june 18 1972 Prabhupāda: Yes. This bow down… Even the children, they are imitating, bowing down, but it has got the effect. Not that the children, they have no seriousness about… Seriousness or no seriousness, simply if he bows down, he gets the result. He gets the… Dancing, he’s dancing. He’s getting the result. He’s becoming a […]
Hare Krsna- Below we have put some discussions with Srila Prabhupada about the nature of the soul, its size, and the propensity to fall down being marginal energy of the Lord. That independence and propensity Srila Prabhupada says to fall down into this material world is always there. But once experienced, we will not do that […]
SB 7.2.57 purport- Yamarāja once asked Mahārāja Yudhiṣṭhira, “What is the most wonderful thing within this world?” Mahārāja Yudhiṣṭhira replied (Mahābhārata, Vana–parva313.116): Hundreds and thousands of living entities meet death at every moment,but a foolish living being nonetheless thinks himself deathless and does not prepare for death. This is the most wonderful thing in this world.Everyone has to die because everyone is […]
Hare Krsna- Below we have put some discussions with Srila Prabhupada about the nature of the soul, its size, and the propensity to fall down being marginal energy of the Lord. That independence and propensity Srila Prabhupada says to fall down into this material world is always there. But once experienced, we will not do that […]
Hare Krsna–Winter seems over here for us, bulbs and flowers are popping out of the ground, rhubarb is coming up, the weather is mild, and I am beginning to clear out from the gardens what is left from over wintering plants. Below is a tray of purple brussel sprouts (very high in anti oxidants)and the […]
Philosophy discussions-Srila Prabhupada about Bergson-with Symasundar Śyāmasundara: So someone can understand, someone can know what the life force is going to do in the future, how it will manifest itself in the future? Prabhupāda: The future, because he is eternally servant of God, so now he has forgotten. He wants to become master, and the […]
Compiled by Yasoda nandan das Today is the disappearance day of Sri Madhvacarya, who is the sampradaya-acarya of our Brahma-Madhva-Gaudiya Vaisnava Sampradaya. Srila Prabhupada: “Srila Madhvacarya is the original acarya for those who belong to the Madhva-Gaudiya-sampradaya.” (Srimad Bhagavatam, 6.1.40.purport “… This Madhva-Gaudiya-sampradaya is also known as the Brahma-sampradaya because the disciplic succession originally began from […]
Hare Krsna Below we have two separate letters from Srila Prabhupada regarding how Vrndavana and New Vrndavana should be developed. Both should be a village like atmosphere where simple living goes on, just the it was 5000 years ago when Krsna and Balaram was there. Today we have a totally different picture developing and even by the […]
Hare Krsna-This is a very instructive story Srila Prabhupada tells to us about a yogi and a businessman who tried to cheat him. It is directly related to sadhana bhakti and how we cannot light the fire of KC by having only smoke-instead of fire. In other words, if we cheat, change the process, or […]
1. Do not create your own process for worshipping Deities “The greatest danger to our movement will come when we manufacture and create our own process for worshiping the Deities. So don’t ask any more new questions, whatever is going on, follow it just to the exact standard as I have given you, that’s all…” Srila Prabhupada […]
