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Keep cool headSrila Prabhupada had received a couple of letters from Tusta Krsna in Auckland admitting some personal difficulties. Tusta Krsna had decided to leave New Zealand and go and live on a farm in northern New South Wales. Srila Prabhupada had advised him to "keep a cool head under all circumstances", but made it clear that he was not happy that Tusta Krsna had left New Zealand. Prabhupada feared that without Tusta Krsna there, "the whole New Zealand affair would not go on"."Of course,"
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Srimad-Bhagavatam - Canto 3 Chapter 2 Text 14
yasyanuraga-pluta-hasa-rasa-
lilavaloka-pratilabdha-manah
vraja-striyo drgbhir anupravrtta-
dhiyo 'vatasthuh kila krtya-sesah


yasya -- whose; anuraga -- attachment; pluta -- enhanced by; hasa -- laughter; rasa -- humors; lila -- pastimes; avaloka -- glancing; pratilabdha -- obtained thereof; manah -- anguished; vraja-striyah -- damsels of Vraja; drgbhih -- with the eyes; anupravrtta -- following; dhiyah -- by intelligence; avatasthuh -- sat silently; kila
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"Grow More Food!": The Guyana Mood

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Here are some quotes by Srila Prabhupada on the Four Vaisnava Sampradayas.  They are organized first by quotes about all four in general, and then by individual line.



General quotes

 

"There are four Sampradayas from the beginning of the creation. One is called Brahma Sampradaya, and is coming down by disciplic succession from Brahma; another Sampradaya is coming down from Laksmi, called Sri Sampradaya; another is coming down from the Kumaras, they are known as Nimbarka Sampradaya; another Samprada

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Give Krishna to others

By HH Sivarama Swami

Thirty years ago I was doing the Prabhupada marathon at the Chicago
airport. One afternoon, we devotees were so intoxicated by
distributing books that we decided to show that one doesn’t have to
speak to sell books, that book distribution just depends on our state
of consciousness. So we didn’t speak.

Just after loading my bookbag with (20) maha books I tapped a man on
the arm and looked him in the eye. He stopped, expecting me to say
something. I didn’t. I put a book in his hand, p

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They Never Forget the Ecstasy

Question: What Happens to Fallen Devotees?


Please accept my obeisances.
All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

What happens to fallen devotees, that is those who are initiated into the spiritual life but being defeated by Maya go back to karmic material life?

your servant

Francisco
 


Answer: They Never Forget the Ecstasy


Srila Narada Muni,  the liberated space man, has answered your question as follows:

na vai jano jātu kathańcanāvrajen
mukunda-sevy anyavad aṅga saṁsṛtim
smaran mukundāṅghry-upagūhanaṁ punar
vihāt

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Living on the Verge of Death

In this material world, whether we like or not, everyone--young, old, and in between--is living on the verge of death because death can come at any moment even when we least expect it.  This means that whatever we may establish for ourselves here in this world is nothing more than a castle made of sand that will be completely washed away the next time the tide comes in. So whether one thinks that life ends with the death of the body or that one has an eternal existence beyond this body, there is

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Cow protection

Question: Vegans claim that we are contributing to factory farming and
calves being deprived of their mothers’ milk. How do we address this
argument?

Answer: There are two points here, first that a cow gives more milk
than a calf can drink, so it’s not necessarily that they’re being
deprived. However a calf should be able to drink its mothers milk, and
that happens when they’re being taken care of in a natural way in a
gosala. The calves drink their mothers’ milk and the cow gives more
milk. Also, if yo

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Purification from unwanted habits

By HH Sivarama Swami

Devotees often ask what the meaning of steadiness is: some consider
that chanting sixteen rounds a day and following the four regulative
principles means that one is steady, while others say it is steadiness
in one’s service; yet others give different variations of what they
consider steadiness to mean. But these things mentioned—regularly
chanting and regularity in serving—are physical symptoms that may or
may not indicate real steadiness.

Suddha-bhakti-cintamani deals with the sub

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Hare krishna Friends,

One old man was sitting with his 25 year old son in the train. Train is about to leave the station. All passengers are settling down their seat. As train started, young man was filled with lot of joy and curiosity. 
He was sitting on the window side. He put out one hand and feeling the passing air, he shouted, "Papa see all trees are going behind".
Old man smiled and admired son’s feelings. Beside the young man one couple was sitting and listening to all the conversation betwe
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Privilege of serving the Lord

Dhruva Maharaj: “Because of my state of complete foolishness and
paucity of pious activities, although the Lord offered me His personal
service, I wanted material name, fame and prosperity. My case is just
like that of the poor man who, when he satisfied a great emperor who
wanted to give him anything he might ask, out of ignorance asked only
a few broken grains of husked rice.”

PURPORT

In this verse the word svārājyam, which means “complete independence,”
is very significant. A conditioned soul does no

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Success of sankirtana

Wednesday, 1 November 1972 - Vrndavana

Prabhupada continued to speak on Nectar of Devotion for the whole month of Karttika. "We are preaching through the mercy of Caitanya Mahaprabhu. Caitanya Mahaprabhu has recommended that this process of Krsna kirtana go on. This is Caitanya Mahaprabhu's blessings. Param vijayate sri-krsna-sankirtanam. So go anywhere and everywhere. Chant Hare Krsna mantra, and you'll become victorious. This is Caitanya Mahaprabhu's blessings. It is not ou
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Srimad-Bhagavatam - Canto 3 Chapter 2 Text 12
yan martya-lilaupayikam sva-yoga-
maya-balam darsayata grhitam
vismapanam svasya ca saubhagarddheh
param padam bhusana-bhusanangam


yat -- His eternal form which; martya -- mortal world; lila-upayikam -- just suitable for the pastimes; sva-yoga-maya-balam -- potency of the internal energy; darsayata -- for manifestation; grhitam -- discovered; vismapanam -- wonderful; svasya -- of His own; ca -- and; saubhaga-rddheh -- of the opulent; param -- supreme; pad
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Question: Krishna Consciousness Before Life's Sunset?


Gurudeva,
Namaste

I would like to ask the following questions:
 
I have an intense desire to awaken my original Krishna consciousness. But can it be done before the sunset of my life?

Is it a natural process to awaken my original Krishna consciousness?

If the original Krishna consciousness is eternal, full of knowledge and bliss, why is it that most of the people are after sense gratification? Is it due their karma from past lives?

What is the way-ou

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"Religion" is the world's most misunderstood and abused word. Real religion means the science of God, the process of fully reviving one's original pure identity by reconnecting oneself with the source of his existence. But instead, without ever understanding religion's real meaning, people take it either as a fable for childlike fools or as a divisive sect for fulfilling their temporary material desires. Thus they cheat themselves and remain perpetually in the darkness of ignorance miserably mis

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the trash in his thoughts subsided

Arjuna's constant remembrance of the lotus feet of Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa rapidly increased his devotion, and as a result all the trash in his thoughts subsided.

PURPORT

Material desires in the mind are the trash of material contamination. By such contamination, the living being is faced with so many compatible and incompatible things that discourage the very existence of spiritual identity. Birth after birth the conditioned soul is entrapped with so many pleasing and displeasing elements, which are all f

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Go on chanting

Tuesday, Vrndavana, 7 November 1972

Pradyumna was reading from Chapter One of Nectar of Devotion, describing the six characteristics of pure devotional service. "Srila Rupa Gosvami has given a definition of auspiciousness. He says that actual auspiciousness means welfare activities for all the people of the world."

Srila Prabhupada gave his spoken purport:

"Yes. Just like this Krsna consciousness movement. It is welfare activities for all the people of the world. It is not a sectarian
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Srimad-Bhagavatam - Canto 3 Chapter 2 Text 13
yad dharma-sunor bata rajasuye
niriksya drk-svastyayanam tri-lokah
kartsnyena cadyeha gatam vidhatur
arvak-srtau kausalam ity amanyata


yat -- the form which; dharma-sunoh -- of Maharaja Yudhisthira; bata -- certainly; rajasuye -- in the arena of the rajasuya sacrifice; niriksya -- by observing; drk -- sight; svastyayanam -- pleasing; tri-lokah -- the three worlds; kartsnyena -- in sum total; ca -- thus; adya -- today; iha -- within the universe; gatam --
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