Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead

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In this verse, Lord Krishna is explaining to Arjuna the importance of understanding the true nature of his birth and actions. Immediately after hearing the prophecy from the sky, he caught hold of Devakī’s hair and was just about to kill her with his sword. The purpose of this book is to allow one direct experience of Lord Krishna and thereby become freed from material bondage by developing love for Him. This is a truly wonderful work, but to better understand the philosophical concepts it espouses I would also recommend that you read Prabhupada’s Bhagavad-gita As It Is.

According to the custom of the Vedic civilization, when a girl is married, the brother takes the sister and brother-in-law to their home. At age sixty-nine, with forty rupees and a trunk of his Bhagavatam commentaries - the first ever in English - his aim was to introduce "India's message of peace and goodwill" to the western world. While the bride and bridegroom were passing along on the chariot, there were different kinds of musical instruments playing to indicate the auspicious moment.As long as a living entity is conditioned within this material world, he must take material bodies one after another.

Unless we have a particular type of body, we cannot enjoy or suffer according to our mental proclivities inherited from the previous life.The contents should be accepted by the reader as a presentation of absolute truth and the rare oppotunity to actually. but through our indentification and attachment with material energy [physical body, sense pleasures, material possessions, ego, etc,] our true TRANSCENDENTAL CONSCIOUSNESS has been polluted, and like a dirty mirror is unable to reflect a pure image. It is true that God cannot be conquered by any power, but he agrees to be conquered by love, the greatest power. Within the prison, shackled in iron chains, Vasudeva and Devakī gave birth to a male child year after year, and Kaṁsa, thinking each of the babies to be the incarnation of Viṣṇu, killed them one after another. I also read the book to children in place of a bed time story thus enhancing thier cultural knowledge and capacity for imagination.

The position is overall so delicate,” Vasudeva reasoned, “that if you kill her, it will go against your high reputation.Along with Ramon Mahesh's translation/condensation, this is my favorite version in English of what to me is the greatest, most moving text of Indian spirituality. Millions of “devotees” who just attend the temple on Sundays and go on living their lives in the material world will never be able to achieve anything at all either in the material or in the spiritual world. If you are serious devotee, if you are in love with Krsna, tesam satata-yuktanam bhajatam priti-purvakam.

Mahārāja Bharata was very faithfully executing the duties of self-realization, but by chance he developed temporary affection for a deer, and in his next life he had to accept the body of a deer.Mathurā was also made the capital of the kings of the Yadu dynasty because the Yadus were a very pious family and knew that Mathurā is the place where Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa lives eternally, just as He also lives in Dvārakā. He further thought, “If in the future I get a child who can kill Kaṁsa – just as Kaṁsa is thinking – then both Devakī and the child will be saved because the law of providence is inconceivable. We have the great pleasure of announcing Srila Prabhupada’s original Krsna Book is now available for reading on the internet at http://www. As soon as the present body stops functioning and mixes with the five elements of material nature, the living entity within the body accepts another body, according to his present actions and reactions.