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“In one day of Brahmā, there are fourteen changes of the Manus, and during the reign of each of those fourteen Manus, an incarnation is manifested by the Supreme Personality of Godhead.

NoD 21: Qualities of Śrī Kṛṣṅa 21. Qualities of Śrī Kṛṣṅa Personal features can be divided into two: one feature is covered, and the other feature is manifested. When Kṛṣṅa is covered by different kinds of dress, His personal feature is covered. There is an example of His covered personal feature

TLC 8: The Avatāras Chapter Eight: The Avatāras Lord Caitanya continued explaining to Sanātana Gosvāmī about Lord Kṛṣṅa’s avatāras, or incarnations, which are His expansions who come to the material creation. The word avatāra means ”one who descends from the spiritual sky.” In the spiritual sky t

The three brothers Govinda, Mādhava and Vāsudeva were the eighty-second, eighty-third and eighty-fourth branches of the tree. Lord Caitanya and Nityānanda used to dance in their kīrtana performances.

Only one who can learn the process of nescience and that of transcendental knowledge side by side can transcend the influence of repeated birth and death and enjoy the full blessings of immortality.

670111BG.NY Bhagavad-gītā 10.8 — January 11, 1967, New York 670111BG-NEW YORK [20:42 Minutes] Audio Prabhupāda: ...iti matvā bhajante māṁ budhā bhāva-samanvitāḥ [Bg 10.8]: [I am the source of all spiritual and material worlds. Everything emanates from Me. The wise who know this perfectly enga

710410LE.BOM Paṅḍāl Lecture — April 10, 1971, Bombay 710410LE-BOMBAY [42:55 Minutes] Audio Prabhupāda: om ajñāna-timirāndhasya jñānāñjana-śalākayā cakṣur unmīlitaṁ yena tasmai śrī-gurave-namaḥ [I offer my respectful obeisances unto my spiritual master, who with the torchlight of knowledge has

741110SB.BOM Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.25.10 — November 10, 1974, Bombay 741110SB-BOMBAY [42:15 Minutes] Audio Nitāi: "...engaged by Your māyā and have identified myself with the body and consequent bodily relations." Prabhupāda: atha me deva sammoham apākraṣṭuṁ tvam arhasi yo 'vagraho 'haṁ mametī

750310BG.LON Bhagavad-gītā 7.2 — March 10, 1975, London 750310BG-LONDON [42:12 Minutes] Audio Nitāi: Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. [devotees repeat] [leads chanting of verse, etc.] jñānaṁ te 'haṁ sa-vijñānam idaṁ vakṣyāmy aśeṣataḥ ya

750610MW.HON Morning Walk — June 10, 1975, Honolulu 750610MW-HONOLULU [42:53 Minutes] Audio Śrutakīrti: ...talking in the car on the way over, the other day you said that Govinda dāsī, she had asked you if in general that we would have to take birth in India before going back home, and you said

720810SB.LON Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.2.11–12 — August 10, 1972, London 720810SB-LONDON [45:42 Minutes] Audio Prabhupāda: [leads singing of Jaya rādhā-mādhava] [prema-dhvani prayers] Thank you very much. Devotees: All glories to Śrī Guru and Gauranga. [devotees offer obeisances] Pradyumna: We didn

661210CC.NY Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 20.146, 149–51 — December 10, 1966, New York 661210CC-NEW YORK [25:42 Minutes] Audio Prabhupāda: mukhya-gauṅa-vṛtti, kiṁvā anvaya-vyatireke vedera pratijñā kevala kahaye kṛṣṅake [Cc Madhya 20.146] [When one accepts the Vedic literature by inte

680110SB.LA Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.5.2 — January 10, 1968, Los Angeles 680110SB-LOS ANGELES [41:42 Minutes] Audio Prabhupāda: pārāśarya mahā-bhāga bhavataḥ kaccid ātmanā parituṣyati śārīra ātmā mānasa eva vā [SB 1.5.2] [Addressing Vyāsadeva, the son of Parāśara, Nārada inquired: Are you satisfi

760930R1.VRN Room Conversation — September 30, 1976, Vṛndāvana 760930R1-VRNDAVAN [12:42 Minutes] Audio Prabhupāda: One boy, he was coming to me. In that 100... [break] about 171st Street, all my things were stolen. My tape recorder, typewriter. Fortunately they did not touch my manuscript that

740220MW.BOM Morning Walk — February 20, 1974, Bombay 740220MW-BOMBAY [22:42 Minutes] Audio Prabhupāda: ...and happiness also. That is my experience. I always said that "You are so much graced by God in so many ways." Dr. Patel: [Hindi] Mr. Sar: What karma? Dr. Patel: No, no. They, they [Hin

740102SB.LA Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.16.5 — January 2, 1974, Los Angeles 740102SB-LOS ANGELES [47:21 Minutes] Audio Prabhupāda: Govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi. Devotees: Jaya! Prabhupāda: [Chants jaya rādhā-mādhava] [prema-dhvani] Hare Kṛṣṅa. Cite. Hare Kṛṣṅa. Devotees: Hare Kṛṣṅa. [05:4

770422R2.BOM Conversation with disciples of Chinmayananda and Shivananda Ashram — April 22, 1977, Bombay 770422R2-BOMBAY [18:42 Minutes] Audio Indian man (1): ...mūrti, Shivananda Ashram. Prabhupāda: That Pabai[?] Ashram? Indian man (2): Tirtha Swami. Indian man (1): Krishna Chaitanya Shivan

730729BG.LON Bhagavad-gītā 1.41–42 — July 29, 1973, London 730729BG-LONDON [42:02 Minutes] Audio Pradyumna: Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. [Prabhupāda and devotees repeat] [leads chanting of verse] saṅkaro narakāyaiva kula-ghnānāṁ kula

741223SB.BOM Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.26.11–14 — December 23, 1974, Bombay 741223SB-BOMBAY [32:42 Minutes] Audio Nitāi: "The aggregate elements, namely the five gross elements, the five subtle elements, the four internal senses, the five senses for gathering knowledge and the five outward organs of

760605MW.LA Morning Walk — June 5, 1976, Los Angeles 760605MW-LOS ANGELES [42:57 Minutes] Audio [in car] Tamāla Kṛṣṅa: ...had been a kīrtana leader in his previous lifetime, how could he take so naturally to Sanskrit and chanting like that? Prabhupāda: This boy? Tamāla Kṛṣṅa: Yes. He's just

751005SB.MAU Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.2.6 — October 5, 1975, Mauritius 751005SB-MAURITIUS [52:42 Minutes] Audio Prabhupāda: sa vai puṁsāṁ paro dharmo yato bhaktir adhokṣaje ahaituky apratihatā yayātmā suprasīdati [SB 1.2.6] [The supreme occupation [dharma] for all humanity is that by which men ca

771015R1.VRN Room Conversation — October 15, 1977, Vṛndāvana 771015R1-VRNDAVAN [03:42 Minutes] Audio Tamāla Kṛṣṅa: This morning your urine was very colored again. Prabhupāda: Hmm. Tamāla Kṛṣṅa: So actually the kavirāja says that the actual cure is simply to drink liquids. In Bombay you were d

751004SB.MAU Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 7.5.31 — October 4, 1975, Mauritius 751004SB-MAURITIUS [42:20 Minutes] Audio Harikeśa: Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. [Prabhupāda and devotees repeat] Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, Seventh Canto, Fifth Canto, thirty

721213BG.AHM Bhagavad-gītā 7.1 — December 13, 1972, Ahmedabad 721213BG-AHMEDABAD [54:42 Minutes] Audio Prabhupāda: mayy āsakta-manāḥ pārtha yogaṁ yuñjan mad-āśrayaḥ asaṁśayam samagraṁ māṁ yathā jñāsyasi tac chṛṅu [Bg 7.1] [Now hear, O son of Pṛthā [Arjuna], how by practicing yoga in full cons

760723CC.LON Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 20.113 — July 23, 1976, London 760723CC-LONDON [28:42 Minutes] Audio Pradyumna: Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. [devotees repeat] [chants verse, etc.] śaktayaḥ sarva-bhāvānām acintya-jñāna-gocarāḥ yato 'to brahmaṅas

730109ND.BOM The Nectar of Devotion — January 9, 1973, Bombay 730109ND-BOMBAY [42:06 Minutes] Audio Pradyumna: [reading] "Impersonalists are very fond of merging into the Supreme, like rivers that come down and merge into the ocean. The ocean can be compared with liberation, and the rivers with