“Do not try to discover the nature of truth by the exercise of your imagination. Do not endeavor to attain the truth through experience of this world. Do not manufacture truth in order to satisfy your erring inclinations, or hastily accept anything for the reason that it satisfies such inclinations. Do not regard as truth anything that
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THE VYASA PUJA DAY OF SRI SRIMAD BHAKTIVEDANTA NARAYANA GOSWAMI MAHARAJA
A Vyasa Puja Lecture
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This year, 2022, the divine appearance day of Srila Bhaktivedanta Narayana Gosvami Maharaja is on February 1st. Please accept this lecture that he gave on this day in Feb.1 2003, in Florida, Listen
Narayana Gosvami Maharaja: "My heartly dandavat pranama at the lotus feet of my spiritual master, nitya-lila pravista om visnupada Sri Srimad Bhakti Prajnana Kesava Gosvami Maharaja, my entire guru-paramapara, and my siksa-guru, nitya-lila-pravista om visnupada Sri Srimad Bhaktivedanta Svami Maharaja.
Today we are going to observe guru-puja, or Vyasa-puja. First of all we should know what is guru-puja and what is Vyasa-puja. Both are the same. Sri Krsna Dvaipayana Vedavyasa divided the one
ONE FAMILY
On November 25, 2004, AT Govardhana, India, one of the ISKCON leaders, Pujyapada Bhakti Svarupa Damodara Maharaja, came to Govardhana to visit Srila Narayana Maharaja. After that meeting he attended bhajanas and Srila Maharaja’s class, and Srila Maharaja requested him to speak.
Sripad Bhakti Svarupa Damodara Maharaja then enthused the audience of over 600 international pilgrims, by sharing with them
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 and mercy of great souls.
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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 that Krsna consciousness? To love God. That is there. We are simply helping that
A CHRISTMAS MESSAGE
By Sri Srimad Bhaktivedanta Narayana Gosvami Maharaja
North Shore, Hawaii: December 25, 2006
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Srila Narayana Maharaja: “Today is Christmas Day, the birthday of Jesus Christ. In Europe and other countries, hardly anyone knows what Jesus Christ was doing in his youth, at around fifteen years of age. Nothing is seen. Indian history shows that he was in India, where he visited Vrndavana, Ayodhya, Jagannatha Puri, and other pilgrimage places.
Evidence Proves Darwinian Evolution Never Happened
By: Bhakti Vijnana Muni, Ph.D.
1.0 Introduction
There are two dominant ideas that have shaped the scientific search for the origin and explanation of biological forms. One of them, the blind watchmaker logic is the basis of Darwinian and post Darwinian evolution theory. As the contingent adaptionist model of Darwin has failed to explain vast non-adaptive order, i.e. the deep homologies and abstract patterns found
DARWINS BLACK BOX
A Science Article by Yogesvara Das
In 1996 Michael J Behe, a professor of biology at Lehigh University in America, shocked the scientific world with his international best seller “Darwin’s Black Box.” Voted one of the 100 most
GOVARDHANA PUJA
Worshiping Govardhana Hill
From Krishna Book Chapter 24
by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
While engaged with the brahmanas who were too much involved in the performance of Vedic sacrifices, Krishna and Balarama 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.
WHO IS KRISHNA ?
Lord Sri Krishna
By Srila A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
We have some conception of God, but in the Vedic literature there are definite descriptions and definitions of what is meant by God, and what is meant is described in one word-Bhagavan. Bhagavan possesses all opulence’s, the totality of knowledge, wealth, power, beauty fame and renunciation.
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 speaking learned words, you are mourning for what is not worthy of grief. Those who are wise lament neither for the living nor for the dead.”
Radhastami 2015
This years Radhastami is on Monday the 21st of September
Who is Srimati Radharani?
Srimati Radharani is the eternal consort of Lord Krishna. Five thousand years ago, when Lord Krishna came to this planet to perform His pastimes, Srimati Radharani also appeared. This year we celebrate her appearance on September 21. This special day is known as Radhastami.
Glorifications of Srimati Radharani
To the reader. Following are descriptions of Srimati Radharani. Her beautiful form is anti material and complete spiritual. The descriptions of Srimati Radharanis beauty are not about a material physical form and must never be confused with such.
In the Brihad-Gautamiya Tantra, Radharani is described as follows…
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 Srila Rupa Gosvami and Sri Baladeva Prabhu.
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 of a living being and award the highest benediction of full prosperity and knowledge. Those willing to hear the message of this scripture in a submissive attitude of service can at once capture the Supreme Lord in their hearts. Therefore there is no need for any scripture other than Srimad-Bhagavatam.” Sri Caitanya-caritamrta Adi-lila, 1.91
THE HIGHEST ATTAINMENT AND PRESENT ADJUSTMENT
Srila B.R. Sridhar Maharaja
JUL 26 2014
(The following article was first published in Back To Godhead magazine in 1944)
The Vedic culture is considered to be the most ancient and mysterious in the scholarly circle. The great spiritual dictator Sri Krsna Dvaipayana Vyasadeva is known to be the deliverer of the Vedic message in its present form as such the great Vyasa is held in uncommon reverence in all authentic various schools of Vedic interpreters.
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 desire to attain any manifest object of this world by means of these words should be deemed to be in opposition to the supreme.
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 Lord, who are without any desire for self-aggrandizement and who are freed from the effects of fruitive actions and dry philosophical speculations are capable of getting out of the estrangements of this complicated age.
The leaders of the people are very much anxious to live in peace and friendship, but they have