Spoken December 27
Bg 10.1 Lecture
Bhagavad-gītā 10.1 Prabhupāda: Śrī-bhagavān uvāca, the Supreme Personality of Godhead said. Bhagavān, this very word, is very significant. You should try to understand what does it mean, bhaga. Bhaga means opulence and bhagavān means one who has got opulences. The Sanskrit grammar, there is a affix called
Bg 3.11-19 Lecture
Bhagavad-gītā 3.11–19 Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: “The demigods, being pleased by sacrifices, will also please you. Thus nourishing one another there will reign general prosperity for all [Bg. 3.11].” Prabhupāda: Yes. This is very important point. The godless society, they are thinking that everything is being done by nature. Nature is there, but there is a controller of nature. Just like this electricity. Electricity is natural power but there is a powerhouse and there is a resident engineer. Similarly, ev…
The Nectar of Devotion
Pradyumna: [reading:] “...immediately terminates along with his body as soon as his life is over. Death is therefore taken as the representative of God for the atheistic class of men. The devotee realizes the presence of God by devotional service, whereas the atheist realizes the presence of God in the shape of death. At death everything is finished, and one has to begin a new chapter of life in a new situation, perhaps higher or lower than the last one. In anyPrabhupāda:Pradyumna:Prabhupāda:Dev…
Room Conversation
Prabhupāda: They think that “Now I have become this position, it will continue.” But how long it will continue? They do not care for this. " śeṣāḥ sthāvaram icchanti kim āścaryam ataḥ param [Mahābhārata, Vana-parva 313.116]Indian lady:Prabhupāda:Indian guests:Prabhupāda:Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:Prabhupāda:Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:Prabhupāda:Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:Prabhupāda:Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:Prabhupāda:Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:Prabhupāda:Indian lady:Prabhupāda:Indian lady:Prabhupāda:Indian lady:Prabhupāda:Girirāja:Prabhupā…
SB 1.15.50
Pradyumna: Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. [leads chanting of verse] [Prabhupāda and devotees repeat] " draupadī ca tadājñāya patīnām anapekṣatām vāsudeve bhagavati hy ekānta-matir āpa tamPrabhupāda:Pradyumna:Prabhupāda:Devotee:Prabhupāda:Devotees:
Bg 7.7 [with Translator]
[translated throughout] Prabhupāda: So śrī-bhagavān uvāca means the supreme authority. Mattaḥ parataraṁ nānyat kiñcid asti dhanañjaya [Bg. 7.7]. If you learn from the supreme authority without any deficiency, then the knowledge is perfect. Ordinary person, they have got four deficiencies: they commit mistake, they are illusioned, their senses are imperfect, and with imperfect knowledge they try to speaSB 4.8.4Cc. Ādi 1.90
Bg 3.14 [with translator]
Room Conversation
Prabhupāda: Hmm. Where is Jagadīśa? [break] ...on the real goal of life. Jagadīśa: Because they do not know that the goal of human life is to become freed from the repetition of birth and death, therefore there is no, as explained in the First Chapter of the First Canto of Prabhupāda:Indian man:Prabhupāda:Indian man:Prabhupāda:Jagadīśa:Prabhupāda:Jagadīśa:Prabhupāda:Jagadīśa:Prabhupāda:Guest (1) [Indian man]:Prabhupāda:Guest (1):Prabhupāda:Guest (1):Prabhupāda:Guest (1):Prabh…
Room Conversation about F.A.T.E.
Rādhā-vallabha: This is for the theistic exhibition. This is the copy for the sound track, and when the karmīs first walk in, this is the sound track that will play. Prabhupāda: No, no. You keep here. Rādhā-vallabha: So this is like the introduction to the entire thing. Then it comes up to the point when they see the diorama of yourself, and therePrabhupāda:Rādhā-vallabha:Prabhupāda:Rādhā-vallabha:Prabhupāda:Rādhā-vallabha:Prabhupāda:Rādhā-vallabha:Prabhupāda:Rādhā-vallabha:Prabhupāda:Rādhā-va…
Room Conversation
Hari-śauri: [announces] The following is a conversation held in Śrīla Prabhupāda’s room regarding the starting up of yoga courses for tourists in Vṛndāvana and Bombay. Prabhupāda: There are... Just note down. Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: Yes, Śrīla Prabhupāda. Prabhupāda: No, if you teach Gopāla Kṛṣṇa:Prabhupāda:Gopāla Kṛṣṇa:Prabhupāda:Gopāla Kṛṣṇa:Prabhupāda:Gopāla Kṛṣṇa:Prabhupāda:Gopāla Kṛṣṇa:Prabhupāda:Gopāla Kṛṣṇa:Prabhupāda:Gopāla Kṛṣṇa:Prabhupāda:Gopāla Kṛṣṇa:Hari-śauri:Jagadīśa:Go…
Letters December 27
Janajanmadhih (Jeffrey Balawajder), Anadi (Alann Hayes), Araudra (Auda Gen) Boston My dear Sons and Daughter, Please accept my blessings. Upon the recommendation of Traidas I have gladly consented to accept all of you as my duly initiated disciples. I have chanted on your beads and they are enclosed herewith. I have given you the spiritual names as follows:
Chicago My dear Sri Govinda, Please accept my blessings. Enclosed please find three sacred threads duly chanted by me, along with three copies of gayatri mantra. Now hold the fire yagna and give gayatri mantra to Vipina Purandhara, Sundhararupa and Jaya das. You may teach them to count on the finger divisions and play the tape of me reciting gayatri mantra into their right ear. Instruct them fully...
Iskcon Boston My dear Trai das, Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated december 7, 1972, and I am so much pleased to hear from you that the book distribution has increased five times than before! Similarly, I have heard from Chicago and other places also that they are increasing five times than before. That is very encouraging to me. You are, I can understand,...
Southall, England My dear Durgesh, Please accept my blessings. I am in due receipt of your letter 10-12-74 and have noted the contents carefully. It has been recommended to me by the leaders in London that you should move into our temple as a permanent brahmacari and that your father will allow it if I also recommend. After studying your letter carefully and seeing the devotion and sincerity that...
Los Angeles My dear Jayatirtha, Please accept my blessings. I have received your latest receipt from Bank of America dated 15, November, 1974 confirming .43 that was sent to the Punjab National Bank in New Delhi. But I have not received as of yet any statement from them, indicating that the money has come. I have written them for that statement. Gurukrpa has deposited
Bangkok My dear Panca Dravida Maharaja, Please accept my blessings. I am very interested to know how the program in Bangkok is going. I have just written Trivikrama Maharaja in Hong Kong that you and he can work cooperatively together and maybe arrange some big programs in Hong Kong, and you can go there, or arrange big programs in Bangkok and he can come there. Anyway you are both very near so this...
Parvati Nairobi My dear Parvati, Please accept my blessings. I am in due receipt of your letter dated Dec. 21, 1974 and have noted the contents carefully. Thank you very much for trying so hard so many times to send me milk sweets, like sandesh, etc. Unfortunately this last time they went bad on the way here, therefore they were not in offerable condition. The fact that you have offered them to...
Punjab National Bank Punjab National Bank, Vrindaban Branch, Vrindaban Dist. Mathura, Attention: Manager Dear Sir, With reference to our conversation regarding opening a branch in our temple. The amount of 5 laks of Rs. to be deposited is already secured. As soon as you open the branch your Bombay head office will immediately transfer the money. The other bank was very much eager to open a branch...
My dear Ramesvara, Please accept my blessings. I am in due receipt of your telegram as follows: Christmas week book distribution in Los Angeles despite closed airport better than ever by your grace 112000 BTGS 8000 Gitas sold stop on invitation of governor Brown of California 50 devotees visited State mental institutions to help improve conditions and morale by giving religious message publicity very...