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Prabhupāda states:
Śrīla Śukadeva Gosvāmī was a Vaiṣṇava from the beginning; therefore, there was no need for him to undergo all the processes of the varṇāśrama institution. Ultimately the aim of varṇāśrama-dharma is to turn a crude man into a pure devotee of the Lord, or a Vaiṣṇava. Anyone, therefore, who becomes a Vaiṣṇava accepted by the first-class Vaiṣṇava, or uttama-adhikārī Vaiṣṇava, is already considered a brāhmaṇa, regardless of his birth or past deeds. Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu accepted this principle and recognized Śrīla Haridāsa Ṭhākura as the ācārya of the holy name, although Ṭhākura Haridāsa appeared in a Mohammedan family.
(SB 1.2.2 Purport)
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**** Srila Prabhupada Memories ****
“ DO NOT CHANGE MY WORDS '' -HDG Srila Prabhupada.
Srila Prabhupada used to like to sit in his garden in Vrindavan especially in the mornings. He liked to hear his books read to him daily. One time Yasodanandan Prabhu was reading Sri Isopanisad when Srila Prabhupada stopped him and asked him to reread the last paragraph. After hearing it again Srila Prabhupada said,
“Those are not my words! They are changing my words! Is my English not good enough?” Srila Prabhupada became very angry and continued, “This is the worst thing a disciple can do! Do not become like a leap frog and try to jump over the spiritual master thinking you know better than him. Tell them immediately [the editors] do not change my words!”
Srila Prabhupada was very upset about the changes in his books. I never saw him get so angry any other time.
Srila Prabhupada: "The nonsense, they are correcting my translations. Rascal. The rascal editors, they are doing havoc. So you bring t
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sAPTA RISHIS, sRILA pRABHUPADA

Joseph Langevin <yasoda1008@yahoo.com>
To:Laksman Dion
Cc:Yasoda Nandana Prabhu
Fri., Apr. 2 at 2:22 p.m.
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Vasistha Rishi
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Gautama Rishi
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Atri Rishi
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Kashyapa Rishi
 
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Janmadagni-  Father of Parasurama
 
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Parashara Rishi
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Srila Prabhupāda describes the glories
of great sages in Śrīmad Bhāgavatam (1st Canto)


Hare Kṛṣṇa. All glories to His Divine Grace Śrīla A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda. The following purports describe the glories of all great sages who were present during the passing of Bhīṣmadeva. 

 

Taken from: Śrīmad Bhāgavatam, First Canto, Part 2, Chapter 9(The Passing Away of Bhīṣmadeva in the Presence of Lord Kṛṣṇa), Texts 6-9, Original 1972 First Edition

 

TEXTS 6-7

parvato nārado dhaumyo

bhagavān bādarāyaṇaḥ

bṛhadaśvo bharadvājaḥ

saśiṣyo reṇukā-sutaḥ

 

vasiṣṭha indrapramadas

trito gṛtsamado ‘sitaḥ

kakṣīvān gautamo ‘triś ca

kauśiko ‘tha sudarśanaḥ

 

parvataḥ—Parvata Muni; nāradaḥ—Nārada Muni; dhaumyaḥ—Dhaumya; bhagavān—incarnation of G

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9468807072?profile=originalSrila Prabhupada is describing that when the Kazi tried to stop the Sankirtan Movement, Lord Chaitanya Mahaprabhu organized a protest march on the Kazi, rallying hundreds of thousands of people to come and put pressure on the Kazi because he was doing the wrong thing by mistreating the Vaisnavas who were on sankirtan. Srila Prabhupada says:

"This incident shows clearly that the Lord was not a so-called timid Vaisnava. A Vaisnava is a fearless devotee of the Lord, and for the right cause he can take any step suitable for the purpose. Arjuna was also a Vaisnava devotee of Lord Krsna, and he fought valiantly for the satisfaction of the Lord. Similarly, Vajrangaji, or Hanuman, was also a devotee of Lord Rama, and he gave lessons to the nondevotee party of Ravana. The principles of Vaisnavism are to satisfy the Lord by all means. A Vaisnava is by nature a nonviolent, peaceful living being, and he has all the good qualities of God, but when the nondevotee blasphemes the Lord or His devotee

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Makhanlāl: In the Sixth Canto of the Bhāgavatam you made a statement that if a devotee chants the holy name even once inoffensively, this protects him eternally. Is it possible for a devotee...
Prabhupāda: Why you take advantage of chants one? Why not sixteen? Opportunist. [laughter] Not devotee.
Makhanlāl: If one has even some small amount...
Prabhupāda: This material calculation is not made by a devotee. When one is devotee, he'll chant more and more. He'll aspire, "If I could get millions of tongues and trillions of ear, then I could finish. That is devotee. And one is thinking how to finish it by chanting once, he's not devotee. That is neophyte stage. Therefore the regulation is you must chant sixteen rounds at least. Because he'll simply try to avoid it by his so-called intelligence.
Makhanlāl: It's possible for even a neophyte to chant offenselessly?
Prabhupāda: Not possible, but he has to do it. This is offense, to think that "I have chanted once; my
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Srila Prabhupada: “Somebody was criticizing me that “Swamiji, you are introducing this Hare Kṛṣṇa movement. People are becoming coward. They simply chant Hare Kṛṣṇa.” So I replied that “You will see the power of Hare Kṛṣṇa movement in due course of time.” He required… Because there were two battles in India: the battle between Rāvaṇa and Rāma, Rāma-Rāvaṇa, the battle of Rāmāyaṇa; and another battle was Battle of Kurukṣetra. And in these two battles the hero was Vaiṣṇava and Viṣṇu. In the Rāma-Rāvaṇa battle Lord Rāmacandra was there and His devotee Hanumān, Vajrāṅgajī. Similarly, in the Battlefield of Kurukṣetra, Kṛṣṇa was there and His devotee Arjuna was there. So Vaiṣṇavas, they do not simply chant Hare Kṛṣṇa. If there is need, they can fight under the guidance of Viṣṇu and become victorious. A Vaiṣṇava’s one qualification is… Out of the twenty-six qualifications, one qualification is dakṣa,expert. If there is need of fighting, they can fight like very expert. That is also needed. K

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Sripad Madhavendra Puri Tirobhava tithi [Disappearance day ]-
Friday,March 26, 2021 [Mayapura, West Bengal, Bharata Bhumi time]
Srila Prabhupada explains the exalted position

of Madhavendra Puri in the Gaudiya Sampradaya

 
 compiled by Damaghosa dasa and Yasoda nandana dasa

1) Kṛṣṇa, 2) Brahmā, 3) Nārada; 4) Vyāsa, 5) Madhva, 6) Padmanābha, 7) Nṛhari, 8) Mādhava, 9) Akṣobhya, 10) Jayatīrtha, 11) Jñānasindhu, 12) Dayānidhi, 13) Vidyānidhi, 14) Rājendra, 15) Jayadharma, 16) Puruṣottama, 17) Brahmaṇyatīrtha, 18) Vyāsatīrtha, 19) Lakṣmīpati, 20) Mādhavendra Purī, 21) Īśvara Purī, (Nityānanda, Advaita), 22) Lord Caitanya, 23) Rūpa (Svarūpa, Sanātana), 24) Raghunātha, Jīva, 25) Kṛṣṇadāsa, 26) Narottama, 27) Viśvanātha, 28) (Baladeva) Jagannātha, 29) Bhaktivinode, 30) Gaurakiśora, 31) Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī, 32) His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda

Books : Bhagavad-gita As It Is - Macmillan 1972 Edition : Bg: introduction :

 

 

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From: "Peter Levine" 
To: "Joseph Langevin" 
Sent: Sun, Mar 21, 2021 at 1:00 AM
Subject: Re: Editing Srila Prabhupada’s Books By Narasimha das
This is so nice Prabhu.  I do not have the words to express my appreciation for this writing. This person should write more like this and his work should be published. I am saving this email. It is a precious gift to all of us. Hare Krishna!  Obeisances. 
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On Sat, Mar 20, 2021 at 11:12 PM Joseph Langevin
 
Editing Srila Prabhupada’s Books

By Narasimha das

 

Before Srila Prabhupada’s first revised editions of Srimad-Bhagavatam were complete, we used to study and have classes from Srila Prabhupada’s India editions of the first three cantos. The devotees loved these editions, even though it seemed they were “irregularly composed” and contained some obvious typos. We thought Srila Prabhupada’s English was exotic and beautifully poetic, but perhaps dated or influenced by British prose from the 1800s. We later learned that these editions were edit

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Book Archive
Original pre-1978 Books

by
His Divine Grace
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

Founder - Acarya of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness

[Distinguishing Srila Prabhupada's Original Books from Changed Ones]

Srila Prabhupadas Books
     
 
original books -- free download
 

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Bhagavad-gita As It Is - Macmillan 1972 - free download  »  [.html]    [.doc]   [.pdf]
Bhagavad-gita As It Is - Collier 1968    free download  »  [.rtf]
The Bhagavad-gita is the main source-book on yoga and a concise summary of India's Vedic wisdom. Yet remarkably, the setting for this best-known classic of spiritual literature is an ancient Indian battlefield.

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Easy Journey to Other Planets -     free download  »  [.html]    [.doc]   [.pdf]
It is said that the perfect yogi can relinquish his body at death and journey, at the speed of mind, to antimaterial planets far beyond the limits of the material universe. Encompassing the systems of sankhya, astanga and bhakti, this absorbing publication treats th

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Call for participation

Don't wish to nag much, but would some of our learned illustrious friends here at spiritnet be so kind as to comment on something once in a while? 

That'd be great. Or donate, that is always welcome, right now, looking for Gita donations by the case. 

We are Srila Prabhupada's disciples since the early seventies, so if you doubt, then just ask Father Time. 

Pretty please? What, I gotta beg? 

Jaya! Thanks! AGT Srila Prabhupada. 

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"... in the absence of a suitable king to curb irreligious tendencies, educating the people systematically in the teaching of Srimad-Bhagavatam will clear up the hazy atmosphere of corruption, bribery, blackmail, etc." – Srimad Bhagavatam 1.1.7.27 (1972 edition, original and unedited).

prema dhana vina vyartha daridra-jivana
dasa kari vetan more deha prema dhana

Life without Love is useless and poor they say,
Appoint me in Thy service, Oh Lord with Love as my pay.

  

 "Similarly, we must find out the essential part of a living being which is always companion with him. That part of constant companion of the living being is his eternal quality, and the eternal part of the living being's quality is his eternal religion."

 

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9468803659?profile=originalWE DO NOT FOLLOW NOR READ BUDDHIST NOR CHRISTIAN IDEAS, SAYS PRABHUPADA !!

 

"Regarding your question about Lord Jesus Christ, we accept him as saktyavesa avatara. Lord Buddha is in the same category also. Lord Buddha is mentioned specifically in Srimad-Bhagavatam as incarnation of Godhead, and yet Vaisnavas do not accept his philosophy, which is classified as atheism. Similarly, even if we accept Lord Jesus Christ as saktyavesa avatara., it doesn't mean that we have to accept his philosophy. But we have all respects for him without fail.

Regarding books like Aquarian Gospel or even the Testiments, we cannot accept them as authorities because sometimes it is learnt that the words are not actually spoken by Christ, but they are so set up by the devotees. For example, in the Ten Commandments it is clearly stated "Thou shalt not kill", but some Bishop in Boston has changed it to "Thou shalt do no murder". This means the Bishop wants to keep hold for animal slaughter. So don't bother ab

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Srila Prabhupada says, ''Why they have manufactured this Hindu religion, Muslim religion, Christian religion, this religion, that...? Therefore they are all pretending religion.''
Prabhupada: Pretending religion, what is that? Just like gold. Gold is gold. If the gold is in the hand of some Hindu, then will it be called Hindu gold? Similarly, religion means obedience to God. So where is Hindu religion? Where is Christian religion? Where is Muslim religion? God is everywhere, and we are just meant for obeying God. That is one religion: obedience to God. Why they have manufactured this Hindu religion, Muslim religion, Christian religion, this religion, that...? Therefore they are all pretending religion. Real religion is obedient.. Then one who has no conception of God, no idea of God, where is religion? That is pretending religion.
Therefore in the Bhagavata you'll find, dharmah projjhita-kaitavo 't
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Srila Prabhupada writes - "Śrīpāda Rāmānujācārya and Madhvācārya break the teeth
of the Māyāvādī philosophers, who can therefore be called Vidantīs, "toothless."
Hare Krishna. All glories to His Divine Grace Srila A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. In the following verse, Srila Prabhupada gives us a complete description of Oṁkāra and the ways by which these Mayavadis interpret the meaning and how their attempts are defeated by Śrīpāda Rāmānujācārya and Madhvācārya.The meaning of three parts of Oṁkāra (A,U,M) is also described. Hare Krishna.
 
Caitanya Caritamrta-Adi Lila-Chapter 7-TEXT 128 - 1974 Edition

'praṇava' se mahāvākya--vedera nidānaīśvara-svarūpa praṇava sarva-viśva-dhāma


SYNONYMS

praṇava—the oṁkāra; se—that; mahā-vākya—transcendental sound vibration; vedera—of the Vedas; nidāna—basic principle; īśvara-svarūpa—direct representation of the Supreme Personality of Godhead; praṇava—oṁkāra; sarva-viśva—of all universes;
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Shivaratri, Kijaya!

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Lord Siva Mahajana Gopeswara Maharajah loves and protects the Vaisnavas ! He presides in all our Holy Dhamas. Srila Sanatana Goswami would not reside anywhere if Lord Mahadeva was not nearby. He also lives at Rudradvipa, Mayapura, with his dear wife Praudha Maya Devi Ji, and personally comes to shout Gauranga! in the ear of departing souls from this world, to deliver them to Sri Krsna Caitanya's Grace. All Glories!!
- info from Navadvipa Mahatmya, Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura Goswami Prabhupada

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The acarya is not to be seen as an ordinary man

Compiled by Isana dasa
 
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·         For a neophyte especially, considering a pure devotee from a material point of view is very injurious. One should try to see the internal features and understand how he is engaged in the transcendental loving service of the Lord

This Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is a transcendental science, and there is no room for jealousy.  As soon as one becomes envious, he falls from the platform of paramahaṁsa. If we consider the bodily defects of a Vaiṣṇava, we should understand that we are committing an offense at the lotus feet of the Vaiṣṇava, which is very serious.  For a neophyte especially, considering a pure devotee from a material point of view is very injurious. One should try to see the internal features and understand how he is engaged in the transcendental loving service of the Lord. Those who think that Kṛṣṇa consciousness is limited to a certain section of people or devotees are generally prone to

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Why I Decided that Getting Vaccinated Against COVID-19 Was the Right Choice for Me

iE2zlqO.jpegBy Indradyumna Swami

In light of the ongoing coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and the development of COVID-19 vaccines, many of my students have inquired whether they should get vaccinated or not. As a result, I wish to share my views on this matter with my students and those who look to me for advice. Of course, the final decision whether or not to get vaccinated rests with each individual.

Reply Why? Because I have a low IQ, and am sold-out to the globalist libtard agenda in my utter offensive ignorance. 

This is very auspicious, as the fruitloop cultists serving the cia murderers for the globalist libtard demons will also get "shot", and thus the world's worst enemies will gradually be killed by the eugenicists and can no longer spread their bogus cheat cult to send people to hell. They murdered the Acarya, so now they will die miserably and their Paundraka- itsacon cult will become the stool it was

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Joseph Langevin <yasoda1008@yahoo.com>
To:Laksman Dion
Cc:Yasoda Nandana Prabhu
Sun., Mar. 7 at 1:40 p.m.9468806469?profile=original

Srila Prabhupada speaks out- "Any rascal who manufactures some idea is not guru.

Immediately kick him out, immediately, that "This is a rascal. This is not a guru." "


If you concoct, "I am very intelligent than my guru, and I can make addition or alteration," then you are finished.

 

Srimad Bhagavatam Lecture by Srila Prabhupada - Verses 6.1.26-27-PHILADELPHIA - July 12, 1975

We do not know what is our self-interest. And we are hoping against hope, "I shall be happy in this way. I shall be happy in this way." Therefore this word is used, mūḍha. They do not know what is actually his happiness, and he is trying one chapter, another, one chapter, another, "Now I will be happy." The ass. The ass. . . Sometimes the washerman sits on his back and takes a bunch of grass and puts in front of the ass, and the ass wants to take the grass. But as he moving forward, the grass is also mov

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Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Thakur Avirbhava Tithi special -
Original works of Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Thakur
 
Hare Krsna. All glories to HIs Divine Grace A.C Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada.
All glories to His Divine Grace Sree Srimad Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Thakur Prabhupada
We are pleased to present a compilation of "The Harmonist As It Is" on the occasion of the appearance day of Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Thakur. 
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The original version of The Harmonist appeared in Bengali under the name Sree Sajjana Toshani in 1879, published by Śrīla Bhaktivinoda Thakura. After his departure, his son, Śrīla Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Thakura established a printing press and began his preaching mission, the Shri Gaudiya Math. In 1927, he launched the Harmonist magazine, an English version of the original Bengali magazine, Sree Sajjana Tos
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Joseph Langevin <yasoda1008@yahoo.com>

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Cc:Yasoda Nandana Prabhu

Sun., Feb. 28 at 1:50 p.m.

Iskcon gurus declare they're not qualified as Gurus in 1981-Iskcon World Magazine June 1981 -

"The present acaryas expressed that although they are supposed to be

the senior most Vaisnavas of the movement, they are still learning about their responsibilities as gurus."



Hare Krsna. All glories to His Divine Grace Srila A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. All glories to all Vaisnavas. 

 

The following article published in June 1981 in the Iskcon's World Magazine shows that the self appointed Gurus themselves declared that they were "still learning their responsibilities as Gurus".

It is also admitted by Satsvarupa Das Goswami here where he says the ISKCON gurus are imitators and fake Gurus. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pz37qsyc8-M



Now, isn't a Guru supposed to be on the topmost platform of devotional service and an eternally liberated soul(nitya-siddha)? If the Gurus themselv

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