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Hare Krishna!!

Pamho!!

2^nd day of the yatra and I understood the effect of association.

Normally, when you have a long train journey you definitely don’t find anyone getting up early in morning by 4 and start worshiping or chanting. I have seen people sleeping and just lying down for hours and hours till their stop is arrived or in day time… max, you see is people talking to each other and sometimes leading to good friendship. But, what a beautiful atmosphere was there around me when few devotees s

Hare Krishna!!

Pamho!!

So, after the Mayapur yatra is over and resting for 2 days, let me again start with Mayapur yatra in my memory from Day 1 and in the course, transcript all the lectures which we heard.

To start with, there were most devotees who travelled in Azad Hind Express and some in Duronto Express and few in flights as well. We all met in Mayapur directly. Let me not skip the wonderful train journey which seemed tiring to non-devotees and blissful to us. The train (Azad Hind) was schedu

Being Devoid Of Krishna Is Danger

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

In the fifteenth chapter of the first canto of Srimad Bhagavatam, we find that Arjuna comes back from Dwaraka after hearing the news of the departure of Lord Krishna to His eternal abode and seeing the unprecedented dejection of Arjuna, Maharaja Yudhistira asks him about the reason for his grief. At that time, Arjuna with strong feeling of separation from Krishna, speaks a number of verses remember

Showing great compassion for all living entities Lord Krishna’s lila avatar and literary incarnation Krishna Dvaipayana Vedavyasa composed the authentic historical treatise known throughout creation as the Mahabharata. The eighteen chapters of the Bhagavad-Gita are found in the Bhisma-parva, chapters 25 to 42 of the Mahabharata and they are the exact words that Lord Krishna spoke in Sanskrit on the battlefield of Kuruksetra, India over five thousand years ago in 3137 B.C. The proof that the Maha

Pearls of Wisdom

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

It has been our greatest good fortune that our beloved spiritual master H.H. Mahavishnu Goswami Maharaja was here in Abudhabi from 29th of November to 3rd December, immersing all of us in transcendental bliss with his nectarean instructions. We have very limited capacity to even collect the pearls of wisdom that were flowing from his lotus mouth. Whatever we could assimilate, according to our limited c

So if you go on the ordinary way, from the karma platform to jnana platform, from jnana platform to yoga platform, but ultimately you have to come to the bhakti platform. If you do not come to the bhakti platform, then there is no question of liberation.

By H.D.G. Srila Prabhupada

Life Begins From Cleanliness

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

The following is a transcription of a lecture given by our spiritual master HH Mahavishnu Goswami Maharaja on 2008-12-10 in Shree Shree Radha-NeelMadhav dham, Rajkot. Maharaja was explaining the following verse from shastras.

sukhasya duhkhasya na kopi daataa / paro dadaati iti kubuddhir eshaa
puraa krtam karma sadaiva bhujyate / dehin kvacin nistara yat tvayaa krtam
“No one is the cause fo

“If you go to the spiritual planet, Vaikuëöhaloka or Goloka Våndävana, then you haven’t got to return. That is eternal.” Tyaktvä dehaà punar janma naiti mäm eti [Bg. 4.9]. Mäm eti. If you go to Kåñëa, then your complete success is... 
mäm upetya punar janma 
duùkhälayam açäçvatam 
näpnuvanti mahätmänaù 
saàsiddhià paramäà gatäù 
 [Bg. 8.15] 
Saàsiddhim, that is the highest perfection, paramam. Therefore we should try, we should endeavor, for that purpose, how to go back to home, back to Godhead. 
So si

viñayä vinivartante 
nirähärasya dehinaù 
rasa-varjaà raso ’py asya 
paraà dåñövä nivartate

SYNONYMS 
viñayäù—objects for sense enjoyment; vinivartante—are practiced to be refrained from; nirähärasya—by negative restrictions; dehinaù—for the embodied; rasa-varjam—giving up the taste; rasaù—sense of enjoyment; api—although there is; asya—his; param—far superior things; dåñövä—by experiencing; nivartate—he ceases from.

TRANSLATION 
The embodied soul may be restricted from sense enjoyment, though the tast

viñayä vinivartante 
nirähärasya dehinaù 
rasa-varjaà raso ’py asya 
paraà dåñövä nivartate

SYNONYMS 
viñayäù—objects for sense enjoyment; vinivartante—are practiced to be refrained from; nirähärasya—by negative restrictions; dehinaù—for the embodied; rasa-varjam—giving up the taste; rasaù—sense of enjoyment; api—although there is; asya—his; param—far superior things; dåñövä—by experiencing; nivartate—he ceases from.

TRANSLATION 
The embodied soul may be restricted from sense enjoyment, though the tast

Tuesday, 2 July 1974

Vaikunthanatha went to Prabhupada's room early in the morning to return a dictation tape. He quietly opened the door and peered inside.

Vaikunthanatha: Srila Prabhupada was wrapped in a chaddar, sitting on his rocking chair, chanting softly on his beads. I was startled. Prabhupada was in a very, very profound state of meditation and appeared effulgent. I decided not to enter, and quietly closed the door.

I suddenly realised my fortune to have witnessed

Satsvarupa Goswami: I recall Prabhupada's power as a preacher and self-realised devotee; and I remember the amazing fact that Prabhupada was constantly speaking Krsna conscious realisations -- as he sat down for lunch, as he spoke to devotees in his room, or even as he went to sleep at night. His flow of devotional arguments shows that Prabhupada's thoughts were deeply-felt convictions, and at the same time they were the exact conclusions of the scriptures.

We also didn't

Since Prabhupada's visit to New Zealand in 1973, Tusta Krsna Swami had left ISKCON and was heading up his own group outside the jurisdiction of the local temple. Adamant that he would neither move back in the temple nor work co-operatively with ISKCON, he had given up the sannyasa dress and grown his hair.

However, Tusta Krsna had recently arrived in Melbourne and had visited Prabhupada a couple of times. Srila Prabhupada had expressed his appreciation for Tusta Krsna's servic

"I think you are also interested in revolution. We are interested in revolution also. But we are interested in revolution that will help people to feel peace themselves, whether they are communists or Marxists or whatever it is you like. We are trying to help people attain happiness because they are...."

This comment of Madhudvisa's triggered the largest vocal protest yet. The commotion rose to a climax as students all over the hall began to shout together, and it

A late-morning speaking engagement at La Trobe University's Agora Theatre had been advertised widely. When Prabhupada entered the chilly hall he found it packed with students. Devotees held a kirtana on stage and introduced Srila Prabhupada, who, looking grave, began speaking very basically about the soul and the body and how this education is required for all people.

But after no more than ten minutes, a young man in the audience stood up and began to shout profa