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Jai Srila Prabhupada!

The devotee can purify every place and every thing

because he is carrying the Supreme Lord within his heart.

Teachings of Lord Chaitanya

Submitted by: Damagosha Dasa

Hare Krsna

Below are some of the qualifications necessary to become a Pure Devotee of the Lord. We should never think that now I have tilak, dhoti, sari, japa mala,I regularly go to a temple, church, etc that- now I am a devotee, a religious person. That is only the beginning of Dharma or bhakti yoga. One must acquire the qualifications of Vaisnava.

damaghosa das

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Hamburg Aug 27 1969

By our present senses, we cannot understand what is Kṛṣṇa, or what is God, what is His name, what is His form, what is His quality. Therefore immediately, if we try to understand Kṛṣṇa by His picture, “Oh, Kṛṣṇa is embracing Rādhārāṇī or the gopīs,” we shall mistake. Because unless our senses are purified, we shall accept Kṛṣṇa and Rādhārāṇī as ordinary young boy or girl and their dealings. But actually it is not. It is pure.

When your, the dust on the mirror of your heart will be cleansed, and it will cleanse by simply chanting, ceto-darpaṇa-mārjanaṁ bhava-mahā-dāvāgni-nirvāpaṇam, and there will be no more any material condition…

That is the next stage. If you chant Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra without any offense, then immediately the stage will be that you are freed from all material anxieties. That is the test. How I am advancing in chanting will be tested how far you are free from material anxieties. That’s all. Ceto-darpaṇa-mārjanaṁ bhava-māha-dāvāgni-nirvāpaṇam [Cc. Antya 20.12]. Then real life begins. So long you are perturbed by material disturbances, you should know that your spiritual life has not begun. This is confirmed in everywhere. Brahma-bhūtaḥ prasannātmā na śocati na kāṅkṣati [Bg. 18.54]. Prasannātmā. Bhagavad-gītā says, “When one is Brahman realized…” Brahman realized means one who understands that “I am not this body. I am pure spirit soul, eternal servitor of Kṛṣṇa.” Simply understanding that “I am not this body. I am spirit soul,” is not enough. That is not sufficient knowledge. Of course, that is good. That is just on the marginal step between matter and spirit. But you have to transcend completely this material existence and come to the platform of spiritual understanding. So for that purpose you have to go further after Brahman realization. Brahman, brahma-bhūtaḥ prasannātmā [Bg. 18.54]. If you are actually Brahman realized, the symptom will be that you are always joyful, no anxiety. Anxiety, why…? Everything is very nicely discussed in Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam. Bhayaṁ dvitīyābhiniveśataḥ syād. When you forget Kṛṣṇa, or God, and if we think there is something else than Kṛṣṇa, then we are afraid. And those who are convinced and realized souls that there is nothing but Kṛṣṇa, where is the cause of fearfulness?

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Raghunandan Thakur bequeathed the service of his Gaura-Gopal Deity to his son Kanai Thakur and then left this world on the fourth day of the waxing moon in the month of Shravan. (In the image: Gaura Gopala and Gopinath of Raghunandana Thakur, Shrikhand).

Subject: Sri Raghunandana Thakura Tirobhava (disappearance)

Srila Prabhupada and Sri Krsna dasa Kaviraja describe the exalted position and glories

of Sri Raghunandana Thakura. Saturday, Tuesday, August 6, 2016 (USA and Mayapura India time )

compiled by Narasimha dasa and Yasoda nandana dasa

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Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare
ET SOYEZ HEUREUX! / AND BE HAPPY!

Submitted by Yasoda nandana Dasa

This band of siblings includes our sisters who sacrificed their lives

This band of sisters who dance for Krsna and Srila Prabhupada

This band of brothers who who enjoy and now revives

The holy name of Krsna with their sisters will forever laud

This band of siblings who drew from their youth with joy

Their lives and talents to teach others the life of true path

Their resultant rewards of eternal response to enjoy

The whole worlds tearful joy of their love of God bath

This band of Srila Prabhupada siblings have never gone down

This band of Srila Prabhupada siblings are keeping Krsna’s name

This band of siblings have kept always the holy sound
And we will never leave the worlds people with shame

For we all will forever chant the holy name.

Hare Krsna Hare Krsna Krsna Krsna Hare Hare Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare

Ys Hasti Gopala dasa https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZOJ0_sRznM

Submitted by: Damagosha Dasa

I was in Vancouver temple, and I heard that Srila Prabhupada was coming to L.A. I’d never seen Prabhupada before so I got very excited and I asked Bahudak, who was the temple president, that I wanted to go to meet Prabhupada. And he said, “If you want to please Prabhupada, you stay here.” So I said, “OK, prabhu.” And as soon as he left I ran upstairs to the brahmacari asrama and I didn’t even take any clothes, I just grabbed my coat and I ran out the back door. I didn’t have any money, and I was in Canada. So I start hitchhiking, went across the border, got across almost to the end of Washington state the first night. And Prabhupada is arriving the next day around 4:00 in L.A. So I think I was about a thousand miles away from L.A. As soon as the sun came up, I started hitchhiking. And the first car that came over was a brand new Corvette, and this guy was an Air Force pilot. He said, “Where are you going?” I said, “I’m going to L.A.” He said, “Jump in,” and amazingly enough he was driving about 120 miles an hour. It was great, it was fun. To make a long story short, he drove me two blocks from the temple in L.A. and I got there about 20 minutes before Prabhupada came in. I ran upstairs, took a shower, put on a dhoti, put on tilak, ran outside into the alleyway and flowers were showering from the top of the building, and Prabhupada’s car pulled up and the door got opened and Prabhupada came out. It’s the first time I saw him, and his smile was great. The devotees were jumping up and down, and it was like being in the spiritual world.

Janaspriha das

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Hare Krsna–

Below Srila Prabhupada nicely explains how this Hare Krsna Movement ran on in the beginning days.

Nobody had a “job”-literally nobody– because Krsna supplied everything we needed. He explains this

is the business of the brahmanas-to preach, and then depend upon the Lord for whatever

we need. Brahmana by definition should be independent from all money making schemes or employments,

but there are some exceptions in times of emergency, which is exactly what we have in this kali yuga. And

one nice way to avoid the Kali yuga “rat race” is to grow ones own food, which typically brahmanas did at

their cottages/ashrams . Below we have some pictures of just such a scenario here at Sri Sri Gaura

Nitai Mandir

damaghosa das

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Melbourne May 20 1975

Prabhupāda: No. I am brāhmaṇa yes. Yes. But we are not… We do not recognize brāhmaṇa by birth. Brāhmaṇa by these qualities. Anyone who has got… This is the shastric injunction, that if the qualities are found somewhere else—that means one who is not born in a brāhmaṇa family but he has the qualities of the brāhmaṇa—then he should be accepted as a brāhmaṇa. That is shastric injunction. Yasya hi yal lakṣaṇaṁ proktaṁ varṇābhivyañjakam, yad anyatrāpi. Anyatra means elsewhere. Tat tenaiva vinirdiśet [SB 7.11.35]. “He should be accepted as such.” Similarly, if a man, born in brāhmaṇa family but he has the qualities of the śūdras… Paricaryātmakaṁ kāryaṁ śūdra-karma svabhāva-jam [Bg. 18.44]. Paricarya means service. To accept… [break] So therefore, according to Bhagavad-gītā, nobody is brāhmaṇa. A brāhmaṇa should remain independent. He should live by his qualities. People will honor him. Just like we are training. We do not serve anyone, but we are maintaining big establishment.

This is brāhmaṇa. We do not serve anyone, any merchant, officer, any… No. We chant Hare Kṛṣṇa. That’s all. If Kṛṣṇa wants, He will give us food, or we shall starve. We are not going to serve.(others) This is the proof. We are spending not less than twenty lakhs of rupees for maintaining our establishment throughout the whole world, but we do not know what is our next moment’s income. We do not know… We have eaten today. We do not know whether we shall have any eatable next day. This is our position. If it is available, we shall eat; otherwise we shall starve.

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Sri Lokanatha Goswami tirobhava [disappearance day]

Tuesday, July 26,.2016 [Los Angeles, California time]

Wednesday, July 27, 2016 [Mayapura, West Bengal time]

compiled by Yasoda nandana dasa

Srila Prabhupada glorifies Sri Lokanatha Goswami

Books : Sri Caitanya-caritamrta – 1975 Edition : Cc. Adi-lila : Adi 1: The Spiritual Masters : Adi 1.19 : PURPORT :

Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu explained this mode of devotional service in three stages, and therefore these worshipable Deities were installed in Vṛndāvana by different Gosvāmīs. They are very dear to the Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇavas there, who visit the temples at least once a day. Besides the temples of these three Deities, many other temples have been established in Vṛndāvana, such as the temple of Rādhā-Dāmodara of Jīva Gosvāmī, the temple of Śyāmasundara of Śyāmānanda Gosvāmī, the temple of Gokulānanda of Lokanātha Gosvāmī, and the temple of Rādhā-ramaṇa of Gopāla Bhaṭṭa Gosvāmī. There are seven principal temples over four hundred years old that are the most important of the five thousand temples now existing in Vṛndāvana.

Books : Sri Caitanya-caritamrta – 1975 Edition : Cc. Adi-lila : Adi 7: Lord Caitanya in Five Features : Adi 7.164 : PURPORT :

When Rūpa Gosvāmī and Sanātana Gosvāmī went to Vṛndāvana, there was not a single temple, but by their preaching they were gradually able to construct various temples. Sanātana Gosvāmī constructed the Madana-mohana temple, and Rūpa Gosvāmī constructed the Govindajī temple. Similarly, their nephew Jīva Gosvāmī constructed the Rādhā-Dāmodara temple, Śrī Gopāla Bhaṭṭa Gosvāmī constructed the Rādhā-ramaṇa temple, Śrī Lokanātha Gosvāmī constructed the Gokulānanda temple, and Śyāmānanda Gosvāmī constructed the Śyāmasundara temple. In this way, many temples were gradually constructed. For preaching, construction of temples is also necessary. The Gosvāmīs not only engaged in writing books but also constructed temples because both are needed for preaching work. Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu wanted the cult of His saṅkīrtana movement to spread all over the world. Now that the International Society for Krishna Consciousness has taken up this task of preaching the cult of Lord Caitanya, its members should not only construct temples in every town and village of the globe but also distribute books that have already been written and further increase the number of books. Both distribution of books and construction of temples must continue side by side in parallel lines.

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Hare Krishna Society

Srila Prabhupada re: The purifying potency of a pure devotee

Some qualifications needed to become pure devotee

Sri Raghunandana Thakura Tirobhava (disappearance)

Montreal RATHA-YATRA August 6, 2016

This Band of Srila Prabhupada Siblings

Eager for Prabhupadas mercy (care of the Prabhupada connection)

Book change articles [part 2]

How to depend upon Krsna–and not some “job”

Book Changes

Sri Lokanatha Goswami Tirobhava Tithi [disappearance day]