Spoken October 31
The Nectar of Devotion
Pradyumna: [reading:] “...Kṛṣṇa we refer to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, along with His many expansions. He is expanded by His plenary part and parcels, His differentiated parts and parcels and His different energies. Kṛṣṇa, in other words, means everything and includes everything. Generally, however, we should understand Kṛṣṇa to mean Kṛṣṇa and His personal expansions.Prabhupāda:Devotee:Prabhupāda:Pradyumna:Prabhupāda:Pradyumna:Prabhupāda:Pradyumna:Prabhupāda:Prad…
SB 1.2.20
Pradyumna: [leads chanting of verse, etc.] [Prabhupāda and devotees repeat] " evaṁ prasanna-manaso bhagavad-bhakti-yogataḥ bhagavat-tattva-vijñānaṁ mukta-saṅgasya jāyate []" Prabhupāda: [aside] Not required. Pradyumna: [break] [leads chanting of synonyms] [break]PrabhupādaSB 2.9.33336Pradyumna:Prabhupāda:Pradyumna:Prabhupāda:
Bg 7.3 Lecture
Pradyumna: [leads chanting of verse, etc.] [Prabhupāda and devotees repeat] " manuṣyāṇāṁ sahasreṣu kaścid yatati siddhaye yatatām api siddhānāṁ kaścin māṁ vetti tattvataḥ [Bg. 7.3]" [break] [00:26] Translation: “Out of many thousands among men, one may endeavor for perfection, and of those who have achieved perfection, hardly one knows Me in truth.Prabhupāda:Devotees:Prabhupāda:Devotees:
Room Conversation
[Hindi conversation with guests, interspersed with laughter] Prabhupāda: " ataḥśrī-kṛṣṇa-nāmādi na bhaved grāhyam indriyaiḥ [Cc. Madhya 17.136]" That means [indistinct] That is artificial. Indian Man: Yes, I can imagine. Indian Man (2): So what time are you leaving tomorrow morning?Prabhupāda:Indian Man (2):Indian Man:Prabhupāda:Indian Man (2):Indian Man:Prabhupāda:Indian Man (2):Prabhupāda:Indian Man (2):Prabhupāda:Indian Man (2):Prabhupāda:Indian Man (2):Prabhupāda:Indian Man:Indian Ma…
Bg 7.4 Lecture
Harikeśa: Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. [devotees repeat] Bhagavad-gītā As It Is, Chapter Seven, text number four. [leads chanting of verse, etc.] " bhūmir āpo ‘nalo vayuḥ khaṁ mano buddhir eva caPrabhupāda:Devotees:Prabhupāda:Devotee (1):Prabhupāda:Indian man (2):Prabhupāda:Indian man (3):Prabhupāda:Indian man (4):Prabhupāda:Indian man (2):Prabhupāda:Indian man (2):Prabhupāda:Indian man (2):Prabhupāda:Devotee (5):Prabhupāda:Devotee …
Room Conversation
Prabhupāda: ...I want to do something in India. Haṁsadūta: Yes. Prabhupāda: So, if you can arrange. Now I am purchasing car. I have given money to Gargamuni. Haṁsadūta: Yes. Prabhupāda: So one car here in Delhi side, one in Calcutta side, one in [indistinct] for my going. And he is a good driver, he will drive. Eh? I do not know, but he said. [laughter]Hari-śauri:Prabhupāda:Haṁsadūta:Prabhupāda:Devotee:Haṁsadūta:Prabhupāda:Haṁsadūta:Hari-śauri:Prabhupāda:Haṁsadūta:Prabhupāda:Haṁsadūta:Prabhu…
SB 5.5.9
Pradyumna: Translation: “When the strong knot in the heart of a person implicated in material life due to the results of past action is slackened, one turns away from his attachment to home, wife and children. In this way, one gives up the basic principle of illusion [I and mine] and becomes liberated. Thus one goes to the transcendental world.Prabhupāda:Devotees:
Room Conversation
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: ...may request him that “Since you feel that it is very important that Prabhupāda get a little more strength, you kindly wait two more days, and let us go like that.” In other words, we’re not overly eager to leave tomorrow. If the kavirājaPrabhupāda:Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:Bhakti-caru:Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:Prabhupāda:Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:Prabhupāda:Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:Bhavānanda:Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:Prabhupāda:Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:Prabhupāda:Bhavānanda:Prabhupāda:Bhakti-caru:Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:Bhakti-caru:Kavirāja:Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:Bha…
Room Conversation With Shri Narayan and Ramkrishna Bajaj
Shri Narayan: But are you feeling better, Swāmījī? Prabhupāda: Yes. Little, little. Shri Narayan: Little better. Prabhupāda: [Hindi] Shri Narayan: [Hindi] Prabhupāda: Therefore always two attendants, and they are taking care. Otherwise personally I would not... Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Yes, please sit down. It’s all right. It’s here for you to sit, so you canShri Narayan:Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:Shri Narayan:Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:Shri Narayan:Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:Shri Narayan:Prabhupāda:Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:Prabhupāda:Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:Prabh…
Śrīmad Bhagavatam Dictations 10.14.1
Prabhupāda: ...for one year stolen and hidden, but they could not understand that for one year He remained like that. [break] ...naturally sleeping. “As You were not here, we could not eat. Now You have come, let us take tiffin.” [indistinct] that “For one year You are absent,Pradyumna:Prabhupāda:Devotees:Prabhupāda:Pradyumna:Prabhupāda:Pradyumna:Prabhupāda:Pradyumna:Prabhupāda:Pradyumna:Prabhupāda:Pradyumna:Prabhupāda:Pradyumna:Prabhupāda:Pradyumna:Prabhupāda:Pradyumna:Prabhupāda:Pradyumna:Prab…
Letters October 31
My dear Dinesh, Please accept my blessings. I beg to thank you for your letter dated October 21, 1969 along with a contribution of . I have already acknowledged receipt of your new record. Regarding the disciplic succession coming from Arjuna, disciplic succession does not always mean that one has to be initiated officially. Disciplic succession means to accept the disciplic conclusion. Arjuna was...
Manager FIRST NATIONAL CITY BANK OF NEW YORK (Bowery and Grand Street Branch) New York, NY 10003 USA Dear Sir; REGARDING MY ACCOUNT, #0420160131 I beg to request you to transfer my above account to your branch at 686 Broadway, near Great Jones Street, New York, NY 10012. This will facilitate my dealings with the INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR KRISHNA CONSCIOUSNESS, who has their account in this branch....
Manager FIRST NATIONAL CITY BANK OF NEW YORK (Great Jones Street Branch) 686 Broadway New York, NY 10012 USA Dear Sir; I beg to enclose herewith a copy of a letter sent to your Bowery and Grand Street Branch in New York. Please do the needful and send me my passbook as early as possible. Thanking you in anticipation of your early reply.
My dear Satsvarupa, Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated October 28, 1969 with enclosures. The pamphlet sermon is not unfavorable. It is indirectly favorable because in that pamphlet the writer has admitted that the Christian church is waning and people are seeking after some new type of religion. That he has admitted. He says
My dear Sudama, Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter of October 15, 1969 and have noted the contents with much encouragement. I understand that Tamala Krishna has sent you a pair of Deities, and when you get Them please decorate the dias just to the standard of Los Angeles
Los Angeles My dear Karandhara Das: Please accept my blessings. With regard to my letter dated 23/10/73, you may postpone sending Nitai Das here, because my program for Africa and Australia is not yet fixed up. So I may be returning to Los Angeles sooner, so it will not be necessary to go to the expense of sending him here. He can meet me in Los Angeles. Anyway, I will inform you of my program as...
Tamala Krsna Bombay My dear Tamala Krsna Goswami: Please accept my blessings. This is to introduce you to Hari Goswami of the Radha Raman Mandir in Vrindaban. He is coming to Bombay and will meet you, so please receive him nicely. Later when our buildings are completed, he will join our movement and live with us.
Alexandria, Australia My dear Amogha das: Please accept my blessings. I am in due receipt of your letter dated October 7, 1974 with enclosed copies of the Library orders. I thank you very much for this. It is very good that our books are being appreciated by the learned circles. If our books are distributed more and more in this way, there will be unlimited scope for spreading this movement of Lord...
Calcutta My dear Gargamuni Swami: Please accept my blessings. Regarding the registration of ISKCON Calcutta center as a separate entity, it should be clearly understood by you that the registration cannot be applied for unless my express sanction is there. No papers should be filed without my permission. Any papers you may draw up must be submitted to me first before filing.
Mexico City My dear Hrdayananda das Goswami: Please accept my blessings. I am in due receipt of your letter dated September 26, 1974 and have noted the contents. I am very glad to note that you are seeing that the devotees are maintaining the devotional practices. This is the secret to success. Therefore I am stressing it. And, if you also stress it and show yourself as an ideal Vaisnava, then you...