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Turkmen Lecture on Four Miseries of Material Life: Birth, Disease, Old Age and Death by Bhaktin Maral

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English Lecture on Time by HG Kripasindhu Prabhu

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Marathi Lecture on Purna Purushottama Bhagavan Sri Krishna va Anya Devi Devata by HG Vasudev Nagesh Prabhu

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THE DISCIPLIC SUCCESSION

Guru Parampara


Evam parampara-praptam imam rajarsayo viduh (Bhagavad-gita, 4.2).

This Bhagavad-gita As It Is is received through this disciplic succession:


1) Krsna

2) Brahma

3) Narada

4) Vyasa

5) Madhva

6) Padmanabha

7) Nrhari

8) Madhava

9) Aksobhya

10) Jaya Tirtha

11) Jnanasindhu

12) Dayanidhi

13) Vidyanidhi

14) Rajendra

15) Jayadharma

16) Purusottama

17) Brahmanya Tirtha

18) Vyasa Tirtha

19) Laksmipati

20) Madhavendra Puri

21) Isvara Puri, (Nityananda, Advaita)

22) Lord Caitanya

23) Rupa, (S

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Last Friday, our traveling sankirtan party visited North Carolina State University, in Raleigh, and the devotees felt very well received.


In the beginning of the day, I met a person who told me that the next day there would be an event called Yogafest at a conference center on campus


I looked up the event online and called the organizer. I told him that I am a Vedic monk who travel all over the United States distributing the original yoga texts like Bhagavad Gita, Puranas and Upanisads. He had

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1975 Conversations and Morning Walks

My Guru Mahārāja passed in 1936, and I started this movement in 1965, thirty years after. Then? I am getting the mercy of guru. This is vāṇī. Even the guru is not physically present, if you follow the vāṇī, then you are getting help.
Morning Walk -- July 21, 1975, San Francisco:

Sudāmā: ...Prabhupāda, either of those associations, which is the highest?

Prabhupāda: Both are equal.

Sudāmā: Both are equal?

Prabhupāda: You have to associate with both. Guru-kṛṣṇa-kṛpāya

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“G u r u    m u k h a     p a d m a    v a k y a"

 

Be a good example for others to follow.......................Nectarean Mellows

 

The Lord descends into the world in so many avatars or incarnations. He comes as son, Prophet, his dear pure devotees. Why? What does the Lord have to do with this world? He comes out of compassion, to re-establish the truth, to annihilate miscreants and to protect and enlighten people and bring people back to His eternal loving service. They may see saints, they are

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Try to Become Immortal

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

Try to Become Immortal

Is immortality a real possibility, or simply utopian nonsense?

Adapted from a lecture given in London on August 22, 1973

nasato vidyate bhavo
nabhavo vidyate satah
ubhayor api drsto 'ntas
tv anayos tattva-darsibhih

"Those who are seers of the truth have concluded that of the nonexistent [the material body] there is no endurance and of the eternal [the soul] there is no cha

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Mercy From the Highest Court

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

 Los Angeles ‐ December 3, 1973:

Krsna dispenses reward and punishment with perfect fairness.

prayenaitad bhagavata
isvarasya vicestitam
mitho nighnanti bhutani
bhavayanti ca yan mithah

"Factually this is all due to the supreme will of the Lord, the Personality of Godhead. Sometimes people kill one another, and at other times they protect one another." Srimad-Bhagavatam 1.

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Bhaj Govindam - Adi Shankaracharya

Adi Shankara
Adi Shankara
Bhaja Govindam
Bhaja Govindaṁ



A Hymn to Govinda - Krishna
by Sripad Shankaracharya


Govinda
Govinda

भजगोविन्दं भजगोविन्दं
गोविन्दं भजमूढमते .
संप्राप्ते सन्निहिते काले
नहि नहि रक्षति डुकृञ्करणे .. १..
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bhajagovindaṁ bhajagovindaṁ  
govindaṁ bhajamūḍhamate |
samprāpte sannihite kāle
nahi nahi rakśati ḍukṛñkaraṇe || 1
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Worship Govinda, Worship Govinda, Worship Govinda. Oh fool! Rules of Grammar will not save you at the time of your death.


मूढ जहीहि धनागमतृष्णां
कुरु सद्बुद्धिं मनसि वितृष
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Srila Prabhupada's Jaladuta Ticket

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Here is one interesting conversation about our Srila Prabhupada's Jaladuta Journey:

KRISHNA WAS ROWING MY BOAT:
Trivikrama: Then you had a dream?
Prabhupada: Hmm.
Hari-sauri: What was that, Srila Prabhupada?
Prabhupada: That is...(laughs) The dream was I must come here.
Hari-sauri: It was some instruction that you got?
Prabhupada: The dream was that Krsna in His many forms was bowing the row. What is called?
Hari-sauri: Rowing the boat.
Prabhupada: Yes.
[S.P. Room Conversation, June 8, 1976, L
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Thought Of The Day

So Krsna comes. Yada yada hi dharmasya glanir bhavati bharata, tadatmanam srjamy aham [Bg. 4.7]. This is the process. Every living entity is part and parcel of Krsna. He belongs to the Krsna's family. Krsna's family. This is our original position. Vrndavana means whole Krsna's family. Even the birds, beast, trees, plants, water -- all belong to the Krsna's family. Advaya-jnana. Therefore anything in Vrndavana is as good as Krsna. Even the dust of Vrndavana is as good as Krsna. This is the philos

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Bhagavad-gita As It Is - Bg. 4.2

TEXT 2

evam parampara-praptam
imam rajarsayo viduh
sa kaleneha mahata
yogo nastah parantapa

 

SYNONYMS

evam--thus; parampara--disciplic succession; praptam--received; imam--this science; raja-rsayah--the saintly kings; viduh--understood; sah--that knowledge; kalena--in the course of time; iha--in this world; mahata--by great; yogah--the science of one's relationship with the Supreme; nastah--scattered; parantapa--O Arjuna, subduer of the enemies.

 

TRANSLATION

This supreme science was thus received thr

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Life Without Meaningless Work

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

A lecture given in Vrndavana, India, on November 3, 1976

putrams ca sisyams ca nrpo gurur va
mal-loka-kamo mad-anugraharthah
ittham vimanyur anusisyad ataj-jnan
na yojayet karmasu karma-mudhan
kam yojayan manujo 'rtham labheta
nipatayan nasta-drsam hi garte

TRANSLATION: If one is serious about going back home, back to Godhead, then he must consider the mercy of the Supreme

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The Missing Technology

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

by His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

 Massachusetts Institute of Technology,

Boston – May 5, 1968

The Krsna consciousness movement
teaches a science missing from the classrooms
of even the world's best universities.

om ajnana-timirandhasya
jnananjana-salakaya
caksur unmilitam yena
tasmai sri-gurave namah

"I offer my respectful obeisances unto my spiritual master, who with the torchlight of knowledge has opened

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The Science Of Knowing God

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

by His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

Los Angeles August 23, 1972

To understand God one must first come to the enlivened state of
liberation, free from the influence of the material modes of nature.

evam prasanna-manaso
bhagavad-bhakti-yogatah
bhagavat-tattva-vijnanam
mukta-sangasya jayate

"Thus established in the mode of unalloyed goodness, the man whose mind has been enlivened by contact with devotional serv

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2514907664?profile=originalSeminar on The Internal Reasons for Lord Caitanya's Appearance by HH Prahladananda Swami

(HH 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.)

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Seminar on Grihasthi Dharama

2514907655?profile=originalSeminar on Grihasthi Dharama by HH Radha Govinda Swami

(H.H. Radha Govinda Swami, a direct disciple of His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, founder of ISKCON lives in Vrindavan, India. He lives in Vrindavan, and travels to present Srimad Bhagavat Saptha in many countries including India.)

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2514907702?profile=originalLecture on Victory on the Inner Battlefield by HH Sachinanadana Swami

(H.H. Sacinandana Swami left home only 16 years old to meet devotees and to become a disciple of Srila Prabhupada in 1971. Maharaja’s first years in ISKCON were spent by translating Srila Prabhupada’s books from English to German and later he joined the book distribution party in Germany. )

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A brand new deluxe limited edition of Srila Prabhupada’s Bhagavad-gita As It Is promises to be the kind of collector’s item that is treasured as a family heirloom for generations.

2514907626?profile=originalThe Deluxe Bhagavad-gita As It Is

Truly a feast for the eyes, the new book comes from the Mediterranean division of the Bhaktivedanta Book Trust, which previously brought us luxury coffee table books like Krishna Art, Darshan, Art of Transcendence, and Prabhupada.

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Seminar on Holy Name

2514906166?profile=originalSeminar on Holy Name by HH Vedavyasapriya Swami

(His Holiness 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, the Founder-Acharya of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON).)

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Sri Sri Radha Vrajasundara, ISKCON Villa Vrindavana


On July 13th and 14th, five to seven hundred devotees from all over Italy and beyond are expected at Villa Vrindavana to attend the 30th anniversary of Sri Sri Radha Vrajasundara’s installation. The weekend festival will begin with a fire sacrifice on Saturday afternoon to create auspiciousness. Next there will be the inauguration of the Villa Vrindavana branch of MOSA (Museum of Sacred Arts), which was originally established in Radhadesh, Belgium.


Saturday’s opening will be a special event

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