April 21
Spoken April 21
Conversation with Dai Nippon Representative
Prabhupāda: It will be finished in sixty volumes, like the one already you have got coming? Karandhara: Sample. Yes. Five coming. They are printing five already. Prabhupāda: Five coming. So similarly, we have to reprint our First Canto.Karandhara:Prabhupāda:Karandhara:Prabhupāda:Karandhara:Prabhupāda:Karandhara:Prabhupāda:Karandhara:Prabhupāda:Karandhara:Prabhupāda:Karandhara:Prabhupāda:Karandhara:Prabhupāda:Karandhara:Prabhupāda:Karandhara:Pr…
SB 2.9.1-7
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 2.9.1–7 [Poor Audio] Pradyumna: [leads chanting of verse] " śrī-śuka uvāca ātma-māyām ṛte rājan parasyānubhavātmanaḥ..." Prabhupāda: Parasyānu. Parasya anu, parasyānu. Pradyumna: Parasyānu. Prabhupāda: Bhavātmanaḥ Pradyumna: Parasyānubhavātmanaḥ.Prabhupāda:Pradyumna:Prabhupāda:Pradyumna:Prabhupāda:Devotees:Prabhupāda:Karandhara:Prabhupāda:Karandhara:Prabhupāda:Karandhara:Prabhupāda:Pradyumna:Prabhupāda:Pradyumna:Prabhupāda:Pradyumna:Prabhupāda:Pradyumna:Prabhupāda:Pra…
Morning Walk
Svarūpa Dāmodara: [introducing recording] 1973, Los Angeles. Prabhupada’s morning walk. April 21, 1973, Los Angeles. Prabhupada’s morning walk. [Hindi] ...Bhavānanda Mahārāja, Sudāmā Mahārāja, how are you? Very nice. [indistinct] dancing. Prabhupāda: They have discovered one watch machine. You have seen that? You canBrahmānanda:Prabhupāda:Karandhara:Prabhupāda:Devotee:Prabhupāda:Brahmānanda:Prabhupāda:Brahmānanda:Prabhupāda:Brahmānanda:Brahmānanda:Prabhupāda:Brahmānanda:Prabhupāda:Svarūpa Dāmo…
SB 1.8.29
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.8.29 Prabhupāda: [leads singing of Jaya rādhā-mādhava] [04:41] [prema-dhvāṇī prayers] [break] Hare Kṛṣṇa. Pradyumna: Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. [leads chanting of verse] [Prabhupāda and devotees repeat]Prabhupāda:Pradyumna:Prabhupāda:Pradyumna:Prabhupāda:Devotees:
SB 1.2.7
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.2.7 Pradyumna: [leads chanting of verse, etc.] [Prabhupāda and devotees repeat, etc] " vāsudeve bhagavati bhakti-yogaḥ prayojitaḥ janayaty āśu vairāgyaṁ jñānaṁ ca yad ahaitukam []" [break] [02:02] Translation: “By rendering devotional service unto the Personality of Godhead, Śrī Kṛṣṇa, one immediately acquires causeless knowledge and detachment from the world.Prabhupāda:Devotees:
Bg 9.3 Lecture
Bhagavad-gītā 9.3 Prabhupāda: [leads devotees in chanting] " aśraddadhānāḥ puruṣā dharmasyāsya parantapa aprāpya māṁ nivartante mṛtyu-saṁsāra-vartmani [Bg. 9.3]" [01:33] So aśraddadhānāḥ: those who are faithless. So those who are faithlessPuṣṭa Kṛṣṇa:Prabhupāda:Devotees:Woman guest (1):Prabhupāda:Woman guest (1):Prabhupāda:Gurukṛpā:Prabhupāda:Woman guest (1):Prabhupāda:Woman guest (1):Prabhupāda:Woman guest (1):Guest (2):Prabhupāda:Gurukṛpā:Prabhupāda:Gurukṛpā:Prabhupāda:Guest (2):Prabh…
Morning Walk
Prabhupāda: They’ll never accept it. But if they simply accept chanting, it will work. [tape of Prabhupāda chanting Govindam prayers in background] [break] ...say on these big, big buildings, but chant Hare Kṛṣṇa. Gurukṛpā: Sthāne sthitāḥ śruti-gatāṁ tanu-vāṅ-manobhiḥPrabhupāda:Gurukṛpā:Prabhupāda:Gurukṛpā:Prabhupāda:Gurukṛpā:Prabhupāda:Devotee (1):Prabhupāda:Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa:Prabhupāda:Gurukṛpā:Prabhupāda:Devotee (2):Prabhupāda:Gurukṛpā:Prabhupāda:Gurukṛpā:Prabhupāda:Gurukṛpā:Prabhupāda:Gurukṛpā:Pr…
Letters April 21
Boys and Girls My dear Boys and Girls: Please accept my blessings and my message unto you is that this Krishna Consciousness movement in your country is the greatest boon to you all. Please take full advantage of this movement and be successful within this life. Everyone of us had to pass through many millions of years in the chain of evolutionary process from aquatic to plant life. from plant to...
My dear Malati, Please accept my blessings. I am in due receipt of your letter dated 19th April, 1968, and the incidence in connection with Krishna’s sitting on your lap is very interesting. I am so glad to learn that you have developed so much love for Krishna. This is the way of developing Krishna Consciousness; and wherever you will be rigid in your Krishna Consciousness, the triumph will be...
My dear Govinda Dasi, Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your nice letter dated April 1, 1969, and I have noted the contents with pleasure. Your humble sentiments are very nicely expressed and I thank you for them. I have already written to Jivananda and Harsarani, and they are inclined to go to New Vrindaban but I have advised them to go to Hawaii after spending a short period...
London My dear Gurudasa, Please accept my blessings. I have just made arrangements for marble Deities to be made for our centers. They will be manufactured just to the standard of our London Deities. I have opened negotiations with one Jaipur Murti maker, and in this connection he has requested a photograph accurate for his manufacturing purpose.
Boston My dear Satsvarupa, Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated 17th instant. I am glad to know that you are to enlarge your altar and throne to accommodate the new Deities. However, you should not put the Vyasasana in the rear as they are doing in L.A. L.A. has got a different arrangement than you have got in Boston temple. So you can put the Vyasasana...
Sudama Tokyo My dear Sudama, Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your nice letter dated 15th April, 1970, and noted the contents with great satisfaction. Today I have received the copy of BTG sent by you. Thank you very much. I have also seen the pictures and I can guess from these pictures that your activities are going very nicely. You have done good by sending duplicate...
Ksirodakasayi My dear Ksirodakasayi, Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated 19th April, 1971 with enclosures. Your former letter dated 13rd April has been duly replied and I hope you have received the same by this time. For visiting Vrindaban on press affairs, I have sent you already one letter of introduction so you can go and see the place. I think your program...
Pittsburgh My dear Ranadhira, Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated 22nd January, 1971 and also Spiritual Sky incense and oil samples. For some reason I haven’t received your package until just now, and I have not received your two previous letters either, otherwise I would have replied them immediately. I am travelling so much and too often my mail is misdirected....
Tamala Krsna Calcutta My dear Tamala Krishna, Please accept my blessings. Sriman Bhagavan das is mailing out one newsletter of our activities to the Indian families in U.S.A. to gain their support, especially in Chicago. I have seen one copy and it is very nice, so I have asked that he send a copy to each and every one of our life members here in India as frequently as they are printed up. It will...
Radha-Damodara Edmonton My dear son, Please accept my blessings. Upon the recommendation of Paramesvari I have gladly consented to accept you as my duly initiated disciple. Your beads have been duly chanted by me and they are sent under separate post. Your spiritual name is Radha Damodara das Brahmacari.
My dear Hansadutta Das Adhikari: Please accept my blessings. I am in due receipt of your letter dated April 7, 1973 and am pleased to accept the following boys and girls as my initiated disciples: Ram Mohan Das (Reiner); Jnanavigraha Das (Joachim); Tirthada Das (Thomas); Hrimati Dasi (Helga); Santimati Dasi (Ulla); Durgama Das (Dario); Premchand Das (Werner); Kamaksi Dasi (Karin); Uktal Das (Ulfert);...
My dear Jagadisa Das: Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated April 18, 1973. I was glad to receive the book distribution results from Toronto and especially the Vancouver Travelling Party. That they sold 100 Bhagavatams in two days is very nice. I think the Bhagavatam is now selling as well as the Gita.. So this is very encouraging to me.
Hansadutta Bhaktivedanta Manor Dear Hansadutta, Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your GBC report of April 11, 1974. Your activities in book publication and distribution in the German and other European languages is very engladdening to me. I am enclosing the latest letter I have received from Wolf Rottkay and I am glad you have been able to engage him; cultivate this...
Presidents of all centers in Europe and America Calcutta To The Presidents of all centers in Europe and America: The bearer of this letter, Sriman Ranajit Sene, is a life member of our Society. He is going to visit Europe and America, so he should be received in every center as a life member. If he wants to stay in the temple he should be given facility.
Boston My dear Ambarisa das, Please accept my blessings. I am in due receipt of your letter dated March 22, 1976 and I have noted the contents with care. I am happy to know that you are appreciating our work amongst the academic community. This is very important work to gain the acceptance of the academic world. If scientific men and scholars accept, the more that is a great stride. Here we have...
Tuscaloosa, Alabama Dear Mrs. Blasko, Please accept my blessings. I am in due receipt of your letter dated March 12, 1976 and I have noted the contents with care. Now that the Dallas Gurukula has been closed we have opened many smaller regional Gurukulas on some of our farming communities, such as our farms in Vancouver, Pennsylvania, and also Mississippi as well as others. It is best if you go...
Los Angeles Dear Puranjana das, Please accept my blessings. I am in due receipt of your letter dated 8 April, 1976 and I have noted the contents with care. Concerning the alternatives, it sounds like the printing cost of .25 is best as this will keep the price down and will also allow the full purport to be there. The general practice in deciding such matters shall be to have the BBT trustees discuss...
Vrindaban Chandra De Sriman Vrindaban Chandra De, Vrinda Book Co., 30/1B, College Row, Calcutta-700-009, W. Bengal 197 Danks St., Albert Park, Melbourne, Australia My dear Vrindaban, Please accept my blessings. I am in due receipt of your letter dated 14 April, 1976, and I have noted the contents with care. By this time you must have received my letter dated April 13, 1976, along with the enclosed...