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Srila Prabhupada's Letters1964 May 23: "I shall request you with all humility to cooperate with this mission. I am requesting you to give me at least ten members from Agra as you have already given one yesterday and I am thanking you once more."  Srila Prabhupada's Letters1966 May 23:  Srila Prabhupada's Letters1968 May 23: "I have seen one copy and it is not good. Please stop circulation of this book, which is not authorized. Any book written by unauthorized persons should not be indulged in."  Srila Prabhupada's Letters1969 May 23: "So far as my starting a separate organization, it was inevitable because none of our godbrothers are cooperating. If it is now possible to combine ourselves together, I shall be the first man to welcome this good opportunity."  Srila Prabhupada's Letters1970 May 23: "My Dear Bhaiji Hanumanprasada Poddar, as you have asked for my suggestion, formulate a scheme so that our Indian brothers may join this Movement and send many preachers all over the world."  Srila Prabhupada's Letters1970 May 23: "Krsna Consciousness philosophy is now tested by my last three years' experiment and this philosophy will be accepted in any part of the world irrespective of caste, creed, color, and language."  Srila Prabhupada's Letters1972 May 23: "We may say "Krishna wills this." Actually outside of our bona fide Krishna Consciousness centers, there is no possibility of finding out what Krishna does or does not want."  Srila Prabhupada's Letters1972 May 23: "Unless there is connection with a bona fide Spiritual Master there is no possibility of making progress in spiritual life. So I have established ISKCON centers for intimate connection with the bona fide Spiritual Master."  Srila Prabhupada's Letters1972 May 22: "So do not think in this way that you are not very important devotees, because I am always thinking of you. Since a long time I have known you and I consider that you are among my very dearest disciples."  Dandavats.com: Srila Prabhupada and the Gaudiya MathaBy Drutakarma Dasa Why, some question, is ISKCON so reluctant to accept guidance from gurus from the Gaudiya Matha? Why, they wonder, does ISKCON wish to limit its association with those who have taken initiation from such gurus? To fully appreciate the reasons for this, we have to look at the history of Srila Prabhupada's involvement with the Gaudiya Matha. Bharatavarsa.net: Bhakti Vikasa Swami: Srila Prabhupada's fervent appeal for unityI am fervently appealing to you all not to create fracture in the solid body of the Society. Please work conjointly, without any personal ambition. That will help the cause... your comparison of the soldier and commander is very appropriate. We are on the battlefield of Kuruksetra—one side Maya, the other side Krsna. So the regulative principles of a battlefield, namely to abide by the order of the commander, must be followed. Otherwise it is impossible to direct the fighting capacity of the soldiers and thus defeat the opposing elements. Kindly therefore take courage. You are capable in so many ways. Let things be rightly done so that our mission may be correctly pushed forward to come out victorious. >>> Ref. VedaBase => Letter to: Brahmananda , Gargamuni — Los Angeles 31 July, 1970 H.H. Satsvarupa das Goswami: '444' from The Yellow Submarine4:15 A.M.I slept peacefully last night with no headache or interruption. But I didn't wake up until the alarm went off at 2:30. This was later than yesterday, and so I haven't had so many rounds done. I've only done five so far. They seem to go slowly, as if I were in a car or truck that couldn't accelerate. This is a disappointment. Yesterday I wrote optimistically of my chanting and told myself not to be self-berating. So I'll restrain from that self-criticism now. I'll chant steadily and faithfully with trust that even though I may not feel the holy names are transforming me, they are sustaining me. Without them I would be at a great loss. Early morning chanting is my life. Without it my sadhana would be void. I will chant my quota and so there is nothing to worry about, even though I have not gotten off to such a quick start today. By now I've sometimes H.H. Satsvarupa das Goswami: 'Prabhupada is Completely Enthusiastic…' from The Yellow SubmarinePrabhupada Smaranam
He has stopped walking, and a crowd of devotees gathers around him. He is on a footpath in a park in a European city. Something in his conversation has prompted him to elaborate on the point, and he is speaking at length. The weather is chilly without sunshine, and Prabhupada is wrapped tightly in his wool cadar and swami-hat. He is in the center, just as Krishna sits in the center of the gopas when He stops for lunch. Each disciple wants to make eye contact with Prabhupada and think, at least for a moment, that Prabhupada is talking to him only. Prabhupada is flowing with Vedic truths. He wants to train up his disciples in the art of polemics, and he simply wants to praise the Lord. When he returns to the temple he will do more of the same, preach the glories of Krishna. He does it all the time. Earlier in the morning he was translating and making purports asserting that Krishna is the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and to please Him is the utmost goal of life. Prabhupada is completely enthusiastic to do this in one way or another, wherever he is. He is very dear to Krishna. He is very dear to his disciples who are here frozen in time, hanging on his every word and submissively accepting his words as the absolute truth. When he speaks, the force of all the acaryas comes through him. It is nice to contemplate upon a picture of this faithful gathering. H.H. Satsvarupa das Goswami: 'A Poem after Recovering from a Headache' from The Yellow Submarine1.I had the head pain ten minutes
My brother questioned me on what
As for putting Krishna in the poem,
You have to think of a 2.Krishna stands with Radha,
And Krishna drives the chariot
Krishna crawling in the yard of
Krishna as Shiva, he's not
These pictures of Krishna you
He's not impersonal. H.H. Satsvarupa das Goswami: 'The Age of Quarrel' from The Yellow SubmarineFree write  You can tell from the sand that this is Ramana Reti in Vrndavana, India. This is the place where Krishna used to play with His cowherd friends and herd the calves and cows. That was five thousand years ago, and still the cows and calves are happy at Ramana Reti. Here they are penned primitively with an old rope, but they are not slaughtered. The cows are milked and the milkmen sell their milk for drinking and cooking into various sweets which are sold in the bazaars or offered to the Deities in the temples. The calves and cows are beautiful, innocent creatures, and it is a great crime that even in India they are slaughtered by the thousands daily. The age of quarrel and hypocrisy began when Maharaja Pariksit first saw a sudra dressed as a king beating a cow and bull. Maharaja Pariksit stopped the act of brutality, but he spared the life of Kali personified and allowed him to live in places where animal slaughter, gambling, illicit sex and intoxication took place. The wicked sudra pleaded that he too was a subject of the king and should have a place to live. But by sparing his life, Pariksit Maharaja opened the floodgates of what now flourishes as the cruelest act imaginable, the widespread killing of one of the seven mothers of humanity. The karma from cow killing mounts in calamities for the human race and the earth planet, as Krishna does not tolerate the injustice done to His favorite animal. Dandavats.com: Yeah its another Harinam video. But you can never get enoughParasuram das: Kadamba Karanan Swami cooking it up in Central London. Everybody needs a wild night out in the West End, especially the devotees. Kurma dasa, AU: Join Kurma in the Kitchen
Come and join me for 44 seconds of sweaty, real life feast-cooking action. This was filmed on someone's phone at the climactic last hours of a feast for 750 (Gaura Purnima 2009) at the Sydney Hare Krishna Temple. Can you feel it?
Bharatavarsa.net: Book distribution seminar: puppets in the hands of Krsna...I had a nice experience in Columbus Ohiio at Ohio State University. It was the 7th day I'd worked the school and I usually don't work the same place that long so I was getting a little ready to move on. I was approaching people and not many were taking, but I continued and then all of a sudden I handed the book to this wonderful soul and he practically exploded in jubilation. He said, "Woa! This is incredible!" He started going off about how he was amazed that this was happening and how cool he thought it was, how he had been looking for a Bhagavad Gita and was just starting to become interested in spirituality. His voice and body were overflowing with excitement and enthusiasm and as I gave him an invitation to the temple he said he would definitely go. It was so cool how the mood changed from frustrating to exhilarating in one moment. >From then on it was as if I was just watching myself interact with the living entities like a marionette in the hands of some transcendental puppet master. It became entertaining to see what kind of episode would play out before me from moment to moment as I continued in wonder enchanted by what was going on. Especially at colleges it seems like I meet someone every day who has a similar reaction as this person and every time it inspires me so much to continue. Hoping this inspires some others as well. Your servant, Madhukari Dasa Book Distribution News: puppets in the hands of Krsna...I had a nice experience in Columbus Ohiio at Ohio State University. It was the 7th day I'd worked the school and I usually don't work the same place that long so I was getting a little ready to move on. I was approaching people and not many were taking, but I continued and then all of a sudden I handed the book to this wonderful soul and he practically exploded in jubilation. He said, "Woa! This is incredible!" He started going off about how he was amazed that this was happening and how cool he thought it was, how he had been looking for a Bhagavad Gita and was just starting to become interested in spirituality. His voice and body were overflowing with excitement and enthusiasm and as I gave him an invitation to the temple he said he would definitely go. It was so cool how the mood changed from frustrating to exhilarating in one moment. >From then on it was as if I was just watching myself interact with the living entities like a marionette in the hands of some transcendental puppet master. It became entertaining to see what kind of episode would play out before me from moment to moment as I continued in wonder enchanted by what was going on. Especially at colleges it seems like I meet someone every day who has a similar reaction as this person and every time it inspires me so much to continue. Hoping this inspires some others as well. Your servant, Madhukari Dasa H.H. Sivarama Swami: The latest skype conference with Russian disciples (Russian/English)Srila Prabhupada's Letters1966 May 22:  Srila Prabhupada's Letters1969 May 22: "I am seeing our Sankirtana is being accepted more and more in the Western World, and there is very good future for its spreading by the help of my very sincere disciples. So we shall require a large number of mrdangas and karatalas."  Srila Prabhupada's Letters1969 May 22: "If in a foreign country there is fire, one has to take help even though you don't know the language. So there is a blazing fire of maya, and we have to inform the people, even if we must use broken language. That is no fault."  Srila Prabhupada's Letters1970 May 22: "Now among our students those who are advanced should take up this matter more seriously, and the Movement which you have started may not be stopped for want of adequate preachers - that is my request to you all."  Srila Prabhupada's Letters1970 May 22: "Either you take your birth as a human being or as an animal, there is a set of parents. But Krsna is available only in the human form, so He is more important than the parents. So do not miss this opportunity."  Srila Prabhupada's Letters1972 May 22: "The covers are like the mind and the senses, and the contents of the book are like the soul. Make the covers of the book very much attractive and automatically people will read the knowledge inside."  Srila Prabhupada's Letters1975 May 22: "If you continue being very much determined to achieve success in this lifetime, then all of your desires to advance in Krishna Consciousness will be fulfilled. This is wanted."  Dandavats.com: Sri Govinda Darshan InaugrationKrishan Chandra Das: We are happy to announce Sri Govinda Darshan storefront here in bellary inaugurated on 16.5.2010 to popularise organic products, including Panchagavya, Go-ark , natural source etc. Dandavats.com: Extended Application Closure date - Brahmacari Convention 2010 at Bhaktivedanta ManorKanhaiya das: We require your attendance confirmation by the 30th MAY and no later. We will then be able to make suitable facility and transport arrangements. Dandavats.com: We Need Your SupportAbhay's parents: Seven months ago our life changed severely: our 3,5 years old son was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (medium risk group). The doctors informed us: the course of therapy will last two and half year. H.H. Sivarama SwamiSrila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura comments that saralata, or simplicity, is the first qualification of a Vaisnava, whereas duplicity or cunning behavior is a great offense against the principles of devotional service. - Srila Prabhupada H.H. Sivarama Swami: Vedanta-krit dasa (Russia), asks that we explain the following:
Mayapur Online: Blue 'Madhava' darshan – More Chandan Yatra pictures & Boat Festival Video!
Today Madhava is dressed in blue chandan. Special vesha for today is Rasa Mandala- Rasa dance darshan. From tomorrow, big Madhava will be offered chandan in His forehead. So, today is the last day darshan of Madhava covered fully with Chandan. HG Jananivas prabhu informed that three new outfits will be offered to Sri Radha-Madhava and Asta Sakhis during the Chadan Yatra. On the first day of chandan Yatra, one new outfit was offered and now, two more outfits are ready to be offered. Gouranga TV: Bhajan – New Year's Eve 2010 – Kalindi dasiBhajan – New Year’s Eve 2010 – Kalindi dasi More Recent Articles |
"While it is certainly true that those who practice devotional service remain in material bodies and apparently material situations for some time, this is simply an expression of the inconceivable mercy of the Lord, who bestows the fruits of devotion only when it has become pure". (Purport, SB.10.88.8)
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