Prabhupada Padma-vakya

January 28, 1974, Hawaii
Srimad-Bhagavatam 1.16.35
"This initiation arrangement means sowing the seed of devotional service. Now, if you get, if you think that after getting initiation, "I have become perfect. Now again, whatever nonsense I was doing, I shall go on doing it," then it will be useless."

January 28, 1975, Tokyo
Bhagavad-gita 16.8
"But from the sastra we know in the moon planet... That is one of the heavenly planets, and there are living entities. They are living for ten thousand years, and it is very cold there. Therefore they drink soma-rasa."

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

Shankha-kshetra: The
Fourth and Fifth Folds

Jan 26, CANADA (SUN) — A seventeen-part series on Sri Jagannath Puri Dham.

Over the course of this series, we have been describing Jagannath Puri as Shankha-kshetra, a conch-shape which contains the Holy Dham and which is comprised of seven concentric folds. The innermost fold is the abode of the Jagannath Deities. The second fold surrounds them with a hexagonal shape that is home to four Devis, two tirthas, two sthala vrikshas and two tanks. The third fold is entered via the Singhadwara, or Lion's Gate, and located within it are the Baisipahach and Kurma Vedha.

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BY: SUN STAFF

Jan 26, CANADA (SUN) — An excerpted presentation of Sri Vishnu Purana, translated by Horace Hayman Wilson, 1840.

The Vishnu Purana is described as being one of the canonical Puranas, a branch of post-Vedic sacred literature recorded during the 1st millennium of the current age. The narrative spans from the creation of the current universe to its annihilation, describing periods stretching up to a hundred trillion (1014) years.

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Jai Srila Prabhupada!

BY: SUDARSHAN DASA ter>

Jan 26, SINGAPORE (SUN) —

"The Indians are not cow worshippers as others wrongly interpret it, but the Indians are gratitiudeful to the species of cow for supplying milk to the human babies and the sentiment is so fine that simply for supplying milk the cow is accepted as one of the seven mothers."

(Letter to Harbanslal, 2 August 1958)

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Shankha-kshetra:
The Third Fold

BY: SUN STAFF

Jan 24, CANADA (SUN) — A seventeen-part series on Sri Jagannath Puri Dham.

In describing Jagannath Puri Dham as Shankha-kshetra, a conch-like area comprised of 115 transcendental tirthas, teerthams and shrines, we have begun to describe the seven concentric folds within which all these holy spots are contained. The first, innermost fold is home to the Jagannath Deities Themselves, in the sanctum of Their 12th century shrine. The second fold, a hexagonal shape adjacent to the inner fold, is home to four Devis and contains two tirthas, two sacred trees, and two tanks.

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Krishna Comes Himself
in the Form of Guru

BY: SRI VRINDAVAN DAS

Bhaktivedanta Book Trust

Jan 24, SRIDHAM MAYAPUR (SUN) — Morning Walk with Srila Prabhupada – December 15, 1973, Los Angeles, USA (excerpt).

Guru Knows Everything Perfectly

Candanacarya: ...there must have been very many gurus. Were there many gurus then?

Srila Prabhupada: When? Guru or... First of all, try to understand: what is the meaning of guru? Guru means heavy. So one who knows more than you, or one who knows perfectly, that, he is guru. So if you know anything perfectly, then you are guru. But if you do not know anything perfectly, then you are not a guru. You are rascal.So, guru means one who knows perfectly. So if you find out somebody, that he knows everything perfectly, then he is guru.

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Parishads: Srimad Advaita Acharya

BY: SUN STAFF

Jan 24, CANADA (SUN) — The Appearance Day of Srimad Advaita Acharya is observed on January 26th.

vraje avesha-rupatvad vyuho yo'pi sadashivah | sa evadvaita-gosvami caitanyabhinna-vigrahah

Sadashiva, an expansion of the supreme lord in Vraja, is here known as Advaita Acharya. He is non-different from Chaitanya. (Gaura-ganoddesha- dipika 76)

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The Ramayana of Valmiki, Part 516

BY: SUN STAFF

Jan 24, CANADA (SUN) — The last in a serial presentation of 'The Epic Journey of Rama'.

INDEX OF PRINCIPAL NAMES

Our presentation of Ramayana concludes with the following, a list of all the principal names featured in the great epic:

Abhijit
Abhikála
Abhíra
Abravanti
Aditi
Ádityas
Agastya

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Jai Srila Prabhupada!

BY: SUDARSHAN DASA

Bhaktivedanta Book Trust

Jan 24, SINGAPORE (SUN) —

"I may tell you that those who have taken this society, Krishna consciousness, very seriously, they are not ordinary persons. They must have had such culture in their previous life. Now they are again trying to revive that thing."

(Lecture, September 18, 1966, New York)

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Vrinda Kunda
Festival Schedule

BY: DEENA BANDHU DAS (ACBSP)

Jan 24, VRINDAVAN DHAM (SUN) — 31st January, Varaha Dvadasi will mark 12 years since the opening of our Vrinda Kunda Temple! To celebrate, we will do special parikramas to the Holy Places of Braja. The program will culminate with our famous Kalash Yatra, an ecstatic Sankirtan procession with the ladies carrying water pots with coconuts on their heads on 8 Feb. Programs will be going on from 31 jan-15 Feb.

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