Completed on the night of Vaiśākhī Śukla Ekādaśī, the tenth of May 1976
Thus end the Bhaktivedanta purports of the Seventh Canto, Fifteenth Chapter, of the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, entitled “Instructions for Civilized Human Beings.”
—Completed on the night of Vaiśākhī Śukla Ekādaśī, the tenth of May, the mercy of śrī-kṛṣṇa-caitanya prabhunityānanda śrī-advaita gadādhara śrīvāsādi-gaura-bhakta-vṛnda. Thus we may happily chant Hare Kṛṣṇa, HareKṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa, Hare Hare/ Hare Rāma, Hare Rāma, Rāma Rāma, Hare Hare.
END OF THE SEVENTH CANTO
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INTRODUCTION TO THE EIGHTH CANTO
First of all, let me offer my humble, respectful obeisances unto the lotus feet of my spiritual master, His Divine Grace Śrī Śrīmad Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Gosvāmī Prabhupāda. Sometime in the year 1935 when His Divine Grace was staying at Rādhā-kuṇḍa, I went to see him from Bombay. At that time, he gave me many important instructions in regard to constructing temples and publishing books. He personally told me that publishing books is more important than constructing temples. Of course, those same instructions remained within my mind for many years. In 1944 I began publishing my Back to Godhead, and when I retired from family life in 1958 I began publishing Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam in Delhi. When three parts of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam had been published in India, I then started for the United States of America on the thirteenth of August, 1965. [Read More…]
Mahārāja Ambarīṣa, the most powerful and celebrated Devotee, was the emperor of the entire world, but he considered his opulence temporary
TRANSLATION
Mahārāja Ambarīṣa always engaged his mind in meditating upon the lotus feet of Kṛṣṇa, his words in describing the glories of the Lord, his hands in cleansing the Lord’s temple, and his ears in hearing the words spoken by Kṛṣṇa or about Kṛṣṇa. He engaged his eyes in seeing the Deity of Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa’s temples and Kṛṣṇa’s places like Mathurā and Vṛndāvana, he engaged his sense of touch in touching the bodies of the Lord’s devotees, he engaged his sense of smell in smelling the fragrance of tulasī offered to the Lord, and he engaged his tongue in tasting the Lord’s prasāda. He engaged his legs in walking to the holy places and temples of the Lord, his head in bowing down before the Lord, and all his desires in serving the Lord, twenty-four hours a day. Indeed, Mahārāja Ambarīṣa never desired anything for his own sense gratification. He engaged all his senses in devotional service, in various engagements related to the Lord. This is the way to increase attachment for the Lord and be completely free from all material desires. [Read More…]
Jayadvaita/Dravida Cunningly Manipulates and Distorts Srila Prabhupada’s Original Books
Note: Jayadvaita/Dravida purposely is changing Srila Prabhupada’s books to support “MANY PSEUDO DEVOTEES OR NONDEVOTEES IN THE KṚṢṆA CONSCIOUSNESS SOCIETY“. His purpose of massive book changing is to destroy Srila Prabhupada’s original Krishna Consciousness movement
Srila Prabhupadas original text Madhya 19.157 : PURPORT
IF ONE THINKS THAT THERE ARE MANY PSEUDO DEVOTEES OR NONDEVOTEES IN THE KṚṢṆA CONSCIOUSNESS SOCIETY, ONE CAN KEEP DIRECT COMPANY WITH THE SPIRITUAL MASTER, and if there is any doubt, one should consult the spiritual master. However, unless one follows the spiritual master’s instructions and the regulative principles governing chanting and hearing the holy name of the Lord, one cannot become a pure devotee. By one’s mental concoctions, one falls down. By associating with nondevotees, one breaks the regulative principles and is thereby lost. (Madhya 19.157)
Jayadvaitas/Dravida changed text perversion Madhya 19.157 : PURPORT
EVEN IF ONE THINKS THAT THERE ARE MANY PSEUDO DEVOTEES OR NONDEVOTEES IN THE KṚṢṆA CONSCIOUSNESS SOCIETY, *STILL ONE SHOULD STICK TO THE SOCIETY*; if one thinks the Society’s members are not pure devotees, one can keep direct company with the spiritual master, and if there is any doubt, one should consult the spiritual master. However, unless one follows the spiritual master’s instructions concerning the regulative principles and chanting and hearing the holy name of the Lord, one cannot become a pure devotee. By one’s mental concoctions, one falls down. By associating with nondevotees, one breaks the regulative principles and is thereby lost.
ADDED CONCOCTED TEXT
“still one should stick to the Society; if one thinks the Society’s members are not pure devotees”
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The Lord is known as bhāva-grāhī janārdana because He takes the Essence of one’s devotional Mentality
From the Eighth Canto, Twenty-third Chapter, of the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, entitled “The Demigods Regain the Heavenly planets.”
Text 1
Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: When the supreme, ancient, eternal Personality of Godhead had thus spoken to Bali Mahārāja, who is universally accepted as a pure devotee of the Lord and therefore a great soul, Bali Mahārāja, his eyes filled with tears, his hands folded and his voice faltering in devotional ecstasy, responded as follows. [Read More…]
I am unknown to you but I have heard about you from your very good grandson Sriman Janardana (Janis)
Letter to: Mr. Dambergs (senior)
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New York
12 April, 1967
67-04-12
Dear Mr. Senior Dambergs,
Kindly accept my greetings. I am unknown to you but I have heard about you from your very good grandson SrimanJanardana (Janis). I have heard that you have been ailing since a long time but I have heard also that you are a great devotee of Lord Jesus Christ. It is very good. I am also an insignificant servant of Lord Jesus Christ because I am preaching the same message as Lord Jesus did. I’m preaching God consciousness or Krishna consciousness. Fools thought that Lord Jesus Christ was dead by crucifixion but He resurrected. All living entities are parts and parcel of the Supreme Lord and therefore they are also eternal. All our ailments are due to the external body. Although we have to suffer some time from bodily inconveniences specially in the old age, still if we are God conscious, we shall not feel the pangs. The best thing is therefore to Chant the holy Name of the Lord Constantly. I would you request you to chant always God’s holy Name. We are chanting God’s holy name always and instructing our students to do so. If you have any holy name for God do chant Him always and it will do you the greatest benefit. And by chanting so when you will be remembering Him always then you transfer to the Kingdom of God is guaranteed. When you return to the Kingdom of God there is no necessity to come back again to the rotten world full of miseries. [Read More…]
prabhupadanugas
- ardha-kukkuṭī-nyāya. “Cut this, take this, cut this, take this.”
- Bali Mahārāja Surrenders His Life
- Demoniac Conceptions are for the Destruction of the World
- Little Krishna – Episode 6/10
- Śukrācārya, a Priest of Routine Rituals
- In Kali-yuga lying is a common Affair
- Happiness is to be fully satisfied to receive that which is absolutely needed whereas discontent can never bring Happiness
- Indefatigable (Meme)
- …and this Dr. Radhakrishnan says, “It is not to the Kṛṣṇa person.” Just see. Just a big Scholar, Doctor of Philosophy, he cannot understand…
- yat durvibhāvyam—which is actually extremely difficult to understand prabudha-apabādham—rejected by the learned, by those who are fully aware
- Soma, the Moon, is the Source of Food Grains, Strength and Longevity for all the Demigods
- THE SCIENCE OF DEVOTIONAL SERVICE
- The Atoms of the Universe are impossible for anyone to count, and similarly no one can count the transcendental Qualities of the Lord
- BLESSINGS
- Real Life Poem
- Delhi 1962 “If the lectures are continued I am sure to turn these Offenders into saintly Characters”
- Worshiping Govardhana Hill | KRSNA Book
- Welcome to the Month of Damodar, Kartik!
- …unapproachable by those who are unable to control their senses…
- Only “2” Doors (Meme)
- Śrī Dāmodarāṣṭakaṁ (with text)
- The bhakti-yogī constantly sees Śyāmasundara – beautiful Lord Kṛṣṇa with His blackish bodily hue
- What is the difference between a theist and an atheist? It is a difference in behaviour.
- There was a Cartoon
- Radha Kunda – Sacred bathing place of Srimati Radharani
- “Because you have committed an Offense, may you immediately become a śūdra, devoid of Beauty.”
- Yikes (Meme)
- Sometimes, because of our bad Luck, this Movement is stopped…
- The Pāṇḍavas are a practical Example of how to live in Security and Safety by the Grace of Kṛṣṇa
- The material World is a Reflection of the spiritual World. The material World is temporary or false, but the spiritual World is an eternal Reality
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