gopala.org

?If we maintain our life simply, while remaining subordinate to the Supreme Lord, then by His mercy everything will be easily revealed to us. Persons who are pierced by the arrows of lust will naturally endeavor for material properity. Let them make the material world prosperous, and we will utilize that prosperity. Let them discuss…

Read the original article here. Bogus! We’re supposed to believe this one eh? Funny how they just ‘dissapeared’. This wouldn’t have anything to do with the backlash of folks (not just Hare Krishnas anymore) who have seen through the smoke screen. Now the incriminating evidence has somehow mysteriously been ‘lost’. Best to just stick with…

?Do not pass between two brahmanas, between a brahmana and his sacrificial fire, between a wife and her husband, a master and his servant, and a plough and an ox.? ? Chanakya Niti Sastra 7.5

Prabhupada: Therefore Krsna has said, mam ekam. “Don’t go to these foolish rascals.” Mam ekam. Otherwise you’ll be misled. Because they are misleaders, rascals. Dr. Patel: You are so very hard. Prabhupada: I must be hard! Dr. Patel: Hard, harsh, and hard and harsh… Prabhupada: The whole world is spoiled for these Mayavadis. Therefore I…

The transcendental vibration of Krsna’s flute blocked the movements of the rain clouds, struck the Gandharvas full of wonder, and agitated the meditation of great saintly persons like Sanaka and Sanandana. It created wonder in Lord Brahma, wrought intense curiosity that agitated the mind of Bali Maharaja, who was otherwise firmly fixed, made Maharaja Ananta,…

?If we present things as they are,? he says, ?they will be accepted.? People are saying that Prabhupada is performing miracles, but he says that the miracle is in presenting things as they are. – Hayagriva dasa, quoting Srila Prabhupada in BTG #53, 1973

“All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed; second, it is violently opposed; and third, it is accepted as self-evident.” —Arthur Schopenhauer

Lord Macaulay’s Address To The British Parlaiment 2 February, 1835 “I have travelled across the length and breadth of India and I have not seen one person who is a beggar, who is a thief. Such wealth I have seen in this country, such high moral values, people of such caliber, that I do not…

Thanks to Matt Rawcliffe of North Western UK for the donation of AU$18.00 to be used for Gopala’s seva. 🙂 śarvaraḥ śarvarī śarvaḥ sarvatra-śubha-dāyakaḥ rādhārādhayitārādhī rādhā-citta-pramodakaḥ He is night (śarvara and śarvarī). He is all-pervading (śarva). He brings auspiciousness everywhere (sarvatra-śubha-dāyaka). He worships Śrī Rādhā (rādhārādhayitā). He is the supreme object of worship (ārādhī). He…

revatī-ramaṇo rāmaś ca?calaś cāru-locanaḥ rāmayaṇa-śarīro ‘yaṁ rāmī rāmaḥ śriyaḥpatiḥ He enjoys pastimes with Revatī (revatī-ramaṇa), and He is Lord Balarāma (rāma). He is restless (ca?cala), and has handsome eyes (cāru-locana). His transcendental form is the home of Lord Rāma’s pastimes (rāmayaṇa-śarīra). He is Lord Rāma (rāmī and rāma), and He is the master of the…

(a letter written to the ‘Hemp Embassy’ in Nimbin) Hi there. Yesterday I went for a drive in the country with my family. I didn’t really have a destination chalked out and the drive was beautiful. I came across a roadsign that informed me that the town of Nimbin was only 13km away. So I…