Seminar on Prabhupada Katha by HH Giriraj Swami
(HH Giriraj Swami quickly became a leading member of the Boston center, and he was soon given the opportunity to go to India with Srila Prabhupada and helped establish Prabhupada’s mission there. )
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Seminar on Hopes and Horrors of Household Life by HH Jayadvaita Swami
(HH Jayadvaita Swami is editor, publisher, and teacher. He served as an editor or assistant editor for nearly all the books of Srila Prabhupada published during Srila Prabhupada’s lifetime. He received initiation from Srila Prabhupada in 1968, at the age of nineteen. )
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Seminar on Relationships by HH Bhakti Vidya Purna Swami
(HH Bhakti Vidya Purna Swami He is Principal of Sri Rupanuga Paramarthika Vidyapitha, ISKCON Mayapur. He trains gurukul kids to be perfect vaishnavas. He specially trains them in conducting vedic yagyas.)
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Seminar on Brahminical Culture by HH Bhakti Chaitanya Swami
(HH 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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TEXT 38
dhumenavriyate vahnir
yathadarso malena ca
yatholbenavrto garbhas
tatha tenedam avrtam
SYNONYMS
dhumena--by smoke; avriyate--covered; vahnih--fire; yatha--just as; adarsah--mirror; malena--by dust; ca--also; yatha--just as; ulbena--by the womb; avrtah--is covered; garbhah--embryo; tatha--so; tena--by that lust; idam--this; avrtam--is covered.
TRANSLATION
As fire is covered by smoke, as a mirror is covered by dust, or as the embryo is covered by the womb, similarly, the living entity is cove
Why do we hesitate to tell a new comer who is searching for a guru that Srila Prabhupada, the best guru the world has ever seen, is still here, and one can surrender unto him and go back to Godhead very easily? When we have such a great good fortune, why do we not take full advantage of it?
If we really love ISKCON and if we sincerely want the Krsna Consciousness movement to spread all over the world in every town and village, then let us broadcast all over the world that Srila Prabhupada is stil
Pisaci, ghost-haunted. A man is ghost-haunted; he speaks all nonsense. So in this age, Kali-yuga, they are mostly like that. They speak all nonsense. So we should be careful not to accept their proposal. We shall stick to Krsna consciousness. We shall accept what Krsna says and reject everything. Then we'll be saved.
By H.D.G. Srila Prabhupada
“G u r u m u k h a p a d m a v a k y a"
How to make your work worship.......................Nectarean Mellows
Arjuna, in the first chapter of Srimad Bhagavad-Gita, was speaking in a pseudo-spiritual way, that ‘there is too much confusion in fighting this war so I am not going to fight. Krishna, my charioteer, I am not going to fight. I am going to become a real saint and just practice meditation, whatever’. And the whole Bhagavad-Gita was to teach Arjuna, ‘you must perform your duty but
After many years of hard work and struggle, devotees in Buenos Aires, the capital city of Argentina, are seeing their efforts pay off as Krishna Consciousness reaches a mainstream audience.
Just one example of this is the December issue of the very popular New Age/religious magazine Uno Mismo. Featured on its cover, in saffron robes and bright Vaishnava tilak, is spiritual leader Gunagrahi Das Goswami, who came to assist ISKCON Argentina in 1996. Roughly translated from the Spanish, the tag l
Maan Sarovara
Maan means anger this place is called maan sarovara because Srimati Radha Rani came here in the mood of Maan. Maan is when Radharani acts angry and feels hurt because of Krishna’s neglect. There is temple on the bank of this lake dedicated to Srimati Radharani. Lord Shiva bathed here to take the form of a Gopi. Maan Sarovara is located in a peaceful place, totally surrounded by woods. Not many people visits this place and untill you get fairly close to this place most people wil
Lecture on Disappearance Day of Sri Abhirama Thakura by HG Madhavananda Prabhu on 13 April 2012
(HG Madhavananda Das, joined ISKCON in Los Angeles in 1982. He moved to Bhubaneswar Orissa in 1993 where he has been living since. He was instructed by Sri Srimad Gour Govinda Swami Maharaj to edit his lectures into publications.)
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Sunday Feast Lecture on Minimizing Losses Maximzing Gains by HH Giriraj Swami at ISKCON Dallas on 21 April 2013
(In the year following Srila Prabhupada’s departure in 1977, Giriraj Swami was awarded the renounced order of life and appointed president of ISKCON’s board of trustees in India. In 1982 he was appointed to ISKCON’s Governing Body Commission, and he went on to oversee the Society’s activities in Bombay, Mauritius, South Africa, Spain, Portugal, Sri Lanka, and Pakistan.)
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Lecture on The Society should be organised on the principles of Religion by HH Devamrita Swami at ISKCON Melbourne on 26 April 2013
(Srimad Bhagavatam Canto 01, Chapter 17, Text 43-44)
(Praying to the temple Deities, Sri Sri Radha Govinda, that They cut the knot of his material entanglements, Devamrita Swami became a full-time staff member of the temple in March, 1973. Initiated by Srila Prabhupada in January 1974, he spent several years traveling throughout the USA distributing the literature t
Lecture on Who is Vaishnava by HH Bhakti Vikas Swami on 01 March 2013
(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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We go here and there for fulfilling our desire, but if we are fully surrendered to Krsna, all our desires will be fulfilled sitting at home. We haven't got to go here and there. Therefore it is said, surataror iva te prasadah. And how it is? Sevanurupa. This is... This is the secret. If you are engaged cent percent in service, sevanu..., anurupam. It is proportion to your service. You cannot order Krsna, "Give me this." That is not possible. He is not your servant. Krsna cannot become anyone's s
“G u r u m u k h a p a d m a v a k y a"
Give priority to spiritual life.......................Nectarean Mellows
Similarly, Lord Jesus…he said if you love anyone more than you love God then you are not really a devotee of God. …the treasures of this world, he said, will be eaten by moths, rusted, corroded by rust and stolen by thieves. ‘Make your treasure in the Kingdom of God because there it will be permanent’. There is no rust, moths or thieves. Lord Chaitanya tested Prataparudra Mahar
Seminar on Devotee Relationship by HG Sankarsana Prabhu at ISKCON Phoenix on 06 June 2010
(HG Sankarsana Prabhu fully dedicated his life for serving the order of his spiritual master to become a guru and deliver the world. For the last 40 years he has uninterruptedly served his spiritual master’s movement, the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), in various capacities.)
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Seminar on 26 qualities of a Devotee by HH Mukunda Goswami
(HH Mukunda Goswami has published many articles and lectured worldwide and is the author of Miracle on Second Avenue: Hare Krishna Arrives in New York, San Francisco, and London 1966-1969, Inside the Hare Krishna Movement: An Ancient Eastern Religious Tradition Comes of Age in the Western World.)
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Srimad Bhagavatam Class by HH Kadamba Kanana Swami at ISKOCN Radhadesh on 26 April 2013
(Srimad Bhagavatam Canto 05 Chapter 19 Text 16-18)
(HH Kadamba Kanana Swami coordinated the construction of Srila Prabhupada’s samadhi in Mayapur. He took sannyasa in 1997 and is now an initiating guru.)
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