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Srila Prabhupada ~ At any moment, you can die. Death, there is no guarantee. But it is a guarantee that you must die. That is guaranteed. But when you will die, that is not guaranteed.
Therefore we must be prepared for death at any moment. Therefore a devotee is not afraid of death. He knows that death may come at any moment.
We are... Nowadays, it has..., the death is very cheap. Because we are using this motorcar, these aeroplanes, so many things, ships and other things for transportation, and there is, every moment there is danger of accident, collapse, everything. So death is now very cheap. So we must be prepared for death at any moment.
There is no guarantee, that "I am not yet old enough. I am not yet eighty years, ninety years. Why shall I die?" No. You may be twenty years, twenty-five years or younger than that. Death is assured, and it can take place at any moment.
Therefore our only duty is to think of Kṛṣṇa, Puruṣottama, so that we may die at any moment, but we bec
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Caitanya-caritāmṛta
Madhya 20.174
“The first manifestation of the vaibhava feature of Kṛṣṇa is Śrī Balarāmajī. Śrī Balarāma and Kṛṣṇa have different bodily colors, but otherwise Śrī Balarāma is equal to Kṛṣṇa in all respects."
Purport
To understand the difference between svayaṁ-rūpa, tad-ekātma-rūpa, āveśa, prābhava and vaibhava,
Śrīla Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura has given the following description. In the beginning, Kṛṣṇa has three bodily features:
(1) svayaṁ-rūpa, as a cowherd boy in Vṛndāvana;
(2) tad-ekātma-rūpa, which is divided into svāṁśaka and vilāsa;
(3) āveśa-rūpa.
The svāṁśaka, or expansions of the personal potency, are
(1) Kāraṇodakaśāyī, Garbhodakaśāyī, Kṣīrodakaśāyī
(2) incarnations such as the fish, tortoise, boar and Nṛsiṁha.
The vilāsa-rūpa has a prābhava division, including
Vāsudeva,
Saṅkarṣaṇa,
Pradyumna
Aniruddha.
There is also a vaibhava division, in which there are twenty
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Rasa Manjari

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So we are preaching Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam all over the world. We have translated into English Bhagavad-gītā, Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam. And they are being received very nicely. In the Christmas period in a week, from 17 December to 24 December, our report is we have sold books, small and big, seventeen lakhs. And our general survey is that we are selling books to the worth of five to six lakhs daily. Daily. And our expenditure is also very heavy. We have started a Bhaktivedanta Book Trust for expanding this movement. We have got about two hundred buses to preach the Jagannātha cult all over the world, village to village, town to town . . . (break) . . . this kṛṣṇa-bhakti cult may be one all over the world. I do not know what is the cause. Here you are all present, many learned scholars and paṇḍitas. So you consider why this restriction should be there. Of course, if you do not allow, there is no, I mean to say, loss on the part of the foreigners, because
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Śṝīla Prabhupāda said:
The asuras, the demons and proclaimed atheists, actually challenge God. If it were not for our Supreme Father, we would not see the light of day, so what is the point of challenging Him? In the Vedas it is stated that there are two classes of men, the devas and asuras, the demigods and demons. Who are the devas? The devotees of the Supreme Lord are called devas because they also become like God, whereas those who defy the authority of the Supreme are called asuras or demons. These two classes are always found in human society.
His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktīvedānta Swāmī Prabhupāda- On The Way To Kṛṣṇa

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1. Repeated blind radiological studies of poisoned hair samples 2. repeated blind audiologic studies of voices on tape 3. SP's own words 4. connections to cia revealed, names dates etc 5 . disease symtpoms exclusive to cadmium poisoning in SP 6. motivation, anecdotal evidence from witnesses, including Gurukrpa Swami, doctors, brahmanas, kavirajahs, and others. 7. July 7 letter appointing "acaryas" was a forgery 8. they all corroborate therefore astronomical strength of objective scientific evidence that the poisoning is correct. - T Garden, MS Aud (C)r. See also Nityananda's books and Truth committe videos.

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A Secret Service Paper Trail: How the Laws of Logic Exposed the Forgery of the Century.
In the history of global religious organizations in the 20th century, few documents have generated as much heated debate as the famous circular letter of July 9, 1977, issued to ISKCON, which defined the procedure for appointing spiritual successors in the International Society for Krsna Consciousness. For decades, researchers have debated the authenticity of this order, but the use of forensic methods and strict laws of logic has allowed this detective story to be brought to a final conclusion. A detailed analysis indicates that the organization's leader, philosopher and translator Srila Prabhupada, physically could not have signed this document. Behind him stood the high-tech work of professionals from foreign intelligence agencies.
A Typewriter Flaw: Technology That Never Existed.
The first and most obvious clue lies in a technical analysis of
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Sri Krishna Balarama

A soft heart is compared to honey, to butter and to nectar. And the condition of the mind is compared to sunshine. As honey and butter become melted even in slight sunshine, softhearted persons become easily melted. Nectar, however, is by its nature always liquid. And the hearts of those who are in pure ecstatic love with Kṛṣṇa are by nature always liquified, just like nectar.
Nectar of Devotion. Chapter 31.
HDG AC Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada.

 
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What we experience in our temporary embodied lives is more-or-less preset. The body acts as a filter mechanism, a receiver that "plays" the script, the whole thing known as KARMA. This karmic realm is like a wound-up clock, or a machine made of matter. It is a projection or simulation of the eternal realms, but lesser, temporary and much suffering and mad adventure, projected by Mayadevi under the Lorrd's service direction, to entertain the desires of the jiva souls.
 
One who is shown this is liberated if they act upon the knowledge. A brahmana in ISKCON should be in a liberated status. The sincere devotee acting on behalf of their bonafide Sri Guru, ie Srila Prabhupada, as according to his directions, is not involved in mundane karmic things any longer. And so via yukta vairagya, ie bhakti yoga, one can accomplish all things in life, and yet walk above the karmic trap by these awakened devotional liberated yogamaya actions.
Tamohara dasa, acbssp, agt Srila Prabhupada
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It was the beginning of 1977. Prabhupada was in the Bombay temple. He was very sick. He had stopped all food intake – he was taking 1/4 a cup of orange juice per day. His body had only bones left – there was no flesh. And yet, he was insisting that he wanted to go to London. The doctors had given up responsibility. But as always, he was adamant.
At this time, one Pancaratrika Pandit from Bangalore named Sampat Kumar Bhattacarya came to know about Srila Prabhupada’s situation. So, he took a flight from Bangalore to Bombay – which in those days was a huge thing for a Brahmin priest – and met Prabhupada, and asked for a private meeting. Generally, nobody was allowed a private meeting, but when he said that he specially came by flight from Bangalore to meet Srila Prabhupada, he was allowed a private meeting. So, everybody was asked to go out, and they talked.
The conversation was like this: Sampat Kumar: ‘Swamiji, I am feeling very pained that you are suffering like this.’
Prabhu
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THIS IS THE REAL JALADUTA SRILA PRABHUPADA TRAVELLED ON:
(The other one, the small one which is portrayed in the biography of Srila Prabhupada after he passed away, was scrapped 1963!)
 
Suchandra Dasi
Is it really? How do you know? 
Suchandra Dasi "DhiraBhakta Dasa
Yep
Checked the ships database that holds all records of registered ships.
So I'm wondering why were led to believe it was an older ship which in its later days renamed and then scrapped in 1963
Rather than the one laid down in 1959 and entered service in 1061?
Is it that it's more powerful if you see Srila Prabhupada on an old ship rather than a relatively modern ship for its time?
I'm just wondering"

 

 

 

 

 

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Srila Prabhupada´s favorite photo,

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Srila Prabhupada´s favorite photo, which ke kept on his altar for his private worship. The pose, yugala piriti, is the perfect expression of gaudiya vaisnava philosophy of Radha Krishna rasa.

He kept it as the main worshippable photo on the altar in his rooms at the LA temple. He said the pose was the perfect expression of Gaudiya Vaishnava philosophy of Radha Krishna rasa. But, he never put it in his books, probably because it could be misunderstood by the common man. It is so intimate that only the most elevated devotees can understand and appreciate it. 
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STATEMENT BY SRILA PRABHUPADA DISCIPLE Bhagavat Maharaja
On The Poisoning of Srila Prabhupada
Recorded: April 2007
Place:
960 N La Brea Ave. Los Angeles CA 90038
Present:
Bhagavat Maharaja (Speaker)
Nara Narayan das Vishwakarma (Witness)
Rupa Manjari devi dasi (Transcriber)
~•~•~•~
Dear Devotees of Lord Krishna worldwide,
Please accept my humble obeisances. All Glories to Srila Prabhupada!
Following is the stunning account by Bhagavat Maharaja, a senior disciple of Srila Prabhupada, of the poisoning conspiracy against Srila Prabhupada, carried out by His leading disciples who went on to receive fortune and fame in the aftermath of His Divine Grace's passing, on the pretext of being His "successors", despite there being no authorization or order from Srila Prabhupada for them to become Diksha gurus for ISKCON subsequent to His Departure. Bhagavat Maharaja dictated this statement to me, which I typed onto my laptop from 7 pm to
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A compilation farmed from HH Nanda Gopal Swami;  Spoken by HH Bhagavata Maharajah in interviews.
 
"History of the unfoldment of recognition that Srila Prabhupada was poisoned began in Buffalo, New York. A devotee with a high-quality sound system picked up the whispers on a tape, and sent this tape to Houston and Dallas, Texas, to Abhinanda Das, who forwarded it to Puranjana das. Naveen Krishna das (Naveen Khurana) in Alachua (a former member of the GBC) received the tape as well. Things begin to stir: A Hindu devotee promoted the tape on his radio and website, and Naveen Krishna posted it on VNN (Vaishnava News Network).
 
remembered that Adi Kesava das brought Ayurvedic Makaradhvaja from Chandra Swami. (Srila Prabhupada requested medicine from a Ramanuji Murari Kaviraja. As it turns out, there was one in Calcutta, by the name of Damodar Prasad Shastri.) Adi Kesava went to Delhi and received medicine from Chandra Swami. This is why Naveen Krishna later brought in Bhagavat Maharaja
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From 1977 t0 1980, I did most of the cooking in Bhubaneswara Iskcon ashrama. GG Maharajah said he liked my cooking best, so.
On Sundays, we had Nayapalli over for pracara and prasadam and kirtana. We hired a brahaman cook and his helpers. They cut veggies, boiled dahl, made rice
I would ususally go into town to fetch a litre of ghee and two boxes of premixed boxed spices; gram dahl spice and sambara, to be added to the finishing v large pot of dahlma, so that the offering would be extra special .
Sometimes I made some semolina halava and samosas for the Deities, for Sunday. I would bring a box of milk sweetsonce or twice a week, very small amounts of pera and sandesh, very sweet but good, Maybe milk ake or misthi dahi . We got milke delivered, Dikpati's assovisate from Nayapalli. GGS laugher at how the dairy me watered the milk down each day a little bit more, little bit more, until it was no longer milk and you had to complain about it. Then the cycle repeats itself.
Weekdays, it was t

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