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Srila Prabhupada decided to relax on the lawn. Someone brought a chair, and Prabhupada sat in the dark, beneath the stars, enjoying the roaring kirtana. He looked up reflectively, head held slightly
My dear King, if a diseased person eats the pure uncontaminated food prescribed by the physician, he is gradually cured, and the infection of disease can no longer touch him. Similarly, if one follows the regulative principles of knowled
My dear King, if a diseased person eats the pure uncontaminated food prescribed by the physician, he is gradually cured, and the infection of disease can no longer touch him. Similarly, if one follows the regulative principles of knowled
Vrsa: As Gaura Mandala Bhumi and I entered Prabhupada's room, we found him in a very relaxed mood, reclining on his big bolster cushion behind his desk. We asked Srila Prabhupada the meaning of our names. Prabhupada told me that I was named after the bull carrier of Lord Siva. "But it is 'dasa'," he said. "Always 'dasa'."
Gaura Mandala Bhumi, Prabhupada explained, was
"Actually, you are pronouncing it wrong. It should be Janaka -- J-a-n-a-k-a."
Prabhupada explained that Janaka was the name of a great saintly king. The couple took heed of Prabhupada's advice and from that day Y
Krishna is the source of all incarnations/expansions/planery expantions. Lord Krishna is the original Lord Vishnu.
Buddha is also an incarnation of Lord. But such incarnations are not considered to be very advanced in Vedic knowledge(Lord does His own ways). There was a special purpose of Buddha incarnation. So called brahmanas of that time were slaughtering animals on the names of sacrifices given in the Vedas. So Lord incarnated to take away people by preaching Non-violence.
Buddha asked peop
