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

How I Found A Real Yoga Teacher

The path.from the hatha-yoga ashram to the Radha-Krsna temple is a well-worn one. Many people who are now Hare Krishna devotees had in the past performed various stretchings, contortions, breathing exercises, headstands, and silent meditations before they learned of the higher yoga of Krsna consciousness. Amala-bhakta’s case is extraordinary: not only was he an expert hatha-yogi when he came to the Los Angeles temple in February of 1976, but he was also in the most respected order of spiritual life (sannyasa), ...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

Krishna, The Ultimate Object of Knowledge

In the revealed scriptures the ultimate object of Knowledge is Sri Krishna, the Personality of Godhead. The purpose of performing sacrifices is to please Him, yoga is for realizing Him and all fruitive activities are ultimately rewarded by Him only. He is supreme knowledge and all severe austerities are performed to know Him. Religion, dharma, is rendered in loving service unto Him. He is the supreme goal of life. Here we see all spiritual activities are meant for realizing Vasudeva, Krishna. ...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

The Krishna Consciousness Movement is the Genuine Vedic Way

After reading an article on the Krishna consciousness movement in the Los Angeles Times, Srila Prabhupada begins an unusual correspondence with Dr. J.F. Stall, Professor of Philosophy and of South Asian Languages at the University of California, Berkeley… Excerpt from the Los Angeles Times Article “Dr. J. F. Staal, Professor of Philosophy and Near Eastern Languages at UC Berkeley and an instructor in Indian philosophy, believes that the Krsna sect is an authentic Indian religion and that its adherents ...Read More

Meditation and The Self Within

Can meditation solve our everyday problems? Is there life after death? Can drugs help us achieve self-realization? During a visit to South Africa, His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada discussed these questions with Bill Faill, a reporter for the Durban Natal Mercury. Srila Prabhupada: “Krsna” is a name for God which means all attractive. Unless one is all-attractive he cannot be God. So this Krsna consciousness means God consciousness. All of us are small particles of God, equal in ...Read More

Words From Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Thakura

There is no peace or happiness in our worldly life. Circumstances create turmoil and annoyance. We are put to test and trial in this world. Only those who attend the kirtana of the devotees can succeed. Every spot on earth where discourses on God are held is a place of pilgrimage. Possession of objects not related to Krsna is our main malady. Let me not desire ...Read More

Srila Prabhupada Our Jagad Diksa Guru: Living Still–In Sound

Just like I have written in the first publications of Srimad-Bhagavatam, the spiritual master lives forever by his divine instruction and the disciple lives with him., because I have always served my Guru Maharaja and followed His teachings I am now even never separated from Him. 750716pc.sf Conversations Reporter (2): What will happen to the movement in the United States when you die? Prabhupada: I WILL NEVER DIE. Prabhupada: I SHALL LIVE FROM MY BOOKS, AND YOU WILL UTILIZE. 690113LE.LA Lectures …vani ...Read More

A.A. > T.M. > Reiki > Krishna Consciousness!

At last my life has meaning to it, gone are the fears of death, as the meaning of life and death have been explained for me in The Bhagavad Gita. Every night when I go to bed I am like a child on Christmas eve full of excitement looking forward to the next day. That’s how I feel about getting up a 3.45 am every morning to do my morning program. My Respectful Obeisance’s to you All Glories to Srila Prabhupada. ...Read More

The Story of Ramadasa Vipra

When Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu arrived at southern Mathura (Madhurai), He met a brahmana. The brahmana who met Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu invited the Lord to his home. This brahmana was a great devotee and an authority on Lord Sri Ramachandra. He was always detached from material activities. After bathing in the river Kritamala, Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu went to the brahmana’s house to take lunch, but He saw that the food was unprepared Seeing this, Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu said, “My ...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

Four Books are Enough

In our Krsna consciousness movement we have therefore limited our study of Vedic literatures to Bhagavad-gita, Srimad Bhagavatam, Sri Caitanya Caritamrta and Bhakti Rasamrta Sindhu. These four works are sufficient for preaching purposes. They are adequate for the understanding of the philosophy and the spreading of missionary activities all over the world. Bhagavad-gita As It Is: This book is the A, B, C book of spiritual education. This is the essence of the knowledge imparted in the Upanisads. Since Brahma-sutras give ...Read More

Stay on the Light Side

We have to mold our life in such a way that twenty-four hours, not a single moment leaving aside, we should be engaged in the service of the Lord’s relations. The Srimad-Bhagavatam, Bhagavad-gita, the spiritual master, Tulasi-devi, the temple, the preaching, the books—these are all Bhagavata. Just like we are doing daily, trying to read one verse of Srimad-Bhagavatam, discussing amongst ourselves. By this process the dirty things within the heart become cleansed. Inauspicious things mean the heart disease for ...Read More

Srila Prabhupada And the Treatment Of Children in Gurukul

I recently came across something which may help illuminates a dark issue that has been widely discussed and still receives coverage in the media. It is the issue of child abuse within Iskcon. It’s a very disturbing subject. Even more disturbing, some have insinuated that Srila Prabhupada himself was indifferent to the suffering of the Gurukuli children. It is to this charge that I ask you to look at the following. “Spirit” is a magazine produced by Manu dasa ...Read More

Krishna Consciousness and Hinduism: To Preach or Not To Preach?

The idea of preaching about God in a missionary spirit is not part of India’s religion. That’s something the Christians introduced into India a few hundred years ago… India’s greatest gift to civilization is her highly advanced spiritual culture, based on the eternal truths of the Vedic literatures. Sometimes, however, we hear the strange idea that this culture is not meant to be shared with others. I have heard more than one Western professor of Indian religion say, “The idea of ...Read More

Disciple of Krishna or Disciple of Kali?

DOWNLOAD He says, ‘Here is a servant of Kali. He has got a tilaka and neck beads, that’s all.’ He does not know what is the philosophy. If you simply mark your body with tilaka and kanthi, then you are not proper servant, you are not qualified. Srimad-Bhagavatam 6.1.38 – Los Angeles, June 4, 1976 Pradyumna: Translation: “The blessed messengers of Lord Visnu, the Visnudutas, said: If you are actually servants of Yamaraja, you must explain to us the meaning of religious ...Read More

Man is the architect of his own fortune.

What India is suffering from today is not so much poverty of the means of material existence. She is suffering much more from the bankruptcy of her spiritual resources. Man is the architect of his own fortune. That is an old well known English maxim and the good fortune that the man has evolved out for him at the present moment can be amply verified as soon as we receive our morning newspapers. The sample good news that we are ...Read More

Plea for Peace

At this strange time in history, although the world totters on the brink of colossal destruction and chaos, the vast majority of people go on as if the social structure and way of life they know will continue forever. In fact, as Yudhisthira Maharaja observed long ago, everyone usually adopts the mind set that they will somehow survive all perils, even in old age, and live forever. Today, perhaps more than ever before, people have rejected the genuine authority of Vedic ...Read More

Arsha Prayoga – Part One

For those who saw the Hare Krishna movement spread from city to city and from country to country, it was clear that the original version of Srila Prabhupada’s books was full of spiritual potency and did not require to be changed in any way for his words to act upon the hearts of the conditioned souls. The question as to whether the writings of the acarya may or may not be revised by his disciples after his disappearance is answered by ...Read More

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