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The Hare Kṛṣṇa movement was called a 'bona fide religion' yesterday by the New York high-court justice who threw out two charges against the officials of the movement of 'illegal imprisonment' and 'attempted extortion.
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The Hare Kṛṣṇa movement was called a 'bona fide religion' yesterday by the New York high-court justice who threw out two charges against the officials of the movement of 'illegal imprisonment' and 'attempted extortion.
\"We're very happy to see that by your divine mercy the whole world is flooded with Kṛṣṇa consciousness.
In so many ways Kṛṣṇa is trying to convince that a living soul is different, completely different from matter.
The first thing we did this morning was this resolution: Pañcadraviḍa Swami and Harikeśa Swami, who were serving during the year as acting GBCs, were accepted as full GBC members.
A big signboard with lights around, it says, \"The Bhaktivedanta Book Trust,\" and \"Founder of the Trust, Founder-Chairman, His Divine Grace A.
Nobody can captivate Kṛṣṇa by all these material possessions.
\"One who is not supported by Balarāma, he cannot understand, cannot come to the spiritual platform.\" Na medhayā na bahunā śrutena .
As we are not this body, past life means there was another body; we have forgotten it.
It's not very good that our devotees, especially the women, have to do like this.
There are three qualities within this material world.
If they stick to have one husband and one wife, it is very good.
I was going to bring with me the new Hungarian book, but the person who was bringing it from the printer, the car broke down before the airplane could...
This process you cannot expect immediately, but if you practice general process, very easily done, as it is recommended in the Bhagavad-gītā, man-manā bhava mad-bhakto mad-yājī māṁ namaskuru [[bg/18/65|[Bg.
Vedic knowledge means whatever is beyond the capacity of your senses, that you have to hear from the right source.
What He had said, people could not understand, therefore Caitanya Mahaprabhu has appeared as a devotee in this world.
So Kṛṣṇa gives information in the Bhagavad-gītā, apareyam: \"These elements, even up to mind, intelligence, ego,\" bhinnā, \"they are My separated energy, separated energy.
And a small mṛdaṅga I gave to my youngest son—three rupees.
So I am requesting you that from India you take books and distribute, and in exchange, half the money you send us in powdered milk and ghee.
If you want to increase picture, you can take important words...
If an innocent child like Prahlāda Mahārāja, he can get so much mercy of Nṛsiṁhadeva, so fierceful appearance of the Lord that even Lakṣmī could not approach...
And as soon as the ground is moist, you can produce anything, whatever you want.
And because we are trying to do this, he is giving us all blessings.
and asura means tad-viparyaya, just the opposite.
We have to stop this change, and that is the mission of human life: no more cat, no more dog, no more demigod, but eternally servitor of Kṛṣṇa as cowherd boys and gopīs, or whatever you like.
and actually for the benefit of the human society.
But one thing is, when we are fighting this case, there's a lot of legal expense, because although we are fighting the atheists in the courtroom, the lawyers who are working for us, they are also atheists, but they are the best materially.
At the present moment, especially in the Western countries, it is not possible to follow very elaborate program.
And anywhere there is some connection with Caitanya Mahāprabhu, we shall try to develop on this principle.
Whatever it may be, if the law helps to kidnap, then what you can do?
From India, the more you go to the western side, you'll find all fools, rascals and misbehaved.
There was an underlying question of whether the magazine...
And as soon as they get English education, then...
So Prahlāda Mahārāja is mahā-bhāgavata, not ordinary devotee.
brainwash or brain-giving, that \"This movement is not brainwash; we are brain-giving.
You have to learn it from a person who is tattva-darśinaḥ, who has seen God.
No, everyone is not openly envious, everyone, but we can understand by behavior.
Otherwise how could we convince big, big scientists?
We are thinking that one of the cooks from New York...
They're simply creating some, you know, problems, making propaganda against our society.
But if things are going nicely, people will be happy.
son begotten by Lord Śiva in the womb of Pārvatī, he'll be able to conquer over the demons.
In our city project we are thinking that those laborers who would be devotees, mostly the laborer class, they won't like to live separate from their family.
So this has become a fashion, to equalize Nārāyaṇa with everyone.
They want to make one establishment so that they can eat and sleep.
You should always remember: don't manufacture ideas. As you do... No, no. It is all right, but don't dare like that....
So in the material world, kāma, krodha, lobha, moha, mada and mātsarya, these things are condemned.
So this is formal—hundred and third or fourth or first or second.
Our mission, we invite everyone, \"Come here, live comfortably, chant Hare Kṛṣṇa.\" Don't become sensuous, but live very nicely and serve Kṛṣṇa.
> yasya prasādād ajño'pi sarvajñatām vrajet. > śrīmat śrīla prabhupāda tasmai śrī gurave namaḥ
The dress is not important; the advancement of Kṛṣṇa consciousness is important.