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The VedaBase update has been released

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The VedaBase contains all of Srila Prabhupada's recorded teachings found in his books, lectures, conversations, and letters. It is a searchable, database of Srila Prabhupada's archived works, and works related to his Krishna consciousness movement. More info here: info.vedabase.com You can download it here: VedaBase update 2011.1.   A newer version 2013 of the Vedabase has been released. … [Read more...] about The VedaBase update has been released

Bhaktivedanta Archives to release VedaBase update

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From the Bhaktivedanta Archives Bhaktivedanta VedaBase Announcement Coming February 16th, 2011 (Lord Nityananda's Appearance Day) The Bhaktivedanta VedaBase 2011.1 update This update, the first since version 2003.1, will be known as the Bhaktivedanta VedaBase 2011.1. This is an update to the contents, not an upgrade to the software. You will be able to download this free update on the Internet from Krishna.com (378 Mb zipped). Installation instructions are provided in the download. What's New? Added in 2011.1 • New Letters 245 New Prabhupada Letters … [Read more...] about Bhaktivedanta Archives to release VedaBase update

Book changes: History really does back the BBT

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It's a persistent image: Srila Prabhupada in Los Angeles in December of 1968, working side by side with Hayagriva Prabhu, carefully putting the finishing touches on Bhagavad-gita As It Is. Govinda Dasi was personally serving Srila Prabhupada in Los Angeles at the time, and she is sure this is what she saw. And even if Srila Prabhupada wrote two weeks later that what he was working on with Hayagriva was the Bhagavatam, then they must have been working on both books—the Bhagavatam and the Gita. But a careful look at the history shows that this is out of the question. Why? Because even … [Read more...] about Book changes: History really does back the BBT

“Gita changes” for Chapter 2 now online

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BBT press release The "changes" for chapter two of Bhagavad-Gita As It Is are now online at www.BBTedit.com/changes. See the meaning Srila Prabhupada actually intended where the first edition said: working with the fruitive being situated in the fixed conception of the real self (text 1, purport) Neither Vedic knowledge nor modern science denies the existence of the spirit soul (text 17, purport) People will call you a coward even before your flight (text 34, purport) Restrictions are good only if one actually has a taste for Krsna consciousness (text 59, … [Read more...] about “Gita changes” for Chapter 2 now online

Techie devotees: Help build the BBT digital repository

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The BBT has a lot of valuable stuff--books, manuscripts, letters, photos, paintings, audio, videos, and more, some of it in the Bhaktivedanta Archives, some of it elsewhere. A lot of it is in digital form, some of it not. Following the model for an Open Archival Information System, the BBT has begun a "Digital Repository" project. Among its purposes: To put all the BBT's stuff (as far as possible) into an up-to-date digital form, with suitable "metatags" to help in finding things. To archive all the stuff in one digital repository--one digital "box" (of course with backups). To … [Read more...] about Techie devotees: Help build the BBT digital repository

“Krishna-lila-stava” published

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The Bhaktivedanta Book Trust has just published a book I helped edit: Srila Sanatana Gosvami's Sri Krishna-lila-stava, translated, with a brief commentary, by Gopiparanadhana Dasa. Srila Sanatana Gosvami (circa 1488–1558) was the seniormost of the six Gosvamis who expounded and elaborated the teachings of Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu. Of Srila Sanatana's four literary works, Sri Krishna-lila-stava is the shortest and simplest. The book consists of 432 verses offering praise to Lord Krishna through prayers. In essence, the book is a summary of the pastimes (lilas) of Krishna found in the first … [Read more...] about “Krishna-lila-stava” published

First Annual BBT Art Seminar

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The Bhaktivedanta Book Trust is sponsoring its First Annual BBT Art Seminar, to be held in Vrindavan, India, for three weeks in October. The well-known BBT artists Dhriti Dasi and Ramdasa Abhirama Dasa will be teaching. Only 15 seats available. All seats free to qualified applicants. To learn more, see the announcement page for the BBT Art Seminar on Krishna.com. … [Read more...] about First Annual BBT Art Seminar