Before Going out, a prayer is said
Ambarisa Prabhu, an unassuming and humble devotee, has been one of the steadiest leading book distributors in Moscow for many years. Every day before going on book distribution he recites the poem that Srila Prabhupada composed at Boston Pier, expressing feelings of helplessness and deep compassion for the fallen souls. Ambarish Prabhu tries to enter into that mood before going out to engage in Srila Prabhupada's mission. Several...
Para-dukha-dukhi the duty of all sane men, is to save them.
In the Twenty-sixth Chapter of the Fifth Canto, Sukadeva Gosvami… has explained that people who commit sinful acts are forced to enter hellish planets and suffer. Now Maharaja Parikshit, being a devotee, is concerned with how this can be stopped. A Vaisnava is para-dukha-dukhi in other words, he has no personal troubles, but he is very unhappy to see others in trouble. Prahlada Maharaja said, “My Lord, I have no...
SD Los Angeles Newsletter Vol. 3, Issue 19
Srila Prabhupada AT LEAST ONE OR TWO HOURS DAILY Letter to Madhudviña I am very much stressing at this point that all of my students shall be very much conversant with the philosophy of Krishna Consciousness, and that they should read our books very diligently at least one or two hours daily and try to understand the subject matter from varieties of angles. IT IS HAMPERING OUR REPUTATION Letter to Brahmänanda Hamsaduta was...
The Need of the Hour
Dear Devotees, Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. Recent events reminded me of the following statement by Srila Prabhupada: "Human society, at the present moment, is not in the darkness of oblivion. It has made rapid progress in the field of material comforts, education and economic development throughout the entire world. But there is a pinprick somewhere in the social body at large, and...
A Sweet Dream
Dear devotees, Please accept my humble obeisances, all glories to Srila Prabhupada. While I was in Poland at the wookstock festival a devotee told me of a dream he had. Prabhupada came to him and said, "Tell the sankirtan devotees that by this activity of book distribution I personally will take them back home back to Godhead." Your Servent Vijaya...
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