February 8
Spoken February 8
Bg 5.17-24 Lecture
Prabhupāda: All glories to the assembled devotees. Devotees: All glories to Sri Guru... Hare Kṛṣṇa. Prabhupāda: Page number? Devotee: Page one hundred and forty four. Prabhupāda: Yes go on. Where is that boy Kamolasa?. Go on reading. Who will read, you will? Revatīnandana: [reading:] “When one’s intelligence, mind, faith and refuge are all fixed in the Supreme, then one becomes fully cleansed of misgivings through complete knowledge and thus proceeds straight on the path of liberation Prab…
Room Conversation
[poor recording] [Indian devotee reciting Sanskrit praṇaṁ-mantras] [break] [01:34] Prabhupāda: Nītyānanda Prabhu. Gurudas: Is he... Prabhupāda: Brahmacārī. Gurudas: Is he the one who lived with you in Vṛndāvana? Prabhupāda: Hm? Gurudas: There’s one Nītyānanda prabhu who lived with you in Vṛndāvana? When Puruṣottama lived with you also? One Nītyānanda?Prabhupāda:Gurudas:Prabhupāda:Gurudas:Prabhupāda:Devotee:Prabhupāda:Guest:Prabhupāda:Guest:Prabhupāda:Guest:Prabhupāda:Guest:Prabhupāda:Gur…
Room Conversation
[poor recording] Prabhupāda: “...sun-god is [indistinct] to You. How am I to understand that in the beginning he instructed the science [indistinct]?” So that is Kṛṣṇa. Kṛṣṇa’s appearance, janma karma me divyaṁ yo jānāti [Bg. 4.9], if you understand KṛṣṇaDevotee:Prabhupāda:Devotee:Prabhupāda:Devotee:Prabhupāda:Devotee:Prabhupāda:Devotee:Prabhupāda:Devotee:Prabhupāda:Devotee:Prabhupāda:Devotee:Prabhupāda:Devotee:Prabhupāda:
Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Gosvāmī Prabhupāda’s Appearance Day Lecture
Prabhupāda: ...one hundred and third? Pradyumna: The lecture is now, then we’ll have ārati. Prabhupāda: So this is the hundred and third birth anniversary. [some discussion in background the number] You remember? One hundred third, this is? One hundred and three anniversary?Pradyumna:Hari-śauri:Devotee:Hari-śauri:Prabhupāda:Pradyumna:Prabhupāda:
Letters February 8
New York My dear Brahmananda, Please accept my blessings. Your letter dated Feb. 5, 1968, is just in hand. It is very pleasing to me to see how your heart is working in Krishna Consciousness. I am very much hopeful of your future glories in the matter of propagating this transcendental movement. Your remark that we cannot make Krishna our order supplier is very appropriate. We should always try to...
My dear Jagannatham Prabhu, Please accept my humble dandabats. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your kind letter dated 1 February 1969. I have received one pamphlet of the Golden Jubilee, organized by Sripada Tirtha Maharaja, and a covering letter dated 29, January 1969. This letter was not even signed by Tirtha Maharaja, but appears to be a general circular letter with his rubber stamp only, without...
Detroit My dear Bhagavan das, Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated 5 February, 1970, and as advised by you I am sending herewith the tape #14. Please transcribe it nicely, edit it, and send one copy to me and the others to Satsvarupa. The tapes after being transcribed must be sent to me directly otherwise I will be short of the stock of tapes.
My dear Daughter Jyotirmayi, Please accept my blessings. I am in due receipt of your kind letter dated 28 January, 1970 along with your beads. I am very happy to accept you as my disciple as you are eager to love Krishna. I am returning your beads herewith duly chanted on by me and your initiated name is Jyotirmayi. Jyotirmayi is the effulgent energy of Krishna.
Mandakini London My dear Daughter Mandakini, Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated 28 January, 1970, along with your beads. Thank you very much. I am very glad to accept you as my disciple because you want to learn how to serve Krishna, and I am returning your beads duly chanted upon by me.
Yamuna, Mandakini, Ilavati, Jyotirmayi, Dhananjaya, Digvijaya, Jotilla, Prithadevi, Tamala Krsna My dear Yamuna, Mandakini, Ilavati, Jyotirmayi, Dhananjaya, Digvijaya, Jotilla, Prithadevi, and Tamala, Please accept my blessings: I am so much obliged for your loving presentation of sweets, balusai, handkerchief, painting, flower, simply wonderful, sacred thread, dhupa, and gopicandana, and I have...
ISKCON, P.O. 170 Box, Alexandria, N.S.W. P.O. Sree Dham Mayapur Dist Nadia, West Bengal, India Dear Bali Mardan, Please accept my blessings. I have received your letter of January 19, and examined the contents. In your letter you report you are considering the purchase of two separate real estates, a temple in the city costing
22 Minto, Allahabad 1, U.P. P.O. Sree Dham Mayapur Dist. Nadia, West Bengal My dear Dr. G. Ghosh, Please accept my greetings. The other day when I was at Kumbha Mehla, you came to see me with your family and you invited me at your house. But in the camp it was too cold. I was reluctant to leave the Mehla because it was going nicely, but my disciples asked me to come back to Bhubaneswara. I went...