Isvara, since 1996

    namo gaura-kishoraya sakshad vairagya-murtaye vipralambha-rasambhodhe padambujaya te namah I bow to your lotus feet, Srila Gaura Kishora Das Babaji, the embodiment of renunciation and the ocean of sacred rapture in separation. Early life Paramahamsa … Read More

  By Kalakantha Das If we were to distill the Bhagavad-gita to one word, it would surely be, “Krishna.” If we were to distill the Bhagavad-gita to eighteen sentences, one per chapter, it might read like … Read More

Krishna is known as līlā-puruṣottama. He manifests all varieties of līlās. He came 5,000 years ago in his own svarūpa. At the end, in his kurukṣetra-līlā, he gave his message in the form of Bhagavad-gītā. He … Read More

  बन्धुरात्मात्मनस्तस्य येनात्मैवात्मना जित: । अनात्मनस्तु शत्रुत्वे वर्तेतात्मैव शत्रुवत् ॥ ६ ॥   bandhur ātmātmanas tasya yenātmaivātmanā jitaḥ anātmanas tu śatrutve vartetātmaiva śatru-vat   bandhuḥ — friend; ātmā — the mind; ātmanaḥ — of the living entity; tasya — of him; yena — by whom; ātmā — … Read More

    यं सन्न्यासमिति प्राहुर्योगं तं विद्धि पाण्डव । न ह्यसन्न्यस्तसङ्कल्पो योगी भवति कश्चन ॥ २ ॥   yaṁ sannyāsam iti prāhur yogaṁ taṁ viddhi pāṇḍava na hy asannyasta-saṅkalpo yogī bhavati kaścana   yam — what; sannyāsam — renunciation; iti — … Read More