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[ { "content": "\n This next question is rather interesting, Śrīla Prabhupāda. “Is it not possible for all kinds of spiritualists – be they Advaitans [advocates of oneness of the self with God], Dvaitans [advocates of total difference between the self and God], or Viṣiṣṭādvaitans [advocates of qualified oneness o...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/710806sb-london/
[ { "content": "\n[poor audio]\n It is all right? Working?", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "\n Yes. It's working.", "role": "user" }, { "content": "\n Where is spectacle? Yes. Chant.", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "\n Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/710622r1-moscow/
[ { "content": "", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "\nAudio has speed fluctuations throughout.", "role": "user" }, { "content": "\n Modern sociology is targeting the state or the people as the owner of a certain state, but our Vedic conception is īśāvāsyam idaṁ sarvaṁ [Īśo mantra 1]: \...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/701221l2-surat/
[ { "content": "", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "\n [introducing recording] The following lecture is recorded at the Sanātana-dharma Dharmshala, December 21th, 1970.", "role": "user" }, { "content": "\n [reciting prayers.] [Hindi]", "role": "assistant" } ]
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/690310sb-hawaii/
[ { "content": "\n When previously we discussed about this Prahlāda Mahārāja's prayers… Perhaps you may all remember. Anyway, Prahlāda Mahārāja, when Lord Nṛsiṁhadeva was appeared..., appearing very much angry, so nobody could go forward before Him to pacify Him. Therefore Lord Brahmā requested Prahlāda Mahārāja ...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/680813le-montreal/
[ { "content": "", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "\n [tests microphone chanting japa]\n[break] Up is on, down is off.", "role": "user" }, { "content": "\n Up, on.", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "\nUp is on, down is off.", "role": "user" }, { "content": ...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/670205cc-san-francisco/
[ { "content": "\n ...accustomed to follow the Vedic principles. Just like in Christian religion, those who do not follow the Bible, they are called heathens. Similarly, in Muslim, those who do not follow the Koran, they are called kafirs. Similarly, those who do not follow the Vedic principles, they are called n...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/700427ip-los-angeles/
[ { "content": "", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "\n It's on page twelve. It's almost in the middle, the second paragraph.\n\"The universe has its own time, fixed by the energy of the Complete Whole, and when that time is complete, this temporary manifestation will be annihilated by the complete...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/661208cc-new-york/
[ { "content": "\n\ndāridrya-nāśa, bhava-kṣaya—premera 'phala' naya\nprema-sukha-bhoga-mukhya prayojana haya\n[Cc Madhya 20.142]\n[The goal of love of Godhead is not to become materially rich or free from material bondage. The real goal is to be situated in devotional service to the Lord and to enjoy transcendent...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/690325in-hawaii/
[ { "content": "\n So now you come here. You have given... There is no āsana, sitting? Give him one piece of... So I shall perform this initiation ceremony. If you kindly sit, you can see. [break]\nI am traveling everywhere. Next I am going to San Francisco. But my disciples, they will stay here. This Gaurasundar...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/710630r1-los-angeles/
[ { "content": "\nOh, so what other news?", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "\n I have just brought you some Mango.", "role": "user" }, { "content": "\nOhhh, Hawaii Mango?", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "\n Yes. This is nice kind.", "role": "user" }, { "c...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/690409sb-new-york/
[ { "content": "\n[chants maṅgalācaraṇa prayers]\noṁ ajñāna-timirāndhasya\njñānāñjana-śalākayā\ncakṣur unmīlitaṁ yena\ntasmai śrī-gurave namaḥ\n[I offer my respectful obeisances unto my spiritual master, who with the torchlight of knowledge has opened my eyes, which were blinded by the darkness of ignorance.]\nśr...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/690413sb-new-york/
[ { "content": "\n Begin. [kīrtana]\nvande 'haṁ śrī-guroḥ śrī-yuta-pada-kamalaṁ śrī-gurūn vaiṣṇavāṁś ca\nśrī-rūpaṁ sāgrajātaṁ saha-gaṇa-raghunāthānvitaṁ taṁ sa-jīvam\nsādvaitaṁ sāvadhūtaṁ parijana-sahitaṁ kṛṣṇa-caitanya-devaṁ\nśrī-rādhā-kṛṣṇa-pādān saha-gaṇa-lalitā-śrī-viśākhānvitāṁś ca\n[I offer my respectful ob...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/680313tasf/
[ { "content": "\n What is this maker, the trademark?", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "\n Concord.", "role": "user" }, { "content": "\n Concord, yes. Concord is famous tape record company.\n[tapping microphone] It is all right?", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "\n Oh...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/680729in-montreal/
[ { "content": "\n Two brahmacārīs will be initiated in Kṛṣṇa consciousness. You can come forward. Yes.\n[break] ...means the beginning, and the beginning of Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Because at the present moment we are merged into non–Kṛṣṇa consciousness...\n[aside:] Oh, this sound, down. No, in this.", "role": ...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/680317bgsf/
[ { "content": "\n[kīrtana] [prema-dhvani] Thank you very much. [devotees offer obeisances]\n[05:51]\nmayy āsakta-manāḥ pārtha\nyogaṁ yuñjan mad-āśrayaḥ\nasaṁśayaṁ samagraṁ māṁ\nyathā jñāsyasi tac chṛṇu\n[Bg. 7.1]\n[Now hear, O son of Pṛthā [Arjuna], how by practicing yoga in full consciousness of Me, with mind a...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/710802sb-new-york/
[ { "content": "\n [aside] So you require some fans. They are, the devotees, they are very inconvenienced. So you're… From next time you just arrange for some fans. Whatever facility you have got, you can use them for Kṛṣṇa’s sake. Nirbandhe kṛṣṇa-sambandhe yukta-vairāgyam ucyate [Brs 1.2.255]. Dry renouncement i...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/710804r1-london/
[ { "content": "", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "\n [introducing recording] Discussion between His Divine Grace and Apa Pante, A-P-A-P-A-N-T-E, High Commissioner for United Kingdom, 4th August, 1971, noon. The recording is not very clear, being copied from a cassette tape recorder. Please make ...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/660720bg-new-york/
[ { "content": "\n\njanma karma [ca] me divyam\n[evaṁ] yo vetti tattvataḥ\ntyaktvā dehaṁ punar janma\nnaiti mām eti kaunteya\n[Bg 4.9]\n[One who knows the transcendental nature of My appearance and activities does not, upon leaving the body, take his birth again in this material world, but attains My eternal abod...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/681108bs-los-angeles/
[ { "content": "\n [leads kīrtana] [prema-dhvani] Thank you very much. [devotees offer obeisances]\n[16:43]\n[sings:] Govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi.\n[aside: Yes, open.]\nGovindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi.\nPrabhupāda: [\nsings verse:]\ncintāmaṇi-prakara-sadmasu kalpa-vṛkṣa-\nlakṣāvṛteṣu surabhīr abhi...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/680815in-montreal/
[ { "content": "\n[Yamunā starts kīrtana with \"Hare Kṛṣṇa.\"\n Vandanam. Vandanam. Vandanam.", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "\n What?", "role": "user" }, { "content": "\n Vandanam Prayer?", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "\n [indistinct]", "role": "user" }, ...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/680521in-boston/
[ { "content": "\nPrabhupāda\n: This verse is, namaḥ: “I offer my respectful…”Namaḥ means “I offer my respectful obeisances.”Apavitraḥ means “uncleanliness,” and pavitra means “cleanliness.” So either one is in cleanliness or uncleanliness, it doesn’t matter. Yaḥ, anyone who chants or remembers puṇḍarīkākṣaṁ... \...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/660824bg-new-york/
[ { "content": "\n [kīrtana] [prema-dhvani] Gaura-Premanandi. Hari Haribol. Thank you very much... [break]\n[41:08]\njñeyaḥ sa nitya-sannyāsī\nyo na dveṣṭi na kāṅkṣati\nnirdvandvo hi mahā-bāho\nsukhaṁ bandhāt pramucyate\n[Bg 5.3]\n[One who neither hates nor desires the fruits of his activities is known to be alwa...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/701110sb-bombay/
[ { "content": "\n [sings solo]\nhare kṛṣṇa hare kṛṣṇa\nkṛṣṇa kṛṣṇa hare hare\nhare rāma hare rāma\nrāma rāma hare hare\nśrī-kṛṣṇa-caitanya\nprabhu-nityānanda\nśrī-advaita gadādhara\nśrīvāsādi-gaura-bhakta-vṛnda\nsaṁsāra-dāvānala-līḍha-loka-\ntrāṇāya kāruṇya-ghanāghanatvam\nprāptasya kalyāṇa-guṇārṇavasya\nvande g...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/681228in-los-angeles/
[ { "content": "\nNew students they are going to be initiated today. But one thing you should know that people may not think that we are concerned with something old-fashioned. When the world is progressing to reach the moon planet we are chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa. The people may not misunderstand that we are lagging b...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/710410le-bombay/
[ { "content": "\n\nom ajñāna-timirāndhasya jñānāñjana-śalākayā\ncakṣur unmīlitaṁ yena tasmai śrī-gurave-namaḥ\n[\"I offer my respectful obeisances unto my spiritual master, who with the torchlight of knowledge has opened my eyes, which were blinded by the darkness of ignorance.\"]\nśrī-caitanya-mano-'bhīṣṭaṁ sth...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/710908sb-london/
[ { "content": "", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "\n[introducing recording] London lecture number 15, evening, September 8th, 1971, London temple. [break]", "role": "user" }, { "content": "\n ...Prahlāda Mahārāja, at the age of five years only, he was a great devotee. Prahlāda Mahārā...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/681030ip-los-angeles/
[ { "content": "\n[Distorted audio]\n Hare Kṛṣṇa [leads devotees in chanting]\n[leads devotees in chanting mantras 1–15]\noṁ pūrṇam adaḥ pūrṇam idaṁ\npūrṇāt pūrṇam udacyate\npūrṇasya pūrṇam ādāya\npūrṇam evāvaśiṣyate\n[Īśo, Invocation]\n[The Personality of Godhead is perfect and complete, and because He is comple...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/710731bs-new-york/
[ { "content": "\n Govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi **.\neko 'py asau racayituṁ jagad-aṇḍa-koṭiṁ\nyac-chaktir asti jagad-aṇḍa-cayā yad-antaḥ\naṇḍāntara-stha-paramāṇu-cayāntara-sthaṁ\ngovindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi\n[Bs. 5.35]\nEko 'py asau, that Govinda, by His one expansion of plenary portion, eko 'p...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/710919le-nairobi/
[ { "content": "\nPrabhupāda\n:\n...līḍha-loka-\ntrāṇāya kāruṇya-ghanāghanatvam\nprāptasya kalyāṇa-guṇārṇavasya\nvande guroḥ śrī-caraṇāravindam\n[Śrī Śrī Gurv-aṣṭaka 1]\nJust now we have sung this song, saṁsāra-dāvānala-līḍha-loka. There was little controversy whether I shall speak in English or Hindi. Of course,...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/680620sb-montreal/
[ { "content": "\n[kīrtana] [prema-dhvani] Thank you very much. [devotees offer obeisances]\n[22:58]\noṁ ajñāna-timirāndhasya\njñānāñjana-śalākayā\ncakṣur-unmīlitaṁ yena\ntasmai śri-gurave namaḥ\n[I offer my respectful obeisances unto my spiritual master who, with the torchlight of knowledge, has opened my eyes, ...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/701225sb-surat/
[ { "content": "\nYou can open that door. You are feeling cold by opening the door?\nHaṁsadūta\n:\n No. No, I'm fine.\n Hmm. Naturally it is cold, you can close that door. [break]\nsambhavanti hi bhadrāṇi\nviparītāni cānaghāḥ\nkāriṇāṁ guṇa-saṅgo 'sti\ndehavān na hy akarma-kṛt\n[SB 6.1.44]\nDehavān. Dehavān means ...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/700503ip-los-angeles/
[ { "content": "\n Govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi **. Ādi-puruṣam, the original Personality of Godhead. So when we speak of Govinda, Govinda is not alone. Just like when we speak of a king, it is to be understood that king is not alone. He has got many other followers, secretaries, ministers, soldiers—whol...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/680506r1-boston/
[ { "content": "\n When the result of the karma is offered to God, then it is karma-yoga.", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "\n Swāmījī? Can I make an announcement? Swāmījī has said there are fifty important pilgrimage cities in India, but as far as we're concerned here, it's whatever city His Div...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/680913bs-san-francisco/
[ { "content": "\n[singing]\ncintāmaṇi-prakara-sadmasu kalpa-vṛkṣa-\nlakṣāvṛteṣu surabhīr abhipālayantam\nlakṣmī-sahasra-śata-sambhrama-sevyamānaṁ\ngovindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi\n[Bs. 5.29]\n[I worship Govinda, the primeval Lord, the first progenitor who is tending the cows, yielding all desire, in abodes...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/700504ip-los-angeles/
[ { "content": "", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "\n \"In the Bhagavad-gītā the Lord directly states that He accepts the vegetable foodstuffs from the hands of a pure devotee. Therefore, a human being should not only become a strict vegetarian, but he should also become a devotee of the Lord and...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/690113bg-los-angeles/
[ { "content": "\n[\nprema-dhvani prayers led by devotee] [break]\n[01:43]\nPage? Go on.\nMadhudviṣa\n:\n [reading] Chapter Four, \"Transcendental Knowledge.\" Verse twenty-six. \"Some of them sacrifice the hearing process and the senses in the fire of the controlled mind, and others sacrifice the objects of the ...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/680924iv-seattle/
[ { "content": "\n[Recorded interview playing; Prabhupāda and devotees are listening]\n ...Personality of Godhead, who stops our struggle for existence and raises to the platform of eternal life, bliss and knowledge. To be more clear, everyone is trying to get eternal life. The whole human society is trying to ge...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/710214sb-gorakphur/
[ { "content": "\nHansadutta\n: [indistinct]\n\nsvayambhūr nāradaḥ śambhuḥ\nkumāraḥ kapilo manuḥ\nprahlādo janako bhīṣmo\nbalir vaiyāsakir vayam\n[SB 6.3.20]\nThe twelve mahājanas, authorities, we have discussed yesterday morning.\ndvādaśaite vijānīmo\ndharmaṁ bhāgavataṁ bhaṭāḥ\nguhyaṁ viśuddhaṁ durbodhaṁ\nyaṁ jñ...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/710720r1-new-york/
[ { "content": "", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "\n And here is the... I found the tape, [indistinct] ask you to put it on.", "role": "user" }, { "content": "\n [indistinct] has come?", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "\n Yes, [indistinct] has come. Here is the foot ...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/701224sb-surat/
[ { "content": "", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "\n The following lecture was recorded on the morning of December 24th, 1970, in Surat, India.[break]", "role": "user" }, { "content": "\n\nsūryo 'gniḥ khaṁ marud devaḥ\nsomaḥ sandhyāhanī diśaḥ\nkaṁ kuḥ svayaṁ dharma iti\nhy ete daihya...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/cat/7/
[ { "content": "\n May I ask another question, Śrīla Prabhupāda? “Is a guru essential for one to enter the spiritual path and attain the goal, and how does one recognize one’s guru?”\n Yes, a guru is necessary. In the Bhagavad-gītā, when Kṛṣṇa and Arjuna were talking as friends, there was no conclusion. So Arjuna...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/690429le-boston/
[ { "content": "\n\noṁ ajñāna-timirāndhasya\njñānāñjana-śalākayā\ncakṣur-unmīlitaṁ yena\ntasmai śrī-gurave namaḥ\n[Gautamīya-tantra]\n\"I offer my respectful obeisances unto the lotus feet of my spiritual master, who has opened my eyes of ignorance with the torch of knowledge.\"\nMy dear boys and girls, I thank y...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/681014bg-seattle/
[ { "content": "", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "\n \"He who thinks that the living entity is the slayer or that the entity is slain does not understand. One who is in knowledge knows that the self slays not nor is slain.\" [Bg. 2.19]\n[He who thinks that the living entity is the slayer or that...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/680320mw-san-francisco/
[ { "content": "\n The symptoms of Kali-yuga have already begun, five thousand years past. And it will increase.\n[break] ...proud of advancing, but these things are important items of human civilization. They are decreasing. [break]", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "\n ...world now where people,...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/690429r1-boston/
[ { "content": "\n[devotees chanting japa in background throughout]", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "\n It's not in good order, Swāmījī.", "role": "user" }, { "content": "\n Eh?", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "\n It's not in good order.", "role": "user" }, ...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/690305le-hawaii/
[ { "content": "\n [sings:]\n...pada-kamalaṁ śrī-gurūn vaiṣṇavāṁś ca\nśrī-rūpaṁ sāgrajātaṁ saha-gaṇa-raghunāthānvitaṁ taṁ sa-jīvam\nsādvaitaṁ sāvadhūtaṁ parijana-sahitaṁ kṛṣṇa-caitanya-devaṁ\nśrī-rādhā-kṛṣṇa-pādān saha-gaṇa-lalitā-śrī-viśākhānvitāṁś ca\n[I offer my respectful obeisances unto the lotus feet of my ...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/710727sb-new-york/
[ { "content": "\n So we have been discussing this verse for the last two days. Tyāgena. Partially I have already explained tyāga, renounce. There is some natural tendency also for renouncing. When one gets to the topmost of material opulence, immediately there is a tendency for renunciation. This hippie movement...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/710819sb-london/
[ { "content": "\n[Noisy]", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "\n ...vāsudevāya. [Prabhupāda and devotees repeat] [leads chanting of verse, etc.]\nnigama-kalpa-taror galitaṁ phalaṁ\nśuka-mukhād amṛta-drava-saṁyutam\npibata bhāgavataṁ rasam ālayam\nmuhur aho rasikā bhuvi bhāvukāḥ\n[SB 1.1.3]", "r...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/710811bs-london/
[ { "content": "\n [aside:] I have to speak something?\nSo we are worshiping Rādhā-Mādhava, the lover, or enjoyer, of Rādhārāṇī.\n[break] Govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi **.\nānanda-cinmaya-rasa-pratibhāvitābhis\ntābhir ya eva nija-rūpatayā kalābhiḥ\ngoloka eva nivasaty akhilātma-bhūto\ngovindam ādi-puruṣaṁ...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/690507le-boston/
[ { "content": "\n[kīrtana] [prema-dhvani] All glories to the assembled devotees. All glories to the assembled devotees. Thank you very much.\n[11:28]\n I shall speak or you shall speak? I shall speak?", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "\n I shall speak?", "role": "user" }, { "content"...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/pqpa/6/
[ { "content": "\n Śrīla Prabhupāda, earlier today we were discussing the need to practice austerity in Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Can you say something more about that?\n Yes, under the direction of the spiritual master one should practice austerities. You have no mind to follow austerities, but when you accept a spir...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/690411r1-new-york/
[ { "content": "\n[Audio level low until 1:18]\n Oh, Mr. Murti, I'm very glad to see you. Come here in front. How do you like this movement? Huh?", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "\n [indistinct]", "role": "user" }, { "content": "\n Thank you. [chuckling] So, any particular question?"...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/701214r1-indore/
[ { "content": "\n Utsāhan, dhairyāt. Are you realizing the distinction between this association and others?", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "\n Yes.", "role": "user" }, { "content": "\n Yes. That you should realize. That is realization. We are trying to create a real spiritual path,...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/701222sb-surat/
[ { "content": "\nSo those who attend lecture will kindly sit down. Speaking in English for the majority.", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "\n[aside, introducing recording:] The following lecture was recorded on the morning of the 22nd December, 1971..., 1970, Surat, India. [break]", "role": ...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/681113le-los-angeles/
[ { "content": "\n ...especially introduced by the disciplic succession of Lord Caitanya, and this Narottama dāsa Ṭhākura, who has sung this hari hari biphale janama goṅāinu, he's a famous ācārya. His compositions are accepted as Vedic truth. So this purport of this song is very nice. He's lamenting, appealing to...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/680327mw-san-francisco/
[ { "content": "\n Chant.", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "\n[sings:] Śrīvāsādi-gaura-bhakta-vṛnda.", "role": "user" }, { "content": "\n Yes. You learn this song.\nśrī-kṛṣṇa-caitanya\nprabhu nityānanda\nśrī-advaita gadādhara\nśrīvāsādi-gaura-bhakta-vṛnda\nChant this when [indistinct]...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/691001in-london/
[ { "content": "", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "\n[background] Śrī Guru, Kṛṣṇa.", "role": "user" }, { "content": "\nFirst of all who are to be initiated? Yes, sit down.", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "\nHe wants to be initiated.", "role": "user" }, { ...
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[ { "content": "\n I’ve asked devotees about how they feel toward sex in their relations, and I see the way they feel, but I can’t see myself acting the same way. See, I’ll be getting married at the end of this summer.\n Hmm?", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "\n I’ll be getting married at the end...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/690319sb-hawaii/
[ { "content": "\n [sings:]\nbrahmādayaḥ sura-gaṇā munayo ’tha siddhāḥ\nsattvaikatāna-gatayo vacasāṁ pravāhaiḥ\nnārādhituṁ puru-guṇair adhunāpi pipruḥ\nkiṁ toṣṭum arhati sa me harir ugra-jāteḥ\n[SB 7.9.8]\n[Prahlāda Mahārāja prayed: How is it possible for me, who have been born in a family of asuras, to offer sui...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/690524sb-new-vrindavan/
[ { "content": "\n [indistinct] ...you have no tilaka.", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "\n Oh. Sorry, Prabhupāda.", "role": "user" }, { "content": "\n\nom ajñāna-timirāndhasya jñānāñjana-śalākayā\ncakṣur unmīlitaṁ yena tasmai śrī-gurave-namaḥ\n[I offer my respectful obeisances unto m...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/710211l2-gorakphur/
[ { "content": "", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "\n[introducing recording] [indistinct] kīrtana evening the 11th, February 1971, [indistinct] Śrī Kṛṣṇa-niketana.\n[Gurvaṣṭakam] [break]\n[01:16]", "role": "user" }, { "content": "\n [Hindi]", "role": "assistant" } ]
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/690430r1-boston/
[ { "content": "\n These four things, namely birth, death, old age and disease, will accompany you. Therefore in the Bhagavad-gītā it is said that mad-dhāma gatvā punar janma na vidyate [Bg 8.16]\n[From the highest planet in the material world down to the lowest, all are places of misery wherein repeated birth an...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/680318sbsf/
[ { "content": "\n\ntataś cānu-dinaṁ dharmaḥ\nsatyaṁ śaucaṁ kṣamā dayā\nkālena balinā rājan\nnaṅkṣyaty āyur balaṁ smṛtiḥ\n[SB 12.2.1]\n[Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: Then, O King, religion, truthfulness, cleanliness, tolerance, mercy, duration of life, physical strength and memory will all diminish day by day because of...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/710705in-los-angeles/
[ { "content": "\n So your spiritual name is Rāma-rañjana. Rāma-rañjana. Rāma... One who pleases Lord Rāma, Rāma-rañjana. So by your activities you have to please Lord Rāmacandra.", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "\n[indistinct]", "role": "user" }, { "content": "\n Yes. What was the b...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/710203r1-gorakphur/
[ { "content": "\nRatha-yātrā. [Hindi]", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "\n[Hindi]", "role": "user" }, { "content": "\nHe is a gṛhastha. [Hindi] also sannyāsī.. [Hindi] Gṛhastha..\nkibā vipra, kibā nyāsī, śūdra kene naya\nyei kṛṣṇa-tattva-vettā, sei 'guru' haya\n[Cc Madhya 8.128]", ...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/690622le-new-vrindavan/
[ { "content": "\n Caitanya Mahāprabhu has said that this kṛṣṇa-saṅkīrtana—Hare Kṛṣṇa, Hare Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa, Hare Hare/ Hare Rāma, Hare Rāma, Rāma Rāma, Hare Hare—paraṁ vijayate: \"All glories.\" Paraṁ vijayate śrī-kṛṣṇa-saṅkīrtanam. Ānandāmbudhi-vardhanam. Because the śrī-kṛṣṇa-saṅkīrtana will increase the oc...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/690505le-boston/
[ { "content": "\n ...come to the light of the sun, immediately you get out of your room and get, immediately. Similarly, although God is far, far away, He is everywhere at the same time. That is God's nature. Simply we have to agree that \"Now I shall realize...\"\n[break] ...without any difficulty, very easily....
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/660817bg-new-york/
[ { "content": "\n\nyathaidhāṁsi samiddho 'gnir\nbhasmasāt kurute 'rjuna\njñānāgniḥ sarva-karmāṇi\nbhasmasāt kurute tathā\n[Bg 4.37]\n[As the blazing fire turns firewood to ashes, O Arjuna, so does the fire of knowledge burn to ashes all reactions to material activities.]\nYathā, \"as,\" as an edhāṁsi. Edhāṁsi me...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/680817sb-montreal/
[ { "content": "\nGovindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi. [devotees chant responsively]\n\nnaivātmanaḥ prabhur ayaṁ nija-lābha-pūrṇo\nmānaṁ janād aviduṣaḥ karuṇo vṛṇīte\nyad yaj jano bhagavate vidadhīta mānaṁ\ntac cātmane prati-mukhasya yathā mukha-śrīḥ\n[SB 7.9.11]\n[The Supreme Lord, the Supreme Personality of G...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/710728bs-new-york/
[ { "content": "\n Govindam ādi-puruṣam tam ahaṁ bhajāmi **. We are worshiping the original person, ādi-puruṣam. Original person... As we are all persons, our origin also a person. We should always understand this. Ādi-puruṣam. The same example: unless my forefather was a person, how his son, his son, his son, hi...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/690122bg-los-angeles/
[ { "content": "\n[radio interference]\n “Arjuna said: O Kṛṣṇa, first of all You ask me to renounce work, and then again You recommend work with devotion. Now will You kindly tell me definitely which of the two is more beneficial?”\nRenouncement does not mean voidness. Renouncement is only the negative side. When...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/680709sb-montreal/
[ { "content": "\n [leads singing of Govindam]\ngovindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi\ngovindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi\ngovindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi\nThank you.\nSo Prahlāda Mahārāja has decided that any material qualification is not, I mean to say, the prerogative or any preferential admission or ...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/701218le-surat/
[ { "content": "\n [reciting prayers.]", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "\n [introducing recording] The following lecture [indistinct] Sanātana-dharma Dharmshala at December 18th, 1970, by His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Goswami Prabhupāda.", "role": "user" }, { "content": "\n [r...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/701223sb-surat/
[ { "content": "", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "\nThe following lecture was recorded on the morning of the 23rd, 1970, in Surat, India. [break]", "role": "user" }, { "content": "\n ...means Vedic injunction, and Vedic injunction means directly the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Th...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/710923r1-nairobi/
[ { "content": "", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "\n [introducing recording] Evening, September 23rd, continuation of questions by African intelligentsia.", "role": "user" }, { "content": "\n ...yesterday? Hmm?", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "\n[to guest] ...yester...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/661229cc-new-york/
[ { "content": "\n\nbhāgavatārambhe vyāsa maṅgalācaraṇe\n'parameśvara' nirūpila ei dui lakṣaṇe\n[Cc Madhya 20.358]\n[In the auspicious invocation at the beginning of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, Śrīla Vyāsadeva has described the Supreme Personality of Godhead by these symptoms.]\nWe have been discussing about the symptoms,...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/710716le-detroit/
[ { "content": "\n [prema-dhvani] [devotees offer obeisances]\nWhy not open these windows? It is very hot.", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "\n Open the window.", "role": "user" }, { "content": "\n Yes. Is there any small table? You have got it? No. No, no. Yes. The window doors are o...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/660722bg-new-york/
[ { "content": "\n\nye yathā māṁ prapadyante\ntāṁs tathaiva bhajāmy aham\nmama vartmānuvartante\nmanuṣyāḥ pārtha sarvaśaḥ\n[Bg 4.11]\n[All of them—as they surrender unto Me—I reward accordingly. Everyone follows My path in all respects, O son of Pṛthā.]\nLord Kṛṣṇa says that \"Every man is following My path, indi...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/680315sbsf/
[ { "content": "\n Yamunā?", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "\n Swāmījī?", "role": "user" }, { "content": "\n It is not working, I think.\n[break]\n...ajñāna-timirāndhasya\njñānāñjana-śalākayā\ncakṣur-unmīlitaṁ yena\ntasmai śrī-gurave namaḥ\n[I offer my respectful obeisances unto my s...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/710903sb-london/
[ { "content": "\n Parābhavas tāvad abodha-jātaḥ.", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "\n\nparābhavas tāvad abodha-jāto\nyāvan na jijñāsata ātma-tattvam\nyāvat kriyās tāvad idaṁ mano vai\nkarmātmakaṁ yena śarīra-bandhaḥ\n[SB 5.5.5]", "role": "user" }, { "content": "\n Hmm. This great sci...
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[ { "content": "\n This movement is especially meant to enable a human being to reach the real goal of life.", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "\n Is the real goal of life to know God?", "role": "user" }, { "content": "\n Yes. To go back home, back to Godhead. That is the real goal of ...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/670405lc-san-francisco/
[ { "content": "\n ...recording?", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "\n It's good.", "role": "user" }, { "content": "\n The first scene is that people passing on with saṅkīrtana movement as we have, as we usually do, very nice procession with mṛdaṅga, karatāla and that bugle, all people...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/710816sb-london/
[ { "content": "\n [Sings Jaya Rādhā-Mādhava] [prema-dhvani] Thank you very much.", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "\nAll glories to Śrī Guru and Gauranga. [devotees offer obeisances]", "role": "user" }, { "content": "\nGet some books, more books. Incense. Burn more incense. [indistin...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/701217sb-surat/
[ { "content": "\n\nke yūyaṁ pratiṣeddhāro\ndharma-rājasya śāsanam\nūcur niṣedhitās tāṁs te\nvaisvasvata-puraḥ saraḥ\n[SB 6.1.32]\nSo the constables of Yamarāja inquired from the Vaikuṇṭhadūta, the messengers of Vaikuṇṭha, that yūyaṁ pratiṣeddhāraḥ: \"Why you are interrupting in our business?\" Pratiṣeddhāraḥ. Pr...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/710722in-new-york/
[ { "content": "", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "\n [indistinct]", "role": "user" }, { "content": "\nCome on.", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "\n One at a time.", "role": "user" }, { "content": "\nOne at a time. [japa] Hmm. [indistinct]", "role": "a...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/710217l2-gorakphur/
[ { "content": "\n ...humbler than the grass and tolerant more than the tree. Tṛṇād api sunīcena taror api sahiṣṇunā, amāninā mānadena [Cc. Ādi 17.31]. We have to give all respect to everyone. Even one has no respect, he should be also offered respect. In this attitude one can make advancement by chanting this Ha...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/681127bg-los-angeles/
[ { "content": "\n [kīrtana] [prema-dhvani] Thank you very much. [devotees offer obeisances]\n[16:58]\nRead. Hare Kṛṣṇa.", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "\nSecond Chapter?", "role": "user" }, { "content": "\nYes, Second.", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "\n Start at ...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/680612sb-montreal/
[ { "content": "\n\n...sādvaitaṁ sāvadhūtaṁ parijana-sahitaṁ kṛṣṇa-caitanya-devaṁ\nśrī-rādhā-kṛṣṇa-pādān saha-gaṇa-lalitā-śrī-viśākhānvitāṁś ca\nhare kṛṣṇa hare kṛṣṇa kṛṣṇa kṛṣṇa hare hare\nhare rāma hare rāma rāma rāma hare hare\n[My dear Lord, and the spiritual energy of the Lord, kindly engage me in Your servi...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/660803bg-new-york/
[ { "content": "\n All blessings to the assembled devotees. Thank you very much.\nSo this is the process of ceto-darpaṇa-mārjanam [Cc Antya 20.12], to cleanse the material dust from the mirror of our mind.\n[Let there be all victory for the chanting of the holy name of Lord Kṛṣṇa, which can cleanse the mirror of ...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/681114le-los-angeles/
[ { "content": "\n So what are these twenty-four elements? Can anyone say? If somebody asks you, \"What are these twenty-four elements?\"\nYes? Go on, tell.", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "\n I think I am only giving the gross ones: earth, air, fire, water, ether and [indistinct], mind, intelli...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/661228bg-new-york/
[ { "content": "\n Śrī-bhagavān uvāca, the Supreme Personality of Godhead said. Bhagavān, this very word, is very significant. You should try to understand what does it mean, bhaga. Bhaga means opulence, and bhagavān means one who has got opulences. The Sanskrit grammar, there is a affix called vat. Vat means pos...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/710130sb-prayaga/
[ { "content": "", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "\n [introducing recording] ... Kṛṣṇa. Prabhupāda's morning lecture on the 30th of January 1971, Māgha-melā.\n[kīrtana] [break]", "role": "user" }, { "content": "\n [sings Śrī Śrī Ṣaḍ-gosvāmy-aṣṭaka; devotees sing responsively]\nvande ...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/710803sb-london/
[ { "content": "\n\nkecit kevalayā bhaktyā\nvāsudeva-parāyaṇaḥ\naghaṁ dhunvanti kārtsnyena\nnīhāram iva bhāskarā\n[SB 6.1.15]\nThis is a discussion between Śukadeva Gosvāmī and Mahārāja Parīkṣit. The question was that \"Why people are suffering in different types of hellish condition of life, and how they can be ...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/660401bg-new-york/
[ { "content": "\n [leads kīrtana] [prema-dhvani]. All glories to the assembled devotees. All glories to the assembled devotees.\n[21:48]\nNow, spiritual consciousness, and to continue it. Simple theoretical knowledge that \"I am consciousness; I am not this body,\" anything simple theoretical knowledge cannot he...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/710130l4-allahabad/
[ { "content": "", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "\n [indistinct] on the evening on the 30th of January 1971.", "role": "user" }, { "content": "\n [Hindi]", "role": "assistant" } ]
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/710925bg-nairobi/
[ { "content": "", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "\n [introducing recording] Lecture, evening 25th September, in Nairobi.", "role": "user" }, { "content": "\n\n...rīraṁ kaunteya\nkṣetram ity abhidhīyate\netad yo vetti taṁ prāhuḥ\nkṣetra-jña iti tad-vidaḥ\n[Bg. 13.2]\nThe Supreme Pers...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/690109bg-los-angeles/
[ { "content": "\n Page? Hmm? Who will read?\nYou'll read? Yes. Which page?", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "\n One-hundred-twenty-three, text number 19.\n \"Transcendental Knowledge.\" Text number nineteen. \"One is understood to be in full knowledge whose every act is devoid of desire for sens...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/681211bg-los-angeles/
[ { "content": "\n Tamāla? Where is a Tamāla?", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "\n [indistinct] He's taking [indistinct].", "role": "user" }, { "content": "\n Oh, I see. And what happened to the case?", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "\n Their bondsman? The case?", ...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/680814sb-montreal/
[ { "content": "\n[Poor audio]\n[chants Govindam prayers, with devotees responding]\ncintāmaṇi-prakara-sadmasu kalpa-vṛkṣa-\nlakṣāvṛteṣu surabhīr abhipālayantam\nlakṣmī-sahasra-śata-sambhrama-sevyamānaṁ\ngovindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi\n[Bs. 5.29]\n[I worship Govinda, the primeval Lord, the first progenitor...