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The next day was Vyasa-puja, Prabhupada's seventy-fourth birthday, and he went to the Tokyo ISKCON temple. The temple was only two rooms-one for living, one for worshiping-with Japanese grass mats on the floor. Prabhupada sat to the right of the altar, looking at Lord Jagannatha, while his disciples sat on the floor before him, singing Gurv-aṣṭaka prayers glorifying the spiritual master. None of them, however, knew exactly how to conduct the Vyasa-puja ceremony, and after a while they ended the

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

Srila Prabhupada Says - [Regarding how unless you submit/surrender to the Acarya then you cannot understand his instructions]

Bhurijana: Prabhupada, I think my illusion is not yet dispelled.

Prabhupada: Then unfortunate.

Bhurijana: Yes.

Prabhupada: Continue. (laughter) Who can check?

Bhurijana: I want to understand in this sense though, exactly how far your instructions are because I know I want to do it, what you say, but I

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Srila Prabhupada Says - [Regarding how in ISKCON we must accept his authority and not think we have a better idea understanding or interpretation]

"Disciple means who voluntarily accepts the spiritual master to be..., regulate. Disciple means one who is regulated by higher authority. He is disciple. The higher authority is called the spiritual master, and the person who voluntarily submits to him for being regulated, he i

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Srila Prabhupada Says – [Regarding how we can understand the activities of Lord Caitanya because they were written/recorded by his nitya siddha disciples. We are most fortunate that we can understand Srila Prabhupada because his voice and written word are directly available to us through his various tape recordings, books and other literature]

“Svarupa Damodara Gosvami and Raghunatha dasa Gosvami witnessed Caitanya Mahap

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namo bhaktivinodaya sac-cid-ananda-namine
gaura-sakti-svarupaya rupanuga-varaya te

"I bow down to Srila Saccidananda Bhaktivinoda Thakura, who is the embodiment of the energy of Sri Gaurasundara [Chaitanya Mahaprabhu] and a great sadhu in the line of the followers of Sri Rupa Gosvami Prabhupada."

Srila Saccidananda Bhaktivinoda Thakura was born with the name  Sri Kedarnath Dutta on September 2, 1838. He appeared in the vil

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Srimad Narayaneeyam describes the past times of Vamana-avatara, as follows:

·         The Asura King Bali was killed in the battle by Indra, but his body was revived by Shukraachaarya. By performing the Vishwajit Sacrifice he grew in prowess and being a descendent of Prahlaad, he was not afraid of anyone. So Devas had to flee in fear of the victorious Bali who conquered the three worlds where the Devas had hid themselves

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Today we are celebrating the most auspicious appearance day of Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura. He was a government magistrate and despite this, he managed to chant sixty-four rounds daily, wrote many books and songs, actively preached and worked on establishing the entire Nama-hatta movement.

Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura’s revolutionary and practical vision for worldwide preaching is revealed in his newsletter the Godruma Kalpatavi. For members of ISKCON today, when almost all of us live and work outsi

TEXT 25

sanaih sanair uparamed
buddhya dhrti-grhitaya
atma-samstham manah krtva
na kincid api cintayet

SYNONYMS

sanaih--gradually; sanaih--step by step; uparamet--hesitated; buddhya--by intelligence; dhrti-grhitaya--carrying the conviction; atma-samstham--placed in transcendence; manah--mind; krtva--doing so; na--not; kincit--anything else; api--even; cintayet--be thinking of.

TRANSLATION

Gradually, step by step, with full conviction, one should become situated in trance by means of intelligence, a

This life, human life, is distinguished from animal life because the animal cannot inquire about transcendence. The human life, if it is not interested in transcendence, then he is animal. If simply he is interested with the bodily demands of life, namely eating, sleeping, sex and defense, these are bodily demands of life. So if we think that "Dog is eating on the street, and we are eating very palatable dishes, nicely made, very tasteful. That is advancement of civilization," that is not advanc

All glories to Srila Prabhupad,

                                                                                      Ekadashi observation is an important step forward God's satisfaction. According to Vaisnav Philosophy, to keep away from some grains on the day develops one devotee's status,which he desires of. It is said in the "SASTRA" that sin stays in some grains on the day of The Ekadashi. So these grains are avoided in eating on the day,despite these are Maha Prasad. However the 'ANU KALPA

Lecture on Appearance Day of Lord Vamana Deva by HH Bir Krishna Goswami on 31 August 2009 at ISKCON New Goloka

(Bir Krishna Goswami became a member of the Krishna conscious community in Gainesville, Florida in 1971. Shortly thereafter, he was initiated as Srila Prabhupada’s disciple.)

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Lecture on Vamana Dvadashi by HH Jayadvaita Swami at Ljubljana

(Jayadvaita Swami is editor, publisher, and teacher. He is a disciple of His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Founder-Acharya of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness.)

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Lecture on Vamana Dwadashi by HH Giriraj Swami on 31 Aug 2013 at San Diego

(In 1972 Giriraj Swami was appointed by Prabhupada to be president of ISKCON Bombay and trustee of the Bhaktivedanta Book Trust. Since then, he has made many significant contributions to Srila Prabhupada’s mission, most notably overseeing all aspects of the development of Hare Krishna Land in Juhu, Bombay.)

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Lecture on Appearance Day of Lord Vamana Deva by HH Bhanu Swami at ISKCON Chennai

(The appearance anniversary of Lord Vamanadeva, the dwarf incarnation of Lord Krsna.)

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TEXT 24

sa niscayena yoktavyo
yogo 'nirvinna-cetasa
sankalpa-prabhavan kamams
tyaktva sarvan asesatah
manasaivendriya-gramam
viniyamya samantatah

SYNONYMS

sah--that yoga system; niscayena--with firm determination; yoktavyah--must be practiced; yogah--in such practice; anirvinna-cetasa--without deviation; sankalpa--material desires; prabhavan--born of; kaman--sense gratification; tyaktva--giving up; sarvan--all; asesatah--completely; manasa--by the mind; eva--certainly; indriya-gramam--the full set

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