Subject: Snana yatra – Bathing ceremony of Lord Jagannatha Srila Prabhupada explains the snana-yatra festival of Lord Jagannatha compiled by Yasoda nandana dasa Sri Caitanya-caritamrta Lectures : Adi-lila: Lectures : Adi 7: Lectures : Sri Caitanya-caritamrta, Adi-lila 7.3 — Mayapur, March 3, 1974 : 740303CC.MAY : [I offer my obeisances to Sri Krsna Caitanya, […]
Letter to German Disciples Bombay May 6, 1977 My dear beloved disciples, Please accept my blessings. I know that over the past years you have suffered so many tribulations to push forward Krsna consciousness in Germany. But this has not stopped you from your determination to serve the cause of Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu. A […]
June 6 1976 LA Mahendra: Eating mahā-prasādam is also fasting. Prabhupāda: Who says? Mahendra: You said that to Paramahaṁsa Swami once. Prabhupāda: And you heard from Paramahaṁsa. Mahendra: No, I was in the room. It was when he was trying to observe Caturmāsya. Prabhupāda: I never said that. Mahendra: Oh, okay, I must have heard wrong. Prabhupāda: If there is service and, on my fasting, service will be stopped, then I […]
Friends, by Haripada dasa I remember a class of Srila Prabhupada where he said that there are different degrees of friends. There is the common friend, the common friend is not our intimate friend. Then there is the intimate friend. With this person, there is a relationship based on love and trust, when you are […]
Hare Krsna— These cherries from one of our trees will get made into cherry pie, cherry cobbler, cherry crisp,eaten fresh, etc etc and a lot more are coming…..it took my wife about a half hour to pick these….the birds get the ones at the top of the trees and we get the ones we can […]
Sripad Baladeva VIdyabhusana Tirobhava Tithi [disappearance day] Gangamata Goswamini avirbhava tithi [appearance day] Srila Prabhupada glorifies Sripada Baladeva Vidyabhusana Friday, June 22, 2018 = Mayapura, West Bengal , Bharata Bhumi time and Los Angeles, California time [same day] compiled by Yasoda nandana dasa Srila Prabhupada explains how Sri Baladeva Vidyabhusana wrote the Gaudiya-Bhasya on the […]
The spiritual culture, by Haripada dasa The spiritual culture of India is so high that if a person does not follow these four regulative principles, 1- abandon the illicit sex life, 2- gambling, 3- coffee, stimulants and drugs and 4- consumption of meat, fish and eggs and sings every day The Maha-Mantra Hare Krishna, Hare […]
“Yes our next program is to organize farming”–SP May 15 1975 Perth Prabhupāda: This man is unemployed, and if we engaged him for plowing, will he do that? Paramahaṁsa: I don’t think so. (laughter) Prabhupāda: Just see. Amogha: That’s too hard, that’s work. “We don’t want to work like that, we just want some easy job.” Prabhupāda: Then you […]
Hare Krsna–Why do we remain stone hearted even after chanting for so many years? Stone hearted means tears do not come to our eyes when we chant nor do the hairs on our body stand up in ecstasy. The answers, for those interested, are given below in a few purports by Srila Prabhuapada SB 2.3.24 […]
The five kinds of ignorance, by Haripada dasa In the Sri Chaitanya Charitamrita, Adi-lila, 1, 102, it is said that in the Mahabharata, Udyoga-parva, chapter 43, the five kinds of ignorance are described, I will try to explain them. 1- To believe that the body is the self. I, the soul, remember that when I […]
