108 Krsna Pastimes -
Toll Taking, Part 2
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Sep 11, CANADA (SUN) — Sri Krsna's divine pastimes.
28. Overwhelmed with passion, Radha stared at Lord Giridhari. Her body became bathed with tears and perspiration. O my friend Sudati, She trembled, and only with great difficulty was able to keep the glistening pot of ghee from slipping out of Her lotus hand.
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The Ramayana of Valmiki, Part 408
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Sep 11, CANADA (SUN) — A serial presentation of 'The Epic Journey of Rama'.
Book VI - Canto II. - Sugríva's Speech
"He ceased: and King Sugríva tried
To calm his grief, and thus replied:
"'Be to thy nobler nature true,
Nor let despair thy soul subdue.
This cloud of causeless woe dispel,
For all as yet has prospered well,
And we have traced thy queen, and know
The dwelling of our Rákshas foe.
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Prabhupada Padma-vakya
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Sep 11,
CANADA (SUN)
Audio files with transcripts recorded on this day.
September 11, 1968, San Francisco
Bhagavad-gita 7.2
"Religious sentiment is good for persons who follow blindly. But at
the present moment, people are advanced in so-called education. So
Bhagavad-gita gives you full information so that you can accept God
with your reason, with your argument, with your knowledge."
September 11, 1969, London, At Tittenhurst
Room Conversation With John Lennon, Yoko Ono, and George Harrison
"So I request you to, at least to understand this philosophy to
your best knowledge. And if you think that is nice, you take up."
September 11, 1975, Vrndavana
Srimad-Bhagavatam 6.2.8
"In this age people are generally, seventy-five or eighty percent or ninety percent, they are all sinful."
September 11, 1976, Vrndavana
Srimad-Bhagavatam 1.7.12
"Those who are with poor fund of knowledge, they are taking
directly this material nature as working. No. Material nature has no
power to act. It is dull."
 Bhaktivedanta Book Trust. HDG A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada.
108 Krsna Pastimes -
Toll Taking
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Sep 09, CANADA (SUN) — Sri Krsna's divine pastimes.
Today we begin another category of Sri Krsna's lilas – His demands for tolls, taxes and benefit of gifts. Krsna is often joined by the cowherd boys, bringing consternation to Radha and the gopis, and their retaliation follows. Among the many delightful pastimes of the Lord, these manifest lilas are nectar to the Vaisnavas. In his Sri Bhagavatamrta Kanika, Sri Visvanath Cakravarti Thakur describes the vast array of the Lord's transcendental pastimes:
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The Ramayana of Valmiki, Part 407
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Sep 09, CANADA (SUN) — A serial presentation of 'The Epic Journey of Rama'.
Book VI - Canto I. - Ráma's Speech
"The son of Raghu heard, consoled,
The wondrous tale Hanumán told;
And, as his joyous hope grew high,
In friendly words he made reply:
"Behold a mighty task achieved,
Which never heart but his conceived.
Who else across the sea can spring,
Save Váyu and the Feathered King?
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108 Krsna Pastimes -
Lilas of Disguise, Part 8
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Sep 07, CANADA (SUN) — Sri Krsna's divine pastimes.
Today we present a most beautiful and illuminating narrative on Sri Krsna's pastimes of trickery. In the Prema-samputa of Srila Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakur we find an elaborate exchange between the disguised Krsna and Radharana. Their rasa unfolds in the narrative between Krsna, costumed as a demigoddess, and Radha with her gopi friends.
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The Ramayana of Valmiki, Part 406
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Sep 07, CANADA (SUN) — A serial presentation of 'The Epic Journey of Rama'.
Book VI. - Canto XVI. - Ráma's Speech
"There ceased the Vánar: Ráma pressed
The treasured jewel to his breast,
And from his eyes the waters broke
As to the Vánar king he spoke:
"As o'er her babe the mother weeps,
This flood of tears the jewel steeps.
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108 Krsna Pastimes -
Lilas of Disguise, Part 7
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Sep 05, CANADA (SUN) — Sri Krsna's divine pastimes.
In Sri Vrindavana-Mahimamrita, the Nectarean Glories of Sri Vrindavana by Srila Prabodhananda Sarasvati, we find several passages narrating the guises and disguises Sri Krsna employs to get the association of His beloved Radha.
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The Ramayana of Valmiki, Part 405
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Sep 05, CANADA (SUN) — A serial presentation of 'The Epic Journey of Rama'.
Book VI. - Canto XV. - The Tidings
"And Hanumán the brave and bold
His tidings to the monarch told;
But first in Ráma's hand he placed
The gem that Sítá's brow had graced:
"I crossed the sea: I searched a while
For Sítá in the giants' isle.
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108 Krsna Pastimes -
Lilas of Disguise, Part 6
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Sep 03, CANADA (SUN) — Sri Krsna's divine pastimes.
Today we hear a narration of the divine trickery Sri Krsna plays on Radha, taking the disguise of a poor mendicant in order to get Radha's offering of alms. This 'Kamoda-raga' is from the Padavali of Srila Govinda Das Thakur. Set in 62 Ragas, it was translated by Sriman Kusakratha dasa.
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The Ramayana of Valmiki, Part 404
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Sep 03, CANADA (SUN) — A serial presentation of 'The Epic Journey of Rama'.
Book VI. - Canto VIII. - The Feast Of Honey
"They rose in air: the region grew
Dark with their shadow as they flew.
Swift to a lovely grove they came
That rivalled heavenly Nandan's fame;
Where countless bees their honey stored,—
The pleasance of the Vánars' lord,
To every creature fenced and barred,
Which Dadhimukh was set to guard,
A noble Vánar, brave and bold,
Sugríva's uncle lofty-souled.
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108 Krsna Pastimes -
Lilas of Disguise, Part 5
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Aug 30, CANADA (SUN) — Sri Krsna's divine pastimes.
Today we offer the final narrative from Srila Visvanath Cakravarti Thakur's Sri Camatkara Chandrika on the transcendental pranks of Sri Krsna. This pastime features Krsna finagling to get audience with Radha by dressing in the disguise of her so-called husband, Abhimanyu.
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The Ramayana of Valmiki, Part 403
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Aug 30, CANADA (SUN) — A serial presentation of 'The Epic Journey of Rama'.
Book VI. - Canto VI. - Hanumán's Return
"Still, like a winged mountain, he
Sprang forward through the airy sea,
And rushing through the ether drew
The clouds to follow as he flew,
Through the great host around him spread,
Grey, golden, dark, and white, and red.
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108 Krsna Pastimes -
Lilas of Disguise, Part 4
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Aug 28, CANADA (SUN) — Sri Krsna's divine pastimes.
Today we conclude the pastime of the snake-bite rescue of Radha by Krsna in disguise, from Srila Visvanath Cakravarti Thakur's Sri Camatkara Chandrika:
Vaidya Vese Milana – Meeting in the Disguise of a Female Doctor (continued)
"Vidyavali says, "Hey Bhagini! My dear older sister Gargi! You are indeed very learned, yet you now speak just like an ignorant person. Alas, alas!!! First of all, I am a pure chaste girl; secondly, being the daughter of a vipra, I have become a doctor specializing in treatment of poisons. No one on the surface of the earth is unaware of my glorious family lineage in Yadupura Mathura, or my famous in-laws' family lineage in Kasi. Still, you want to throw the mud of such scandalous, unchaste infamy all over my two pure dynasties. Whatever kind of loving action it is that you think you are doing----I am not able to understand that at all."
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