Battlefield Bhajans Vol. 13

Dedicated to HDG A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

Since the end of this deployment is near, the time of family issues usually come out now. While most are happy to be going home, others are scared. Their marriages have drifted apart and they are finding it hard to accept the realities that await them on the home front. One on my soldiers, came and found me the other night in hysteria. He was crying and explained to me that he was thinking of killing himself and ha

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

by His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda
Los Angeles, December 4, 1968

Prabhupāda: Govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi **. (three times with devotees responding)

cintāmaṇi-prakara-sadmasu kalpa-vṛkṣa-lakṣāvṛteṣu surabhīr abhipālayantam lakṣmī-sahasra-śata-sambhrama-sevyamānaṁ govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmigovindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi [Bs. 5.29]

(three times with devotees responding) Thank yo

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

Srimad-Bhagavatam 2.9.3 --Melbourne, April 5, 1972

Prabhupada: ... We have to keep some cows. Never mind we are totake payment from others. That is not cow protection. Cow protection meansjust like Bhagavan, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, He is tending thecows. He is going, taking the cows personally from His royal palace going tothe forest whole day, working there. Is it not, cowherds boy? And taken somelittle fruit

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Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

Srimad-Bhagavatam 1.16.1 -- Los Angeles, December 29, 1973

So similarly, vaisya. Vaisya, they should be trained in three things, productive -- krsi-go-raksya-vanijyam vaisya-karma svabhava-jam [Bg. 18.44] -- krsi, agriculture; go-raksya, cow protection. Go-raksya. That is essential, agricultural and cow protection. And vanijyam. Vanijyam means trade. If there is excess milk product, if there is excess grain product, then

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Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

Srimad-Bhagavatam 10.6.19 Purport

There are so many facilities afforded by cow protection, but people have forgotten these arts. The importance of protecting cows is therefore stressed by Krsna in Bhagavad-gita (krsi-go-raksya-vanijyam vaisya-karma svabhavajam [Bg. 18.44]). Even now in the Indian villages surrounding Vrndavana, the villagers live happily simply by giving protection to the cow. They keep cow dung very care

Lecture on Why women in ISKCON are obliged to overdress? by Hh Sivarama Swami on 13 Oct 2010

(Sivarama Swami was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1949. In 1956, during the failed Hungarian revolution, he emigrated with his family to Canada. Sivarama Swami first came in contact with the books of A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada in 1970, becoming an initiated disciple of Prabhupada in 1973. )

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Lecture on The Importance Of Chastity by HH Radhanath Swami on 06 May 1991 at Mumbai
(Srimad Bhagavatam - Canto 09 Chapter 10 Text 24-27)

(In 1979, he left his pujari service and caring for cows at the farming community to pioneer educational programs in colleges and universities in the United States.Radhanath Swami took the vows of sannyasa in 1986 and returned to India.)

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Lecture on Were Women exploited in the Vedic Culture? by HH Bhakti Vikasa Swami
(Srimad Bhagavatam - Canto 03 Chapter 24 Text 14)

(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 Be Engaged In Krishna Consciousness Performing Your Prescribed Duties by HH Prahladananada Swami on 14 May 1994
(Srimad Bhagavatam - Canto 07 Chapter 10 Text 23)

(Prahladananda Swami was born in 1949, in Buffallo, New York. He studied at the University of Buffalo, where he received a full scholarship. In January 1969 he joined ISKCON and received both initiations that year from Srila Prabhupada. He helped open temples and distributed Srila Prabhpada's books and preached in universitie

Lecture on Terrorism Why and What to do by HH Bhakti Vikasa Swami on 30 April 2013 at Salem

(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 7

yada yada hi dharmasya
glanir bhavati bharata
abhyutthanam adharmasya
tadatmanam srjamy aham

SYNONYMS

yada--whenever; yada--wherever; hi--certainly; dharmasya--of religion; glanih--discrepancies; bhavati--manifested, becomes; bharata--O descendant of Bharata; abhyutthanam--predominance; adharmasya--of irreligion; tada--at that time; atmanam--self; srjami--manifest; aham--I.

TRANSLATION

Whenever and wherever there is a decline in religious practice, O descendant of Bharata, and a predominant

Sunday Love Feast Lecture on Worlds leaders are dogs hogs Camels and Asses by HG Sankarsana Das Adhikari Prabhu on 20 Nov 2011 at Pune

(In the year 2000, in recognition for his full dedication to Srila Prabhupada’s mission, ISKCON’s Governing Body Commission (GBC) gave him their blessings to initiate disciples.)

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Lecture on The Weakness of Material Life by HH Bhakti Caitanya Swami on 19 March 2013 at Singapore
(Srimad Bhagavatam - Canto 01 Chapter 02 Text 10)

(Bhakti Caitanya Swami initially served in the Bhaktivedanta Book Trust and also distributed Srila Prabhupada’s books from 1973 until 1980.Then Bhakti Caitanya Swami moved to South Africa, where, from 1980 to 1982, he served as temple president in the rural community of Cato Ridge.)

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So if you want to be peaceful, happy, you have to again bring in the Vedic culture, simple life and high thinking. That is wanted. If you introduce more and more anarthas only, unwanted things, how you can be happy? We have to minimize even whatever we absolutely require. Absolutely we require ahara-nidra-bhaya-maithunam ca. It has to be curtailed. That is civilization, not that increasing. This is a misguiding civilization. Andha yathandhair upaniyamanah [SB 7.5.31]. This is a civilization wher

The below is a beautiful demonstration as to why we keep on passing out these wonderful books; the real nutrition for the heart of a preacher.

The below is also an indication of the fact that we need to take exellent care of these wonderful spirit souls whom we have brought to the bright daylight of Krishna consciousness from the dense darkness of the age of Kali.

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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

he Lone Ranger and Tonto went camping in the desert. After they got their tent all set up, both men fell sound asleep. 

Some hours later, Tonto wakes the Lone Ranger and says, 'look towards sky, what you see?' 

'The Lone Ranger replies, 'I see millions of stars.' 

'What does it convey?' asked Tonto. 

The Lone Ranger ponders for a minute then says, 'Astronomically speaking, it tells me there are millions of galaxies and poten

SB 3.30.10

arthair āpāditair gurvyā

hiḿsayetas-tataś ca tān

puṣṇāti yeṣāḿ poṣeṇa

śeṣa-bhug yāty adhaḥ svayam

TRANSLATION
He secures money by committing violence here and there, and although he employs it in the service of his family, he himself eats only a little portion of the food thus purchased,and he goes to hell for those for whom he earned the money in such an irregular way.

PURPORT
There is a Bengali proverb, "The person for whom I have stolen accuses me of being a thief." The family members, for

Seminar on Gita Inspired Parenting by Urmila Mataji

(Her Grace Urmila Devi Dasi was born in 1955 in New York City. She joined ISKCON in 1973 in Chicago. She received first initiation in 1973 and second initiation in 1975 from His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada.)

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