by Sri Srimad Bhaktisvarupa Damodara Swami jalaja nav ìaksàni sthavara laksa-vimsati krmayo rudra-sankhyakah paksinam dasa-laksanam trimsal-laksàni pasavah catur-laksani mànusàh “There are 900,000 species living in the water. There are 2,00,000 non-moving living entities [sthavara] such as trees and plants. There are 1,100,000 species of insects and reptiles, and 1,000,000 species of birds. As far as [...]
By Srila Bhaktisvarupa Damodara Swami By the inconceivable mercy of Lord Sri Krishna, I met His Divine Grace Sri Srimad A C Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, the Founder-Acharya of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) in early 1970, in New Dwaraka (Los Angeles, U.S. A.) while I was working for my Ph. D. in Physical [...]
By HH Giriraj Swami October 8, 2006 Carpinteria, CA USA My dear Maharaja, Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. We are missing you terribly today, after your sudden departure from this realm of mortality to the service of Srila Prabhupada in eternity. My thoughts turn to my earliest association with you. [...]
Vijaya Dasami, 2006 The Glorious Dissappearance of Srila Bhaktisvarupam Damodara Swami Sripada Maharaja Written by: Bhaktisvarupa Damodara Maharaja’s servants attending Him in Calcutta Bhaktisvarupa Damodara Maharaja, beloved spiritual son of Srila A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, disappeared from this mortal world during the Ratrilila period of Lord Sri Krishna’s Astakaliya lila on Vijaya Dasami, which [...]
VEDANTA AND SCIENCE SERIES: LIFE AND ORIGIN OF THE UNIVERSE by Dr. T. D. Singh (His Holiness Bhaktisvarupa Damodara Swami) pp. 84, Softbound Rp. 50.000 (Yang English) Rp. 38.000 (Yang Bahasa Indonesia) ISBN: 81-901369-3-3 Vedanta merupakan kesimpulan atau kata akhir Literatur (Kitab-kitab) Veda. Vedanta- Sutra tersusun atas ayat-ayat pendek yang disebut dengan sutra. Setiap sutra [...]
Saat ini, konsep Evolusi telah memengaruhi seluruh dunia. Konsep ini diajarkan hampir di seluruh sekolah dan universitas di seluruh dunia dan memengaruhi ribuan siswa di muka bumi setiap saat. Kehidupan, menurut paradigma ini, merupakan hasil evolusi debu-partikel-kosmis yang tidak hidup (atom dan molekul), dimana paradigma evolusi ini kelihatannya tidak memiliki makna dan tujuan (dari suatu [...]
by dr. Putu Benny (Dasan Rangaraja) om ajnana-timirandhasya jnananjana salakaya caksur unmilitam yena tasmai sri gurave namah namah om vishnupadaya krishna-presthaya bhu-tale srimate bhaktisvarupa damodara svamin iti namine namah sad-bhakta-manaye manipura-udbhavaya ca prabhupada lasad-vani pracara niratayate babhruvahana-vamsadbhi somaya subha drstye sunyavadi madebhendra singhaya bhagavata namah abhayadi gunadaya sad-vijnana ghanaya ca navya vaijnana tamas suryaya te [...]
By Ananta Prabhu Das (Ananta Raman) <anantha_bsds@yahoo.com> Mumbai, India. His Holiness Sripada Bhaktisvarupa Damodara Swami disappeared from this world on the holy day Vijaya Dasami, October 2, 2006. Srila Sripada has been known as a very dear disciple of Srila Prabhupada whose presence always made Srila Prabhupada happy. Mumbai disciples of Srila Sripada celebrated his auspicious tirobhava [...]
Continuation from Part 1 by ISKCON Manipur INGA (June): On the day of full moon of the month of Inga (June), the Vigrahas of Sri Sri Jagannatha, Balabhadra and Subhadra are taken out in the Prangal (verandah) of the Mandir. The brahmanas and pujaris of the temple will perform seva puja and snana of the [...]
Srila Prabhupada’s Affectionate Remarks About Sripada Maharaja The spiritual master is always concerned about the wellbeing of the disciples. The affection and care of the spiritual master for his disciple are clearly visible in the relationship between Srila Prabhupada and Sripada Maharaja. Srila Prabhupada’s remarks about Sripada Maharaja made during the period from 1970 to [...]
by Srila Bhaktisvarupa Damodara Svami Sripada Maharaja Bedugul, Bali, Indonesia, Dec 28, 2005 Hare Krsna, I d like to thanks all of you for your coming from different great planets… So, Bhaktivonoda Thakur says, that in most people sleeping, so therefore it is good to understand that we are waking up from deep slumber…slumber mean [...]
(ACBSP. Morning Walk, July 14, 1975, Philadelphia.) Svarupa Damodara: The question that I wrote to Srila Prabhupada, the answer that Srila Prabhupada gave me was that the cells in the body and the jivatma that resides in the heart, they are different living entities. But my understanding was directed to the relationship between the two, [...]
by Rev. Canon Charles P. Gibbs, Executive Director of URI’s (Sent By gopijana of www.Mayapur.com on Mon, 2009-09-28 17:33. Today is HH Bhaktisvarupa Damodara Maharaja’s disapperance day.Maharaja is a dear most disciple of Srila Prabhupada. It was Maharaja’s desire to have URI (United Religious Initiative)Global Assembly in Mayapur.Honouring Maharaja’s desire, URI Global Assembly 2008 took [...]
By Visuddha-sattva Prabhu (Visuddha-sattva Prabhu who was working with Bhaktisvarupa Damodara Maharaja since about 1980 on the scientific preaching, particularly in pursuance of the instructions Prabhupada gave to Bhaktisvarupa Damodara Maharaja to gather up all our PhDs and present the Vedic Planetarium.) Visuddha-sattva Prabhu: It is my honor to say a few words about my [...]
by Hrdayananda Dasa Goswami Hrdayananda Goswami: Hare Krsna. I spent a good deal of time with Bhaktisvarupa Damodara in Los Angeles when he, I think not too long after, he began visiting the temple and taking those famous walks with Srila Prabhupada. I was present so I was on many of those walks. Of course, [...]
Sesa Prabhu: I take it as a very great honor that I can sit before you today to speak a little bit about His Holiness Bhaktisvarupa Damodara Swami. As I do so, I remember my godbrother, His Grace Bhojadeva Prabhu. I want to mention his name because he was actually our godbrother, Srila Prabhupada’s disciples’ [...]
remembrance by His Holiness Srila Jayapataka Swami Jayapataka Swami: Every year, at the New Panihati festival in Atlanta, we have a Prabhupada lila-smarana festival of his visit there. Svarupa Damodara Maharaja was there when Prabhupada was there and he would come to this lila-smarana festival. So we heard from different devotees also how much Prabhupada [...]
continue from part 1 An interview recorded in Singapore on 7 January 1995 Devotee: This initiation was conducted with full fire sacrifice? Srila Sripada: Yeah so we went upstairs and Ramananda introduced me to Prabhupada saying that I am such and such, come from Manipur, and I’m a student at the university, doing my PhD. [...]
An interview recorded in Singapore on 7 January 1995 (Sent by Rupachandra das of Singapore) Srila Sripada: ..try to use one’s intelligence properly. That’s the meaning of understanding one’s guna, karma and application. Its not only understanding one’s guna karma but how to apply that guna karma in Bhagavat seva, Krishna consciousness. Prabhupada used to [...]
19 Sep 1972, Los Angeles SP: Therefore they are suffering only for the matter of knowing something, kevala krishanti.kevala [indistinct word]. Krishanti means taking trouble unnecessarily. What do you gain by this knowledge? You cannot solve your problems. BSDS: That is why the brains of the scientists are very busy in thinking all these things, [...]
Lecture on Bhagavad-gītā As It Is 9.27. France 2005 By Sri Srimad Bhaktisvarupa Damodara Swami Srila Sripada (DR. T.D. Singh, Ph.D) (Sent by Rupachandra Das Of Singapore) We are reading from Srimad Bhagavad gita as it is, Chapter 9, the most confidential knowledge, Text 27. Om Namo Bhagavate Vāsudevāya Om Namo Bhagavate Vāsudevāya Om Namo [...]
by Srila Prabhupada The Following Glories Of Srila Sripada Maharaja was spoken by Srila Prabhupada when he gave Bhagavatam Lecture. This Quote type and sent By Abhimany das. (Hare Krnsa. I was watching a DVD of Srila Prabhupada giving a Srimad Bhagavatam class (S.B.1.2.17) at New Vrndavan in 1974 and about mid-lecture he was glorifying [...]
