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My Guru Mahārāja, my spiritual master, used to say that you have to select a spiritual master not by seeing but by your ear, but by hearing. And you don’t select a spiritual master who … Read More
Question Dear Guru Maharaj Please accept my humble obeisances All glories to You and SP “From the darkness of false ego, the first of the five elements, namely the sky, is generated. Its subtle form … Read More
There are various sections of Sruti (the Vedas), some of which are the Samhitas, the Upavedas, the Vedangas, the Brahmanas, the Aranyakas, the Sutras, the Upangas etc. The Aranyakas (literally “set in the forest”) deal with … Read More
Question Dear Guru Maharaj Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to You and Srila Prabhupada. What are the 11 sense organs? In addition to that question, what is the significance of the 16 principle creative … Read More
Question Dear Guru Maharaj Please accept my humble obeisances All glories to You and Srila Prabhupada In the Srimad-Bhagavatam it talks about krsna having marks on his feet. Does krsna really have these marks on the … Read More
Maha-bharata Adi Parva, Sangraha An aksauhini is a whole army consisting of 109,350 foot soldiers, 65,610 horses, 21,870 chariots 21,870 elephants The aksauhinis “The Rishis said, ‘We have a desire to know, O son of Suta, … Read More
Here we have two dishonest sources of information: one is the scientist and another is the journalist. Where is the dishonesty? To lie passing off something for something else. Or, as in other cases, passing … Read More
The other day we were talking about consciousness. What is consciousness? How can we define it? The following verse from the Mundaka Upanisad (3.1.9) that we find in Srila Prabhupada’s Bhagavad-gita (2.17, purport) gives us a … Read More
Srila Prabhupada: That is the test. How you are advancing in chanting will be tested how far you are free from material anxieties. That’s all. Then real life begins. As long as you are perturbed by … Read More
The Mahajanas are twelve particularly powerful personalities enpowered by the Lord to spread transcendental knowledge and devotion. Literally mahajana means “great person”. Srimad-Bhagavatam say they are: 1. Lord Brahma, 2. Shiva, 3. Narada, 4. the four … Read More
Question Hare krishna maharaj Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to srila Prabhupada. There is a new medecine thst claims to relief many people from anxiety stress sleep etc however is coming from the … Read More
A very technical explanation on how to fast on this 5 days, very interesting, but also very complicated for one who has a complicated mind. Answer It’s not necessary that we follow all of … Read More
Dear Bhakta ***, Please receive my blessings. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. In the spiritual world Krishna is never alone, and when we find a moment when He is without any of His associates it … Read More
BHISMA PANCAKA INTRODUCTION “The last five days of Kartika month are known as Bhisma-Panacaka. Grandfather Bhisma fasted for these five days, preparing to give up his life. However one observes Kartika-vrata, he should intensify it for … Read More
History of the Deities “After Lord Sri Krishna left this world, Maharaj Yudhishthira, unable to bear the separation from the Lord, also decided to leave the world. Before leaving, he coroneted Maharaj Parikshit as the … Read More
Śrī Kṛṣṇadāsa Kavirāja, the author of Caitanya-caritāmṛta, says that all good qualities become manifest in the body of a Vaiṣṇava and that only by the presence of these good qualities can one distinguish a Vaiṣṇava … Read More
Bhagavad-gita is a transcendental literature which one should read very carefully. Gita-sastram idam punyam yah pathet prayatah puman: if one properly follows the instructions of Bhagavad-gita, one can be freed from all the miseries and anxieties … Read More
Srimad-Bhagavatam 10.14.58 TEXT 58 samāśritā ye pada-pallava-plavaṁ mahat-padaṁ puṇya-yaśo murāreḥ bhavāmbudhir vatsa-padaṁ paraṁ padaṁ padaṁ padaṁ yad vipadāṁ na teṣām SYNONYMS samāśritāḥ—having taken shelter; ye—those who; pada—of the feet; pallava—like flower buds; plavam—which … Read More
His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada In Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu. Srila Rupa Goswami is not teaching in the beginning the loving affairs of Radha- Krishna. No. He’s first of all training the reader, the devotee, … Read More
From TD Vol 1 January 13, 1976 – Calcutta Because it was Ekadasi we skipped breakfast and fasted until noon. But at lunchtime the devotees inadvertently broke the Ekadasi vow because the cook accidentally put peas … Read More
