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The Vyasa-puja for His Holiness Devamrita Swami will be held on October 16th this year. If you wish to submit a Vyasa-puja homage to the online collaborative offering then please do so before October 15th.

All homages should be sent to: homages AT devaswami.com

Some general guidelines for homages can be read here.

Here is the seminar given this year at the Mayapur festival:

Sanga in Separation: Mahaprabhu's Supreme Puri Lessons - Class One [ download 7.5MB ]

Sanga in Separation: Mahaprabhu's Supreme Puri Lessons - Class Two [ download 7.01MB ]

Sanga in Separation: Mahaprabhu's Supreme Puri Lessons - Class Three [ download 7.18MB ]

 

 

The Vyasa Puja homages are online for viewing here.

 

The Blazing Fear of Seperation from Lord Caitanya [ download ]

Given: Sri Jagannatha Puri Dham	On: 30-Jun-2006	In: English	Length: 42 mins
Uploaded: 31-Jul-2006
mp3 - mono - cbr - 16 kbps 11025 Hz			4.85 megabytes

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The Simha Guru (With HH Radhanatha Swami and HG Jananivas Prabhu) [ download ]

Given: Sri Jagannatha Puri Dham	On: 28-Jun-2006	In: English	Length: 77 mins
Uploaded: 31-Jul-2006
mp3 - mono - cbr - 16 kbps 11025 Hz			8.79 megabytes

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Given: Melbourne, Australia	On: 07-Jul-2006	In: English	Length: 60 mins
Uploaded: 25-Jul-2006	Sastra: SB 10.31.1
mp3 - mono - cbr - 16 kbps 11025 Hz			6.88 megabytes

 

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Today we've uploaded a very enlivening kirtana and class given in April 2006 for Lord Ramacandra's Appearance celebration in Los Angeles. You can download them here.

3 new classes from last week (April 2006) are available in the audio section.

From Sri Mayapur Candrodaya Mandir!

Date:      March 1, 2006
Verse:     Srimad Bhagavatam 2.2.27
Mp3:   --- download ---
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TRANSLATION: 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 of compassion for those unaware of the process of devotional service, who are subjected to unsurpassable miseries in the material world.

PURPORT: Foolish men of materialistic temperament do not take advantage of successive authorized knowledge. The Vedic knowledge is authorized and is acquired not by experiment but by authentic statements of the Vedic literatures explained by bona fide authorities. Simply by becoming an academic scholar one cannot understand the Vedic statements; one has to approach the real authority who has received the Vedic knowledge by disciplic succession, as clearly explained in the Bhagavad-gita (4.2). Lord Krsna affirmed that the system of knowledge as explained in the Bhagavad-gita was explained to the sun-god, and the knowledge descended by disciplic succession from the sun-god to his son Manu, and from Manu to King Iksvaku (the forefather of Lord Ramacandra), and thus the system of knowledge was explained down the line of great sages, one after another. But in due course of time the authorized succession was broken, and therefore, just to reestablish the true spirit of the knowledge, the Lord again explained the same knowledge to Arjuna, who was a bona fide candidate for understanding due to his being a pure devotee of the Lord. Bhagavad-gita, as it was understood by Arjuna, is also explained (Bg. 10.12-13), but there are many foolish men who do not follow in the footsteps of Arjuna in understanding the spirit of Bhagavad-gita. They create instead their own interpretations, which are as foolish as they themselves, and thereby only help to put a stumbling block on the path of real understanding, misdirecting the innocent followers who are less intelligent, or the sudras.