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https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/691130le-london/
[ { "content": "\n\noṁ ajñāna-timirāndhasya jñānāñjana-śalākayācakṣur\nunmīlitaṁ 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 sthāpita...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/710702r1-los-angeles/
[ { "content": "\nThe fighting must be there, but that does not mean separation. I fought with my wife all along, yes, but there is no question of separation. I have…, I have since made provision for my wife. [indistinct] So one must be responsible. Marriage is not a joke.", "role": "assistant" }, { "...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/701227le-surat/
[ { "content": "\n [prema-dhvani]\nAll glories to the assembled devotees. All glories to the assembled devotees. All glories to the assembled devotees. Thank you very much.\n[00:55]\n[break] ...prakṛti saṁskāra, five sense organs. Karma-indriya, jñāna-indriya—five senses for acquiring knowledge and five senses fo...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/690611sb-new-vrindavan/
[ { "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 sthāpit...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/660810bg-new-york/
[ { "content": "\n\nbrahmārpaṇaṁ brahma havir\nbrahmāgnau brahmaṇā hutam\nbrahmaiva tena gantavyaṁ\nbrahma-karma-samādhinā\n[Bg 4.24]\n[A person who is fully absorbed in Kṛṣṇa consciousness is sure to attain the spiritual kingdom because of his full contribution to spiritual activities, in which the consummation ...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/711212r1-delhi/
[ { "content": "\n Hear and narrate. So, whatever you have heard, you can speak.\n[break] So in your country also they do not like this organized Christian religion. The difficulty is that either Hindu religion or Christian religion, religion is one. So what is that one religion nobody knows perfectly, and it was...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/pqpa/4/
[ { "content": "\n I have read that in life there are three guṇas – passion, ignorance, and goodness. I was wishing that you would explain this somewhat, especially what is meant by the mode of ignorance and the mode of goodness.\n In goodness you can understand things – knowledge. You can know that there is God,...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/670111bg-new-york/
[ { "content": "\n ...iti matvā bhajante māṁ budhā bhāva-samanvitāḥ [Bg. 10.8]:\n[I am the source of all spiritual and material worlds. Everything emanates from Me. The wise who know this perfectly engage in My devotional service and worship Me with all their hearts.]\n\"I am the origin of everything.\" Everythin...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/680825cm-montreal/
[ { "content": "\n[Poor audio]\n All these universes, all these planets, all the suns and moons, the sky and everything, they have come from the original source, the Absolute Truth. Now, in the material world we have got so many contradictions, but that contradiction is there also in the Absolute Truth. Just like...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/710827sb-london/
[ { "content": "\n [leads singing of Brahma-saṁhitā 5.29–33]\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 cow...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/710215b2-gorakphur/
[ { "content": "", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "\n[Hindi].\n[08:28]", "role": "user" }, { "content": "\n [Hindi] So you can speak something in English... And some of the messages... And, first of all you speak something.", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "\n[Chants ...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/690120sb-los-angeles/
[ { "content": "\n[kīrtana] [Prabhupāda plays gong] [prema-dhvani] All glories to the assembled devotees. All glories to the assembled devotees. Thank you very much.\n [aside:] Where is that table light? Table light?\n[chants maṅgalācaraṇa prayers]\noṁ ajñāna-timirāndhasya jñānāñjana-śalākayā\ncakṣur unmīlitaṁ ye...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/710324cc-bombay/
[ { "content": "", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "\n The following lecture was recorded in the evening, 24th March, 1971, at Akash Ganga, Bombay.", "role": "user" }, { "content": "\n\n...na sāṅkhyaṁ dharma uddhava\nna svādhyāyas tapas tyāgo\nyathā bhaktir mamorjitā\n[Cc Ādi 17.76]\nW...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/711204r1-delhi/
[ { "content": "\n These, they do not leave the control. They sell things, and they catch some leaders, they take loan from them, and they take it, and eighty percent for themselves and twenty percent for so on. This is going on, the so-called independent country. In India also, that is being done. America is loa...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/711111r2-delhi/
[ { "content": "", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "\n So this is Sri Madan. He is architect.", "role": "user" }, { "content": "\n Madan Mohan.", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "\n And this is Sri...", "role": "user" }, { "content": "\n [indistinct]\n[break...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/690502le-boston/
[ { "content": "\n I understand that your..., this society is known as International Student Society? Yes. There are many other international societies. There are international United Nations also. The idea is very nice, but we should try to understand—internationally or universally—what is the central idea. Just...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/690512le-columbus/
[ { "content": "", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "\n The amazing thing was that everybody was able to shake their own ass and get up and dance after..., a long time, and not knowing what to do. When ancient rhythms were floating through, everybody thought and certainly everybody desired to dance...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/691224d2-boston/
[ { "content": "\n ...form a committee from education in your...", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "\n Erm, they have to be taught reading, and for this they have primers.", "role": "user" }, { "content": "\n Primary readings.", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "\n And t...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/700622in-los-angeles/
[ { "content": "\nPrabhupāda\n:\n [japa]\n[04:53]\nWhat is your name? Huh?", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "\n Lucy.\nPrabhupāda\n:\n Lucy. So your spiritual name, Lakṣmī-priyā. Lakṣmī-priyā. Lord Caitanya's first wife's name was Lakṣmī-priyā. Yes. So always think of Lord Caitanya and chant Hare...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/690609me-new-vrindavan/
[ { "content": "\n In the Caitanya-caritāmṛta it is said, ekale īśvara kṛṣṇa ara saba bhṛtya [Cc. \nĀdi\n 5.142].\n[Lord Kṛṣṇa alone is the supreme controller, and all others are His servants. They dance as He makes them do so.]\n[baby making noises] [aside:] He will disturb.\nĪśvara... Īśvara means master or the...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/710824sb-london/
[ { "content": "\nPrabhupāda: [\njaya rādhā-mādhava] [breaks] [prema dhvani] [devotees offer obeisances]", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "\nOṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. [Prabhupāda and devotees repeat] [leads chanting of verse, etc.]\n...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/710726in-new-york/
[ { "content": "\n [japa]", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "\n Yogamāyā dāsī.", "role": "user" }, { "content": "\n Yogamāyā. Yogamāyā, the internal energy of Kṛṣṇa. You are the servant of internal energy. Come on. What are the rules and regulation?", "role": "assistant" }, { ...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/691223le-boston/
[ { "content": "\n ...ways that God is giving facility to become one of His associates. Common [indistinct]. So nobody is seeking after God. When you will seek after God, God is situated within your heart; He will give you all facility. And so long you want to become God, you will be cheated, because you are tryi...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/690716in-los-angeles/
[ { "content": "\n\n...pavitro vā\nsarvāvasthāṁ gato 'pi vā\nyaḥ smaret puṇḍarīkākṣaṁ\nsa bahyābhyantaraḥ śuciḥ\nśrī viṣṇu śrī viṣṇu śrī viṣṇu\n[Garuḍa Purāṇa]\n[Either pure or impure, or having passed through all conditions of material life, if one can remember the lotus-eyed Kṛṣṇa, he becomes externally and int...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/710723in-new-york/
[ { "content": "\n You know the rules and regulation? That's all right.", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "\n Jamadāgni.", "role": "user" }, { "content": "\n Jamadāgni.", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "\n Jamadāgni.", "role": "user" }, { "content": "\n Yes...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/710724sb-new-york/
[ { "content": "\n\n...sthāpitaṁ yena bhū-tale\nsvayaṁ rūpaḥ kadā mahyaṁ dadāti sva-padāntikam\n[\"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?\"]\nhe kṛṣṇa karuṇā-sindho dīna-bandh...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/690511ad-columbus/
[ { "content": "\n\nceto-darpaṇa-mārjanaṁ bhava-mahā-dāvāgni-nirvāpaṇaṁ\nśreyaḥ-kairava-candrikā-vitaraṇaṁ vidyā-vadhū-jīvanam\nānandāmbudhi-vardhanaṁ prati-padaṁ pūrṇāmṛtāsvādanaṁ\nsarvātma-snapanaṁ paraṁ vijayate śrī-kṛṣṇa-saṅkīrtanam\n[Cc. Antya 20.12]\n[“’Let there be all victory for the chanting of the holy ...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/680323mw-san-francisco/
[ { "content": "\n First thing is, their calculation of Candra..., moon planet, they have different views. Different scientist, they have different views. It is not a standard. They have not agreed to the... Somebody says something, somebody says another thing. Speculation. That's all.\nBut that idea, that it is ...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/680324in-san-francisco/
[ { "content": "\n [japa] Nama.", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "\n Nama.", "role": "user" }, { "content": "\n Oṁ.", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "\n Oṁ.", "role": "user" }, { "content": "\n ...viṣṇu [Viṣṇujana repeats each word] pādāya kṛṣṇa preṣṭhāya ...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/701107r1-bombay/
[ { "content": "\n These are also done within these five years.", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "\n And that, too, in the foreign countries, to establish that, it is...\n Yes, it's a wonderful thing. I was all the while imagining, imagining...", "role": "user" }, { "content": "\n So ...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/681230iv-los-angeles/
[ { "content": "", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "\n ...and I spoke to him, and then he said we could have an interview, and...\n[break] ...Cosmos. It was formerly The New Cosmic Star...", "role": "user" }, { "content": "\n I see.", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "\n...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/710118r1-allahabad/
[ { "content": "\n ...a bona fide [indistinct] spiritual master. Bona fide spiritual master means who carries out the order of higher authorities. Otherwise he is not spiritual master. Anyone who manufactures his own process of religion, that is rascaldom. Dharmāṁ tu sakṣād bhagavat-praṇitam [SB 6.3.19].\nJust li...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/701106sb-bombay/
[ { "content": "\n\n...mahā-bhāga\nyathaiva narakān nara\nnānogra-yātanān neyāt\ntan me vyākhyātum arhasi\n[SB 6.1.6]\nThere was topics of the different hellish conditions of life according to different sinful activities. There is description in the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, Fifth Canto, the different planetary systems ...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/710718in-detroit/
[ { "content": "\n The ten offenses, explain. [japa]", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "\n[explains ten offenses]\nSo there are 10 offences. One must be very careful to avoid in chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra, explained here. The first, to blaspheme the devotees who have dedicated their lives for prop...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/711115sb-delhi/
[ { "content": "\n[prema-dhvani] Thank you very much. [devotees offer obeisances]\nDr. Atmaram, Ladies and Gentlemen, I thank you very much for your kindly coming here and participating in this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement. Today I shall discuss one chapter from Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam. This is Seventh Canto, Sixth Cha...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/710214r1-gorakphur/
[ { "content": "\n ...my Guru Mahārāja was in his last days, these rascal doctors injected... Our, this Kuñjabihārī, Tīrtha Mahārāja brought so many big, big doctors. And he protested, \"Why are you giving me injection?\" He protested. He personally said, \"Why are you giving me injection?\" And if you bring a do...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/680508sb-boston/
[ { "content": "\n ...coming from Prahlāda Mahārāja's instruction, I'll request you to practice another prayer. I'll pray the last line, govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi **. You'll repeat that. Now try to unders...\n[chants one word at a time with devotees repeating:]\ngovindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi.\...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/690504in-boston/
[ { "content": "\n\n...rādhā śrīla govinda-devau\npreṣṭhālībhiḥ sevyamānau smarāmi.\n[In a temple of jewels in Vṛndāvana, underneath a desire tree, Śrī Śrī Rādhā-Govinda, served by Their most confidential associates, sit upon an effulgent throne. I offer my most humble obeisances unto Them.]\nŚrīmān rāsa-rasāramb...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/710219cc-gorakphur/
[ { "content": "", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "\n The following lecture was recorded on the evening of February 19th, 1971, at Śrī Kṛṣṇa-niketana, Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh.", "role": "user" }, { "content": "\n\n...tathā parā\navidyā-karma-saṁjñānyā\ntṛtīyā śaktir iṣyate\n[Cc. Madh...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/690412r1-new-york/
[ { "content": "", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "\n It's the capital. [indistinct]\n Tallahassee.", "role": "user" }, { "content": "\n Miami is the capital.", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "\n No. Miami is a big tourist city.", "role": "user" }, { "cont...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/690218bg-los-angeles/
[ { "content": "\n Page hundred and fifty-six.", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "\n \"Gradually, step by step, with full conviction, one should become situated in trance by means of intelligence, and thus the mind should be fixed on the Self alone and should think of nothing else.\" [Bg. 6.25]", ...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/710807r1-london/
[ { "content": "", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "\n…takes the name of the nearest town.", "role": "user" }, { "content": "\nSo where is that town, eh?", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "\nNear the island of Zetland.\n In the Orkneys.", "role": "user" }, { ...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/710709we-los-angeles/
[ { "content": "\n[some distortion]\n So you are now married, and you happily go on with Kṛṣṇa consciousness and have Kṛṣṇa conscious children. If you cannot produce Kṛṣṇa conscious children, then don't indulge in sex life; don't bring in cats and dogs. [laughter] All Kṛṣṇa conscious. And if you can bring Kṛṣṇa c...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/681125bg-los-angeles/
[ { "content": "\n Who has taken your Deity?", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "\n Who has taken Him? I don't know. Somebody, they broke in the house, they took one typewriter and the sewing machine, and I think it's...", "role": "user" }, { "content": "\n Who? Typewriter? When?", ...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/710703in-los-angeles/
[ { "content": "\n Govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi. Ādi, ādi means “beginning.” Everything has got a beginning. In the Vedānta-sūtra, the Absolute Truth is described as the beginning of everything—substance—and then different categories. So that origin, original source of everything, Absolute Truth, He is p...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/710105r1-bombay/
[ { "content": "\n Because India, the caste system is very strong. So a brāhmaṇa will never accept a girl born in one śūdra family, although in śāstra it says that you can accept. [Sanskrit] family not very respectful. Here family consideration is very... During marriage ceremony, the family consideration is very...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/680720bg-montreal/
[ { "content": "\n It is simply troublesome, kleśa. Kleśa means troublesome. Because they cannot concentrate. Avyaktā hi gatir duḥkhaṁ dehavadbhir avāpyate [Bg. 12.5].\n[For those whose minds are attached to the unmanifested, impersonal feature of the Supreme, advancement is very troublesome. To make progrese in ...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/661216bg-new-york/
[ { "content": "\n\npatraṁ puṣpaṁ phalaṁ toyaṁ\nyo me bhaktyā prayacchati\ntad ahaṁ bhakty-upahṛtam\naśnāmi prayatātmanaḥ\n[Bg 9.26]\n[If one offers Me with love and devotion a leaf, a flower, fruit or water, I will accept it.]\nNow, the Lord Kṛṣṇa says that \"Anyone who offers Me in devotion these four things,\"...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/690911r1-london/
[ { "content": "\nWould you like to record, or not? [chuckling]", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "\n Don't know.\n Don't mind.", "role": "user" }, { "content": "\n Give this garland.", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "\n Haribol.\n Thank you. Hare Kṛṣṇa.", "role": ...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/690106bg-los-angeles/
[ { "content": "\n[\nkīrtana]\n All glories to the assembled devotees.", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "\nHare Kṛṣṇa.", "role": "user" }, { "content": "\n Feeling all right? Page?", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "\n One-fifteen. Verse seven?\n\"Whenever and wherever...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/690208bg-los-angeles/
[ { "content": "\n All glories to the assembled devotees.", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "\nAll glories to Śrī Guru and Gaurāṅga. Hare Kṛṣṇa.", "role": "user" }, { "content": "\nPage number?", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "\nPage one hundred and forty four.", ...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/690913sb-london/
[ { "content": "\n ...many thousands of years before, Ṛṣabhadeva... He is accepted as the incarnation of Godhead, king, or emperor of the world. He instructed His sons. He had one hundred sons, and He was... Before retiring from His family life, He wanted to install His eldest son, Mahārāja Bharata, on the throne...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/700701sb-los-angeles/
[ { "content": "\n Hare Kṛṣṇa. So we have got new book, The First Step in God-Realization. Yes. Hare Kṛṣṇa.", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "\n Hare Kṛṣṇa.", "role": "user" }, { "content": "\n First, Invocation.\nOṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo vās...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/701219sb-surat/
[ { "content": "\n [referring to microphone] It does not stand here. Hmm. There are so many ladies.", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "\n And there are so many English devotees.", "role": "user" }, { "content": "\n Eh?", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "\n English devot...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/701215r2-indore/
[ { "content": "\nSo Mr. Agarwal, he shall stay with us, 'til night?", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "\n[indistinct]", "role": "user" }, { "content": "\nHe will remain here?", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "\nI will go home and come back.", "role": "user" }, ...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/701226r1-surat/
[ { "content": "\n Why not preach in a systematic way under government patronage? I am alone trying for it.", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "\n I would just request you, if you can give some idea as to how we could do this in practice; otherwise it is...", "role": "user" }, { "conten...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/710725in-new-york/
[ { "content": "\n You know the rules and regulation? What are they?", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "\nNo illicit sex, no meat-eating, no intoxication, no gambling.", "role": "user" }, { "content": "\nThank you.", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "\n Jīmūta.", "ro...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/710406r1-bombay/
[ { "content": "\n ...therefore they are coming. Process of killing is different, because in this age if you simply kill all the pāpīs, then there will be no more existence, because everybody is pāpī. If you take sword and kill the pāpīs, then everyone will be finished. Of course, that will be done at the last st...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/661005bg-new-york/
[ { "content": "\nBalaṁ balavatāṁ...\nbalaṁ balavatāṁ cāhaṁ\nkāma-rāga-vivarjitam\ndharmāviruddho bhūteṣu\nkāmo 'smi bharatarṣabha\n[Bg 7.11]\n[I am the strength of the strong, devoid of passion and desire. I am sex life which is not contrary to religious principles, O Lord of the Bhāratas [Arjuna]]\nNow, this pa...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/681201in-los-angeles/
[ { "content": "\n ...worship prevents snake biting. That is a village worship. So in every demigod worship there are drum beaters. So a party of drum beaters was engaged, and when the fees, bill, of the drum beaters was to be paid, the demigod mansa[?] was sold. They could not pay the bills. Similarly, we may pr...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/700705ad-san-francisco/
[ { "content": "\n[kīrtana, prema-dhvanī]\n Hare Kṛṣṇa.\n[06:54]", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "\n His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta will now deliver a brief message in regarding the Ratha-yātrā festival, following which the members of the press will present their questions to His Divine Gr...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/681202sb-los-angeles/
[ { "content": "\n\ncīrāṇi kiṁ pathi na santi diśanti bhikṣāṁ\nnaivāṅghripāḥ para-bhṛtaḥ sarito 'py aśuṣyan\nruddhā guhāḥ kim ajito 'vati nopasannān\nkasmād bhajanti kavayo dhana-durmadāndhān\n[SB 2.2.5]\n[Are there no torn clothes lying on the common road? Do the trees, which exist for maintaining others, no lon...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/701231sb-surat/
[ { "content": "\n\n…dharmo veha samīhitaḥ\nsa eva tat-phalaṁ bhuṅkte\ntathā tāvad amutra vai\n[SB 6.1.45]\nSo as you have understood that dharmaṁ tu sākṣād bhagavat-praṇītam [SB 6.3.19]... Dharma, it is explained further what is meant by dharma. Dharma means natural characteristics. Dharma does not mean somethin...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/711128pk-vrindavan/
[ { "content": "\n[in bus, arriving; kīrtana outside]", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "\n…take the karatāls. [break]\n[on the walk]\n …is that behind us?", "role": "user" }, { "content": "\nNanda, Nanda Mahārāja left Gokula and came here because the demons were disturbing Kṛṣṇa. They...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/710512le-sydney/
[ { "content": "\n[kīrtana]\n [prema-dhvani] [devotees offer obeisances]\n[04:20]\n[break] ...very beautiful boys. Why did you not join us, chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa? Is it very difficult? Will you try to chant? Hare. Say \"Hare.\"", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "\n Hare.", "role": "user" }, ...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/670415cc-new-york/
[ { "content": "\n ...Vedic literature, it is scriptures. It is compiled by the Lord Himself. Religion means the regulation of the Supreme Lord. That's all.\nDharmaṁ tu sākṣād bhagavat-praṇītam\n[SB 6.3.19].\n[Real religious principles are enacted by the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Although fully situated in ...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/680819sb-montreal/
[ { "content": "\n\n...mahi gṛṇāmi vigata-\nviklava īśvarasya yathā manīṣam\nnīco jayā guṇa-visargam anupraviṣṭaḥ\npūyeta yena hi pumān anuvarṇitena\n[SB 7.9.12]\n[Therefore, although I was born in a demoniac family, I may without a doubt offer prayers to the Lord with full endeavor, as far as my intelligence all...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/661212cc-new-york/
[ { "content": "\n[taps microphone]\nīśvaraḥ paramaḥ kṛṣṇaḥ\nsac-cid-ānanda-vigrahaḥ\nanādir ādir govindaḥ\nsarva-kāraṇa-kāraṇam\n[Cc Madhya 20.154]\n[Kṛṣṇa who is known as Govinda is the Supreme Godhead. He has an eternal blissful spiritual body. He is the origin of all. He has no other origin and He is the prim...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/690330le-hawaii/
[ { "content": "", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "\n …parama-guru, Śrī-Śrīmad Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī has discussed that this world is like a museum and you can understand it if you just consider it. If you know so many corridors of the museum, so many displays but one thing that we don't know...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/710626pc-paris/
[ { "content": "\n[translated into French throughout]\nThe original consciousness is that I am part and parcel of Kṛṣṇa. Just like at the present moment we are thinking, \"I am Frenchman,\" \"I am Englishman,\" \"I am Indian,\" \"I am American.\" Just like there are different consciousness, but the original consc...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/690426le-boston/
[ { "content": "\n This age is called, according to the Vedic language, Kali. Kali-yuga means the age of disagreement and dissension. So in the Vedas it is recommended that kṛte yad dhyāyato viṣṇu [SB 12.3.52]. \n[Whatever result was obtained in Satya-yuga by meditating on Viṣṇu, in Tretā-yuga by performing sacri...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/681213bg-los-angeles/
[ { "content": "\n [kīrtana] [prema-dhvani] Thank you very much. [devotees offer obeisances]\n[16:59]\nYes, somebody read.", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "\n \"Thus far I have declared to you the analytical knowledge of sāṅkhya philosophy. Now listen to the knowledge of yoga, whereby one works ...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/660309bg-new-york/
[ { "content": "\n Yes.", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "\n What chapter?", "role": "user" }, { "content": "\n The same chapter.", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "\n Chapter Two.", "role": "user" }, { "content": "\n Now, the next question is that the Māyā...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/690101bg-los-angeles/
[ { "content": "", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "\n We're reading from Bhagavad-gītā As It Is, in the chapter entitled \"Karma-Yoga,\" page 104, verse thirty-one. \"One who executes his duty according to My injunction and who follows this teaching faithfully becomes free from the bondage of fru...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/711110iv-delhi/
[ { "content": "\nKṛṣṇa says that \"I am the taste of the water.'' So everyone has got..., everyone has knowledge what is the taste of water. Why do you say he does not know Kṛṣṇa? Kṛṣṇa says, \"I am the light of the sunshine.'' So who has not seen the sunshine? So when we see sunshine, if you think, \"It is Kṛṣṇ...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/680818sb-montreal/
[ { "content": "\n\ngovindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi\n[Bs. 5.31]\n[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 t...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/710922r1-nairobi/
[ { "content": "\nSomewhere in the world somebody will say it is half-past twelve, somebody will say half-past seven, somebody will say… So many, twenty-four hours. So the sun is the same one, but in one place they will say it is half-past six, in another place it is half-past seven. How it is going on? In our ca...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/680716r1-montreal/
[ { "content": "\n Very soon we shall have our own publication, Macmillan Company.\n[pause] What is your report?", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "\n I had a rough day today.", "role": "user" }, { "content": "\n Huh?", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "\n I didn't get a...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/670303sb-san-francisco/
[ { "content": "\n\n...kāñcana-gaurāṅgi\nrādhe vṛndāvaneśvari\nvṛṣabhānu-sute devi\npraṇamāmi hari-priye\n[I offer my respects to Rādhārāṇī, whose bodily complexion is like molten gold and who is the Queen of Vṛndāvana. You are the daughter of King Vṛṣabhānu, and You are very dear to Lord Kṛṣṇa.]\nHare Kṛṣṇa Hare...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/710326le-bombay/
[ { "content": "\n [prema-dhvani] [devotees offer obeisances]", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "\n The following lecture was recorded on the evening of March 26th, 1971, at the Cross Maidan engagement. [break]", "role": "user" }, { "content": "\n\n...jñānāñjana-śalākayā\ncakṣur unmīli...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/710807sb-london/
[ { "content": "", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "\n Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. [Prabhupāda and devotees repeat] [leads chanting of verse, etc.]\njanmādy asya yato 'nvayād itarataś cārtheṣv abhijñaḥ svarāṭ\ntene brahma hṛdā ya ādi-ka...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/690924r1-london/
[ { "content": "\n ...and when the call is there, they throw it, everything, and go away. Similarly, this material world, the activities of the material world is like that. Somewhere digging and somewhere piling. Somebody is independent and somebody is dependent. Somebody is very luxurious, somebody's starving. S...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/690112bg-los-angeles/
[ { "content": "\n[kīrtana] [prema-dhvani] [devotees offer obeisances] [indistinct background comments by devotees] [Prabhupāda enters, devotees offer obeisances]\n[27:50]\n Hare Kṛṣṇa. Page? Page?", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "\n One thirty-one. Verse 34.", "role": "user" }, { "c...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/680704sb-montreal/
[ { "content": "\n\nmanye dhanābhijana-rūpa-tapaḥ-śrutaujas-\ntejaḥ-prabhāva-bala-pauruṣa-buddhi-yogāḥ\nnārādhanāya hi bhavanti parasya puṁso\nbhaktyā tutoṣa bhagavān gaja yūtha pāya\n[SB 7.9.9]\n[Prahlāda Mahārāja continued: One may possess wealth, an aristocratic family, beauty, austerity, education, sensory ex...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/690220bg-los-angeles/
[ { "content": "", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "\n Purport: \"The Supreme Personality of Godhead declares that one who does not accept the proper treatment to detach the mind from material engagement can hardly achieve success in self-realization. Trying to practice yoga while engaging the min...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/661226bg-new-york/
[ { "content": "\n\nman-manā bhava mad-bhakto\nmad-yājī māṁ namaskuru\nmām evaiṣyasi kaunteya\nyuktvaivam mat-parāyaṇaḥ\n[Bg 9.34]\n[Engage your mind always in thinking of Me, offer obeisances and worship Me. Being completely absorbed in Me, surely you will come to Me.]\nThis śloka, this verse, we have already fi...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/710924r1-nairobi/
[ { "content": "", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "\nIs there any necessity of being seated in the position we are now here? That must be a simple question for them, if one doesn't know how to act, because…", "role": "user" }, { "content": "\nIs there necessity…?", "role": "assist...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/701213r1-indore/
[ { "content": "\nWe have to do, but we have to do in such a way that I may not be in inconvenience. Just take something. All right. Bring something; take one piece. That's all. Finished. You were drinking before?", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "\nYes, I was [indistinct].", "role": "user" ...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/690525in-new-vrindavan/
[ { "content": "\n ...practically in every initiation ceremony, apavitraḥ pavitro vā, namaḥ [Garuḍa Purāṇa].\n[Either pure or impure, or having passed through all conditions of material life, if one can remember the lotus-eyed Kṛṣṇa, he becomes externally and internally clean.]\nNamaḥ means surrendering. Namāmi: ...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/710713in-los-angeles/
[ { "content": "\n[devotees chanting japa]", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "\n Jaya!", "role": "user" }, { "content": "\nSo, what is next? We are begin? Or there is ārati?", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "\n Yes, we have [indistinct]. Get the beads?", "role": "u...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/710212sb-gorakphur/
[ { "content": "", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "\n [introducing recording] Prabhupāda's morning lecture of the 12th February, 1971, at the new place, Niketana, Śrī Kṛṣṇa-niketana, in Gorakhpur.", "role": "user" }, { "content": "\n\nbhūtāni viṣṇoḥ sura-pūjitāni\ndurdarśa-liṅgāni mah...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/681217iv-los-angeles/
[ { "content": "", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "\nI think the first question is kind of basic, is why is everything always taped at all the...", "role": "user" }, { "content": "\n Because we have got so many branches, they want to hear me, my singing, my speech; therefore they reco...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/701221r1-surat/
[ { "content": "\n That is the material disease. Therefore Caitanya Mahāprabhu says, ceto-darpaṇa-mārjanam [Cc. Antya 20.12]. This roguism has to be purged. Then talk of spiritualism. At heart, dirty things are so much hugely accumulated by millions of years' contamination of this material world. It is very diffi...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/690212iv-los-angeles/
[ { "content": "", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "\n We have with us in the studio the head and founder of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness, and I think that his name is pronounced Bhaktivedanta, Swami A. C. Bhaktivedanta.", "role": "user" }, { "content": "\n Yes."...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/710215b1-gorakphur/
[ { "content": "", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "\n In the morning of the 15th February '71. Appearance day of Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura.\nPrabhupāda: [\nChants Jaya Rādhā-Mādhava] [prema-dhvani]\n[10:10]\netāvatālam agha-nirharaṇāya puṁsāṁ\nsaṅkīrtanaṁ bhagavato guṇa-karma-nāmnām\nvikr...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/710218le-gorakphur/
[ { "content": "", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "\n The following lecture was recorded the evening of February 17th, 1971, Śrī Kṛṣṇa-niketana in Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh. [break]", "role": "user" }, { "content": "\n This is the real picture of Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhe...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/690606sb-new-vrindavan/
[ { "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 sthāpit...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/711112r1-delhi/
[ { "content": "\nThe height has been confusing.", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "\nHm.", "role": "user" }, { "content": "\n..but I asked whether there is ventilator he said, \"no.\" The [indistinct] did not know... hoping [break] cheap relief, now they've got a chance [break] [indis...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/710106r1-calcutta/
[ { "content": "\nHaṁsadūta\n:\n [introduction on tape] The following lectures were recorded in Calcutta, India, starting January 6th, 1970 [sic], following the Surat lectures, preceding lectures some were recorded at Māgh-melā. So these are being inserted under emergency conditions, being copied from Devānanda's...
https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/680824bg-montreal/
[ { "content": "\n Dr. Murti, how are you?", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "\n Fine.", "role": "user" }, { "content": "\n Thank you. So come forward. All come forward.", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "\n Swāmījī, you'll have to excuse me just a few minutes early. I ...