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SSR Dedication
Dedication According to material vision, our beloved spiritual master, guide, and friend His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda passed away from this world on November 14, 1977, but actually he is still present. As Śrīla ...
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SSR Foreword
Foreword From the very start, I knew that His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda was the most extraordinary person I had ever met. The first meeting occurred in the summer of 1966, in New York City. A friend had invited me to hear ...
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SSR Introduction
Introduction "Who is Śrīla Prabhupāda?" people often ask, and it is always a hard question to answer. For Śrīla Prabhupāda always eclipsed conventional designations. At various times people have called him a scholar, a philosopher, a ...
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SSR 1: Learning the Science of the Self
Discovering the Self Who are you?... Are you your body? Or your mind? Or are you something higher? Do you know who you are, or do you merely think you know? And does it really matter? Our materialistic society, with its unenlightened ...
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SSR 4: Understanding Kṛṣṇa and Christ
Kṛṣṇa, Christos, Christ In 1974, near ISKCON's center in Frankfurt am Main, West Germany, Śrīla Prabhupāda and several of his disciples took a morning walk with father Emmanuel Jungclaussen, a Benedictine monk from Niederalteich Monastery ...
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SSR 5: Practicing Yoga in the Modern Age
Superconsciousness The goals of modern-day Western yoga enthusiasts are dwarfed by the achievements of India's ancient yogīs, who, according to historical accounts, could become smaller than atoms and lighter than air and who could ...
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SSR 6: Finding Spiritual Solutions to Material Problems
Crime: Why and What to Do? Every year the world spends more money on crime prevention and control. Yet despite these efforts crime rates are soaring, and notably in American public schools, crime has reached almost uncontrollable levels. In ...
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SSR 7: Exploring the Spiritual Frontier
Śrīla Prabhupāda Arrives in America Several years after Śrīla Prabhupāda first arrived in America, a disciple discovered the diary he had kept during his passage from India on the steamship Jaladuta. Inside was a poem, handwritten in ...
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SSR 8: Attaining Perfection
Knowing the Purpose of Life Every thoughtful human being asks the fundamental question, "What is the purpose of life?" Unfortunately, our difficulty in finding ultimate meaning is compounded by the fact that thousands of conflicting ...
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SSR 3: Discovering the Roots
The Immortal Nectar of the Bhagavad-gītā Through the centuries, India's greatest philosophers and spiritualists have praised the Bhagavad-gītā as the distilled essence of the eternal Vedic wisdom. In his Meditations on the ...