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Srila Prabhupada, our eternal spiritual authority and divine master said, "He (Srila Gour Govinda Swami) is a pure devotee from birth, you are all new men."

Pushkaraksha Das After Yamuna devi dasi and I had been initiated in Orissa on Rama Navami in 1986, as we were expressing some days later our sadness to have to leave soon and be deprived of his association, Srila Gour Govinda Maharaja became very grave, looked at me and said: "This is an eternal loving relationship. It is not dependant on time and space." Then he added "Think about this very deeply Puskaraksa...!"

Caitanya-caritamrta says,

‘dvaite' bhadrabhadra-jnana, saba -- ‘manodharma'
‘ei bhala, ei manda' -- ei saba ‘bhrama'

In this material world, which is called "duality," these, our listing, "These things are good. These things are bad," bhadra abhadra... Bhadra means good. Abhadra means bad. These are all the same. It is simply mental concoction. Here, the so-called morality, ethics -- all nonsense. Because you, you are trying to lord it over on the property of somebody else. So where is your morality? So these sentiments -- morality, immorality, good, bad -- they are simply manufactured. Actually, unless one surrenders to Krsna, there is no question of this ethics and morality. We are now discussing in our philosophical class, Huxley's morality. These are all crazy man's proposals. Actually, there is no morality.

So that we can understand things as they are if we receive the message of Urukrama, Krsna. If you give aural reception to the activities of Krsna ... Therefore, you should n

Following the example of Ramanuja, Bhakti Siddhanta Sarasvati Prabhupada, the Jagad Guru Preceptor for ALL of us, took sannyasa from the picture of his Gurudeva, Srila Gaurakishora Goswami Babaji Maharajah, who was a Babaji.

At that time he did not find any suitable Vaisnava guru, so he had to take from a photo of his Gurudeva. He wandered through Vrndavan and struck his forehead with his palm. “I came to such a holy place, but I could not find a true Vaisnava here.” That was his impression there. That came from his mouth. He could not find a true Vaisnava in the whole of Vrndavan and Navadvip.- courtesy Mother Pancali dd.

So,

Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati thus took one RITVIK initiation, as did most of Srila Prabhupada's disciples. It is now established TRADITION. Whereas rubber-stamps are PERDITION.

sri-gauranga-vidhoh sva-dhamani navadvipe ’shta-kalodbhavam |
bhavyam bhavya-janena gokula-vidhor lila-smriter aditah || (11)

“The pastimes of the moonlike Sri Gauranga are manifest in His own abode Navadvipa during the eight phases of the day. They should be meditated upon prior to the remembrance of the pastimes of the moon of Gokula.”

The eight-fold daily pastimes of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu are summarized as follows:

ratryante sayanotthitah sura-sarit snato babhau yah prage |
purvahne sva-ganair-lasaty upavane tair bhati madhyahnike ||
yah puryam aparahnake nija-grihe sayam grihe ’thangane |
srivasasya nisa-mukhe nisi vasan gaurah sa no rakshatu || (ibid. 2)

“At the end of the night, He arises from His sleep; in the morning He takes bath in Ganges, the river of the gods. In the forenoon and mid-day, He exhibits many beautiful pastimes with His devotees in the gardens. In the afternoon, he roams about in the village; in the evening he returns to His home. In the late evening an

Srila Prabhupada:
If any wife wants to be happy with her husband, she must try to understand her husband's ...temperament and please him. This is victory for a woman.

Even in the dealings of Lord Kṛṣṇa with His different queens, it has been seen that although the queens were the daughters of great kings, they placed themselves before Lord Kṛṣṇa as His maidservants. However great a woman may be, she must place herself before her husband in this way; that is to say, she must be ready to carry out her husband's orders and please him in all circumstances. Then her life will be successful. When the wife becomes as irritable as the husband, their life at home is sure to be disturbed or ultimately completely broken.

In the modern day, the wife is never submissive, and therefore home life is broken even by slight incidents. Either the wife or the husband may take advantage of the divorce laws. According to the Vedic law, however, there is no such thing as divorce laws, and a woman m

Sri Sivastakam

(Eight prayers glorifying Lord Siva, spoken by Sriman Mahaprabhu.Recorded in Murari Gupta's "Sri

Caitanya Carita Mahakavya")
1)

namo namaste tri-daçeçvaräya

bhütädi näthäya mådäya nityam
gaìgä-taraìgotthita-bäla-candracüòäya
gauré-nayanotsaväya

"I repeatedly offer my obeisances unto you, the controller of the thirty primal demigods;unto you, the

original father of all created beings; unto you, whose character is gracious; unto you, whose head is
crested by the sickle moon arisen from the waves of the Ganga and unto you, who are a festival for
the eyes of the fair goddess Gauri."

2)

sutapta cämékara-candra-nélapadma-
pravälämbuda-känti-vastraiù
sa nåtya-raìgeñöa-vara-pradäya
kaivalya-näthäya våña-dhvajäya

"I offer my obeisances unto you, who are dressed in garments resembling molten gold, the moon,

blue lotuses, coral, and dark rainclouds; unto you, who bestow the most desirable boons on your
devotees by means of your delightful dancing; unto you, who are the master of the impersonalists

http://www.harekrsna.org/pada/documents/poisonbook-3.htm

REVERSE SPEECH THEORY

            What may eventually become recognized as one of the greatest discoveries of the modern age, reverse speech is a phenomenon that was discovered by an Australian insurance broker, John David Oates. Oates has researched reverse speech for many years and has founded the David Oates Reverse Speech Association with chapters all over the world. His website at "reverse speech" is very helpful in educating the newcomer, and it includes many illustrative examples, such as some on the President Clinton- Monica Lewinsky controversy. Clinton's denial of involvement with Lewinsky is reversed to say, "She's a fun girl to kiss."

            Most people are familiar with the hidden messages embedded in "backward masking" on rock and roll records, begun by the Beatles in the 1960's. Innocuous, satanic, or meaningless messages and words were "reverse-buried" in the forward music and could only be discovered by ma

http://www.harekrsna.org/pada/documents/poisonbook-3.htm

Imagine if you will, a snow-flake-like round lotus mandala. At the center, all points are visible as extension from the essential core. The flower is One, yet it has distinctive petals. Now, transmorphing our simile; Srila Prabhupada as the center of a lotus-mandala representing the philosophical and practical positions and applications of all the devotees worldwide who have taken up the service of Si Krsna Caitanya Mahapabhu's mission, in all their glorious diversity.

Let us stretch a little further; Imagine a world-wide set of temples of Srila Prabhupada's ISKCON, in which happy brahmanas study and elaborate on the teachings of our pure and powerful Brahma Madhva Gaudiya Vaisnava sampradaya, setting a global standard of excellence. The priests daily perform initiations, a baptism of fire, into the cult of eternal service to the perfect Masters, as revealed by the unquestionably perfectfully empowered universal Gurudeva, Srila Prabhupada. These scholarly devotees are fully conversa

Our business is to pray, "Radharani, You are so dear to Krishna. So we offer our respectful obeisances unto You:"

tapta-kanchana-gaurangi
radhe vrndavanesvari
vrsabhanu-sute devi
pranamami hari-priye

Radharani is hari-priya, very dear to Krishna. So if we approach Krishna through the mercy of Radharani, then it becomes very easy. If Radharani recommends that, "This devotee is very nice," then Krishna immediately accepts, however foolish I may be. Because Radharani recommends it, Krishna accepts. Therefore, in Vrndavana you'll find all the devotees chanting Radharani's name more than Krishna's. Wherever you'll go, you'll find the devotees are addressing one another, "Jaya Radhe." They are glorifying Radharani. They're more interested in worshiping Her. This is because, however fallen I may be, if somehow or other I can please Radharani, then it is very easy for me to understand Krishna.

Srila Prabhupada September 18, 1969, in London

HDG Srila Prabhupada Goswami : "So now, by the grace of Krsna and Caitanya Mahaprabhu and in the presence of my Guru Maharaja, you are so nice boys and girls. So in front of Caitanya Mahaprabhu you are chanting Hare Krsna mantra, and you are taking part in it very seriously. So my Guru Maharaja will be very, very much pleased upon you and bless you with all benefits.

So he wanted this, and he is not... It is not that he is dead and gone. That is not spiritual understanding. Even ordinary living being, he does not die. Na hanyate hanyamane sarire [Bg. 2.20]. And what to speak of such exalted, authorized personality like Bhaktisiddhanta. He is seeing. I never feel that I am alone. Of course, when I came to your country without any friend, without any means... Practically, just like a vagabond I came. But I had full faith that "My Guru Maharaja is with me." I never lost this faith, and that is fact. There are two words, vani and vapuh. Vani means words, and vapuh means this physical bo

sri sri guru gauranga jayatah!

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Posted: 19 February 2014

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Aspects of the One Absolute

by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura Prabhupāda

  Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya told us that we must, necessarily, first determine what the self is; otherwise we will confuse the mind with the soul. Mind is quite different from the soul. Mind is the conductor of the Physical world. It receives impressions of nature through the medium of the senses and through the working of our body – that is, through our senses’ inter-mingling with external things, which are made of matter.

We are used to commingling with such things, yet when we consider theism – that is, when we enquire what the actual figure of Godhead is – we find in the Catur-śloki Bhāgavatamthat the Absolute Fountainhead said to Brahmā, the Creator,

“If I am to bestow My mercy upon someone, I must expose Myself to him fully. Those who have wrong aspirations and speculative minds will be debarred from having un-obscu