The Vedic Fathers
of Geology, Part 6
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Jan 16, CANADA (SUN) — A serial presentation on Vedic discoveries in Geology, from the book by Narayan Bhavanrao Pavgee Poona (1912).
But, more than this, even before and at the time of Mahabharata, the idea having taken a deep root, had a firm hold on the Indian mind, that the region lying between the two divine rivers, viz. the Sarasvati and the Drishadvati, was the scene of creation, as it was the tract fashioned by God. In fact, in Mahabharata it has been called Brahmavarta.
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The Ramayana of Valmiki, Part 460
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Jan 16, CANADA (SUN) — A serial presentation of 'The Epic Journey of Rama'.
Book VI - Canto LIV - Vajradanshtra's Death
"The giant leader fiercely rained
His arrows and the fight maintained.
Each time the clanging cord he drew
His certain shaft a Vánar slew.
Then, as the creatures he has made
Fly to the Lord of Life for aid,
To Angad for protection fled
The Vánar hosts dispirited.
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Prabhupada Padma-vakya
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Jan 16,
CANADA (SUN)
Audio files with transcripts recorded on this day.
January 16, 1967, New York
Caitanya Caritamrta Madhya 22.31-33
"And due to that incessant shining, all the shining which you are
experiencing, even this lamp, even this electricity, fire, moonshine,
sunshine, any shining, that is due to that brahmajyoti."
January 16, 1974, Hawaii
Srimad-Bhagavatam 1.16.20
"If one can control the urges of the tongue then he will be
naturally able to stop the urges of the belly and the urges of the
genital, three straight line."
January 16, 1975, Bombay
Srimad-Bhagavatam 3.26.41
January 16, 1975, Bombay
Room Conversation
"The Western people, they are not fools, but misguided. So you take
the charge of guiding them; then Krsna consciousness movement will be
successful."
 Bhaktivedanta Book Trust. HDG A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada.
The Vedic Fathers
of Geology, Part 5
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Jan 14, CANADA (SUN) — A serial presentation on Vedic discoveries in Geology, from the book by Narayan Bhavanrao Pavgee Poona (1912).
Professor Bloomfield, while reviewing Tilak's Orion or the Researches into the Antiquity of the Vedas, had, in his address on the occasion of the eighteenth Anniversary of John Hopkins University, very rightly observed that, "The language and literature of the Vedas is, by no means, so primitive as to place with it the real beginnings of Aryan life."
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The Ramayana of Valmiki, Part 459
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Jan 14, CANADA (SUN) — A serial presentation of 'The Epic Journey of Rama'.
Book VI - Canto LIII - Vajradanshtra's Sally
"When Rávaṇ in his palace heard
The mournful news, his wrath was stirred;
And, gasping like a furious snake,
To Vajradanshṭra thus he spake:
"Go forth, my fiercest captain, lead
The bravest of the giants' breed.
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The Vedic Fathers
of Geology, Part 4
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Jan 12, CANADA (SUN) — A serial presentation on Vedic discoveries in Geology, from the book by Narayan Bhavanrao Pavgee Poona (1912).
Now, it might perhaps be argued that the various theories propounded by the Vedic and Puranic Indians, either in the Puranas and the Mahabharata, the Upanishads and the Rig-Veda, were advanced not with reference to Geology, but for the sole purpose of Cosmology. And to this, a curt reply might with advantage be given, that whatever the purpose, if the results achieved are in the main correct, even from the scientific point of view, the researches made by our hoary ancestors in the dim and distant past, must needs be appreciated.
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The Ramayana of Valmiki, Part 458
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Jan 12, CANADA (SUN) — A serial presentation of 'The Epic Journey of Rama'.
Book VI - Canto LII - Dhúmráksha's Death
"The Vánars saw the giant foe
Pour from the gate in gallant show,
Rejoiced with warriors' fierce delight
And shouted, longing for the fight.
Near came the hosts and nearer yet:
Dire was the tumult as they met,
As, serried line to line opposed,
The Vánars and the giants closed.
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The Vedic Fathers
of Geology, Part 3
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Jan 09, CANADA (SUN) — A serial presentation on Vedic discoveries in Geology, from the book by Narayan Bhavanrao Pavgee Poona (1912).
It would, I think, be convenient for a wide Survey of the subject, to begin with the Upanishads and give a few details, as the zealous Rishis of the period seem to have taken very keen interest in geological researches. From the substance of what has been stated in the Taittiriya Samhita, it appears to have been supposed that at the beginning, all was liquid; which was probably considered to be enveloped in gaseous matter, and that this subsequently became transformed into the Earth. (T.S. VII, 1.5.1)
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The Ramayana of Valmiki, Part 457
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Jan 09, CANADA (SUN) — A serial presentation of 'The Epic Journey of Rama'.
Book VI - Canto LI - Dhúmráksha's Sally
"King Rávaṇ, where he sat within,
Heard from his hall the deafening din,
And with a spirit ill at ease
Addressed his lords in words like these:
"That warlike shout, those joyous cries,
Loud as the thunder of the skies,
Upsent from every Vánar throat,
Some new-born confidence denote.
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The Vedic Fathers
of Geology, Part 2
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Jan 07, CANADA (SUN) — A serial presentation on Vedic discoveries in Geology, from the book by Narayan Bhavanrao Pavgee Poona (1912).
The query would naturally arise that if the Vedic Aryans had wide acquaintance with the elements of Geology, what is the reason of the paucity, if not the total absence of any Indian Geological Literature worth the name? But, it is not necessary to go far in search of the same, for, during foreign roads and desultory incursions, the unsympathetic Invaders had consigned to the flames, and reduced to ashes, immense libraries in various parts of India.
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The Ramayana of Valmiki, Part 456
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Jan 07, CANADA (SUN) — A serial presentation of 'The Epic Journey of Rama'.
Book VI - Canto L. The Broken Spell
"Sugríva viewed the flying crowd,
And thus to Angad cried aloud:
"Why run the trembling hosts, as flee
Storm-scattered barks across the sea?"
"Dost thou not mark," the chief replied,
"Transfixed with shafts, with bloodstreams dyed,
With arrowy toils about them wound,
The sons of Raghu on the ground?"
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The Vedic Fathers
of Geology
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Jan 05, CANADA (SUN) — A serial presentation on Vedic discoveries in Geology, from the book by Narayan Bhavanrao Pavgee Poona (1912).
In The Vedic Fathers of Geology, N. B. Pavgee addresses a number of unique aspects of Vedic history, including the great antiquity of the Vedas from the Geological point of view, and modern Geology's confirmation of numerous Vedic records of time and place.
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The Ramayana of Valmiki, Part 455
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Jan 05, CANADA (SUN) — A serial presentation of 'The Epic Journey of Rama'.
Book VI - Canto XLIX - Ráma's Lament
"Ranged round the spot where Ráma fell
Each Vánar chief stood sentinel.
At length the mighty hero broke
The trance that held him, and awoke.
He saw his senseless brother, dyed
With blood from head to foot, and cried:
"What have I now to do with life
Or rescue of my prisoned wife,
When thus before my weeping eyes,
Slain in the fight, my brother lies?
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Jesus in India
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Jan 03, CANADA (SUN) — Concluding the series on Jesus in India.
In his book entitled "The Unknown Life of Christ", published in 1894, Nicholas Notovitch published the findings of his life study and experiences concerning Jesus Christ's travels to India. Born in 1858 into a wealthy Russian family in the Crimea, Notovitch converted from Judaism to Eastern Orthodox when he was quite young. He later became a journalist and political writer who did a great deal of traveling.
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The Ramayana of Valmiki, Part 454
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Jan 03, CANADA (SUN) — A serial presentation of 'The Epic Journey of Rama'.
Book VI - Canto XLVIII - Sítá's Lament
"False are they all, proved false to-day,
The prophets of my fortune, they
Who in the tranquil time of old
A blessed life for me foretold,
Predicting I should never know
A childless dame's, a widow's woe,
False are they all, their words are vain,
For thou, my lord and life, art slain.
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Jesus in India:
The Lost Years, Part 5
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Jan 01, CANADA (SUN) — Excerpts from 'The Lost Years of Jesus', by E.C. Prophet.
In 1894, Nicholas Notovitch published his book, The Unknown Life of Jesus Christ. It was the first of many books to follow on the subject of Saint Issa's travels through India and into the Himalayas. The manuscripts Notovitch had translated, and copied into his journal, are said to have been compiled in several different places in India and Nepal, and at differing period of time.
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The Ramayana of Valmiki, Part 453
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Jan 01, CANADA (SUN) — A serial presentation of 'The Epic Journey of Rama'.
Book VI - Canto XLVII - Sítá
"Still on the ground where Ráma slept
Their faithful watch the Vánars kept.
There Angad stood o'erwhelmed with grief
And many a lord and warrior chief;
And, ranged in densest mass around,
Their tree-armed legions held the ground.
Far ranged each Vánar's eager eye,
Now swept the land, now sought the sky,
All fearing, if a leaf was stirred,
A Rákshas in the sound they heard.
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Jesus in India:
The Lost Years, Part 4
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Dec 30, CANADA (SUN) — Excerpts from 'The Lost Years of Jesus', by E.C. Prophet.
Nicholas Roerich, third among the famous explorers on the trail of the Issa legend, reported back with fragments of thought and evidence of the miraculous. Near Lhasa was a temple of teaching with a wealth of manuscripts, which Issa wished to acquaint himself with them. Meng-ste, a great sage of the East, resided at this temple.
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The Ramayana of Valmiki, Part 452
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Dec 30, CANADA (SUN) — A serial presentation of 'The Epic Journey of Rama'.
Book VI - Canto XLVI - Indrajít's Triumph
"The Vánar chiefs whose piercing eyes
Scanned eagerly the earth and skies,
Saw the brave brothers wounded sore
Transfixed with darts and stained with gore.
The monarch of the Vánar race,
With wise Vibhishaṇ, reached the place;
Angad and Níla came behind,
And others of the forest kind,
And standing with Hanúmán there
Lamented for the fallen pair.
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Jesus in India:
The Lost Years, Part 3
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Dec 28, CANADA (SUN) — Excerpts from 'The Lost Years of Jesus', by E.C. Prophet.
According to the legend, Issa left his father's house secretly at age thirteen. He joined a merchant caravan and arrived in India "this side of the Sind" sometime during his fourteenth year. Young Issa, the Blessed One, traveled south to Gujarat, through the country of the five streams and Rajputana, then on to the holy cities of Jagannath and Benares, where Brahman priests taught him Vedic scripture.
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The Ramayana of Valmiki, Part 451
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Dec 28, CANADA (SUN) — A serial presentation of 'The Epic Journey of Rama'.
Book VI - Canto XLV - Indrajít's Victory
"Brave Ráma, burning still to know
The station of his artful foe,
Gave to ten chieftains, mid the best
Of all the host, his high behest.
Swift rose in air the Vánar band:
Each region of the sky they scanned:
But Rávaṇ's son by magic skill
Checked them with arrows swifter still,
When streams of blood from chest and side
The dauntless Vánars' limbs had dyed,
The giant in his misty shroud
Showed like the sun obscured by cloud.
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Dec 28, CANADA (SUN) — The Sun's weekly cartoon series.
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Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu and
Guru Nanak
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Dec 28, CANADA (SUN) — A serial presentation on Guru Nanak's role in the Bhakti Movement, and his Caitanya-lila pastimes.
During the 15th and 16th centuries, the citizens of Bharat were besieged by foreign intruders, from the Delhi Sultanate to the Mughal courts of Babur and Humayun. During the same period, however, many great leaders of the Bhakti Movement appeared, by Krsna's arrangement, including the Lord Himself. Sri Krsna Caitanya Mahaprabhu appeared at Navadvipa, in the Nadia district of West Bengal, on a full moon night in 1486 A.D., thus disturbing the inexorable spread of Kali's agents of misery.
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Devadas, Chapter 17
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Dec 28, CANADA (SUN) — A transcendental novel in 21 chapters, by His Divine Grace Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakur.
After Gurudev returned to Varanasi one day Devadas absorbed in deep thought about how a human being should maintain his family life. We are giving herein an exact picture of the conclusion that Devadas arrived after due consideration. Every householder is prone to face various difficulty. In order to get freedom from those difficulties one needs money. Therefore every householder requires to accumulate money for his future needs. If at the time of emergency a householder does not have accumulated money, then he is forced to borrow money from others. If a householder is fortunate enough to gradually repay his debts then it is auspicious, otherwise he will have to suffer unlimited miseries in this world being entangled in the network of debts. All his properties get destroyed and sometimes even he has to go to the jail. Therefore it is extremely necessary for a householder to save some money.
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Parishads: Sri Mahesh Pandit & Sri Uddharana
Datta Thakur
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Dec 28, CANADA (SUN) — The Disappearance day of Sri Mahesh Pandit & Sri Uddharana
Datta Thakur is observed on December 28th.
Sri Mahesh Pandit
Mahesh Pandit was one of the Dvadasa-gopala, or twelve cowherd boys. His home (Sripat) was first situated in Masipur across the river from Jirat on the eastern bank of the Ganges.
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A Speech to the Devotees
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Dec 30, CANADA (SUN) — Srila Prabhupada made the following speech to the devotees on April 7, 1976 in Vrindavan Dham. May the words of the nitya-siddha, maha-bhagavata, paramahamsa Sampra- daya Acarya inspire and renew us in the year ahead to carry out the miraculous mission initiated by Srila Prabhupada, on the order of his Spiritual Master and on the order of Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu Himself.
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Devadas, Chapter 18
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Dec 30, CANADA (SUN) — A transcendental novel in 21 chapters, by His Divine Grace Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakur.
After the death of his daughter Devadas could concentrate his mind on the worship of the Lord for a few years. These few years he spent with his family life with happiness. During this time his elder daughter-in-law had a baby boy. Devadas duly performed his grandson's name giving ceremony. He gave charity to the poor, the fallen, and the brahmanas according to his capacity. Seeing the face of the grandson Suhasini became very happy.
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