Hare Krsna Pranams All glories to Srila Prabhupada So much panic and fear going around these days and I think devotees, especially should have more faith in the Holy Names of God, and Srila Prabhupada-and less listening to the karmi mudhas. Just consider this one statement by Prabhupada about how the Plague in Calcutta was […]

761102rc.vrn When men are uncivilized, they do not how  to grow food, they kill animals in the  jungle and eat. When they  are civilized, they know how to grow food now and  the nice food grains, fruit, flowers…   Jan 15 1975 SF-..Not that for your foodstuff, getting your food grain or earning your livelihood, you have to […]

July 31 1975 New Orleans Devotee (3): But does he focus his mind upon the two-armed…? Prabhupāda: There is no question of focus or no focus. One who sees Kṛṣṇa, he sees everything. Yasmin vijñāte sarvam evaṁ vijñātaṁ bhavanti. There is no question of imagination. This is fact. What is that? Satsvarūpa:nāhaṁ prakāśaḥ sarvasya yoga-māyā-samāvṛtaḥ […]

https://prabhupadabooks.com/classes/philosophy/syamasundara/john_dewey Śyāmasundara: Today we are discussing the American philosopher John Dewey. Last time we were discussing William James, who is called a pragmatist. His philosophy deals…, believes that practice is better than theory. So this John Dewey is more or less a successor in this same line of philosophizing. He says that practical consequences are […]

Subject: Sri Vyasatirtha aradhane [Tirobhava tithi- disappearance] March 14, 2020 Sri Vyâsa Tîrtha (1460-1539) — a short sketch Srila Prabhupada: There are four Sampradayas from the beginning of the creation. One is called Brahma Sampradaya, and is coming down by disciplic succession from Brahma; another Sampradaya is coming down from Laksmi, called Sri Sampradaya; another […]

Sri Srivasa Pandita avirbhava tithi [appearance day]Srila Prabhupada explains the glories or Srivasa Thakuracompiled by Yasoda nandana dasa After this incident the Lord began to preach and propagate His Bhāgavata–dharma, or saṅkīrtana movement, more vigorously, and whoever stood against this propagation of the yuga–dharma, or duty of the age, was properly punished by various types […]

The teachers Ṣaṇḍa and Amarka instructed Prahlāda Mahārāja in the three kinds of material advancement called religion, economic development and sense gratification. Prahlāda, however, being situated above such instructions, did not like them, for such instructions are based on the duality of worldly affairs, which involve one in a materialistic way of life marked by […]

Concentrated reading of Srila Prabhupadas books is a form of samadhi-smaranam The following purport is taken from SB 7th canto where Prabhupada describes the 9 process of bhakti (3) Smaraṇam. After one regularly performs the processes of hearing and chanting and after the core of one’s heart is cleansed, smaraṇam, remembering, is recommended. In Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam […]

Dear Devotees and Friends, Please accept our humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada! On this very auspicious event of Gaura Purnima, it was unfortunate that we had to miss the program at Damaghosa Prabhu’s place, so our family did a simple celebration at home. Our program consisted of Kirtans, Bhajans, Abhiseka, Lecture by Srila […]