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Srila Prabhupada Describes His Bhagavat Dharma Discourses Held in New Vrindaban – Sept 1972.
From a series of letters written by Srila Prabhupada outlining his vision for New Vrindaban.
Thanks to Vanipedia for the source material.
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Denver, Colorado
My dear Radha Damodara,
Please accept my blessings. I thank you very much for your letter dated August 25, 1972, and I appreciate very much for your kind sentiments. Yes, the Bhagavata Dharma discourses here in New Vrindaban are going on very nicely and daily several hundred devotees and guests are coming to hear, and it is truly a wonderful time.
I am glad to hear the nice report about St. Louis temple, and also that you are training yourself up nicely to be a serious preacher of this Krishna Consciousness movement. That much is wanted, sincere men who will become very strong for preaching work throughout the world, on behalf of Krishna. Now you apply yourself to this task very seriously and become learned in all the aspects of our Krishna Consciousness philosophy and take this opportunity in this lifetime to go back to Home, back to Godhead. That is my request.
I have not yet seen the Devotee Sketch-book #2, but I shall see it when I again return to Los Angeles.
Hoping this will meet you in good health.
Your ever well-wisher,
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami
ACBS:sda
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(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 18 April 2014, Durban, South Africa, Lecture: The glories of the holy name)
Krsna’s beauty is stunning! It is said that those devotees who look at Krsna, they gradually become stunned! I am worshipping Krsna in the form of Giriraja Govardhan. It is said that Govardhan Hill is non-different from Krsna. Somehow or other, my Giriraja is really nice, extremely nice. He really is very beautiful! Look on the internet if you want to see Him.
Srila Prabhupada said that if we worship the deity of Krsna then we must try to decorate that deity very nicely and if you do so, then you will lose all your taste for worldly beauty. So I am trying to do so and I must say that indeed there is a lot of taste! Such kind of taste is the awakening of spontaneous service.
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Under a tree by the Yamuna’s shore Radha and Krsna thirst to enjoy transcendental amorous pastimes. Please worship Them with pure, unalloyed love.
[Source : Nectarean Glories of Sri Vrindavana-dhama by Srila Prabodhananda Sarasvati Thakura, Sataka-2, Text-66, Translation.]
Sacinandana Swami Sadhu Sanga retreat 2014 SB class part 1
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(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 03 February 2013, Prague, Czech Republic, Srimad Bhagavatam 4.19.4)
There was one devotee who had sort of given up spiritual standards for a while and I was thinking of what to say to such a person without saying that you must chant Hare Krsna. Of course, that fell on deaf ears. Their answer was that they had no taste and couldn’t do it. So I was thinking for days and finally I said, ‘You know, you have only two possibilities with your life. To either be a happy devotee or to be an unhappy devotee! It’s too late, you’re a devotee. Even if you don’t chant, you are still a devotee. But if you don’t chant, you will be a unhappy devotee. So better chant then you can become a happy devotee.’ And I left it at that with food for thought.
We should have full faith that all good will come, sarva-karma kṛta haya, (Śrī Caitanya Caritāmṛta Madhya-Lila 22.62) and that all good will come from this chanting and from devotional service. So all we need to do is again and again turn to devotional service and to chanting the holy name. This chanting doesn’t require anything else! It can be done anywhere, even in inauspicious places one can chant, no money is required. Even if you’ve lost your voice, you can whisper.
Somehow or other, time is running out, life is very short, so we must take advantage because through this chanting, if we are sincere, we can go back to Godhead in this lifetime. Even if we made some mistakes in the past, if we correct ourselves and again take up devotional service then we are immediately properly situated. Immediately, we are again eligible to return back to Godhead. So we must be very optimistic, we must be very convinced that success will be there. All we have to do is chant Hare Krsna and serve the sankirtan movement!
Giriraj Swami and Tamal Krishna Goswami’s brother and sister-in-law, Kalachandji das and Sraddhanjali dasi, shared memories and realizations of Tamal Krishna Goswami Maharaja via Skype with devotees in Israel.
“My understanding is that like everything else he did his entering academia was not out of a personal preference but out of what he saw as necessary for his service to Srila Prabhupada. And we can see that in the result of his dissertation, which is totally a glorification of Srila Prabhupada. I had been in academia for many years already, but it was like I was the tortoise and he shot ahead of me as the hare. But actually it was a great austerity for him as well. Although he loved to have his intellect engaged in many ways and he saw how he could use the university and academia to preach Krishna consciousness, it was not academia or the university in itself that appealed to him. When he first arrived there he was very excited to be engaged in that way. His letters from when he first arrived in Cambridge are full of excitement, exuberance, and energy. But his letters from shortly before he went to Mayapur are a very different tone. They express much more the austerities involved in that enterprise. He was known as such a strong and heavy guru, but I think by nature he was very much a man of the heart—very soft and loving. But to be a spiritual master required great strength. Engaging that aspect of his personality was as much a service as it defined his personality.”
—Kalachandji das
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