Monday, 12 May 1975

Although the house in Marimba Crescent was not strictly a temple, the devotees staying there with Srila Prabhupada had established a semblance of a morning program. Every morning at 4.30am they held a small mangala arati ceremony, chanting the eight prayers to the spiritual master as softly as they could. Srutakirti wondered whether it was disturbing Srila Prabhupada who would be regularly translating in the adjoining room at that time, so he asked hi

Prabhupada had very little appetite while in India. Since arriving in Perth, however, his appetite had returned, and he was able to eat more healthily. In the early evening, Prabhupada requested some honey-dew melon. Later he ate some fried potatoes and hot milk, and a little burfi and sandesa. Before taking rest after his night-time massage, Prabhupada asked Srutakirti, "How long does it take to read one verse and purport of my books, and understand it?"

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Amogha had been unsuccessful in arranging anyone to come for an evening meeting with Srila Prabhupada. After being out for a considerable part of the day, Amogha returned to the house to find Srila Prabhupada pacing back and forth in his sitting room. Prabhupada turned to Amogha. "Garland is very nice. Is anyone coming?"

Amogha: I took this to mean that 'You have made a nice flower garland for me, but did you bring anyone for me to preach to?' It was my duty to find intellig

Prabhupada took his usual breakfast of fruits, but with a new addition. The day before, Srila Prabhupada had shown Jayadharma how to cook pera. Prabhupada poured milk into a wide-mouthed pan and, stirring rhythmically, condensed it down the same way as he did when making burfi. Since he was making pera, however, Prabhupada cooked the milk without sugar until it became khoa, a thick, unsweetened fudge-like paste. Then, towards the end of the operation, Prabhupada added a litt

Sunday, 11 May 1975

Prabhupada had once said: "There are three things that keep me alive -- my walks, my massage and my medicine." Thus, even with no temple in Perth, Srila Prabhupada demonstrated his firm regularity by rising early and going on his daily morning walk. Prabhupada was not only regulated in his own service to Krsna, he rose early to regulate his men to do the same. He preached to his disciples at times convenient for their schedules. Even while i

Friday, 9 May 1975

As Prabhupada and his small group of disciples walked near City Beach, they could see the sky becoming illuminated. Nuances of colour revealed the horizon, and the devotees could see the vast Indian Ocean stretching away to meet the sky where the last stars twinkled then faded. Prabhupada and his small group of disciples walked along a section of road adjoining the large sand dunes that separated them from the beach proper.

The party came across some fishermen, casti

Amogha's offering Prabhupada an opulent rose garland after his morning walk was becoming part of the daily routine. After his bath, Prabhupada wore the garland as he sat in a chair with his back to the sun.

Srutakirti: The devotees asked me whether Prabhupada chanted sixteen rounds a day. I related to them the story of when I was once with Prabhupada and he was chanting japa. He put his beads down and joked with me, playing the role of a novice devotee glad to have completed his daily

Since arriving in Perth, Srila Prabhupada had been rising early, about 1am, and working steadily on the final chapters of Canto Five of Srimad-Bhagavatam. Having just completed Chapter 22, "The Orbits of the Planets", Prabhupada had started on "The Sisumara Planetary System", a chapter describing how the totality of planetary systems in this universe are an expansion of the external body of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.

While Paramahamsa Swami typed Prabhupada's early-morning dicta

After a great deal of telephoning the various colleges in Perth, Amogha had finally encountered some success at the University of Western Australia. Kim Cornish, a tall, blonde, blue-eyed young man, was a student of philosophy there and had agreed to come and speak with Srila Prabhupada at 10am. Soft-spoken Kim, who was working on his Master's degree in philosophy, inquired submissively about the soul.

"What is the nature of the atman?" he asked politely.

"The nature

Thursday, 8 May 1975

Prabhupada took his second morning walk in picturesque Hyde Park that overlooked the city. As with its namesake in Sydney and London, the park was a special civic feature with ornamental lakes and shaded with mature native trees - jarrah, paperbark and jacaranda. The walk was again filled with animated and lively conversation. Prabhupada's party passed a lake inhabited by various birds out searching for their breakfast. Ducks splashed and quacked, while famous nat

Amogha had so far been unsuccessful in finding any students of philosophy to talk with Prabhupada. The best he could come up with was a psychiatrist, who arrived that night at around 8.30. Srila Prabhupada looked at the depressed looking man sitting before him. "So, what can I do for you?"

"I have no question," the man replied.

Prabhupada turned to Amogha for confirmation. "He has no question?" Amogha verified that this was true.

"Then what shall I say?"

Amogha said he did

Srila Bhaktivinode Thakur

About the year 1500 A.D., the incarnation of God Sri Krishna Chaitanya Mahaprabhu began the Hare Krishna Movement in Navadvip, a city in the Indian province of Bengal. This movement, based on the philosophy of ancient Sanskrit texts of devotion to Krishna like the Bhagavad-gita and Srimad-Bhagavatam, spread all over India within a short time. The movement popularized sankiritan, the congregational chanting of the maha-mantra Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

Srila Vishwanath Chakravarti Thakur

At the dawn of one's spiritual life, one receives the mercy of great devotees. One then engages in the service of such devotees. This leads to development of faith in the devotional process, after which

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

Srila Bhaktivinode Thakura

Who is the acarya or the authority on the science of the absolute truth in the Gaudiya
Vaisnava Sampradaya ?

Sri Jiva Goswamipad is our acarya or authority on the science of the absolute truth. He was always situated under the care and guidance of Sri Rupa and Sri Sanatan. Just by hearing the name Sri Jiva Goswami, the hearts of the vaisnavas begin to dance in ecstasy. Sri Jiva Goswami studied

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

The philosophy of Lord Chaitanya is that Krishna is the only object of worship. And as Krishna is the object of worship, similarly, his place, Vrindavan Dham, is also worshipable. If you go to Vrindavan, even if you don't know anything about Krishna, you will at once feel Krishna consciousness. It is such a nice place. (Lecture, New York, 29 July 1966)

No one can compl

So here the Dharmaraja is lamenting, "On account of absence of Krsna, our real business, nirvana, is being delayed. Therefore, are you lamenting, mother?" So Krsna is so kind that although He's not present at the present moment, still, in the form of His holy name, He's present. You can take still advantage of Krsna's name by chanting this Hare Krsna mantra. You can take. Don't think that when you chant "Krsna," this name Krsna is different from the Krsna person. No. They are the same. Nama cint

There is a notion around in India and outside which Indologists created along with the support of half-educated pseudo-Impersonalists that Veda means four vedas -Rig,sama,yayur,Atharava and rest are Mythology. It is because of their lack of knowledge of Vedas and for their demoniac intention to prove their one-sided purpose to cheat people.

People have to know what Veda is and what is the difference between this 4 vedas mentioned above and Itihas, puranad, which included Bhagavat Gita, Srimad Bha

By B. R. Sridhara Deva Goswami

When he(Srila Prabhupada) was going to America, on the journey he expressed his feeling to play with Krishna in sakhya-rasa: kata bane chutachuti bane khai lutaputi sei din kabe habe mor, “Running and frolicking in the many forests of Vraja, I will roll on the ground in spiritual ecstasy. O when will that day be mine?” This was his “Prayer to the Lotus Feet of Krishna.” When he was passing through the Atlantic, he gave vent to feelings that may be the salient points

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

our negative and insecure thinking can spiral out of control. Have you ever noticed how uptight you feel when you’re caught up in your thinking? And, to top it off, the more absorbed you get in the detailsof whatever is upsetting you, the worse you feel. One thought leads to another, and yet another, until at some point, you become incredibly agitated.

Needless to say, it’s impossible to feel peaceful with your head full

Time for a Revolution

(Based on a talk given by Sripada Bhakti Vikasa Swami,

available at http://www.bvks.com/2011/11/time-for-a-revolution/)

If you really want to see iskcon a lot stronger than it is at present, and if you are ready to take part in a grassroots revolution, here is a program for you. It is non-political and non-controversial, easy to implement, and with negligible cost, yet it will benefit the whole society of devotees worldwide. The program is that all members of the Krsna conscio