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Text 13

dehino ’smin yatha dehe kaumaram yauvanam jara tatha dehantara-praptir dhiras tatra na muhyati

Translation

As the embodied soul continuously passes, in this body, from boyhood to youth to old age, the soul similarly passes into another body at death. A sober person is not bewildered by such a change.

Commentary by Srila…

Text 12

na tv evaham jatu nasam na tvam neme janadhipah na caiva na bhavisyamah sarve vayam atah param

Translation

Never was there a time when I did not exist, nor you, nor all these kings; nor in the future shall any of us cease to be.

Commentary by Srila Prabhupada

In the Vedas, in the Katha Upanishad as well as in the Shvetasvatara…

Prabhavisnu fell down in light of Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Prabhupadas teachings.

dear devotees

Please accept my humble obaisences

All glories to Srila Prabhupada

I am accepting disciples now.With the fall of Umapati and Prabhavisnu and others, I know it is time I step up to the plate.

Life is short and tottering like a drop of water on a lotusleaf.No one knows when he/she has to leave this mortal body.

I have send devotees into the mouth of lions for years of unqualified Guru. I am accepting disciples now because , someone

has to…

Text 6

na caitad vidmah kataran no gariyo yad va jayema yadi va no jayeyuh yan eva hatva na jijivisamas te ’vasthitah pramukhe dhartarastrah

Translation

Nor do we know which is better—conquering them or being conquered by them. If we killed the sons of Dhritarashtra, we should not care to live. Yet they are now standing before us on the battlefield.…

Text 5

gurun ahatva hi mahanubhavan sreyo bhoktum bhaiksyam apiha loke hatvartha-kamams tu gurun ihaiva bhunjiya bhogan rudhira-pradigdhan

Translation

It would be better to live in this world by begging than to live at the cost of the lives of great souls who are my teachers. Even though desiring worldly gain, they are superiors. If they are killed, everything we enjoy will be tainted…

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dear Devotees

Please accept my humble obaisences

All glories to Srila Prabhupada

The real issue with the global financial crises is very simple:

Sri Isopanisad has stated:

īśāvāsyam idam sarvaḿ

yat…

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