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Free Download – Bhagavad-gita As It Is (in pdf format)
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The Bhagavad-gita is a discussion between Krishna and His friend Arjuna that took place 5000 years ago. As a summary of all Vedic wisdom, Bhagavad-gita offers the reader profound realization of the self, God and the universe. Bhagavad-gita also gives scientific knowledge of the the mind, consciousness, meditation and the different paths of yoga, shedding light on psychological and social topics as well. Bhagavad-gita is for everyone – a researcher interested in philosophy, religion or world literature, a college student, or anyone who wants to find spiritual enlightenment.
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Sri Isopanisad is the foremost of the 108 Upanisads. Contained within is the essence of all Vedic knowledge. Presented with the original Sanskrit text, transliterations, English synonyms and purports, by a self-realized Teacher (Acharya), this book is recommended for the novices and neophytes as well as the most highly elevated souls. Its’ contents are transcendentally pleasing to the non-deceptive and sincere aspirants of spiritual advancement in life. (This is the original, unedited 1969 Sri Isopanisad!)
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This is definitely one of the most wonderful books in all existence. It is a narrative of Krishna’s life and activities with all the deep, profound philosophy of the Vedas woven ever so charmingly into the stories. The very name Krishna means “all-attractive”. Become enchanted by adventure, love, kingdoms, villages, demons and princesses of the transcendental realm, beyond space and time.
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Free Download – Teachings of Lord Chaitanya (1968 edition) (in pdf format)
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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.
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Free Download – The Nectar of Instruction (in pdf format)
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Across five centuries and half the globe comes this compact guidebook of essential spiritual teachings. How to choose a guru, how to practice yoga, even where to live. You’ll find it all in this invaluable work originally written in Sanskrit by Srila Rupa Gosvami, the greatest spiritual genius of medieval India. Now translated and explained by Srila Prabhupada, the Nectar of Instruction is the key to enlightenment for all seekers on the path of spiritual perfection.
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In this summary study, Srila Prabhupada gives a complete translation and provides occasional commentary on Srila Rupa Goswami’s classic, Bhakti Rasamrta Sindhu.
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The Brahma Samhita is a Sanskrit text, comprised of verses of prayer spoken by Brahma to Govinda or Krishna at the beginning of creation. It is revered within Gaudiya Vaishnavism, whose founder, Chaitanya Mahaprabhu (1486-1534), re-discovered a part of the work, the 62 verses of Chapter 5, when visiting a temple in the Kerala, Southern India in the 16th Century.
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An intriguing compilation of interviews, lectures and essays by A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada on varying topics such as reincarnation, karma, superconsciousness, how to find a guru, solutions to social and economic problems and understanding the difference and similarities between the Vedic teachings and major world religions.
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It is said that the perfect yogi can relinquish his body at death and journey, at the speed of mind, to antimaterial planets far beyond the limits of the material universe. Encompassing the systems of sankhya, astanga and bhakti, this absorbing publication treats the science of yoga, particularly in its application to out-of-body travel.
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This Knowledge is the king of education, the most secret of all secrets. It is the purest knowledge, and because it gives direct perception of the self by realization, it is the perfection of religion. It is everlasting and it is joyfully performed.
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Queen Kunti, a tragic and heroic figure, emerges from an explosive era in the history of ancient India. She was a central figure in a complex political drama that led to a bloody fratricidal war for the Indian throne. Yet through all her sufferings she found an inner wisdom and strength that carried her people through the time of crisis.
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Free Download – Teachings of Lord Kapila (in pdf format)
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Long ago, in an age we know about only from the epics of ancient India, the great sage Kapila made His appearance on this earth–from the womb of the saintly Devahuti. Lord Kapila then showed his mother the way of Sankhya–the analytical pathway to a higher understanding of the world, the self and the ultimate source of everything.
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The simplicity, beauty and intricacies found in nature have captured the minds and hearts of the greatest philosophers throughout time. Even the greatest scientific minds of our time are at a loss to understand nature’s greatest mysteries. Light of the Bhagavata presents a clear and tangible illustration of the purpose and significance of nature and it’s origin.
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The amazing narrative of Ajamila’s transforming near-death experience is chronicled in Srimad-Bhagavatam. In this book based on that narrative, Srila Prabhupada shows us how we can employ the techniques of mantra meditation and bhakti-yoga to overcome the obstacles of materialism, meet the challenge of death, and ultimately attain spiritual perfection.
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The stage of perfection is called trance, or samadhi, when one’s mind is completely restrained from material mental activities by practice of yoga. This is characterized by one’s ability to see the self by the pure mind and to relish and rejoice in the self. In that joyous state, one is situated in boundless transcendental happiness and enjoys himself through transcendental senses. Established thus, one never departs from the truth and upon gaining this he thinks there is no greater gain.
In this small book Srila Prabhupada cuts through the commercialism that now clouds the real meaning of yoga. There have been many yoga systems popularized in the Western world, especially in this century, but none of them have actually taught the perfection of yoga. By reading this short book one comes to realize the true goal and perfection of yoga.
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Learn how the conditioned soul can gradually progress from his state of ignorance to pure spiritual bliss.
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An increasing number of people believe in reincarnation. Reincarnation is when the living entity leaves this body and accepts a new one, over and over again. You do not have to continuously reincarnate in this material world again and again. This small powerful book gives the knowledge to help you break the cycle of reincarnation and enter into the spiritual world.
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Free Download – Perfect Questions, Perfect Answers (in pdf format)
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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.
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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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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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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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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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The Bhaktivedanta Vedabase folio is a collection of all Srila Prabhupada’s books, articles, transcribed lectures and more for free download.
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Free Download – All Srila Prabhupada’s recorded conversations (in epub format)
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All Srila Prabhupada’s Books for the Amazon Kindle
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Complete Original Works of Srila Prabhupada for Amazon Kindle Downloadable
This is the complete collection of all Srila Prabhuapda’s original books, conversations, letters, classes for the Amazon Kindle Wireless Reading Device. This is in the mobipocket format, suitable for the Amazon Kindle.The Amazon Kindle enables you to comfortably read Srila Prabhupada’s books anywhere. The Kindle is truly a revolution for reading Prabhupada’s books. It has an amazing high-contrast paper-like display that does not draw any power at all from the batteries except when you are changing pages. So that means you can read Srila Prabhupada’s books on the Amazon Kindle for up to a month on one charge of the batteries! The Kindle also provides an amazing search function which, while not as powerful as the folio search, it is far easier to use and incredibly fast and efficient.I was a bit of a “Kindle Skeptic” until some devotees requested us to provide Prabhupada’s original books in a format that can be used on the Amazon Kindle. So I now have my own Kindle with all of Prabhuapda’s books loaded up on it and can see that this is truly a wonderful way to read Srila Prabhupada’s books.These Kindle Prabhupada Books include the Sanskrit diacritical marks and the Sanskrit words are fully searchable. If you type “krsna” into the Kindle search it will find all the Krsna’s with diacritical marks for you.Experience the ecstasy of association with a pure devotee of Krishna through his Vani, his instructions.
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Free download – In Search of the Ultimate Goal of Life (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.
In the second part of the manuscript, Srila Prabhupada preaches very enthusiastically – discussing the varnasrama system, chastising the materialists, condemning the imperson- alist conception, exposing the imitationists, praising the virtues and characteristics of pure devotion, and entering into confidential descriptions of the nature of rasa-tattva, the transcendental mellowness of spontaneous love of Godhead.
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This album was recorded in the Beetles Apple Records studio with George Harrison and his Krishna devotee friends in 1971. It is a masterpiece of traditional Bhajan and Kirtan!
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Free download - The Heart of Transcendental Book Distribution
By Aindra DasaWe Highly recommend this book, especially to all devotee’s in ISKCON. Its deep insight and cutting clarity into current spiritual issues effecting Srila Prabhupada’s ISKCON and the Brahma-Madhva-Gaudiya sampradaya are truly awakening and inspiring for the sincere sadhaka! The transcendental depth and realized spiritual emotion that Aindra Prabhu has shared in the pages of this book is truly a treasure waiting to be taken into the heart.
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“The great necessity in the forward march of any growing religio-cultural institution is to recognize, encourage, responsibly guide, and positively facilitate the inner spiritual development of the society’s progressive pure devotional aspirants. This treatise strives in its own unique way to inspire a revolution of understanding. It attempts to deepen the self- searching thoughtfulness essentially required to bridge the apparent dichotomy between a sadhaka’s inward bhajana and outward preaching by illustrating the relative importance of each, as well as their interrelation. Those fortunate souls who absorb intimately this message will find the pathway to the highest regions of Krishna-prema clearly open to them, whereas those unfortunates who turn from this message, preferring to attach themselves to shallow, self-aggrandizing materialistic modes of devotion will find their path plagued with obstruction. We sincerely hope to at least touch the hearts of a fortunate few. That alone would be the hallmark of our success and a source of immense satisfaction.
This small volume will be well regarded by purified clear- headed individuals who are thoroughly honest. Narrow-souled superficialists or spiritually maladroit, externally oriented prakrita-bhaktas of meager metaphysical or internal devotional acumen will have to muster the requisite spiritual integrity to deeply enter into the spirit of this dissertation. The subject matter of this book, like the highly elevated topics revealed in the later cantos of Shrimad-Bhagavatam, should not be intruded upon by the ineligible, hypocritical, corrupt, or envious. If the boot in any way fits, promptly close the book.
What need is there for any further introductory elaboration? It is as it is. Generously remitting the numerous literary imperfections herein, simply open your heart and allow the substance of this presentation to transport your inner- dimensional quantum beyond the confines of vapid ecclesiastico-conservative conventionalism to a Krishna conscious paradigm of enriched profundity. Hare Krishna!”
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Free download - You Mean THAT’S in the Bible?
By Steven J. RosenThis short but powerful book is packed with historical and insightful information on the true teachings of Lord Jesus of the Christ. Throughout the ages the original teachings of this great profit have been changed and misinterpreted, these facts, obscured from history are herein well documented and the reader can clearly see how they have shaped modern christianity. A must read for all followers of Lord Jesus and any one that would simply like a better understanding of the world’s most widespread religion.
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