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    Is Ashwasthama still alive?   First let us recount the story of Ashwatthama’s curse, which is told in the Sauptika Parva of the Mahabharata. After the Mahabharata war, Ashwattama, in order to avenge the … Read More

By Srila B.R Sridhara Maharaja In his last days for some time he told us his heart was damaged and then some sort of treatment, by a Kaviraji and other party that was arranged. But gradually … Read More

om apavitrah pavitro vā sarvāvasthāṁ gato api vā yaḥ smaret puṇḍarīkākṣaṁ sa bahya abhyantaraṁ śuciḥ śrī viṣṇu śrī viṣṇu śrī viṣṇu Both pure and impure, passing through the conditions of material life, if remember the lotus-eyed … Read More

  Second Month of Caturmasya Begins « Back to Events This event has passed. Event: Second Month of Caturmasya Begins Date: August 22, 2013 (Mayapur) Category: Other Festivals Second Month of Caturmas BeginsSecond month: No yoghurt … Read More

A Brief Chronological History of One Thousand Years of Vaishnavism Chronology, cronologia       VAISNAVA DIGDARSANI SAHASRA VATSARER SANKSIPTA VAISNAVA ITIHASA by Murarilala Adhikari The Institute for Vaishnava Studies Washington, D.C. 1986 Vaisnava Digdarsani Sahasra … Read More

  Audio   Type: Initiation Date: Dec. 19, 1968 Location: Los Angeles Audio file: audio/transcripts/1968/681219IN-LOS_ANGELES.mp3   Prabhupāda: I am not criticizing, but it is, I mean to say, a human consideration. Suppose if you have committed … Read More

    18th c. Kashmir Manuscript of Bhagavad-Gita   Dec 13, 2021 — USA (SUN) — The Advent of Sri Bhagavad-gita is observed on December 14th.   Gita Jayanti is the anniversary day commemorating the day … Read More

  “The bhakti-vedantas see that the people in general are wasting time in false sensuous things. Their business is to get the ignorant mass of people to reestablish their lost relationship with the Personality of Godhead. … Read More

By Giriraj Swami For Balarama Rasa-yatra, we shall read from Srila Prabhupada’s summary study of the Tenth Canto of Srimad-Bhagavatam, called Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead— about Lord Balarama’s visit to Vrindavan after He and … Read More

  By Jonathan B. Edelmann This phenomenal world or material world in which we are placed is complete in itself because the twenty-four elements of which this material universe is a temporary manifestation, according to Sankhya … Read More

  By Gauranga Darshan Das Context and Crux of Uddhava-gita Bhagavad-gita is the great philosophical song by Lord Krsna on the battlefield of Kuruksetra to motivate His bewildered friend Arjuna. There is yet another Gita that … Read More

For Sri Hanuman Jayanti, I quote Sri Prahlada’s glorification of Hanuman from Sri Brhad-bhagavatamrta (1.4.40–52): “Hanuman is much more fortunate. For many thousands of years he has enjoyed serving the Lord constantly, without obstruction. “He is … Read More

The son of Jamadagni was Rāma, or Paraśurāma. When a king named Kārtavīryārjuna stole Jamadagni’s desire cow, Paraśurāma, who is ascertained by learned experts to be a saktyāveśa incarnation of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, killed … Read More

Prabhupada said: “MILK IS ESSENTIAL FOR DEVELOPMENT OF FINER BRAIN TISSUES” These are Prabhupada’s words not mine. But devotees have a difficult time accepting all this suffering and slaughtering of poor cows and calves. So Srila … Read More

“You are correct when you say that when the Spiritual Master speaks it should be taken that Krishna is speaking. That is a fact. A Spiritual Master must be liberated. It does not matter if he … Read More

Prabhupāda: …my Guru Mahārāja was in his last days, these rascal doctors injected… Our, this Kuñjabihārī, Tīrtha Mahārāja brought so many big, big doctors. And he protested, “Why are you giving me injection?” He protested. He … Read More

Jan 30–Appearance Day Pundarika Vidyanidhi who HDGSP described in His books as ”Radharani’s father in Krsna lila” and was ”slapped by Lord Jagganath ”–HDGSP writes– PURPORT In the Gaura-gaṇoddeśa-dīpikā (54), Śrīla Puṇḍarīka Vidyānidhi is described as … Read More