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Due to fear of the Muslims, Gopāla went to Mathurā, where He remained in the house of Viṭhṭhaleśvara for one full month.

Vallabha Bhaṭṭācārya was struck with wonder to see Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu and Raghupati Upādhyāya dance. He even brought forward his two sons and made them fall down at the Lord’s lotus feet.

While Sanātana Gosvāmī was studying Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam in the assembly of learned brāhmaṇas, one day the Nawab of Bengal and another person suddenly appeared.

Those who engage in the culture of nescient activities shall enter into the darkest region of ignorance. Worse still are those engaged in the culture of so-called knowledge.

In Vṛndāvana in the year 1537 Śakābda Era [A.D 1615], in the month of Jyaiṣṭha [May-June], on Sunday, the fifth day of the waning moon, this Caitanya-caritāmṛta has been completed.

Some of the books compiled by Śrīla Sanātana Gosvāmī were the Hari-bhakti-vilāsa, Bṛhad-bhāgavatāmṛta, Daśama-ṭippanī and Daśama-carita.

The most famous and formidable transcendental literature is the book named Gopāla-campū. In this book the eternal pastimes of the Lord are established, and the transcendental mellows enjoyed in Vṛndāvana are completely described.

“ ‘O King, the kṣetra-jña-śakti is the living entity. Although he has the facility to live in either the material or the spiritual world, he suffers the threefold miseries of material existence because he is influenced by the avidyā [nescience] potency, which covers his constitutional position.

“In this way the conditioned soul becomes the servant of lusty desires, and when these are not fulfilled, he becomes the servant of anger and continues to be kicked by the external energy, māyā. Wandering and wandering throughout the universe, he may by chance get the association of a devotee physic

LCFL 15: The Fifteenth Morning Walk: December 7, 1973 The Fifteenth Morning Walk: December 7, 1973 Recorded on December 7, 1973, On the shores of the Pacific Ocean Near Los Angeles Śrīla Prabhupāda is accompanied by Dr. Singh, Dr. W. H. Wolf-Rottkay and another student. Getting the Eyes to See G

TLK 9: Purifying the Mind for Self-realization 9. Purifying the Mind for Self-realization TLK Vs 15 TEXT 15 ceTa" %LvSYa bNDaaYa Mau¢-Yae caTMaNaae MaTaMa( ) Gau<aezu Sa¢&- bNDaaYa rTa& va Pau&iSa Mau¢-Yae )) 15 )) cetaḥ khalv asya bandhāya muktaye cātmano matam guṅeṣu saktaṁ bandhāya rataṁ vā

40. In the clear autumn sky the twinkling stars appear brighter and brighter, just like a transcendentalist clear vision of the purpose of the Vedas. It is said that the import of the Vedas becomes clear to one who is not only a sincere devotee of the Lord but also a sincere servitor of the spiritu

oṁ ajñāna-timirāndhasya jñānāñjana-śalākayā cakṣur unmīlitaṁ yena tasmai śrī-gurave namaḥ śrī-caitanya-mano-’bhīṣṭaṁ sthāpitaṁ yena bhū-tale svayaṁ rūpaḥ kadā mahyaṁ dadāti sva-padāntikam I was born in the darkest ignorance, and my spiritual master opened my eyes with the torch of knowledge. I off

The real form of this tree cannot be perceived in this world. No one can understand where it ends, where it begins, or where its foundation is. But with determination one must cut down this strongly rooted tree with the weapon of detachment. Thereafter, one must seek that place from which, having go

All purposes served by a small well can at once be served by a great reservoir of water. Similarly, all the purposes of the Vedas can be served to one who knows the purpose behind them.

The ācārya Śaṅkarāraṇya was considered the forty-eighth branch of the original tree. From Him proceeded the subbranches known as Mukunda, Kāśīnātha and Rudra.

The prominent devotees at Vārāṇasī were the physician Candraśekhara, Tapana Miśra and Raghunātha Bhaṭṭācārya, Tapana Miśra’s son. When Lord Caitanya came to Vārāṇasī after seeing Vṛndāvana, for two months He lived at the residence of Candraśekhara Vaidya and accepted prasādam at the house of Tapana

Śrī Gadādhara dāsa, the twenty-third branch, was understood to be the topmost, for he induced all the Muslim Kazis to chant the holy name of Lord Hari.

When Nityānanda Prabhu was ordered to go to Bengal to preach, these two devotees [Śrī Rāmadāsa and Gadādhara dāsa] were ordered to go with Him. Thus they are sometimes counted among the devotees of Lord Caitanya and sometimes among the devotees of Lord Nityānanda. Similarly, Mādhava Ghoṣa and Vāsude

Śivānanda Cakravartī, the thirty-third branch, who always lived in Vṛndāvana with firm conviction, is considered an important branch of Gadādhara Paṇḍita.

After this, Jagannātha Miśra got a son of the name Viśvarūpa, who was most powerful and highly qualified because He was an incarnation of Baladeva.

Thus in the year 1407 of the Śaka Era [A.D. 1486], in the month of Phālguna [February-March], in the evening of the full-moon day, the desired auspicious moment arrived.

In the year 1407 of the Śaka Era (A.D. 1486), Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu appeared, and in the year 1455 (A.D. 1534) He disappeared from this world.

I offer my respectful obeisances unto the lotus feet of Lord Caitanya because simply by offering a flower at His lotus feet even the most ardent materialist becomes a devotee.

Mother Śacī said, “You have spoken very nicely. I shall not eat grains on Ekādaśī.” From that day, she began to observe fasting on Ekādaśī.

Thereafter, seeing that Viśvarūpa was a grown-up youth, Jagannātha Miśra wanted to find a girl and arrange a marriage ceremony for Him.

Hearing of this, Viśvarūpa immediately left home and went away to accept sannyāsa and travel from one place of pilgrimage to another.

When Śacīmātā and Jagannātha Miśra heard of the departure of their elder son, Viśvarūpa, they were very unhappy, but Lord Caitanya tried to console them.

“My dear mother and father,” the Lord said, “it is very good that Viśvarūpa has accepted the sannyāsa order, for thus He has delivered both His father’s family and His mother’s family.”

One day Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu ate betel nuts offered to the Deity, but they acted as an intoxicant, and He fell down on the ground unconscious.

After His father and mother sprinkled water on His mouth with great haste, the Lord revived and said something wonderful they had never heard before.

The Lord said, “Viśvarūpa took Me away from here, and He requested Me to accept the sannyāsa order.

“I replied to Viśvarūpa, ‘I have My helpless father and mother, and also I am but a child. What do I know about the sannyāsa order of life?

All glories to Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu! All glories to Lord Nityānanda Prabhu! All glories to Advaita Ācārya! And all glories to all the devotees of Lord Caitanya!

“ ‘Later I shall become a householder and thus serve My parents, for this action will very much satisfy Lord Nārāyaṇa and His wife, the goddess of fortune.’

“Then Viśvarūpa returned Me home and requested, ‘Offer thousands and thousands of obeisances unto My mother, Śacīdevī.’ ”

In this way Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu performed various pastimes, but why He did so I cannot understand.

After some days, Jagannātha Miśra passed away from this world to the transcendental world, and both mother and son were very much aggrieved in their hearts.

Friends and relatives came there to pacify Lord Caitanya and His mother. Then Lord Caitanya, even though He was the Supreme Personality of Godhead, executed the rituals for His dead father according to the Vedic system.

After some days the Lord thought, “I did not take sannyāsa, and since I am remaining at home it is My duty to act as a gṛhastha.

“Without a wife,” Lord Caitanya considered, “there is no meaning to householder life.” Thus the Lord decided to marry.

“Merely a house is not a home, for it is a wife who gives a home its meaning. If one lives at home with his wife, together they can fulfill all the interests of human life.”

One day when the Lord was coming back from school He accidentally saw the daughter of Vallabhācārya on the way to the Ganges.

When the Lord and Lakṣmīdevī met, their relationship awakened, having already been settled, and coincidentally the marriage-maker Vanamālī came to see Śacīmātā.

Let me now enumerate the activities of the Lord between the ages of five and ten. His chief occupation during this period was to engage Himself in study.

Following the indications of Śacīdevī, Vanamālī Ghaṭaka arranged the marriage, and thus in due course the Lord married Lakṣmīdevī.

Vṛndāvana dāsa Ṭhākura has elaborately described all these pastimes of the Lord’s early age. What I have given is but a condensed presentation of the same pastimes.

The Lord performed many varieties of pastimes in His early age, and Śrīla Vṛndāvana dāsa Ṭhākura has described them elaborately.

I have given but a single hint of these pastimes, for Vṛndāvana dāsa Ṭhākura, in his book Caitanya-maṅgala [now Caitanya-bhāgavata], has described them all vividly.

731028BG.VRN Bhagavad-gītā 15.1 — October 28, 1973, Vṛndāvana 731028BG-VRINDAVAN [29:02 Minutes] Audio Pradyumna: "The Blessed Lord said: There is a banyan tree which has its roots upward and its branches down and whose leaves are the Vedic hymns. One who knows this tree is the knower of the Ve

750208BG.HON Bhagavad-gītā 16.13–15 — February 8, 1975, Honolulu 750208BG-HONOLULU [30:16 Minutes] Audio Nitāi: Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. [devotees repeat] Chapter Sixteen, verses 13 through 15. [leads chanting of verses, etc.] i

740226BG.CAL Bhagavad-gītā 15.1 — February 26, 1974, Calcutta 740226BG-CALCUTTA [10:56 Minutes] Audio Nitāi: Translation: "The Blessed Lord said: There is a banyan tree which has its roots upward and its branches downward, whose leaves are the Vedic hymns. One who knows this tree is the knower

700518IP.LA Śrī Īśopaniṣad, Mantra 13–15 — May 18, 1970, Los Angeles 700518IP-LOS ANGELES [20:01 Minutes] Audio Prabhupāda: Everyone feeling all right? Devotees: Yes, Prabhupāda. Jaya! Prabhupāda: Hare Kṛṣṅa. Page 65, mantra 13. anyad evāhuḥ sambhavād anyad āhur asambhavāt iti śuśruma dhīrāṅ

661028BG.NY Bhagavad-gītā 8.14–15 — October 28, 1966, New York 661028BG-NEW YORK [26:31 Minutes] Audio Prabhupāda: ananya-cetāḥ satataṁ yo māṁ smarati nityaśaḥ tasyāhaṁ sulabhaḥ pārtha nitya-yuktasya yoginaḥ [Bg 8.14] [For one who remembers Me without deviation, I am easy to obtain, O son of

661128BG.NY Bhagavad-gītā 9.14–15 — November 28, 1966, New York 661128BG-NEW YORK [73:13 Minutes] Audio Kīrtanānanda: [taps microphone] You'll have to play very quietly while Swami chants from the beginning and [indistinct]. Prabhupāda: Softly. Prabhupāda: [prema-dhvani] All glories to the as

661211CC.NY Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 20.152–154 — December 11, 1966, New York 661211CC-NEW YORK [28:13 Minutes] Audio Prabhupāda: So Lord Caitanya is describing about the personal feature of Lord Kṛṣṅa. The [im]personal feature of Lord Kṛṣṅa, as described in the Bhagavad-gītā, that

661212CC.NY Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 20.154–157 — December 12, 1966, New York 661212CC-NEW YORK [27:55 Minutes] Audio Prabhupāda: [taps microphone] īśvaraḥ paramaḥ kṛṣṅaḥ sac-cid-ānanda-vigrahaḥ anādir ādir govindaḥ sarva-kāraṅa-kāraṅam [Cc Madhya 20.154] [Kṛṣṅa who is known a

670109CC.NY Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 22.11–15 — January 9, 1967, New York 670109CC-NEW YORK [22:33 Minutes] Audio Prabhupāda: 'nitya-mukta'-nitya kṛṣṅa-caraṅe unmukha 'kṛṣṅa-pāriṣada' nāma, bhuñje sevā-sukha [Cc Madhya 22.11] [Those who are eternally liberated are always awake t

680912SB.SF Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 6.1.6–15 — September 12, 1968, San Francisco 680912SB-SAN FRANCISCO [41:40 Minutes] Audio Prabhupāda: [chants maṅgalācaraṅa prayers] oṁ ajñāna-timirāndhasya jñānāñjana-śalākayā cakṣur unmīlitaṁ yena tasmai śrī-gurave namaḥ [I offer my respectful obeisances unto m

690216BG.LA Bhagavad-gītā 6.13–15 [Sāṅkhya Yoga System] — February 16, 1969, Los Angeles 690216BG-LOS ANGELES [47:58 Minutes] Audio Devotees: All glories to Śrī guru, Śrīla Prabhupāda. [devotees offer obeisances] Prabhupāda: Hare Kṛṣṅa. Sāṅkhya-yoga is the aṣṭāṅga-yoga. This sitting posture a

710204SB.GOR Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 6.3.12–15 — February 4, 1971, Gorakhpur 710204SB-GORAKHPUR [51:16 Minutes] Audio [SB 6.3.12] [Yamarāja said: My dear servants, you have accepted me as the Supreme, but factually I am not. Above me, and above all the other demigods, including Indra and Candra, is

710214CC.GOR Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 6.151–154 — February 14, 1971, Gorakhpur 710214CC-GORAKHPUR [50:29 Minutes] Audio Mālatī: [introducing recording] This lecture was recorded in Gorakhpur, U.P., India, on the evening of February 14th, 1970 [sic]. Prabhupāda: Ataeva śruti kahe b

710219CC.GOR Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 6.154–155 [Śrī Kṛṣṅa-niketana] — February 19, 1971, Gorakhpur 710219CC-GORAKHPUR [37:32 Minutes] Audio Haṁsadūta: The following lecture was recorded on the evening of February 19th, 1971, at Śrī Kṛṣṅa-niketana, Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh. Prabhu

710316SB.BOM Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 7.7.10–15 — March 16, 1971, Bombay 710316SB-BOMBAY [11:40 Minutes] Unknown-40 Audio Prabhupāda: ...ṣaḥ sākṣān mahā-bhāgavato mahān tvayā na prāpsyate saṁsthām anantānucaro bale [SB 7.7.10] [Nārada Muni replied: The child within this woman's womb is faultless an

720531SB.LA Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 2.3.14–15 — May 31, 1972, Los Angeles 720531SB-LOS ANGELES [40:32 Minutes] Audio Pradyumna: Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Page 142, text number 14. [leads chanting of verse] We already chanted yesterday, s

720909R1.PIT Room Conversation — September 9, 1972, Pittsburgh 720909R1-PITTSBURGH [08:53 Minutes] Audio Yaśomatīnandana: We got garlanded every block, so many garlands were there it was hard to redistribute again. Devotee: If you need help. [laughter] Svarūpa Dāmodara: How many people live i

730221SB.AUC Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 6.1.13–15 — February 21, 1973, Auckland 730221SB-AUCKLAND [53:58 Minutes] Audio Prabhupāda: yam... yamena niyamena vā [SB 6.1.13] [To concentrate the mind, one must observe a life of celibacy and not fall down. One must undergo the austerity of voluntarily givi

740110SB.LA Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.16.13–15 — January 10, 1974, Los Angeles 740110SB-LOS ANGELES [35:49 Minutes] Audio Pradyumna: [leads chanting of verse, etc.] [Prabhupāda and devotees repeat] tatra tatropaśṛṅvānaḥ sva-pūrveṣāṁ mahātmanām pragīyamāṅaṁ ca yaśaḥ kṛṣṅa-māhātmya-sūcakam ātmānaṁ ca

760515R1.HON Room Conversation — 15 May, 1976, Honolulu 760515R1-HONOLULU [62:55 Minutes] Audio Prabhupāda: ...she still upstairs? Rādhā-vallabha: No, Prabhupāda. Pālikā is up there now learning how to cook from her. Prabhupāda: Hm? Rādhā-vallabha: Pālikā has gone up there to learn cooking f