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Srila Prabhupada saved from third stroke in New York
Speaker: Dinatarini devi
Source: Yamuna Devi: A Life of Unalloyed Devotion
On Memorial Day, May 30, 1967 in New York, Srila Prabhupada suffered a stroke in New York. The prognosis was grave.
Yamuna: Swamiji had sent us a telegram which said, “If you pray to Lord Jagannatha, and if He hears your prayers, I will stay; otherwise I may go.”
Srila Prabhupada taught the devotees in New York the prayers to Lord Nrsimhadeva and asked them to request the Lord to allow him to remain alive longer to spread the fledgling mission of
SB 1.1.20–23: Hearing as a sacrifice
SB 1.1.20: Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa, the Personality of Godhead, along with Balarāma, played like a human being, and so masked He performed many superhuman acts.
The Lord exhibited His divinity even from the lap of His mother, that His deeds are all superhuman (He lifted Govardhana Hill at the age of seven), and that all these acts definitely prove Him to be actually the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Yet, due to His mystic covering, He was always accepted as an ordinary human child by His so-called father and mother and other relatives. Whenever some herculean task was performed by Him, the father and mother took it otherwise. And they remained satisfied with unflinching parental love for their son. As such, the sages of Naimiṣāraṇya describe Him as apparently resembling a human being, but actually He is the supreme almighty Personality of Godhead.
How to receive mercy?
Speaker: Radhanath Swami
Source: Pure devotional service
One time Srila Prabhupada was asked, “what can we do to reciprocate with what you have given us?”. What Srila Prabhupada replied is simple and complete. He said “just receive what I have given you and share it with each other and others”. The first part, to receive what Srila Prabhupada has given us is something deeper than the ocean, higher than the sky in the universe, he has given us the spiritual world, he has given us Goloka Vrindavana, he has given us key
Please give me your blessings
Speaker: Radhanath Swami
Source: Power of Blessings
Srila Prabhupada was in Indian train and this one man just crash right into Prabhupada’s compartment and said, “Swamiji give me your blessing, please give me your blessing”. Prabhupada was busy doing other things so the person kept insisting, “give me your blessings”. Prabhupada got up, he followed him, Prabhupada came back he followed him back and said, “Swamiji please give me your blessings”. Prabhupada said, “I bless you that your material life is finished” and the person literally felt at the floor and started
My miracle – Hippies into happies
Speaker: Radhanath Swami
Source: Power of Habits
Someone asked Srila Prabhupada, “Can you show me a miracle?” He wanted to see creating some ashes or creating some gold, or reading his mind or telling him who is mother was or when his mother died. These are miracles. Many mystics demonstrate to the world but Srila Prabhupada explained that “My miracle is I’ve transformed hippies into happies by inspiring them with the association of Krishna, His name, His beautiful form. These people, who were addicted to all kinds
Mother Yasoda protects Krsna
Source: Putana Killed
When the gopīs saw little Kṛṣṇa fearlessly playing on Putana’s lap, they very quickly came and picked Him up. Mother Yasoda, Rohiṇī and other elder gopīs immediately performed the auspicious rituals by taking the tail of a cow and circumambulating His body. The child was completely washed with the urine of a cow, and the dust created by the hooves of the cows was thrown all over His body. This was all just to save little Kṛṣṇa from future inauspicious accidents.
After this purificatory process, the gopīs, headed by Mother Yasoda and