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Welcome to Vanipedia, a dynamic, living encyclopedia of Śrīla Prabhupāda's words (vani). We are building an unparalleled digital repository of his text, audio, video, and images, comprehensively compiling his teachings from every angle of vision. More than just an archive, Vanipedia serves as a continual, worldwide platform for Śrīla Prabhupāda to actively teach the science of Krishna consciousness to the world for the benefit of all.

Śrīla Prabhupāda's Vani Temple

Completion Date: November 4th, 2027 - Celebrating 50 Years of Serving in Separation


Driven by an unprecedented vision, the Vanipedia project is a monumental and all-encompassing endeavor that unfolds as a magnificent seven-petaled lotus. Currently, four of these petals are actively blooming with the living presence of Śrīla Prabhupāda's eternal teachings:

  • Vanipedia Petal: The site where you are now. Here you find over 5,000+ articles brilliantly summarizing the categories compiled in Vaniquotes.
  • Vanisource Petal: The digital library. Here you can read the archived collection of Śrīla Prabhupāda's books, lectures, conversations and letters.
  • Vaniquotes Petal: The thematic map. Compiling and studying in Vaniquotes is a penetrating way to absorb oneself in Śrīla Prabhupāda's teachings. Each Vaniquotes page contains one or more quotes and is organized under a system of categories based either on a theme, personality, scripture or on a key word or key phrase. To date there are over 40,000+ categories, 280,000+ pages, and 2,100,000+ quotes. As this petal grows, it naturally generates the educational material for the rest of the project.
  • Vanimedia Petal: The audio-visual archive. Here, you may listen to and watch many audio and video clips of Śrīla Prabhupāda's lectures and conversations.

Steadily, Śrīla Prabhupāda's Vani Temple is becoming continuous festival of association. The global community of devotees appreciating and utilizing Vanipedia is increasing rapidly. By scrolling through What's in Vanipedia NOW you will surely find something that captures your heart and attention.

This global multilingual endeavor (translating in 100 languages) is succeeding entirely by the grace of the devotees - over 1,800 have already come forward to participate. Our Vanipedia's Manifesto reveals the core principles on which we stand and an introduction to Vanipedia is here. Check out our ongoing projects. If you have a question, want to be involved, or just want to say hi, then please contact us!

The Vanipedia petal is now beginning to unfold. Glancing through the first two completed thematic articles - Animal-Killing in Human Society and Buddha: A Vaisnava Perspective - one can experience the high standard of devotional research within Vanipedia, complete with easily accessed source notes and extensive references for additional reading and study in Vaniquotes. Just imagine the power of delivery to have 500 to 1,000 similar thematic multilingual articles, all interlinked with each other and all accessible in one place, under one platform! We also have some introductory articles that bring to light the wealth of content that Śrīla Prabhupāda delivers to us in Vaniquotes.

Completed Introductory Articles to Vaniquotes

Completed Thematic Articles

Building a Timeline of Śrīla Prabhupāda's Life

  • We have completed the major events in Śrīla Prabhupāda's life and also offering a chronological order of all recorded media of Śrīla Prabhupāda's vani. This time-line provides an authoritative documentation of all his existing teachings arranged in order of occurrence.

Study Resources

Uniting Śrīla Prabhupāda's Multi-lingual Family

Prabhupāda Speaks Around the World

  • In Vaniquotes you can now listen while reading Śrīla Prabhupāda's lectures, conversations, interviews and morning walks - feel his presence, feel his mood. To date there are over 3,500 pages with clips available and we are aiming for 5,000 by the end of 2015.

Every Sentence from these Books is Compiled as Vaniquotes Pages

  • This list shows our progress to create Vaniquotes pages for all of the sentences in Srila Prabhupada's books. We are now working on Srimad-Bhagavatam 6 and 7 cantos. After completing up to 10th canto chapter 13 we will start the purports of the Caitanya-caritamrta.
  • If you love compiling then please join us in this mission.


 Titles   Words per Title     Vaniquotes Pages per Title  
Krsna Book, Preface, Introduction and all 90 chapters - all sentences comprise 319,481 9,655
Sri Isopanisad - all sentences comprise 30,070 742
The Nectar of Devotion - all sentences comprise 136,972 4,435
The Nectar of Instruction - all sentences comprise 21,794 653
Bhagavad-gita As It Is, all Translations Only - all sentences comprise 21,829 718
Sri Caitanya Caritamrta, all Translations Only - all Sentences comprise 330,065 12,063
Srimad-Bhagavatam, all Translations of Cantos 1 to 9 Only - all sentences comprise 375,144 10,757
Srimad-Bhagavatam First Canto, all Purports Only - all sentences comprise 212,925 6,989
Srimad-Bhagavatam Second Canto, all Purports Only - all sentences comprise 146,870 4,444
Srimad-Bhagavatam Third Canto, all Purports Only - all sentences comprise 262,283 8,565
Srimad-Bhagavatam Fourth Canto, all Purports Only - all sentences comprise 300,373 9,474
Srimad-Bhagavatam Fifth Canto, all Purports Only - all sentences comprise (in process) 107,934 3,300
Srimad-Bhagavatam Sixth Canto, all Purports Only - all sentences comprise (in process) 95,701 2,400
 Total Number of Words from the above Books of Srila Prabhupada 2,361,441‬
 Total Vaniquotes Pages from the above Books of Srila Prabhupada 74,195

Completing an Audio Fidelity Check of Lecture and Conversation Transcriptions

  • We are inviting volunteers to attentively listen to Śrīla Prabhupāda and, while reading, to check the transcriptions for accuracy. This project was launched on the 19th of April 2014. As of the 2nd May 2015, 34 volunteers have proofread 745 files and 3,845 missing words and 4,993 edits have been entered into Vanisource. An explanation is given here...

Adding Scans of Śrīla Prabhupāda's Letters

  • We are inviting volunteers to read, verify and correct the Vanisource letter transcriptions for fidelity against the original scans. Please contact us if you would like to help.

Adding Audio to Lecture and Conversation Transcriptions

As the Bhaktivedanta Archives release the other years this project can be completed.

Creating New Categories for Vanisource

Letters sorted by person
  • We have indexed letters in order to access those written to each person.
Lectures sorted by type
  • As well as presenting lectures by date and location they have been listed by type.

Newly added Content



Who is Śrīla Prabhupāda?

Authorized and Empowered

His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda is a self-realized, pure devotee of Lord Kṛṣṇa and a loving spiritual teacher. His life's mission was singular: to fulfill his spiritual master's desire by introducing the science of Kṛṣṇa consciousness to the world.

He shared the pure essence of Vedic wisdom without restriction, teaching us by his own example how to live according to scripture. Wishing that every person on earth might benefit from his wisdom, he wrote volumes of transcendental literature and left countless recorded instructions to ensure his divine guidance would remain available forever.



Timeline of Śrīla Prabhupāda's Life

1896 to 1964 - 1965 - 1966 - 1967 - 1968 - 1969 - 1970 - 1971 - 1972 - 1973 - 1974 - 1975 - 1976 - 1977


Exploring Śrīla Prabhupāda's Teachings



Śrīla Prabhupāda's Media Snippets
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Rise Early in the Morning and Chant Hare Krishna
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Image Quote from Srila Prabhupada




Nectar Drops from Srila Prabhupada
"So your business is how to become happy, because by nature you are happy. Diseased condition, that happiness being checked. So this is our diseased condition, this material, conditional life, this body. So as one intelligent person puts himself under the treatment of a physician to get out of the disease, similarly, human life is meant for putting himself to the expert physician who can cure you from your material disease. That is your business. Tasmād guruṁ prapadyeta jijñāsuḥ śreya uttamam (SB 11.3.21). That is the injunction of all Vedic literature. Just like Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa is teaching Arjuna. Arjuna is surrendering to Kṛṣṇa"
690505 - Lecture Excerpt - Boston




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