From the the Harikatha team Tridandisvami Sri Srimad Bhaktivedanta Narayana Gosvami Maharaja May 10, 1998 Wales, UK Respected Harikatha Readers, Please accept our humble obeisances. All glories to Sri Guru and Gauranga. This year, 2020, the auspicious appearance day of Lord Nrsimhadeva is on the 5th May around the world. Srila Bhaktivedanta Narayana Goswami Maharaja […]
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THE IMPORTANCE OF SADHU SANGA
108 Srila Prabhupada Quotes compiled by Isa prabhu “There are many societies and associations of pure devotees, and if someone with just a little faith begins to associate with such societies, his advancement to pure devotional service is rapid.” From the Nectar of devotion by Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada Chapter 19 On the Importance of […]
ON THE DISAPPEARANCE DAY OF SRILA BHAKTIVEDANTA NARAYANA MAHARAJA
This year, 30 December 2018 is the disappearance day of Srila Gurudeva, Tridandi Swami Sri Srimad Bhaktivedanta Narayana Gosvami Maharaja. Please find one of His amazing classes below THE HEART OF AN EXCESSIVELY ATTACHED PERSON IS LIKE A HOT DESERT The Western countries had no background or even a smell of Krishna consciousness. I […]
THE ULTIMATE REALIZATION IS BHAGAVAN NOT THE IMPERSONAL BRAHMAN
REALIZING THE ABSOLUTE TRUTH Factually, one who has got real realization, he knows the Absolute Truth is realized in three features, according to one’s capacity. The Absolute Truth is one. The example may be given: just like the sun-god, the sun planet, and the sunshine. They are one. But according to the capacity, we are, […]
LORD CHAITANYA SPEAKS OF THE HARE KRISHNA MAHA MANTRAS GLORIES
The Glories of Chanting the Hare Krishna Maha mantra, explained by Lord Caitanya. With evidences from the following authentic Vedic scriptures. There are many more. The Srimad-bhagavatam, The Laghu Bhagavatamrita,The Kurma Purana, The Skanda Purana, The Brhan-naradiya Purana, The Brahmanda Purana, The Vahni Purana, The Brhan-naradiya Purana,The Srimad-bhagavatam Mahapurana, The Vishnu-dharmottara, The Nrsingha Purana, The […]
CHANTING THE HARE KRISHNA MANTRA IS MORE EFFECTIVE THEN MEDITATION
An interview with Srila Prabhupada SAN FRANCISCO – March 09, 1968 Interviewer: Your Grace, what is the basis of your teachings? Prabhupāda: The basis of this teaching is Bhagavad-gītā As It Is. I have already published my book, this Bhagavad-gītā As It Is. This book is not new. It is very old book, at least […]
THE APPEARANCE DAY OF SRI NITYANANDA PRABHU
Tridandisvami Sri Srimad Bhaktivedanta Narayana Gosvami Maharaja The Appearance Day of Sri Nityananda Prabhu [For detailed instruction on how to observe fasting on Nityananda Trayodasi, please see this link.] Srila Narayana Gosvami Maharaja: Having taken the intrinsic mood and beauty of Srimati Radhika, Sri Krsna is now Sacinandana Gaurahari. His elder brother Baladeva Prabhu, the […]
WORSHIPING GOVARDHANA HILL
By Srila Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada While engaged with the brāhmaṇas who were too involved in the performance of Vedic sacrifices, Kṛṣṇa and Balarāma also saw that the cowherd men were preparing a similar sacrifice in order to pacify Indra, the King of heaven, who is responsible for supplying water. As stated in the Caitanya–caritāmṛta, […]
TODAY IS RAMANAVAMI
By Srila BV Narayan Goswami Maharaja After Ravana was killed, Sita devi had to undergo the agni pariksa, fire test. Of course, Maya-Sita entered the fire, and the real Sita devi remained unharmed – proving that she was completely pure and chaste. Rama then gave the kingdom of Ravana to Vivisana, Ravana’s brother, and after […]
HOW TO BECOME FREE FROM THE MATERIAL DISEASE
NECTAR OF INSTRUCTION Translation and Purport By Srila Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada syat krishna-nama-caritadi-sitapy avidya- pittopatapta-rasanasya na rocika nu kintv adarad anudinam khalu saiva jushta svadvi kramad bhavati tad-gada-mula-hantri TRANSLATION The holy name, character, pastimes and activities of Krishna are all transcendentally sweet like sugar candy. Although the tongue of one afflicted by the jaundice of […]
THE POSITION OF THE JIVA IN TATATSHA
An excerpt from Chapter 16 Jaiva Dharma. Position of the Jiva in Tatatsha “Innumerable jivas appear from Sri Baladeva Prabhu to serve Vrndavana-vihari Sri Krsna as His eternal associates in Goloka Vrndavana, and others appear from Sri Sankarsana to serve the Lord of Vaikuntha, Sri Narayana, in the spiritual sky. Eternally relishing rasa, engaged in […]
DISAPPEARANCE OF SRI SRIMAD BHAKTIVEDANTA NARAYANA GOSVAMI MAHARAJA
[January 3, 2016 (In India) is the fifth anniversary of the divine disappearance of Sri Srimad Bhaktivedanta Narayana Gosvami Maharaja, our beloved Gurudeva. To honor this sacred day, we are sending a lecture that he gave in Badger, California, on May 19, 2004, Listen. Here he explains the magic-like effects of mahat-sanga, the association […]
Christmas and Love of God
From a lecture by Srila Prabhupada Srimad-Bhagavatam December 1968 in Los Angeles. Srila Prabhupada: “It is said that this Krsna consciousness movement is not an artificial thing that we have manufactured something, ideal thing, concocted, and we are preaching to the world that “You become Krsna conscious.” No. The Krsna consciousness is there. What is […]
A CHRISTMAS MESSAGE
By Sri Srimad Bhaktivedanta Narayana Gosvami Maharaja North Shore, Hawaii: December 25, 2006 (Listen) Opens in a new tap. In this way you can go back to this page and read along. Srila Narayana Maharaja: “Today is Christmas Day, the birthday of Jesus Christ. In Europe and other countries, hardly anyone knows what Jesus Christ […]
WE ARE ALL ETERNALLY INDIVIDUAL PERSONS
This is a transcript of a class given by Srila Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, in New York on March 7th, 1966, on the Bhagavad-gītā Chapter 2 Text 12 Srila Prabhupāda: So yesterday we were speaking about the Second Chapter, eleventh verse. Just read it. Second Chapter, eleventh verse. Devotee: “The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: While […]
WE ARE ONE FAMILY, SRI GURU PURNIMA KI JAYA
From The Hari Katha Team This year, Guru Purnima is on July 31st. In honor of this auspicious day, please read or listen to this lecture by Srila Bhaktivedanta Narayana Maharaja, from May the 30th 2000, given in Los Angeles, California: To hear this class, please visit…
NON-DUPLICITY AND COMPASSION
ON-DUPLICITY AND COMPASSION: PREREQUISITES FOR THE SINCERE OBSERVANCE OF BHAGAVAT-DHARMA “The great scripture Srimad-Bhagavatam, compiled by Maha-muni Vyasadeva from four original verses, describes the most elevated and kindhearted devotees and completely rejects the cheating ways of materially motivated religiosity. It propounds the highest principle of eternal religion, which can factually mitigate the threefold miseries […]
KALI YUGA THE AGE OF QUARREL AND HYPOCRISY
From the translations and purports of His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada The age of Kali is the most condemned age due to its quarrelsome features. Kali-yuga is so saturated with vicious habits that there is a great fight at the slightest misunderstanding. Those who are engaged in the pure devotional service of […]
THE ENEMY EGO AND REAL EGO
Excerpted from “Loving Search for the Lost Servant – Chapter Two” By Srila Bhakti Raksak Sridhar Dev-Goswami Maharaj Here, everything is but a reflection of the perfect world. Originally everything is there, including all types of service, but here we have only a perverted reflection. Leaving this variegated world behind, we should not attempt to […]