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Question: If we were originally in the spiritual world, why don’t we remember that and try to go back to the spiritual world?……..   Prabhupada: That I have already said, that when I am in tour … Read More

    Shri Yudhisthira Maharaja said, “Oh Madhusudana, Oh killer of the Madhu demon, please be merciful to me and describe to me the Ekadasi that occurs during the light fortnight of the month of Shravana … Read More

The original Vedas are preserved in the minds of Brahmins who have learned them by heart and transmitted them in perfect form to their students for over 7000 years. There are still gurukulas in India today … Read More

  Folder  (area 16)   The funeral: the Vedic and Vaisnava rituals Antyesthi Rites Death__Procedures,_Rituals_and_Mantras Indian Death Rituals Book Death__Procedures,_Rituals_and_Mantras            

    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

    लभन्ते ब्रह्मनिर्वाणमृषय: क्षीणकल्मषा: । छिन्नद्वैधा यतात्मान: सर्वभूतहिते रता: ॥ २५ ॥   labhante brahma-nirvāṇam ṛṣayaḥ kṣīṇa-kalmaṣāḥ chinna-dvaidhā yatātmānaḥ sarva-bhūta-hite ratāḥ   labhante — achieve; brahma–nirvāṇam — liberation in the Supreme; ṛṣayaḥ — those who … Read More