Below is a very telling conversation with Srila Prabhupada about the Indians who come to America and other western countries. They have lost their own culture and instead, end up eating hot dogs and hamburgers . Srila Prabhupada once told us, the Indians are ten steps from Krsna going the wrong direction, and the westerners […]
Today, some 38 years after Srila Prabhupada’s physical departure from our vision, we have seen countless changes by the leaders of Iskcon and others who say they are following Srila Prabhupada, their spiritual master. Below we have one letter where Prabhupada explains there is nothing else we need to do – BUT we should […]
SB vol 11 part 2 mayapur feb 25 1976 Any literature, very nicely written, just like Shakespeare writing or some other, big, big mundane writers, their writing, it is very nicely written, grammatically very correct, and metaphorically very nicely meant… Na tad vacaś citra–padam. Citra–padam means very artistically written. There are literatures very artistical. Na tadvacaś citra–padaṁ harer yaśo pragṛṇīta karhicit. But there is no glorification of the Lord; […]
SB classes vol 10 710110SB.CAL Lectures 229576/530501 aksara-dvayam. If anyone simply chants these two alphabets, ha, ri–hari–then baddha-parikaras tena moksaya gamanam pratiti: “Although he is a conditioned soul, his path for liberation is open.” Yasya smrtya ca namoktva tapa-yajna-kriyadisu, nunam tam purnakam yati sadyah vande acyutam ity adi-vacanam.(?) There is another quotation, that yasya smrtya […]
SB classes vol 10 710110SB.CAL Lectures 229576/530501 aksara-dvayam. If anyone simply chants these two alphabets, ha, ri–hari–then baddha-parikaras tena moksaya gamanam pratiti: “Although he is a conditioned soul, his path for liberation is open.” Yasya smrtya ca namoktva tapa-yajna-kriyadisu, nunam tam purnakam yati sadyah vande acyutam ity adi-vacanam.(?) There is another quotation, that yasya smrtya […]
SB classes vol 9 NoD 7 Hearing and speaking Srimad-Bhagavatam is the religious process which elevates one to the platform of serving and loving the Supreme Personality of Godhead.” 750628SB.DEN Lectures 227240/530501 atah sri-krsna-namadi na bhaved grahyam indriyaih sevonmukhe hi jihvadau svayam eva sphuraty adah Krsna, His name, His fame, His attributes, His activities… Sri-krsna-namadi […]
Sb class vol 8 part 2 Hare Krnsa to all Pranams All glories to Prabhupada Below we give a few tidbits of the nectar contained with in this file of SB classes given by His Divine Grace Srila Prabhudpada Before leaving your body, you must be self realized to go back home. Without vairagya or […]
Hare Krsna-below is a few paragraphs, Srila Prabhupada nicely explains how we are deluded into thinking we are working for ourselves, but in actuality it is always for “others”. And if we work only for Krsna, then Maya, the illusory energy will not touch us-which translates as -NO MORE SUFFERING !!! Hari bol Damaghosa […]
Room Conversation — April 22, 1977, Bombay : 770422r3.bom : Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Well, I have studied myself and all of your disciples, and it’s clear fact thatwe are all conditioned souls, so we cannot be guru. Maybe one day it may be possible… Prabhupāda: Hm. Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: …but not now. Prabhupāda: Yes. I shall choose some guru. I shall say, “Now you become ācārya. You […]
TRANSLATION “If the mercy of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu is not bestowed upon a person-regardless of how learned a scholar that person may be and regardless of his seeing or listening-he cannot accept Lord Caitanya as the Supreme Personality of Godhead. PURPORT The same principles can be applied to demoniac persons, even though they be […]
