720413SB.MEL Lectures tal labhyate duhkhavad anyatah sukham kalena sarvatra gabhira-ramhasa You should read all this. You don’t read. In the first volume of Bhagavata these things are explained. But I don’t think you read all these things. Do you read? So if you don’t read, then you will feel restless: “Oh, let me go from Japan […]
760222SB.MAY So here the fierceful attitude, very, very fierceful, that is very pleasing to Prahlada Maharaja. He said, naham bibhemy ajita te ‘tibhayanakasya: “Your face is very fearful to the enemies, but it is very beautiful to me.” Everything. Naham bibhemy ajita te ‘tibhayanakasya jihva. Everything fierceful… In the next verse Prahlada Maharaja will say that “This […]
Songs Purport to Gay Gaura Madhur Sware So Bhaktivinode Thakura advises, “Never mind, you are in distress or happiness, but go on chanting this maha-mantra.” Maya-jale baddha ho’ye, acho miche kaja lo’ye. You are entrapped by the network of illusory energy, maya-jale baddha ho’ye, just like the fisherman catches from the sea all kinds of creatures […]
Hare Krsna to all Pranams All glories to Srila Prabhupada and Sri Krsna Janmastami Mahotsava On Sunday Aug 17th in Snohomish Wash at the ashram of Kanhaiya das and family, we celebrated the Divine appearance of Lord Sri Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Many Indian families showed up as well as many local “Americans” […]
DO I LIKE TO DO THIS ??? OR DO I LIKE TO DO THIS??? Hare Krsna to all Pranams All glories to Srila Prabhupada The soul’s natural and intrinsic propensity is to serve-its called cid vilasa-which means to give spiritual pleasure. So in all aspects of living we serve/worship either spirit, or matter. We cannot […]
Hare Krsna to all Pranams All glories to Srila Prabhupada Yesterday, on Sunday, two totally different things happened to me. I was made aware (yet again ) of how powerful are the ongoing words and ongoing presence of Srila Prabhupada. 1. I got an email from an old distant friend of mine who lives in Seattle […]
751210mw.vrn Conversations Prabhupada: What do you understand, fully Krsna conscious? Visala: It’s to see Krsna face to face? Prabhupada: That means Krsna conscious? Everyone is seeing Krsna face to face. When you go to the temple Krsna is there, and you are seeing. Does it mean everyone is Krsna conscious? Visala: No. Prabhupada: Then what […]
Hare Krsna to all Pranams All glories to Srila Prabhupada Below are a few concise points about the beginnings of Bhakti- We all know we have to hear and chant, but then what? Srila Prabhupada gives us the answer. And he states it 4 times ! Hari bol damaghosa das 760318SB.MAY Lectures Although He can […]
Hare Krsna to all Pranams All glories to Srila Prabhupada Summarized below are these points: 1. Why Vishnu bhaktas generally poorer than Sivas bhaktas 2. Yudhisthira maharaj said he never told a lie, therefore Dharmaraj was present, Arjuna and Bhima are great warriors, and Draupadi is the goddess of fortune herself- We have Dharma , […]
760221SB.MAY Lectures So people do not understand. Therefore they are called mudhas.(asses) They are simply making arrangement how to become happy. It is not possible to become happy here. That’s a fact. But still they are. Therefore they are called mudhas, rascals. Which will never be possible, and they are trying for that. You see, […]
