.Śrīla Prabhupāda, that Kṛṣṇa is testing us every day? We're having tests, opportunities...

Posted by Tamohara dasa ADMIN. on April 26, 2021 at 16:31

Ātreya Ṛṣi: ...Śrīla Prabhupāda, that Kṛṣṇa is testing us every day? We're having tests, opportunities...

Prabhupāda: No, just like if you want responsible post, then there is question of test. If you want to become a vagabond, remain vagabond. Where is question of test?

Ātreya Ṛṣi: No, for devotees.

Prabhupāda: Ah, devotees there is test. For devotees there is test. We see from the devotee's life, Prahlāda Mahārāja, how much severe test he had to pass through. Bali Mahārāja, Nārada Muni.

Ātreya Ṛṣi: And the most advanced the devotee is, the more severe the test is, the more chance.

Prabhupāda: No, after you pass the examination, there is no more test. But before coming to the post of recognized devotee, Kṛṣṇa tests very severely. That one has to pass.

Hari-śauri: I read once in the Bhāgavatam in one of your purports, you said that māyā is there to test the sincerity of the candidate.

Prabhupāda: Yes. We see from the life of Bali Mahār

Sambhu Das April 21, 2018 · "So real guru is never to be killed, but the so-called guru has to be killed." 73/08/05 London, Bhagavad-gita 2.4-5.

Posted by Tamohara dasa ADMIN. on April 23, 2021 at 4:10

Visnu Dhuta

18 hrs ·

Sambhu Das

April 21, 2018 ·

"So real guru is never to be killed, but the so-called guru has to be killed." 73/08/05 London, Bhagavad-gita 2.4-5......."Whenever there are references to the avatāras, religious principles are established, and demons who are against Kṛṣṇa are killed. The Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is spreading all over the world with two aims—to establish Kṛṣṇa as the Supreme Personality of Godhead and to kill all the pretenders who falsely present themselves as avatāras. The preachers of the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement must carry this conviction very carefully within their hearts and kill the demons who in many tactful ways vilify the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Kṛṣṇa. If we take shelter of Nṛsiṁhadeva and Prahlāda Mahārāja, it will be easier to kill the demons who are against Kṛṣṇa and to thus reestablish Kṛṣṇa’s supremacy. Kṛṣṇas tu bhagavān svayam: Kṛṣṇa is the Supreme Lord, the original Lord. Prahlāda Mahārāja is our guru, and Kṛṣ

"It was I who, for the sake of the gods, prompted you to act as you did," He said.

Posted by Tamohara dasa ADMIN. on April 22, 2021 at 13:00

Jeff Ratner
Here is Ram advising Kaikeyi as well as speaking to her about His own detachment: "Ram smiled at her with affection. "It was I who, for the sake of the gods, prompted you to act as you did," He said. "You are not to blame, nor am I angry with you. Hardly anyone knows my real nature. I am never affected by desire in the same way as ordinary men. I act to simply reciprocate the service and love I am given. Gentle lady, return to Ayodhya and live peacefully. Think of me day and night and you will soon be freed from all your attachments to this temporary world." - From the translation by Krishna Dharma das, a U.K. SP disciple.

Rama Navami special - Srila Prabhupada Amrtam Updated

Posted by Tamohara dasa ADMIN. on April 21, 2021 at 22:37

Rama Navami special -

Srila Prabhupada Amrtam Updated

Hare Krsna. All glories and Ananta Koti Dandavats to His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada and to all Vaisnavas.

On the auspicious festival Sri Rama Navami, the following links to Srila Prabhupada's Original works are compiled. It is hoped that all devotees will be benefited.

1. ORIGINAL BOOKS DRIVE:

Please find a link to a Google drive with Srila Prabhupada’s first edition unrevised, non adulterated, original books.
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1nHm72gVwAeei95WDkSLf2aw5x-jRXDoF?usp=sharing

Another folder for Srimad Bhagavatam 1972 on-wards first edition original books:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1am9rKGII3wMrmkyxHp85hfjMjgnWGzT9?export?format=pdf

2. ORIGINAL TAPES DRIVE:

In 2019 the Bhaktivedanta Archives released last installments of the original unedited recordings of Srila Prabhupada’s classes, room conversations, morning walks, etc.
For those used to listening to Srila Prabhupada on a

. A sincere devotee who follows the instructions of the spiritual master certainly gets direct instructions from him from Supersoul.

Posted by Tamohara dasa ADMIN. on April 15, 2021 at 15:46

Prabhupada : When the brahmana asked the woman who the man lying on the floor was, she answered that he was her spiritual master and that she was perplexed about who to do in his absence. At such a time the Supersoul immediately appears, provided the devotee is purified in heart by following the direction of the spiritual master. A sincere devotee who follows the instructions of the spiritual master certainly gets direct instructions from him from Supersoul. This is confirmed in Caitanya-caritamrta : guru-krsna- prasade paya bhakti-lata-bija. If the devotee serves his spiritual master sincerely, Krsna automatically becomes pleased. Yasya Prasadad bhagavad - prasadah. By satisfying the spiritual master, one automatically satisfies Krsna. Thus the devotee becomes enriched by both the spiritual master and Krsna. The Supersoul is eternally the friend of the living-entity and always remains with him. The Supersoul has been ready to help the living-entity, even before the creation of this ma

Jai

Posted by Kiran Kumar on April 15, 2021 at 3:49

Prabhupāda:Mother, the earth is mother, and everything, these trees, we are all coming out of mother, mother nature. And who is the father? What is the answer? Now, what the atheist will say that there is no God? How they will sayRāmeśvara: They say the earth is the mother and the father.Prabhupāda: Huh?Rāmeśvara: They say the earth is the mother and the father.Prabhupāda: No. That is another nonsense. Because you cannot see, practically, the mother and father is the same person. That is not..., father is different.Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: Why doesn't life come from the concrete then?Prabhupāda: No, apart from that, mother and father cannot be one; they must be two, from our practical experience. So how can I accept a rascal like you that father and mother the same?Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: But we see that Lord Brahmā is born from the same father and mother.Prabhupāda: Huh?Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Lord Brahmā, he has no mother.Prabhupāda: But he has a father, and the mother is that lotus flower.Type: WalkDate: July 12,

Jai

Posted by Kiran Kumar on April 15, 2021 at 3:49

Devotee (2): Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam says in this Kali-yuga they are all lazy, misguided.Prabhupāda: So much drinking, they must be lazy.Devotee (1): Yes.Prabhupāda: So much drinking excessively. Drinking means laziness.Type: WalkDate: July 12, 1976Location: New York

Jai

Posted by Kiran Kumar on April 15, 2021 at 3:48

Rāmeśvara: Prabhupāda, in New York City, many of these big buildings have courtyards, and in the courtyards they have purchased sculpture. So all the sculpture is abstract. They are against form; they are all impersonalists. And they spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to have these gigantic structures. All over New York City you see them. They have no form. They are simply...Prabhupāda: That is a form. The structure itself has a form.Rāmeśvara: But it's abstract. It's to give the idea...Prabhupāda: No, it is not ab..., it is form.Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: It's not personal, that's what he means.Prabhupāda: Yes, it is a form of their imagination, that's all. Not standard form, but it is a form. They want to make everything formless with form. That means they cannot avoid form.Devotees: Oh, jaya. [break]Type: WalkDate: July 12, 1976Location: New York

Jai

Posted by Kiran Kumar on April 15, 2021 at 3:48

Rāmeśvara: They ( Mormons ) say that God orders every man to get married.Hari-śauri: They are very strong on the principle of family life.Prabhupāda: That is a good idea.Devotee (1): They also have a policy that anyone who is born in their family has to go on a missionary work for two years, then he's fulfilled his obligation. So the young men go overseas for two years.Prabhupāda: That is also good.Devotee (1): Yes.Type: WalkDate: July 12, 1976Location: New York

Jai

Posted by Kiran Kumar on April 15, 2021 at 3:47

Hari-śauri: [referring to police station?] This is why we get so much noise. Every time there's a call, when they come from here, and we're only just on the next block.Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: But it's good for us also. If there's any trouble in the temple, they come right away, and they are friendly.Prabhupāda: Give them prasādam?Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Yes, Jayānanda brings them prasādam.Prabhupāda: Prasādam will conquer everyone.Rāmeśvara: That is how we get all our men to join.Prabhupāda: Yes.Rāmeśvara: By the prasādam.Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: I joined because I had nowhere to eat.Prabhupāda: Huh?Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: At first I had nowhere to eat, so the devotees in San Francisco, they gave me. Then I heard you lecture and I became convinced.Type: WalkDate: July 12, 1976Location: New York

Jai unless someone gets one of your books, there's no way they can come out of the darkness of this material world.

Posted by Kiran Kumar on April 15, 2021 at 3:30

Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Actually, unless someone gets one of your books, there's no way they can come out of the darkness of this material world. There's no other source of knowledge being given them.

Prabhupāda: That is a fact. Śrīmad-bhāgavate mahā-muni-kṛte kiṁ vā śāstraiḥ [SB 1.1.2]. When there is Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, composed, compiled by Vyāsadeva, where is the use of other literature?

Śrīmad-bhāgavate mahā-muni-kṛte.

Type: Walk
Date: July 12, 1976
Location: New York

Jai "any civilization which is out of touch of God consciousness, that will dry up in due course of time.

Posted by Kiran Kumar on April 15, 2021 at 3:30

Prabhupāda: Just see, why this wood is dried up? Why?

Hari-śauri: There is no spirit soul in it.

Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: It has been severed from the tree.

Hari-śauri: Cut off.

Prabhupāda: Yes, from the..., it is out of touch from the original bark. Similarly, any civilization which is out of touch of God consciousness, that will dry up in due course of time.

Type: Walk
Date: July 12, 1976
Location: New York

Jai How come you didn't cook your food where you were living?

Posted by Kiran Kumar on April 15, 2021 at 3:30

Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: How come you didn't cook your food where you were living?

Prabhupāda: Huh? There was no place.

Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: What was it like there?

Prabhupāda: It was an office room. That building is meant for office, not for residency.

Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: You rented a room there?

Prabhupāda: Yes, I was paying seventy-two dollars a month.

Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: And where did you sleep? Was there a bed?

Prabhupāda: No, there was bed where I was sleeping. There is toilet and water, but no bath and no cooking.

Devotee (1): Did you have to go there to bathe also?

Prabhupāda: Yes, I was taking bathing there.

Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Where did you... Did you sleep on the floor?

Prabhupāda: Yes, I had little platform. So on that platform.

Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: You are the most bold person in the whole world, Prabhupāda

Type: Walk
Date: July 12, 1976
Location: New York

Prabhupad

Posted by Kiran Kumar on April 14, 2021 at 13:30

Rāmeśvara: Prabhupāda, if the spiritual master has a mission, is it proper for the disciple to think that he can take more than one..., he can take many births to help the mission of the spiritual master?

Prabhupāda: When the spiritual master goes there, somewhere, his nearest assistants, they automatically go there to assist him. When Kṛṣṇa comes, the demigods also come to help Him. That is there in the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam. All these Yadus, Yadu family, they came from heaven. So before Kṛṣṇa's disappearance, by some trick they were all killed and they returned to their original place. It is nicely described in the Caitanya-caritāmṛta

Type: Walk
Date: July 11, 1976
Location: New York

Prabhupada: …two classes of men: the communist and the non-communist. Not exactly communist and capitalist, but communist and non-communist. Out of these two, the communists are going to be powerful.

Posted by Tamohara dasa ADMIN. on April 13, 2021 at 14:30

BUT THE DEMONIC PRINCIPLE IS SO STRONG....

Prabhupada: …two classes of men: the communist and the non-communist. Not exactly communist and capitalist, but communist and non-communist. Out of these two, the communists are going to be powerful. This is the world tendency. So if the world becomes full of communists, then the human civilization will be finished. All rogues and rascals, that’s all. The American government wants to check this tendency. But they cannot check it if they remain “so-called trust in God.” That will not be possible.

So according to our proposition… Not only now, it is forever. Two classes of men are there: sura and asura. Surāsura. Viṣṇu-bhakto bhaved devaḥ. Deva and sura, the same thing. Asuras tad viparyayaḥ. And the asura, or the demons, godless. So if the Americans remain godless in the name of so-called trust in God, they will not be able to check this communistic movement. They will not be able. Now, if they are serious to check this communistic movement,

Prema bhakti Gopal katha

Posted by Tamohara dasa ADMIN. on April 11, 2021 at 17:00

Vanarasena Sriramgovinda

April 9 at 12:44 AM ·

However, the blissfulness that is relished by Krishna’s devotees is not His rather it belongs to Srimati Radhika in the Madhurya department and Mother Yashodha in the Vatsalya department. Only when Gopal is in Ananda Mode only then everyone is in that mode. Suppose Gopal gets cranky then you are not going to show your blissfulness and if you did by mistake Gopal ends up noticing you with that smile on your face then no one can save you. Gopal will make it His life’s goal to make you miserable because you were laughing when He was crying. Even in this world if you laugh at a cranky child he/she will throw whatever things come in the hand at the person laughing. Here we are talking about Gopal imagine what He will do to you if He catches you laughing at Him when Mther Yashodha is chastising Gopal. Many gopis found out the hard way.

However, we cannot see Bhagavan or Avataras becoming cranky nor they exhibit any unadulterated (mea

if we apply our devotional service unto the Supreme Lord Sri Krsna, then the result will be that janayaty asu vairagyam, very soon you'll be detached from this material attraction.

Posted by Tamohara dasa ADMIN. on April 11, 2021 at 16:29

His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Founder~Acharya of the Krsna Consciousness Movement

Bhagavad-gita 2.58-59 Lecture
66/04/27
New York
"vasudeve bhagavati
bhakti-yogah prayojitah
janayaty asu vairagyam
jnanam ca yad ahaitukam
[SB 1.2.7]
"If somebody engages himself in the devotional service of Vasudeva, then very quickly this detachment develops. And knowledge." Knowledge also. Without knowledge, there cannot be detachment. Without knowledge, one cannot be detached. And what is that knowledge? The knowledge is that "I am not this matter; I am spirit soul." So... But this knowledge is... Although it is very easy thing to say, that "I am not this body, but I am spirit soul," but actually to have perfect knowledge, that is a great job. It is not very easy. For getting that supreme knowledge so many, I mean to say, transcendentalists, they were trying life after life, just to get detached. But the easiest process is that if one is engaged in the devotional service. That is the

Election Day USA Posted by Parvati Devi Dasi on November 8, 2011

Posted by Tamohara dasa ADMIN. on April 11, 2021 at 11:18

Election Day USA

A collection of Srila Prabhupada quotes;

Because of the importance of the Krishna consciousness movement, people should be Krishna conscious and should not vote for anyone who is not Krishna conscious. Then there will be actual peace and prosperity in the state. When a vaisnava sees mismanagement in the government, he feels great compassion in his heart and tries his best to purify the situation by spreading the Hare Krishna movement. (Purport to Bhag. 6.2.3)

We don’t very much like this so-called democracy. What is the value of this democracy? All fools and rascals. They vote for another fool and rascal and he becomes prime minister, or this or that. That is not good for the people. We are not for this so-called democracy because they are not trained. (Lecture in London, 24 July 1973)

The first teaching of Bhagavad-gita should be taken by the persons who are going to be elected

BG Chapters 1 - 6 The dust on the mirror refers to a cleansing process of the mirror of the mind by so many spiritual methods. The best process is to chant the holy names of the Lord.

Posted by Tamohara dasa ADMIN. on April 11, 2021 at 9:20

BG Chapters 1 - 6

The dust on the mirror refers to a cleansing process of the mirror of the mind by so many spiritual methods. The best process is to chant the holy names of the Lord.

BG 3.38, Purport:

There are three degrees of covering of the living entity by which his pure consciousness is obscured. This covering is but lust under different manifestations like smoke in the fire, dust on the mirror, and the womb about the embryo. When lust is compared to smoke, it is understood that the fire of the living spark can be a little perceived. In other words, when the living entity exhibits his Kṛṣṇa consciousness slightly, he may be likened to the fire covered by smoke. Although fire is necessary where there is smoke, there is no overt manifestation of fire in the early stage. This stage is like the beginning of Kṛṣṇa consciousness. The dust on the mirror refers to a cleansing process of the mirror of the mind by so many spiritual methods. The best process is to chant the holy names of

Vrindavan story: Lord Siva become gopi – Gopisvara Mahadeva!

Posted by Tamohara dasa ADMIN. on April 11, 2021 at 7:00

Vrindavan story: Lord Siva become gopi – Gopisvara Mahadeva!

Once while in deep meditation on Mount Kailash, Lord Siva heard the sweet vibration of Krsna playing His divine flute. Mesmerized, He entered samadhi.

He followed that transcendental sound until He came to Vrindavan, where Lord Gopinath was getting ready to start the Maha Raas – Lila with His gopis.

Desiring intensely to join the maha-rasa, when He came to the entrance of the rasa-sthali, He was stopped by Yogamaya, who told him, “No males except Krsna are allowed entry. First you must have gopi-rupa, the form of a Vraja milkmaid, a gopi, only then can you enter.”

Lord Bholanath asked “How can I get gopi-rupa?” Yogamaya replied, “Seek the shelter of Vrinda Devi. She will grant you the form of a gopi.”

Vrinda devi asked Lord Siva to take a dip in the waters of Manasarovara in Vrindavana. After bathing there, Lord Siva emerged from the lake with the form of a beautiful gopi.

Vrinda devi then took Lord Siva in her gopi form to

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Rama Navami special - Srila Prabhupada Amrtam Updated

. A sincere devotee who follows the instructions of the spiritual master certainly gets direct instructions from him from Supersoul.

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Jai unless someone gets one of your books, there's no way they can come out of the darkness of this material world.

Jai "any civilization which is out of touch of God consciousness, that will dry up in due course of time.

Jai How come you didn't cook your food where you were living?

Prabhupad

Prabhupada: …two classes of men: the communist and the non-communist. Not exactly communist and capitalist, but communist and non-communist. Out of these two, the communists are going to be powerful.

Prema bhakti Gopal katha

if we apply our devotional service unto the Supreme Lord Sri Krsna, then the result will be that janayaty asu vairagyam, very soon you'll be detached from this material attraction.

Election Day USA Posted by Parvati Devi Dasi on November 8, 2011

Election Day USA

BG Chapters 1 - 6 The dust on the mirror refers to a cleansing process of the mirror of the mind by so many spiritual methods. The best process is to chant the holy names of the Lord.

BG Chapters 1 - 6

Vrindavan story: Lord Siva become gopi – Gopisvara Mahadeva!

Vrindavan story: Lord Siva become gopi – Gopisvara Mahadeva!

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