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"But Srila Prabhupada, they are saying that if we aren’t in ISKCON, we lose your blessings and cannot make advancement.” Prabhupada replied, “ISKCON is where you are chanting the holy name– that is ISKCON.” We rejoined: ”They are saying we don’t have any association here and are therefore in maya.” He replied: “Association can be two or two hundred. If you are two and compatible you can become perfect in Krishna consciousness. If you are 200 and are not, then no one will make advancement.”

(June 1976) Srila Prabhupada to Yamuna

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Thākura Bhaktivinoda - Part I

by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura Prabhupāda

The Duty of Gauḍīyas During the
Festival of the Solar Eclipse at Kurukṣetra

by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura Prabhupāda

Appearing in English for the first time

Prabhupāda

Śrī Śrī Guru Gaurāṅgau Jayataḥ

Lissmore Cottage
Limekhera Shilam
17 October, 1928

Dear recipient of my affection,

I have received many letters and telegrams from you. Today I sent you a telegram asking you to send aid to Kurukṣetra. During the solar eclipse, a festival will be held at Śrī Vyāsa Gauḍīya Maṭha in Kurukṣetra, so the followers of the path of  bhakti will also have many duties to perform there. To protect the personal associates of Bhagavān, who are our  āśraya-jātīya-sevya-vigraha (our worshipful deities who are the abode of love of God)* from the pangs of separation they have been suffering for many, many days and to bring them face to face with Kṛṣṇa, we must take them to Kurukṣetra. Therefore, it is our topmost  dharma to render service to the Vrajavāsīs, who have been experiencing extrem

+ Positive Thinking; Positive thinking means to understand one's position as servant of the servants of the varga, and then to do the right services as desired by the spiritual master. Srila Prabhupada came to deliver us all, and to change the whole world. Srila Prabhupada told us success means the high court judges are wearing tilak, and to become involved in all the world arenas, such as politics and sociology etc. Thus, if fighting is necessary to eliminate evil ones occupying the positions of power , then so be it. This is positive. It preserves the sankirtan movements. "In order to deliver the pious and annihilate the miscreants, I come to the world!", and "To those who are steady and have bhakti, I , the Supreme Lord, give the understanding/power that brings them quickly home to Me!" - paraphrase Sri Krishna, Bhagavada Gita As It Is.

- Negative Thinking; " It is all up to Krsna. That is our karma. Forgive and forget." All these are tainted by ignorance, that nothing can be don

Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Thakur Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura, the guru of Srila A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, appeared in Sri Ksetra Dhama.(Jagannatha Puri) on 6 February 1874 as the son of Srila Sacidananda Bhaktivinoda Thakura. In his childhood he quickly mastered the Vedas, memorized the Bhdgavad-gita, and relished his father's philosophical works. He became known as "The Living Encyclopedia" for his vast knowledge. He preached convincingly against casteism and philosophical deviations from Gaudiya Vaisnavism. He tried to unite the four Vaisnava sampradayas by publishing their teachings. Srila Sarasvati Thakura earned the title Nrisimha Guru for his fearless and powerful delivery of the Vaisnava siddhanta. Mayavadis would cross the street to avoid confronting the "lion guru." Besides being a courageous preacher, he was ornamented with all divine qualities and full of ecstatic love of God. He established 64 Gaudiya Math temples in India and centers in Burma,

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thank you for this nice conversation between our guru maharaj and the devotee. i'm ok, until some sukrti are still there by the causeless mercy of SRILA PRABHUPADA who allow us to keep chanting hare krsna maha mantra all life long to make sure we don't come back to this dukhalayam asasvatam world full of suffering anymore as our beloved acharya remind us still through HIS sublime vani seva.

actually I'm aware about all this suffering at the moment that my mother is in hospital. anyway she is 90 years old and very religious too. used to be indian citizen her life before like me. i'm preaching to my mother including my sisters and brother I told them that we are all in the list like my mother waiting to leave the body. this already happens before but because we got the tendency to forget. we think this bad dream regarding death is true, may be we here the next life may be not. but the spiritual journey is keeping going.

if is not here, is someone else, t

Potency of Association with Sri Guru

Srila Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda: “Anyone who is in the material world, he is not pure devotee. He has to become a pure devotee. But there are pure devotees. They come. They are not subjected to all this. They come for the deliverance of the fallen souls. They are above Lord Brahma, Lord Siva…” Conversations with Srila Prabhupada, pg. 327 (Morning Walk, May 11, 1975 Perth, Australia)

Srila Bhakti Prajnana Kesava Goswami: “Sri Guru and the Vaisnavas is the one and only means by which a jiva can attain the ultimate goal of life. Only by their mercy is it possible for him to obtain the merciful, sidelong glance of the most compassionate Sri Bhagavan.” (Rays of the Harmonist)

Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakur Prabhupada: “Only a person who has descended from the spiritual world can speak about that place. One who belongs to the phenomenal world cannot actually report on matters of the transcendental plane. However, upon receiving the fortune

"I CAME HERE TO TAKE THEIR SUFFERING", SAID PRABHUPADA

It was the beginning of 1977. Prabhupada was in 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

Maalaakamandalu dharah karapadmayugme Madhyastha paaniyugale damarutrishoolam; Adhyastha urdhva karayoh shubha shankhachakre Vande tamatrivaradam bhujashatkayuktam.

MEANING: I meditate on Lord Dattatreya, the son of Atri, who has six hands, who holds the rosary and water-vessel in two hands, with damaru and spear in the other two hands, and with conch and discus in the upper two hands.

In his Caitanya-śikṣāmṛta, Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākur describes the spiritual potency of Vaiṣṇavas at various levels of advancement, to help us understand what a guru at each level is capable of conveying to their disciples. Those aspiring for initiation (dīkṣā) should take serious note of these differences in order to make an informed and wise decision:

Concerning the bestowal of devotional energy by the mercy of the devotee, something should be mentioned. The power of the prema-bhakta is unlimited, and thus, the prema-bhakta, if he is merciful, can transfer his power to any type of person.

The merciful bhāva-bhakta can instill power in the sādhana-bhaktas so that they can assume a position similar to his own, and by the strength of his personality, the bhāva-bhakta can raise materialistic people who have gained some qualification due to previous deeds to the level of ruci.

Vaidhī and rāgānugā-sādhana-bhaktas can instill faith in materialistic people who have attained qualification by pre