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Srimad-Bhagavatam - Canto 2 Chapter 3 Text 25
athabhidhehy anga mano-'nukulam
prabhasase bhagavata-pradhanah
yad aha vaiyasakir atma-vidya-
visarado nrpatim sadhu prstah

atha -- therefore; abhidhehi -- please explain; anga -- O Suta Gosvami; manah -- mind; anukulam -- favorable to our mentality; prabhasase -- you do speak; bhagavata -- the great devotee; pradhanah -- the chief; yat aha -- what he spoke; vaiyasakih -- Sukadeva Gosvami; atma-vidya -- transcendental knowledge; visaradah -- expert; nrpat

On Srila Prabhupada's Spiritual Revolution

ISKCON is non-different from Srila Prabhupada -- "my body," he said. Let us always remember how much Srila Prabhupada desired this movement to be successful. There have been, are, and will be discrepancies and difficulties within ISKCON, especially without Prabhupada to personally chastise us and keep us in order. We sometimes tend to forget exactly what Prabhupada wanted us to do, and sometimes life in ISKCON has been unnecessarily very difficult. But d

Srimad-Bhagavatam - Canto 2 Chapter 3 Text 24
tad asma-saram hrdayam batedam
yad grhyamanair hari-nama-dheyaih
na vikriyetatha yada vikaro
netre jalam gatra-ruhesu harsah

tat -- that; asma-saram -- is steel-framed; hrdayam -- heart; bata idam -- certainly that; yat -- which; grhyamanaih -- in spite of chanting; hari-nama -- the holy name of the Lord; dheyaih -- by concentration of the mind; na -- does not; vikriyeta -- change; atha -- thus; yada -- when; vikarah -- reaction; netre -- in the eyes; jal

Every Wave Is Favorable

Its a beautiful letter by Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati, really worthwhile reading again and again when we feel upset, sad or lost due to our losses in material life. Hare Krishna!

[Originally published in The Harmonist]

September 1927, 441 Chaitanya Era
My affection-incarnate,

I have this morning come to Sri Gaudiya Matha from Puri. Immediately on arrival at the station I heard that by the will of God your son has gone away from us. You knew him as your son; he is a servant

"Srila Prabhupada never promoted himself, he could have called it the Bhaktivedanta Movement instead of the Krishna Conscious movement. Just like you have, you know this.. Gurudev movement and this…all the missions, usually they name after the Guru. Charismatic Guru movement. Then after…this baba, that mama, that ma…whatever.

But Prabhupada, he named it the International Society for Krishna Consciousness, Hare Krishna Movement, Krishna Consciousness movement. He didn't make it a Personality Cult!

His Holiness Bhakti Rasamrita Swami (previously H. G.Devamrita Das) spoke this past month at the ICC meetings (a Conference of ISKCON leaders in India) about the need for ISKCON temples and projects, in India,to consider implementing environment friendly standards.

Maharaj feels that Nature, as much as everything else, belongs to Krishna. As devotees, we should try in every way to counter or at least not add to the present environmental degradation.

Maharaj has surmised his ideas for ISKCON temple