Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Gosvāmī Prabhupāda's Appearance Day Lecture
So this is formal—hundred and third or fourth or first or second.
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So this is formal—hundred and third or fourth or first or second.
Bewildered, they do not understand that the real strength is spiritual strength.
Today, Varāha-dvādaśī, appearance of Kṛṣṇa's taking the incarnation of Varāha, boar.
The disciple, Abhaya Charan Dāsa, was to become His Divine Grace A.
So it appears contradictory, the Vedic injunction.
In India there is still that place, Kurukṣetra, and religious men go there especially on the occasion of solar eclipse.
This is Caitanya Mahāprabhu's mission, para-upakāra.
You cannot execute the yoga system, devotional service, bhakti-yoga, without being under the control of somebody who is under the control of Kṛṣṇa.
Prabhupāda: \" ...na śaucaṁ nāpi cācāro na satyaṁ teṣu vidyate [Bg. 16.7]\" Na śaucaṁ nāpi cācāro na satyaṁ teṣu vidyate. This is a verse from the Sixteenth Chapter of Bhagavad-gītā,Devotee:
The Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is trying to educate people about this science, how to go back to home, back to Godhead.
Everyone who will join this Kṛṣṇa Society movement, he is more than a brāhmaṇa.
Prabhupāda: [chants maṅgalācaraṇa prayers] \" ...mano-‘bhīṣṭaṁ sthāpitaṁ yena bhū-tale svayaṁ rūpaḥ kadā mahyaṁ dadāti sva-padāntikam\" [When will Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī Prabhupāda, who has established within this material world the mission to fulfill the desire of Lord Caitanya, give me shelter under his lotus feet?] \" vande ‘haṁ śrī-guroḥ śrī-yuta-pada-kamalaṁ śrī-gurūn vaiṣṇavāṁś ca[I offer my respectful obeisances unto the lotus feet of my spiritual master and unto the feet of all Vaiṣṇava…
So this Hiraṇyakaśipu wanted to become immortal, and he underwent penances, severe penances, so much so, the whole universe became trembled, so that Brahmā, Lord Brahmā, had to come to pacify him, \"What do you want?
Govinda, Kṛṣṇa, is the ādi-puruṣa, original Personality of Godhead.
This was my firm belief, and it was impossible for anyone to dislodge me from it.
I would not go, but their point of view was that unless I certified that sādhu, Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura, he'll not be accepted.
Actually, he has worked for it, although I have translated.
So, to understand Kṛṣṇa, simply if we read as a formality the Vedic literature, it will be very difficult to understand what is Kṛṣṇa, vedesu durlābhaṁ, although all the Vedas are meant for understanding Kṛṣṇa.
So wealth, strength, reputation, beauty and knowledge.
here are made of a very inferior metal, in fact in lead.
So Brahmā's days, even one day, the span of one day, it is very difficult to calculate.
So far his past activities that is excused during the time of initiation as soon as he chants—but one should not commit again.
So as you are passing through different types of bodies, similarly, when you give up this body you accept another body.
So Kṛṣṇa is Param Brahman, as you know from the Bhagavad-gītā.
Now your country, Kṛṣṇa has given so nice, you see, so nice flowers, and so nice Vaiṣṇavas.
When our eyes are anointed with love of God, we can see Him everywhere.
Feasting means purī and halavā and a vegetable and a chutney.
I am offering my most respectful and humble obeisances unto the lotus feet of my Guru Mahārāja who is most dear unto Lord Kṛṣṇa for he has taken complete shelter of the Lord's transcendental lotus feet.
So at that time, there was no sale of Back to Godhead.
So this human form of life is meant for spiritual realization.
Kalki avatāra will appear at the end of this age, Kali-yuga.
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All this eulogization about me, people, outsider, may think that \"This man is being flattered, and he is hearing his own eulogization.
Therefore in the Vedas it is said that the living entities are maintained by the Supreme Lord.
Nṛsiṁhadeva has appeared to convince the atheist that there is no God. This is a lying propaganda, that nobody has seen God.
So as it is stated in the Bhagavad-gītā that cātur-varṇyaṁ mayā sṛṣṭaṁ guṇa karma vibhāgaśaḥ...
They are not satisfied simply by his personal comfort.
But I took that order of my spiritual master very seriously, but I did not think that I'll have to do such-and-such thing.
So this Godbrother, His Holiness Keśava Mahārāja, is no more.
Practical experience: In my country, India, I was also a student of Gandhi.
Simply by following one principle of this devotional service, they got the highest perfectional life, liberation, back to home, back to Godhead.
So in the village of that Vṛndāvana, the father of Kṛṣṇa, foster father of Kṛṣṇa, Nanda Mahārāja and his associates, they were yearly performing the Indra-yajña.