His Divine Grace
Leading Exponent of the Science of Krishna Consciousness in the West and the World’s Most Distinguished Teacher of Vedic Religion and Thought. Author of Bhagavad-gītā As It Is, Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, KṚṢṆA and many other English Versions of Vedic Literature. Founder and Spiritual Master of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness.
A note on these editions: We’re using the so-called “original books,” or pre-1978 editions. We do so partly because one can only do really accurate research with historically accurate material, but first and foremost because Srila Prabhupada instructed his men “not to change even a comma” in his books…
Prabhupāda: My dear boys and girls. I thank you very much for your participating in this great saṅkīrtana movement. This saṅkīrtana movement is recommended for self-realization in this age. This age is called, according to Vedic understanding, it is called Kali-yuga, the age of quarrel and disagreement, this age. So, besides that, there are many other symptoms of this age. They are described in the Vedic literatures, and they are coming exactly true. That is scripture.
Prabhupāda: Hmm. Now, this is the important part of the verse, that “man who is on the threshold of death.” Who can say that “I am not on the threshold of death”? Is there any man in this universe who can say that “I am not on the threshold of death”? Can anyone say? Everyone is on the threshold of death. That’s a fact. But such questions are made amongst them… Everyone is subject to death, and threshold, on the threshold of death. Nobody can say that “I shall live for so many years.” ...
Prabhupāda: ….five years old. It is a school. He was preaching amongst the class friends this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement. You have seen the picture of Prahlāda Mahārāja standing on the table—of course, there was no tables in those days—and speaking to his class friends about devotional service. The friends of Prahlāda Mahārāja, they objected, that “We are now children. Let us play now. We shall see about God conscious [indistinct] when we are old enough. Or at the time of death we shall ...
Prabhupāda: That law of gravity is a bogus theory. The… Sixteen hundred thousand miles… Sixteen hundred thousand miles below the sun is the Rāhu. They are going there. Paramahaṁsa: Rāhu. Seems like all the planets, they have that space interval of sixteen hundred thousand miles. Most of the sun… Prabhupāda: Yes, yes. Paramahaṁsa: …and then the moon and Venus. That two hundred thousand yojanas. Prabhupāda: When the Rāhu happens to be between the two planets, sun and moon, there is eclipse. ...
Prabhupāda: [indistinct] …because the whole world was merged into water. So evolution takes place from aquatics, fish. Then, as the water dries up, there was vegetation, plants. Plants, creepers, trees. Then, gradually, the insects, moths, reptiles, serpents, they come out. And then, from insects, the birds, varieties of birds. There are three million kinds of birds. And aquatics, 900,000. And eleven hundred thousand, 1,100,000 species of these insects and reptiles. And one million varieties of birds. And ...
Prabhupāda: To worship God, we have got nine processes. One is to hear about God and to speak about God—śravaṇaṁ kīrtanam. Then, memorizing God’s activities. Śravaṇaṁ kīrtanaṁ viṣṇoḥ smaraṇaṁ pāda-sevanam. Then worshiping His feet—just like we offer flower to the feet. Śravaṇaṁ kīrtanaṁ viṣṇoḥ smaraṇaṁ pāda-sevanam arcanam. Then Deity worship, just like we are doing in the temple, Deity worship. Then vandanam, offering prayers, just like you do in the church. ...
Hmm. This is a conversation between Mahārāja Parīkṣit and Śukadeva Gosvāmī. Mahārāja Parīkṣit, five thousand years ago he was the emperor of the whole world. Formerly, up to five thousand years ago, the whole world was being controlled and ruled over by kings whose capital was Hastināpura, New Delhi. There was only one flag, only one ruler, one scripture, Vedic scripture, and the Āryans. Ārya, they were the civilized persons. You Europeans, Americans, you are also Āryans, Indo-European stock. ...
Prabhupāda: So that is also another nonsense. Why in your state, when you kill a man, you are hanged, and when you are killing an animal you are not? Why? Why? You are Christian. If you say killing of animal and killing of man is the same, then why you are hanged? Huh? Why you discriminate? Why don’t you kill your own child? Why discriminate?
So sakṛn manaḥ. Sakṛt means even if once in ecstasy, mind, kṛṣṇa padāravindayoḥ, the lotus feet of Kṛṣṇa, if one thinks, niveṣitam, with full ecstasy and absorption, if one thinks very nicely about the lotus feet of Kṛṣṇa, tad-anurāgi, being attached, anurāgi, yaiḥ, anyone, iha, in this material world… Then what happens? Na te yamaṁ pāśa-bhṛtaś ca tad-bhaṭān. Yama-pāśa… Yamarāja, the superintendent of death… After death one goes to Yamarāja. Not the devotees, ...
Sita Ram Singh: I came from Delhi. I got down here: “I want holy darśanas.” Prabhupāda: [indistinct] Sita Ram Singh: He told me, “He’s not keeping good health…” “Of course, I won’t speak to him, but simply I will have his darśana.” Because you are superhuman being… [Prabhupāda chuckles] Everyone wants a blessing of persons like you. What you have done, and to remember these things… One feels himself satisfied only after having your darśana. You do me this favor… Prabhupāda: ...
Srila Prabhupada’s books offer timeless knowledge on the science of self-realization and contain wisdom on spiritual topics ranging from the cosmos to God to humanity’s eternal relationship with the Supreme.
Srila Prabhupada’s words offer enlightenment, practical wisdom and inspiration to help awaken our dormant loving relationship with Krishna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
Srila Prabhupada wrote hundreds of letters each year offering practical spiritual instruction and devotional counseling to his disciples and followers all over the world.
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