740524r2.rom Conversations Prabhupada: There was a cartoon. When I… One leader is approached for food, that “We are in scarcity of food.” The leader says, “Of course, it is very difficult to assure you for food grains. But from next week you will have television.” (laughter) Next week you will have television. So these improvements […]
740502mw.bom Conversations Prabhupada: Yes. When Krsna… Therefore we shall fully surrender to Krsna. As Bhaktivinoda Thakura says, marobi rakhobi yo iccha tohara: “Now I surrender. Now if you want to maintain me, that is all right, and if You want to kill me, that is also all right.” This is surrender. It is not business, […]
A rags to riches story-and then some A jobless man applied for the position of ‘office boy’ at Microsoft. The HR manager interviewed him then watched him cleaning the floor as a test. ‘You are employed’ he said. Give me your e-mail address and I’ll send you the application to fill in, as well as […]
Jaya Srila Prabhupada Na Jayate Mriyate va kadacin—For the soul, there is never birth nor death, Nor having once been does he ever cease to be. (Bhagavad Gita 2.20) Self realization means to be able to see the soul. I look at you and see your body, you look at me and see my body. […]
The Iskcon GBC philosophy on guru-tattva and initiations has evolved over the years. In the late 1970s and early 80s, they conceded, due to the insistence of a few leading members, that eleven individuals had been appointed and empowered by Srila Prabhupada to act as zonal acharyas in Iskcon. The GBC conceded that these eleven […]
740412mw.bom Conversations Prabhupada: (break) …social divisions. Catur-varnyam maya srstam guna-karma-vibhagasah. The other varnas, they would give simply to the brahmanas charity. And the brahmanas were so advanced that simply by their blessing, they will get all benefit. So there must be a class of men who can actually benefit simply by blessing and the society […]
Hare Krsna to all Pranams All glories to Prabhupada Below is some photos of cauliflowers which over wintered in our greenhouse and now are giving us some food in springtime-the hardest time of the year to have fresh food. Srila Prabhupada has told us repeatedly to grow our own food and thereby we will become […]
Obesiances to all the Devotees of The Lord Please accept my humble obesiances with all glories to Srila Prabhupada I was meditating this morning on Srila Prabhupada’s Orders/Dream/Vision/Desires/aspirations…. And thinking that we, as His disciples, should fulfill them even at the cost of our lives….. 4 Principles: – No meat eating […]
720622SB.LA Lectures Prabhupada: So here is one word, “steel-framed.” Nowadays, the medical science is changing the heart, steel-framed. So this modern science is making steel-framed hearts, but we can understand that formerly, also, there were steel-framed hearts. Otherwise how this word comes? Tad asma-saram hrdayam batedam. So just like stone or steel does […]
Today I desire (Dedicated To My Beloved Spiritual Father Srila Prabhupada) Today I desire to live in Vrindavan, where there is The Lotus Dust of my beloved Lord Shri Krishna, Today I desire to smear myself with that Dust, with which the most sinful become purified as the milky ocean… Today I […]
