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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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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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