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Relief from misery

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

In this material world, everyone is trying to search out happiness and get relief from misery. There are three kinds of miseries caused by our material condition: adhyatmika, adhibhautika, and adhidaivika. 

Adhyatmika miseries are those caused by the body and mind themselves. For example, when there is some dis-arrangement of the different functions of metabolism within the body, we get a fever or some pain. Another kind

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Work with transcendental results

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The learned sages inform us that one takes his birth in India, the holy land of Bharata-varsa, after the gradual process of evolution through 8,400,000 species of life, including 900,000 aquatic species, 2,000,000 nonmoving species such as vegetables and hills, 1,100,000 germ and insect species, 1,000,000 bird species, 3,000,000 lower-animal species, and 400,000 human species. The living spirit transmigrates from one spe

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Understanding the Absolute Truth

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Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

At present, we are concerned primarily with two things: one, ourselves; and the other, the place where we live. In other words, we are concerned with two objects: namely, everything that is related to our gross and subtle bodies; and the world at large, with all its paraphernalia. But there are others above us, the transcendentalists, who are concerned not only with their body and mind and the world at large, but also wi

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Throughway to Happiness

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

Every one of us is searching after happiness, but we do not know what real happiness is. We see so much advertised about happiness, but practically speaking we see so few happy people. This is because so few people know that the platform of real happiness is beyond temporary things. It is this real happiness that is described in Bhagavad-gita by Lord Krishna to Arjuna.

Happiness is generally perceived through our senses A

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Krishna means the highest pleasure

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Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

Krishna—this sound is transcendental. Krishna means the highest pleasure. All of us, every living being, seeks pleasure. But we do not know how to seek pleasure perfectly. With a materialistic concept of life, we are frustrated at every step in satisfying our pleasure because we have no information regarding the real level on which to have real pleasure.

We have to understand the fact that, we are not this body; we are co

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Thought Of The Day

So we got this human form of life, we could..., we are advanced in consciousness, and if we increase this consciousness to the ultimate goal, Krsna consciousness, then our life is successful. And if we could not do it -- we remain in the same cats and dogs consciousness, kamaturam... Just like a dog is lusty dog, one dog, one female dog, and dozen of dogs is after her... You have seen nature's instruction. So that is krpana life. We should not spoil our life by becoming a krpana. This Krsna cons

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

Be motivated by your own inherent nature.......................Nectarean Mellows

What is our motivation? One time I was in a college. It was a college (hostel) of students training to be chartered accountants, here in Bombay. And you know how Bombay students can be, very challenging. Yes? So one student, after my talk, he raised his hand and said, “What would happen if everyone became a swami like you? Who would grow the food? Who will defend the c

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Our Happiness Is Krsna

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

A.C.Swami Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

Material life means struggling to find happiness, 
but people don't know where to look.

A lecture given in Los Angeles, on September 28, 1972

This issue of Back to Godhead coincides with Janmastami, the anniversary of Lord Krsna's appearance, so we've selected a lecture in which Srila Prabhupada discusses Lord Krsna's appearance and activities. All Hare Krsna centers ho

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How to Approach a Spritiual Master

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

Lord Krsna gives three requirements for one seeking 
enlightenment from a self-realized soul.

A lecture given in New York on August 14, 1966

tad viddhi pranipatena
pariprasnena sevaya
upadeksyanti te jnanam
jnaninas tattva-darsinah

Srila Prabhupada

Just try to learn the truth by approaching a spiritual master. Inquire from him submissively and render service unto him. The self-realized soul

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Srimad Bhagavatam Class

2514907590?profile=originalLecture on Srimad Bhagavatam Canto - 05 Chapter - 19 Text - 06 by HH Gopal Krishna Goswami

(In 1981 Gopal Krishna Goswami took sannyasa initiation and began to extend his travels to spread Krishna consciousness more widely in parts of the USA, Canada and eventually in parts of Africa. )

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Womens of the Society

2514907644?profile=originalLecture on Womens of the Society by HG Sesa Prabhu on 03 January 2013

(Sesa Dasa joined ISKCON in 1973 inspired by the political activism of the In God We Trust Party for Purified Leaders, organized by members of ISKCON.He was initiated by Srila Prabhupada in 1974 while he was traveling as a member of the initial Bhaktivedanta Book Trust library party.)

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Seminar on Grhamedhis

2514907681?profile=originalLecture on Grhamedhis by HH Bhakti Caitanya Swami

(Originally from New Zealand, Bhakti Caitanya Swami joined the Hare Krishna movement in London, early in 1973. Almost a year before, as a philosophy student at Auckland University, he had first seen his future spiritual master walking across the campus with his followers. Srila Prabhupada initiated Bhakti Caitanya Swami later in 1973, giving him the name Raghubir Dasa. )

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Bad Qualities of Kaliyuga

2514907673?profile=originalLecture on Bad Qualities of kaliyuga by HH Bhakti Vikasa Swami on 02 June 2009
(Srimad Bhagavatam - Canto 01)

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

http://www.iskcondesiretree.net/video/turkmen-lecture-on-four-miseries-of-material-life-birth-disease

 

English Lecture on Time by HG Kripasindhu Prabhu

http://www.iskcondesiretree.net/video/english-lecture-on-time-by-hg-kripasindhu-prabhu

 

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

http://www.iskcondesiretree.net/video/marathi-l

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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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