Harinam Diksha Ceremonies held in Srila Prabhupada’s temples

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. 

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

Evening Darsana
by His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
July 11, 1976, New York

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Prabhupada: “I take away as death.” Whatever they are accumulating, everything will be taken away at the time of death. They are simply collecting, accumulating, discovering, forgetting that everything will be taken away at the time of death. Discover something which can check death, there will be no more death. That is real discovery. What do you think?

Indian man (1): It’s a question to think about.

Prabhupada: Because whatever we are discovering, it will be taken away by death. So discover something which will stop death. And that is real discovery.

Indian man (1): But don’t you think it will be a bad thing, because there are some bad people in the world, like Hitler and Stalin and others, they may be the first people to use the technology to prolong their life?

Prabhupada: The thing is, bad or good, everyone will be taken away by death. Is it not a fact? Hitler is no longer ex

Seated around Lord Chaitanya at the brahmana's house, the Mayavadis were moved by His words. Their minds changed and they spoke pleasingly.

A Meeting in Varanasi | Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu points out Shankaracharya’s error in contradicting Vyasadeva

By Sri Mathuresa Dasa
 

Conclusion

Early in the year 1514, Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu was staying at the home of Chandrasekara Vaidya in Varanasi, India, then a great center of learning. Lord Chaitanya’s associates heard that one of the chief scholars of Varanasi, a sannyasi named Prakashananda Sarasvati, was complaining to his followers that Chaitanya Mahaprabhu was a sentimenalist who engaged in chanting the names of the Lord rather than in studying Vedanta, the proper duty of a sannyasi.

Greatly disturbed by Prakashananda Sarasvati’s criticism, Sri Chaitanya’s associates were pleased when the Lord accepted an invitation for lunch at the home of the brahmana. Prakashananda Sarasvati and his followers would also be there, so Prakashananda Sa

Edited and Founded Under Direct Order of His Divine Grace Sri Srimad Bhakti-Siddhanta Saraswati Goswami Prabhupada by Goswami Abhay Charan Bhaktivedanta.

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n the ‘Brahma Samhita’ fifth chapter there is a description of variegated planetary system even within the material world. And in the Bhagwat Geeta, such variegated planetary system in thousands and crores of material universes, are considered to be the one-fourth part of the complete energy of Godhead. The major three-fourth part of the Lord’s creative energy is manifested in the spiritual sky called by the name Paravyoma or the Vaikuntha Loka.

The explanation of the ‘Brahma Samhita’ is now confirmed by the material scientist as much as he (the material scientist) has admitted of the material world. We have discussed about the anti-material world in the last issue of ‘Back to Godhead’ (20-30-60) and in this article we shall try to give some idea of the variegated planetary system within the material universes.

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Unity Means The End of Love

• Posted by Dirti Hari on April 2, 2011 at 4:56pm
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Srimati Radharani has twenty-five transcendental qualities, and She can control even Krsna by them. Her transcendental qualities are as follows:

1. She is sweetness personified
2. She is a fresh young girl
3. Her eyes are always moving
4. She is always brightly smiling
5. She possesses all auspicious marks on her body
6. She can agitate Krishna by the flavor of Her person

7. She is expert in the art of singing
8. She can speak very nicely and sweetly
9. She is expert in presenting feminine attractions
10. She is modest and gentle
11. She is always very merciful
12. She is transcendentally cunning
13. She knows how to dress nicely
14. She is always shy

15. She is always respectful
16. She is always patient
17. She is very grave
18. She is enjoyed by Krishna
19. She is situated on the highest devotional platform
20. She is the abode of love of the residents of Gokula
21. She can give shelter to all kinds of devotees

22. She is always affectionate to superiors and inferiors
23. She is always o

Mar 29, 2011 — BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA, USA (SUN) — Glorification of the Guru Who Lives in His Books: His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada.

Guru das watched Prabhupada laughing while reading his Krsna book.

Guru Das: "Prabhupada, you're laughing at your own books."

Prabhupada: "I did not write these books, Krsna wrote them!"

Srila Prabhupada, Please accept my humble obeisances at your lotus feet Your Divine Grace. My words cannot begin to show my gratitude for all the things you gave this world. Anyone is fortunate enough to be able to have the association of Krishna's pure devotee, THE guru who lives in His books. Inspired by your association, your global movement continues to give birth daily to billions of sound incarnations of Radha-Krishna, 24/7/365. They are dancing round the universe and purifying it. You said when we chant Hare Krsna, the Divine Couple personally appear. It does not get any better than that, to be in the presence of Krsna, being purifie

Srimad-Bhagavatam 1.15.31
by His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Los Angeles, December 9, 1973

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Pradyumna: Translation: “Because of his possessing spiritual assets, the doubts of duality were completely cut off. Thus he was freed from the three modes of material nature and placed in transcendence. There was no longer any chance of his becoming entangled in birth and death, for he was freed from material form.”

Prabhupada: Visokah, without any bereavement. Brahma-sampattya, by achieving spiritual assets. This is the sign how one is advanced in spiritual life. That will be tested by this word visokah, without any bereavement. That is explained in Bhagavad-gita the same thing: brahma-bhutah prasannatma na socati na kanksati [Bg. 18.54]. Prasannatma means there is no more lamentation and no more hankering. That is prasannatma. We are subjected to two things. Ah… If our possessed… If our possession is lost, then we lament, and if we don’t possess, then

Sri Caitanya Upanisad, Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura

From the Atharva Veda, with commentary by HDG Srila Sacidananda Bhaktivinoda Thakura.

This Upanisad was published by the great pioneer of the Krsna Consciousness movement, Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura. The Thakura searched the length and breadth of Bengal to procure an original copy of the manuscript of this rare Upanisad, which describes the unique position and advent of Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu. It also describes the glorious position and importance of the Maha mantra, or the chanting of the divine name of Sri Krsna. He was finally provided a copy of the original handwritten manuscript from one pandita, Madhusudana Maharaja, of Sambala-Pura.

Upon the request of many Gaudiya Vaishnavas of the time, He wrote a lucid sanskrit commentary called Sri Caitanya-Caranamrta, or the the nectar of the lotus feet of Lord Caitanya. The first edition of this book was originally printed in Calcutta, Bengal by the Sri Caitanya Press in 1887.

The birth of Lord Caitanya, as predicted in Sruti, Smriti, and the Vaya Purana.

Uma outra realidade

Por Bhagavatamrta Dasa

Algum dia você já se perguntou se o mundo que vemos à nossa volta é mesmo real, ou se ele é apenas algum tipo de sonho ou ilusão? Com certeza, a maioria de nós nos fazemos essa pergunta em algum ponto de nossas vidas.

Embora o avanço da ciência tenha nos trazido muitos benefícios, ela tem falhado em responder à pergunta mais importante: quem realmente somos. Você pode dizer que é brasileiro, filho de fulano e pai de ciclano, mas estas são apenas designações temporárias, que estão relacionadas com o seu corpo e não com o seu verdadeiro eu.

Todas as religiões concordam com a ideia de que somos almas espirituais eternas. Isso nos leva a uma pergunta obvia: se somos eternos, por que habitamos um corpo temporário, que seremos obrigados a abandonar no devido curso do tempo?

No segundo capítulo do Bhagavad-Gita, Krishna oferece uma resposta simples para a questão:

"Nunca houve um tempo em que Eu não existisse, nem você e nem todos estes reis;