What follows is a very beautiful description of the Lords Transcendental Body by Sukadev Goswami SB 6.4 35-39–Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: The Supreme Personality of Godhead, Hari, who is extremely affectionate to His devotees, was very pleased by the prayers offered by Dakṣa, and thus He appeared at that holy place known as Aghamarṣaṇa. […]
SB 6.4.24-As the sense objects [form, taste, touch, smell and sound] cannot understand how the senses perceive them, so the conditioned soul, although residing in his body along with the Supersoul, cannot understand how the supreme spiritual person, the master of the material creation, directs his senses. Let me offer my respectful obeisances unto that […]
As he stood up after ending a lecture in Munger, an earth tremor caused mild flooding of the adjacent Ganga. The water soon receded, after which Srila Sarasvati Thakura said: “In due course maha-pralaya (devastating floods) will inundate the entire universe. If you attempt to survive by swimming in that deluge, then do not neglect […]
May 27 1966 NY lecture…. Simply by… There are many so-called mendicants in India. They, I mean to say, loiter in the street naked, and sometimes they are arrested by the police, like that. Imitation is not required. Imitation is not required. But there is a stage like that. Just like a madman. Sometimes a […]
June 8 1974 Geneva conversations Prabhupāda: Yes. (indistinct) consider what kind of life I’m going to get. (indistinct) They have made their own rascal philosophy that there is no life after death. Although they’re experiencing that I am changing my body in this duration of life. I know that I have a child’s body, child’s […]
May 27 1966 NY lecture…. Simply by… There are many so-called mendicants in India. They, I mean to say, loiter in the street naked, and sometimes they are arrested by the police, like that. Imitation is not required. Imitation is not required. But there is a stage like that. Just like a madman. Sometimes a […]
BG 10.1 purport…The more one hears about the Supreme God, the more one becomes fixed in devotional service. One should always hear about the Lord in the association of devotees; that will enhance one’s devotional service. Discourses in the society of devotees can take place only among those who are really anxious to be in […]
Two peas in a pod-Sukadev and Damaghosa- I really miss him Here we are during one of his annual two week summer visits.. Madhya 8.2.48-Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu asked”Of all kinds of distress, what is the most painful?” Sri Ramananda replied, “apart from separation from the devotee of Krsna, I know of no unbearable unhappiness. Brhad […]
Hare Krsna-below we have compiled a series of texts and purports from SB which clearly explain the sick and sinful condition of those posing as spiritual masters today. SB 5.26.40 purport….supplemenatry notes…. The activities of Ṛṣabhadeva, therefore, do not support the claims of a certain class of men known as arhat, who sometimes advertise that […]
SB 5.26.15-If a person deviates from the path of the Vedas in the absence of an emergency, the servants of Yamarāja put him into the hell called Asi-patravana, where they beat him with whips. When he runs hither and thither, fleeing from the extreme pain, on all sides he runs into palm trees with leaves […]
