Thursday, January 23, 1969

Los Angeles, Calif.

My Dear Sivananda,

Please accept my blessings. I am in due receipt of your letter dated January 14, 1969, and I have noted the contents.

I am pleased to note that you enjoy going out into the streets chanting and preaching from

Bhagavad-gita. This is a very good attitude and in accordance with the teachings of Lord Caitanya that the process of Sankirtana should be presented to men all over the world.

So as you are able you should continue to go into the streets to chant, and I am sure that the others at your temple will appreciate going with you as they are available. Surely this practice will attract many people there to take some interest in this Krishna Consciousness movement.

Regarding your request for cooking information, it is best if you will consult Yamuna Dasi in London. She is very expert cook, and will be able to answer any questions you have regarding prasadam preparations. I understand that Yamuna has written a recipe book

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Gazpacho for Gopal!

You may have cooked and eaten this extremely delicious, nutritious and refreshing soup already, or may not. 

This is one of my favorite dishes for several reasons.

1. It is completely raw food

2. It is completely vegetarian, stuffed with proteins, vitamins and minerals

3. It is very easy to cook

4. It looks so beautiful and colorful!

Gazpacho is a Spanish word, but the idea of the dish originates from the ancient world. Arabs, Romans and nations in the Mediterranean area made this soup thousands years ago.

So, pour one to one and a haf a liter of natural tomato juice in a large bowl, chop and add

1 cucumber

3 tomatoes

2 bell peppers (capsicum)

1 medium onion

small bunch of green onions

a few cloves of garlic

some coriander or parsley

one tablespoonful of ground black pepper

1-2 teaspoonful of salt

2 tablespoonful of vinegar

4 - 6 tablespoonful of lemon juice

Mix all the ingredients together and leave your soup to ripen in the fridge for a few hours. The longer it

More pastimes described ! ;

Louis A.Bh.S.
4 hours ago HK!
The Jets fans are hoping the Canadiens win tonight I can assure you. :) I know…

http://youtu.be/T3NMPgmZWF4

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  Please accept my humble obeisances. All Glories to Srila Prabhupada!
  As I have said before, regarding Parampara, there is no argument from me as far as the emergence of Pure Devotees is concerned. This will come about naturally and perfectly in the exact method as described to us by Srila Prabhupada, namely, rigid following and carrying out the Orders of the Spiritual Master. Nothing of what He gave us is mundane, so whether it is purely managerial such as the DOM, or individual, such as our respective sadhana prescriptions, or congregational, such as putting the account books on the front steps, or philosophical, such as accepting the sum total of His Words to be non-different and emanating from Sri Krishna Himself, these Instructions, Requests, Teachings and Personal Example all are working in tandem in formulating the blueprint or DNA of the ISKCON Movement for the next 10,000 years. They each individually and all collectively establish a marker that in its fulfillment will have the

Ishwari Saraswati Nandini said;

devi krishna-mayi prokta
radhika para-devata
sarva-lakshmi-mayi sarva
kantih sammohini para

"The transcendental goddess Srimati Radharani is the direct counterpart of Lord Sri Krishna. She is the central figure for all the goddesses of fortune. She possesses all the attractiveness to attract the all-attractive Personality of Godhead. She is the primeval internal potency of the Lord."

To explain further, Srimati Radharani is also the source of the other goddesses, who are expansions of Her. Just as Lord Krishna is the source of all other expansions and incarnations of God, Radharani is the source of all other expansions of the energies of God, the shaktis, or other goddesses. Thus, Vishnu, Rama, even Shiva are all expansions of the one Supreme Being, and similarly Lakshmi, Sita, and even Durga are all expansions of this Supreme Feminine form of God, Radharani.

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Lalita Kund Cleaning by ISKCON Vrindavan
Devotees

BY: SACI GAURASUNDARA DASA

Apr 14, 2013 — VRINDAVAN DHAM— Please come and do this great seva.

Lalita kunda, at Radha Kunda, has been in a lamentable condition for quite some time now. Devotees from ISKCON Vrindavan organized a bus full of enthusiastic devotees to go help clean the Kund, which is being headed by Radha kund resident, Laxmi Narayan baba. About 60 devotees, from all walks of life: gurukulis, matajis, brahmacharis, Prabhupada disciples, senior devotees, etc., came and made a chain to take out the tons of mud that had accumulated over many years. This went on for hours and somehow the weather became conducive for the volunteers. A sunny day became overcast, and a pleasant breeze blew.

The devotees felt the mercy of Lalita Devi upon them. "As I was shoveling the mud in the midday sun, I was pleasantly surprised to feel a strong gust of wind staring to blow. We looked into the sky, and saw Shyam like storm clouds forming over

Srila Prabhupada at the Franciscan Seminary

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                         Srila Prabhupada with Rajeev Gandhi

BY HIS DIVINE GRACE A. C. BHAKTIVEDANTA SWAMI PRABHUPADA
 

My advice to you under the circumstances is that at least for one hour you must all go to have sankirtana outside on the streets or in the park. That is your life and soul, first business. The next business is completing the chanting of 16 rounds every day. The next business is your editing. And if you find extra time then you can attend the temple ceremonies. Otherwise you can stop these activities. But outdoor kirtana, your editing work, and chanting of 16 rounds must be done. Outdoor kirtana must be done, even at the cost of suspending all editorial work. That is your first and foremost business. Temple worship is not so important. If need be, the whole temple can be locked. But the outdoor kirtana cannot be stopped.
(Letter to Rayarama, 17 May 1969)


The point being, service is required, and that service is chanting the holy Names.  Everything else is secondary. What more can be said about that? For me, this has meant

Parvati Devi Dasi A. Bh.S

Śrīla Prabhupāda: From what I’ve seen it has a great chance. We don’t say, “Give up your religion and come to us.” We say, “At least follow your own principles. And then if you want to, study with us.” Sometimes it happens that although students have received their M.A. degree, they go to foreign universities to study more. Why does it happen? They want more enlightenment. Similarly, any religious scripture you may follow will give you enlightenment. But if you find more in this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement, then why should you not accept it? If you are serious about God, why should you say, “Oh, I am Christian,” “I am Jewish,” “I cannot attend your meeting”? Why should you say, “Oh, I cannot allow you to speak in my church”? If I am speaking about God, what objection can you have?

Journalist: Well, I couldn’t agree with you more.


Śrīla Prabhupāda: I am prepared to talk with any God conscious man. Let us chalk out a program so that people may be benefit

Shrila Prabhupada writes in his Bhaktivedanta Purport to (SB 3.17.4): "When natural disturbances occur on a planet, one should understand that a demon must have taken birth there. In the present age the number of demoniac people is increasing; therefore natural disturbances are also increasing. There is no doubt about this, as we can understand from the statements of the Bhagavata.

* One of the acharya's of the 4 sampradaya's. Acharya for Sri Sampradaya.
* He is actually aadi-shesha.
* Because of the heavy preaching done by Shankaracharya to drive out buddhism from India, impersonalism was prevalent, the Supreme Lord was being covered. So Adi-shesha himself had to descend to bring the Supreme Personality of Godhead back into their hearts.

* Yadavprakash, guru of Ramanujacharya, from the sankara philosophy.
* Pastimes many many. One: Eyes of of Vishnu are like the back of monkey, was being by this Guru. That time, Ramanujacharya's tears fell on his feet. Then Ramanuja explained: Kapi means Sun. When sun comes, Lotus blossoms. ==> the eyes of the SPG are like a lotus, and not like a monkey.
* ... pastimes about how Lakshmi Narayana save him and bring him back to Kanchipuram.
* Later, he starts to accept a low born, but a pure devotee as his Guru. A person who personally serves Lord Varadaraj....

"In the conditioned stage, one’s conceptions of life are sometimes polluted by passion and ignorance, which are exhibited by attachment, hostility, greed, lamentation, illusion, fear, madness, false prestige, insults, fault-finding, deception, envy, intolerance, passion, bewilderment, hunger and sleep. All of these are enemies. Sometimes one’s conceptions are also polluted by goodness."

His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Founder-Acarya of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness
Srimad-Bhagavatam : Canto 7: "The Science of God" : SB 7.15: Instructions for Civilized Human Beings : SB 7.15.43, SB 7.15.44, SB 7.15.43-44 : Translation