Hare Krsna
Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada
Lecture on What Happens After Death by Jayapataka Swami
(Jayapataka Swami continues to contribute to Mayapur’s development as the International Headquarters of ISKCON by serving as a co-director. His service in Mayapur includes: Mayapur Development Committee member, Exhibits and Theme park Department Head of TOVP, and promotion of Sri Mayapur worldwide.)
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Lecture on How to Cultivate Humility and Gratitude by Kesava Bharati Das Goswami on 04 Dec 2011 at ISKCON London
(Kesava Bharati Das Goswami met his spiritual master, His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, the Founder of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) in 1972.)
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Lecture on Culture by Bhakti Marg Swami on 17 Apr 2011 at ISKCON Mauritius
(Bhakti Marga Swami served ISKCON as Bhakta Leader, Sankirtan Leader, Director of devotional plays, and from 1985-1995 he was the temple president in Toronto, where he took his vows of sannyasa in 1984.)
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Lecture on How to Become Intelligent by Bhakti Caitanya Swami
(Bhakti Caitanya Swami initially served in the Bhaktivedanta Book Trust and also distributed Srila Prabhupada’s books from 1973 until 1980.)
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Hare Krsna
Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada
Srila Guru Maharaj: This stage of feeling relaxed while doing japa is first stage of advancement. Because it means you are feeling very peaceful! Ha….. Snore…. Ha! Ha! Of course we would like to rise above that stage! To the stage when we feel very enthusiastic. I don’t know if you are getting enough sleep in the night. It is important to sleep 6 or 7 hours usually but some people don’t. But Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Tha
TEXT 16
kim karma kim akarmeti
kavayo 'py atra mohitah
tat te karma pravaksyami
yaj jnatva moksyase 'subhat
SYNONYMS
kim--what is; karma--action; kim--what is; akarma--inaction; iti--thus; kavayah--the intelligent; api--also; atra--in this matter; mohitah--bewildered; tat--that; te--unto you; karma--work; pravaksyami--I shall explain; yat--which; jnatva--knowing; moksyase--be liberated; asubhat--from ill fortune.
TRANSLATION
Even the intelligent are bewildered in determining what is action and what
So that is our real business. This requires little intelligence, that "We are eternal. Why we are put into this process of taking birth and death?" Krsna also says, "This is the real misery of life -- janma-mrtyu-jara-vyadhi-duhkha-dosanudarsanam [Bg. 13.9]." They are trying, the so-called scientists, trying to increase... If the scientists sees that a man was to die immediately -- now he has lived one hour more -- he thinks that his science is successful. That is their foolishness. If you live
कहा जाता है कि "भज गोविन्दं स्त्रोत्र" के रचना की प्रेरणा, एक व्यक्ति के कई सारे प्रश्नों को सुनने के बाद, श्री शंकराचार्य को मिली। इस पाँचवें श्लोक की प्रेरणा उस व्यक्ति के कुछ इस प्रकार से प्रश्न करने पर कि, "आपके अनुसार संसार में दुःख-ही-दुःख है, किन्तु सभी वस्तुओं को कष्टदायक बताकर - इस शरीर को व्याधि-मन्दिर बताकर - आप मेरे जीवन के सुख को क्यों नष्ट करते है? मेरे स्वजनों को हीं लीजिए। वे मुझ पर कितना सारा प्रेम जताते हैं। इससे मुझे कितना आनन्द मिलता है। क्या यह सब मुझे सुखी करने के लिए काफ़ी
Hare Krsna
Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada
New York City - July 26, 1971:
If personal qualities were absent from the origin
of everything, they would not be present in the material world.
THE WORD Govinda refers to one who gives pleasure to the cows and the senses. There are many incarnations of Godhead, but Govinda [Krsna] is the adi-purusa, or the original person. As such He is not technically an incarnation
Hare Krsna
Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada
Mayapur, India March 27, 1975
Learning how to love and serve God is so important that God Himself comes to teach it.
yad advaitam brahmopanisadi tad apy asya tanu-bha
ya atmantar-yami purusa iti so 'syamsa-vibhavah
sad-aisvaryaih purno ya iha bhagavan sa svayam ayam
na caitanyat krsnaj jagati para-tattvam param iha
"What the Upanisads describe as the impersonal Brahman i
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TEXT 15
evam jnatva krtam karma
purvair api mumuksubhih
kuru karmaiva tasmat tvam
purvaih purvataram krtam
SYNONYMS
evam--thus; jnatva--knowing well; krtam--performed; karma--work; purvaih--by past authorities; api--although; mumuksubhih--who attained liberation; kuru--just perform; karma--prescribed duty; eva--certainly; tasmat--therefore; tvam--you; purvaih--by the predecessors; purva-taram--ancient predecessors; krtam--as performed.
TRANSLATION
All the liberated souls in ancient times acted with
The same thing happened to Brahma. Because he had to create this whole universe -- so many planets, so many demigods, so many human societies, so many, so many... There is no limit. He is the creator of everything. He's called, therefore, "great-grandfather," prapitamaha [Bg. 11.39]. No, pitamaha. Prapitamaha is Krsna, great-grandfather, because He instructed Brahma. So the same thing: He can instruct you also. What is that instruction? Yena mam upayanti te. The instruction means how you can go
मूल:
नलिनीदलगतसलिलं तरलं, तद्वज्जीवितमतिशयचपलम्।
विद्धि व्याध्यभिमानग्रस्तं, लोकं शोकहतं च समस्तम्॥
भज गोविन्दं भज गोविन्दं भज गोविन्दं मूढ़मते।
हिन्दी:
जीवन यह अत्यन्त चपल है, नलिनी-दल-जल-तुल्य तरल है।
दुःख-व्याधि-अभिमान-संकुलित, शोक-निहत यह लोक सकल है॥
भज गोविन्दं भज गोविन्दं गोविन्दं भज मूढ़मते।
पहले पांडित्य-मोह, फ़िर वित्त-मोह, उसके बाद स्त्री-मोह - इन तीनों का खण्डन करके इस चौथे श्लोक में श्री शंकराचार्य बताते हैं कि मनुष्य का सांसारिक जीवन किस प्रकार होता है।
वह कहते हैं कि मनुष्य का जीवन उसी प्रकार
Hare Krsna
Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada
I was distributing on one of the longest shopping streets known to me in Europe, in Stockholm. This time of the year many tourists are expected. I'd hoped to meet some Germans as I drove through Stockholm with a little stock of German books, but it seems that they all vanished from Stockholm.
Nevertheless, after just a few minutes, I met a girl who was obviously enchanted by Indian culture. She was carrying a hare-nama chaddar and had Sanskrit prints on her hands. She wasn't at all the hippie t
TEXT 14
na mam karmani limpanti
na me karma-phale sprha
iti mam yo 'bhijanati
karmabhir na sa badhyate
SYNONYMS
na--never; mam--unto Me; karmani--all kinds of work; limpanti--do affect; na--nor; me--My; karma-phale--in fruitive action; sprha--aspiration; iti--thus; mam--unto Me; yah--one who; abhijanati--does know; karmabhih--by the reaction of such work; na--never does; sah--he; badhyate--becomes entangled.
TRANSLATION
There is no work that affects Me; nor do I aspire for the fruits of action. One
So this whole material creation is like that. The creator of this universe, Krsna, He says, duhkhalayam asasvatam: [Bg. 8.15] "This is the place for suffering." And you are seeking after happiness. Just like in the prison house: it is the place for suffering, and if you want to be comfortable, this is called maya. Maya-sukhaya bharam udvahato vimudhan [SB 7.9.43]. The whole world is running after happiness what is not possible. Therefore they have been described as vimudhan, rascal. We sometimes
