His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
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Friday, May 24, 2013 - 10:36
Excerpts from a Lecture by Sri Madhupandit Dasa
Srimad Bhagavatam – 2.10.22
bodhyamanasya rsibir
atmanas taj jighrksatah
karnau ca nirabhidyetam
disah srotram guna-grahah
TRANSLATION
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Smita Krishna dasa
Friday, May 24, 2013 - 09:59
By the mercy of the Supreme Lord Krishna, Prahlada Maharaja was especially brought to this material world to teach people how to get out of the material condition. Prahlada Maharaja is the guide of
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Nityananda das, New Jayapur, Vanua Levu, Fiji Islands
Thursday, May 23, 2013 - 10:32
AGRICULTURE IN NEW JAYAPUR
Almost three years ago, as soon as the farm was under contract and even before the deal was closed, we began planting fruit trees. After all, they take years to start
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Smita Krishna dasa
Thursday, May 23, 2013 - 10:17
Krishna says in the Bhagavad-gita:
anta-kale ca mam eva
smaran muktva kalevaram
yah prayati sa mad-bhavam
yati nasty atra samsayah
"And whoever, at the end of his life, quits
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Damaghosha Das
Wednesday, May 22, 2013 - 10:01
Today while I was digging in my garden, and pulling out the seemingly unlimited amount of weeds, I was thinking about this subject.
It states in the Chaitanya Charitamrita that after chanting the
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Smita Krishna dasa
Tuesday, May 21, 2013 - 10:16
Krishna says that everything has got some defect, material. Even the fire, so powerful, so fire has also some defect: the smoke. So apart from that imperfection, if we execute our prescribed duties
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Damaghosha Das
Monday, May 20, 2013 - 10:15
Letter: Nandarani, Krishna Devi, Subala, Uddhava, October 3, 1967
...I am always with you. Our procedure is very simple and consistent. We chant, we read from Bhagavad-gita & Srimad Bhagavatam
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Smita Krishna dasa
Saturday, May 18, 2013 - 10:20
Supreme Lord Krishna, the supreme authority for all living entities says in the Bhagavad-gita -
dehino 'smin yatha dehe
kaumara yauvana jara
tatha dehantara-praptir
dhiras tatra na
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Saturday, May 18, 2013 - 09:59
Excerpts from a Lecture by Sri Madhupandit Dasa
So in this material world in the creation itself everything is given, there is a pleasure attached to each thing, if pleasure was not there in sex
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The Hindu
Friday, May 17, 2013 - 10:40
Feeding hands: Prem Bai serving mid-day meal to students.
Rural women in Rajasthan find regular livelihood resource as mid-day meal cooks
Prem Bai, mother of three children, is a neo-
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Damaghosha Das
Friday, May 17, 2013 - 10:14
Lectures, June 27, 1975, Los Angeles
Santosa: "The rare person who has completely adopted unalloyed devotional service can uproot all the weeds of sinful activities simply by discharging that
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Smita Krishna dasa
Friday, May 17, 2013 - 09:56
What was possible for Dhruva Maharaja is possible for anyone. Any five-year-old child can be trained, and within a very short time his life will become successful by realization of Krishna
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Damaghosha Das
Thursday, May 16, 2013 - 10:16
Lectures, July 16, 1975, San Francisco
Everyone is trying to become fortunate. Now, Chanakya Pandita gives three things, formula, "If you
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Smita Krishna dasa
Thursday, May 16, 2013 - 09:54
Human activities should be like:
akamah sarva-kamo va
moksa-kama udara-dhih
tivrena bhakti-yogena
yajeta purusam param
"Whether full of all material desires, free from
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Govinda Dasi
Wednesday, May 15, 2013 - 10:34
In 1965, Hayagriva, then Professor Howard Wheeler, went to India in search of a guru, having been inspired by some of his Indian college professor friends. He went seeking a guru, being attracted by
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Smita Krishna dasa
Wednesday, May 15, 2013 - 09:52
Just as an expert rider intimately knows the propensities of an untamed horse and gradually brings the horse under control, an expert yogi allows the mind to reveal its materialistic propensities and
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Smita Krishna dasa
Tuesday, May 14, 2013 - 10:37
Lord Chaitanya Mahaprabhu said:
prthivite ache yata nagaradi grama
sarvatra pracara haibe mora nama
“In every town and village, the chanting of My name will be heard.”
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Tuesday, May 14, 2013 - 10:08
Excerpts from a Lecture by Sri Madhupandit Dasa
Srimad Bhagavatam- 3.3.22
tasyaivam ramamanasya
samvatsara-ganan bahun
grihamedheshu yogeshu
viragah samajayata
TRANSLATION
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Business Today
Monday, May 13, 2013 - 14:08
India's skipper was depicted as Lord Vishnu on the cover of Business Today magazine
As reported by news agency PTI, a case has been registered by a Bangalore court against Indian cricket team
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Monday, May 13, 2013 - 10:07
Excerpts from a lecture by Sri Chanchalapathi Dasa
Srimad Bhagavatam – 10.13.16-17
TEXT 16
tato vatsan adrstvaitya
puline 'pi ca vatsapan
ubhav api vane krsno
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Bharath Singh
Friday, May 24, 2013 - 10:29
In Chaitanya Charitamrta, Madhya Lila 21 Lord Chaitanya describes to Sanatana Goswami the wonderful glowing moonlike features of the Lord as follows:
Krishna’s face is considered the king of
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Sudarshan Das
Friday, May 24, 2013 - 09:42
Therefore, in the neophyte stage, in the intermediate stage or in the fully advanced, perfected stage, one can make the function of the head perfect by bowing down before the Lord or His
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Damaghosha Das
Thursday, May 23, 2013 - 09:58
Lectures, June 15, 1975, Honolulu
Nobody is free. Everyone is under the grip of material laws. Even if I think, "I am free," that is my
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Sudarshan Das
Thursday, May 23, 2013 - 09:44
When I came to your country I had no shelter, I had no food, no arrangement. But I was eating. And now I have got so many nice sons and daughters, but I am eating the same. So when there was
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Smita Krishna dasa
Wednesday, May 22, 2013 - 10:32
The living entity's evolution through different types of bodies is conducted automatically by the laws of nature in bodies other than those of human beings. The living entity evolves from lower
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Sudarshan Das
Wednesday, May 22, 2013 - 09:40
One who is always busy serving Krishna in whatever condition he may live, is understood to be liberated even in this life. Such a person, who is a pure devotee, does not need to change his body;
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Nityananda das
Tuesday, May 21, 2013 - 17:00
The first Prabhupadanuga ritvik center was New Jayapur farm community located outside Natchez, Mississippi. It was started in 1987. We worshipped Sri Sri Radha Govinda, facilitated a few brahmincally
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Sudarshan Das
Tuesday, May 21, 2013 - 09:49
Just like when I came to your country, there was no friend, there was no relative, but assurance was there that "I am going for Krishna's business. So there is some provision, never mind
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Smita Krishna dasa
Monday, May 20, 2013 - 09:57
"If a person somehow or other chants the holy name of Hari while dying because of an accident, such as falling from the top of a house, slipping and suffering broken bones while traveling on the
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Sudarshan Das
Monday, May 20, 2013 - 09:42
The Lord is equal to everyone, but a devotee of the Lord is more glorified because he is always in touch with the all-great.
SB 1.8.6
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Damaghosha Das
Saturday, May 18, 2013 - 10:36
Conversations, March 4, 1975, Dallas
Prabhupada: The thing is that here material world means that whatever you want, you have to work for it. That is material
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Sudarshan Das
Saturday, May 18, 2013 - 09:49
An iron rod kept constantly within a fire will ultimately become fire, and whatever it touches will burn. Similarly, the pure devotee is in the fire of spiritual existence, and therefore his body
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Govinda Dasi
Friday, May 17, 2013 - 10:32
The Bhagavad-gita As It Is has been changed so drastically that it no longer even sounds like the same book. Now, I am not saying it is useless; I think every devotee should get both copies and
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Sudarshan Das
Friday, May 17, 2013 - 09:41
A truly Krishna conscious person, always absorbed in Transcendence, in constant undisturbed meditation on his worshipable Lord, is as steady as a lamp in a windless place.
BG 6.19
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Thursday, May 16, 2013 - 10:33
Excerpts from a Lecture by Sri Madhupandit Dasa
Originally in classical times philosophers and scientists were considered to be after truth that means they would find what the truth is and that is
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Sudarshan Das
Thursday, May 16, 2013 - 09:40
The Lord protects everyone, but one who depends completely upon Him is especially looked after by the Lord.
SB 1.8.8
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Wednesday, May 15, 2013 - 10:07
Excerpts from a lecture by Sri Chanchalapathi Dasa
During the British Raj, most people thought that - the British are ruling, that is the way it is. But then there were a few people like Gandhiji
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Sudarshan Das
Wednesday, May 15, 2013 - 09:41
Such a chaste devotee also never asks the Lord for help, but the Lord, out of His own accord, is always anxious to render it.
SB 1.8.16
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Govinda Dasi
Tuesday, May 14, 2013 - 10:20
The book editing issue is a very serious one, perhaps the most serious issue in ISKCON today. I have seen the attractive and seemingly authentic website promoting these changes, but most of it
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Sudarshan Das
Tuesday, May 14, 2013 - 09:46
“So my Guru Maharaja ordered me long, long ago, when I was twenty- five years old, my Guru Maharaja ordered me to go to the foreign countries and preach Lord Caitanya’s message. But
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