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Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

You can acknowledge others in many ways. When someone calls you, acknowledge the call. When they send you something, remember to say thank you. When someone does a good job, say so. When they apologize, acknowledge that too. 

It’s especially important to acknowledge acts of kindness – doing so reinforces the act and encourages more of the same. We all benefit. 

Almost everyone loves to be acknowledged. We love to have our phone calls returned, to be told we are doing a great job, to be thanked for

A new guest entered the room and Sabhapati introduced him: Professor Ian Watson, senior lecturer in Indian Philosophy at La Trobe University.

In sharp contrast to the courteous and gentle behaviour of the Rama bhaktas, long-haired and bearded Professor Watson was challenging and unsubmissive. On Prabhupada's request the professor described the details of the subjects that he taught. One section of the course, he said, was Eastern Religion and Philosophy, which he described

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

A dog in the park is jumping very fast, walking. But as soon as the master, "Come one. Come one," immediately, "Yes, sir." "Give me your neck." "Yes, sir." Chain. Chain. He's thinking that he's very free, but as soon as the master calls, immediately he has to submit. This is our position. We are very busy, but the master is the material nature. Daivi hy esa gunamayi mama maya duraty... [Bg. 7.14]. The fact is that we are under the stringent laws of material nature. We have no freedom. That we do

excerpts from Sripad Aindra Maharaj lecture Aindra Pr SB 10-33-26-27 -2002-01-12 CC Madhya 23.104
vṛndāvane kṛṣṇa-sevā, vaiṣṇava-ācāra
bhakti-smṛti-śāstra kari’ kariha pracāra
Word for word:
vṛndāvane — in Vṛndāvana; kṛṣṇa-sevā — the service of Lord Kṛṣṇa; vaiṣṇava-ācāra — behavior of Vaiṣṇavas; bhakti-smṛti-śāstra — the reference books of devotional service; kari’ — compiling; kariha — do; pracāra — preaching.
Translation:
“Establish devotional service to Lord Kṛṣṇa and Rādhārāṇī in Vṛndāvana

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

यहाँ रूठी हुई राधा रानी को श्याम सुन्दर ने मनाया था. श्यामसुन्दर ने राधा रानी जी को मनाने के बहुत से उपाए किये. कभी उनके चरणों में मस्तक रखते हैं, कभी उनको पंखा करते हैं , कभी दर्पण दिखाते हैं और कभी विनती करते हैं .पर जब राधा रानी नहीं मानती हैं तब श्याम सुन्दर सखियों का सहारा लेते हैं. इन्हीं लीलायों के कारण इस स्थली का नाम "मानगढ़" पड़ा. मान माने रूठना.ये मान किसी लड़ाई या क्रोध से नहीं होता है जैसे की संसार में होता

Introduction

krodhad bhavati sammohah

sammohat smrti-vibhramah

smrti-bhramsad buddhi-naso

buddhi-nasat pranasyati

Bg 2.63

From anger, complete delusion arises, and from delusion bewilderment of memory. When memory is bewildered, intelligence is lost, and when intelligence is lost one falls down again into the material pool.

False renunciation

Srila Rupa Gosvami has given us this direction:

prapancikataya buddhya

hari-sambandhi-vastunah

mumuksubhih parityago

vairagyam phalgu kathyate

(Bhakti-rasamrta-sindhu 1

Yunjann evam sadatmanam
yogivigata-kalmasah
sukhena brahmasamsparsam
atyantram sukham asnute

"Steady in the Self, being freed from all material contamination, the yogi achieves the highest perfectional stage of happiness in touch with the supreme consciousness." (Bg. 6.28)

Prabhupada: Grhastha? Grhastha means to live with wife. This is the meaning of grhastha. And a grhastha is supposed to support others who are not grhasthas just like brahmacari. Brahmacari means student life. So grhasthas support them. [break] ...sannyasis, other three classes. Because they are engaged in a different subject matter, they have no time to earn their livelihood, and therefore, those who are grhasthas, they take charge of him. This is the Vedic system. But they should live also on t

Close the eyes (I's) of Kaliyuga

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

na vastavyam tvayaiveha
mayaa tyakte mahi-tale
jano 'bhadra-rucir bhadra
bhavisyati kalau yuge
"My dear Uddhava, you should not remain here on the earth once I have

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

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

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

In a certain province there was no rain fall for few years. People were fleeing away to other places for a livelihood. The king’s treasury was also almost got empty. It was an empty sight everywhere. 

During this period Sri Narada was passing by a village. In the outskirts of the village there was a complete dry river. To his surprise Naradaji saw a peasant ploughing the dry sand there. Narada asked the man why he was wo

Question to Radhanath Swami: I was wondering, what the scriptures say about what it feels like upon returning to the spiritual world.

Radhanath Swami: Sanatan Goswami, a seventeenth century saint, describes in his work, Brihat Bhagavatamrita, the reunion of a soul with the Supreme Lord Krishna in the spiritual world. He explains how one day Krishna with his cowherd boyfriends (gopas) and cows was returning from the forest of Vrindavana to his home. On the way a soul that has just attained the spi