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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…
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Non-Sectarian Vaishnava Dharma
by Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura From the introduction of Sri Krishna Samhita (1880) Translation from Bengali by Bhumipati Dasa. Edited and published by Pundarika Vidyanidhi dasa. . . . The people of India and other countries can be divided into two categories, the asslike and the swanlike. Among these two, the asslike are in the majority. The swanlike are in the minority. Swanlike people abstract the purport of the scriptures for their own advancement and thus benefit themselves. . . .
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The Science of God
Pranams. Jaya Srila Prabhupada! Essential Krishna consciousness from Srila Prabhupada. Read along with the video lecture. evaṁ prasanna-manaso bhagavad-bhakti–yogataḥ bhagavat–tattva–vijñānaṁ mukta–saṅgasya jāyate [SB 1.2.20]
