Lord Caitanya is the supreme personality of Godhead Krishna Himself in the mood of his pleasure potency, Srimati Radharani. He descended to this world in West Bengal, India, in 1486, to teach pure Krishna Bhakti (love of God) by his personal example.

Although Lord Caitanya is Krishna Himself, He came here in the form of His own devotee to taste the confidential mellows of the purest love of His very Self. This book thoroughly describes Vaishnava philosophy and how to personally practice it.

We are pleased to offer you the original 1968 edition of The Teachings of Lord Chaitanya for free!

True account. A search for meaning carries Bob Cohen, a young American Peace Corps worker halfway around the world, to an ancient village in the midst of West Bengal. There, in a small bamboo hut, he finds a teacher who is able to tell him everything he ever wanted to know.

Excerpt from the introduction:
“On an ancient island in Bengal, between the waters of the Ganges and the Sarasvatl, a young Peace Corps worker began a mystical, inner journey into a new and deeper reality….
I began to ask my questions. Inadvertently, I had approached a guru, or spiritual master, in the prescribed way-by submissively asking questions about spiritual life. Srila Prabhupada seemed pleased with me, and over the next several days, he answered my questions. I asked them mostly from an academic point of view, but he always gave me personal answers so that I would actually spiritualize my life. His answers were logical, scientific, satisfying and amazingly lucid.”

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Free Download – Civilization and Transcendence (in pdf format)

In this small book Srila Prabhupada addresses the fallacies of our modern so-called advanced civilization. After pointing out that today the vast majority of people do not know what real progress is, he explains that in the Vedic civilization people strive not for the false progress of economic development but rather for the true advancement of self-realization and God realization.

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Free Download – On the Way to KRSNA (in pdf format)

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Free download – Krsna Consciousness The Topmost Yoga System (pdf format)

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Free Download - On Chanting Hare Krsna (Original scanned booklet first edition in pdf)

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Free Download – Two Essays Krishna The Reservoir of Pleasure & Who Is Crazy? (Original scanned Booklet in pdf)

[THE ABOVE EDITION IS A COMPLETE BOOK. THE BELOW EDITION IS MISSING FOUR PAGES]

Free Download – Two Essays Krishna The Reservoir of Pleasure & Who Is Crazy? (Original scanned booklet in pdf)

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Free Download – The Krishna Consciousness Movement is Authorized (Original scanned booklet in pdf)

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Free Download – The Krsna Consciousness Movement is the Genuine Vedic Way (Original scanned ISKCON Press booklet in pdf)

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Free download – the Krsna Consciousness Handbook  1970-1971

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Free Download – Transcendental Broadcast – a Television Interview (Original scanned 1972 ISKCON Press booklet in pdf)

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Free Download – Srila Prabhupada’s original  Prospectus The League of Devotees (from May 16, 1953) (in pdf)

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Free Download – Life Comes from Life (in pdf format)

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For people who have come to accept every pronouncement of modern scientists as tested and proven truth, this book will be an eye-opener. Life Comes From Life is an impromptu but brilliant critique of some of the dominant policies, theories and presuppositions of modern science andscientists by one of the greatest philosophers and scholars of the century, His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. Srila Prabhupada’s vivid analysis uncovers the hidden and blatantly unfounded assumptions that underlie currently fashionable doctrines concerning the origins and purpose of life.

This book is based on taped morning-walk conversations that Srila Prabhupada had with some of his disciples during 1973, in the Los Angeles area. On those mornings when he focused on science, Srila Prabhupada spoke mainly with his disciple Thoudam D. Singh, Ph.D. An organic chemist, Dr. Singh presently directs the Bhaktivedanta Institute, an international center for advanced study and research in science, philosophy and theology.

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Free Download – The Laws of Nature An Infallible Justice (in pdf format)

This book explains the laws of karma and how these unseen but inescapable laws control the conditioned soul. One will also learn how to rise above these laws of karma through the powerful transcendental process of Krishna consciousness. It was compiled from the lectures and books of His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada.

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Free Download – The Cause of all causes (Scan of original book)

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Free Download - Dialectic Spiritualism A Vedic View on Western Philosophy (Scan of the book in pdf)

If you have an inquisitive intelligence you must listen to “Dialectic Spiritualism”!

In this one monumental tome, Srila Prabhupada confronts many of the leading exponents of Western thought and philosophy. Prabhupada presents the definitive Vedic verdict on the dominant social, philosophical and cultural concepts that have shaped our world.
“From 1973 to 1976, His Divine Grace … recorded a hundred hours of discourses on thirty-six Western philosophers from Socrates to Sartre. At the final session, he gave the book it’s title and said, “Print it at once!”

But the next year, Srila Prabhupada left this mortal world, and the manuscript remained unpublished, as some of his disciples feared releasing such a controversial book. “It’s an unscholarly punch in the nose,” one professor objected. “It’s a treatise against philosophy,” said another.

Now everyone can decide for himself. Despite attempts at suppression, here is Srila Prabhupada’s last great opus – ”Dialectic Spiritualism”, the complete and unexpurgated philosophy book as Srila Prabhupada spoke it.”

How to approach the aural reception of this book.

Start by forgetting what you think you know. Do not fall into the offensive mindset of the puffed up men who thought that they understood Western Philosophy more deeply than His Divine Grace, even to the point of fighting tooth and nail to try and repress this book’s publication. Understand that Srila Prabhupada is responding at face value to the questions presented by Syamasundara and Hayagriva. Prabhupada never gets diverted into esoteric epistemological labyrinths. He simply presents the Vedic response with noble impartiality. Prepare to have your cherished conceptions of Western thought slapped around the side of the head and thrown out on their ear.

And relish the novelty and utter unpredictability of Srila Prabhupada’s answers. This is manna for the devotee brain.

I recommend listening to this audio book in small sections at a time, thoughtfully, contemplating at most a chapter or two at a sitting. Give your intelligence the time to digest these topics that have been pondered for millennia.

Srila Prabhupada spent over a hundred precious hours on recording the discourses that went in to the publication of this book. He spoke for the benefit of the whole world, but especially for the benefit of his followers. He spoke for you! So hear with careful attention to this superb audio book rendition and prepare to have a mind-expanding experience.

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Free Download – Srimad-Bhagavatam (Bhagavata-Purana)

Srimad-Bhagavatam (Bhagavata Purana) is a virtual encyclopedia of all Eastern philosophy, yoga, meditation and the mystic arts. This Purana embodies the profound essence of India’s philosophy, religion, culture and history and is the final book written by Srila Vyasadeva, the author of all the Vedas, establishing the ultimate conclusion of all the Vedic literatures.

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One can derive from the study of the Bhagavatam all benefits that are possible to be derived from the personal presence of the Lord. It carries with it all the transcendental blessings of Lord Sri Krsna that we can expect from His personal contact.
(SB 1.3.40)

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Free Download – Sri Caitanya-Caritamrita

This is the definitive history and biography of Sri Krishna Caitanya. Sri Caitanya pioneered a great social and spiritual movement in India over five hundred years ago, which today continues to spread its profound influence worldwide. While man in the West was exploring outward in the physical universe, in India Sri Krishna Caitanya was exploring inward, exhibiting unparalleled spiritual potency, and discovering the truths of consciousness and transcendental reality. As a young boy he overwhelmed astounded scholars, establishing his own school at the age of sixteen. Within his lifetime, Sri Caitanya transformed India in four respects: philosophically, by defeating the greatest philosophers of his day; socially, by opposing the blindly rigid caste system; politically, by organizing India’s first civil disobedience movement against repression by the Mohammedan government; and spiritually, by freely distributing nonsectarian love of God. Sri Caitanya-Caritamrta presents Sri Caitanya as the Golden Avatar, the incarnation of Krishna in this age in the form of His devotee.

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Antya-Lila Volume 1
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Free download – Songs of the Vaisnava Acaryas (scans of the original book) (in pdf format)

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In Search of the Ultimate Goal of Life was written by our Divine Guide and Master, Om Visnupada Paramahamsa Parivrajakacarya Astottara-sata Sri Srimad A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada just after his entering the renounced order of life in the autumn of 1959. At that time, Srila Prabhupada was living in Sri Vrndavana-dhama and would sometimes practice madhukari. Madhukari means to collect a little food door to door for one’s maintenance just as the bee collects a little pollen flower to flower. Srila Prabhu- pada, however, often requested the householders whom he called upon to give pen and paper for his writing rather than the rice, dahl, and chapatis traditionally sought by holy men practicing madhukari.

On those papers that he received as alms, Srila Prabhupada wrote page after page, prepar- ing his messages of Godhead for the world. Some of the manuscripts he published in his Back to Godhead magazine, and others, like Easy Journey to Other Planets, he printed as small booklets. Although unable to publish everything he wrote, Srila Prabhupada never- theless continued to write and stockpile his manuscripts. Unfortunately, some of the early writings of His Divine Grace were lost after Srila Prabhupada left Sri Vrndavana-dhama to conduct his worldwide campaign of spreading Krsna consciousness.

In 1977, just on the eve of our Divine Master’s departure for the eternal abode of Sri Sri Radha-Krsna, I found a handwritten manuscript at the bottom of an old metal trunk in the Radha-Damodara temple. The handwriting was easily recognizable as Srila Prabhupada’s. After the disappearance of His Divine Grace, I carried the manuscript with me wherever I went, showing it to interested devotees. On several occasions, my godbrothers suggested that I publish the manuscript for wide-scale distribution.

The original manuscript of more than two hundred pages was entitled Lord Caitanya: His Sannyasa and Sankirtana Movement. Unfortunately, 40 pages were missing from the middle section. For several years, we searched for those missing pages but were unable to find them. The manuscript was therefore divided into two parts. The first part describes Lord Caitanya’s traveling from Navadvipa-dhama to Jagannatha Puri immediately after His accepting the sannyasa order, the Lord’s visiting the temple of Ksiracora Gopinatha, the pastime of the Gopinatha Deity stealing the offering of condensed milk to satisfy His pure devotee Sripad Madhavendra Puri, and the pastime of the Saksi Gopala Deity ap- pearing as a witness to defeat the atheists. The second part of the manuscript describes the talks between Lord Caitanya and Ramananda Raya when the two met on the banks of the river Godavari in South India.

“A remarkably complete review of all the evidence concerning human origins, including the evidence that has been ignored because it does not fit the dominant paradigm.”
—Dr. Phillip E. Johnson, University of California at Berkeley author of Darwin on Trial

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 We have many more books in the Krishna Path library page that are not by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada.

In the Bhagavad-gita 10.34 it is said “One need not read many books on different subject matters; the ability to remember a few and quote them when necessary is also another opulence.” But we know that the nature of a conditioned soul is to read many books on different subject matters, so we have made the library page on Krishna Path where you can satisfy your desire to download and read the main books of the Veda’s for free.

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