Hare Krsna This is a short photo story about growing grains (beans in this case), collecting them, drying them, and storing them in jars for years of later use. Annad bhavanti bhutani–In BG(3.14) Krsna tells us that all living entities subsist on food grains. Here is one such grain that practically anybody can simply grow, to […]
1.)Harikeśa: So if a devotee dies and remembers Kṛṣṇa, although he is not perfect… Prabhupāda: Unless he is perfect, he cannot remember Kṛṣṇa. That is not possible. That is not possible. That is theory only. He must be perfect. Somehow or other, he fallen, so Kṛṣṇa gives him the chance. That is special concession for devotee. Some way or […]
The following conversation between His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada and some of his disciples took place in March 1974 on an early-morning walk in Perth, Australia. Devotee: [Taking the part of a materialistic scientist] Why do you call Krishna consciousness a science? It seems like it’s only a belief. Srila Prabhupada: Your so-called science is […]
Inconceivable things in the spiritual world- Just for teasers, here is some of what you will find below…when our body is completely spiritualized it can and will act just like Krsnas-He/and we can eat thru the eyes, feet, ears, etc/our spiritual body can become grass, a tree or whatever we want, and still return […]
Feb 9 1976 Mayapura conversation-discussing family Gotras Prabhupāda: [break] Then you come to Gītā’s instruction, guṇa-karma-vibhāgaśaḥ [Bg. 4.13]. And Nārada Muni also says that one must be qualified, not the birth. Just like this Mullik, and we had the same gotra, but the marriage cannot take place within the same family. Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Within the gotra. […]
Srila Prabhupada: The Western civilization is a nasty civilization, artificially increasing the necessities of life. For example, take the electric light. The electric light requires a generator, and to run the generator you need petroleum. As soon as the petroleum supply is stopped, everything will stop. But to get petroleum you have to painstakingly search it […]
SB 3.12.48-57 Brahmā’s soul was manifested as the touch alphabets, his body as the vowels, his senses as the sibilant alphabets, his strength as the intermediate alphabets and his sensual activities as the seven notes of music. PURPORT-In Sanskrit there are thirteen vowels and thirty-five consonants. The vowels are a, ā, i, ī, u, ū, […]
Below are 2 conversations and one purport where Srila Prabhupada is warning about not cultivating pure bhakti and instead think- this bhakti yoga is an easy process-just chant Hare Krsna and thats all you have to do. It is, if we do it correctly, but done incorrectly with the wrong conceptions of philosophy behind it, […]
For those of us who would like to understand how the universal creation takes place (at intervals) here is the description from the Bhatgavat Purana-Srimad Bhagavatam. (SB 3.10.verses 12-30 in the matter of creation) This cosmic manifestation is separated from the Supreme Lord as material energy by means of kāla, which is the unmanifested, impersonal feature of […]
SB 3.9.33-When you are free from the conception of gross and subtle bodies and when your senses are free from all influences of the modes of material nature, you will realize your pure form in My association. At that time you will be situated in pure consciousness. SB 3.9.42-I am the Supersoul of every individual. I am the supreme […]
