Srila Prabhupada Lilamrita
Volume One - Important Dates
Volume One - Important Dates
The age at which Prabhupada, still referred to as Abhay Charan at the time, became ill with typhoid.
What is one and a half years?
Ignorance, passion and goodness.
What are the three gunas (modes of material life)?
The pastime where Mother Yashoda tied Krishna to a wooden grinding motor.
What is the Damodara Lila?
"If one offers Me with love and devotion a leaf, a flower, a fruit or water, I will accept it."
patram puspam phalam toyam
yo me bhaktyä prayacchati
tad aham bhakty-upahrtam
asnämi prayatätmanah
The approximate date of the first Back to Godhead Magazine.
What is February, 1944?
A member of the fourth social order.
What is a sudra?
The pastime Krishna danced in with the gopis.
What is the Rasa Dance?
Just as the embodied soul continuously passes from childhood to youth to old age, similarly, at the time of death, the soul passes into another body. The wise are not deluded by this.
dehino ’smin yathā dehe
kaumāraṁ yauvanaṁ jarā
tathā dehāntara-prāptir
dhīras tatra na muhyati
The year that Prabhupada had his first child.
What is 1921?
A word that can be referred to as both the illusion of material life and also energy.
What is maya?
The name of the snake demon that disguised himself as a cave.
Who is Agasura?
"My whole body is trembling, and my hair is standing on end. My bow Gāṇḍīva is slipping from my hand, and my skin is burning."
vepathuś ca śarīre me
roma-harṣaś ca jāyate
gāṇḍīvaṁ sraṁsate hastāt
tvak caiva paridahyate
The address of the ISKON Centre in Los Angeles, California.
What is 3764, Watseka Avenue?
The predominated energies of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
What is prakriti?
The grove where Krishna fought the Kesi demon.
What is Talivan?
"This divine energy of mine, consisting of the three modes of material nature, is difficult to overcome. But those who have surrendered unto Me can easily cross beyond it."
daivī hy eṣā guṇa-mayī
mama māyā duratyayā
mām eva ye prapadyante
māyām etāḿ taranti te
The date that Prabhupada received his passport.
What is June 10, 1965?
Duhkhalayam asasvatam.
What is the abode of miseries?
Who are the Nagapatnis?
"Learn the Truth by approaching a spiritual master. Inquire from him with reverence and render service unto him. Such an enlightened Saint can impart knowledge unto you because he has seen the Truth."
tad viddhi praṇipātena
paripraśhnena sevayā
upadekṣhyanti te jñānaṁ
jñāninas tattva-darśhinaḥ