Los Angeles 25 January, 1969 My Dear Mr. Levine, Please accept my blessings. I am so pleased to read your letter of January 21, 1969 and to learn of your sincere eagerness to serve Krishna in the best capacity of your talents. There is a Sanskrit proverb that says that there is not any better knowledge than […]
How to overcome all the nasty conditions of this Kali yuga- SB 1.1.10 prāyeṇālpāyuṣaḥ sabhya kalāv asmin yuge janāḥ mandāḥ sumanda-matayo manda-bhāgyā hy upadrutāḥ “O learned one, in this iron age of Kali men have but short lives. They are quarrelsome, lazy, misguided, unlucky and, above all, always disturbed.” The people in this age are […]
Srila Prabhupada presents the glories of Sri Gadadhara Pandita compiled by Yasoda nandana dasa gadādhara-paṇḍitādi–prabhura nija-śakti
Disappearance day of Sri Vrindavana dasa Thakura, April 21, 2017 Thursday compiled by Yasoda nandana dasa Vrindavana dasa Thakura’s birth
June 11 1974 Paris Prabhupāda: Yes. Śakuni, yes. They’re vultures, and their civilization is vulture-eater. The animal-eaters, they’re like jackals, vultures, dogs. They’re similar to these animals, the animal-eaters. It is not human food.Here is human food. Here is civilized food, human food. Let them learn it. Uncivilized, vultures, rākṣasas, and they’re leaders. Therefore, I say […]
“There are two verses in the Canaka Sloka how a family or an institution can be glorified or burned into ashes by one person. The Canaka Pandit says that if there is one tree in the forest producing nice aromatic flower,[Srila Prabhupada] that one tree can glorify the whole forest by the flavor of its […]
1. April 28 1969 —The Power of Liberation comes by the association of devotees Mahat-sevāṁ dvāram. If you accept this way of life, then your spiritual life will be open. Mahat-sevāṁ dvāram āhur vimukteḥ [SB 5.5.2]. Vimukteḥ means… Vimukti. Mukti means liberation, and, adding the word, vi… Vi means specifically liberation. …So mahat-sevāṁ dvāram, […]
Hare Krsna Below is a conversation by Srila Prabhupada with a scientist who has a hard time understanding that there is no healing possible in this material world. Unless one understands that any so called “advancement” we make here, be it healing or whatever, is only temporary and not really solving our real problem, then we will […]
Hare Krsna-Below we have parts of a lecture by Srila Prabhupada where he nicely explains how this world of lust/desire works-thru the demigods, whose favor one can only get if Krsna Himself is pleased with them. Ultimately everything comes from God-so the conclusion should be, as Krsna gives to us in His Bhagavad Gita and […]
Hare Krsna-below we have two separate items about not compromising our principles, just to gain popularity or use the “go along-to get along” principle. Srila Prabhupada is quite adamant about sticking to our philosophy whether the general masses of people like it or not. After all, if we actually believe all our informations are coming […]
