Spoken November 6
SB 6.1.6
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 6.1.6 Prabhupāda: " ...mahā-bhāga yathaiva narakān naraā nānogra-yātanān neyāt tan me vyākhyātum arhasi []" There was topics of the different hellish conditions of life according to different sinful activities. There is description in the Devotee (1):Prabhupāda:Revatīnandana:Prabhupāda:Himāvatī:Prabhupāda:Revatīnandana:Prabhupāda:Revatīnandana:Prabhupāda:Revatīnandana:Prabhupāda:Revatīnandana:Prabhupāda:Mālatī:Prabhupāda:Mālatī:Prabhupāda:Devotee:Prabhupāda:Haṁs…
The Nectar of Devotion
Pradyumna: [reading:] “...in full Kṛṣṇa consciousness, how is it possible that he has not become purified? It is not possible. [break] [audio poor until 04:19] One who is engaged in Kṛṣṇa consciousness and devotional service has, without doubt, become freed from all contaminations of material sinful activities. Devotional service therefore has the power to actually nullify all kinds of reactions to sinful deeds. A devotee is nevertheless always alert not to commit any s…
Room Conversation
Prabhupāda: Western side it should be less. Now in America it is early in the morning. Śyāmasundara: Yes. Prabhupāda: Half-past four. Eleven hours’ difference. In Los Angeles. Śyāmasundara: Eleven to Los Angeles? It is five to London, four and a half to five. From London to Los Angeles, it isPrabhupāda:Śyāmasundara:Prabhupāda:Śyāmasundara:Prabhupāda:Śyāmasundara:Prabhupāda:Śyāmasundara:Brahmānanda:Śyāmasundara:Brahmānanda:Prabhupāda:Brahmānanda:Prabhupāda:Brahmānanda:Prabhupāda:Śyāmasundara:D…
Room Conversation with Dr. Theodore Kneupper
Prabhupāda: The present time, it is called Kali-yuga. [aside] Take little prasādam. Kali-yuga means this age... Kali-yuga means the age of quarrel and disagreement. Dr. Kneupper: Age of...? Prabhupāda: Quarrel and disagreement. Because there is no standard idea. So I’ll disagree with you, youDr. Kneupper:Prabhupāda:Dr. Kneupper:Prabhupāda:Dr. Kneupper:Prabhupāda:Dr. Kneupper:Prabhupāda:Dr. Kneupper:Prabhupāda:Dr. Kneupper:Prabhupāda:Dr. Kneupper:Prabhupāda:Dr. Kneupper:Prabhupāda:Dr. Kneupper:…
Room Conversation
Prabhupāda: ...depend on you. For me, wherever I am kept, I shall remain. This is the position. Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: What, Śrīla Prabhupāda? Wherever you are kept? Prabhupāda: Wherever you kept, keep, I shall remain. The institution depends on the GBC. Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Yes. I think that the time that you always were looking forward toPrabhupāda:Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:Prabhupāda:Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:Prabhupāda:Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:Prabhupāda:Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:Prabhupāda:Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:Prabhupāda:Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:Bhavānanda:Prabhupāda:Bhavā…
Room Conversation
Kavirāja assistant: [Hindi] Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Jaya Śrīla Prabhupāda. Śrīla Prabhupāda? Śatadhanya Mahārāja and Bhakti-caru went to Mathurā and they called Calcutta. They spoke with Adri-dhāraṇa? So he’s going to bring the kavirāja here. Prabhupāda: Kavirāja has no telephone.Bhakti-caru:Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:Prabhupāda:Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:Prabhupāda:Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:Prabhupāda:Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:Bhakti-caru:Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:Upendra:Prabhupāda:Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:Bhavānanda:Prabhupāda:Bhavānanda:Prabhupāda:Upendra:Pr…
Room Conversation
Bhagatjī: Sometimes when I used to come you were sleeping. I’ll sit for one hour and then went out. Prabhupāda: Things are going on. Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Bhagatjī was working very hard, Śrīla Prabhupāda. Too hard. Sometimes he missed his meals in the last two days to do that. I never sawBhavānanda:Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:Prabhupāda:Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:Prabhupāda:Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:Prabhupāda:Indian guest:Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:Indian guest:Prabhupāda:Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:Indian guest:Svarūpa Dāmodara:Bhagatjī:Svarūpa Dāmod…
Letters November 6
Sally My dear daughter Sally, I am so glad to receive your very affectionate letter of the 3rd instant and have noted the contents carefully. Yes I have got this nice typewriter by the Grace of the Lord and I am very much satisfied with it working. Before receiving your letter under reply I have sent two letters both to you and Gopala. I understand that you have received them. In one of them I have...
Rayarama My dear Rayarama, Please accept my blessings. I have received one letter from Guyana, and one gentleman, Sriman Petambar Dindayal is very much interested in our Krishna Consciousness movement. He has invited me to go there, so first of all I want to send him some various literatures and pamphlets our society. So you please send him some Back To Godheads, our new prospectus, and press cuttings,...
My dear Kirtanananda Maharaja, Vrindaban Candra, and Silavati, Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letters just now received by me here in Calcutta and describing your plans for travelling Sankirtana party, and it is very much encouraging news for me. Silavati Prabhu said that this was her long cherished dream. It has been mine also. If there were three or four such travelling...
Amsterdam My dear Ksama Devi Dasi (Lynn Edwards), Please accept my blessings. I beg to thank you very much for your your kind letter requesting initiation and, at the recommendation of Dhananjaya Prabhu, I have gladly consented to accept you as my duly initiated disciple. I have given you the spiritual name Ksama Devi Dasi, Ksama means forgiveness. Your beads have also been duly chanted and they...
Indira Gandhi Srimati Indira Gandhi Prime Minister of India Your Excellency Srimati Indira Gandhi Devi: I thank you very much for kindly allowing an interview to my disciples Sriman Gurudasa Adhikari accompanied by his wife also, Srimati Yamuna devi. Perhaps your Excellency is aware of our Krsna consciousness movement all over the world. We are not only preaching the cult by chanting and dancing,...
Bhaktivedanta Manor My dear Mukunda Das: Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letters dated October 25, October 29, and the letter from Scandinavian Airlines. So it is a great credit that you have reduced the BBT bill, so make it nil and it will be greatest credit for London. London temple was always bad debtor to BBT, but by your management it is becoming a very good...
Seattle My dear Gandharva dasa: Please accept my blessings. I am in due receipt of your letter dated September 19, 1974 and have noted the contents. So you have done you duty at the last moments of your wife’s life so that she could hear them chanting. As to where she has gone, that depends on what she was thinking of at the time of her passing away. That is stated in the Bhagavad-gita:(Bg. 8.5)...
Bhaktivedanta Manor My dear Sarvamangala devi dasi: Please accept my blessings. I am in due receipt of your letter dated nil and have noted the contents. I thank you very much for your sentiments, and I know that you are all working hard to make Bhaktivedanta Manor a very nice place. You should know it that our temples they are not in this material world. The temple is Vaikuntha, where Krishna and...
Giriraja My dear Giriraja, Please accept my blessings. I am in receipt of your letter dated 5/11/76. Yes, if there is no difficulty to finalize the fixed deposit later we can wait until I come to Bombay. Regarding the Gita Pratisthan conference, will they pay for my going or not? Talk to Bajaj personally it, his secretary is useless. When he returns speak to him. If they do not pay we will not...
New Vrindaban My dear Kirtanananda, Please accept my blessings. I am in due receipt of the October issue of Brijbasi Spirit. It is very nice. I have read with great pleasure the article the construction of my palace. When is it going to be finished? When it is finished I will be anxious to come there to stay.