Spoken November 29
Cc. Madhya 20.137-142
Prabhupāda: " na sādhayati māṁ yogaḥ na sāṅkhyaṁ dharma uddhava na svādhyāyas tapas tyāgaḥ yathā bhaktir mamorjitā" So if you want God, Kṛṣṇa, then there is no other way except this devotional service. Neither yoga, neither philosophical speculation, neither ritualistic performances, nor study in the Vedic literature, neither penance, austerities
Bg 2.13-17 Lecture
Bhagavad-gītā 2.13–17 Prabhupāda: So we have begun another new book, Nectar of Devotion. So one tape... Where is... You can play that? Govinda dāsī: I forgot to bring it. Prabhupāda: Why you forget? I told you. I told you that we shall play and still you forgot? Govinda dāsī: Well, I didn’Prabhupāda:Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:Harṣarāṇī:Prabhupāda:Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:Prabhupāda:Madhudviṣa:Prabhupāda:Madhudviṣa:Prabhupāda:Madhudviṣa:Prabhupāda:Madhudviṣa:Prabhupāda:Madhudviṣa:Prabhupāda:Madhudviṣa:Prabhupāda:Madhu…
Talk Before Class
Prabhupāda: Who has taken your Deity? Vīrabhadra: Who has taken Him? I don’t know. Somebody, they broke in the house, they took one typewriter and the sewing machine and I think it’s... Prabhupāda: Typewriter? When? Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Last night. Yesterday we just got a new sewing machine. A very expensive sewing machine and they stole it.Prabhupāda:Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:Revatīnandana:Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:Prabhupāda:Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:Prabhupāda:Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:Prabhupāda:Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:Prabhupāda:Dineśa:Prabhupāda:Tamāla Kṛ…
Bg 2.25 Lecture
Prabhupāda: " avyakto ‘yam acintyo ‘yam avikāryo ‘yam ucyate tasmād evaṁ viditvainaṁ nānuśocitum arhasi [Bg. 2.25]" So in so many different ways, Kṛṣṇa is convincing how the spirit soul is immortal. In different ways. Avyakto ‘yam. It is not manifest to the blunt material eyes. We cannot see, because as we have explained several times, the magnitude of the soul is one ten-thousandth part of the tip of the hair, very small. I think smaller than the atom. That spirit soul is everywhere. Ind…
SB 3.25.29
Nitāi: “The mystic yoga system, as You have explained, aims at the Supreme Personality of Godhead and is meant for completely ending material existence. Please let me know the nature of that yoga system. How many ways are there by which one can understand in truth that sublime yoga?Prabhupāda:Devotees:
Morning Walk
Prabhupāda: And he said “Hare Kṛṣṇa”? Caitaguru: Yes. “Hare Kṛṣṇa.” He said “Hare Kṛṣṇa.” And he told me that “You come later on, and we will sit and talk.” Prabhupāda: So go and sit and talk. What is his gṛha? Caitaguru: His wife, she is very devoted. She has a small Rādhā-Kṛṣṇa. She is little bit [indistinct].Tejiyas:Prabhupāda:Tejiyas:Prabhupāda:Tejiyas:Prabhupāda:Tejiyas:Prabhupāda:Haṁsadūta:Prabhupāda:Haṁsadūta:Prabhupāda:Haṁsadūta:Devotee (2):Prabhupāda:Passerby:Prabhupāda:Devotee (1):P…
SB 5.6.7
Pradyumna: Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. [devotees repeat] [leads chanting, etc.] " tasya ha vā evaṁ mukta-liṅgasya bhagavata ṛṣabhasya yogamāyā-vāsanayā deha imāṁ jagatīm abhimānābhāsena saṅkramamāṇaḥ koṅka-veṅka-kuṭakān dakṣiṇa-karṇāṭakān deśān yadṛcchayopagataḥ kuṭakācalopavana āsya kṛtāśma-kavala unmāda iva mukta-mūrdhajo Prabhupāda:Devotees:
Letters November 29
Bali-mardana My dear Bali Mardan, Please accept my blessings. I am in due receipt of your letter dated November 23, 1970, and I am very glad that you have gone on to Singapore for expanding our number of Far Eastern and Pacific branches of ISKCON. It is my ultimate desire that all the cities of the world have such centers for Krsna Consciousness and I am sure this will come because it is the desire...
My dear Krsnakanti, Please accept my blessings. I am in due receipt of your informative letter dated November 15th, 1970, and noted the contents. I know you are a very qualified and sincere devotee and now Krsna is offering you a nice opportunity to perform responsible devotional service as the president of our Seattle Temple. Please conduct the affairs there very nicely and with great care and Krsna...