Why are Instructions for Ritvik Initiations Misunderstood? By, Narasimha dasa This question often arises: Why do many devotees reject Srila Prabhupada’s clear and common-sense order for ritvik initiations? Some suggest it is due to ignorance, or misunderstandings caused by false propaganda. Others say it because they are falsely ambitious. Others say it is due to jealousy or […]
Srila Prabhupāda: Yes. If you read Kṛṣṇa book and if you believe, then you see Kṛṣṇa. He’s not different from the book. Devotees: Jaya Śrīla Prabhupāda. Gurukṛpā: Questions, Śrīla Prabhupāda? Anybody who would like to address some question to His Divine Grace, please raise your hand and stand up, any questions. (pause) Srila Prabhupāda: Everything is solved? (laughter) Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: You had a question? Guest: Is […]
Srila Prabhupada arriving at San Francisco Airport and being greeted by the poet, Alan Ginsberg, and devotees, including Mukunda. Newspapers highlighting the Hare Krishna Explosion The first ever Ratha Yatra in San Francisco His Divine Grace leading the ecstatic kirtan at Hippie Hill The Jagannatha Baladeva & Subhadra deities installed in the San Francisco temple […]
Hear me my dear friendsour love never endsto ever heal and mendand lift us to transcend. Simply believe the truthwe are loving servants me and youwithin ourselves is all the proofsee within is all you have to do. By hearing from him fully awaketo our love beyond this poison lakeSrila Prabhupada his most divine gracereveals […]
khaṇḍavāsī mukunda-dāsa, śrī-raghunandana narahari-dāsa, cirañjīva, sulocana ei saba mahāśākhā–caitanya-kṛpādhāma prema-phala-phula kare yāhāṅ tāhāṅ dāna Śrī Khaṇḍavāsī Mukunda and his son Raghunandana were the thirty-ninth branch of the tree, Narahari was the fortieth, Cirañjīva the forty-first and Sulocana the forty-second. They were all big branches of the all-merciful tree of CaitanyaMahāprabhu. They distributed the fruits and flowers of love of Godhead anywhere and everywhere Śrī Mukunda dāsa was the son […]
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By a Group of Śrīla Prabhupāda Disciples, followers: Dear Jayādvaita Swami, Draviḍa Prabhu & Company, Please explain why you have made the following rotten changes on Śrīla Prabhupad’s Macmillan Bhagavad Gītā As It is: (1) Why is it in the revised edition of the Bhagavad Gītā, you and company have completely removed the foreword by […]
In London, Prabhupada had a program at Conway Hall. Conway Hall was a 500-seat auditorium in Red Lion Square. One night an extraordinary thing happened. Prabhupada led the first kirtana and then gave a lecture. I sat on the floor just to his right with the harmonium, and after the lecture, I began leading the […]
Hear me my dear friendsour love never endsto ever heal and mendand lift us to transcend. Simply believe the truthwe are loving servants me and youwithin ourselves is all the proofsee within is all you have to do. By hearing from him fully awaketo our love beyond this poison lakeSrila Prabhupada his most divine gracereveals […]
How Many Persons are Benefitted from Book Distribution? Srila Prabhupada: Whoever gets a book is benefitted. If he reads the book he is benefitted still more, or if he gives the book to someone else for reading, both he and the other person is benefitted. Even if one does not read the book but simply holds […]
