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Arjuna’s First Lesson

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by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

Arjuna's First Lesson

When Arjuna accepts his Friend Krsna as his guru, Krsna begins His teachings with a reprimand.

A lecture given in Los Angeles, on August 17, 1973

sri bhagavan uvaca
asocyan anvasocas tvam
prajna-vadams ca bhasase
gatasun agatasums ca
nanusocanti panditah

"The Blessed Lord said: While speaking learned words, you are mourning for what is not worthy of grief. Those who are wi

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Enlightened Self-interest

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by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

Srila Prabhupada's First Talks in America (New York, July 26,1966)

"I cannot be satisfied by serving something that is notme; I can be satisfied only by serving me. But that 'me' I do not know…."

This chanting of Hare Krsna is the process of ceto-darpana-marjanam to cleanse the material dust from the mirror of our mind. The whole process is to dust out the dirty thin

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Equal Justice

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by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

If God is impartial, why does one person inherit a million dollars and 
another suffer a great loss? Why is one saved and another killed?

A lecture in Los Angeles in December 1973

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 peopl

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Become Happy Yourself

Become Happy Yourself

Become Happy Yourself
When I joined brahmacarini ashram  actually I was the first lady to live there at that time (because Prabhupada completely convinced me)  devotees told me to go with them on book distribution. So the first day I joined I went on sankirtan. I was distributing Prabhupada's books I have never read before! But I was reading them together with people on sankirtan. I approached them, opened the book and was reading to them. People listened and bought books. They were buying Prabhu

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Thought Of The Day

Prabhupada: Eight millions. And human being, 400,000 species form, there are. So out of that, the civilized man, the best form of human body, that is meant for this purpose, tapo divyam putraka yena suddhyed sattvam [SB 5.5.1], that: "My dear boys, you should not waste your time simply for finding out the necessities of this body and work very hard day and night and forget your own business." What is that own business? Self-realization, "What I am." This is called own business. "Am I this body o

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Dear Prabhujis and Matajis,
Hare Krishna. Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada and Srila Gurudeva.
 
Our spiritual master shared some simple but powerful realizations in one of his Bhagavatam classes on 1st Oct 2009 in Rajkot. I would like to share with you some of the salient points that I had noted down from that class.
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Strong Ropes of Affection

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by Radha Govinda Goswami

he all-powerful Supreme Lord shows that He can be
conquered by the power of His devotees' pure love.

The Vedic scriptures describe how Krsna, the Supreme Lord, enjoys eternal pastimes with His devotees, both in the spiritual world and in this world when He periodically descends. Because Krsna wants the deepest loving exchanges, in the intimacy of love for Him some of His purest devotees forget that

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The Superintendence of God

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We should always know that God is ever kind to us. Despite our gross disobedience to the laws of God's nature, the Lord is kind enough to look after our maintenance. Water is one of the most important items for our maintenance, because without water we can neither produce food grains nor quench our thirst. Water is also required very liberally for many other purposes. Thus the Lord has preserved water on three fourths o

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Thought Of The Day

So bhakti-marga is not very difficult. Very easy. Man-mana bhava mad-bhakto mad-yaji mam namaskuru [Bg. 18.65]. Any child can do it. Any child, if he sees the form of Lord Krsna in the temple, he remembers, and he continues to think of Krsna. Man-mana bhava mad-bhakto. And if you think of Krsna always, automatically you become devotee. Man-mana bhava mad-bhakto. And then mad-yaji, little offering. Patram puspam phalam toyam yo me bhaktya prayacchati [Bg. 9.26]. Where is the difficulty? Little fl

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Desperate NEED

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Desperate Need

-         are chalu! Chalu! Chalu!

The female voice pushed me from behind. It was fast train from Mira Road to Churchgate.

It was crowded but somehow I entered to the train thinking if I miss this train I will be late for the Gaura Arati at Chowpatty Mandir.

Then I thought 'oh my God! I am so eager to see You…!' with these thoughts I started to chant my rounds (or murmer, who knows?!).

My ears were plucked with ear plucks, seems I wanted to hear only the Holy Names. But no!

As u

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Dear Prabhujis and Matajis,
Hare Krishna. Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada and Srila Gurudeva.
 
For the past couple of days, we were hearing from the discussion of our beloved spiritual master H H Mahavishnu Goswami Maharaj on work and devotion. We shall continue to hear from Maharaj on how we should conduct ours
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Bhagavad-gita As It Is - Bg. 2.1

TEXT 1
 
sañjaya uvāca
taṁ tathā kṛpayāviṣṭam
aśru-pūrṇākulekṣaṇam
viṣīdantam idaṁ vākyam
uvāca madhusūdanaḥ
 
SYNONYMS
 
sañjayaḥ uvāca—Sañjaya said; tam—unto Arjuna; tathā—thus; kṛpayā—by compassion; āviṣṭam—overwhelmed; aśru-pūrṇa—full of tears; ākula—depressed; īkṣaṇam—eyes; viṣīdantam—lamenting; idam—this; vākyam—words; uvāca—said; madhusūdanaḥ—the killer of Madhu.
 
TRANSLATION
 
Sañjaya said: Seeing Arjuna full of compassion and very sorrowful, his eyes brimming with tears, Madhusūdana, Kṛṣṇa, spoke th
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Thought Of The Day

Guru means one who can deliver me from this duhkhalayam asasvatam [Bg. 8.15]. Maya... We are in the duhkhalayam asasvatam [Bg. 8.15], but under the influence of maya we are thinking we are living very very happily, or we not trying to solve the question. No. This kind of solution will not help you, because you have to die. Whatever you make solution, Krsna says, mrtyuh sarva-haras caham [Bg. 10.34]. If you don't agree to surrender to Krsna, "All right, make your arrangement. But at the time of d

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Dear Prabhujis and Matajis,
Hare Krishna. Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada and Srila Gurudeva.
 
In our yesterday's offering, there were a couple of points which were rather crisp and many devotees had written asking for more clarification. I thought that it is better to share the explanation of Maharaj from the lec
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Cry for the mercy!

By associating with those who have more faith or by praying to Lord Caitanya, Srila Prabhupada said we should cry for their bhakti and mercy. But if you are not able to cry for their mercy then we should cry that we are not able to cry for their mercy...and if you cannot cry for not able to cry for their mercy then you should cry for not able to cry for not able to cry for their mercy...... (HH Jayapataka Swami ,Sunday Feast Class, Tirupathi 21st Oct 2012)

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THE REAL PURPOSE OF HUMAN LIFE

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By Niraj Bidawatka

When the Pāndavas were living in exile, ayakśa asked Yudhisthira, the eldest Pāndava about the greatest wonder of the world. None of the other Pāndavas – Bhima, Arjuna, Sahadeva and Nakula – could answer this question. However Yudhisthira gave the correct answer. He replied that everybody is seeing that so many people aredying every day but still everyone is thinking that “I will not die”; this is the

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8.4 MILLION SPECIES OF LIFE

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By Niraj Bidawatka

According to the Vedas, there are 8.4 million species of life and the conditioned soul is continuously passing through the different species according to his karma, under divine supervision. The Bhagavad Gita (2.22) says that just as one gives up an old shirt to put on a new one, the soul gives up an old body to acquire a new kind of a body (vasāmsi jirnāni yathā vihāya). Thus there are 8.4 million (84

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