Spoken December 3
Morning Walk
Prabhupāda: What is the scientific question? Muḍhāḥ? [laughter] Māyayāpahṛta-jñānāḥ [Bg. 7.15]? Svarūpa Dāmodara: When they say the..., how one starts talking the origin of life, they say that one should first of all consider how the earth was formed, how this planet earth where we live, how it was formed, what is the origin of the earth.Prabhupāda:Svarūpa Dāmodara:Prabhupāda:Svarūpa Dāmodara:Prabhupāda:Svarūpa Dāmodara:Prabhupāda:Svarūpa Dāmodara:Prabhupāda:Svarūpa Dā…
SB 1.15.24
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.15.24 Prabhupāda: [leads singing of Jaya Rādhā-Mādhava; prema-dvani prayers] Thank you very much. Devotees: All glories to Śrīla Prabhupāda. [break] [05:40] Pradyumna: Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.Devotee:Prabhupāda:Devotee:Prabhupāda:Devotee:Pradyumna:Prabhupāda:Pradyumna:Prabhupāda:Pradyumna:Prabhupāda:Devotees:
Morning Walk
Prabhupāda: He cannot give up this habit. A dog is made king, but he will jump and lick up the shoes. Viśāla: [in background] Glories to Śrīla Prabhupāda! Prabhupāda: Hare Kṛṣṇa. Jaya. [break] It is the grace of Providence you do not see that it is properly cleansed.Viśāla:Prabhupāda:Viśāla:Prabhupāda:Viśāla:Prabhupāda:Harikeśa:Prabhupāda:Vraja-vāsī:Prabhupāda:Indian man:Prabhupāda:Indian man:Harikeśa:Prabhupāda:Harikeśa:Prabhupāda:Harikeśa:Prabhupāda:Harikeśa:Prabhupāda:Harikeśa…
SB 7.6.2
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 7.6.2 Harikeśa: [leads chanting of verse, etc.] " yathā hi puruṣasyeha viṣṇoḥ pādopasarpaṇam yad eṣa sarva-bhūtānāṁ priya ātmeśvaraḥ suhṛt []" [break] [00:40] Translation: “In this human form of life there is chance to go back to home, back to Godhead. Therefore every living entity, especially in this human form of life, must be engaged in devotional service. This devotional service is natural because Lord Viṣṇu, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the master o…
Evening Darśana
Prabhupāda: ...there will be proper rainfall. And if there is proper rainfall, then you get sufficient food grains; not only food grains, other things also. Sarva-dughā mahī, sarva-kāma-dughā mahī [SB 1.10.4]. From the earth you can get all the necessities of life. Actually you are getting food grains, minerals, trees, fruits, flowers, everything from the earth. Indian man:Prabhupāda:Indian men:Prabhupāda:Vāsughoṣa:Prabhupāda:Vāsughoṣa:Prabhupāda:Vāsughoṣa:Prabhupāda:Vāsughoṣa:P…
Letters December 3
Haneda Tokyu Hotel Tokyo International Airport Room No. 610 My dear Hitsaranji, Kindly accept my greetings. I hope by this time you have duly received my letter of the 11th instant from Calcutta. I have sent you manuscripts for Srimad Bhagawatam two volumes. They will be 4th & 5th volumes and the page mark will begin from 1210 (?).I have already informed you that the necessary money will be sent...
My dear Damodara, Please accept my blessings. I am in due receipt of your letter of November 25, 1971, and I have noted the contents carefully. Enclosed please find one copy of Gayatri mantra and one sacred thread duly chanted on for your wife, Mrganetri dasi. Hold a fire yajna and give her Gayatri mantra. Rupanuga has a tape of me reciting Gayatri mantra, so you can get this from him. One thing is...
Los Angeles devotees My dear Karandhara dasa, Don, Prsni dasi, Jayatirtha dasa, Laksmana, Carol, Madhukanta dasa, Mark, Jo Ann, Sukadeva dasa, Doug, Kasondria, Dhruvananda dasa, Karnapura dasa, Liz, Riktananda dasa, Gopala Bhatta dasa, Patricia, Sridhara dasa, Govinda dasa, Saci devi, Srivas dasa, Alladin, Saraladevi, Ramesvara dasa, Gaea, Ananga devi, Siddhesvara dasa, Will, Vikramini devi, Yasodajiva...
My dear Jayapataka, Please accept my blessings. I am sending Biharilal Prabhu to Calcutta for the purpose of collecting four first-class koles, ten karatalas and a few thousand magazines for taking with him for our Madras program. We distributed 12,000 magazines here in Delhi, so I think 12,000 magazines should be sent to Madras. For payment for the other things Tamala Krishna will pay. You may please...
Karandhara My dear Karandhara, Please accept my blessings. I am in due receipt of your letter of November 13, 1971, in which you have recommended that Sriman Howard Sorgen and Srimate Jo An McNamara be accepted by me as my disciples. I am very glad to accept them as my initiated students, and I have given their spiritual names as Ganga Narayana das and Jaga Mohini dasi respectively. Now you must...
Ekayani Brooklyn My dear Ekayani, Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated November 1, 1972, and I have noted the contents with great concern. I do not know why these things inventions are going on. That is our only business, to invent something new programme? We have already got our Vaisnava standard. That is sufficient for Madhvacarya, Ramanujacarya, it was...
Gopala Krsna Brooklyn My dear Gopala Krishna, Please accept my blessings. I am in due receipt of your letter dated nil, and I am very happy to hear of your new plan for forming the travelling Hindu Sankirtana party. That is a very nice idea. So you may organize the party as you see fit, and if you yourself are able sometimes to go with them, you will be able to instruct them how to do it in the...
Los Angeles My dear Karandhara, Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated November 11, 1972, and I have noted the contents with care and attention. Still we have not finished the business with Nair, and the case has become very complicated without any settlement. They were supposed to settle the Conveyance Deed on December first, as we had made a supplemental agreement...
Vamanadeva St. Louis My dear Vamanadeva, Please accept my blessings. I am in due receipt of your letter dated November 19, 1972 and I have noted the contents. I am especially glad to see how nicely your St. Louis Temple is distributing Back To Godhead Magazine. Only three years ago I asked Dai Nippon to print 20,000 copies and barely we could distribute them. But now in your temple alone you are...
Jagadisa ALL GLORIES TO SRI GURU AND GAURANGA! My dear Jagadisa, Please accept my blessings. I am in receipt of your letter dated November 29, 1973. Thank you for the report of the progress of Temples in your Canadian Zone. Now that we have opened some Centers, they must be maintained and our work go on. Book and prasadam distribution, Sankirtana and Deity worship is our only business so these...
ALL GLORIES TO SRI GURU AND GAURANGA! My dear Karnamrta, Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated November 30, 1973 along with the Vaisnava poem. Your humble attitude is very much appreciated by me. Always chant Hare Krsna and as far as possible help me push on this movement by preaching this philosophy and distributing our books.
My dear Tejiyas das, Please accept my blessings. I have five days ago safely arrived here in Los Angeles by the Grace of Krsna. Since leaving India, I have not heard from you. Guru das has written that the work has stopped in Vrndaban for want of finances. What is the position of your collections in New Delhi? I am arranging to collect and send money from here for the Vrindaban project and I also...
Madhavananda Bhaktivedanta Manor My dear Madhavananda das: Please accept my blessings. I am in due receipt of your letter dated November 1, 1974 and have noted the contents. Of course I was here in India, so I could not attend your Diwali-Govardhana Puja function, but I understand it was very nice(SB 3.25.21)
Bhaktivedanta Manor My dear Prabhavisnu das: Please accept my blessings. I am in due receipt of your letter dated November 9, 1974. I am very glad to learn that you are all working peacefully together. This is the most favorable atmosphere for cultivating our Krishna consciousness. And if people see us working together nicely, they cannot criticize anything against our Krishna consciousness movement....
Radhavallabha Dear Radhavallabha Prabhu: Please accept my humble obeisances. I am in due receipt of you letter dated November 20, 1974 and also your telegram regarding the S.B. indexes. I have discussed the points of your letter with Srila Prabhupada. He said that yes, it was a very good idea to offer the first published edition of C.C. Ādi:1 to Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura on his disappearance...
G.L. Nanda Sriman Gulzari Lal Nanda 5, Tuglak Road, New Delhi 110011 Krishna Balarama Temple, Rama Reti, Vrindaban (U.P.) My Dear Sriman Nandaji, Please accept my greetings. After seeing the whole situation I’ve decided like this. Let us immediately construct a nice gorgeous temple on the spot which you have earmarked for constructing the Radha Krishna Temple. I think the land is measuring...
Los Angeles My dear Ramesvara Prabhu, Please accept my blessings. I am in receipt of your very encouraging letter dated November 27, 1975. Your report of book sales is over encouraging. You are all becoming very very dear to my Guru Maharaja. I started this movement by book selling. I was never a beggar for money, but I was writing books and selling. My Guru Maharaja very much liked my writing and...