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Hare Krishna
Srimad Bhagavatam
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Srimad Bhagavatam
Canto 8: Withdrawal of the Cosmic Creations
Chapter Twelve : The Mohinī-mūrti Incarnation Bewilders Lord Śiva
Text 06
SB.8.12.06
Pure devotees or great saintly persons who desire to achieve the highest goal in life and who are completely free from all material desires for sense gratification engage constantly in the transcendental service of Your lotus feet.
PURPORT
One is in the material world when he thinks, “I am this body, and everything with reference to my body is mine.” Ato gṛha-kṣetra-sutāpta-vittair janasya moho ’yam ahaṁ mameti [SB 5.5.8]. This is the symptom of material life. In the materialistic conception of life, one thinks, “This is my house, this is my land, this is my family, this is my state,” and so on. But those who are munayaḥ, saintly persons following in the footsteps of Nārada Muni, simply engage in the transcendental loving service of the Lord without any personal desire for sense gratification. A
The Pure Devotee’s Transcendental Pastimes
By Nityananda das
Sometimes it is said that the poison issue defames Srila Prabhupada and it is a disservice to him. But the discussion of the facts in Srila Prabhupada’s mysterious departure actually glorifies him and is a defamation of his poisoners. Srila Prabhupada knew he was being poisoned, and yet offered no protest, as seen in the tape-recorded conversations. This unselfish acceptance, without objection, of the betrayal and violence that was inflicted on him is a wonderful display of His Divine Grace’s transcendental glories. This is comparable to the acceptance of crucifixion by Jesus Christ, the unprotested flogging death of Haridas Thakur, and the poisoning of a submissive Prahlad by his demonic father. Just as one would study any other of Srila Prabhupada’s pivotal pastimes, such as his preaching about book distribution, his guruku
RILA PRABHUPADA STOTRAM, Nityananda Prabhu
Finally, after almost 50 years, we have had someone (see comments) complete the translation of these 22 Sanskrit verses in praise of Srila Prabhupada. Take alook...
“This stotram was composed by Sri Ananta Rama Shastri who was a Vaishnava Sanskrit scholar who was initiated by and requested by Srila Prabhupada to assist him in the translation of the Srimad Bhagavatam commentaries of the various acharyas. He used to travel with Srila Prabhupada in India and he was in the Sanskrit department assisting Srila Prabhupada in translation work. He compiled five slokas which describe much of Srila Prabhupada’s divine mission and character also. Prabhupada very much liked these five slokas. We used to sing them every morning before Guru Puja by his vyasasana. It was composed and first sung directly in the presence of Srila Prabhupada at Sri Chandrodaya Mandira, Mayapur Dhama at Gaura Purnima just before daily Guru puja in 1976. In late 1976 Srila P
THE DEVOTEE'S ONLY BUSINESS IS TO CHANT AND REMEMBER THE HOLY NAME, FAME AND PASTIMES OF THE LORD, AND ACCORDING TO PERSONAL CAPACITY, TO DISTRIBUTE THE MESSAGE FOR OTHER'S WELFARE WITHOUT MOTIVE OF MATERIAL GAIN.
Srimad Bhagavatam Canto1 -Chapter 6 -Text 26:
(Sri Suta gosvami to the assembled sages in Naimisaranya headed by Rsi Saunaka):
Great sage Narada to Srila Vyasadeva:
नामान्यनन्तस्य हतत्रपः पठन्गुह्यानि भद्राणि कृतानि च स्मरन् ।
गां पर्यटंस्तुष्टमना गतस्पृहः कालं प्रतीक्षन्विमदो विमत्सरः ॥२६॥
nāmāny anantasya hata-trapaḥ paṭhan
guhyāni bhadrāṇi kṛtāni ca smaran
gāṁ paryaṭaṁs tuṣṭa-manā gata-spṛhaḥ
kālaṁ pratīkṣan vimado vimatsaraḥ
SYNONYMS
nāmāni—the holy name, fame, etc.; anantasya—of the unlimited; hata-trapaḥ—being freed from all formalities of the material world; paṭhan—by recitation, repeated reading, etc.; guhyāni—mysterious; bhadrāṇi—all benedictory; kṛtāni—activities; ca—and; smaran—constantly remembering; gām—on the
INCREDIBLE DREAM!
"Srila Prabhupada once said, 'I will see to it that those who will distribute my books will be taken out of this world.'
Sometimes he would say, "I will ask Bhaktivinod Thakur to come at the time of death for those who will distribute my books." Even so...
I'll tell a story told to me by Radha-kunda Mataji, a disciple of Prabhupada from Vrindavan. She is a legendary book distributor. How many years she has been in Krishna consciousness: 45 or 48? All these years she has been distributing books, until now. When she comes to Srila Prabhupada's samadhi, she brings books in Hindi, Bengali and just distributes them - and she always has a blissful smile on her face....
She told me the following story.
"All my life, consciously or unconsciously, I have been trying to distribute Prabhupada's books. I had cancer, through distributing books, it went away. I had a husband who used to beat me, but I distributed books and those hardships pas
Nityananda Das
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NEW FILM ON SRILA PRABHUPADA's DISAPPEARANCE PASTIMES
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0I7YXUGg54&t=18s
And other YouTube Films, Websites, Info... ALL FREE
(1) Kill Guru, Become Guru: The Forensic Breakthrough:
https://youtu.be/PIBqNBMbPvY
(2) Poisoning Objections Answered:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOLeHjRhZMc
(3) Crime Of The Millennium: Poisoning Srila Prabhupada:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMuUqqZDqTQ
(4) In Pursuit Of Prabhupada’s Poisoners:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6unXi7jzSiI
(5) Reward On Prabhupada’s Poisoners:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZg_rNP6HiY
(6) Tamal: We Could Have Done That (Poison Srila Prabhupada):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XoRz1ENORFg
WEBSITE: Free PDF copies of all books are available for download here: http://www.prabhupadatruthcommission.org
GURU ISSUE GBC DEBATE 1990
https://youtu.be/kXTW_zkCEw0?si=Tj_l8rEVudyiiqdI
FORENSIC REPORTS AND MORE: http://www.justiceforsrilaprabhupadafoundation.org
Hear from Srila Prabhupada, as your
·
NEW FILM ON SRILA PRABHUPADA's DISAPPEARANCE PASTIMES
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0I7YXUGg54&t=18s
And other YouTube Films, Websites, Info... ALL FREE
(1) Kill Guru, Become Guru: The Forensic Breakthrough:
https://youtu.be/PIBqNBMbPvY
(2) Poisoning Objections Answered:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOLeHjRhZMc
(3) Crime Of The Millennium: Poisoning Srila Prabhupada:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMuUqqZDqTQ
(4) In Pursuit Of Prabhupada’s Poisoners:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6unXi7jzSiI
(5) Reward On Prabhupada’s Poisoners:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZg_rNP6HiY
(6) Tamal: We Could Have Done That (Poison Srila Prabhupada):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XoRz1ENORFg
WEBSITE: Free PDF copies of all books are available for download here: http://www.prabhupadatruthcommission.org
GURU ISSUE GBC DEBATE 1990
https://youtu.be/kXTW_zkCEw0?si=Tj_l8rEVudyiiqdI
FORENSIC REPORTS AND MORE: http://www.justiceforsrilaprabhupadafoundation.org
Hear from Srila Prabhupada, as your
"Give up all paths and surrender to Me! I will deliver you, do not be afraid." -Sri Krishna in Bhavada Gita.
The Supreme Intelligent computor, we call Godhead, invites us to cease our prodigal play in matter, where we in fact suffer without cessation. The spiritual sky is perfect, under His control, and His associates do not suffer the pains and pleasures of mundane temporal lives any longer.
Knowing this, it behooves us to seek out our own liberation, by reinstating ourselves under Divine Grace.
★★★"Unless the Lord is superior to the individual soul, there is no question of prapadye, or surrender unto Him."★★★
"The Lord is always transcendental to the material manifestation, even though it appears that the Lord and the material manifestation are one and the same. According to the Vaiṣṇava philosophy, He is one and different simultaneously. The material energy is a manifestation of His external potency, and sin
SB 7.14.39, Translation and Purport
My dear King, when great sages and saintly persons saw mutually disrespectful dealings at the beginning of Tretā-yuga, Deity worship in the temple was introduced with all paraphernalia.
As it is said in Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam (SB 12.3.52):
kṛte yad dhyāyato viṣṇuṁ
tretāyāṁ yajato makhaiḥ
dvāpare paricaryāyāṁ
kalau tad dhari-kīrtanāt
"Whatever result one obtained in Satya-yuga by meditating on Viṣṇu, in Tretā-yuga by performing sacrifices and in Dvāpara-yuga by serving the Lord's lotus feet one can also obtain in Kali-yuga simply by chanting the Hare Kṛṣṇa mahā-mantra." In Satya-yuga, every person was spiritually advanced, and there was no envy between great personalities. Gradually, however, because of material contamination with the advance of the ages, disrespectful dealings appeared even among brāhmaṇas and Vaiṣṇavas. Actually, an advanced Vaiṣṇava is to be respected more than Viṣṇu. As stated in the Padma Purāṇa, ārādhanānāṁ sarveṣāṁ viṣṇor ārādhanaṁ
Srila Prabhupada replies: There is a short story in this regard, it is about a snake who became a devotee on the instruction of Narada, who instructed her not to bite anymore. As usually a snake’s business is to fatally sting other living entities, as a devotee it was forbidden to do so. Unfortunately, people took advantage of this non-violence from the snake, especially the children, who started throwing stones at it. She didn't bite anyone else, however, because it was her spiritual master's instruction.
After a while, when the cobra met his spiritual master, Narada, he complained, "I've given up the bad habit of biting innocent living entities, but they're mistreating me by throwing stones at me." Hearing this, Narada Muni instructed her: "Don't bite, but don't forget to expand your hood like you were going to bite." So people will run away with fear." Likewise, a devotee is always non-violent; he is qualified with all good qualities. But in the ordinary wo
"I lived in a small hut with SGGS from 1976-1980, as secretary and later president, I guess ? It was not very formal there. I did all kinds of small service, including cooking for him, many things. It was easy, as we lived on the floor, and had no possesions to speak of. Maharajah did his work on top of a metal checkered-purple/black trunk, his books inside. A lota sat on the floor behind to his left. A large greenish toad lived behind that lota, and came in every evening to sleep there precisely, after catching an insect or two for his meal. Maharajaha never distturbed it.
I also helped draw him out from a Maha-bhagavata state to that of preacher to the Westerners. I informed him it was his duty to accept a little respect as a sannyais, and that we liked to ehr him speak. His daily lectures were concise enough for the daily schedule, but his Sunday lectures were often fiery and earnest and righteous and full of quotes and went on for two hours, lol. for real. He did not like to p
Final Darśana with Śrī Śrīmad Gour Govinda Swami Mahārāja
A personal account told by Vaijayantī-mālā dāsī, slightly edited.
I offer unlimited heartfelt praṇāmas at the lotus feet of my beloved gurudeva, oṁ viṣṇupāda Śrī Śrīmad Bhaktivedānta Nārāyaṇa Gosvāmī Mahārāja. By his causeless mercy, I am increasingly appreciating the astonishing glories of oṁ viṣṇupāda Śrī Śrīmad Gour Govinda Mahārāja, to whom I also offer my innumerable heartfelt praṇāmas.
I offer praṇāma eternally to my ever well-wishers, oṁ viṣṇupāda Śrī Śrīmad Bhaktivedānta Svāmī Prabhupāda, to oṁ viṣṇupāda Śrī Śrīmad Bhakti Prajñāna Keśava Gosvāmī Mahārāja, and to all pure Vaiṣṇavas in the line of Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura Prabhupāda.
I also offer my humble praṇāma to the respected sannyāsī-gaṇa and to all Vaiṣṇavas and Vaiṣṇavīs.
I have been feeling for a while that I should
Srila Gour Govinda Swami Thakura, 1978 visit to Jagganathapura
Posted by Tamohara dasa ADMIN. on October 3, 2021 at 19:05
We set out from Bhubaneswara early, taking bicycle rickshaw to the bus station. While waiting to board, Gour Govinda Swami explained to me the qualities of certain round white sweet balls which I had noted, displayed behind glass cases there. "These are a specialty of Bhubaneswara", he explained, "They cook sugar with cardamon, camphor, ghee, and black pepper, until it is well done and very hard. Very tasty, very sweet !" He smiled with an exclamation. Maharajah did not eat many sweets, or very rarely, neither did we have them about the ashrama much, and we had no taste for sweets shopping that early.
I moved into the ashrama from Canada, so after a while, I started to purchase occasional white-cardboard boxes of milk-sweets, in town. There were two shops I knew of, one fairly near the train station. I discovered the milk cake and misti dahi consequently. It wa
Jayapataka was always a low-IQ clown and thief, though he did do much service in early seventies before he went insane.. He came to the Toronto Rathayatra 2002 dressed like a Clown Deity, an over-sized over-dramatic clown deity. He did not stay at the Temple, but some fancy digs somewhere while in town. The Temple was not good enough for him.
He wore a huge brightly colored stupid turban, much larger than life, that made him look like a nutcase, and his karatalas were the size of garabage-can lids, like bigger and more clownish was better. I asked him streight, "Maharajah, could you have found at least some bigger karatals?" We all kind of smirked at his behaviors. It was clear to all that he was an egotist and mad. He was an actor fooling everyone for fame and money, to make himself the most important of persons, to be another Prabhupada after he murdered the real Srila Prabhupada...
Jayapataka is not normal. He is a narcissist, and likely psychopathic, that is my professio
Srila Gour Govinda Swami Thakura, 1978 visit to Jagganathapura
Posted by Tamohara dasa ADMIN. on October 3, 2021 at 19:05
Srila Gour Govinda Swami Thakura, 1978 visit to Jaggnathpu
We set out from Bhubaneswara early, taking bicycle rickshaw to the bus station. While waiting to board, Gour Govinda Swami explained to me the qualities of certain round white sweet balls which I had noted, displayed behind glass cases there. "These are a specialty of Bhubaneswara", he explained, "They cook sugar with cardamon, camphor, ghee, and black pepper, until it is well done and very hard. Very tasty, very sweet !" He smiled with an exclamation. Maharajah did not eat many sweets, or very rarely, neither did we have them about the ashrama much, and we had no taste for sweets shopping that early.
I moved into the ashrama from Canada, so after a while, I started to purchase occasional white-cardboard boxes of milk-sweets, in town. There were two shops I knew of, one fairly near the train station. I
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Serving Srila Prabhupada's Shoes; Srila Prabhupada Memories
Posted by Welcome on December 12, 2009 at 0:30
Tamohara Swami, acbssp, M.S.
Chicago Rathayatra, '75
It was a warm humid summer in Chicago in Evanston at the Hare Krsna Temple, 1975. It was a wonderful temple, with Sri Sri Kishor-Kishori, Gour Nitai, and Lord Jagannatha Swami and his Brother Baladeva, and Their beautiful and sometimes ksatriya-like sister Subhadra devi, resplendent inside.
There were many devotees' vehicles, including the bus parties, lining streets all around the mandira. There was to be Rathayatara, initiations including a babaji sannyasa initiation for Audolomi Prabhu, Deity installations, and Srila Prabhupada would lecture on Ajamila from Srimad Bhagavatam.
Srila Pra
Puri, con'td. part 4 Bhaktipurusottama Swami joins Iskcon.
We were on a bus, and behind us a young Orissan lad, Mahesh Candra Pattanaik, was looking at us with much polite curiosity. Padmapani Prabhu and I started talking to him ; Padma said, "We're with Swami Prabhupada, Krishna Movement." I asked him if he was a student, and he explained that he was, but also very interested in spiritual life and bhakti. We shared some details, and were invited to his home at 55 ? Hate Gurudeve Lane, there in Puri, that evening.
We went that evening, and met his very nice devotee father and family, shared Jagannatha prasada, did a little kirtan, gave a book or two. They were all quite fascinated by us, lol, hare krsnas, and we with them. They were a nice Vaisnava traditional family, humble, clean, simple, devotional sevatas of Lord Jagannatha. We were actually very blessed to have this association with the residents of the holy dhama, and a chance to serve them and serve with them.
