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Srila Prabhupada’s Disappearance 2021
It’s All in a Name (A poem completed on Srila Prabhupada’s disappearance day 1989) This is the age of quarrel, and that’s not hard to show. We’re unlucky, misguided and spiritually slow. Life and memory are short, the surplus seems the pain, That behind what’s called love is just material gain. But one thing is so bright that it puts the sun to shame, And that’s the absolute pleasure in the Holy Name. Because though the names in this world will all become dim The identity of God’s Name is the same as Him. Races, creeds and countries come and raise up their borders. We’re separate behind our loyal skin…
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Govardhana Puja 2021
Srila Prabhupada Lecture on Govardhana Puja, November 14, 1966, New York Prabhupāda: Today Govardhanadhārī, Giridhārī, Lord Kṛṣṇa, today lifted the mountain. Demigods like Indra, Chandra, according to Vedic literature there are. According to Vedic literature there are different demigods. Sometimes we will find in Greek mythology the gods of the water, gods of the thunderbolt. These are not imagination. Actually they are facts. But due to our insufficient knowledge we do not know how the material nature is being controlled. So when Kṛṣṇa was on this planet and He was playing the part of a cowherd boy, and it was known to all over the universe that, “God has come,…
