Arrival

Death Ends All Material Happiness Permanently, KC Spreads Divine Knowledge Worldwide

📅 February 4, 1977 📍 Calcutta ⏱ 15 min
Material happiness is temporary and illusory; Krishna consciousness alone offers eternal freedom from birth and death.
Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca

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Prabhupāda: śrī-vigrahārādhana-nitya-nānāśṛṅgāra-tan-mandira-mārjanādau yuktasya bhaktaṁś ca niyuñjato 'pi vande guroḥ śrī-caraṇāravindam [Śrī Śrī Gurv-aṣṭaka, 3] So who has decorated?

Abhirāma: Pūrṇaprajña dāsa. Pūrṇaprajña: My wife and I dressed Them. She is Nārāyaṇī dāsi.

Prabhupāda: Very good. So this is the injunction of the śāstra, śrī-vigrahārādhana-nitya-nānā. They... [aside:] She should not stand before the Deity.

Hari-śauri: Ask her to stand to the left of the Deities.

Prabhupāda: Yes. [Transl. Stand at the back. Stand on that side. Don't stand in the middle.]

Indian devotee: [Transl. Not in the middle.]

Prabhupāda: Yes. [Transl. Stand there. Not before the Deity.] So this is the duty of all disciples under the guidance of the spiritual master—to decorate. Śrī-vigrahārādhana-nitya-nānā-śṛṅgāra. Śṛṅgāra means decoration.

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