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Back to Godhead Godhead is light. Nescience is darkness. Where there is Godhead there is no nescience. THE MAGAZINE OF THE HARE KRISHNA MOVEMENT Special Celebration Issue . lll honorqf Sri Sri Radha­ Krsna• • • THE SUPREME PERSONALITY OF GODHEAD and HIS DIVINE GRACE A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada SPIRITUAL MASTER OF THE HARE K~~~A MOVEMENT nama Om Vi~l)U-piidaya k($1)3-pre~t}laya bhiitaJe srTmate bhakti-vediinta- sviimin iti niimine ''We offer our respectful obeisances unto His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, who is very dear to Lord K~!Ja , having taken shelter at His lotus feet," namas te sarasvate devaril gaura-viil)i-pracaril)e nirviSe~a-sunyaviidi- piisciitya-deia-tiiril)e "Our respectful obeisances unto you, 0 spiritual master, servant of Sarasvati Gosvami. You are kindly preaching the message of Lord Caitanyadeva and delivering the Western countries, which are filled with impersonalism and voidism." yasya deve para bhaktir yathii deve tathii gurau tasyaite kathitii hy arthaJ) prakiisante mahiitmanaiJ "Unto those broad-minded souls who have implicit faith in both the Lord and the spiritual master, all the imports of spiritual knowledge are automatically revealed." (Svetaivatara Upani~ad 6.23) mong all the eternal living beings, one living being is the Supreme Eternal. He is the Supreme Lord, and all others are Hjs servan ts. The Lord has many names, but the name Kr~Qa is uruversal, for this meansA "all-attractive." Every one of us has an eternal relationship with ~Qa that we have somehow forgotten. Unless we revive this dormant relationship, we cannot have peace and happiness­ either individually, naHonally or on a global scale. ~l)a is not a myth, a legend or the subject of an allegory. Nor is He an impersonal light or vague omniscient force. He is a person, the Supreme Person. He lives, and we can live with ffim. As one needs the help of a qualified teacher to understand the material sciences, one also needs a qualified teacher to understand the science of God. Such a teacher is the spiritual master. A genuine spiritual master must be able to instruct his students in the practical details of understanding who God is, what our relationship with Him is, and how this relationshjp can be revived. Having received scientific instruction in God conscious­ ness from revealed Vedic scriptures, the devotees of the K~Qa consciousness movement assert with conviction- a convicUon nourished both by Vedic knowledge and by practical experience- that Kr~Qa is the Supreme Personality of Godhead and that ffis Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada is the genuine spiritual master who can teach us how to know ffim , how to love ffim, and how to go back to Him- back home, back to Godhead. With this special issue of Back to Godhead, wruch celebrates the appearance anniversaries of our spiritual master, Lord K~1,1a and ~!)a's eternal consort, Srimati RiidharaQi, we invite intelligent, broad-minded people to study and understand this K~Qa consciousness movement for their own eternal benefit and the benefit of others. 0 Back to Godhead 1 Pho to: Bhllrgava dasa BACK TO GODHEAD THE MAGAZINE OF THE HARE KRISHNA MOVEMENT FOUNDER (un~er the direction of His Divine Grace CONTENTS Sri Sr1mad 8hakrisiddh5nta Sarasvati Prabhupada) His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada The Birth of L ord K r~Qa 3 by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada OHAKTIVEDANTA BOOK TRU~T COORDINATOR The Reality of Km1a's Appearance 6 B;tli Mardan dasa Gosvruni by His Holiness Satsvaropa dasa Gosvami WITOR Jayftdvaita dasn Three Occasions for Transcendental F estivities 11 SANSKRIT EDITOR Jaga nnlitha dasa by Visakha-devi dasi PRODUCTION MANAGER Radhftvallabha dasa Vyas-Puja Day Address 13 ART Dl RECTOR I ndrapramada dasa by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada A~SISTANT ART OIRECTOllS Navadvipa dasa. y" llla raja diisa Prabhupada 15 An Explanation of This Title of Respect ILLUSTRATORS Mur<tlidhara dftsa, Yadurii!ti-de vi diisi. l'arik ~ it dasa , Bharadraja dasa Vyas-Puja Homage 15 l'~IOTOGRA I'HER S llharg:JVa dasa, by G iriraja da sa Muralivadana dasa. Villisa-vigraha dasa. Yaduvara dasa. Vi ~akha·d~vi dasi. Jeffrey Dunan It Is His Mercy 16 PHOTOGitAI'HtC TECHNICIANS Gari yan dasa, The Unique Spiritual Contributions of a Pure Devotee of Lord Kr~!la Madhusudana dasa. 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