Phalgun Krsna Pancami of Srila PrabhupadaThird Vasistya 21. If everyone simply sat down together and considered these things what nice preaching there could be. 22. What is your order also, that everyone, coming together, should merge in your message and preach it to the world. 23. If everyone just initiates then there will only be a […]

Hare Krishna Dear Prabhu, The other morning during japa, it occurred to me to put together two jewels of information.  One is that Krishna resides in the heart and supplies knowledge, remembrance and forgetfulness.The second is that Srila Prabhupada is the external manifestation of the Lord in the heart.  This idea of “external manifestation of the Lord in […]

Madhya 8.274-“The mahā-bhāgavata, the advanced devotee, certainly sees everything mobile and immobile, but he does not exactly see their forms. Rather, everywhere he immediately sees manifest the form of the Supreme Lord.” PURPORT Due to his deep ecstatic love for Kṛṣṇa, the mahā-bhāgavata sees Kṛṣṇa everywhere and nothing else. This is confirmed in the Brahma-saṁhitā […]

Feb 21 1975 conversations Devotee: Hiraṇyākṣa was taking the gold from the earth. Now they are taking the oil. So the weight, the oil makes weight in some parts of the globe, no? So when they take it and they put it some place else or they convert it in the earth, the earth is […]

My name is Ishan das. I created the Balaram mridanga in L.A. It is really quite a story. But I’ll give you the brief version. Some time in 1972-73 Srila Prabhupada saw that the East Indians were not carrying on the tradition of making the original mridangas and kartals. The younger generation who would normally […]

SB 9.8.22–My Lord, You are fully situated in everyone’s heart, but the living entities, covered by the material body, cannot see You, for they are influenced by the external energy, conducted by the three modes of material nature. Their intelligence being covered by sattva-guṇa, rajo-guṇa and tamo-guṇa, they can see only the actions and reactions […]

Sri Mukunda datta tirobhava tithi [disappearance day] compiled by Yasioda nandana dasa śrī-mukunda-datta śākhā–prabhura samādhyāyī yāṅhāra kīrtane nāce caitanya-gosāñi SYNONYMS śrī–mukunda–datta—of the name Śrī Mukunda Datta; śākhā—another branch; prabhura—of Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu; samādhyāyī—class friend; yāṅhāra—whose; kīrtane—in saṅkīrtana; nāce—dances; caitanya–gosāñi—Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu. TRANSLATION Mukunda Datta, a class friend of Lord Caitanya’s, was another branch of […]

Subject: Fw: 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, […]