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Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

"Do not listen to mundane prattle and do not waste your time in frivolous discussions. Why eat to titillate the palate and maintain the body lavishly with luxurious amenities? Do not hanker for esteem and respect, but offer respects to everyone. Take shelter of the holy name of Krsna and chant constantly. Serve Srimati Radharani and Sri Krsna in the mood of Vraja in the core of your heart."

The Lord's unequivocal instruct

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

A true Krishna-bhakta is one who has taken total shelter in Bhagavan Sri Krishna . By doing constant *Nama-japam* ,  he cleanses self and connects with Bhagavan.Naturally, all his actions are his offerings to Krishna. Bhagavan protects such a Bhakta and showers him with eternal success.

The so called "Modern" Indians may rubbish such a Bhakta as "Communal" or "Superstitious". To them, any thing not fitting with their psue

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

A couple bought a donkey from the market. On the way home, a boy commented, "Very stupid. Why neither of them rides on the donkey?" Upon hearing that, the husband let the wife ride on the donkey.

He walked besides them. Later, an old man saw it and commented, "The husband is the head of family. How can the wife ride on the donkey while the husband is on foot?"

Hearing this, the wife quickly got down and let the husband rid

Srila Prabhupada & George Harrison

Bhaktivedanta Manor, July 26, 1976

(Prabhupäda is very hoarse)

George Harrison: How do you feel?

Prabhupäda: I have old man's disease, cough and cold, so coughing. But still, work is going on, and I shall complete eighty years this month. September, eighty-one. So now, due to age, it is becoming little difficult.

George Harrison: Yes.

Prabhupäda: Anyway, by the grace of Kåñëa.... So how are you?

George Harrison: Quite good.

Prabhupäda: Chanting is going on?

George Harr

Srila Prabhupada & George Harrison

(and the Shankars)

Bhaktivedanta Manor, August 27, 1973

Devotee (4): (arrival of prasädam) That’s Revaténandana Mahäräja.

Prabhupäda: So Revaténandana Mahäräja, what you have done? (laughter)

Revaténandana: You’ll have to taste it.

Prabhupäda: Which one? Which preparation you have made?

Çyämasundara: All are his.

Prabhupäda: All? Everything?

Çyämasundara: Everything except the puris.

Prabhupäda: The samosa also yours? Ohhh. (light laughter) Very good. Now, begin. Prasäda

Srila Prabhupada & George Harrison

(and the Shankars)

Bhaktivedanta Manor, August 27, 1973

Çyämasundara: Can we play the tapes?

Prabhupäda: What?

Çyämasundara: George has brought a tape of those songs like Jaya Jagadéça Hare...

Prabhupäda: Oh.

Çyämasundara: ...other songs that they made...

Prabhupäda: Yes.

Çyämasundara: ...with Ravi.

Prabhupäda: Oh, yes? (Hindi exchange while waiting for tape to play)

(first song – Jaya Jagadéça Hare – about 4 minutes.)

Prabhupäda: Jaya Jagadéça Hare. Very nice.

Çyämasundara

Srila Prabhupada & George Harrison

Bhaktivedanta Manor, July 26, 1976

George Harrison: Are you ever going to stop traveling?

Prabhupäda: That is Kåñëa's desire. I don't want, personally, but if Kåñëa wants, that is everything. We have got more hundred and two centers, different parts of the world.

George Harrison: Still six more to go.

Prabhupäda: Yes. (laughter) We have got a very nice house in Detroit. If you sometimes go there...

George Harrison: Whereabouts?

Prabhupäda: Detroit.

George Harrison: Ah,

Srila Prabhupada & George Harrison

Bhaktivedanta Manor, July 26, 1976

Prabhupäda: No. Now we can begin.

George Harrison: Okay, Hare Kåñëa.

Gurudäsa: Nimbu-päni?

Prabhupäda: Hare Kåñëa. You give him two more samosas, he likes it. So now you can begin also. Yes. All the boys and girls are so nicely qualified for Kåñëa's service.

George Harrison: They are looking better and better all the time. It's nice for me to see Gurudäsa. He's turning into a mountain. (laughter)

Prabhupäda: His wife has also sannyä

Srila Prabhupada & George Harrison

(and the Shankars)

Bhaktivedanta Manor, August 27, 1973

Prabhupäda: ...big, big palace(?).

George Harrison: Yeah. Uhh, this is Laksmi Shankar, Viji Shankar, and Sooma Shankar...

Prabhupäda: I see.

George Harrison: ...and Dori.

Prabhupäda: (brief Hindi exchange with Shankars) So, you’re keeping all right, healthy?

George Harrison: Just about.

Prabhupäda:

ätmänaà sarvato rakñet

tato dharmaà tato dhanam

ätmänaà vikåti sati

tato kutaà tato dharmam

Atma means the body, mind or

George Harrison & Srila Prabhupada

Bhaktivedanta Manor, August 22, 1973

Prabhupäda:  This prasädam for your wife.  You take it.

George:  Okay. Jaya.

Revaténandana:  In another five years what?

George:  But in another five... It's like a snowball, the effect, you know.  It's getting bigger all the time.  And in the next five years I'm sure it's going to double.  Just more.  I mean it's going to have done more in five years than it has in the last, probably two hundred years.

Prabhupäda:  One Japanese g

George Harrison & Srila Prabhupada

Bhaktivedanta Manor, August 22, 1973

Devotee:  Come see the statue, George.

(Inaudible)

Prabhupäda:  Oh, you have not seen my room?  Your house, my room.

George:  Kåñëa’s house.

(George Harrison and Çyämasundara are looking at Çréla Prabhupäda's room after prasädam and talking in background)

Prabhupäda:  It doesn't matter. 

Revaténandana:  I think it might.

Prabhupäda:  And dahi also.

Revaténandana:  Yes.  Everything from the cow.

Prabhupäda:  Hm?

Revaténandana:  The cow. 

George Harrison & Srila Prabhupada

Bhaktivedanta Manor, August 22, 1973

Prabhupäda:  Now, take first of all prasädam.

Revaténandana:  This is sour cream.  I hear you like with your samosä some sour cream.

Çyämasundara: Revaténandana fixed you a feast.

Prabhupäda:  You take, you take.

Çyämasundara: They are bringing for us.

Revaténandana:  They’re bringing more.

Prabhupäda:  Hmm.  Nice.

Revaténandana:  Is it all right?  Really?  You just taught me yesterday how to perfect these and I tried to do it.

Georg

George Harrison & Srila Prabhupada

Bhaktivedanta Manor, August 22, 1973

George:  We’ve just been making some music in California and one of the songs which, ah, it's Ravi Shankar’s music.  But one of the songs is withVedic, based on the Vedic thing is jaya jagadéça hare, which is the tenavatäras of Viñëu.

Prabhupäda:   Oh yes.  Keçava dhåta mina çaréra jaya jagadéça hare.

George:  Beautiful song.  But I was wondering during that song, finding out the ten incarnations as the turtle and the midget and

George Harrison & Srila Prabhupada

Bhaktivedanta Manor, August 22, 1973

George:  There is one sort of problem in a way, that I found when chanting all the time, and that was that I start being able to relate less and less to all the people I know.  I mean then it’s, there’s only times when I see people like Çyämasundara or just a few people.  Then, that’s okay, but most of the other people... I suddenly found myself on such a different level that it’s hard to relate and then it's like it feels as

George Harrison & Srila Prabhupada

Bhaktivedanta Manor, August 22, 1973

Çréla Prabhupäda:  ...in your house?

George Harrison:  Yes.

Prabhupäda:  The first time you are seeing? (Laughs)

George:  Yes.  I’ve just seen the photographs before.  We saw many places which didn’t turn out to be the one.

Prabhupäda:  This village is also nice.  I am walking daily, morning.

George:  It’s perfect.

Prabhupäda:  One priest came?

Çyämasundara:  Today?  A priest?  Ah, ( laughs )

Prabhupäda:  Yes.  With a girl friend. (

TEXT 40

ajnas casraddadhanas ca
samsayatma vinasyati
nayam loko 'sti na paro
na sukham samsayatmanah

SYNONYMS

ajnah--fools who have no knowledge in standard scriptures; ca--and; asraddadhanah--without faith in revealed scriptures; ca--also; samsaya--doubts; atma--a person; vinasyati--falls back; na--never; ayam--this; lokah--world; asti--there is; na--neither; parah--next life; na--not; sukham--happiness; samsaya--doubtful; atmanah--of the person.

TRANSLATION

But ignorant and faithless persons who

So one should not think that "Now I am materially happy. My all distress, my all poverty, has gone by Krsna, by devotional service of Krsna," or "I have become liberated." No. These are by-products. To become liberated and to become materially happy by prosecution of Krsna consciousness is a by-product. You have to attempt further thing. And what is that? Prema-sukha-bhoga: you shall be absorbed in love of Krsna.

By H.D.G.Srila Prabhupada

Lecture on Avoid Stereotype Life by Tribhuvanath Prabhu

(Tribhuvanath Prabhu, a disciple of Srila Prabhupada appeared in 1952 in Longford, Ireland as Thomas Kevin Heggarty. Within a short time of reading Prabhupada's books, he moved into the temple in late 1968 making him one of the first devotees made in the UK.)

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