Sri Radha Kunda-Vrndavana Photo from cover of Cyavana swamis book-Catch the Rising Moon ShriRadhakundashtakam by Raghunath Das Goswami Bhavanuvad based on Shri Anant Das Babaji’s Stavamrita Kana Vyakhya vṛṣabha-danuja-nāśān narma-dharmokti-raṅgair nikhila-nija-sakhībhir yat sva-hastena pūrṇam prakaṭitam api vṛndāraṇya-rājñā pramodais tad ati-surabhi rādhā-kuṇḍam evāśrayo me After Krishn killed the demon Vrishabhasur, a wonderful lila took place, which […]

Feb 6 1976 conversations Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: What is the way to draw the line between the following three things: blasphemy, fault-finding, and calling a spade a spade? Prabhupāda: A spade a spade… Just like I am saying that “What you are? You are small fig only.” That is reality. And what is the other? Tamāla […]

SB 5.1.6 purport….When Priyavrata’s father, Svāyambhuva Manu, requested him to accept the responsibility of ruling over the world, he did not welcome the suggestion. This is the symptom of a great, liberated devotee. Even though engaged in worldly affairs, he does not take pleasure in them, but remains always absorbed in the Lord’s service. While […]

June 2 1974 Geneva lecture…. We are now entangled. Actually, our position in this material existence is not very good. Everyone sees it practically. Still, they want to adjust, “Let us make it good. Let us make it good.” That is called punaḥ punaś carvita-carvaṇānām [SB 7.5.30], again and again chewing the chewed. Just like […]

Jan 22-23 1976 Mayapur. Prabhupāda: Yes. Then in Tretā-yuga one-fourth diminished. And then Dvāpara-yuga, half diminished. And in Kali-yuga, three-fourth diminished. Seventy-five per cent are all rogues, and twenty-five per cent… That is expected, but that is now diminishing. They are all rogues with the advancement of Kali-yuga. Mandāḥ sumanda-matayo manda-bhāgyā hy upadrutāḥ [SB 1.1.10]. Therefore there is […]

March 6 1974 Mayapur Prabhupada:There is that story that one old woman, she was suffering. And she had to collect woods from the forest and sell in the market. So one day, how do you say, she was praying to Kṛṣṇa, or God, that “Kindly help me. I am in very poverty-stricken.” So one day, […]

Gargamuni Das In india in the early 70’s Srila Prabhupada performed ”kirtan pandals” all over india. He publicly referred to the foreign devotees as ”dancing white elephants”–Brahmananda prabhu gives a nice analasyis of this statement– -Brahmananda: I’m thinking what Srila Prabhupada, when we came here, what he called us. You may know. What did Prabhupada […]

These texts below show why the Srimad Bhagavatam is the ripened fruit of all Vedic knowledge These few verses were spoke by the great Jada Bharata to King Rahugana SB 5.12.10-Since this universe has no real ultimate existence, the things within it—shortness, differences, grossness, skinniness, smallness, bigness, result, cause, living symptoms, and materials—are all imagined. […]

Chapter Eleven-Jada Bharata instructs Kind Rahugana In this chapter the brāhmaṇa Jaḍa Bharata instructs Mahārāja Rahūgaṇa in detail. He tells the King: “You are not very experienced, yet you pose yourself as a learned person because you are very proud of your knowledge. Actually a person who is on the transcendental platform does not care […]

He may accept or not accept our service, but the only means to satisfy the Lord is through the service attitude, and nothing else. Dec 13 1973 LA lecture…This patraṁ puṣpam is not important thing. The important thing is bhakti, devotion. That is wanted. Without bhakti, if you offer Kṛṣṇa very big plate, Kṛṣṇa is […]