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Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu’s Appearance
Prayers by the Demigods to Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu in the Womb and the Lord’s Appearance from Sri Chaitanya Bhagavat, Adi Kanda, English translation by Bhumipati dasa, Commentary by Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Prabhupada Chapter 2 Text 136 navadvipe ache jagannatha misra-vara vasudeva-praya tenho sva-dharme tatpara//CB, Adi 2.136// TRANSLATION Sri Jagannatha Misra lived in Navadvipa. He was just like Vasudeva, and he was expert in following his prescribed duties.
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100% Genuine Pure Bhakti
https://s3.amazonaws.com/vanipedia/full/1975/750228AR-ATLANTA.mp3 Accept no substitutes! Srila Prabhupada Arrival Address Atlanta February 28, 1975. Short but all nectar!
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Sri Isvara Puri’s Disappearance
Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu Meets Sri Isvara Puri at Gaya and Accepts Initiation from Him, from Sri Chaitanya Bhagavat, Adi Kanda, English translation by Bhumipati dasa, Commentary by Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Prabhupada Chapter 17 Text 42 carana-prabhava suni’ vipra-gana mukhe avista haila prabhu premananda-sukhe//CB, Adi 17.42// TRANSLATION Hearing the glories of the Lord’s lotus feet from the brahmanas, the Lord became absorbed in ecstatic love. COMMENTARY The phrase carana-prabhava is explained as follows: Imagining the Supreme Lord to be formless, the impersonalists cannot understand the wonders of the Lord’s eternal form, which attracts even self-satisfied souls. The impersonalists’ process of consideration arises from material conceptions. After subduing the impersonal philosophy, the…
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Prakrta-rasa-sata-dusani
(A Hundred Warnings Against Mundane Mellows) By Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Goswami English translation by Dasaratha-suta dasa Introduction sri sri guru-gauranga-gandharvika-giridharebhyo namah
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The Appearance of Lord Nityananda and Lord Nityananda’s Meeting and Traveling with Srila Madhavendra Puri
from Sri Chaitanya Bhagavat, Adi Kanda, English translation by Bhumipati dasa, Commentary by Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Prabhupada The Appearance of Lord Nityananda Chapter 2, Sri Chaitanya Bhagavat, Adi Kanda Text 127 chadilena bhakta-gana sarva upabhoga avataribare prabhu karila udyoga//CB, Adi 2.127// TRANSLATION As the devotees gave up all material comforts, the Supreme Lord prepared to advent. COMMENTARY As the devotees anticipated the Lord’s appearance, they refrained from all forms of material happiness and enjoyment. The Supreme Lord prepared to advent as His heart melted with compassion for the devotees’ distress. Text 128 isvara-ajnaya age sri-ananta-dhama radhe avatirna haila nityananda-rama//CB, Adi 2.128// TRANSLATION By the order of the Lord, Sri Nityananda…
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Lord Varaha’s Appearance Day Lecture by Srila Prabhupada
https://s3.amazonaws.com/vanipedia/full/1977/770131VA-BHUVANESVARA.mp3 BHUVANESVARA – January 31, 1977 Prabhupāda: Today, Varāha-dvādaśī, appearance of Kṛṣṇa’s taking the incarnation of Varāha, boar. Keśava dhṛta-śūkara-rūpa jaya jagadīśa hare. So, rāmādi-mūrtiṣu kalā-niyamena tiṣṭhan nānāvatāram akarod bhuvaneṣu kintu kṛṣṇaḥ svayaṁ samabhavat paramaḥ pumān yo govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi (BS 5.39)
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Sri Advaita Acarya Appearance
Sri Advaita Acarya’s Appearance Day is later this week Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu reveals Himself to Sri Advaita Acarya from Sri Chaitanya Bhagavat, Madhya Kanda, Chapter 2 English translation by Bhumipati dasa Text 1 jaya jaya jagan-mangala gauracandra dana deha’ hrdaye tomara pada-dvandva//CB, Madhya 2.001// TRANSLATION All glories to Gauracandra, who is the benefactor of the entire world! Please give Your lotus feet in charity to my heart.
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The Night and Day Dream
https://krishnakirtan.com/pmp3/voice/MW_LA_1974-01-09_The_Night-and-Day_Dream.mp3 Full transcript below. Includes this excerpt. Hanumān: In your books you say that the world is like a dream. Prabhupāda: Yes, it is dream. Hanumān: How is it a dream? Prabhupāda: Dream, just like last night you had some dream. Hanumān: Yes. Prabhupāda: Well, it has no value. It is gone. And again this night, when you’ll sleep, you’ll forget all these things. You’ll dream. You don’t remember during night, when you are dreaming that, “I have got my house, I have got my wife, I have . . .” You all forget. So it is dream.
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You Are Simply Increasing Your Problems
Pranams. Jaya Srila Prabhupada! Great introductory Krishna consciousness audio lecture, English with Spanish translation both in audio (Espanol tambien!). Read the English transcription below. https://prabhupadavani.org/transcriptions/750220sbcar/ oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya janmādy asya yato ‘nvayād itarataś cārtheṣv abhijñaḥ svarāṭ tene brahma hṛdā ya ādi–kavaye muhyanti yat sūrayaḥ tejo–vāri–mṛdāṁ yathā vinimayo yatra tri-sargo ‘mṛṣā dhāmnā svena sadā nirasta–kuhakaṁ satyaṁ paraṁ dhīmahi [SB 1.1.1]
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Putana (Organized Religion)
by Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Prabhupada The following essay was printed in the January 1932 edition of The Harmonist, or Sree Sajjanatoshani The first act of New-born Infant Krishna recorded by the Bhagavatam is the slaying of the demoness Putana. The demoness Putana was deputed by King Kamsa to kill all the newborn babies of the realm of Vraja where the Divine sage Narada that his would-be slayer had been recently born informed him. Meanwhile Sri Krishna had been born in Kamsa’s prison and had been conveyed by His father Vasudeva to the house of His foster parents Nanda and Yasoda in Vraja during the night of His advent. The guards…
