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

Haridasa Thakura and the Prostitute

She exposed part of her body to his view and sat down at his doorstep. She spoke to him in very sweet words, My dear Thakura, O great preacher, great devotee, you are so beautifully built and your youth is just beginning. What woman could control her mind after seeing you? I am so eager to be united with you. My mind is greedy for this. If I don’t obtain you After leaving his home Haridasa Thakura stayed for some time ...Read More

His Divine Grace Srila Sac-cid-ananda Bhaktivinoda Thakura’s Appearance Day Lecture, London, September 23, 1969

So Bhaktivinoda Thakura is an ideal guru. He was not a sannyasi; he was grhastha, householder, living with family, wife, children. Still, he was guru. So anyone can become guru. Not that a sannyasi can become guru. A householder also can become guru, provided he knows the science. So today is a very auspicious day, Thakura Bhaktivinoda’s birthday. Here is the picture of Thakura Sac-cid-ananda Bhaktivinoda. He was one of the acaryas of this disciplic succession from Krsna. We have got ...Read More

The Prabhupada Story Part 8

If you want to live alone in a secluded place and practice yoga for your own personal benefit that is very nice. But if you want to help others by spreading Krishna consciousness, that is far better. Prabhupada involves his disciples in his worldwide preaching mission… and Krishna consciousness spreads everywhere Srila Prabhupada directed his disciples enthusiasm towards the goal of spreading Krishna consciousness. “You should expect to perform public kirtana in the important cities of the world. ...Read More

America Has to Stop Demonism [Prabhupada Speaks Out]

Your leaders do not see this sameness between their demonism and the communists’ demonism. America has to stop demonism.  Then your nation will be the real leader of the world.  You understand your duty somewhat; you say, theoretically, ‘In God we trust.’  Now it is your business to actually trust in God and work for Him. This exchange between His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada and some of his disciples took place in Los Angeles, on the ...Read More

We Must Have a Definite Process–SRILA PRABHUPADA SPEAKS OUT

This is the conclusion of an exchange between His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada and an official from an impersonalist (God-is-simply-everyone-and-everything) movement. The exchange took place in Paris, on August 13, 1973, with Srila Prabhupada’s disciples translating the official’s remarks from French. Official: Personally, I do not like the idea of killing animals. Srila Prabhupada: But what is the ideal of your order? That I am asking. Official: Love between men. Understanding. Srila Prabhupada: What have the ...Read More

The Prabhupada Story–Part 7

Srila Prabhupada would preach at every opportunity, and there was no way his disciples could slow him down. Strenuous Preaching Takes its Toll… Srila Prabhupada could have safely lived out his days in Vrindavana in India but he had chosen strenuous international preaching instead. On the occasions when his followers had tried to restrain Srila Prabhupada, their concern for his physical welfare was no match for his ...Read More

The Prabhupada Story–Part 4

With great difficulty I got out of India. Some way or other by Krishna’s grace I got out so that I could spread the Krishna consciousness movement all over the world. I wanted to start a movement in India, but I was not encouraged. Srila Prabhupada Gets a Passage From India Srila Prabhupada tried for over thirty years to inspire Indians to take up the message of Gita and Bhagavatam seriously and start ...Read More

The Prabhupada Story–Part 3

In his heart, always it was burning that the whole world was suffering in the materialistic view – everyone is busy in eat drink and be merry. He was having iron-will and determination about his mission. He was not doubtful at all. Actually, he was always preaching that there was no other way except the Hare Krishna mantra. So, always discussing, sometimes the whole night he was discussing with me. And A Lifetime in Preparation Srila Prabhupada did not wait idly ...Read More

The Prabhupada Story–Part 2

Srila Prabhupada was neither enamoured by western education nor ambitious for scholastic achievement. He was always thinking about something religious, something philosophical or devotional about God. – Rupendranath Mitra (school friend) Philosophical as a Youth Srila Prabhupada’s father believed that with a good education his son would have a more promising career, thus in 1916 he arranged for him to attend Scottish Churches’ College, then the top British college in Calcutta. Srila Prabhupada was neither enamoured by western education nor ambitious ...Read More

Srila Prabhupada: A Brief Biography

In the last ten years of his life, in spite of his advanced age, Srila Prabhupada circled the globe twelve times on lecture tours that have took him to six continents. In spite of such a vigorous schedule, Srila Prabhupada continued to write prolifically. His writings constitute a veritable library of Vedic philosophy, religion, literature and culture. His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada was born in 1896 in Calcutta, India. He first met his spiritual master, Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati ...Read More

No One–Not Even Darwin–Can Be Independent [Prabhupada Speaks Out]

This whole Darwinian theory is false. But people are giving it so much stress. First of all, no one–not even Darwin–can be independent. For instance, Darwin died. So he was under the control of something higher. No man wants to die, but he is forced to die. Is it not? Then where is his independence? Here we continue an exchange that occurred in Perth, Australia, on May 9, 1975, between His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada and Carol Cameron, then ...Read More

Krishna Consciousness–The Yoga for the Modern Age

Nowadays, we find yoga being taught in numerous courses and touted in mass-market books as a means to achieve health, lose weight, develop mental powers over others, achieve success in making money, or increase sexual potency. But real yoga is something entirely different. All glories to the sankirtana movement. Param vijayate sri-krsna-sankirtanam. Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu, when He was only a sixteen-year-old boy, introduced this sankirtana movement five hundred years ago in Navadvipa, India. It was not that He manufactured some religious ...Read More

Matchless Gifts

Like so many downtown New Yorkers, we had been reading books on Eastern philosophy and religion, burning lots of candles and incense and taking ganja, peyote and LSD as aids to meditation. Actually it was more intoxication than meditation; meditation was a euphemism that somehow connected our highs with our readings. I walked around the corner with him, and he pointed out a small storefront building between First and Second Streets, next door to a Mobil filling station. It had ...Read More

The King of Education

We see so many educational institutions in this world, so many universities, colleges and schools. Every variety of education is available. If we analyse all these educational institutions we find they are all only imparting knowledge concerned with the material body. It’s all knowledge meant for fulfilling the animal instincts of the body. We have four basic animal instincts; eating, sleeping, mating and defending. We have these instincts in the human form of life and they are common with the animals. ...Read More

The Spiritual World

The material world is simply a shadow of the spiritual world. So real life, real variety, real beauty, real knowledge, everything in reality is there in the spiritual world. This material world is only reflection. Just like if you create a clay doll, a very nice beautiful girl. But it is imitation. It is shadow of the real beautiful girl. Prabhupada: Oh, Mr. Murti, I’m very glad to see you. Come here in front. How do you like this movement? Huh? Mr. ...Read More

Christ and Krishna – the Name is the Same

When an Indian person calls on Krishna, he often says, Krsta. Krsta is a Sanskrit word meaning attraction. So when we address God as Christ, Krsta, or Krishna we indicate the same all-attractive Supreme Personality of Godhead. When Jesus said, Our Father who art in heaven hallowed be Thy name, the name of God was Krsta or Krishna. Srila Prabhupada: What is the meaning of the word Christ? Father Emmanuel: Christ comes from the Greek word Christos, meaning “the anointed ...Read More

Man On The Moon–A Colossal Hoax that Cost Billions of Dollars

Although many believe man first reached the moon in July, 1969, we have information from a very reliable source, the Sanskrit Vedic scriptures, that the astronauts never actually went to the moon. The manned moon landing was a colossal hoax. Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura, the spiritual master of His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, once described materialistic civilization as “a society of the-cheaters and the cheated.” Looking at our modern world, we can easily see why: massive advertising campaigns for ...Read More

Sex in a Palace and Sex on the Street–the Taste is the Same (MP3 Audio Morning Walk)

DOWNLOAD Enjoyment is there in the cats and dogs. When you enjoy sex in palace and the dog enjoys sex on the street, the value is the same. The taste does not increase or decrease. But you are thinking to enjoy sex in big palace is advancement. That is your foolishness. Actually sex enjoyment in the palace or on the street is the same. It has no difference of taste. Prabhupada: Who is giving the tree food, huh? (Hindi) What is ...Read More

Why should you remarry? Rather you should take sannyasa…

There is a certain kind of laddu which has such a taste, that anyone who has tasted it once, he laments, oh how I would like to taste again. And anyone who has never tasted, he also laments, oh I have never tasted. So one who has tasted, and one who has not tasted, both are lamenting. Wife is like that. Vrindaban 1 September, 1975 Tampa My Dear Jayananda das: Please accept my blessings. I am in due receipt of your ...Read More

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