Tamal Krishna Goswami Tape Ministry
Tape Series
PREACHING AROUND THE WORLD
New York City - one of
the most degraded places of the world. And yet this is where
Srila Prabhupada started the first ISKCON temple. Besides great
successes in preaching, over the years the New York temple has
faced severe difficulties as well, which have attacked the
devotees' faith. In short, not an easy audience to please during
Bhagavatam-class. These selected lectures contain
straightforward, uncompromising ISKCON-tattva, presented in a
sensitive and palatable way before a crowd of tested devotees.
The conclusion: engaging in preaching activities is the best way
to transcend all personal differences, as well as to deal with
the problems of Kali-yuga. Interesting question & answers
sessions. Included is Queen Kunti's 'obstacle verse', which
offers a transcendental view on difficulties in the life of a
devotee.
1988/92 - 10 TAPES with VINYL ALBUM
Dutch people,
and even Dutch devotees, have a reputation of being stubborn,
critical and very attached to their own opinions. And Amsterdam
is one of Maya's main footholds in Europe, a degraded place where
unemployment is widely spread and sense gratification of the
grossest type is the all-pervading way of life. How to present
the highest spiritual knowledge in such a polluted atmosphere and
satisfy the audience? Accompany His Holiness to all kinds of
different preaching engagements and experience how he succeeds in
charming and attracting the minds of the Dutch people by his
sensitive, intelligent preaching. Hear how expertly he deals with
frustrated, discouraged persons, answers challenging questions,
encourages young bhaktas and narrates nectar stories about
Krishna's pastimes.
1990/93 - 10 TAPES with VINYL ALBUM
A diversified series
covering His Holiness's autumnal 1994 visit to Amsterdam.
Starting with his arrival address -intimate and funny-, these
lectures explain a large variety of topics, such as "The
Gift of Lord Caitanya" -a colorful home program with
interesting questions from both old-timers and newcomers- and
"The Glories of Conjugal Love" -nectar pastimes based
upon important points from the Caitanya-caritamrita and the
Brahma-samhita. Then follows an initiation lecture with good
advice about chanting and another wonderful SB class
"Devotion Transcends Disqualification". Finally His
Holiness's preaching ecstasy gains firm ground with the sobering
"Do Your Duty & Remember Krishna", a Gita class on
how to survive in this material world while simultaneously making
spiritual progress. A transcendental bouquet.
1994 - 5 TAPES with VINYL ALBUM
Vrindavana 1994/95.
Collected SB lectures, parikrama's evening darshana's etc. While
discussing the life story of Priyavrata Maharaja His Holiness
encourages the devotees in their duties in this world, he
feelingly shares the amazing account of the wonderful death of
his Godbrother Sudama Swami, plus so much more. For example: An
intimate gathering with all disciples present at the newly
acquired property near Govardhana Hill, a visit to Govinda Kunda
on Madhavendra Puri's Disappearance Day, and a lot of authorized
nectar and preaching zeal.
1994/95 - 10 TAPES with VINYL ALBUM
A collection
of various lectures recorded during His Holiness's 1995 August
visit to Melbourne, Australia and Auckland, New Zealand. Even
though His Holiness holds no management responsibility in these
places, he enjoys warm, long-standing relationships with the
devotees here and always makes time to visit them. Contains
jolly, blissful classes full of pastimes on Balarama's Appearance
Day as well as inspiring Bhagavatam lectures like
"Experience Guru's Omnipresence By Serving",
"Attachment to Krishna Will Cut The Knot", "No One
Can Ignore God" and the funny "Krishna Conscious Family
Planning".
1995 - 10 TAPES with VINYL ALBUM
All around the
world - 1995. Ten dynamic tapes covering visits to the
Philippines, Hong Kong, Malaysia and Paris. Topics: Srila
Prabhupada desired for all of his followers that they should
advance from the level of a neophyte devotee and rise to the
madhyama-platform in devotional service. How to do it? Plus: Hear
how KC is spreading in Hong Kong, as well as strong words spoken
on a one-day visit to Kuala Lumpur, urging all devotees to remain
in a preaching mood and not sink back into "civilian
consciousness". Then: on to Paris, where Sri-Sri
Radha-Parisisvara reign, only hardly anybody is aware of it. When
will the day come...? The cherry on this preaching pie are the
New Mayapura lectures, on famous CC verses, covering the
relationship between guru and disciple and the importance of
associating with devotees.
1995 -10 TAPES with VINYL ALBUM
This uncommon series covers the first and the second visit His
Holiness made to Israel. It is an interesting combination of SB
lectures to the local devotees as well as public preaching
programs. Israel is a unique country because despite all the
stride, it is considered holy by three of the world's main
religions, namely the Jews, Christians and Muslims. During his
visit to Jerusalem His Holiness notes how all the people are
somehow engaged in religious rituals. Yet they have no knowledge
of who it is whom they are worshiping. This important information
can only be given by the devotees of Krishna. But presently the
general public is quite hostile to the KC movement. In this
sensitive situation His Holiness discusses different preaching
tactics with the local leaders of our Society and he also
personally demonstrates in his public programs how to present the
eternal truths of the Vedic literatures in a non-sectarian,
fascinating way. He patiently confronts the many questions of
headstrong audiences and wins the hearts of some at least, as
witnessed by the powerful initiation lecture of his second visit.
Bonus: an informal preaching report given by His Holiness himself
as he arrives in New York, the next stop in his endless travels.
1995/96 - 12 TAPES
His Holiness's first stop on his travels during his 1996
summer break was New Mayapura, France where he met up with many
of his European disciples and shared happy times with them. The
lectures he delivered are of different flavors, ranging from
strong criticism of modern day society, to glorification of the
potency of the holy Name, and offer practical advice on how to
preach to people so that they will be receptive to what you have
to say. A highlight is the unusual Sunday lecture he gave in
Paris on the topic "Faith". In this interesting
presentation he praises the great faith Srila Prabhupada had in
his Guru Maharaja and then makes a powerful point regarding which
qualifications are actually required for someone to go back to
Godhead. Heavy, enlightening.
1996 - 6 TAPES
Hrsikesa Hrsikena-
Using our body in Krishna's service
The devotees of the Israeli yatra are very devoted to ,
although -or perhaps because- they are hardly able to have his
personal association. Then when he do comes, by their eagerness
to hear from him a special mood of guru-bhakti is immediately
created, which permeates the atmosphere on these lectures, and is
very attractive. The classes deal with the famous verses in SB by
Sukadeva Goswami in which he boldly states that legs not used for
going to the temple are no better than tree trunks, and eyes not
used for looking at the Deity are like the eyes on the plumes of
a peacock etc. In other words, great encouragement is generated
for performance of devotional service, and only enhances it by
his 'purports'. Very good, personal lectures meant for devotees.
Also included: Initiation lecture and beautiful arrival address
entitled "Serving Guru in Separation".
Israel, Summer '97 - 8 TAPES
Practically
his first stop on 's 1997 summer world tour, these tapes were
recorded during the European gathering of his disciples. Contain
various 10th Canto SB lectures and interesting evening programs
with topics like "The Women Issue" and "Preaching
to the Intellectual Community". Also a conjoint lecture with
HH Suhotra Swami where Gurudeva challenges the reasoning of
several modern day atheistic philosophers like Sartre and
Nietzsche, and a wonderful lecture he gave in Abentheuer,
Germany, chock full with Srila Prabhupada nectar!
Belgium, Summer '97 - 9 TAPES with vinyl album
Under the Rays of the Black Moon
This series
comprises of 16 tapes of the illustrious Saturday morning SB
classes, recorded in Dallas, Texas during the first 9 months of
1997. For those who read this and wonder what type of uncommon
title Rati Manjari came up with this time: 'Black Moon' is the
translation of Kalachandji, the name Srila Prabhupada gave to the
ancient Deity of Krishna in Dallas. Given the facts that Srila
Gurudeva took shelter at Sri-Sri Radha-Kalachandji Dhama for the
full period of his studies at SMU, that all these classes were
delivered before Kalachandji's all-merciful glance, and that the
celebration of the 25th Anniversary of Sri-Sri Radha
Kalachandji's installation is also included in this series, I
considered this title appropriate. Whoever hears these tapes will
learn many new things and get an invigorating taste of Srila
Gurudeva's study mood: intensely focused devotion to Lord Krishna
in the early morning, resulting in dedicated (and successful!)
pursuance of -apparently- worldly study results throughout the
day. Each of these 21(!) lectures is a jewel which, if you let
it, can shine through and illuminate your consciousness.
Fascinating and encouraging for all of us who have taken up our
sets of duties in this material world.
SOME TITLES: "Devotees Can Interfere With Destiny",
"Let Krishna Make His Mark on the World", "Believe
God Comes as Pig or Become One Yourself",
"Environmentalism: The Vaishnava Perspective",
"Build Up Your Appreciation for Krishna",
"Responding to Offensive Behavior", "Exclusivism,
Inclusivism, Pluralism and KC", "Find Your Place and
Serve Krishna With Love", "The Science of
Disentanglement".
Dallas, 1997 - 16 TAPES with VINYL ALBUM
Srila Gurudeva at Prabhupadadesa
This is another 10 tape series, covering Srila Gurudeva's
visits to Italy and Zurich in the summer of 1998. Very
interesting classes, several of them commenting on the 8th Canto
where Lord Vamanadeva comes to test Bali Maharaja and takes
everything away from him. Srila Gurudeva, as an experienced
'spiritual warrior', reveals some of his own insights on how to
deal with all the ups and downs of the material world in such a
way that our devotional flame does not become extinguished, but
is kept burning brightly.
SOME TITLES: "A Vaishnava is Always a Servant",
"Everything Belongs to God", "If Krishna Takes it
All Away", "KC - Can We Separate the Philosophy from
the Culture?", "Become Entangled in the Service of
Krishna", "Bhagavad-gita 12th Chapter Overview",
"A Devotee's Life is Not Mundane".
1998 - 10 TAPES with VINYL ALBUM
From London with Love
5 lectures given in London.
TITLES: "The Glories of the Gayatri Mantra", "A
Temple for Krishna and Balarama", "Encouters with
Mayavadis in Bombay", "Srila Prabhupada, the
Revolutionary", "Selfless Service Will Yield Selfless
Love"
1998 - 5 TAPES
Texas Lectures 1999
TITLES: "A Little Salt in the Mango Pulp", "Cursed or Blessed? The
Story of Kunti dd", "Make Your Life Sacred", "The Natural Intoxication", "Are
Men Superior? Q&A", "Discussions on Dharma and Karma", "Chanting is the
Topmost Sacrifice", "Reading from Brhad-Bhagavatamrta", "Our Only Right: To be a
Servant of God", "Don't Let Devotional Service Become Mechanical"
Houston and
Dallas, 1999 - 10 TAPES with VINYL ALBUM
Made in London
TITLES: "Brahma-samhita: The Book for Solid Preachers", "Radhastami
Talk", "Markine Bhagavata Dharma", "Take Complete Shelter of Krishna", "Sharing
about Srila Prabhupada", "Pastimes of Sri-Sri Radha-Londonisvara"
London,
1999 - 6 TAPES with VINYL ALBUM
Final Instructions for Houston
This
series contains the lectures during the last trip of His Holiness Tamal Krishna
Goswami in the USA. The lectures cover a veriety of occations: arrival
address, Bhagavatam class, Sunday feast lecture, Yoga center, home program and
Dipavali. Certainly the instructions are applicable not only to Houston
but to anywhere in the world.
The titles are: Do not preach only to the Indians; Where to establish
Rama-rajya; Start with the Mode of Goodness; Goodness without Bhakti will get
you nowhere; False Identifications with the body; Chanting helps you to tolerate
the sufferings; Failing and trying again; When external security is threatened;
Go through life like a swan; Gurudeva's reciprocation with Mother Kirtida.
Houston, 2001-- 6 tapes with VINYL ALBUM
New York City - one of
the most degraded places of the world. And yet this is where
Srila Prabhupada started the first ISKCON temple. Besides great
successes in preaching, over the years the New York temple has
faced severe difficulties as well, which have attacked the
devotees' faith. In short, not an easy audience to please during
Bhagavatam-class. These selected lectures contain
straightforward, uncompromising ISKCON-tattva, presented in a
sensitive and palatable way before a crowd of tested devotees.
The conclusion: engaging in preaching activities is the best way
to transcend all personal differences, as well as to deal with
the problems of Kali-yuga. Interesting question & answers
sessions. Included is Queen Kunti's 'obstacle verse', which
offers a transcendental view on difficulties in the life of a
devotee.
