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ISKM Vedic Lectures

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Welcome to ISKM Vedic Lectures — a treasury of recorded transcendental discourses by dedicated devotees from the International Sri Krishna Mandir (ISKM), a global congregation of Hare Krishna temples. Tune into the timeless Vedic wisdom delivered with pure devotion according to the teachings of His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda.
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The Importance of Associating With Pure Devotees | ŚB 5.18.7 | HG Sundar Gopāl Prabhu

ŚB 5.18.7 Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued: My dear King, Lord Nṛsiṁhadeva resides in the tract of land known as Hari-varṣa. In the Seventh Canto of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, I shall describe to you how Prahlāda Mahārāja caused the Lord to assume the form of Nṛsiṁhadeva. Prahlāda Mahārāja, the topmost devotee of the Lord, is a reservoir of all the good qualities of great personalities. His character and activities have delivered all the fallen members of his demoniac family. Lord Nṛsiṁhadeva is very dear to ...

May 09, 20251 hr 27 min

Q&A Session | 02-May-2025 | HG Sundar Gopāl Prabhu

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May 07, 20251 hr 38 min

Lord Hayagrīva Retrieves the Vedas | ŚB 5.18.6 | HG Tattvavit Prabhu

ŚB 5.18.6 At the end of the millennium, ignorance personified assumed the form of a demon, stole all the Vedas and took them down to the planet of Rasātala. The Supreme Lord, however, in His form of Hayagrīva retrieved the Vedas and returned them to Lord Brahmā when he begged for them. I offer my respectful obeisances unto the Supreme Lord, whose determination never fails. Please feel free to join our Kṛṣṇa Consciousness Telegram group chat (for both prabhujīs and mātājīs): ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠...

May 07, 20251 hr 2 min

The Supreme Lord's Unattached Activities | ŚB 5.18.5 | HG Tattvavit Prabhu

ŚB 5.18.5 O Lord, although You are completely detached from the creation, maintenance and annihilation of this material world and are not directly affected by these activities, they are all attributed to You. We do not wonder at this, for Your inconceivable energies perfectly qualify You to be the cause of all causes. You are the active principle in everything, although You are separate from everything. Thus we can realize that everything is happening because of Your inconceivable energy. Please...

May 06, 20251 hr 27 min

The Uncommon Opulence of the Universal Form | BG 11.9-13 | HG Tattvavit Prabhu

BG 11.9-13 Sañjaya said: O King, having spoken thus, the Supreme Lord of all mystic power, the Personality of Godhead, displayed His universal form to Arjuna. Arjuna saw in that universal form unlimited mouths, unlimited eyes, unlimited wonderful visions. The form was decorated with many celestial ornaments and bore many divine upraised weapons. He wore celestial garlands and garments, and many divine scents were smeared over His body. All was wondrous, brilliant, unlimited, all-expanding. If hu...

May 06, 20252 hr 5 min

The Inevitability of Life and Death | BG 2.27 | HG Subala Prabhu

BG 2.27 One who has taken his birth is sure to die, and after death one is sure to take birth again. Therefore, in the unavoidable discharge of your duty, you should not lament. Please feel free to join our Kṛṣṇa Consciousness Telegram group chat (for both prabhujīs and mātājīs): ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠https://t.me/iskmnews⁠

May 05, 20251 hr 1 min

The Madness of Material Greed | ŚB 5.18.3 | HG Sundar Gopāl Prabhu

ŚB 5.18.3 Alas! How wonderful it is that the foolish materialist does not heed the great danger of impending death! He knows that death will surely come, yet he is nevertheless callous and neglectful. If his father dies, he wants to enjoy his father’s property, and if his son dies, he wants to enjoy his son’s possessions as well. In either case, he heedlessly tries to enjoy material happiness with the acquired money. Please feel free to join our Kṛṣṇa Consciousness Telegram group chat (for both ...

May 05, 20251 hr 2 min

Q&A Session | 25-April-2025 | HG Sundar Gopāl Prabhu

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May 04, 20251 hr 23 min

The Criterion of Real Religion | ŚB 5.18.1-2 | HG Tattvavit Prabhu

ŚB 5.18.1-2 Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: Bhadraśravā, the son of Dharmarāja, rules the tract of land known as Bhadrāśva-varṣa. Just as Lord Śiva worships Saṅkarṣaṇa in Ilāvṛta-varṣa, Bhadraśravā, accompanied by his intimate servants and all the residents of the land, worships the plenary expansion of Vāsudeva known as Hayaśīrṣa. Lord Hayaśīrṣa is very dear to the devotees, and He is the director of all religious principles. Fixed in the topmost trance, Bhadraśravā and his associates offer their re...

May 04, 20251 hr 32 min

The Significance of the Universal Form | BG 11.5-8 | HG Tattvavit Prabhu

BG 11.5-8 The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: My dear Arjuna, O son of Pṛthā, see now My opulences, hundreds of thousands of varied divine and multicolored forms. O best of the Bhāratas, see here the different manifestations of Ādityas, Vasus, Rudras, Aśvinī-kumāras and all the other demigods. Behold the many wonderful things which no one has ever seen or heard of before. O Arjuna, whatever you wish to see, behold at once in this body of Mine! This universal form can show you whatever you n...

May 04, 20251 hr 37 min

Beyond Birth, Death, and Suffering | BG 8.15 | HG Viśvambhara Prabhu

BG 8.15 After attaining Me, the great souls, who are yogīs in devotion, never return to this temporary world, which is full of miseries, because they have attained the highest perfection. Please feel free to join our Kṛṣṇa Consciousness Telegram group chat (for both prabhujīs and mātājīs): ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://t.me/iskmnews

May 03, 202558 min

Bound by Illusion, Freed by Grace | ŚB 5.17.24 | HG Mahāprabhu Prabhu

ŚB 5.17.24 The illusory energy of the Supreme Personality of Godhead binds all of us conditioned souls to this material world. Therefore, without being favored by Him, persons like us cannot understand how to get out of that illusory energy. Let me offer my respectful obeisances unto the Lord, who is the cause of creation and annihilation. Please feel free to join our Kṛṣṇa Consciousness Telegram group chat (for both prabhujīs and mātājīs): ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠...

May 03, 202534 min

Caitanya Mahāprabhu Cheated | CC Madhya 3.7-59 | HG Tattvavit Prabhu

CC Madhya 3.7-9: Real Sannyāsa Means Service to Mukunda CC Madhya 3.10-15: Ecstatic Journey Through Rāḍha-deśa CC Madhya 3.16-22: Nityānanda Tricks the Lord for His Welfare CC Madhya 3.23-27: Ganges Mistaken as Yamunā in Divine Madness CC Madhya 3.28-34: Bath in the Yamunā That Was the Ganges CC Madhya 3.35-38: Wherever the Lord Is – That Is Vṛndāvana CC Madhya 3.39-42: Advaita Invites the Lord for Simple Bhikṣā CC Madhya 3.43-48: Bhoga Prepared with Love and Simplicity CC Madhya 3.49-54: Flood ...

May 02, 20251 hr 40 min

The Supremacy of Lord Kṛṣṇa Declared by Lord Śiva | ŚB 5.17.22-23 | HG Sundar Gopāl Prabhu

ŚB 5.17.22-23 From that Supreme Personality of Godhead appears Lord Brahmā, whose body is made from the total material energy, the reservoir of intelligence predominated by the passionate mode of material nature. From Lord Brahmā, I myself am born as a representation of false ego known as Rudra. By my own power I create all the other demigods, the five elements and the senses. Therefore, I worship the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is greater than any of us and under whose control are situa...

May 01, 20251 hr 22 min

Gravity, Mercy, and the Limitless | ŚB 5.17.21 | HG Tattvavit Prabhu

ŚB 5.17.21 Lord Śiva continued: All the great sages accept the Lord as the source of creation, maintenance and destruction, although He actually has nothing to do with these activities. Therefore the Lord is called unlimited. Although the Lord in His incarnation as Śeṣa holds all the universes on His hoods, each universe feels no heavier than a mustard seed to Him. Therefore, what person desiring perfection will not worship the Lord? Please feel free to join our Kṛṣṇa Consciousness Telegram grou...

Apr 28, 20251 hr 19 min

Q&A Session | 17-April-2025 | HG Sundar Gopāl Prabhu

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Apr 28, 20251 hr 32 min

Learning Humility from Arjuna | BG 11.4 | HG Tattvavit Prabhu

BG 11.4 If You think that I am able to behold Your cosmic form, O my Lord, O master of all mystic power, then kindly show me that unlimited universal Self. Please feel free to join our Kṛṣṇa Consciousness Telegram group chat (for both prabhujīs and mātājīs): ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://t.me/iskmnews

Apr 27, 202556 min

Imposter vs. Real God | BG 11.2-3 | HG Tattvavit Prabhu

BG 11.2-3 O lotus-eyed one, I have heard from You in detail about the appearance and disappearance of every living entity and have realized Your inexhaustible glories. O greatest of all personalities, O supreme form, though I see You here before me in Your actual position, as You have described Yourself, I wish to see how You have entered into this cosmic manifestation. I want to see that form of Yours. Please feel free to join our Kṛṣṇa Consciousness Telegram group chat (for both prabhujīs and ...

Apr 27, 20251 hr

Lord Kṛṣṇa – The Supremely Self-Controlled | ŚB 5.17.20 | HG Subala Prabhu

ŚB 5.17.20 For persons with impure vision, the Supreme Lord’s eyes appear like those of someone who indiscriminately drinks intoxicating beverages. Thus bewildered, such unintelligent persons become angry at the Supreme Lord, and due to their angry mood the Lord Himself appears angry and very fearful. However, this is an illusion. When the wives of the serpent demon were agitated by the touch of the Lord’s lotus feet, due to shyness they could proceed no further in their worship of Him. Yet the ...

Apr 27, 20251 hr 9 min

Daiva-varṇāśrama | CC Madhya 3.1-6 | HG Tattvavit Prabhu

CC Madhya 3.1-6: After accepting the sannyāsa order of life, Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu, out of intense love for Kṛṣṇa, wanted to go to Vṛndāvana, but apparently by mistake He wandered in the Rāḍha-deśa. Later He arrived at Śāntipura and enjoyed Himself there with His devotees. I offer my respectful obeisances to Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu. All glories to Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu! All glories to Nityānanda! All glories to Advaita Prabhu! And all glories to all the devotees of Lord Caitanya, headed by ...

Apr 27, 20252 hr 20 min

Controlling the Force of the Senses | ŚB 5.17.18-19 | HG Sundar Gopāl Prabhu

ŚB 5.17.18-19 O my Lord, You are the only worshipable person, for You are the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the reservoir of all opulences. Your secure lotus feet are the only source of protection for all Your devotees, whom You satisfy by manifesting Yourself in various forms. O my Lord, You deliver Your devotees from the clutches of material existence. Nondevotees, however, remain entangled in material existence by Your will. Kindly accept me as Your eternal servant. We cannot control the fo...

Apr 26, 20251 hr 13 min

Q&A Session | 11-April-2025 | HG Sundar Gopāl Prabhu

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Apr 26, 20251 hr 11 min

Refuting Māyāvāda Interpretations of the Vedas | ŚB 5.17.17 | HG Tattvavit Prabhu

ŚB 5.17.17 The most powerful Lord Śiva says: O Supreme Personality of Godhead, I offer my respectful obeisances unto You in Your expansion as Lord Saṅkarṣaṇa. You are the reservoir of all transcendental qualities. Although You are unlimited, You remain unmanifest to the nondevotees. Please feel free to join our Kṛṣṇa Consciousness Telegram group chat (for both prabhujīs and mātājīs): ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://t.me/iskmnews...

Apr 25, 20251 hr 15 min

The Heart of a Preacher | BG 11.1 | HG Tattvavit Prabhu

BG 11.1 Arjuna said: By my hearing the instructions You have kindly given me about these most confidential spiritual subjects, my illusion has now been dispelled. Please feel free to join our Kṛṣṇa Consciousness Telegram group chat (for both prabhujīs and mātājīs): ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://t.me/iskmnews

Apr 25, 20252 hr 20 min

Lecture on Rāma Navamī | 2025 | HG Sundar Gopāl Prabhu

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Apr 24, 20251 hr 8 min

The Importance of Holy Places | ŚB 5.17.14 | HG Sundar Gopāl Prabhu

ŚB 5.17.14 To show mercy to His devotees in each of these nine tracts of land, the Supreme Personality of Godhead known as Nārāyaṇa expands Himself in His quadruple principles of Vāsudeva, Saṅkarṣaṇa, Pradyumna and Aniruddha. In this way He remains near His devotees to accept their service. Please feel free to join our Kṛṣṇa Consciousness Telegram group chat (for both prabhujīs and mātājīs): ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://t.me/iskmnews...

Apr 24, 20251 hr 19 min

Q&A Session | 04-April-2025 | HG Sundar Gopāl Prabhu

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Apr 23, 20251 hr 44 min

Devotional Service in Bhauma-svarga | ŚB 5.17.13 | HG Tattvavit Prabhu

ŚB 5.17.13 In each of those tracts of land, there are many gardens filled with flowers and fruits according to the season, and there are beautifully decorated hermitages as well. Between the great mountains demarcating the borders of those lands lie enormous lakes of clear water filled with newly grown lotus flowers. Aquatic birds such as swans, ducks, water chickens, and cranes become greatly excited by the fragrance of lotus flowers, and the charming sound of bumblebees fills the air. The inha...

Apr 23, 20251 hr 23 min

Lord Caitanya's Madness and Kṛṣṇadāsa's Humility | CC Madhya 2.41-95 | HG Tattvavit Prabhu

CC Madhya 2.41-47: The Agony of Separation CC Madhya 2.48-55: Weeping and Longing for Śrī Rādhā CC Madhya 2.56-62: A Cry for Vṛndāvana CC Madhya 2.63-71: Love’s Deepest Pain and the Mockery of the Material World CC Madhya 2.72-77: Mahāprabhu's Transcendental Manifestation CC Madhya 2.78-84: Gaurāṅga, the Savior of the Fallen Souls CC Madhya 2.85-91: The Transcendental Glory of Lord Caitanya CC Madhya 2.92-95: The Ultimate Goal of Life Please feel free to join our Kṛṣṇa Consciousness Telegram gro...

Apr 23, 20251 hr 59 min

Turning the Mind Toward Lord Kṛṣṇa | BG 6.5 | HG Sundar Gopāl Prabhu

BG 6.5 One must deliver himself with the help of his mind, and not degrade himself. The mind is the friend of the conditioned soul, and his enemy as well. Please feel free to join our Kṛṣṇa Consciousness Telegram group chat (for both prabhujīs and mātājīs): ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://t.me/iskmnews

Apr 23, 202547 min
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