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Anecdotes of His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakur Prabhupada, the exalted Spritiual Master of Srila A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

In Māyāpur, especially at the time of the international festivals, different disciples would take the service to guard Śrīla Prabhupāda’s door. Their function was mostly to screen potential visitors so that Śrīla Prabhupāda was not

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

Everyone in the material world is engaged in all kinds of political, philanthropic and humanitarian activities to make material life happy and prosperous, but this is not possible. One should understand that in the material world, however one may try to make adjustments, he cannot be happy. To cite an example, if you take a fish out of water, you can give it a very comfortable velvet bedstead, but still the fish cannot b

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You are falsely thinking "I am everything. I can, by technological understanding, improve the condition." But the real problem is, as it is put forward by Bhagavad-gita, janma-mrtyu-jara-vyadhi-duhkha-dosanudarsanam [Bg. 13.9]. We are eternal, na hanyate hanyamane sarire [Bg. 2.20]. We are put under the laws of material nature, by which we have to accept birth, death, old age and disease. This is our real problem. So unless you make a solution of these problems, there is actually no advancement

Lecture on Acceptance of Sannyasa by Srila Prabhupada by HH Gopal Krishna Goswami on 20 Sept 2013 at Yaroslavi

(After visiting the ISKCON temple in Montreal, Canada in September of 1967, Gopal Krishna Goswami yearned to meet a Vaishnava guru and got the opportunity to meet Srila Prabhupada there in 1968.)

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Lecture on Srimad Bhagavatam Class by Vedavyasapriya Swami on 01 Nov 2013 at ISKCON Melbourne
(Srimad Bhagavatam Canto 02, Chapter 04, Text 13)

(Vedavyasapriya Swami worked as a research biochemist first in East Africa and then later when he migrated to USA. Within a week of arrival in the USA, he met the devotees, disciples of His Divine Grace, A.C. Bhaktivedanta Srila Prabhupada)

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Lecture on Srila Prabhupada comes to America by Nirantara Prabhu

(In his spare time (when not going out for preaching) he composes and records original recordings of the Shrila Prabhupada's teachings of what he calls "Bhaktivedanta yoga" in western musical format using guitar, keyboard, and bass.)

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Lecture on Radharani Steals Krishnas Flute by HH Indradyumna Swami on 08 Nov 2013

(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. Each year Indradyumna Swami circles the globe teaching the message of the Bhagavad Gita and introducing people to kirtan chanting of the Hare Krishna maha mantra.)

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Lecture on Just Add Krishna and subtract sin by HG Urmila Mataji on 03 Oct 2013 at Hawaii

(HG Urmila Mataji has mainly served ISKCON since 1973 till the present time as book distributor, assistant secretary for the BBT, pujari, temple cook, actress, writer, traveling preacher, editor of BTG since 1990, primary and secondary teacher for 27 years, school principle for 18 years, member of Sastric Advisory Council to the GBC. )

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TEXT 14

daivi hy esa guna-mayi
mama maya duratyaya
mam eva ye prapadyante
mayam etam taranti te

SYNONYMS

daivi--transcendental; hi--certainly; esa--this; guna-mayi--consisting of the three modes of material nature; mama--My; maya--energy; duratyaya--very difficult to overcome; mam--unto Me; eva--certainly; ye--those; prapadyante--surrender; mayam etam--this illusory energy; taranti--overcome; te--they.

TRANSLATION

This divine energy of Mine, consisting of the three modes of material nature, is diff

Prabhupada: But if you don't follow the instruction in Bhagavad-gita directly or indirectly.... Krsna says sarva-dharman parityajya [Bg. 18.66], if you do not do that and because you may not understand Krsna.... But Krsna also says tad viddhi pranipatena... You do not go to a seer, then how you'll understand Krsna? You do not understand directly or indirectly. Then you are hopeless.

By H.D.G. Srila Prabhupada

Reading Sanskrit Improves Brain Functioning
by Brynne Sissom

The physiological effects of reading Sanskrit are
similar to those experienced during the Transcendental
Meditation® technique, according to research recently
completed by Dr. Fred Travis, director of the
ERG/psychophysiology lab of Maharishi University of
Management in Fairfield, Iowa, USA.

Dr. Travis asked his test subjects to read passages
from the Bhagavad-Gita in Sanskrit and in modern
foreign languages (Spanish, French, or Ge

TEXT 13

tribhir guna-mayair bhavair
ebhih sarvam idam jagat
mohitam nabhijanati
mam ebhyah param avyayam

SYNONYMS

tribhih--three; guna-mayaih--by the three gunas; bhavaih--state of being; ebhih--all these; sarvam--the whole world; idam--in this world; jagat--universe; mohitam--deluded; na abhijanati--do not know; mam--Me; ebhyah--above these; param--the Supreme; avyayam--inexhaustible.

TRANSLATION

Deluded by the three modes [goodness, passion and ignorance], the whole world does not know Me who am

Prabhupada: Surrender as He says, sarva-dharman... You have nothing to do. You have simply to do what Krsna says. That is surrender. You cannot reserve anything, that "I do it something for me and something for Krsna." That is not surrender. You have nothing to do except what Krsna says. That is surrender.

By H.D.G. Srila Prabhupada