Seminar on Pastimes of Srimati Radharani by HH Bhakti Purusottama Swami
(Bhakti Purusottama Swami first joined ISKCON in Mayapur, India, in 1978. He is an initiated disciple of Jayapataka Swami and is an integral part of the organization of the Headquarters of ISKCON in Mayapur, where he is based.)
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Lecture on The Appearance of Srimati Radharani by HH Bhakti Caitanya Swami
(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.)
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Lecture on Glories of Radharani by HH Radhanath Swami on 12th Sept 1994 at ISKCON Chowpatty
(Radhanath Swami was born in Chicago, USA. In his teenage years, he embarked on a journey of discovery of the world and religion that ultimately led him to India where he met Srila Prabhupada in 1971 and embraced his teachings. Initially serving in India, Radhanath Swami returned to the USA where he served at a West Virginia farming community and was initiated by Srila Prabhupada (1973))
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TEXT 17
yuktahara-viharasya
yukta-cestasya karmasu
yukta-svapnavabodhasya
yogo bhavati duhkha-ha
SYNONYMS
yukta--regulated; ahara--eating; viharasya--recreation; yukta--regulated; cestasya--of one who works for maintenance; karmasu--in discharging duties; yukta--regulated; svapna-avabodhasya--regulated sleep and wakefulness; yogah--practice of yoga; bhavati--becomes; duhkha-ha--diminishing pains.
TRANSLATION
He who is temperate in his habits of eating, sleeping, working and recreation can mitigate
Gopiparanadhana Prabhu was Co-director in Govardhana and head teacher of the Sanskrit academy. Although from United States, he stayed most of the time in Govardhan. Students from various parts of the world would flock to govardhan to study high level of Sanskrit and bhakti from him. He was also teaching the Sandarbhas seminar. He received first initiation from Srila Prabhupada in 1973 and second in 1975. He also served as Sanskrit translator for the BBT and had been working for the BBT since 197
Hare Krishna.
The first time I prayed with all my heart was when HG Sarvabhauma Prabhuji came to Punjabi Bagh temple and gave a lecture on atonement almost two years back. I used to feel a lot of guilt over my past karma and did not know how to get rid of them or ask forgiveness from all the people whom I hurt. All the past incidents would come into my thoughts as I would chant, it was getting difficult to chant. In the lecture Prabhuji mentioned that apart from our own lack of courage to face pe
TEXT 16
naty-asnatas 'tu yogo 'sti
na caikantam anasnatah
na cati-svapna-silasya
jagrato naiva carjuna
SYNONYMS
na--never; ati--too much; asnatah--of one who eats so; tu--but; yogah--linking with the Supreme; asti--there is; na--nor; ca--also; ekantam--very low; anasnatah--abstaining from eating; na--nor; ca--also; ati--too much; svapna-silasya--of one who sleeps too much; jagratah--or one who keeps night watch too much; na--not; eva--ever; ca--and; arjuna--O Arjuna.
TRANSLATION
There is no possibi
The impersonalists take it, this chanting, as means to attain liberation. They do not know that the chanting is the, real chanting begins after liberation. Not that by chanting one reaches liberation. No. That's not a fact. Satatam kirtayanto mam yatantas ca drdha-vratah [Bg. 9.14]. Satatam. Satatam means after liberation also. This chanting will continue after liberation also. Not that after liberation chanting will finish. In the Bhagavad-gita it is said, satatam. Satatam means after liberatio
All glories to Srila Prabhupad.
Every human being should ask this question often to himself . This inquisitiveness will definitely take him to a position to begin the process of self realization. Why this is happening to me ? Why this is happening to me ? One should go on asking . What may be the cause of my good & bad fortunes ? How can I preserve my good ones & how can I control my bad ones .
Hare Krishna.
I wrote in one of my previous blog that how I chant but do not pray to Lord so regularly.
Yesterday I was wondering why I pray so less. And this too when so many devotees instructed me in the past to pray whenever I went to them with some difficulty in my spiritual progress. I had no clear answer. It is more bewildering when I look back and see that Srila Prabhupada, Lord Balarama, Guru Maharaj, whomsoever I prayed, those prayers have always been answered.
Few days back HG Chitralek
Lecture on Sri Lalita Appearance by HG Aindra Prabhu on 24 Aug 2001
(H.G. Aindra Prabhu received Harinama Diksa on Nityananda Trayodasi in 1974 from A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada in Washington D.C. For many years, he was serving as a pujari at the temple and was regularly going out on Harinama Sankirtana and book distribution in that area.)
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Lecture on Appearance Day of Lalita Sakhi by HH Bhurijana Prabhu on 25 Aug 2009
(HG Bhurijana Prabhu first meet Srila Prabhupada at 26 Second Ave, and was initiated by Srila Prabhupada in 1968. After preaching in Japan for about a year, in 1970 he opened ISKCON's first Hong Kong center.)
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Lecture on Lalita Astami by HH Indradyumna Swami on 03 Sep 2011 at Crotia
(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.)
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Lecture on Lalita Sasti by HH Bhakti Rasamrita Swami
(His Holiness Bhakti Rasamrita Swami completed his B.E. from M.S University Baroda, MBA from Bombay University & worked for some time in a multinational Bank.)
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Three kinds of happinesses, bhoga, tyaga, and bhakti, seva. Bhoga tyaga seva. The karmis, they are after bhoga, sense enjoyment. And the jnanis, they are after another side of negation of sense enjoyment. When one is fed up with sense enjoyment... Just like in your country, the young boys, they are practically fed up with the way of sense enjoyment as their fathers and grandfathers had done. So in the name of tyaga, renunciation, they have taken another kind of sense enjoyment -- intoxication, u
Hare Krishna.
When Guru Maharaj stayed with us last month he left a packet behind, it was already opened and when I took it out, it had neem twigs. I reminded him of the packet after 2 days and he said he deliberately left them as they were too hard for his gums. With a strange bit of coincidence I had received a mail mentioning Srila Prabhupada asking one of the devotees to get his some twigs from a tree during one of his pastimes in USA and spoke about using twigs from eucalyptus, mango and e
Lecture on Crossing the Ocean of Nescience by HH Giriraj Swami on 30 Aug 2013 at Silicon Valley
(In 1972 Giriraj 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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Seminar on The Preface to the Nectar of Instruction by HH Bhakti Vikasa Swami
(From 1977 to 1979 His Holiness was based in India, mostly traveling in West Bengal preaching Krishna consciousness and distributing Srila Prabhupada's books.
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Hare Krsna
Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada
Once a sadhu was sitting on the bank of a river. He had just finished taking his meals and he wanted to have a tiny nap. Just as he was about to doze off, he saw a washerman walking down the bank, in his direction leading two donkeys loaded with dirty clothes. The sadhu thought, "Oh, I hope he doesn't come here. I am in no mood for small talk.. and he must smell awful. All those dirty clothes, those dirty donkeys." But t
Hare Krsna
Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada
