March, 2008
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Deities #400 (March 31, 2008): "The Supreme Personality of Godhead, Krishna, is the fountainhead of all incarnations. Lord Balarama is His second body. These two are one and the same identity. They differ only in form."
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Deities #399 (March 31, 2008): "In the nineteenth and twentieth incarnations, the Lord advented Himself as Lord Balarama and Lord Krishna in the family of Vrishni (the Yadu dynasty), and by so doing He removed the burden of the world."
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Deities #398 (March 30, 2008): "Srimati Radharani is the center of all Vrindavana's activities. In Vrindavana, Krishna is the instrument of Srimati Radharani; therefore all the inhabitants of Vrindavana still chant 'Jaya Radhe!'"
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Deities #397 (March 30, 2008): "Actually, if someone goes to Vrindavana, he will immediately feel separation from Krishna, who performed such nice activities when He was present there."
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Deities #396 (March 29, 2008): "I worship Govinda, the primeval Lord, round whose neck is swinging a garland of flowers beautified with the moon-locket, whose two hands are adorned with the flute and jeweled ornaments, who always revels in pastimes of love, whose graceful threefold-bending form of Syamasundara is eternally manifest."
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Photo Album #492 (March 29, 2008): "My Lord, I can understand that the superexcellent service of the residents of Vrndavana is due to their spontaneously engaging all natural instincts in Your service."
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Photo Album #491 (March 29, 2008): "Service rendered to Krishna under the direction of the spiritual master is bona fide service because the spiritual master is the manifested representative of Krishna. Sri Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura says that when one satisfies the spiritual master, he satisfies the Supreme Lord."
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Photo Album #490 (March 28, 2008): "It is said by Sri Rupa Gosvami, 'When one is actually liberated from material contamination, he can always remember an eternal devotee in Vrindavana in order to love Krishna in the same capacity. And developing such an aptitude, one will always live in Vrindavana, even within his mind.'"
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Photo Album #489 (March 28, 2008): "The sacrifice known as Govardhana-puja is observed in the Krishna consciousness movement. Lord Caitanya has recommended that since Krishna is worshipable, so His land, Vrndavana and Govardhana Hill, are also worshipable."
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Manifesto of Krishna Consciousness (Audio) (March 27, 2008): "The International Society for Krishna Consciousness is a movement aiming at the spiritual reorientation of mankind through the simple process of chanting the holy names of God." A lecture describing Krishna Consciousness by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, recorded on December 22, 1968. (RealPlayer required. Click here for free download.)
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Photo Album #488 (March 27, 2008): "The ideal place to execute Krishna consciousness is Vrajabhumi, or Vrindavana, where the people are naturally inclined to love Krishna and Krishna is naturally inclined to love them."
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Photo Album #487 (March 27, 2008): "As soon as one reaches the boundary of Vrndavana, he should immediately smear the dust of Vrndavana over his body without thinking of his material position and prestige."
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Deities #395 (March 26, 2008): "O my Lord, Sri Krishna, son of Vasudeva, O all-pervading Personality of Godhead, I offer my respectful obeisances unto You. I meditate upon Lord Sri Krishna because He is the Absolute Truth and the primeval cause of all causes of the creation, sustenance and destruction of the manifested universes."
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Photo Album #486 (March 26, 2008): "India has many sacred rivers, such as the Ganges, Yamuna, Narmada, Kaveri and Krishna, and simply by bathing in these rivers people are liberated and become Krishna conscious."
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Photo Album #485 (March 26, 2008): "The difference between the pure devotees of Vrndavana and other devotees is that the residents of Vrndavana have no other desire but to be associated with Krishna."
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Swamiji (Video) (March 26, 2008): "A rare and early film of Srila Prabhupada."
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Deities #394 (March 25, 2008): "Whatever is attractive within the cosmic manifestation is due to Krishna. Krishna is therefore the reservoir of all pleasure. The active principle of everything is Krishna, and highly elevated transcendentalists see everything in connection with Him."
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Srila Prabhupada Pranati (March 25, 2008): "I offer my respectful obeisances unto His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, who is very dear to Lord Krishna, having taken shelter at His lotus feet."
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Deities #393 (March 24, 2008): "Lord Krishna enchants the world, but Sri Radha enchants even Him. Therefore She is the supreme goddess of all."
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The Full Nectarine (Video) (March 24, 2008): "Rare footage of Srila Prabhupada and his early disciples performing various spiritual plays about Lord Krishna and Lord Caitanya at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden in 1968."
Visit India @ home (March 24, 2008): Jaya Govinda Prabhu, longtime servant of Their Lordships Sri Sri Radha Madan Mohan in New Gokula Dhama, Vancouver, Canada, has submitted the following collection of photographs from his recent pilgrimage to India for the pleasure of our readers. Click here to visit India.
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Amorous Pastimes in the Spring (March 23, 2008): "The beautiful place known as Vrindavana is a trancendental abode in the spiritual world and is made entirely of divine touchstones."
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Causeless Mercy #114 (March 23, 2008): Turning to the Beauty of Krishna: "Not only is Krishna’s beauty eternal, but it is also ever fresh, like an endlessly blooming springtime."
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Photo Album #484 (March 23, 2008): "Of course spring is a season universally liked because it is neither too hot nor too cold, and the flowers and trees blossom and flourish."
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March 22, 2002 (March 22, 2008): Today is our sixth anniversary online. Thank you for visiting The Prabhupada Connection. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
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Photo Album #483 (March 22, 2008): "The pure devotee is always within the core of My heart, and I am always in the heart of the pure devotee."
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Deities #392 (Gaura-Purnima, March 21, 2008): "May the Supreme Personality of Godhead in the form of Lord Sri Caitanya bestow His causeless mercy upon us. His smiling glance at once drives away all the bereavements of the world, and His very words enliven the auspicious creepers of devotion by expanding their leaves. Taking shelter at His lotus feet invokes transcendental love of God at once."
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The Glories of Lord Gauranga (Audio) (Gaura-Purnima, March 21, 2008): "Anyone who has accepted the two lotus feet of Lord Caitanya can understand the true essence of devotional service." Click here to follow along with the lyrics as you listen to this beautiful song about Lord Caitanya written by Srila Narottama dasa Thakura and sung by Srila Prabhupada. (RealPlayer required. Click here for free download.)
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Lord Caitanya is the Only Hope (Lecture) (Gaura-Purnima, March 21, 2008): "So the author of this Caitanya-caritamrta is offering his respectful obeisances unto Lord Caitanya. So he says, agaty-eka-gatim natva. Agaty, persons who have fallen, who have no hope for reaching the supreme destination, for them Lord Caitanya is the only hope."
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Hare Krishna Mantra (Gaura-Purnima, March 21, 2008): "The transcendental vibration established by the chanting of Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare/ Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare is the sublime method for reviving our Krishna consciousness."
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Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu (Gaura-Purnima, March 21, 2008): "I offer my respectful obeisances unto the Supreme Lord Sri Krishna Caitanya, who is more magnanimous than any other avatara, even Krishna Himself, because He is bestowing freely what no one else has ever given -- pure love of Krishna."
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Who is Lord Caitanya? (Lecture) (Gaura-Purnima, March 21, 2008): "Lord Caitanya is called 'the golden avatara.' Avatara means 'descending, coming down.' Just as one may come down from the fifth story or the one-hundredth story of a building, an avatara comes down from the spiritual planets in the spiritual sky."
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Deities #391 (March 20, 2008): "It is confirmed in the Bhagavad-gita that the purpose of Vedic knowledge is to find Krishna. And it is said in the Brahma-samhita that it is very difficult to find Krishna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, by systematic reading of the Vedic literature. But He is very easily available through the mercy of a pure devotee."
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Srila Prabhupada chants the Brahma-Samhita (Audio) (March 20, 2008): With only a simple pair of karatals (brass hand cymbals from India) to accompany him, Srila Prabhupada chants the beautiful 'Hymns of Brahma' in glorification of Lord Sri Krishna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead. (RealPlayer required. Click here for free download.)
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Srila Prabhupada's Purport to Brahma-Samhita (Audio) (March 20, 2008): In his purport to the above, Srila Prabhupada states: "Sriman Mahaprabhu, Lord Caitanya has taught this hymn to His favorite disciples in as much as it fully contains all the transcendental truths regarding Vaisnava philosophy. The audience, the hearers of this record are requested to study and try to enter into the spirit of this hymn with great care and attention as a regular daily function." (RealPlayer required. Click here for free download.)
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Photo Album #482 (March 19, 2008): "One who is on the path of liberation by Krishna consciousness is very dear to every living being, and every living being is dear to him. This is due to his Krishna consciousness."
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Srila Prabhupada -- TV Interview (Video) (March 19, 2008): "Srila Prabhupada answers a number of questions about Krishna Consciousness on public television the day after the annual Rathayatra Festival in San Francisco, California, 1975."
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Deities #390 (March 18, 2008): "If you love Krishna in any capacity, you shall never be frustrated because everything in Krishna is perfect, eternal, blissful, and full of knowledge."
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Artistic Offering #98 (March 17, 2008): "All of you please chant Hare Krishna, and hear the sound vibration, and serve Krishna and Spiritual Master to your best capacity and everything will be all right."
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Make Krishna Smile (Lecture) (March 16, 2008): "If you cannot do something which is hard for you, you do anything for Krishna under the direction of spiritual master, you'll get perfection. It is not that 'I have to do this. I have to do that.' No. Krishna's service is manyfold. If one is unable to take one kind of service, the spiritual master can give him another kind of service. But both the services are accepted by Krishna."
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Vishnujana Swami Rathayatra (Video) (March 15, 2008): "Vishnujana Swami, a celebrated disciple of Srila Prabhupada, describes the inner meaning of the Jagannatha Deities at the San Francisco Rathayatra Festival in 1975."
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Srila Prabhupada's Vyasa-Puja, 1973 (Video) (March 14, 2008): "Devotees from all across North America gather together at the New Vrindavan rural Hare Krishna community to honor their beloved spiritual master, His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, the Founder-Acarya of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness, on the auspicious occasion of Vyasa-puja, the birthday celebration of Krishna's pure representative in disciplic succession."
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Eight Prayers to the Spiritual Master (March 14, 2008): "The spiritual master is receiving benediction from the ocean of mercy. Just as a cloud pours water on a forest fire to extinguish it, so the spiritual master delivers the materially afflicted world by extinguishing the blazing fire of material existence. I offer my respectful obeisances unto the lotus feet of such a spiritual master, who is an ocean of auspicious qualities."
Vishnujana Swami & Srila Prabhupada Kirtan (Audio) (March 13, 2008): Vishnujana Swami, a beloved disciple of Srila Prabhupada renowned for his beautiful chanting of the Hare Krishna mantra, leads a blissful kirtan -- and then to the great delight of the assembled devotees, Srila Prabhupada takes over the chanting (mp3 format).
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We Are Naturally Jubilant (Lecture) (March 12, 2008): "All of them -- as they surrender unto Me -- I reward accordingly. Everyone follows My path in all respects, O son of Prtha."
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If You Know Krishna, You Know Everything (Lecture) (March 11, 2008): "So we are interested in capturing the original person. We are not interested with any subordinate. Govindam adi-purusam. But if one can capture the original person, then he captures everyone."
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Deities #389 (March 11, 2008): "In the Lalita-madhava, Rupa Gosvami explains that the movements of Krishna's eyebrows are just like the Yamuna and that the smiling of Radharani is just like the moonshine. When the Yamuna and the moonshine come in contact on the bank of the river, the water tastes just like nectar, and drinking it gives great satisfaction. It is as cooling as piles of snow."
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Hare Krishna (Video) (March 10, 2008): Srila Prabhupada personally distributes Krishna consciousness to the flower children of the sixties. Originally filmed on "Hippie Hill" in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, April, 1967. Music by Ravi Shankar and Srila Prabhupada. (A Georgio Film.)
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Photo Album #481 (March 9, 2008): "The stage of pure devotion is attained by sincerely serving a pure devotee of the Lord. The first condition of devotional service to the Lord is therefore to be a servant of a pure devotee, and this condition is fulfilled by the statement 'reception of the dust of the lotus feet of a pure devotee who has also served another pure devotee.'"
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Deities #388 (March 8, 2008): "So Caitanya-caritamrta author, Krsnadasa Kaviraja Gosvami, is describing the cause of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu's appearance. The cause is that Krishna wanted to know, 'What is there in Radharani?' He is Madana-mohana. Krishna's another name is... He's attractive. Krishna is attractive to everyone, even He is attractive to Cupid, Madana. Madana is attractive in the material world, and He is Madana-mohana. And Radharani is Madana-mohana-mohini, means She attracts even the Madana-mohana."
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George Harrison's Songs (Video) (March 8, 2008): "Many of his songs have Krishna as the theme, but you don't know it." (Interview with Shyamasundara das)
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Here Comes the Sun (Slideshow) (March 8, 2008): "A loving devotional offering to Srila Prabhupada enhanced with George Harrison's hit song." George Harrison: "I liked Prabhupada's humbleness. I always liked his humility and his simplicity. The servant of the servant of the servant is really what it is, you know. None of us are God -- just His servants. He just made me feel so comfortable. I always felt very relaxed with him, and I felt more like a friend. I felt that he was a good friend."
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Sri Guru-vandana (March 7, 2008): "The lotus feet of our spiritual master are the only way by which we can attain pure devotional service. I bow down to his lotus feet with great awe and reverence. By his grace we can cross over the ocean of material suffering and obtain the mercy of Krishna."
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Deities #387 (March 6, 2008): "The perfection of life is simply to surrender to the Supreme. In the beginning of our spiritual life we must therefore worship Madana-Mohana so that He may attract us and nullify our attachment for material sense gratification."
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Photo Album #480 (March 6, 2008): "My Lord, devotees like your good self are verily holy places personified. Because you carry the Personality of Godhead within your heart, you turn all places into places of pilgrimage."
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Deities #386 (March 5, 2008): "Krishna's body is a city of attractive features, and it is sweeter than sweet. His face, which is like the moon, is sweeter still. And the supremely sweet gentle smile on that moonlike face is like rays of moonshine."
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Krishna is All-Attractive (Lecture) (March 5, 2008): "The Krishna consciousness movement is propagating God's name, God's glory, God's activities, God's beauty, God's love. Everything. As we have got many things within this material world, all of them, they are in Krishna."
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Mantra Meditation with Srila Prabhupada (Audio) (March 5, 2008): Listen to the sound vibration of Krishna's pure devotee, Srila Prabhupada, as he chants the holy names of the Lord: "Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare/ Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare." (RealPlayer required. Click here for free download.)
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Tribute to George Harrison #2 (Video) (March 4, 2008): "The story behind the Bhaktivedanta Manor (with footage of Srila Prabhupada and George Harrison), plus the history of the book, 'Chant and Be Happy.'"
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Art of Dying (Video) (March 4, 2008): "George Harrison performs 'Art of Dying' from the album, 'All Things Must Pass' (1970)." (Video accompanied with photos of George's service to Krishna and Prabhupada.)
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Photo Album #479 (March 3, 2008): "I worship Govinda, the primeval Lord, who is Shyamasundara, Krishna Himself with inconceivable innumerable attributes, whom the pure devotees see in their heart of hearts with the eye of devotion tinged with the salve of love."
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Govindam adi-purusam tam aham bhajami (March 2, 2008): "I worship Govinda, the primeval Lord, who is adept in playing on His flute, with blooming eyes like lotus petals with head decked with peacock's feather, with the figure of beauty tinged with the hue of blue clouds, and His unique loveliness charming millions of Cupids."
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Govinda Prayers (Audio) Produced by George Harrison (March 2, 2008): "The record is so nice that I am playing it at least once in a day and it is giving me transcendental pleasure with tears in my eyes. I am sure this record will be the first-class 'hit' as already opined by the experts." -From Srila Prabhupada letter, March 8, 1970 (RealPlayer required. Click here for free download.)
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Photo Album #478 (March 2, 2008): "The need of the spirit soul is that he wants to get out of the limited sphere of material bondage and fulfill his desire for complete freedom. He wants to get out of the covered walls of the greater universe. He wants to see the free light and the spirit."
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The Glories of Narada Muni (Lecture) (March 1, 2008): "In the last millennium I was born as the son of a certain maidservant engaged in the service of brahmanas, who were following the principles of Vedanta. When they were living together during the four months of the rainy season, I was engaged in their personal service."
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Narada Muni (Video) (March 1, 2008): "Sri Naradaji is an eternal spaceman, having been endowed with a spiritual body by the grace of the Lord. He can travel in the outer spaces of both the material and spiritual worlds without restriction and can approach any planet in unlimited space within no time."
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