Thought
for the day
" Each of us has a gift to share... none are
insignificant... the gift of laughter, the gift of strength, the gift of
love... let the light of your gift shine for all to see and feel... you never
know who might need it." – Michael Powell
Take home
- A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada – Hare Rama Hare Krishna
A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada was a Gaudiya
Vaishnava teacher and the founder-acharya
of the International Society for
Krishna Consciousness,[1] commonly
known as the "Hare Krishna Movement".
His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada was
born in 1896 in Calcutta, India. He first met his spiritual master, Srila
Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Gosvami, in Calcutta in 1922. Bhaktisiddhanta
Sarasvati, a prominent devotional scholar and the founder of sixty-four
branches of Gaudiya Mathas (Vedic institutes), liked this educated young man
and convinced him to dedicate his life to teaching Vedic knowledge in the
Western world. Srila Prabhupada became his student, and eleven years later
(1933) at Allahabad, he became his formally initiated disciple. After
publishing three volumes of Bhagavatam, Srila Prabhupada came to the
United States, in 1965, to fulfill the mission of his spiritual master. Since
that time, His Divine Grace has written over sixty volumes of authoritative
translations, commentaries and summary studies of the philosophical and
religious classics of India.
In 1965, when he first arrived by freighter in New York City, Srila Prabhupada was practically penniless. It was after almost a year of great difficulty that he established theInternational Society for Krishna Consciousness in July of 1966. Under his careful guidance, the Society has grew within a decade to a worldwide confederation of almost one hundred asramas, schools, temples, institutes and farm communities.
In 1965, when he first arrived by freighter in New York City, Srila Prabhupada was practically penniless. It was after almost a year of great difficulty that he established theInternational Society for Krishna Consciousness in July of 1966. Under his careful guidance, the Society has grew within a decade to a worldwide confederation of almost one hundred asramas, schools, temples, institutes and farm communities.
Srila Prabhupada's most significant contribution, however,
is his books. Highly respected by the academic community for their
authoritativeness, depth and clarity, they are used as standard textbooks in
numerous college courses. His writings have been translated into eleven
languages. The Bhaktivedanta Book Trust, established in 1972
exclusively to publish the works of His Divine Grace, has thus become the
world's largest publisher of books in the field of Indian religion and
philosophy.
In the last ten years of his life, in spite of his advanced age, Srila Prabhupada circled the globe twelve times on lecture tours that have took him to six continents. In spite of such a vigorous schedule, Srila Prabhupada continued to write prolifically. His writings constitute a veritable library of Vedic philosophy, religion, literature and culture.
Wisdom
Messages
Only trees grown in fertile soil can yield good
fruits. Those which are grown in saline soil will bear only poor quality of
fruits. So also, only in the hearts which are pure and unsullied can such holy
feelings and virtues like truth, compassion, forbearance, selflessness grow and
shine. Like a farmer who toils to cultivate his field, a Bhakta (devotee) must
put in efforts to cultivate the Name of the Lord in his heart in order to reap
the harvest - the Lord Himself. - Baba
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