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  A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Srila Prabhupada became well known as one who truly practiced what he preached; leading by example he expanded the movement from a small group of people in New York in 1966, to an international movement incorporating many thousands of people.
Srila Prabhupada created this body to handle affairs in his absence concerning the daily management and spiritual standards for the organization and its members.
Prabhupada considered Moses, Jesus, and Mohammed to be empowered representatives of God.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/A.C._Bhaktivedanta_Swami_Prabhupada   (1462 words)

  
 VNN Editorial - Srila Prabhupada's Superficial Departure
Srila Prabhupada is so weak that the only parts of his body that he is moving are the lower parts of his arms, and then only barely.
Srila Prabhupada's sister arrives, dressed all in white, and goes to the head of the bed to see her brother.
Srila Prabhupada is so kind that even though he finally decides to leave us, he still mercifully stays with us for an extra night so that we may have one last chance to see His Divine Form, chant kirtan for him, and whisk him with the Camara.
www.vnn.org /editorials/ET0106/ET06-6784.html   (5154 words)

  
 VNN Editorial - Srila Prabhupada: An Untimely Departure
This is Srila Prabhupada’s gift to the world, that he has opened up the treasure house of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, he has opened up the treasure house which has been the sole possession of India for the past five thousand years.
Prabhupada emphasized that we may not even increase, although if we can increase it is to our credit, but even if we simply maintain what has already been established, that will suffice to alleviate the suffering in this world for many thousands of years to come.
So I feel that all of us as Prabhupada’s desciples, their first responsibility is to make sure that whatever Prabhupada gave to us, because we have to understand that whatever we have is the gift of Srila Prabhupada, whatever he gave to us, now is cherished and maintained.
www.vnn.org /editorials/ET9909/ET14-4723.html   (4637 words)

  
 Srila Prabhupada
Srila Prabhupada considered his books to be the most valuable contribution he had made in spreading the Vedic knowledge through out the world.
Srila Prabhupada noted often that, although universities and colleges of the modern day had many departments for understanding may things, there was no department that taught scientific knowledge of the self and God.
Srila Prabhupada chants the Hare Krishna Maha Mantra
www.gauranga.org /prabhupada.htm   (1632 words)

  
 Prabhupada Page
Srila Prabhupada clearly stated that the undivided and unflinching faith in his spiritual master had been his only qualification.
I saw Srila Prabhupada stand up, his face red with anger, and shout with the force of a roaring lion at Kirtanananda for saying that "unto Me" means unto the unborn truth within Krsna.
Niscala devi suggests a relative view of the spiritual master, particularly Srila Prabhupada, where disciples are free to accept or reject portions of his teachings.
www.oldchakra.com /mainpages/people/prabhupad/index.htm   (3386 words)

  
 *Srila Prabhupada Mainpage
While the author appears on the surface to be a reasonable person, his article says nothing meaningful about Srila Prabhupada's position or the relationship between a guru and his disciple but is simply an exposé of his own immature and strange understanding in these matters.
Srila Prabhupada's health had been deteriorating, and I was anxious to get to Vrindavan as soon as possible.
Srila Prabhupada has made Vaisnava history by introducing the chanting of the Hare Krsna mantra throughout the world, establishing over one hundred temples, and publishing over eighty books of transcendental knowledge for the benefit of humankind.
www.dipika.org /mainpages/srila.prabhupada   (962 words)

  
 Srila Prabhupada: A Brief Biography
Recognizing Srila Prabhupada's philosophical learning and devotion, the Gaudiya Vaisnava Society honored him in 1947 with the title "Bhaktivedanta." In 1950, at the age of fifty-four, Srila Prabhupada retired from married life, and four years later he adopted the vanaprastha (retired) order to devote more time to his studies and writing.
Srila Prabhupada traveled to the holy city of Vrndavana, where he lived in very humble circumstances in the historic medieval temple of Radha-Damodara.
Srila Prabhupada also inspired the construction of a large international center at Sridhama Mayapur in West Bengal, India, which is also the site for a planned Institute of Vedic Studies.
prabhupada.krishna.org /Articles/2000/07/00048.html   (852 words)

  
 iskcon.com - About - A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, founder-acarya of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness, was born in 1896, in Calcutta, in a Vaisnava family.
Srila Prabhupada received a reply to that letter containing the same instruction the he had received in 1922: 'Preach Krishna consciousness to the English speaking world'.
Srila Prabhupada produced all of his books bar the three written in India within the next eleven years.
www.iskcon.com /about/parampara/srila_prabupada.html   (1308 words)

  
 Srila Prabhupada's Concluding Words
The success of Srila Prabhupada's preaching all over the world caused some of his godbrothers in India to become envious....
As the movement grew Srila Prabhupada handed over much of the management to a body of devotees he had formed called the Governing Body Commission (GBC).
Srila Prabhupada was convinced the problems within ISKCON could not be solved until every devotee was chanting sixteen rounds of the maha-mantra daily, rising early to attend the 4:30am Mangal Arati ceremony, following strictly the four regulative principles and being fully engaged 24 hours a day in serving Krishna.
krishna.org.krishna.org /ISKCON/WHTTHK/msg00con.html   (918 words)

  
 HARE KRSIHNA [1896-1996, One Century Since the Birth of Srila Prabhupada]
Srila Prabhupada did not manufacture "truths." He merely delivered the timeless teachings of the original Vedas without addition, deletion, or change.
Srila Prabhupada frequently noted that although modern colleges and universities had many departments of understanding, no department taught scientific knowledge of the self and God.
Srila Prabhupada introduced two specific programs for spreading his teachings in India: massive book distribution and the construction of major temples and cultural centers.
www.afn.org /~centennl/prabhupd.htm   (3187 words)

  
 SRILA PRABHUPADA GURU-TATTVA
Also note Srila Prabhupada states three times that the new initiates are his disciples and that there is no mention of any future contingency that would modify, countermand or terminate this order whatsoever in any way.
Srila Prabhupada's ritvik system was used worldwide for at least 5 years from about 1972 up until his physical disappearance in 1977 without him ever physically seeing many of his disciples which proves that his physical presence is not necessary for him to give diksa to his disciple even after his physical disappearance.
The ritvik system allows Srila Prabhupada's disciples to advance harmoniously from kanistha to madhyam and finally uttama-adhikari with no discrepancy in qualifications due to posing as guru immaturely; and, the resulting corruption, division, and chaos within the society on the ontological question of who is a pure devotee.
guru.krishna.org /Articles/2004/06/014.html   (5659 words)

  
 A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada Founder of Hare Krishna Movement
On July 29, 1971, Srila Prabhupada was interviewed on television at the University of Gainesville in Florida (which His Divine Grace described as "a remote corner of the world, thousands of miles from the birthplace of Lord Caitanya").
Srila Prabhupada would preach at every opportunity, and there was no way his disciples could slow him down.
Srila Prabhupada was neither enamoured by western education nor ambitious for scholastic achievement.
prabhupada.krishna.org   (995 words)

  
 Purport: Srila Prabhupada-Lila-Smarana-Mangala-Stotram
Srila Prabhupada is always situated in eternal pastimes of the divine couple Sri Sri Radha-Govinda in the transcendental realm of Goloka Vrndavana.
Srila Prabhupada was especially fond of mentioning the story of how he received his most important instructions from Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Thakura at Sri Radha-kunda.
Srila Prabhupada recalled that at the time Srila Bhaktisiddhanta was feeling some dissatisfaction in regard to some disciples competing over who would live in which rooms in the newly constructed temple in Calcutta.
www.gosai.com /chaitanya/prabhupada/sp_song_purp.html   (2956 words)

  
 The Need to Interpret Srila Prabhupada's books?
Furthermore, Srila Prabhupada went to great trouble to be sure that his lectures were recorded on audio tapes beginning in 1966.
Srila Prabhupada's resolve is evidenced by the purchase of his first tape recorder, a major expenditure for him.
Srila Prabhupada recorded his preaching in writing and on audio tapes for the benefit of the thousands and millions of devotees who would come in the future so that they would also have the benefit of his direct association through sound vibration.
iskcon.krishna.org /Articles/2001/12/026.html   (545 words)

  
 Srila Prabhupada
Srila Prabhupada rises, and with the help of his stick he walks to the front.
With great patience and compassion, Srila Prabhupada gave the message he had brought, and though the first students were so crazy, he spelled the truth out to them all, just like a kindly father: "You are not these bodies, you are spirit souls," he said.
Srila Prabhupada's small but commanding figure walks regally into the temple amidst bowing disciples and uncontrolled chanting of "Jai Prabhupada!" The Deity curtains are opened and Srila Prabhupada bows down before Their Lordships Sri-Sri Radha-Krishna and then rises, standing reverentially before Them, his first fingers tapping together lightly, in time with the "Govindam" prayers.
www.cedarpost.com /krsnaconsciousplays/SPrabhupadaMission.htm   (3134 words)

  
 Serving Srila Prabhupada Across the Generations [updated]
In that essay he admitted that Srila Prabhupada had established a system, but because we were unqualified to follow that system, it would be more practical to follow something we could do.
Srila Prabhupada did not discuss the GBC or BBT much in his books also; these types of matters were mostly discussed through letters.
SM: "Otherwise, as touching as the biography of Srila Prabhupada might read, the reader would be left only with the idea that this was a story of one guru with his little band of disciples who tried to begin a worldwide movement.
iskcon.krishna.org /Articles/2002/04/020.html   (2840 words)

  
 adi-vani.org :: http://www.adi-vani.org
"Srila Vyasadeva revealed these statements after perfect realization and therefore they are perfect, for liberated sages like Vyasadeva never commit errors in their rhetorical arrangements.
I assert that we may trust that authentic representation of Srila Prabhupada is the strongest assurance of protection, integrity and healthy expansion that an organization may enjoy.
Srila Prabhupada did not alter, edit, or change His spiritual masters words to suit the more simplified minds of the present day.
adi-vani.org   (466 words)

  
 Srila Prabhupada's KGO Radio Interview, 1968
Prabhupada: These are miserable conditions inflicted by material nature just to remind the conditioned soul that this conditioned life in the material nature is not for you.
Prabhupada: Yes, it is total commitment to the way of life as it is prescribed in the Bhagavad-gita, the science of God.
Prabhupada: Yes, generally we chant this mahamantra, Hare Krsna, and then we deliver speeches from Bhagavad-gita, Srimad-Bhagavatam, and then there are questions, we answer, and in that way the audience and the disciples they become enlightened and they advance.
introduction.krishna.org /Articles/2004/12/013.html   (4438 words)

  
 George Harrision and Srila Prabhupada
Prabhupada: That is the punishment for this age.
Prabhupada: That house was constructed fifty years ago at the cost of six million dollars, and we have got it very cheap.
Prabhupada benefited him so mcuh I mean he knew the buttons to push and not to push because of their natural hesitancy to have anything public to do with Prabhupada because they would see us then as just going after their money or their fame and not giving them the real thing.
www.geocities.com /priitaa/gh_and_sp.htm   (11859 words)

  
 Baltimore Hare Krishna Temple   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
At their first meeting, Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura requested Abhay Caran to broadcast Vedic knowledge through the English language.
After publishing three volumes of Srimad Bhagavatam, Srila A. Bhaktivedanta Swami came to the United States in 1965 to fulfill the mission of his spiritual master.
Srila A. Bhaktivedanta Swam Prabhupada surrounded by his disciples, left this world on 14 November 1977, in Vrndavana India.
www.radhagovinda.net /baltimore/prabhupada.html   (391 words)

  
 Srila Prabhupada-Acarya Actual Initiator
Srila Prabhupada wants to deliver the devotees form the lust of wanting to be worshiped as good as God.
Antya 7.12 Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura explains that unless one is directly empowered by the causeless mercy of Krsna, one cannot become the spiritual master of the entire world (jagad-guru).
It is also Srila Prabhupada’s desire to REMAIN at the centre so all devotees take the advantage of receiving diksa from his Divine Grace.
guru.krishna.org /Articles/2004/12/005.html   (1636 words)

  
 Srila Prabhupada
For brevity, scholars sometimes refer to him as "Bhaktivedanta Swami", and both scholars and devotees refer to him as "Shrila Prabhupada," the term "Shrila" being an honorific title that means "eminent".
At the age of 69, after a lifetime of preparation, Shrila Prabhupada received a free passage on board a steamship bound for America.
In 1996, Srila Prabhupada was declared "India's greatest spiritual ambassador" by the Indian Prime Minister
www.krishnatemple.com /founder/founder.shtm   (468 words)

  
 Books by Srila Prabhupada
Srila Prabhupada established over 108 ISKCON centers in 10 years, the world over.
Through its work over the last quarter of a century, millions of people have read at least one of Srila Prabhupada's books and have felt their lives genuinely enriched.
He is the author of more than sixty volumes of authoritative translations, commentaries and expositions of the philosophical and religious classics of the Vedic tradition.
www.iskconbangalore.org /contents/books   (199 words)

  
 Srila Prabhupada - - Hare Krishna Store   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Srila Prabhupada came to the United States in 1965 with very little.
Prabhupada's Delhi Bhagavatam is now available again in a limited collectors edition.
The basic principle of the living condition is that we have a general propensity to love someone.
krishna.tv /books-srila-prabhupada-c-21_38.html   (1034 words)

  
 Books!
Here is an actual transcript of his life-transforming meeting with Srila Prabhupada in the holy town of Mayapur, India, the birthplace of Sri Krishna Chaitanya Mahaprabhu.
This book is based on taped morning-walk conversations that Srila Prabhupada had with some of his disciples during 1973, in the Los Angeles area.
On those mornings when he focused on science, Srila Prabhupada spoke mainly with his disciple Dr. Thoudam D. Singh, Ph.D. An organic chemist, Dr. Singh presently co-directs the Bhaktivedanta Institute, an international center for Advanced Studies in Consciousness and Science.
www.acbspn.com /books/default.htm   (973 words)

  
 Srila Prabhupada ki jaya
Srila Prabhupada's Departure from India and Arrival in the USA
The third collection is from Chintamani dasi, which has eight original photos of Srila Prabhupada's first visit to New Vrindavana in June of 1969.
Srila Prabhupada: My father's income was no more than 250 rupees, but there was no question of need.
www.salagram.net /SP-page.htm   (2097 words)

  
 *Srila Prabhupada's Books Mainpage
Book distribution is a service that Arjunanath Das has taken up to glorify Srila Prabhupada: distributing books among the congregation members and to the Torontonians in general.
In this purport Srila Prabhupada says that there are three treasures that can dispel this poverty, namely knowledge of Krsna, service to Krsna, and love of Krsna.
Should all of you be able sit in my seat, speak to these librarians on the phone, exchange e-mails with them, and receive their enthusiastic, grateful letters of heartfelt praise for Srila Prabhupada, your hair would stand on end.
www.dipika.org /mainpages/sp.books   (1075 words)

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