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"... in the absence of a suitable king to curb irreligious tendencies, educating the people systematically in the teaching of Srimad-Bhagavatam will clear up the hazy atmosphere of corruption, bribery, blackmail, etc." – Srimad Bhagavatam 1.1.7.27 (1972 edition, original and unedited).

prema dhana vina vyartha daridra-jivana
dasa kari vetan more deha prema dhana

Life without Love is useless and poor they say,
Appoint me in Thy service, Oh Lord with Love as my pay.

  

 "Similarly, we must find out the essential part of a living being which is always companion with him. That part of constant companion of the living being is his eternal quality, and the eternal part of the living being's quality is his eternal religion."

 

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Yamunā: Swāmījī, Jānakī-devī wrote me this very nice letter where she had a dream that there was a gigantic platform above the surface of the earth, and all of our devotees, our Godbrothers and -sisters and you, were assembled on this gigantic platform for saṅkīrtana.
And we had such a thunderous joy, magnificent kīrtana, that the whole earth... When you said, "Jaya oṁ paraṁ paramahaṁsa," the whole earth bowed down to you like this. And we were all crying, so happy. And you said, "Now my Guru Mahārāja is satisfied." That was her dream.
Prabhupāda: Thank you very much. Yes. Thank you for your dreaming like that. It is very pleasing to me. Yes, I want to see like that. That dreaming is also nice.
Type: Conversation
Date: March 25, 1968
Location: San Francisco
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Sudip Nair said; almost the entire population of young devotees get preached to remain humble, not criticize and not expose anything with the fear of committing Vaisnava Apradha. The poisoners use this tactic to keep them under their control so that no one sees through their deception. And even 99.99% of them ....., have no guts to openly expose the poisoners with the fear of getting...... blocked"

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Joshua Davis “It is the duty of the disciples to take charge of the mission of the spiritual master and execute it properly. Otherwise the disciple should decide to die along with the spiritual master. In other words, to execute the will of the spiritual master, the disciple should be prepared to lay down his life and abandon all personal considerations.”
(Srimad-Bhagavatam, 4.28.50, purport)

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Dave Everitt ; You know someone is a complete moron and should not be around your children, if he answers 'yes' to any

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There are now two kinds of devotees

There are now two kinds of devotees; One, those who are actually materialists, for example speaking of "negativity" when talking about devotional warfare, as if fighting and killing are bad and dropping one's weapons and sitting in the name of so-called material "peace" is "good", all duality of maya..
Second type, are the Arjunas and those who have actually understood Gita. They serve KRSNA, not some material philosophy of good and bad.

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Sudip Nair said; Translation:
Cities will be dominated by thieves, the Vedas will be contaminated by speculative interpretations of atheists, political leaders will virtually consume the citizens, and the so-called priests and intellectuals will be devotees of their bellies and genitals.

SB 12.3.32
dasyutkrsta janapada
vedah pasanda-dusitah
rajanas ca praja-bhaksah
sisnodara-para dvijah

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Tamohara Dasa

Krishna smiled and started explaining to the Pandavas. “Arjuna, what you saw is how the relation between priests and devotees will be in Kaliyuga. The priests will have very sweet voice and great knowledge but they will exploit devotees.

The poor will live among the rich. The rich people will have massive amount of wealth which will keep increasing and overflowing but they will not offer a single penny to the poor ones. They will waste the money for themselves as they have more than what they need but they won’t be sharing it with those who are needy and suffering.

In Kaliyuga, the parents will love their children so much that their love itself will destroy the lives, dreams and the future of the children.

People will fall in the terms of character. They keep crushing and destroying everything on their way to success. Just like the boulder. They won’t listen to anyone. They will be unstoppable. They won’t follow the path of Dharma.

But when they get to know what the

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On December 23rd, 1936, Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Prabhupada gave his final instructions to the assembled devotees:

Perhaps many people have considered me their enemy because I was compelled to tell the unadulterated truth. I asked them to serve the Lord with all sincerity. I have given much anxiety to many people only because I wanted to inspire them to serve Krishna sincerely without material desire and duplicity. One day they will understand this.

1. sakale parama utsaha sahakare rupa raghunatha vani pracara sabara
“All of you preach the message of Rupa and Raghunatha to everyone with great enthusiasm.”

2. rupanuga-pada-dhuli haite sabara (jena) carama akanksa citte jage anibara
“May the ultimate desire to become a speck of dust at the lotus feet of the followers of Sri Rupa remain ever awake in our hearts.”

3. advaya-jnana-tattva vraje vrajendra-nandana (mula)-visaya-vigraha
sei sarva-sevya-dhana
“Vrajendranandan Krishna is the principle of non-dual consciousness. He is th

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AUGUST 7
In this age,it is more important to create devotees then to construct temples.
Hawaii,7,1969
Srila Prabhupada

"Among all the living entities wandering throughout the universe, one who is most fortunate comes in contact with a representative of the Supreme Personality of Godhead and thus gets the opportunity to execute devotional service. Those who are sincerely seeking the favor of Kṛṣṇa come in contact with a guru, a bona fide representative of Kṛṣṇa. The Māyāvādīs indulging in mental speculation and the karmīs desiring the results of their actions cannot become gurus. A guru must be a direct representative of Kṛṣṇa who distributes the instructions of Kṛṣṇa without any change. Thus only the most fortunate persons come in contact with the guru." (Prabhupada purport SB 5.17.11)

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Harinam Diksha Ceremonies held in Srila Prabhupada’s temples

Posted on 10. April 2011 by staffmember
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Harinam Diksha Ceremonies held in Srila Prabhupada’s temples
at Vrindavan, Bangalore, Chennai, Mysore and Hubli,

March 19th 2011
It was a very emotional and historic day for all followers of Srila Prabhupada, as hundreds of them formally accepted him as their diksha guru. The formal diksha ceremony was held in Hare Krishna centres of Bangalore, Mysore, Hubli, Vrindavan and Chennai. The respective Presidents of the temples conducted the harinam diksha and second initiation ceremonies. 

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The ceremony consisted of each of the devotees taking an oath in front of Srila Prabhupada’s deities that they will follow the four regulative principles and chant at least sixteen rounds of Hare Krishna Maha Mantra daily. Following which each of them were given japa beads which were already chanted on by the GBC appointed rtviks and the temple presidents announced the initiated disciples’ names declar

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"The love in my heart, the stone in my hand."

"Ain't got no pistols, ain't got no sword or marching band, all I've got is the love thats in my heart, and the stone that's in my hand." Everlast. How can you know, you who sit in lotus towers? You cannot see, are deaf! Your comfortable life blinds you to the myriad sufferings, daily, on and on. You hear only what you want to believe! But the people are hungry, their skins are sallow and their brains dull from their stomach's emptiness! They have no hope and no futures! They die alone, they suffer together. They fumblingly press in the needle of sweet oblivious escape. They are kept blind and uneducated, a life hardly worth living in the ghettos and enclaves, created and pinned there by your greedy designs and rascism. They are abused and assaulted by you, the fat-cat elite; you such proper politicians and bankers, you who calculatingly maintain mercenary troops to enforce total control over every man's thoughts and resources, who keep the world enslaved in depraved self-righteous p
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