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Prabhupada's Air New Zealand flight landed at Auckland airport at 10pm. Although it was quite late, many devotees -- 12 from the temple and 50 from the North Shore -- were there to greet him.

Many of the North Shore devotees had maintained only loose connections with Krsna consciousness, and rarely visited the temple. For Prabhupada's arrival, however, many now presented themselves with shaved heads, tilaka and devotional clothing. Yasomatinandana, Auckland's temple president, star

The Southernmost Part of this Globe', Part II -- Auckland, 1976

Sometimes there will be a little misunderstanding between Godbrothers. That is even going on amongst the liberated souls. What is important is that everyone must engage in Krishna's service under the direction of the spiritual master.

Srila Prabhupada, from a letter to Ralph Stevenson

Despite Prabhupada's desire that all his disciples work together co-operatively, tension still remained between the "inside" and "ou

Prabhupada was driven to the airport to catch a mid-afternoon flight to New Zealand. Devotees offered him final gifts of garlands and fragrant bouquets. After graciously accepting the offerings, Prabhupada headed down the concourse accompanied by a rousing kirtana.

Prabhupada's seven full days in Melbourne were over. As he had mentioned several times, Prabhupada took it as his duty to regularly visit his centres, to see that his disciples would not fall away from Krsna con

Monday, 26 April 1976

Ever since first crawling up the steps of the vyasasana in 1973, young Janaka had shown a spontaneous desire to be with Srila Prabhupada. Prabhupada had, in turn, reciprocated by showing him much encouragement and affection. Janaka and his parents had recently moved from Brighton to the house next door to the temple. Now Janaka was fortunate to continue his intimate association. He took every opportunity to visit Srila Prabhupada in his rooms, and was so young

Srila Prabhupada held a final meeting with his disciples in the afternoon, granting, as he had done the year before, the entire assembly of devotees darsana in his room. Srila Prabhupada sat on his ornate wicker asana below the stained-glass windows. On Prabhupada's right sat Pusta Krsna; on his left, Hari-sauri.

Devotees and guests filed into the room, placing various gifts on Prabhupada's desk -- donations of money, baskets of fruit and nuts wrapped in coloured cellophane, jars of honey, dishes

Sunday, 25 April 1976

Before his massage, Srila Prabhupada sat with his senior disciples. He was happy to hear that four or five new men had started coming regularly to the temple since his arrival last week, and had commenced to regularly chant on beads. He also expressed his pleasure to hear that the book distribution was going on well in Melbourne. But he wondered why Guru Krpa had not been encouraging parties of travelling book distributors to visit the country a

Prabhupada's last class of his visit was presented, as usual, with impeccable logic and reasoning. Krsna, he explained, could be compared to a fire. Just as a fire, although situated in one place, expanded its energy everywhere in the form of heat and light, similarly Krsna was situated in His own abode, Goloka, and expanded Himself throughout the creation by His energy. This energy, Prabhupada explained, had expanded in the form of the material and spiritual world. Althou

Prabhupada: So here is one word, "steel-framed." Nowadays, the medical science is changing the heart, steel-framed. So this modern science is making steel-framed hearts, but we can understand that formerly, also, there were steel-framed hearts. Otherwise how this word comes? Tad asma-saram hrdayam batedam. So just like stone or steel does not melt very easily, similarly, anyone's heart which does not change after chanting Hare Krsna mantra regularly, then it is to be understood that it is steel-

The Personality of Godhead is perfect and complete

(Compiled from notes on lectures of H. H. Mahavishnu Goswami)

Despite the transcendental qualities of Lord Krishna's body, its full bliss and knowledge, there are many so-called scholars and commentators of Bhagavad gita who deride Krishna as an ordinary man. The scholar may be born an extraordinary man due to his previous good work, but this conception of Sri Krishna is due to a poor

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

Why you are giving so much stress on Bhagavad-gita as it is? Because it is spoken by Krishna. Similarly, anything written by Krishna’s pure devotee, that is important. Otherwise it is not important. Reading a book is very good, but it must be written by authorities. Then it is good. Otherwise, if you read twenty-four hours the newspaper or an ordinary book, that kind of reading is simply waste of time. But if we read

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

There was once a very wealthy man in a village, he had 19 horses and when he was dying he made his will and in the will he distributed all his property and it said, "half of the horses should go to my son, one forth of the horses I have should go to the village priest, and one fifth of the horses I have should go to my servant" and the man died.

Everyone came there scratching their heads, 19 horses, half of the horses sh

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Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

When the wealth comes, by the grace of the Lord, if we do not move an inch in our faith in God, if we do not move an inch from the principles of integrity values and character, we do not move an inch from our bhakti, devotional service to Krishna, that wealth is a gift of laxmidevi and Krishna.

If the wealth that makes us corrupt, if the wealth that comes makes us loose our integrity and character, if the wealth that bri

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

Acharya Drona had trained Drupad's son very expertly. And spiritual knowledge is also given regardless of where we are from, who we are which caste we are from, which economic background we are from.

Spiritual knowledge is available to everyone equally. Although the sun's light is available equally, there are some who take benefit of sun's light and some remain in darkness. That is our choice.

Srila Prabhupada going to th

As long as we are in this human form of body, our duty is to understand the soul within the body. The body is not the self; we are different from the body, and therefore there is no question of friends, enemies or responsibilities in terms of the bodily conception of life. One should not be very anxious about the body's changing from childhood to boyhood, from boyhood to old age and then to apparent annihilation. Rather, one should be very seriously concerned about the soul within the body and h

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

A lecture delivered at  the 1974 Ratha-yatra festival in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

Ladies and gentlemen, devotees and all the sannyasis present, I thank you very much for kindly joining this Ratha-yatra festival. This festival has been going on in India for more than 2,000 years in the city of Jagannatha Puri. The name Jagannatha comes from two words -- jagat

[Lord Krishna to Arjuna]: Of sacrifices I am the chanting of the holy names [japa]...

Of all the sacrifices, the chanting of

Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare

Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare

is the purest representation of Krishna. Sometimes animal sacrifices are recommended, but in the sacrifice of Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, there is no question of violence. It is the simplest and the purest.

(Bhagavad-gita As It Is 10.25)

Other yajïas prescribed in the Vedic literatures ar

Srimad Bhagavatam in one hand, Duster in the Other

(Compiled from notes on lectures of H. H. Mahavishnu Goswami)

H.G Sajjana Priya Prabhuji, in yesterday's granthraj posting, brought up this very nice point of the service attitude of King Prataprudra in Caitanya Lila. He had mentioned me in the posting, but sincerely speaking, I am unworthy of such description, as my actions are self-motivated and impure. But I do know that our revered