Preservation of Audio and Video Tapes

Many devotees have recorded the lectures of His Divine Grace Srila Gour Govinda Swami Maharaja using analogue audio and video tapes. These recordings seem to be as early as 1985 through to 1996. The optimal playing ability and sound quality of this magnetic media is about ten years, with proper storage and care this can be extended to twenty years or more. Other factors will influence this life span including climate, tape quality, conditions in which the tapes are kept, pollutants, handling and other environmental factors....

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Srila Prabhupada
Real Darsan of Sri Guru

This lecture was given on the Divine Disappearance day of Yuga Dharma Acarya His Divine Grace A. C.  Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada’s on 27th October 1995, Bhubaneswar, India. In this lecture Srila Gour Govinda Swami Maharaja discusses the real nature of Srila Prabhupada as the authorized external manifestation of caittya-guru, Sri Guru Paramatma and how to obtain the real darsan of Srila Prabhupada as Sri Guru.....

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Merciful Strength of
Srila Prabhupada

How can you become strong? How can you do it on your own? If you have love and affection for Prabhupada, if you have love and affection for a sadhu, if you can understand what he has done, then you will be very strong. You will get his mercy, his strength. It’s Baladeva’s krpa, Baladeva’s merciful strength is manifest in sad-guru.You’ll get his strength if you get his mercy. That is very powerful, krpa-bala, merciful strength. Then you can do wonders with that strength. It’s not physical or material strength but spiritual strength that comes from such a sadhu, pure Vaisnava. And this strength comes from Krsna.

"Srila Prabhupada's Ideal Society"
22nd Aug 1994