The Vedic Fathers
of Geology, Part 7
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Jan 18, CANADA (SUN) — A serial presentation on Vedic discoveries in Geology, from the book by Narayan Bhavanrao Pavgee Poona (1912).
I shall now advert to the Cloud-serpent, always found associated with Indra, and explain by whom, how, why, and where he was killed. I shall then state the consequences that flowed from the action taken by Indra in respect of Vritra, and mention the creations of Indra, as they happen to have had intimate connection with Aryavarta.
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The Ramayana of Valmiki, Part 461
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Jan 18, CANADA (SUN) — A serial presentation of 'The Epic Journey of Rama'.
Book VI - Canto LIX - Rávan's Sally
"They told him that the chief was killed,
And Rávaṇ's breast with rage was filled.
Then, fiercely moved by wrath and pride,
Thus to his lords the tyrant cried:
"No longer, nobles, may we show
This lofty scorn for such a foe
By whom our bravest, with his train
Of steeds and elephants, is slain.
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Prabhupada Padma-vakya
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Jan 18,
CANADA (SUN)
Audio files with transcripts recorded on this day.
January 18, 1974, Hawaii
Srimad-Bhagavatam 3.26.42
""Everything is being done by the direction of prakrti, nature." So
nature is superior than you. You have to accept. Because you are being
directed by nature."
January 18, 1974, Hawaii
Srimad-Bhagavatam 1.16.22
"Just like a female child. By evolution, means when she gets
another body, youthful body, her consciousness is different. If you get
the body of a pig, your consciousness is different from the
consciousness of a man. A pig will very easily eat stool, but a human
being will not eat."
January 18, 1975, Bombay
Srimad-Bhagavatam 3.26.43
""The whole yogic process is meant for controlling the mind because
unless you control the mind, the mind will volumes and volumes of
desires, hundreds, thousands, millions. And you have to satisfy them."
 Bhaktivedanta Book Trust. HDG A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada.
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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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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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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Devadas, Chapter 19
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Jan 01, CANADA (SUN) — A transcendental novel in 21 chapters, by His Divine Grace Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakur.
After the disappearance of the gurudev, Suhasini happily spent a few years with her sons, grandsons, and daughter-in-laws. According to the instruction of the gurudev she her husband and her sons regularly worshiped the Supreme Lord in the morning and in the evening. Whenever any guest, stranger, poor, or fallen persons came to her door steps she immediately satisfy by feeding them. After everyone finished eating she ate herself. If any of her neighbors became ill she should immediately find out the details of the illness and if needed she helped them with money.
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Parishads: Srila Jiva Goswami and Sri Jagadisa Pandit
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Jan 01, CANADA (SUN) — The Disappearance day of Srila Jiva Goswami and Sri Jagadisa Pandit is observed on January 2nd.
Srila Jiva Goswami
Srila Jiva Gosvami made his appearance in 1455, Sakabdha (1533 A.D.), on the 12th day of the bright fortnight in the month of Bhadra. He disappeared from view at the age of 85 in 1540 A.D., (Sakabdha, 3rd day of bright fortnight, Pausa).
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Padyavali of Srila Govinda das
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Jan 01, CANADA (SUN) — A serial presentation of the 95 songs from 'Padyavali'.
"Ciranjiva and Sulocana were both residents of Srikhanda, where their descendants are still living. Of Ciranjiva's two sons, the elder, Ramacandra Kaviraja, was a disciple of Srinivasacarya and an intimate associate of Narottama dasa Thakura. The younger son was Govinda dasa Kaviraja, the famous Vaisnava poet. Ciranjiva's wife was Sunanda, and his father-in-law was Damodara Sena Kaviraja. Ciranjiva previously lived on the bank of the Ganges River in the village of Kumaranagara. The Gaura-ganoddesa-dipika, verse 207, states that he was formerly Candrika in Vrndavana." (Caitanya-caritamrta, Adi lila 10:78-79)
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Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu and
Guru Nanak, Part 2
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Dec 30, CANADA (SUN) — A serial presentation on Guru Nanak's role in the Bhakti Movement, and his Caitanya-lila pastimes.
Guru Nanak, the founder of Sikhism, is known to have traveled extensively throughout India, and one of his most famous trips took him to Jagannatha Puri. He went there with two of his disciples, Bala and Manda. Bala was a Hindu while Manda was Muslim. The three stayed in Puri Dham for some days.
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Parishads: Sri Locana Das Thakur
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Dec 30, CANADA (SUN) — The Appearance day of Sri Locana Das Thakur is observed on December 31st.
Lochan Das Thakur was born in 1523 in Kogram, in the Katwa block of Burdwan district. This village is about ten miles north of Guskara train station. The Thakur's home is situated near the Ajaya River.
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