On the auspicious day of Guru (Vyasa) Purnima (July 3^rd) the Bhaktivedanta Archives Releases Original Audio of His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada for 1977 along with a VedaBase^® 2012.1 update.

In our continued commitment to make all the recorded material of His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada available, the Bhaktivedanta Archives is presenting the Bhaktivedanta VedaBase^® 2012.1 update and original audio for 1977 (387 files, 237 hours).

The new Bhaktivedanta VedaB

I BELONG TO A FAMILY WHERE INTENSE KRISHNA CONSCIOUSNESS HAS NEVER CAME INTO PRACTICE. I ALWAYS WONDERED WHAT IT TAKES TO BE KRISHNA CONSCIOUS. IT WAS MY FRIEND MY SOUL MATE, WHO LED ME TOWARDS THE EXCELLENT  WORLD OF KRISHNA CONSCIOUSNESS. I REALLY FEEL THE ECSTASY WHILE CHANTING MAHA MANTRA WHILE ALL THE INTENSE FEELINGS AN LOVE TOWARDS LORD KRISHNA.....

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

If you throw a stone into the middle of a pool of water, a circle will expand to the limit of the bank. Similarly, radio waves expand in a circle, and when you capture the waves with your radio you can hear the message. In the same way, our loving feeling can also expand.

At the beginning of our life, we simply want to eat. Whatever a small child grabs, he wants to eat. He has only personal interest. Then, when the child

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

What is spiritual life? Complete freedom. And an eternal, blissful life full of knowledge. That is spiritual life—a life distinct from material life, which is based on the bodily concept. Spiritual life means an eternal, blissful life of knowledge, while material life means a non-permanent, miserable life full of ignorance.

The body is impermanent, and it is always full of miserable conditions. There is no blissfulness in

yada yada hi dharmasya

glanir bhavati bharata

abhyutthanam adharmasya

tadatmanam srjamyaham

paritranaya sadhunam

vinasaya ca duskrtam

dharma-samsthapanarthaya

sambhavami yuge yuge

"Whenever and wherever there is a decline in religious practice, O descendant of Bharata, and a predominant rise of irreligion-at that time I descend Myself.  In order to deliver the pious and to annihilate the micreants, as well as to reestablish the principles of religion, I advent Myself millennium after millenium." (Bg.

The real business is that we have to withdraw our attraction for this material... That they do not know. I am a spirit soul. Being attracted by this material nature, I am now encaged within this body, and I am changing this body. Just like I am changing this body from boyhood to childhood, childhood to, from childhood to boyhood, from youthhood. In this way, I have been entangled in this transmigration of the soul. This is my problem. Bhagavan, Krsna, says, "Real problem is janma-mrtyu-jara-vyad

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

Pastime from Chaitanya-mangala by Srila Lochan Dasa Thakura

Narada Muni once went to Vaikuntha and served Mother Lakshmi very sincerely. 
Srimati Laxmi Devi was very pleased and requested Narada Muni to ask for any boon. Narada Muni replied, "My dear Mother Lakshmi, you must promise that whatever I ask for, you will-grant." Lakshmi Devi vowed that she would gladly fulfill his desire. The great saint revealed his wish: Nar

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

Panihati is located on the banks of the Ganges 10 miles North of Calcutta, in West Bengal India. It is the site of many wonderful spiritual pastimes of Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu and His close personal associates.
This pastime of the Lord is about how the devotees pleased Lord Chaitanya and Nityananda and how the Lord reciprocated with the devotees in a very wonderful and pleasing festival called the Panihati Cida-dadhi ma

We find in spiritual circles throughout history that there has been great envy and fighting even amongst followers of the same religion. It is because certain persons, although strictly practising the religious rituals, scrutinizingly learning the religious philosophy and dedicatedly propagating those rituals and philosophy, never really humble themselves or strive to become purified of false pride. Unless they very diligently strive to become purified of false pride, that pride will creep into

Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrī Caitanya Caritāmṛta Ādi 12.73

ye ye laila śrī-acyutānandera mata

sei ācāryera gaṇa — mahā-bhāgavata

SYNONYMS

ye ye — anyone who; laila — accepted; śrī-acyutānandera — of Śrī Acyutānanda; mata — the path; sei — those; ācāryera gaṇa — descendants of Advaita Ācārya;mahā-bhāgavata — are all great devotees.

TRANSLATION

The descendants of Advaita Ācārya who accepted the path of Śrī Acyutānanda were all great devotees.

PURPORT

In this connection, Śrīla Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura, in his A

This is a beautiful prayer by Queen Uttara when Ashwathama shoots the Brahmastra weapon to kill the the baby in her womb. 

uttarovaaca
paahi paahi mahaa-yogin / deva-deva jagat-pate
naanyam tvad abhayam pashye / yatra mrtyuh parasparam

Uttara said: "O Lord of Lords, Lord of the universe! You are the greatest of mystics. Please protect me, for there is no one else who can save me from the clutches of death in this world of duality." Srimad Bhagavatam 1.8.9. 

In the above pastime we see how Lord at onc

The following is an instructive moral story told by His Divine Grace Bhaktisiddantha Saraswati Goswami Thakur Prabhupada.

A small but touching story with a deep message.

A ticket collector in a train found an old worn out wallet in a compartment full of many people. He looked inside to find the name of its owner. There was no clue. All that there was in it, was some money and a picture of Bhagwan Sri Krishna. He held it up and asked, 'Who does this wallet belong to?'

An old man said, 'That's my wallet, please give it to me.' The ticket
collector said, 'You'll have to prove that it is yours. Only then I can hand it