Spoken January 18
Discussions
Prabhupāda: ...a bona fide spiritual master. Bona fide spiritual master means who carries out the order of higher authorities. Otherwise he is not spiritual master. Anyone who manufactures his own process of religion, that is rascaldom. dharmāṁ tu sakṣād bhagavat-praṇitamGuest (1):Prabhupāda:Guest (1):Prabhupāda:Guest (1):Prabhupāda:Guest (1):Prabhupāda:Guest (1):Prabhupāda:Guest (1):Prabhupāda:Guest (1):Prabhupāda:Guest (1):Prabhupāda:Guest (1):Prabhupāda:Guest (1):Prabhupāda:Guest…
Sannyāsa Initiation of Tamal Kṛṣṇa
Devotee: Evening, January 18th, Jaipur. Prabhupāda: [recites with Tamal Kṛṣṇa and devotees repeating] parātma, niṣṭhā, adhyā, sitāṁ, pūrva, tamair, mahadbhiḥ; ahaṁ, tariṣyāmi, duranta, pāraṁ, tamo, mukunda, aṅghri, niṣe, vayaiva. etāṁ, sam āsthāya, parātma, niṣṭhām, adhyāsitāṁ, pūrva, tamair, mahadbhiḥ; ahaṁ, tariṣyāmi, duranta, pāraṁ, tamo, mukundāṅghri, niṣe, vayaiva. etāṁ, sam āsthāya, parātma, niṣṭhām, adhyāsitāṁ, pūrva, tamair, mahadbhiḥ, ahaṁ, tariṣyāmi, duranta, pāraṁ, mukunda, aṅghri, …
Room Conversation on SB 4.13.48-14.11
Room Conversation on SB 4.13.48–14.11 [poor audio] Prabhupāda: [indistinct] unpopularity. There was monarchy. The kings were very responsible. Therefore the kings were known as rājarṣi. Rājarṣi, rāja ṛṣi. Rājarṣi, this is compound word. [indistinct] king supervising the administration of the state, still his character was just like a Devotee:Prabhupāda:Śyāmasundara:Prabhupāda:Śyāmasundara:Prabhupāda:Śyāmasundara:Prabhupāda:Śyāmasundara:Prabhupāda:Devotee:Prabhupāda:Devotee:Prabhupāda:…
Morning Walk
Prabhupāda: ...“good morning,” what is the meaning? Devotee: Well, it’s just actually become an expression of greeting. Literally, of course, it means that “I am pleased to see you, happy to meet you. Good morning.” Prabhupāda: Anyone else? Satsvarūpa: In English when we say “Pradyumna:Bali-mardana:Prabhupāda:Bali-mardana:Prabhupāda:Devotee:Prabhupāda:Bali-mardana:Prabhupāda:Bali-mardana:Prabhupāda:Devotee:Bali-mardana:Prabhupāda:Bali-mardana:Prabhupāda:Bali-mardana:Prabhupāda:Bali-mardana:Pr…
SB 1.16.22
Pradyumna: [leads chanting of verse] [devotees repeat] " kiṁ kṣatra-bandhūn kalinopasṛṣṭān rāṣṭrāṇi vā tair avaropitāni itas tato vāśana-pāna-vāsaḥ- snāna-vyavāyonmukha-jīva-lokam []" Prabhupāda: [after devotees chant verse] All right.Pradyumna:Prabhupāda:Devotee:Prabhupāda:Devotees:Sudāmā:Devotee:Prabhupāda:Devotee (2):Prabhupāda:Satsvarūpa:Devotee (2):Prabhupāda:Devotees:Prabhupāda:Devotees:
Morning Walk
Madhudviṣa: ...Bhāgavatam you say that we should greet the sun with the verse from Gāyatrī mantra. Does that means we should wait for sunrise to say our Gāyatrī? Just as the sun is rising, we should say the Gāyatrī. Prabhupāda: No. Early in the morning. [gurukula boys chanting in background]Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:Prabhupāda:Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:Prabhupāda:Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:Prabhupāda:Bhavānanda:Jayapatāka:Prabhupāda:Jayapatāka:Prabhupāda:Jayapatāka:Prabhupāda:Bhavānanda:Jayapatāka:Prabhupāda:Bhavānanda:Jayapatāka:Bha…
Room Conversation
Prabhupāda: ...Viśvanātha Cakravartī has discussed. The Kṛṣṇa consciousness is so easy: man-manā bhava mad-bhakto, four principles. Why people do not take to it? [background talking] Hmm? What is that? Harikeśa: He just wanted to know if someone was allowed to come for Prabhupāda:Indian guest:Prabhupāda:Indian guest:Prabhupāda:Indian guest:Prabhupāda:Indian guest:Prabhupāda:Indian guest:Prabhupāda:
Letters January 18
Jaya Mazo 600 East 21 Street Brooklyn, New York, 11226. My dear Jaya Mazo, Please accept my blessings. I am in due receipt of your nice letter dated Jan. 12, 1968, and have noted carefully the contents. And because you are already acquainted with Krishna, I have no objection to accepting you as my disciple. Practically, I do not have any disciples; I select so many masters to train them in the...
My dear Bhurijana, Please accept my blessings. I am in due receipt of your letter of January 13, 1969 along with the kirtana tapes and pictures of Buffalo temple. I cannot tell you how very much I enjoyed listening to this wonderful tape recording. All of the super-excellent qualities of kirtana were present on this tape and it was thus a great joy to hear it. On this tape Rupanuga has set an example...
My dear Jadurani, Please accept my blessings. I am in due receipt of your letter of January 11, 1969 and I have noted the contents. The picture of Vasudeva exchanging the babies is not correct because Nanda Maharaja should not be in this scene. Vasudeva silently exchanged babies with the sleeping Yasoda, and neither Yasoda nor Nanda Maharaja knew this till long after. Yasoda had just given birth...
My dear Satsvarupa, Please accept my blessings. I am in due receipt of your letter of January 11, 1969 and have carefully noted the contents. From this letter I can understand that texts number 6 and 7 are missing in the manuscript of the third canto which you have in Boston. The original manuscript is in New York, and when I go there, maybe in April, I will find this for you. In the meantime, you...
My dear Syama Dasi, Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter of January 14, 1969, and I was very glad to hear from you. You have asked me some questions the functions of sex life in Krishna Consciousness, and the basic principle is that it should be avoided as far as possible. However, if it is unavoidable, then it should be utilized only for begetting Krishna Conscious...
Vaikunthanatha My dear Vaikunthanatha, Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter of January 11, 1969, and I thank you so much for it. It was very encouraging. On the very moment I received your letter there was another letter from Jaya Govinda, and I had been very much shocked by this letter. But at the same time, when I read your letter it counter-acted this shock....
My dear Gargamuni Maharaja, Please accept my blessings. I hope everything is going on well with your preaching activities in Florida state. I have not heard from you in a few weeks, but through Brahmananda Maharaja I learn that you are moving to different cities and preaching our Krsna consciousness in each place.
From: ISKCON CAMP, opposite Hanuman temple, Magh Mela, Allahabad My dear Sri D------ji, [handwriting indistinct] Please accept my greetings. We are staying at the Magh Mela, at the Prayag pilgrimage. The program here is going on very nicely. It will be a great pleasure for us if you visit and stay with us in this sacred pilgrimage.
My Dear Hayagriva, Please accept my blessings. I am in due receipt of your letter of January 5, 1972, along with Outline and Introduction to your proposed book. I don’t think this will be a very good proposal for book. Our process is not mechanical, so that anyone, simply by following 108 steps can attain Absolute Pleasure. It is not like that. One only has to surrender to Krishna, a very simple...
Varanasi My dear Niranjana das Brahmacari, Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letters of January 6 and 10, 1972, and I have noted the contents. I am very pleased that you are trying very determinedly for following the regulative principles of Vaisnava way of life, despite lack of association with devotees. So I think you should very quickly join us and thus take advantage...
Dr. W. H. Wolf-Rottkay Dr. W. H. Wolk-Rottkay Los Angeles My dear Dr. Wolf, Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated 17th December, 1975 and also your most recent letter, undated, both with enclosures. Karmis are considered like asses because they are working so hard day and night without profit. The Bhagavad-gita states:(Bg. 7.23)
Sweden My dear Dvarakesa, Please accept my blessings. I beg to thank you for your letter dated Narayana 21. You have asked how you can thank me. Whether you thank me or not, if you understand the importance of this Krishna Consciousness Movement, that is my success. The whole world is thinking in the bodily conception of life and thus remaining like animals. The animals cannot be happy but people...
To All Iskcon Temple Presidents, Please accept my blessings. Now you must arrange in each temple there must be sufficient stock of prasadam for distribution. You can keep first class cooks, two or three, and they should be always engaged. Whenever any guest comes, he must get prasada. This arrangement must be made, that the cooks prepare ten-twenty servings at a time, of puris and subji, and you can...