Prabhupada Padma-vakya

July 5, 1971, Los Angeles
Lecture Excerpt
"If you do not love, do not develop your love for God or Krsna, then what is the use of your philosophizing and scientific knowledge? This is all useless."

July 5, 1975, Chicago
Morning Walk
"Common men, they didn't care for big palace, the palatial building. Common man would be very glad to live in a cottage, and a small garden for growing vegetables, fruits, small lake, that's all. Not wasting time for big, big buildings, big, big... What is called, amenities?"

July 5, 1975, Chicago
Srimad-Bhagavatam 6.1.21
"Mind is very flickering. Even five thousand years ago, when Arjuna was advised by Krsna that "You make your restless mind fixed up," he frankly said, "Krsna, it is not possible.'"

July 5, 1975, Chicago
Room Conversation with Mr. & Mrs. Wax, Writer and Editing Manager of Playboy Magazine
"Everything is there. If you train a boy to become first-class man, he can become first-class man. If you don't train, then he will become a debauch, criminal, disturbing."

July 5, 1975, Chicago
Room Conversation with Lt. Mozee, Policeman
"This is the age of forgetting God. We say it is Kali-yuga. Kali-yuga means the age of misunderstanding. And that is, I said, dirty things within the heart. So God is so powerful that if we chant the holy name of God, then we become purified."

July 5, 1976, Washington, D.C.
Caitanya Caritamrta Madhya 20.100
"Sometimes we are accused, the Vaisnavas are, of slave mentality because they want to serve God. And the Mayavadis, they think that "We are so exalted that I am as good as God. I am God." That is their position. But actually, nobody is God here. Everyone is servant."

July 5, 1976, Washington, D.C.
Conversation with Prof. Saligram and Dr. Sukla
"With that twenty dollars I got out down on the land of America, and that forty rupees. So I did not know where to go, where to stay. So Krsna is giving us all facilities, and these American boys are helping."

Bhaktivedanta Book Trust. HDG A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada.

Sri Caitanya's Nectarian River Pastimes, Part 15

BY: SUN STAFF

Jul 03, CANADA (SUN) — Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu's transcendental pastimes with rivers.

In the Antya-lila of Sri Caitanya-caritamrta we read about the travels of Srila Sanatana Goswami, who set out to travel along the same paths Sri Caitanya Himself had, on His earlier sojourns. As Śrīla Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura sings in Śaraṇāgati (31.3):

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Srila Sanatana Goswami

BY: SUN STAFF

Jul 03, CANADA (SUN) — The Disappearance day of Srila Sanatana Goswami is observed on July 4th.

Sri Sanatana Gosvami took his birth in 1488 A.D. (1410, Sakabda). As a child, he began his studies along with his brothers, from their maternal uncle's house in a small village called Sakurma near the capital of Gaura-desa. At the age of 27 he came to live at Braja, and remained there for 43 years. At the age of 70, Srila Sanatana disappeared on the full moon day of Asar in the year 1558 A.D.

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Sri Bhakti Sandarbha,
Part 13

BY: SUN STAFF

Jul 03, CANADA (SUN) — Sad Sandarbhas by Srila Jiva Goswami

VOLUME ONE - Anuccheda 27

1 In the next chapter (Srimad Bhagavatam 2.2.14) he says:

"Unless the gross materialist develops a sense of loving service unto the Supreme Lord, the seer of both the transcendental and material worlds, he should remember or meditate upon the universal form of the Lord at the end of his prescribed duties."*

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Sri Caitanya's Nectarian River Pastimes, Part 14

BY: SUN STAFF

Jul 01, CANADA (SUN) — Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu's transcendental pastimes with rivers.

Finally departing for Vrindavan with his servant, Balabhadra Bhaṭṭācārya, Sri Chaitanya passed through the forest of Jhārikhaṇḍa, causing all the wild animals to dance, chant the Hare Kṛṣṇa mahā-mantra and exchange loving affections.

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NBS#139: The Format For Grhastha Life

BY: NITYAM BHAGAVATA-SEVAYA

Jul 01, MUMBAI, INDIA (SUN) —

Proper association with exalted, swanlike personalities rescues us from falling into the blind well of material life. If we associate with liberated souls, we will become qualified as spiritual householders. Those who do not associate with the personified Bhagavatas to discuss the scripture Bhagavata, knowing the two to be non-different, will never find a fortune in household life. It is good for devotees to live at home because it allows them to peacefully worship Lord Hari. Such peace, however, is not available to those who are gross materialists due to being too attached to household life.

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Sri Bhakti Sandarbha,
Part 12

BY: SUN STAFF

Jul 01, CANADA (SUN) — Sad Sandarbhas by Srila Jiva Goswami

VOLUME ONE - Anuccheda 24

1 The statement "Devotional service should be performed" is discussed in the conversation of Srila Sukadeva Gosvami and Maharaja Pariksit. (Srila Sukadeva Gosvami said, in Srimad-Bhagavatam 2.1.2):

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No Need of Administrative Orders

BY: CAITANYA DAS

Jul 01, MANCHESTER, ENGLAND (SUN) —

There is no need of administrative orders
For the protection of others,
or protection of others that harm themselves
In a land where life's purpose is fulfilled
Is there such a land or place
If there is who has set the boundaries
Who has decided what is acceptable
Who has decided what is not acceptable
Political parties and philosophers
Have sought such an ideal
Since time immemorial
Will they ever come to conclusions
Or is it that this perfection is
Beyond a comprehension or indeed a utopian dream

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