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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam Canto 1 Chapter 8 Text 28 manye tvāṁ kālam īśānam anādi-nidhanaṁ vibhum samaṁ carantaṁ sarvatra bhūtānāṁ yan mithaḥ kaliḥ   TRANSLATION My Lord, I consider Your Lordship to be eternal time, the supreme controller, without beginning and end, the all-pervasive one. In distributing Your mercy, You are equal to everyone. The dissensions between living...

Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam Canto 1 Chapter 8 Text 27   namo ’kiñcana-vittāya nivṛtta-guṇa-vṛttaye ātmārāmāya śāntāya kaivalya-pataye namaḥ   TRANSLATION My obeisances are unto You, who are the property of the materially impoverished. You have nothing to do with the actions and reactions of the material modes of nature. You are self-satisfied, and therefore You are the most...

Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam Canto 1 Chapter 8 Text 26   janmaiśvarya-śruta-śrībhir edhamāna-madaḥ pumān naivārhaty abhidhātuṁ vai tvām akiñcana-gocaram   TRANSLATION 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 opulence, high education and...

Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam Canto 1 Chapter 8 Text 21   kṛṣṇāya vāsudevāya devakī-nandanāya ca nanda-gopa-kumārāya govindāya namo namaḥ   TRANSLATION Let me therefore offer my respectful obeisances unto the Lord, who has become the son of Vasudeva, the pleasure of Devakī, the boy of Nanda and the other cowherd men of Vṛndāvana, and the enlivener of the...

The following is a talk by Śrīla Dhanurdhara Swami and Śrīla Bhakti Vijnana Goswami given on Sunday, September 15, 2019, in Brooklyn.   Link: https://youtu.be/XK7Eam902i4

Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam Canto 1 Chapter 8 Text 21   kṛṣṇāya vāsudevāya devakī-nandanāya ca nanda-gopa-kumārāya govindāya namo namaḥ   TRANSLATION Let me therefore offer my respectful obeisances unto the Lord, who has become the son of Vasudeva, the pleasure of Devakī, the boy of Nanda and the other cowherd men of Vṛndāvana, and the enlivener of the...

Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam Canto 1 Chapter 8 Text 21   kṛṣṇāya vāsudevāya devakī-nandanāya ca nanda-gopa-kumārāya govindāya namo namaḥ   TRANSLATION Let me therefore offer my respectful obeisances unto the Lord, who has become the son of Vasudeva, the pleasure of Devakī, the boy of Nanda and the other cowherd men of Vṛndāvana, and the enlivener of the...

The following is a recording of Srila Dhanurdhara Swami’s Vyasa-puja address, given on Saturday, September 21, 2019.

Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam Canto 1 Chapter 8 Text 20   tathā paramahaṁsānāṁ munīnām amalātmanām bhakti-yoga-vidhānārthaṁ kathaṁ paśyema hi striyaḥ   TRANSLATION You Yourself descend to propagate the transcendental science of devotional service unto the hearts of the advanced transcendentalists and mental speculators, who are purified by being able to discriminate between matter and spirit. How then can...

Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam Canto 1 Chapter 8 Text 19   māyā-javanikācchannam ajñādhokṣajam avyayam na lakṣyase mūḍha-dṛśā naṭo nāṭyadharo yathā   TRANSLATION Being beyond the range of limited sense perception, You are the eternally irreproachable factor covered by the curtain of deluding energy. You are invisible to the foolish observer, exactly as an actor dressed as a player...