His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

Srila Prabhupada is Shastra These men - who faithlessly rail AGAINST the power and authority of Srila Prabhupada - employing THEIR SO-CALLED faith or trust IN "SHASTRA" - literally cannot see the forest through the trees! More

In Defense of Srila Prabhupada's Authority and Position Hrdayananda's lecture simply gives arguments and justifications based on some intellectual wrangling of ideas of how one can discriminately and selectively reject certain aspects of Srila Prabhupada's teachings including Srila Prabhupada's divine purports. More

The Authority of Srila Prabhupada and the Dictation of Lord Krishna At its core – this case – like all other aspects of ISKCON post 1977 – stems from the principle issue: WHOSE MISSION IS IT? WHO IS ACTUALLY the ACTUAL ABSOLUTE AUTHORITY UNDER THE BANNER OF ISKCON? More

The Breath of Lord Krishna THIS - is the very essence of the meaning of "SIMULTANEOUSLY ONE AND DIFFERENT". ACHINTYA BEDA BEDA TATTWA means SRILA PRABHUPADA'S DIRECTIVES ARE NON-DIFFERENT FROM THE DIRECT INSTRUCTIONS OF LORD KRSNA. THEY ARE BOTH THE SAME - AND - EQUAL IN POTENCY. More

Going to Prabhupada "Previously they were advanced, all of you. You are simply born because the mission was to be started. Just like in Yadu-vamsa Krishna ordered all the devotee demigods to 'Go and take birth there to help Me.' Similarly, you are also... You were born in Europe, America, to help this. Otherwise you were devotees in you past lives. I have explained that in my recent writings." More

Srila Prabhupada's Arrival in Istanbul I attach a wonderful pastime about Srila Prabhupada here in Turkey. I would like to tell you that this is and I am a Prabhupada-based temple/center and would like to get as much Prabhupadanuga association here as possible to help the devotees here make their relationship with Prabhupada more solid and slowly develop interested new members. More

Light of the Stars The Divine Stellar Configurations in the Horoscope of: His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada Founder-Acharya of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness, by Srimati Abhaya Mudra devi dasi More

His Divine Grace in Krishna Culture The latest catalogue from Krishna Culture arrived recently, sent from their offices in Texas. Also known as Art & Culture, this impressive catalogue is run by a disciple of an ISKCON ex-"zonal acharya" of well-known past and of dubious future. More

Letter to the Prabhus You know, Prabhus, that it can easily be verified though shastra that our "singing guru," like Shrila Shri (108) Bhaktivinoda Thakura Acharya, our beloved param-param gurudevaji maharaja, Shrila Prabhupada was none other than a direct representative of Shri Narada, who travels the entire Universe on the strength of the holy names. More

Pavan's Press Issue V The internet is nothing more than an infinitesimal fraction of the potency of the Supreme Lord. Therefore, since it is Krishna's potency, it must be employed for preaching the glories of the name, fame, activities, abode, prowess, paraphernalia and devotees of the Supreme Personality of Godhead Lord. More

Here Comes the Sun A must-see slideshow, submitted to YouTube by Mayapurvision. Shortly after composing this song, George Harrison rang Shyamasundar das and sang it for him over the phone. It went on to become one of the Beatle greats, but most people are unaware that George Harrison wrote it as a dedication to Srila Prabhupada.

What's in a name? At the initiation a kind of funny thing happened. We of course knew that when you get initiated you get another name. My karmi name was Hans Kary and I never liked my name because I was an immigrant. Ever since childhood I wanted to be integrated into the social environment of my peers so I always wanted to change my German name Hans Kary to something else. So upon initiation I was really anticipating getting a very exotic new name like Hanuman or Hari dasa. More

Revisiting the Beautiful Transcendental Qualities of Srila Prabhupada Last week a very great and dedicated devotee of Lord Krishna and Srila Prabhupada, Ajitananda Prabhu, left this material world. More

Savior of the World Years ago, while Srila Prabhupada walked in our material vision, I understood his position to be very unique. The world would someday come to know who he really was/is. More

Maya On a morning walk with Prabhupada in Stockholm, Sweden, we were suddenly blinded by what appeared to be the light of the sun. It was only the sun being reflected from a large glass window. Prabhupada stopped and pointed in the direction of the glare. "This is maya. More

Part in relation to the whole Prabhupada could see everyone as he was, a part in relation to the whole. We're like screws to the part, separate from the machine. The self-realized soul can see "This part belongs here." More

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"My books will live forever" Early one morning in the late part of 1974, at Bhaktivedanta Manor, I was called to Srila Prabhupada's room. Prabhupada was sitting on his bed, I was sitting on the floor. He asked me if I would accept his appointing me to act as a BBT trustee. More

Are you ready? Sometimes we hear devotees lamenting that they were not able to have the personal association of Srila Prabhupada because some heavy-handed devotee kept them away or other worldly circumstance prevented the opportunity. More

Vaishnavas are killers One day Prabhupada was sitting behind his desk and he began musing over the great Vaishnavas. He said, "Arjuna was a great Vaishnava, and he was killing. More

At John Lennon's Estate After staying for about three months with the devotees at Tittenhurst Manor, estate of John Lennon, Srila Prabhupada happened to come upon a picture of John and Yoko Ono in a fully nude, sexually explicit pose, hanging in open view somewhere in the manor. More

Mail duties In the year 1976 I was traveling with Srila Prabhupada as his secretary, and we arrived in Chandighar, north of New Delhi. After settling in at our new location, I went through the correspondence of Prabhupada, sealed up all the envelopes and stamped them. More

Big Beads Sometime in the early 70's (73 or 74) Prabhupada came to Hawaii, and I also came there from Germany to see him and briefly act as his secretary. More

It is all your mercy Prabhupada laughed and said once Shyamasundar arranged to have him picked up at Heathrow airport (London) and flown to the Manor at Letchmore Heath. More

Sweet balls In the early days of ISKCON, when there were hardly more than 30 devotees in all, there was a constant strain over prasadam consumption. More

Unified Mission The Hare Krishna movement roared across America, Western Europe and Australia like an express locomotive in the late 1960’s and 70’s. More

Re: Hoy to tai Jai Srila Prabhupada. Thought I would submit my views on the poison issue, and to make a request regarding the BBT court case, and the poison issue remain separate at this time. The BBT must be restored first, then finally establish the DOM. These things alone will cure most of the ills plaguing Srila Prabhupada's mission. More

Srila Prabhupada's Beautiful Transcendental Qualities An Offering To: His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada Founder-Acharya of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness -- our spiritual master, who is an ocean of love and compassion. More

Remembering Srila Prabhupada Srila Prabhupada was visiting Toronto's temple. I had only recently joined the movement a few months prior to his visit. More

The Power of Prabhupada's Books About a week later I overheard a conversation between my mother and grandmother. Granny was saying that this was not some ordinary book. She said that what Prabhupada was saying about Jesus Christ and that Krishna was God. I was very surprised. She said that we should listen to what Prabhupada said and chant Hare Krishna because that was the religion for this age. There was a lot of talk about how Christianity was no more and no one was following the bible, but what Prabhupada said was pure and perfect. More

Vrindaban Bhajan I am sitting alone in Vrindavana-dhama. In this mood I am getting many realizations. I have my wife, sons, daughters, grandsons, everything, But I have no money so they are a fruitless glory. Krishna has shown me the naked form of material nature, By his strength it has all become tasteless to me today. More

My Account of Prabhupada's Passing This morning, I had breakfast with a leading devotee. We talked of guru-kulis today and our childhood's past. We happened upon my days in Vrindavan from '76 to 82. She asked if I had been there at the time of Prabhupada's passing. I had. More

Loose Screws Anything that is not Krishna is not Krishna and will eventually dry up and fall away. Everyone is born with certain inclinations or propensities, and has to act on them. Just like Arjuna. He was a warrior, and his business was killing, and that’s what Krishna asked of him. By dovetailing our propensities in devotional service to Krishna, they become purified. More

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Love and Trust The only thing that has power, potency, substance is spiritual realization. Outside that is only endless hairsplitting and legal wrangling, none of which produces anything. Mechanical adherence to legal technicalities doesn’t give us a freeway. On the other hand, when there’s love and trust–whether legal or not–there is potency. More

Adore Ye All the Happy Day Adore, adore ye all The happy day. Blessed than heaven, Sweeter than May, When he appeared at Puri The holy place, My Lord and Master His Divine Grace. More

Eight Prayers in Separation from My Spiritual Master The following is an offering of eight prayers to Srila Prabhupada's spiritual master, His Divine Grace Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Goswami Thakur, composed sometime in December, 1958. More

Manifesto—International Society for Krishna Consciousness 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. More

Constitution of Association The objectives for which the Society is being established are: (A) To educate the greater human society in the techniques of spiritual life as the basis for a balanced psychic and biological development, and thereby achieve for the first time in human society a real peace and unity among the contending forces in the world today. More

The Founder-Acharya In this century, Srila Prabhupada is the foremost proponent of Vaishnava philosophy, represented by the Brahma-Madhva-Gaudiya Sampradaya. More

Biographical Sketch of His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada The Hare Krishna movement has been recently brought to the Western world by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Founder-Acharya of the Hare Krishna movement. More

The Bhaktivedantas So many groups have sprung up under the generic title "Hare Krishna", but the origin of the Hare Krishna Movement was Srila Prabhupada (His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami) and his books. More

Krishna Books The books of His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami (Srila Prabhupada) are the most important contribution of this Krishna consciousness movement. More

Prabhupada, Man of God Before the appearance of Srila Prabhupada, Vedic culture existed only in very small pockets in India. We must truly understand what Srila Prabhupada actually achieved in the span of about 10 years. More

The Bhaktivedanta Purports As Srila Prabhupada's disciples our function is simply to deliver these two BHAGAVATAS, the book and the person, Srila Prabhupada. It is the function of the disciples to confirm the instructions of the spiritual master, and give assistance to the new candidates. More

The Hierarch, Hierarchy and You Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Thakur was the last Hierarch or Acharya, and those in his service were placed by him in a hierarchy called the Gaudiya Math. But failing to carry out his final order to form a GBC, they drifted out of their place in his hierarchy. More

Srila Prabhupada, His Movement and You "All of my disciples are leaders, as much as they follow purely. If you want to follow, you can also lead. But you don't want to follow. Leader means one who is a first class disciple. Evam param parapraptam. One who is following is perfect." More

Some Statistical Reflections on the Awesome Stature of the Acharya What the Acharya, Srila Prabhupada, did in ten years More

Srila Prabhupada, the Brahma Sampradaya Acharya The endless controversy over whether Prabhupada appointed gurus, acharyas or rittvik deputies can be satisfactorily concluded by pointing out that Prabhupada left written instructions. More

Last Minute Thoughts The guru parampara is broken not by following the acharya's order, but by disobeying and neglecting it. Having totally disregarded Srila Prabhupada's express wishes, ISKCON GBCs and guru-acharyas have effectively cut off ISKCON from its Founder-Acharya, Srila Prabhupada. More

In the Orbit of Srila Prabhupada At the time of Prabhupada when he was with us, we were all packed up very tight like an elite military unit, like the Green Berets or the Navy Seals— More

I keep seeing him with my ears I know Srila Prabhupada is still here. I don't see him as much as I hear him saying these things. Prabhupada always said you do not see the holy man with the eyes; you see him with the ears, and now I know what he meant. More

Gurus and things Therefore I say all these yogis, swamis and so-called gurus who do not recognize Srila Prabhupada's actual position, but try to belittle him, or circumvent, or ignore him are nothing more than impersonators. More

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His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

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