Obeisances to everyone,  AGT Srila Prabhupada  !

Happy Janmastami Everyone! All Glories to Yasoda Nanda Maharajah! Jaya Baby Krishna !

A second birth happens but once in a lifetime. Congratulations to our new brahmanas, Mother Parvati DD, and Mother Rasa Manjari DD, Maharanis.

 Mother Bhumi Earth, Assumed the Shape of a Cow

Once the world was overburdened by the unnecessary defense force of different kings, who were actually demons, but were posing themselves as the royal order. At that time, the whole world became perturbed, and the predominating deity of this earth, known as Bhumi, went to see Lord Brahma to tell of her clamities due to the demoniac kings. Bhumi assumed the shape of a cow...

                             

                           from; Srila Prabhupada's Krsna Book

 

and presented herself before Lord Brahma with tears in her eyes. She was bereaved and was weeping just to invoke the lord's compassion. She related the calamitous position of the earth, and after hearing this, Lord Brahma became much aggrieved, and he at once started for the ocean of milk, where Lord Visnu resides. Lord Brahma was accompanied by all the demigods headed by Lord Siva, and Bhumi also followed. Arriving on the shore of the milk ocean, Lord Brahma began to pac

Hare Krishna! All Glories to Srila Prabhupada

The Srila Prabhupada Sri Gayatri recordings are now available onsite, Brahmana Varna group. New brahmanas are invited to download the recordings to their computor systems, but must keep it carefully secret, please, not accessible to non-initiates.

Om Gonesha Parvati Sivaya Namahah. All glories to Srila Prabhupada! Jaya Nitai Gauranga! Hare Krishna.

We are making strong headway in our mission to reestablish Srila Prabhupada as the one and only Guru for all Iskcon. Congratulations to our new Brahmanas! 

Translation: Sri Sukadeva Gosvami said: O King, unless one is influenced by the energy of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, there is no meaning to the relationship of the pure soul in pure consciousness with the material body. It is just like the dreamer seeing his own body working."
Prabhupada: So, purport?
Karandhara: "Purport. The question of Maharaja Pariksit is perfectly answered as to how a living entity began his material life, although he is apart from the material body and the mind."
Prabhupada: It is a very important question. Pariksit Maharaja inquired... Many people inquired that "How the living entity was with Krsna, he became fallen in this material world?" Is not done? This question is raised? So this question is answered here, that "How the living entity who was with Krsna became fallen down in contact with this material qualities?" So this is the answer. Read the translation.
Karandhara: "Sri Sukadeva Gosvami said: O ki

Tamohara's Eggplant Parmesan 

Peel one large fresh eggplant, cut into flat square-shaped  pieces, 4 inch by 4 inch by 1/2 inch thick.

Salt them and set aside.

Heat 3 tablespns olive oil, add 1/2 tsp asfoetida,

( 2 cloves garlic and one small onion are also in the sauce, fried, in traditional greek recipes, no asfoetida )

add 2 tsps. cumin, coriander,  1 tsp black pepper and anise seed or fennel seed. fry lightly

Add 2/3 cup crushed tomatoes, small pat of butter.  

Add 1/4 tsp ground cloves and cinnamon 

add 2 teasps. basil, methi fenugreek leaf, oregano set aside

Blot the eggplant pieces dry, as the salt has sweated out some bitterness by now.   

Oil a large flat pan, and place eggplant, oiled both sides, in the pan, and bake at 400 degrees farenheit for 25 minutes to 1/2 hour.

Remove and cool a bit, then in smallish but deep oiled casserole dish, lay out a covering of the pieces flat on the bottom. Add some of the sauce, not too much ! and 1/2 cup grated mozzarella and good h

Lecture to Technology Students (M.I.T.)
by His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda
Boston, May 5, 1968

Srila Prabhupāda:

oṁ ajñāna-timirāndhasya jñānāñjana-śalākayā cakṣur unmīlitaṁ yena tasmai śrī-gurave namaḥ

This prayer is offering respectful obeisances to the spiritual master. Why? Because the spiritual master is the person who opens our eyes, complicated in ignorance, with the torch of transcendental knowledge. Timirāndhasya. Every one of us born ignorant, and we require specific education and training for seeing things as they are.

Today I am very glad to meet you. You are all students of technology. This Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is also another technology. Unfortunately, in the modern state of civilization there are different department of knowledge. There is department of teaching medical science, there is department of teaching engineering, there is department of educating—so many other departments of knowledge. Unfortunately, there is no department for

                Srila Sanatana Goswami

Raghunatha Goswami writes;

vairagya yug bhakti rasam prayatnair apayayan mam anabhipsum andha krpambudhih yah para duhkha duhkhi sanatanah tam prabhum asrayami

“Immersed in darkness, and unwilling to drink the nectar of devotional service possessed of renunciation, Sanatana Goswami, who is most compassionate to all the fallen souls, out of his causeless mercy, made me drink. Thus, I take shelter of my lord and master, Sri Sanatana Goswami.”

Srila Sanatana Goswami spent the last years of his life at Chakratirtha, writing and immersed in his bhajan. (He was sent by Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu to Vrindavan to write books, and help discover the lost holy places.) At one point, due to the numerous mosquitos there, Sanatana Goswami decided to leave and do his writing and bhajan elsewhere.

Seeing that Sanatana Goswami was going to leave Chakratirtha, Lord Siva then came in the form of a brahmana, asked why Sanatan was going to leave, and upon receiv

Dandavats...i happened across this article...and its a sweet story...so here it is.

A Spiritual Happening on the Lower East Side

Questions and Answers with
Sri Srimad Gour Govinda Swami Maharaja

Devotee: How does one recognize a sadhu?

Gour Govinda Swami: Cry before Krishna. Only He can help you to find a sadhu. You can’t recognize a sadhu. You have no vision to see the sadhu.  If you try by yourself to recognize sadhu, then you will be cheated.  If you are serious, then cry before Him. “O Krishna! I am your servant!” 

ay nanda-tanuja kinkaram
patitam mam visame bhavambudhau
krpaya tava pada-pankaja-
stita-dhuli-sadrsam vicintaya
 

Mahaprabhu has taught us this.  This is crying before Krishna.  “O nanda-tanuja, son of Nanda Maharaja, I am your kinkara, your sevant.  Somehow or other I am  fallen here in this dreadful ocen of material existence and I have been drowning from time immemorial.  But I want to serve you.  How can I serve you? How can I become a speck of dust at Your lotus feet? Please help me.” Just cry. Without the help of sadhu you cannot approach Krishna. You can’t utter Krishna’s name. When you

From Rays of The Harmonist, Kartik 2003

Prīti - Love

by Śrīla Saccidānanda Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura

The Sweetness of the word "love"

Love (prīti) is a very sweet word. When it is spoken, a very sweet mood arises in the hearts of both the speaker and the listeners. Though few are able to understand its true meaning, everyone still likes to hear the word. All beings are controlled by love. Many will even give up their lives for it.

All beings are controlled by love

To love is the sole purpose of human life. Many think that the fulfilment of their selfish desires is the primary purpose of their existence, but that is wrong. For love, man can sacrifice all of his own interests.

Selfishness causes man to strive only for his own happiness and autonomy, but love causes him to sacrifice all of his own interests for the sake of that thing or person that is dear to him. Whenever there is a clash between selfishness and love, love is victorious. In particular, even when selfishness is very

Conversation on Train to Allahabad
with His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
January 11, 1977, India

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Ramesvara: We are going out to sell our books, and even if the person does not want to buy, we are insisting that they buy.

Prabhupada: This is our duty. That is our duty.

Ramesvara: He thinks it is too aggressive.

Prabhupada: Eh? No, that is your temperament, because everything has got degree according to the man. So we should not worry. This is very nice, that we are imploring.

Ramesvara: So his conclusion was that all the people who we are selling books to, they do not like us. That was his conclusion. So I said that if they do not like us, then why is our book sales increasing? We started off selling two hundred thousand magazines a month. Now one million a month. So if you say that people do not like us…

Prabhupada: Not two hundred thousand.

Trivikrama: Twenty.

Hari-sauri: Ten thousand.

Prabhupada: Began with five thousand.

Ramesvara: And we said that pe

Bhagavad-gītā 6.32-40
by His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda
New York, September 14, 1966

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Prabhupāda: Ātmaupamyena sarvatra samaṁ paśyati yo ’rjuna. Please come forward. Sukhaṁ vā yadi vā duḥkhaṁ sa yogī paramo mataḥ. Now, we have been discussing for the last few days about the perfect form of yoga. Lord Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, He is teaching Arjuna directly the perfect form of yoga. If you actually want to perform the yoga system, then here is authoritative statement by the Supreme Personality of Godhead. So we have discussed in details. Now, after hearing the system, Arjuna is replying. Just mind that, that the whole thing was being described in the battlefield, in the battlefield. This whole Bhagavad-gītā was taught to Arjuna in the battlefield. And when Arjuna was just going to release his arms on the opposite party, on the enemy’s party, he thought… He got a sentiment: “So why this fighting with my own kinsmen?” That was his illu

                                                               Sri  BALADEVA                  

              All Glory to Sri Guru and Sri Gauranga! Hare Krishna! Hari bol!

 Lord Baladeva and Krsna, Lords and Source of The Seed and Womb of the Universes

“Sri Baladeva is the Supreme Personality of Godhead Himself. He is equal in supremacy to the Supreme Godhead, yet wherever Krsna appears, Sri Baladeva appears as Krsna’s brother, sometimes elder, sometimes younger”(SB 10.1.24p). “In His vaibhava-prakasa feature, Lord Krsna manifests Himself as Balarama. The Balarama feature is as good as Krsna Himself, the Only difference being that the bodily hue of Krsna is dark and that of Balarama is fair” (TLC Chap.

Srila Prabhupada:

om ajnana-timirandhasya jnananjana-salakaya caksur unmilitam yena tasmai sri-gurave namah

sri-caitanya-mano-’bhistam sthapitam yena bhu-tale svayam rupah kada mahyam dadati sva-padantikam

vande ’ham sri-guroh sri-yuta-pada-kamalam sri-gurun vaisnavams ca sri-rupam sagrajatam saha-gana-raghunathanvitam tam sa-jivam sadvaitam savadhutam parijana-sahitam krsna-caitanya-devam sri-radha-krsna-padan saha-gana-lalita-sri-visakhanvitams ca

he krsna karuna-sindho dina-bandho jagat-pate gopesa gopika-kanta radha-kanta namo ’stu te

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

vancha-kalpatarubhyas ca krpa-sindhubhya eva ca patitanam pavanebhyo vaisnavebhyo namo namah

sri-krsna-caitanya prabhu-nityananda sri-advaita gadadhara srivasadi-gaura-bhakta-vrnda

hare krsna hare krsna krsna krsna hare hare hare rama hare rama rama rama hare hare

Introduction to Gitopanisad by A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami, the author of Srimad-Bhagavatam, Easy Jour

And I don’t care if you ban me from the institution
… I’m still going to do book distribution.

And I don’t care if you consider me a pagan
…I’m still going to go on harinam…my haven.

And I don’t care if you spit insults upon my face
…I’m still going to serve his Divine Grace.

Lies have imprisoned our Master abode,

Truth the substance these shackles corrode.

Choking our Master’s Mercy from flowing,
His brilliance and glory will never stop glowing.

Divya Jnana our Master imparts
Love for our Master will never depart.

We are all a part of the same family tree
A time will come when this all will see…

Madhvas and Gaudiyas

Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati

Thakur Prabhupada

There is a tendency, especially in this country, to approach the past history of

a sect on the basis of the prima-facie authenticity of the guruparamparä

as preserved in the sect. We would be more scientifically employed if we turned our attention to obtaining greater information by comparative study of the different records instead of resorting to gratuitous assumptions against the validity of the preceptorial lists.

For this very cogent reason we must accept as historically valid the existing preceptorial list of the Madhva Gauòéya Vaiñëava any particular is conclusively impugned by specific historical evidence. We have had no cause up till now to doubt the truth of any portion of this list. This list discloses the fact that the Supreme Lord Sri Chaitanya accepted Sri Iswara Puri as his preceptor. Sri Iswara Puri was a disciple of Sri Madhav