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Narahari Prabhu (Honolulu, HI) November 22, 2018 SB 4.4.3 Text 3: Thereafter Satī left her husband, Lord Śiva, who had given her half his body due to affection. Breathing very heavily because of anger and bereavement, she went to the house of her father. This less...

SB 4.3.12

Narahari Prabhu (Honolulu, HI) November 9, 2018 SB 4.3.12 Text 12: O never-born, O blue-throated one, not only my relatives but also other women, dressed in nice clothes and decorated with ornaments, are going there with their husbands and friends. Just see how their...

SB 4.3.2

Narahari Prabhu (Honolulu, HI) October 31, 2018 SB 4.3.2 Text 2: When Lord Brahmā appointed Dakṣa the chief of all the Prajāpatis, the progenitors of population, Dakṣa became very much puffed up.

SB 4.2.23 —25

Narahari Prabhu (Honolulu, HI) October 17, 2018 SB 4.2.23 —25 Text 23: Dakṣa has accepted the body as all in all. Therefore, since he has forgotten the viṣṇu-pāda, or viṣṇu-gati, and is attached to sex life only, within a short time he will have the face of a goat....

SB 4.2.9

Narahari Prabhu (Honolulu, HI) October 4, 2018 SB 4.2.9 Text 9: All sages, brāhmaṇas and fire-gods present, please hear me with attention, for I speak about the manners of gentle persons. I do not speak out of ignorance or envy....

SB 4.1.28

Narahari Prabhu (Honolulu, HI) September 21, 2018 SB 4.1.28 Text 28: I called for the Supreme Personality of Godhead, desiring a son like Him, and I thought of Him only. But although He is far beyond the mental speculation of man, all three of you have come here....

SB 3.33.35 —37

Narahari Prabhu (Honolulu, HI) September 5, 2018 SB 3.33.35 —37 Text 35: Even now Kapila Muni is staying there in trance for the deliverance of the conditioned souls in the three worlds, and all the ācāryas, or great teachers, of the system of Sāṅkhya philosophy are...

SB 3.33.28

Narahari Prabhu (Honolulu, HI) August 29, 2018 SB 3.33.28 Text 28: Her body was being taken care of by the spiritual damsels created by her husband, Kardama, and since she had no mental anxiety at that time, her body did not become thin. She appeared just like a fire...

SB 3.33.11

Narahari Prabhu (Honolulu, HI) August 15, 2018 SB 3.33.11 Text 11: My dear mother, those who are actually transcendentalists certainly follow My instructions as I have given them to you. You may rest assured that if you traverse this path of self-realization...

SB 3.32.39 — 40

Narahari Prabhu (Honolulu, HI) August 1, 2018 SB 3.32.39 — 40 Text 39: Lord Kapila continued: This instruction is not meant for the envious, for the agnostics or for persons who are unclean in their behavior. Nor is it for hypocrites or for persons who are proud of...

SB 3.31.45-46

Narahari Prabhu (Honolulu, HI) June 20, 2018 SB 3.31.45-46 — When the eyes lose their power to see color or form due to morbid affliction of the optic nerve, the sense of sight becomes deadened. The living entity, who is the seer of both the eyes and the sight, loses...

SB 3.31.35

Narahari Prabhu (Honolulu, HI) June 6, 2018 SB 3.31.35 — The infatuation and bondage which accrue to a man from attachment to any other object is not as complete as that resulting from attachment to a woman or to the fellowship of men who are fond of women.

SB 3.31.10

Narahari Prabhu (Honolulu, HI) May 15, 2018 SB 3.31.10 — Thus endowed with the development of consciousness from the seventh month after his conception, the child is tossed downward by the airs that press the embryo during the weeks preceding delivery. Like the worms...

SB 3.30.21

Narahari Prabhu (Honolulu, HI) May 1, 2018 SB 3.30.21 — While carried by the constables of Yamarāja, he is overwhelmed and trembles in their hands. While passing on the road he is bitten by dogs, and he can remember the sinful activities of his life. He is thus...

SB 3.30.7

Narahari Prabhu (Honolulu, HI) April 17, 2018 SB 3.30.7 — Although he is always burning with anxiety, such a fool always performs all kinds of mischievous activities, with a hope which is never to be fulfilled, in order to maintain his so-called family and...

SB 3.29.44

Narahari Prabhu (Honolulu, HI) April 5, 2018 SB 3.29.44 — Out of fear of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the directing demigods in charge of the modes of material nature carry out the functions of creation, maintenance and destruction; everything animate and...

SB 3.29.34

Narahari Prabhu (Honolulu, HI) March 22, 2018 SB 3.29.34 — Such a perfect devotee offers respects to every living entity because he is under the firm conviction that the Supreme Personality of Godhead has entered the body of every living entity as the Supersoul, or...

SB 3.29.22

Narahari Prabhu (Honolulu, HI) March 8, 2018 SB 3.29.22 — One who worships the Deity of Godhead in the temples but does not know that the Supreme Lord, as Paramātmā, is situated in every living entity’s heart, must be in ignorance and is compared to one who offers...

SB 3.28.28

Narahari Prabhu (Honolulu, HI) January 23, 2018 SB 3.28.28 — The yogī should meditate upon His club, which is named Kaumodakī and is very dear to Him. This club smashes the demons, who are always inimical soldiers, and is smeared with their blood. One should also...

SB 3.28.4

Narahari Prabhu (Honolulu, HI) December 26, 2017 SB 3.28.4 — One should practice nonviolence and truthfulness, should avoid thieving and be satisfied with possessing as much as he needs for his maintenance. He should abstain from sex life, perform austerity, be clean,...

SB 3.27.18 —19

Narahari Prabhu (Honolulu, HI) December 6, 2017 SB 3.27.18 — As there is no separate existence of the earth and its aroma or of water and its taste, there cannot be any separate existence of intelligence and consciousness. SB 3.27.19 — Hence even though he is the...

SB 3.27.1

Narahari Prabhu (Honolulu, HI) November 14, 2017 SB 3.27.1 — The Personality of Godhead Kapila continued: When the living entity is thus unaffected by the modes of material nature, because he is unchanging and does not claim proprietorship, he remains apart from the...

SB 3.26.50 — 51

Narahari Prabhu (Honolulu, HI) November 2, 2017 SB 3.26.50 — When all these elements were unmixed, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the origin of creation, along with time, work, and the qualities of the modes of material nature, entered into the universe with the...

SB 3.26.25 — 26

Narahari Prabhu (Honolulu, HI) October 13, 2017 SB 3.26.25 — The threefold ahaṅkāra, the source of the gross elements, the senses and the mind, is identical with them because it is their cause. It is known by the name of Saṅkarṣaṇa, who is directly Lord Ananta with a...

SB 3.26.16

Narahari Prabhu (Honolulu, HI) October 3, 2017 SB 3.26.16 — The influence of the Supreme Personality of Godhead is felt in the time factor, which causes fear of death due to the false ego of the deluded soul who has contacted material nature.

SB 3.25.42

Narahari Prabhu (Honolulu, HI) September 12, 2017 SB 3.25.42 — It is because of My supremacy that the wind blows, out of fear of Me; the sun shines out of fear of Me, and the lord of the clouds, Indra, sends forth showers out of fear of Me. Fire burns out of fear of...

SB 3.25.32

Narahari Prabhu (Honolulu, HI) August 30, 2017 SB 3.25.32 — Lord Kapila said: The senses are symbolic representations of the demigods, and their natural inclination is to work under the direction of the Vedic injunctions. As the senses are representatives of the...

SB 3.25.26

Narahari Prabhu (Honolulu, HI) August 23, 2017 SB 3.25.26 — Thus consciously engaged in devotional service in the association of devotees, a person gains distaste for sense gratification, both in this world and in the next, by constantly thinking about the activities...

SB 3.25.18

Narahari Prabhu (Honolulu, HI) August 11, 2017 SB 3.25.18 — In that position of self-realization, by practice of knowledge and renunciation in devotional service, one sees everything in the right perspective; he becomes indifferent to material existence, and the...

SB 3.24.46

Narahari Prabhu (Honolulu, HI) July 20, 2017 SB 3.24.46 — He began to see that the Supreme Personality of Godhead is seated in everyone’s heart, and that everyone is existing on Him, because He is the Supersoul of everyone.

SB 3.24.36

Narahari Prabhu (Honolulu, HI) July 6, 2017 SB 3.24.36 — My appearance in this world is especially to explain the philosophy of Sāṅkhya, which is highly esteemed for self-realization by those desiring freedom from the entanglement of unnecessary material...

SB 3.24.21 — 26

Narahari Prabhu (Honolulu, HI) June 22, 2017 SB 3.24.21 — O Vidura, after the departure of Brahmā, Kardama Muni, having been ordered by Brahmā, handed over his nine daughters, as instructed, to the nine great sages who created the population of the...

SB 3.24.4

Narahari Prabhu (Honolulu, HI) June 6, 2017 SB 3.24.4 — The Personality of Godhead, being worshiped by you, will spread my name and fame. He will vanquish the knot of your heart by becoming your son and teaching knowledge of Brahman.

SB 3.23.42

Narahari Prabhu (Honolulu, HI) May 23, 2017 SB 3.23.42 — What is difficult to achieve for determined men who have taken refuge of the Supreme Personality of Godhead’s lotus feet? His feet are the source of sacred rivers like the Ganges, which put an end to...

SB 3.22.29-31

Narahari Prabhu (Honolulu, HI) April 21, 2017 SB 3.22.29-30 — The city of Barhiṣmatī, rich in all kinds of wealth, was so called because Lord Viṣṇu’s hair dropped there from His body when He manifested Himself as Lord Boar. As He shook His body,...

SB 3.22.12 —13

Narahari Prabhu (Honolulu, HI) April 7, 2017 SB 3.22.12 — To deny an offering that has come of itself is not commendable even for one absolutely free from all attachment, much less one addicted to sensual pleasure. SB 3.22.13 — One who rejects an offering...

Special Talk On The Health Of Iskcon And The Guru Issue In Our Society, Part 2

Speaker: Narahari Prabhu March 31, 2017 This year in Mayapur Narahari Prabhu participated in the the SGGS Meetings… sanga of gurus, GBC’s and sannyasis. He also took the "Iskcon Leadership Course – Becoming a guru in Iskcon" as well...

Special Talk On The Health Of Iskcon And The Guru Issue In Our Society, Part 1

Speaker: Narahari Prabhu This year in Mayapur Narahari Prabhu participated in the the SGGS Meetings… sanga of gurus, GBC’s and sannyasis. He also took the "Iskcon Leadership Course – Becoming a guru in Iskcon" as well as the...

SB 3.20.38 — 39

Narahari Prabhu (Honolulu, HI) February 3, 2017 SB 3.20.38 — With a laugh full of deep significance, the worshipful Brahmā then evolved by his own loveliness, which seemed to enjoy itself by itself, the hosts of Gandharvas and Apsarās. SB...

SB 3.20.10 —12

Narahari Prabhu (Honolulu, HI) January 20, 2017 SB 3.20.10 — Vidura inquired: How did the Prajāpatis [such progenitors of living entities as Marīci and Svāyambhuva Manu] create according to the instruction of Brahmā, and how did they evolve this...

SB 3.19.33

Narahari Prabhu (Honolulu, HI) January 6, 2017 SB 3.19.33 — Śrī Sūta Gosvāmī continued: My dear brāhmaṇa, Kṣattā [Vidura] the great devotee of the Lord achieved transcendental bliss by hearing the narration of the pastimes of the Supreme Personality of Godhead...

SB 3.19.2 — 14

Narahari Prabhu (Honolulu, HI) December 23, 2016 SB 3.19.2 — The Lord, who had appeared from the nostril of Brahmā, sprang and aimed His mace at the chin of His enemy, the Hiraṇyākṣa demon, who was stalking fearlessly before Him. SB...

SB 3.18.7

Narahari Prabhu (Honolulu, HI) December 9, 2016 SB 3.18.7 — The demon, who had golden hair on his head and fearful tusks, gave chase to the Lord while He was rising from the water, even as an alligator would chase an elephant. Roaring like thunder, he said: Are...

SB 3.17.16

Narahari Prabhu (Honolulu, HI) November 25, 2016 SB 3.17.16 — These two demons who appeared in ancient times soon began to exhibit uncommon bodily features; they had steel-like frames which began to grow just like two great mountains.

SB 3.16.28 — 29

Narahari Prabhu (Honolulu, HI) November 11, 2016 SB 3.16.28 — The sages circumambulated the Supreme Lord, offered their obeisances and returned, extremely delighted at learning of the divine opulences of the Vaiṣṇava. SB 3.16.29 — The Lord then said to His...

SB 3.16.18

Narahari Prabhu (Honolulu, HI) October 28, 2016 SB 3.16.18 — You are the source of the eternal occupation of all living entities, and by Your multimanifestations of Personalities of Godhead, You have always protected religion. You are the supreme objective of...

SB 3.16.5 — 6

Narahari Prabhu (Honolulu, HI) October 14, 2016 SB 3.16.5 — A wrong act committed by a servant leads people in general to blame his master, just as a spot of white leprosy on any part of the body pollutes all of the skin. SB 3.16.6 — Anyone in the entire...

SB 3.15.34

Narahari Prabhu (Honolulu, HI) September 26, 2016 SB 3.15.34 — Therefore let us consider how these two contaminated persons should be punished. The punishment should be apt, for thus benefit can eventually be bestowed upon them. Since they find duality in the...

SB 3.15.26

Narahari Prabhu (Honolulu, HI) September 16, 2016 SB 3.15.26 — Thus the great sages Sanaka, Sanātana, Sanandana and Sanat-kumāra, upon reaching the above-mentioned Vaikuṇṭha in the spiritual world by dint of their mystic yoga performance, perceived unprecedented...

SB 3.15.16

Narahari Prabhu (Honolulu, HI) September 2, 2016 SB 3.15.16 — In those Vaikuṇṭha planets there are many forests which are very auspicious. In those forests the trees are desire trees, and in all seasons they are filled with flowers and fruits because everything...

SB 3.15.8

Narahari Prabhu (Honolulu, HI) August 24, 2016 SB 3.15.8 — All the living entities within the universe are conducted by the Vedic directions, as a bull is directed by the rope attached to its nose. No one can violate the rules laid down in the Vedic literatures....

SB 3.14.51

Narahari Prabhu (Honolulu, HI) August 12, 2016 SB 3.14.51 — The sage Maitreya said: Hearing that her grandson would be a great devotee and that her sons would be killed by Kṛṣṇa, Diti was highly pleased in mind.

SB 3.14.44-46

Narahari Prabhu (Honolulu, HI) August 5, 2016 SB 3.14.44-45 — The learned Kaśyapa said: Because of your lamentation, penitence and proper deliberation, and also because of your unflinching faith in the Supreme Personality of Godhead and your adoration for Lord...

SB 3.14.27-28

Narahari Prabhu (Honolulu, HI) July 22, 2016 SB 3.14.27 — Although no one in the material world is equal to or greater than Lord Śiva, and although his unimpeachable character is followed by great souls to dismantle the mass of nescience, he nevertheless remains...

SB 3.14.20

Narahari Prabhu (Honolulu, HI) July 15, 2016 SB 3.14.20 — As a fort commander very easily conquers invading plunderers, by taking shelter of a wife one can conquer the senses, which are unconquerable in the other social orders.

SB 3.14.10

Narahari Prabhu (Honolulu, HI) July 1, 2016 SB 3.14.10 — In that place the beautiful Diti expressed her desire: O learned one, Cupid is taking his arrows and distressing me forcibly, as a mad elephant troubles a banana tree.

SB 3.13.44 —45

Narahari Prabhu (Honolulu, HI) June 23, 2016 SB 3.13.44 — O Supreme Lord, undoubtedly we are inhabitants of the most pious planets — the Jana, Tapas and Satya lokas — but still we have been purified by the drops of water sprinkled from Your...

SB 3.13.1

Narahari Prabhu (Honolulu, HI) May 27, 2016 SB 3.13.1 — Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: O King, after hearing all these most virtuous topics from the sage Maitreya, Vidura inquired further on the topics of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, which he adored to...

SB 3.12.31

Narahari Prabhu (Honolulu, HI) May 6, 2016 SB 3.12.31 — Even though you are the most powerful being, this act does not suit you because your character is followed for spiritual improvement by people in general.

SB 3.12.6

Narahari Prabhu (Honolulu, HI) April 18, 2016 SB 3.12.6 — On the refusal of the sons to obey the order of their father, there was much anger generated in the mind of Brahmā, which he tried to control and not express.

SB 3.9.41

Narahari Prabhu (Honolulu, HI) February 25, 2016 SB 3.9.41 — It is the opinion of expert transcendentalists that the ultimate goal of performing all traditional good works, penances, sacrifices, charities, mystic activities, trances, etc., is to invoke My...

SB 3.9.32

Narahari Prabhu (Honolulu, HI) February 11, 2016 SB 3.9.32 — You will see Me in all living entities as well as all over the universe, just as fire is situated in wood. Only in that state of transcendental vision will you be able to be free from all...

SB 3.9.10

Narahari Prabhu (Honolulu, HI) January 13, 2016 SB 3.9.10 — Such nondevotees engage their senses in very troublesome and extensive work, and they suffer insomnia at night because their intelligence constantly breaks their sleep with various mental speculations....

SB 3.8.7

Narahari Prabhu (Honolulu, HI) December 9, 2015 SB 3.8.7 — Lord Saṅkarṣaṇa thus spoke the purport of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam to the great sage Sanat-kumāra, who had already taken the vow of renunciation. Sanat-kumāra also, in his turn, when inquired of by Sāṅkhyāyana...

SB 3.7.6

Narahari Prabhu (Honolulu, HI) October 27, 2015 SB 3.7.6 — The Lord, as the Supersoul, is situated in every living being’s heart. Why then do the living entities’ activities result in misfortune and misery?

SB 3.6.31

Narahari Prabhu (Honolulu, HI) October 7, 2015 SB 3.6.31 — Thereafter the power of protection was generated from the arms of the gigantic virāṭ form, and in relation to such power the kṣatriyas also came into existence by following the kṣatriya principle of...

SB 3.5.47

Narahari Prabhu (Honolulu, HI) September 8, 2015 SB 3.5.47 — Others, who are pacified by means of transcendental self-realization and have conquered over the modes of nature by dint of strong power and knowledge, also enter into You, but for them there is much pain,...

SB 3.5.37 —38

Narahari Prabhu (Honolulu, HI) August 26, 2015 SB 3.5.37 — O gentle one, of all the physical elements, beginning from the sky down to the earth, all the inferior and superior qualities are due only to the final touch of the glance of the Supreme Personality of...

SB 3.5.19

Narahari Prabhu (Honolulu, HI) August 6, 2015 SB 3.5.19 — O Vidura, it is not at all wonderful that you have so accepted the Lord without deviation of thought, for you were born from the semen of Vyāsadeva.

Bg 8.18 – 19

Narahari Prabhu June 22, 2015 Bg 8.18 — At the beginning of Brahmā’s day, all living entities become manifest from the unmanifest state, and thereafter, when the night falls, they are merged into the unmanifest again. Bg 8.19 — Again and again, when Brahmā’s day...

SB 3.4.17

Narahari Prabhu (Honolulu, HI) June 12, 2015 SB 3.4.17 — O my Lord, Your eternal Self is never divided by the influence of time, and there is no limitation to Your perfect knowledge. Thus You were sufficiently able to consult with Yourself, yet You called upon me for...

SB 3.3.26

Narahari Prabhu (Honolulu, HI) May 21, 2015 SB 3.3.26 — After arriving there, all of them took bath, and with the water of this place of pilgrimage they offered their respects to the forefathers, demigods and great sages and thus satisfied them. They gave cows to the...

SB 3.2.20

Narahari Prabhu (Honolulu, HI) April 10, 2015 SB 3.2.20 — Certainly others who were fighters on the Battlefield of Kurukṣetra were purified by the onslaught of Arjuna’s arrows, and while seeing the lotuslike face of Kṛṣṇa, so pleasing to the eyes, they achieved the...

SB 3.2.5

Narahari Prabhu (Honolulu, HI) March 23, 2015 SB 3.2.5 — It was so observed by Vidura that Uddhava had all the transcendental bodily changes due to total ecstasy, and he was trying to wipe away tears of separation from his eyes. Thus Vidura could understand that...

SB 3.1.42

Narahari Prabhu (Honolulu, HI) March 12, 2015 SB 3.1.42 — I am not astonished at this, having traveled over the world without being seen by others. The activities of the Personality of Godhead, which are like those of a man in this mortal world, are bewildering to...

SB 3.1.21

Narahari Prabhu (Honolulu, HI) February 16, 2015 SB 3.1.21 — At the place of pilgrimage at Prabhāsa, it came to his knowledge that all his relatives had died due to violent passion, just as an entire forest burns due to fire produced by the friction of bamboos. After...

SB 2.10.48-51

Speaker : Narahari Prabhu (Honolulu, HI) January 23, 2015 SB 2.10.48 — Śaunaka Ṛṣi, after hearing all about the creation, inquired from Sūta Gosvāmī about Vidura, for Sūta Gosvāmī had previously informed him how Vidura left home, leaving aside all his relatives, who...

SB 2.10.26

Speaker : Narahari Prabhu (Honolulu, HI) December 31, 2014 SB 2.10.26 — Thereupon, for sexual pleasure, begetting offspring and tasting heavenly nectar, the Lord developed the genitals, and thus there is the genital organ and its controlling deity, the Prajāpati. The...

SB 2.10.14 — 16

Speaker : Narahari Prabhu (Honolulu, HI) December 17, 2014 SB 2.10.14 — Just hear from me how the potency of His Lordship divides one into three, called the controlling entities, the controlled entities and the material bodies, in the manner mentioned above. SB...

SB 2.9.37

Speaker : Narahari Prabhu (Honolulu, HI) November 20, 2014 SB 2.9.37 — O Brahmā, just follow this conclusion by fixed concentration of mind, and no pride will disturb you, neither in the partial nor in the final devastation. Listen to Recording:

SB 2.9.25

Speaker : Narahari Prabhu (Honolulu, HI) November 5, 2014 SB 2.9.25 — Lord Brahmā said: O Personality of Godhead, You are situated in every living entity’s heart as the supreme director, and therefore You are aware of all endeavors by Your superior intelligence,...

SB 2.8.28

Speaker : Narahari Prabhu (Honolulu, HI) October 2, 2014 SB 2.8.28 — He began to reply to the inquiries of Mahārāja Parīkṣit by saying that the science of the Personality of Godhead was spoken first by the Lord Himself to Brahmā when he was first born....

SB 2.8.17

Speaker : Narahari Prabhu (Honolulu, HI) September 18, 2014 SB 2.8.17 — Please explain all the different ages in the duration of the creation, and also the duration of such ages. Also tell me about the different activities of the different incarnations of the Lord in...

SB 2.7.48

Speaker : Narahari Prabhu (Honolulu, HI) August 22, 2014 SB 2.7.48 — In such a transcendental state there is no need of artificial control of the mind, mental speculation or meditation, as performed by the jñānīs and yogīs. One gives up such processes, as the heavenly...

SB 2.7.27

Speaker : Narahari Prabhu (Honolulu, HI) July 30, 2014 SB 2.7.27 — There is no doubt about Lord Kṛṣṇa’s being the Supreme Lord. Otherwise, how was it possible for Him to kill a giant demon like Pūtanā when He was just on the lap of His mother, to overturn a cart with...

SB 2.7.6

Speaker : Narahari Prabhu (Honolulu, HI) July 3, 2014 SB 2.7.6 — To exhibit His personal way of austerity and penance, He appeared in twin forms as Nārāyaṇa and Nara in the womb of Mūrti, the wife of Dharma and the daughter of Dakṣa. Celestial beauties, the companions...

SB 2.6.46

Speaker : Narahari Prabhu (Honolulu, HI) June 25, 2014 SB 2.6.46 — O Nārada, now I shall state, one after another, the transcendental incarnations of the Lord known as līlā-avatāras. Hearing of their activities counteracts all foul matters accumulated in the ear....

SB 2.6.38

Speaker : Narahari Prabhu (Honolulu, HI) June 18, 2014 SB 2.6.38 — Let us offer our respectful obeisances unto that Supreme Personality of Godhead, whose incarnations and activities are chanted by us for glorification, though He can hardly be fully known as He is....

SB.7.15.57

Speaker : HH Bhanu Swami Maharaja SB 7.15.57 — He who exists internally and externally, at the beginning and end of everything and of all living beings, as that which is enjoyable and as the enjoyer of everything, superior and inferior, is the Supreme Truth. He always...

SB 2.6.26

Speaker : Narahari Prabhu (Honolulu, HI) June 4, 2014 SB 2.6.26 — Other necessities include invoking the different names of the demigods by specific hymns and vows of recompense, in accordance with the particular scripture, for specific purposes and by specific...

SB 2.6.1

Speaker : Narahari Prabhu (Honolulu, HI) May 14, 2014 SB 2.6.1 — Lord Brahmā said: The mouth of the virāṭ-puruṣa [the universal form of the Lord] is the generating center of the voice, and the controlling deity is Fire. His skin and six other layers are the generating...

SB 2.4.21

Speaker : Narahari Prabhu (Honolulu, HI) March 20, 2014 SB 2.4.21 — It is the Personality of Godhead Śrī Kṛṣṇa who gives liberation. By thinking of His lotus feet at every second, following in the footsteps of authorities, the devotee in trance can see the Absolute...

SB 2.4.12

Speaker : Narahari Prabhu (Honolulu, HI) March 7, 2014 SB 2.4.12 — Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: Let me offer my respectful obeisances unto the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who, for the creation of the material world, accepts the three modes of nature. He is the complete...

SB 2.3.23

Speaker : Narahari Prabhu (Honolulu, HI) February 20, 2014 SB 2.3.23 — The person who has not at any time received the dust of the feet of the Lord’s pure devotee upon his head is certainly a dead body. And the person who has never experienced the aroma of the tulasī...

SB 2.3.9

Speaker : Narahari Prabhu (Honolulu, HI) February 3, 2014 SB 2.3.9 — One who desires domination over a kingdom or an empire should worship the Manus. One who desires victory over an enemy should worship the demons, and one who desires sense gratification should...

SB 2.2.34

Speaker : Narahari Prabhu (Honolulu, HI) January 23, 2014 SB 2.2.34 — The great personality Brahmā, with great attention and concentration of the mind, studied the Vedas three times, and after scrutinizingly examining them, he ascertained that attraction for the...

SB 2.2.27

Speaker : Narahari Prabhu January 15, 2014 SB 2.2.27 — In that planet of Satyaloka, there is neither bereavement, nor old age nor death. There is no pain of any kind, and therefore there are no anxieties, save that sometimes, due to consciousness, there is a feeling...

SB 2.2.18

Speaker : Narahari Prabhu January 3, 2014 SB 2.2.18 — The transcendentalists desire to avoid everything godless, for they know that supreme situation in which everything is related with the Supreme Lord Viṣṇu. Therefore a pure devotee who is in absolute harmony with...

SB 2.2.9-11

Speaker : Narahari Prabhu December 25, 2013 SB 2.2.9 — His mouth expresses His happiness. His eyes spread like the petals of a lotus, and His garments, yellowish like the saffron of a kadamba flower, are bedecked with valuable jewels. His ornaments are all made of...

SB 2.1.31

Speaker : Narahari Prabhu December 4, 2013 SB 2.1.31 — They say that the Vedic hymns are the cerebral passage of the Lord, and His jaws of teeth are Yama, god of death, who punishes the sinners. The art of affection is His set of teeth, and the most alluring illusory...

SB 2.1.21

Speaker : Narahari Prabhu November 21, 2013 SB 2.1.21 — O King, by this system of remembrance and by being fixed in the habit of seeing the all-good personal conception of the Lord, one can very soon attain devotional service to the Lord, under His direct shelter...

SB 2.1.10

Speaker : Narahari Prabhu November 6, 2013 SB 2.1.10 — That very Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam I shall recite before you because you are the most sincere devotee of Lord Kṛṣṇa. One who gives full attention and respect to hearing Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam achieves unflinching faith in the...

SB 2.1.5

Speaker : Narahari Prabhu October 30, 2013 SB 2.1.5 — O descendant of King Bharata, one who desires to be free from all miseries must hear about, glorify and also remember the Personality of Godhead, who is the Supersoul, the controller and the savior from all...

SB Second Canto: Invocation

Speaker : Narahari Prabhu October 23, 2013 Invocation — O my Lord, the all-pervading Personality of Godhead, I offer my respectful obeisances unto You. Listen to Recording:

SB 1.8.33

Speaker : Narahari Prabhu September 25, 2013 SB 1.8.33 — Others say that since both Vasudeva and Devakī prayed for You, You have taken Your birth as their son. Undoubtedly You are unborn, yet You take Your birth for their welfare and to kill those who are envious of...

SB 1.8.26

Speaker : Narahari Prabhu September 14, 2013 SB 1.8.26 — My Lord, Your Lordship can easily be approached, but only by those who are materially exhausted. One who is on the path of [material] progress, trying to improve himself with respectable parentage, great...

SB 1.8.1-2

Speaker : Narahari Prabhu August 5, 2013 SB 1.8.1 — Sūta Gosvāmī said: Thereafter the Pāṇḍavas, desiring to deliver water to the dead relatives who had desired it, went to the Ganges with Draupadī. The ladies walked in front. SB 1.8.2 — Having lamented over them and...

SB 1.7.45-46

Speaker : Narahari Prabhu July 27, 2013 SB 1.7.45 — He [Droṇācārya] is certainly still existing, being represented by his son. His wife Kṛpī did not undergo a satī with him because she had a son. SB 1.7.46 — O most fortunate one who know the principles of religion, it...

SB 1.7.1

Speaker : Narahari Prabhu June 6, 2013 SB 1.7.1 — Ṛṣi Śaunaka asked: O Sūta, the great and transcendentally powerful Vyāsadeva heard everything from Śrī Nārada Muni. So after Nārada’s departure, what did Vyāsadeva do? Listen to Recording:...

SB 1.6.34

Speaker : Narahari Prabhu May 30, 2013 SB 1.6.34 — It is personally experienced by me that those who are always full of cares and anxieties due to desiring contact of the senses with their objects can cross the ocean of nescience on a most suitable boat — the constant...

SB 1.6.17

Speaker : Narahari Prabhu May 8, 2013 SB 1.6.17 — O Vyāsadeva, at that time, being exceedingly overpowered by feelings of happiness, every part of my body became separately enlivened. Being absorbed in an ocean of ecstasy, I could not see both myself and the Lord....

SB 1.6.4

Speaker : Narahari Prabhu April 29, 2013 SB 1.6.4 — O great sage, time annihilates everything in due course, so how is it that this subject matter, which happened prior to this day of Brahmā, is still fresh in your memory, undisturbed by time? Listen to Recording:...

SB 1.5.39

Speaker : Narahari Prabhu April 24, 2013 SB 1.5.39 — O brāhmaṇa, thus by the Supreme Lord Kṛṣṇa I was endowed first with the transcendental knowledge of the Lord as inculcated in the confidential parts of the Vedas, then with the spiritual opulences, and then with His...

SB 1.5.30

Speaker : Narahari Prabhu April 10, 2013 SB 1.5.30 — As they were leaving, those bhakti-vedāntas, who are very kind to poor-hearted souls, instructed me in that most confidential subject which is instructed by the Personality of Godhead Himself. Listen to Recording:...

Gaura Purnima

Appearance of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu Special Class given by Narahari Prabhu CC Madhya 6.254 — “Let me take shelter of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Śrī Kṛṣṇa, who has descended in the form of Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu to teach us real knowledge, His devotional...

SB 1.4.17-18

Speaker : Narahari Prabhu February 22, 2013 SB 1.4.17-18 — The great sage, who was fully equipped in knowledge, could see through his transcendental vision the deterioration of everything material due to the influence of the age. He could also see that the faithless...

SB 1.4.10

Speaker : Narahari Prabhu February 14, 2013 SB 1.4.10 — He was a great emperor and possessed all the opulences of his acquired kingdom. He was so exalted that he was increasing the prestige of the Pāṇḍu dynasty. Why did he give up everything to sit down on the bank of...

SB 1.3.39

Speaker : Narahari Prabhu January 25, 2013 SB 1.3.39 — Only by making such inquiries in this world can one be successful and perfectly cognizant, for such inquiries invoke transcendental ecstatic love unto the Personality of Godhead, who is the proprietor of all the...

SB 1.3.23

Speaker : Narahari Prabhu January 04, 2013 SB 1.3.23 — In the nineteenth and twentieth incarnations, the Lord advented Himself as Lord Balarāma and Lord Kṛṣṇa in the family of Vṛṣṇi [the Yadu dynasty], and by so doing He removed the burden of the world. Listen to...

SB 1.3.4

Speaker: Narahari Prabhu December 14, 2012 SB 1.3.4 — The devotees, with their perfect eyes, see the transcendental form of the puruṣa who has thousands of legs, thighs, arms and faces — all extraordinary. In that body there are thousands of heads, ears, eyes and...

SB 1.2.27

SB 1.2.27 — Those who are in the modes of passion and ignorance worship those in the same category — namely the forefathers, other living beings and the demigods who are in charge of cosmic activities — for they are urged by a desire to be materially benefited with women, wealth, power and progeny.

SB 1.2.15

SB 1.2.15 — With sword in hand, intelligent men cut through the binding knots of reactionary work [karma] by remembering the Personality of Godhead. Therefore, who will not pay attention to His message?

SB 1.2.13

SB 1.2.13 — O best among the twice-born, it is therefore concluded that the highest perfection one can achieve by discharging the duties prescribed for one’s own occupation according to caste divisions and orders of life is to please the Personality of Godhead.

SB 1.1.21

Speaker: Narahari Prabhu October 18, 2012 SB 1.1.21 — Knowing well that the Age of Kali has already begun, we are assembled here in this holy place to hear at great length the transcendental message of Godhead and in this way perform sacrifice. Listen to...

SB 1.1.16

Speaker: Narahari Prabhu October 11, 2012 SB 1.1.16 — Who is there, desiring deliverance from the vices of the age of quarrel, who is not willing to hear the virtuous glories of the Lord? Listen to Recording:

SB 1.1.14

Speaker: Narahari Prabhu October 9, 2012 SB 1.1.14 — Living beings who are entangled in the complicated meshes of birth and death can be freed immediately by even unconsciously chanting the holy name of Kṛṣṇa, which is feared by fear personified. Listen to...

SB 1.1.3 Part I

Speaker: Narahari Prabhu September 21, 2012 SB 1.1.3 — O expert and thoughtful men, relish Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, the mature fruit of the desire tree of Vedic literatures. It emanated from the lips of Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī. Therefore this fruit has become even more...