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Caitanya Bhagavata Adi lila 2

Sri Chaitanya

Adi Lila Chapter Two

All glories, all glories to the beatific Chaitanya Mahaprabhu who is Sri Jagannatha Misra's son and the Supreme Lord of all.

All glories to Lord Chaitanya, the life and soul of Sri Nityananda Prabhu and Sri Gadadhara Pandita. All glories, all glories to the shelter of Sri Advaita Acarya and the other devotees.

All glories to Lord Sri Gauranga and His associates. One receives loving devotion to the Supreme simply by hearing…

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interview with Srila Prabhupada 1968

February, 1968

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Interview



February 1, 1968, Los Angeles

Interviewer: I think the first question is kind of basic, is why is everything always taped at all the...

Prabhupāda: Because we have got so many branches, they want to hear me, my singing, my speech, therefore they record it and send it to different branches. We have got thirteen, fourteen branches: one in New York, one in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Buffalo, Boston, Montreal, Vancouver,…

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Srila Prabhupada -Hayagriva 1967

Discourse on Lord Caitanya Play

Between Śrīla Prabhupāda and Hayagrīva



April 5-6, 1967, San Francisco

Prabhupāda: ...recording?

Hayagrīva: Good.

Prabhupāda: The first scene is that people passing on with saṅkīrtana movement as we have, as we usually do, very nice procession with mṛdaṅga, karatālas and that bugle, all people, just in the ordinary way. We have to make a nice procession. The second scene is that Kali, the personified Kali, a person should be…

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SB 1 chapter 4

SB 1.4: The Appearance of Śrī Nārada

SB 1.4.1 — Vyāsadeva said: On hearing Sūta Gosvāmī speak thus, Śaunaka Muni, who was the elderly, learned leader of all the ṛṣis engaged in that prolonged sacrificial ceremony, congratulated Sūta Gosvāmī by addressing him as follows.

SB 1.4.2 — Śaunaka said: O Sūta Gosvāmī, you are the most fortunate and respected of all those who can speak and recite. Please relate the pious message of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, which was spoken by the great and…

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Anti Semitic socalled devotees

http://truth.prabhupada.org.uk/circumcision-is-a-demoniac-attack-on-human-or-aryan-culture

they claim

CIRCUMCISION is bad for celibacy and why so many Jews became gays also. However there are gays and lesbians in Kali yuga

Jewish Hare Krsnas are more evil is the claim , but there are good and bad everywhere some of Hitlers SA(before SS) people where gays though when…

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Indraduymna Swami and lecture about celibacy

he gave a lecture day before Gaura Purnima in Mayapure on day before the 40th year of his taking sannyasa in Mayapure in 1979

and quoted Daksa Smrti first time I heard of this book ,interestingly it is actually a book about celibacy ,written by Daksa

no translation of the book online but a video http://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=NmzGLdtSuXg

this was not in the…

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Declaring war on Maya

I was thinking about the lecture this morning at ISKCON LA. Cooperation , COOPERATION , Srila Prabhupada said Krsna consciouness will only spread to the degree we cooperate to spread KC.Just like in war time .When USA was attacked on 7th December of 1941 by Japan ,Maya has already declared

war not only against United States but against every human being and animals on Earth , the Illusory energy is trying to destroy everything'

good in Kali yuga and Kali personified has the aid of…

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Nitai Gaura Nama

Song Name: Nitai Gaura Nama

Official Name: None

Author: Locana Dasa Thakura

Book Name: None

Language: Bengali

LYRICS:

(1)

nitāi-gaura-nāma, ānandera dhāma, jei jana nāhi laya

tāre yama-rāya, dhare la’ye jāya, narake ḍubāya tāya

(2)

tulasīra hāra, na pare je chāra, yamālaye vāsa tā’ra

tilaka dhāraṇa, na kare je jana, vṛthāya janama tā’ra

(3)

nā laya harināma, vidhi tā’re vāma, pāmara…

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Jagannathastaka

Jagannathastaka

(As issued from the mouth of Lord Caitanya)

kadacit kalindi-tata-vipina-sangitaka-ravo

mudabhiri-nari-vadana-kamalasvada-madhupaha

rama-shambhu-brahmamara-pati-ganesharcita-pado

jagannathah svami nayana-patha-gami bhavatu me

"Sometimes in great happiness Lord Jagannatha, with His flute, makes a loud concert in the groves on the banks of the Yamuna. He is like a bumblebee who tastes the beautiful lotus-like faces of the cowherd damsels…

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Caitanya Bhagavad adi lila chapter 1

dear Vaisnavas

dandavat pranams all glories to the lotusfeet of Sri Guru and Gauranga

Alll glories to Srila Prabhupada who saved me from the material world

Try read this chapter 1 of CB ,5 to 10 times of even 20 times again and again see the impact this chapter will have on your consciouness and if there is something you do not understand

ask vaisnavas who know the KC philosophy better than you this is deep and every detail is important

your servant

Paramananda…

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Caitanya Bhagavata Adi lila chapter one

 

Sri Chaitanya Bhagavat

Adi Lila Chapter One



 

I worship their Lordships Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu and Sri Nityananda Prabhu, whose long arms extend down to their knees, whose beautiful complexions are the radiant yellow of molten gold and whose elongated eyes are like red lotuses. They are the topmost of the brahmanas, the guardians of religious principles for this age, the munificent benefactors of all living…

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SB 1.3

SB 1.3: Kṛṣṇa Is the Source of All Incarnations

SB 1.3.1 — Sūta said: In the beginning of the creation, the Lord first expanded Himself in the universal form of the puruṣa incarnation and manifested all the ingredients for the material creation. And thus at first there was the creation of the sixteen principles of material action. This was for the purpose of creating the material universes.

SB 1.3.2 — A part of the puruṣa lies down within the water of the universe, from the navel…

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Sri Sri Prema Dhama Deva Stotram

Pranams

all glories to the lotus feet of Sri Guru and Gauranga

I saw Agnideva Prabhu sing Srila Sridha Maharaja prayer to Lord Caitanya at ISKCON Seattle I was surprised and same time delighted,

Srila BR Sridhara Maharaja was the favorite sannyasi of Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Prabhupada and he is the one that placed Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Prabhupada in Samadhin in 1936 he sang Sri Rupa Manjari Pada before Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Prabhupada left this world,He was also a dear…

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Lord Caitanya embracing women in Harivilas preaching center ,Temple but why?

dear devotees

Please accept my humble obaisences

All glories to Srila Prabhupada

All glories to Sri Sri Radha Nila Madhava dear devotees 

Please accept my humble obaisences
All glories to Srila Prabhupada
 All glories to Sri Sri Radha Nila Madhava 
 (the Istadevatas  of ISKCON Seattle)
 I actually served there for a few month in end of 1994 ,it is a long story , but I will focus on what I saw…
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Soka Satana

INTRUDUCTION TO CHAPTER THREE - SOKA-SatanaImage result for Srivasa Thakura dancing

This chapter consists of thirteen songs describing one pastime of Lord Caitanya as follows:

Once, during an all-night kirtana performed by the Lord in Srivasa Pandita's courtyard, one of the five sons of Srivasa died within the house due to some disease. All the household ladies began to cry loudly in lamentation, which was heard by Srivasa as he was chanting and dancing with Lord Caitanya out in the courtyard. Entering the…

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Caitanya Bhagavata Adi lila chapter 7

Sri Chaitanya Bhagavat

Adi Lila Chapter Seven

All glories, all glories to Lord GauraChandra Who is the Supreme Lord of Lords; all glories, all glories to Sri Visvambhara and His dear most devotees. All glories to the illustrious son of Sri Jagannatha Misra and Mother Sacidevi. He is the life and soul of all surrendered devotees.

O Lord Visvambhara, please glance upon us mercifully and deliver us all. Using the pretext of mirthful childish pastimes, Lord Gaurasundara…

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Sb 1.2

SB 1.2: Divinity and Divine Service

SB 1.2.1 — Ugraśravā [Sūta Gosvāmī], the son of Romaharṣaṇa, being fully satisfied by the perfect questions of the brāhmaṇas, thanked them and thus attempted to reply.

SB 1.2.2 — Śrīla Sūta Gosvāmī said: Let me offer my respectful obeisances unto that great sage [Śukadeva Gosvāmī] who can enter the hearts of all. When he went away to take up the renounced order of life [sannyāsa], leaving home without undergoing reformation by the sacred thread…

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Cc Antya 16 Kali das

Antya 16: Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu Tastes Nectar from the Lips of Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa

The sixteenth chapter is summarized by Śrīla Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura in his Amṛta-pravāha-bhāṣya. When the Bengali devotees of the Lord returned to Jagannātha Purī, a gentleman named Kālidāsa, who was an uncle of Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī, went with them to see Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu. Kālidāsa had tasted the remnants of food of all the Vaiṣṇavas in Bengal, even Jhaḍu Ṭhākura. Because of this, he received…

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Bhagavad Gita chapter 11

Chapter 11, Verse 1

Arjuna said: I have heard Your instruction on confidential spiritual matters which You have so kindly delivered unto me, and my illusion is now dispelled.

Chapter 11, Verse 2

O lotus-eyed one, I have heard from You in detail about the appearance and disappearance of every living entity, as realized through Your inexhaustible glories.

Chapter 11, Verse 3

O greatest of all personalities, O supreme form, though I see here before me Your actual…

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Sb 1 chapter 1

SB 1.1: Questions by the Sages

SB 1.1.1 — O my Lord, Śrī Kṛṣṇa, son of Vasudeva, O all-pervading Personality of Godhead, I offer my respectful obeisances unto You. I meditate upon Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa because He is the Absolute Truth and the primeval cause of all causes of the creation, sustenance and destruction of the manifested universes. He is directly and indirectly conscious of all manifestations, and He is independent because there is no other cause beyond Him. It is He only who first…

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