BBT Manager Ramesvara dasa 1979 Interview

What follows is a very important unpublished interview with Ramesvara Prabhu (Swami at that time) and BaladevVidyabusana Prabhu for the Lilamrita recorded sometime in 1979. This interview covers a period of years when Ramesvara was traveling with Srila Prabhupada and when he was working as the Manager of the Bhaktivedanta Book Trust. What we read now after all these years would have helped solve some of the burning questions that have plagued our society. Recently this interview was uncovered by accident ...Read More

Your Ever Well-Wisher — Srila Prabhupada Video Biography

 His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. The movement he started is now known to millions around the world. Yet he himself remained in the background. Without personal ambition he worked humbly to spread Krishna consciousness, devotional service to the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Yet his achievements and personal character did not go unnoticed. The worlds’ leading scholars and religionists praised his unique contribution. And thousands grew to love him as their dearmost friend and well-wisher. In his memory his disciples ...Read More

Eight Prayers in Separation From My Spiritual Master

Maybe the following poem written by Srila Prabhupada is late in coming to me and you have drank in it’s profound application to the present Who would have thought 30 years ago that this poem would apply to us except Srila Prabhupada? He continues to unsparingly pour his mercy upon us. He distinctly points the way out of our current dilemna. May the message in his following poem sink deeply into our hearts: Viraha Astaka by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami ...Read More

Srila Prabhupada — The Acharya — Part 2 — Video

In 1965 His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, A vedic scholar and holy man in the renounced order of life left India for America to transform a bold vision into a historical reality of global dimension. To fulfill the desire of generations of Indian saints who wished to see India’s timeless spiritual culture benefit the entire world Srila Prabhupada left India and sailed to the United States. When he arrived by freighter he was practically penniless, but after nearly a ...Read More

Srila Prabhupada The Acarya — Part 1 — Video

The “Acarya” series of videos were made in the 1980′s by ISKCON television using the 16mm film footage that was left over from Yadubara Prabhu’s documentary on the life of Srila Prabhupada: Your Ever Well-Wisher. Fortunately Yadubara Prabhu took far too much film to fit into a 50 minute biography so there was enough high-quality 16mm film left over to produce the Acarya series. In these films you will travel with Srila Prabhupada around the world as he introduces the science ...Read More

Original Letters from Srila Prabhupada PDF Download

We are releasing for the first time scanned copies of Srila Prabhupada’s original letters. We do not have all the original letters, we have a few thousand of them, and hope that in the future Bhaktivedanta Archives will release scans of all the original Prabhupada letters. So by downloading the PDF files below you can see and read the actual original letters that Srila Prabhupada sent to his disciples and others. This is an on-going program and we will add the additional ...Read More

Prabhupada Vani Samadhi Microfiche from Bhaktivedanta Archives

Original Transcripts of Prabhupada’s Lectures and Conversations The Prabhupada Vani Samadhi DVD-ROM is a copy of a microfiche archive of the Bhaktivedanta Archives collection of typed and hand written transcriptions of Srila Prabhupada’s lectures and conversations. It was produced in 1983 in a few copies only on microfiche. It contains 38,085 original scanned pages and is organized by year and month starting from November 1966 and ending in November 1977. We are presenting this ‘as it is’ and have preserved it ...Read More

The Case Against Changing Prabhupada’s Books Part III

While planning to print the unabridged version of the Bhagavad-gita, Srila Prabhupada often referred to it as the revised and enlarged edition. When the BBT published its unauthorized adulterated Gita years later, they would henceforward refer to the 1972 printing as the original edition while calling theirs the revised and enlarged edition. This appears to be a subtle act of deception meant to validate the irreverent practice of changing Srila Prabhupada’s Books… The remainder of this article will focus mainly on ...Read More

The Power of Prabhupada’s Books [Science of Self Realsation]

Granny was saying that this was not some ordinary book… I was very surprised. She said that we should listen to what Prabhupada said and chant Hare Krishna because that was the religion for this age. There was a lot of talk about how Christianity was no more and no one was following the Bible, but what Prabhupada said was pure and perfect… Dear Sivarama Swami, Hare Krishna. Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. I hope you ...Read More

Change the Public Not the Philosophy

Our process is to show Krishna Consciousness as it is, not as others want to see it. By showing KC in this way, you are making the thing less important. It is not that we should change to accommodate the public, but that we shoud change the public to accommodate us. Bombay 28 December, 1971 Brooklyn My dear Yogesvara, Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge your letter of 17 December, 1971, along with copies of your advertising work, slides, ...Read More

Remembering Srila Prabhupada’s Instructions

The Birla family had traditionally been the richest in India. Srila Prabhupada called them “the best organized family in the world,” and said, “Nobody can measure their wealth.” In 1971 one of the devotees in Calcutta made an appointment for Srila Prabhupada to meet Mr. L.N. Birla, the first son of the senior Birla. G.D. When the devotees informed Srila Prabhupada about the appointment, but I want you to go.” I inquired why. “In Bombay recently I asked some big ...Read More

The Krishna.org Editorial Policy: A Little Bit of A Pure Thing…

In India it is said that a little bit of a pure thing is much better than huge volumes of impure, adulterated things. So please try to follow this policy and publish in BTG only pure Krishna Conscious articles. Hamburg 27 August, 1969 My Dear Brahmananda, Please accept my blessings. I am pleased to inform you that our journey from New York to Hamburg was very comfortable, and we safely arrived at the scheduled time. The boys were present to ...Read More

Why Do Devotees Have a Negative Outlook on the Material World?

The actual fact is that this material world is a miserable, negative place, full of danger at every step. It is a temporary abode of death, birth, disease and old-age, home of suffering and pain only. To come to this platform of understanding of things as they are, is not a very common thing, and therefore such persons who attain to it, they are described as great souls: Los Angeles 30 April, 1973 Lynne Ludwig 15163, Sylmar, California 93142 My dear Lynne Ludwig, ...Read More

The ISKCON Krishna Consciousness Handbook (1970) PDF Download

This is the first annual edition of The Krishna Consciousness Handbook. The International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) was founded in 1966 by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada and is now becoming firmly established, with centers in thirty major cities around the world and world headquarters in Los Angeles, California. The goal of the Society’s members is to attain love of God by following the principles of bhakti-yoga, as taught by the Vedic scriptures and the disciplic succession ...Read More

Teachings of Lord Caitanya PDF Download

The Teachings of Lord Caitanya is one of Srila Prabhupada’s most important books. It is a summary study of the Sri Caitanya-caritamrta and contains the life and teachings of Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu who appeared in West Bengal around five hundred years ago and who is Lord Krishna Himself appearing in the mood of a pure devotee of Krishna. To download Teachings of Lord Caitanya please click on the book cover image on the left. In the Kali Yuga the Supreme Lord ...Read More

The Krishna Consciousness Movement is the Genuine Vedic Way PDF Download

On January 11, 1970, an article appeared in the Los Angeles Times on the Krishna consciousness movement. What follows are excerpts from the article and the unusual correspondence that ensued between the two authorities, A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami and Professor Staal. To download The Krishna Consciousness Movement is the Genuine Vedic Way please click on the book cover image on the left. Excerpt from the Los Angeles Times article: “…Dr. J.F. Staal, professor of philosophy and Near Eastern languages at UC Berkeley and an ...Read More

On The Way To Krishna PDF Download

Every one of us is searching after happiness, but we do not know what real happiness is. We see so much advertised about happiness, but practically speaking we see so few happy people.This is because so few people know that the platform of real happiness is beyond temporary things. It is this real happiness that is described in Bhagavad-gita by Lord Krishna to Arjuna. To download On The Way To Krishna please click on the book cover image on the left. Happiness ...Read More

Transcendental Broadcast — a Television Interview with Srila Prabhupada PDF Download

Newton Minnow, former director of the F .C. C., described the world of T.V. viewing as a “vast wasteland.” But when a pure devotee of Krishna (God) appears on television, the whole performance becomes surcharged with bliss. When television, with its complex technological setup for reproducing a picture in thousands of T.V. sets, is used for the purpose of glorification of the Supreme Lord by a pure devotee, it becomes spiritualized. Whoever sees and hears a pure devotee talking about ...Read More

KRSNA, The Supreme Personality of Godhead PDF Download

Srila Prabhupada’s original ISKCON Press 1970 KRSNA Book. KRSNA, the Supreme Personality of Godhead is the story of Krishna’s life. It starts with His birth in the prison house of King Kamsa and follows the adventures of Krishna throughout His life including His escape from being killed by cruel King Kamsa, His childhood in Vrindavan and His loving pastimes with all the residents of Vrindavan including His parents, His cowherd boyfriends, His gopi girlfriends and all the other residents of ...Read More

Elevation to Krishna Consciousness (1973) PDF Download

For Krishna there is no difference between material and spiritual energy. For Him, it is all the same. Sometimes electricity works for cooling purposes, and sometimes it works for heating purposes, but the energy generated from the electric powerhouse is all the same. To download Elevation to Krishna Consciousness please click on the book cover image on the left. Similarly, Krishna’s energy is always spiritual, but it is acting in different ways. In a town there may be a department of welfare ...Read More

Next Page »