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Thirteen-year-old actor Eden Giuliano presents a brand new line of exciting children’s stories from Child’s Play Audio! Thornton W. Burgess was a conservationist and author of children’s stories. He loved the beauty of nature and its living creatures so much that he wrote about them for 50 years. By the time he retired, he had written over 170 books and 15,000 stories for a daily newspaper column. 

WHO IS A.C. BHAKTIVEDANTA PRABHUPADA? WHY IS HE SO IMPORTANT TO THE WORLD?

His Divine Grace Abhay Charanaravinda Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada was born in Calcutta on September 1, 1896. He was an Indian Gaudiya Vaishnava perfect master who founded ISKCON, commonly known as the “Hare Krishna movement”. Bhaktivedanta Swami was a direct representative and messenger of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu.

While running a thriving pharmaceutical business, he became a follower of Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati. In 1959, after his retirement, he became a sannyasi and started writing commentaries on sacred ancient Vaishnava scriptures. As a simple traveling mendicant, he became an influential communicator of Krishna theology in the West through his leadership of ISKCON, founded in 1966. Srila Prabhupada’s work was lauded by many respected American religious scholars.

Following his passing in 1977, ISKCON, the society he founded continued to grow internationally. In February 2014, ISKCON reported reaching a milestone of distributing over half a billion of his books since 1965. Here is his riveting personal story and imperative enlightening philosophy.

Here is his riveting personal story and imperative enlightening philosophy for the ages.

A must for all yogis, seekers, devotees and lovers of truth and light.

World exclusive, never before published long-lost interviews recorded in 1983 and 1995 with the author’s close friend Vivian Stanshall. Vivian, the headmaster of the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band as well as a singular author, poet, painter, actor, and iconic British eccentric. This unique audio book offers rare insight into the brilliant clockwork mind of this late British national treasure. Renaissance man Stanshall holds forth on a number of insightful topics relating to his turbulent life and enticing, inspirational, evergreen work. This in-depth production also includes a concise one-hour biological overview of Vivian’s life as well as the personal remembrances of his friend and colleague Giuliano. Also featured are rare outtake excerpts from an interview conducted by Geoffrey’s late wife, Vrnda Devi, just days before Stanshall’s mysterious, violent death. This wonderful, artful audiobook is an absolute must for all 1960s historians, scholars, pop fans, and lovers of British literature as well as all university and school collections. Author Vrnda Devi was an inspired animal rights activist, proprietor of a popular food bank, an international charitable aid worker, an initiated devotee of Bhagavan Sri Krishna, a mother of four, and a loving wife. All of her life Vrnda selflessly cared for the poor and freely gave of herself in all things. In India she was known lovingly as “Mother Vrnda” to the many yogis and saints she compassionately served both there and at the eight-acre ashram/cow shelter she founded in Lockport, New York. Ms Devi passed away quietly at home in front of the deities of Sri Sri Radha Krishna on December 26, 2017. She was the humble first disciple of His Divine Grace Bhakti Hirday Mangalniloy Maharaj of Vrndavan and the founder of Sri Radhe International, The Spiritual Realization Institute, and Dasa Food for All. Ms Devi was also the author of 12 internationally popular books from 1984 to 2006.

The enigmatic founder and leader of the Beatles, John Lennon was not only a groundbreaking musician and composer for the ages but also a keen philosopher, seeker of truth, and politically savvy advocate of nonviolence, tolerance, and unrestricted personal freedom. The enlightened big brother to now several generations, Lennon consistently gave everything he had, and then some, to his liberated, infectious music and wide-ranging, common-sense political ideals. In this expansive, comprehensive collection the very best of John Lennon’s thought-provoking words the myth, legend, and rumor surrounding this great man is stripped away, and the real John as artist and thoughtful global citizen emerges. Carefully edited to relieve the listener of the tedious twee of the almost always ill-informed and sensationalist-seeking interviewer, Lennon is free to speak his mind on an incredible array of subjects; including his work with the Beatles, his days as a freaky peace politician, his relationships with the other members of the group, the painful trails of his parentless childhood, the creation of his artistic work, and other equally engrossing entertaining Lennonspeak. Here is the perfect collection of the great John Lennon for every dedicated Beatles fan, music historian, the media, as well as all school, library, institutional, and university collections.

Lord Narasimha Dev is the manifest man-lion incarnation of Lord Vishnu, who incarnates to destroy evil and end religious persecution and calamity upon the earth, thereby reestablishing the divine balance of the great dharma of the eternal Hindu tradition. 

Chaitanya Mahaprabhu appeared as a devotee of Krishna in Mayapur, West Bengal, India in the late fifteenth century. He introduced sankirtan, widespread congregational chanting of the Supreme Person’s names, as the most effective means by which anyone can achieve spiritual perfection. By His influence, many of India’s leading religious scholars and their followers became devotees of Krishna themselves. In His youth, Mahaprabhu started a Sanskrit academy in Navadvipa—one of India’s top centers of learning at the time—and earned a reputation as an excellent scholar. But at age twenty-four he renounced everything to travel the subcontinent encouraging everyone he met to chant the Hare Krishna mantra. He is considered by disciples, scholars and followers to be the latest avatar of Krishna Himself, based on extensive evidence found in Vedic literature. The International Society for Krishna Consciousness, ISKCON, is a continuation of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu’s sankirtan movement. Chaitanya’s humble, saintly demeanor and knowledge of Vedic conclusions persuaded prominent impersonalists that Krishna consciousness, worship of the Supreme Person, is life’s highest purpose. On Mahaprabhu’s instruction, the Six Goswamis of Vrindavan made a thorough analysis of the Vedas to show that Krishna bhakti, devotional service to Lord Krishna, is the essence of all Vedic teachings. Mahaprabhu’s extensive conversations with His devotees such as Ramananda Raya and Sanatana Goswami form the philosophical and scriptural basis of Gaudiya Vaishnavism, or Krishna consciousness. Chaitanya himself left only eight written verses, the Siksastaka, in which he teaches that chanting God’s names is the most simple and sublime spiritual practice for everyone, everywhere. He also showed such extraordinary symptoms of love of God that great scholars among His devotees, including the Six Goswamis,

Kristoffer Kristofferson is an American singer-songwriter and actor. Among his songwriting credits are the songs “Me and Bobby McGee”, “For the Good Times”, “Sunday Mornin’ Comin’ Down”, and “Help Me Make It Through the Night”, all of which were hits for other artists. Kristofferson composed his own songs and collaborated with Nashville songwriters such as Shel Silverstein In 1985, Kristofferson joined fellow country artists Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson and Johnny Cash in forming the country music supergroup The Highwaymen, and formed a key creative force in the outlaw country music movement that eschewed the Nashville music machine in favor of independent songwriting and producing. In 2004, Kristofferson was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame. He is also known for his starring roles in Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore, Heaven’s Gate, Blume in Love, Blade and A Star Is Born, the last of which earned him a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor. Here he remembers his dear friend and collaborator, the great Janis Joplin. 

In this extraordinary audio documentary on the life of George Harrison, the so-called quiet Beatle speaks out on his closest relationships, music, passions, and life-long search for God. The most comprehensive, in-depth look at Harrison’s incredible history you will find. With exclusive interviews.