Archive for the ‘Reincarnation’ Category



THE APPEARANCE OF LORD BALARAMA

      Vrndavana, India: August 19, 2005 Tridandisvami Sri Srimad Bhaktivedanta Narayana Maharaja This year, 2015, Sri Baladeva Prabhu's appearance day is on the 29th of August and Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmīs Disappearance was on the 27th of August. On August 19th 2005 Srila Narayana Maharaja gave a class in Hindi in Vrndavana, India, glorifying both […]



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 […]



THE WORD ‘KRISHNA’ IS NOT AN ALLEGORY

By Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura Prabhupāda Through words, as with their other senses, ordinary men gain knowledge. The languages derived from Brāhmī, Kharoṣṭhī, Sānkī, Puṣkarāsādī and so on are the sources of that knowledge. But such men are guided by secondary meanings, which are more or less different from the primary meanings of words. The […]



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 […]


Rama Navami — The Appearance Day of Lord Sri Rama

By Tridandisvami Sri Srimad Bhaktivedanta Narayana Maharaja On Saturday the 28 Mar 2015 is Rama Navami: The appearance day of Lord Sri Ramacandra [In the year, 2005, Srila Narayana Maharaja celebrated Lord Ramacandra's appearance day during his short visit to Penang. The following, spoken at the house of Paramesvari prabhu and Malati dasi, was the […]



THE DIVINE APPEARANCE DAY OF LORD SRI CAITANYA MAHAPRABHU

 This year on the 5th of March 2015 is Lord Caitanyas appearance day. This is a talk by Sri Srimad Bhaktivedanta Narayana Maharaja. Given at Sri Keshavaji Gaudiya Matha, on the divine birthday of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu in Navadvipa, India: March 14, 2006 pm After the completion of Lord Sri Krsna's pastimes in Vrndavana […]



CAN YOU SHOW ME GOD?

  From the booklet Beyond Liberation. Based on the wonderful teachings of Sri Srimad Bhaktivedanta Narayana Goswami Maharaja. CAN YOU SHOW ME GOD? Once, in India, there was a king who desired to see God. Calling for his chief minister, he asked, "Can you show me God? Can you clearly tell me what God is […]



FOR THE APPEARANCE DAY OF LORD NITYANANDA PRABHU

Appearance Day of Lord Nityananda This lecture was given on 2nd February 1977, Lord Nityananda Prabhu's Appearance Day by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada in Bhubaneswar, Orissa at a foundation cornerstone laying ceremony for Sri Sri Krsna Balaram Mandir, the last founded temple project of Srila Prabhupada. This lecture is unedited and […]



WE ARE SIMPLY WASTING OUR TIME HERE

Prabhupada: Sa amrtatvaya kalpate [Bg. 2.15]. Amrtatva. Here, in this material world, we are put into mrtatva, subject to birth, death, old age and disease. But there is another position where there is no birth, death, old age and disease. So which position we should like — birth, death, old age and disease, or no […]



WHY WE DONT EAT MEAT

By A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada The Vaishnava philosophy teaches that we should not even kill plants unnecessarily. In the Bhagavad-gita (9.26) Krishna (God) says: "If someone offers Me with love and devotion a leaf, a flower, a fruit, or a little water, I will accept it." We offer Krishna only the kind of food He […]



THE HIDDEN AVATAR PART ONE

The Hidden Avatar – Part One – Who Is The Hidden Avatar? To view all parts, please click the more link



THE PEACOCKS DANCE TO KRISHNAS FLUTE MELODY

    An Excerpt From The Book Bhakti-Rasayana The Nectar-Tonic of Pure Devotion by Sri Srimad Bhaktivedanta Narayana Maharaja by Gaudiya Vedanta Publications   The Peacocks Dance to Kṛṣṇa’s Flute Melody After preparing lunch for Kṛṣṇacandra and Baladeva, Yaśodā along with Nanda Bābā follows Them for a great distance as They take the cows out […]



THE TINY WORLD OF MODERN SCIENCE

During a morning walk in April of 1973, at Venice Beach, Los Angeles, Śrīla Prabhupāda discusses modern science and its high priests: Śrīla Prabhupāda: “They claim to have millions of dollars’ worth of knowledge, but if you ask them a question, they simply give you a post-dated check. Why should we accept it? They cannot […]


HAPPY RADHASTAMI EVERYONE

  TODAY IS THE ALL AUSPICIOUS APPEARANCE DAY OF SRIMATI RADHARANI.   ALL GLORIES TO SRIMATI RADHARANI Srila Prabhodananda Saraswati Thakura writes in his Sri Vrindavana Mahimamrta 14th chapter 4th verse. “Śrī Rādhā Ṭhākurāṇī is the embodiment of mahābhāva. (mahabhava. adhirūḍha-mahābhāva — highly advanced ecstasy; CC Madhya 23.58.) She is the repository of all good […]



THE CREST JEWEL OF INQUIRY

The Origin of the Living Entity Friday, 2000, Badger (New Braja) California, USA In his discourse below, Srila Narayana Gosvami Maharaja discusses a conversation between Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu and Srila Sanatana Gosvami, from Srila Krsnadasa Kaviraja Gosvami's book, Sri Caitanya-caritamrta. Srila Sanatana Gosvami is playing the role of a conditioned soul who is seeking divine […]



About Death

From the writings of Srila Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada One Life Is Just a Flash in Time From time immemorial the living entity travels in the different species of life and the different planets, almost perpetually. This process is explained in Bhagavad-gita: under the spell of maya, everyone is wandering throughout the universe on the carriage […]



Answers to the question “Why is there no tangible proof of God ?”

  On this page you can read various answers from just a few different devotees, about the question "Why is there no tangible proof of God? Each new paragraph represents a new answer . Please also visit "Can You Show Me God?" From the booklet Beyond Liberation. Based on the wonderful teachings of Sri Srimad […]