Dear Maharajas, Prabhujis and Matajis

Please Accept My Humble Obeisances
All Glories to Srila Prabhupada

Hare Krishna

As far as I know the source of this collection - is from the teachings of HH
Gour Govinda Swami who is widely known in all Vaishnava circles as a pure
devotee of the Lord. (Kindly correct me if you spot any errors in
representing his words as it is.)

I have heard Gaudiya Matha devotees, HH Narayana Maharaj followers and
ISKCON leaders confirm that he is a pure devotee - a maha bhagavatha.

All glories to him.

I humbly pray to all of you that I may be able to follow his pure Krishna
conscious teachings in a manner which is pleasing to Krishna.

_______________________________

*Gour Govinda Swami on ISKCON*

***Develop Patience*

You mention that many devotees are losing faith in ISKCON and are leaving
our society to find shelter elsewhere. That is not good. They should not
leave ISKCON; that will never please Srila Prabhupada. Develop patience and
tolerance and pray to Srila Prabhupada from the core of your heart. How is
it that he will not help you? (*My Revered Spiritual Master. *P. 101.
Letter, 18 December 1993.)

*Don’t Leave*

*Devotee: *You said we should always seek the association of advanced
devotees. When Srila Prabhupada left the planet, some of his disciples took
shelter of one of his godbrothers.

*Gour Govinda Maharaja: *Thereby they committed a mistake. For the
clarification of some philosophical doubt or to accept *siksa,* one may go
to another *vaisnava, *but why leave?

*Devotee *Some people took shelter of this Maharaja, and naturally, because
he was giving some instruction, they became attached to him and accepted him
as *siksa-guru.  read more »

Dear Maharajas, Prabhujis and Matajis

Please Accept My Humble Obeisances
All Glories to Srila Prabhupada

Hare Krishna

As far as I know the source of this collection - is from the teachings of HH
Gour Govinda Swami who is widely known in all Vaishnava circles as a pure
devotee of the Lord. (Kindly correct me if you spot any errors in
representing his words as it is.)

I have heard Gaudiya Matha devotees, HH Narayana Maharaj followers and
ISKCON leaders confirm that he is a pure devotee - a maha bhagavatha.

All glories to him.

I humbly pray to all of you that I may be able to follow his pure Krishna
conscious teachings in a manner which is pleasing to Krishna.

_______________________________

*Gour Govinda Swami on ISKCON*

***Develop Patience*

You mention that many devotees are losing faith in ISKCON and are leaving
our society to find shelter elsewhere. That is not good. They should not
leave ISKCON; that will never please Srila Prabhupada. Develop patience and
tolerance and pray to Srila Prabhupada from the core of your heart. How is
it that he will not help you? (*My Revered Spiritual Master. *P. 101.
Letter, 18 December 1993.)

*Don’t Leave*

*Devotee: *You said we should always seek the association of advanced
devotees. When Srila Prabhupada left the planet, some of his disciples took
shelter of one of his godbrothers.

*Gour Govinda Maharaja: *Thereby they committed a mistake. For the
clarification of some philosophical doubt or to accept *siksa,* one may go
to another *vaisnava, *but why leave?

*Devotee *Some people took shelter of this Maharaja, and naturally, because
he was giving some instruction, they became attached to him and accepted him
as *siksa-guru.  read more »

SB 1.10.16

prasada-sikhararudhah
kuru-naryo didrksaya
vavrsuh kusumaih krsnam
prema-vrida-smiteksanah

SYNONYMS
prasada—palace; sikhara—the roof; arudhah—ascending; kuru-naryah—the ladies
of the Kuru royalty; didrksaya—seeing; vavrsuh—showered; kusumaih—by
flowers; krsnam—upon Lord Krsna; prema—out of affection and love;
vrida-smita-iksanah—glancing with shy smiles.

TRANSLATION

Out of a loving desire to see the Lord, the royal ladies of the Kurus got up
on top of the palace, and smiling with affection and shyness, they showered
flowers upon the Lord.

PURPORT

Shyness is a particular extra-natural beauty of the fair sex, and it
commands respect from the opposite sex. This custom was observed even during
the days of the Mahabharata, i.e., more than five thousand years ago. It is
only the less intelligent persons not well versed in the history of the
world who say that observance of separation of female from male is an
introduction of the Mohammedan period in India. This incident from the
Mahabharata period proves definitely that the ladies of the palace observed
strict parda (restricted association with men), and instead of coming down
in the open air where Lord Krsna and others were assembled, the ladies of
the palace went up on the top of the palace and from there paid their
respects to Lord Krsna by showers of flowers. It is definitely stated here
that the ladies were smiling there on the top of the palace, checked by
shyness. This shyness is a gift of nature to the fair sex, and it enhances
their beauty and prestige, even if they are of a less important family or
even if they are less attractive.  read more »

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Greetings

It has been a while before I could post on Gnosis, Gnostics, Gnosticism group. My health does not permit me. 

I wish all of you a belated Happy Diwali and my regrets of not having wished you on several festivals gone by. 

I would also like members to take an active part on this group and make it more lively. Warm regards and Welcome

Viren

" Simply wonderful " by HG Sankarsana dasa

There are no words actually sufficient to reciprocate the love Srila
Prabhupada has given to me and all of us. This love is absolutely
inconceivable, unlimited, fathomless.

Fathomless means there is absolutely no limit to get the mercy, wisdom of
His Divine Grace Srila Prabhupada. I simply remembered this morning how much
I was suffering.

I was crying that my life is so empty, so meaningless, so horribly
nightmarish. But then the grace of His Divine Grace Srila Prabhupada
and so many wonderful of his followers, just like Makhanlal Prabhu is
here, he preached to me first in Berkley. Then His Holiness Visnujana
Maharaj came to Austin in 1971.

So by the kindness of Srila Prabhupada and the kindness expanded by Srila
Prabhupada through his followers, I have gotten the opportunity to actually
become happy and get out of my suffering condition. So how much I am
indebted to Srila Prabhupada and to all of you, there is no limit.

Everything about Srila Prabhupada is absolutely wonderful. A devotee
asked Srila Prabhupada, "Srila Prabhupada what happens when you give
someone a simply wonderful on the street?"

Srila Prabhupada said, "He will take that simply wonderful and he will
come to your temple and he will become simply wonderful. Krsna is
simply wonderful, this process of Krsna consciousness is simply
wonderful and you are all simply wonderful."

Then one devotee said, "Prabhupada is simply wonderful!"

Prabhupada said, "That's alright, have kirtan."

I thank you all for being the simply wonderful followers of Srila
Prabhupada, giving this simply terrible wretch Sankarsana dasa, the
opportunity to become Krsna conscious.

" In Prabhupada We Trust " by Hari Sauri Das

I have always done a bit of travelling, at least since 1975 when I was
fortunate enough to join Srila Prabhupada's personal entourage.

I got to travel India and around the world with His Divine Grace, and
it gave me my first look at worldwide ISKCON.

I was impressed. Impressed with Srila Prabhupada and impressed with his
disciples and the amazing scope of transcendental activity that was
manifesting all over the globe. Unity was the key, and that was achieved
through the presence and desire of Srila Prabhupada. Later, after His Divine
Grace's disappearance I served as a GBC for over seven years. It seemed like
I was in the air or on the road more often than I wasn't.

I had a far-flung South Seas zone and international duties to fulfil. It was
a boom time: we went from four temples to seventeen centres, including three
farms, two schools, with additional restaurants and two new BBT divisions.

From 95 full time devotees (the official count in that zone in 1977) we
jumped over 400. It was time of rapid expansion and it seemed for a short
while we could do no wrong. Of course, human frailty wasn't far behind and
mundane realities exerted themselves, individually and collectively.

Maintaining what Srila Prabhupada had left us proved a difficult task.

The spiritual waves of preaching sakti, emanating from Srila Prabhupada's
personal presence, which had swept us almost effortlessly along, like a
great tsunami surging around the globe, subsided. After 1984 I left
management and became ISKCON private citizen. I was much more stationary. I
still travelled a bit, but nothing like the scale of my earlier years. I
lived in England, then India, then Australia, then the USA and finally back  read more »

This forum topic is meant to discuss excerpts from "Srila Prabhupada Is
Coming!," by Mahamaya Devi Dasi.

This book makes for wonderful reading and we recommend devotees to get it.
Those of you who have it may kindly post nice excerpts from it so that it
will be pleasing to the devotees here.

We will try to post several pastime articles from here in the coming days.

The Appearance of Auspiciousness by Krishna Dharma dasa

THE APPEARANCE OF AUSPICIOUSNESS

Dear Prabhupada, we come once more
to prove with praise your qualities,
in hope that we might somehow please
you and thus your most dear Lord.

To rightly mark this great event
demands a gathering of such size,
that all the worlds does not comprise,
with tributes and true testament.

Still we the few united here,
offer prayers this sacred day,
that you may show to us the way
to swell our number year by year.

Brilliant sun that blazed across
the covered sky and in its course,
burnt to ash with fiery force
the darkness of our godless dross.

Your truth shall sound more loudly still
with the end of every day.
And with it will you ever stay,
to guide our weak and wand'ring will.

The greatest gift you freely gave.
We stand eternally in debt.
While full in fortune we regret,
the time when we were not your slave.

What hope for we who preferred pain?
Decisions born of ignorance,
that stood us in defiant stance
against the love you show again.

But now by you our life renewed.
Yet hardly can we fathom why,
To show our thanks we shall but try
to show you to the multitude.

Expanding sea of causeless love
that bursts the banks of time and space,
to wash away our dark disgrace
and all our faithless fears remove.

We the foolish, we the wretched,
we the fallen, still so proud,
by weight of woe forever bowed,
are raised by pity's hand outstretched.

In truth you wrought such massive good,
that poet's pen might not describe,
that time alone shall yet ascribe,
to you your glory's magnitude.

Thus falling helpless at your feet,
we pray accept our accolade,
one flower that so soon shall fade,
as you do all our words defeat.