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

The scientific approach is that I will only accept if there is tangible proof, I will believe it if you can show me. If you cannot show me God, if you cannot put Him before me to see, to touch, to smell, to taste, to experience directly with my senses, how do you expect me to believe it and remain scientific? This is a great fallacy because factually everything in your life that you believe is true, you have no means to

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

We have to learn to look at the good qualities in others. We should try to encourage each other. We have to really understand that we are dasas and not prabhus, that we are dasas of each other. The problem is that no one wants to be a dasa in Kali-yuga. Everyone wants to be the boss, prabhu. In American English there is saying, too many chiefs and no Indians. That is the problem. We have to endeavor to become servant. T

By His Grace Vignanashna Govinda Dasa

Our yatra is purely a congregational preaching center. We have the opportunity to be a part of it and directly engage in the preaching activities. It really gives us immense pleasure and satisfaction to be a part of the team. It is really amazing to see the neophytes transforming wonderfully into nice devotees of the Lord, making their house a nice temple of the Lord and practicing Krishna consciousness. They also take responsibilities to preach by making the

Lecture on Inspirations from Chanting by Rtadhvaja Swami on 27 July 2013 at California

(His Holiness Rtadhvaja Swami Maharaja was born and raised in a rural farming community in North Dakota, U.S.A. His first encounter with the devotees was in 1972, when some of the Radha Damodara Traveling Sankirtana Party came to his house and asked if they could take some flowers from his front yard.)

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Lecture on Glories of Sankirtan by HG Badahari Prabhu on 09 Jan 2012 at Gita Nagari

(Bada Haridas Prabhu Known for his inspiring and soulful chants, he has studied and performed Indian devotional music, including Indian classical music and raga since 1975. Bada Haridas artistically blends his many influences to create unique music in celebration of the divine. )

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By His Grace Aniruddha Dasa

In 2004, we had half a dozen book distributors participate in a marathon. Then, in 2005, we had 40 book distributors participate and 35 were householders. Of course they are not doing huge book distribution, but it all adds up. They are going out on weekends. One of the devotees came to me before I left for India and told me about his method for distributing books. Every morning he gets on the tram and sits down beside someone and tries to give them a book. He does the

Lecture on Jivan ka Lakshya by Sarvabhauma Prabhu on 12 August 2010 at Delhi

(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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His Divine Grace Srila

A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

"I recited the yajna-mantras and performed the ceremony. Akincana Krishnadas Babaji Maharaja, Prabhu's intimate Godbrother and friend, chanted Hare Krishna Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna Hare Hare/Hare Rama Hare Rama, Rama Rama Hare Hare. He chanted continuously from 8:00 AM until 3:00 PM in a most sweet and deep manner. Swamiji requested that only Krishna-nama be sung, the kirtana of the Hare Krishna maha-mantra. My Gurudeva then gave him

Prabhupada: Read. Hare Krsna. Yes, Second Chapter

Devotee: Start at verse 8. "I can find no means to drive away this grief which is drying up my senses. I will not even be able to destroy it if I win an unrivaled kingdom on the earth with sovereignty like the demigods in heaven [Bg. 2.8]. Sanjaya said: Having spoken thus, Arjuna, chastiser of the enemy told Krsna, Govinda, ‘I shall not fight,' and fell silent [Bg. 2.9]. O descendant of Bharata, at that time Krsna, smiling in the midst of both t

Pradyumna (leads chanting, etc.):

dhrtarastra uvaca
dharma-ksetre kuru-ksetre
samaveta yuyutsavah
mamakah pandavas caiva
kim akurvata sanjaya [Bg. 1.1]

Prabhupada: (during chanting of sloka) Now, in your leisure hour you will try to repeat and get by heart some of the slokas. That will be very nice. Go on.

Pradyumna: (after synonyms) "Translation: Dhrtarastra said: O Sanjaya, after assembling in the place of pilgrimage at Kuruksetra, what did my sons and the sons of Pandu do, being desirous t