Inventory of Isvara Archive, 1st of January 2019
Dear devotees and friends, Here is the inventory of Isvara Archive at the 1st of January 2019. Books 36,685 Articles 22,272 History 26,234 IMG 14,150 Audio 3,710 Video 3,232 For … Read More
On the practice of Japamala
Questions Hare Krishna Prabhu. Please accept my most humble and sincere obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. A question about the recital of the Maha Mantra. I chant it when I have time and often not … Read More
Ten different types of Citra-jalpa
Here Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura discusses the various “citra-jalpa”, or mad talks, from the spiritual point of view. To know these from the material point of view it’s enough to remove Krishna from the equation. Citra-jalpa, … Read More
One should neither praise nor criticize the conditioned nature and activities of other persons
The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: One should neither praise nor criticize the conditioned nature and activities of other persons. Rather, one should see this world as simply the combination of material nature and the enjoying … Read More
More difficult than controlling the wind
Question In the gita Arjuna tells Krsna that controlling the mind is more difficult than controlling the wind. If intelligence is more subtle, is not then even more difficult to control? Answer We know that … Read More
Listen even if you don’t understand
Listen even if you don’t understand Srila Prabhupada’s response when requested to change his Guru Maharaja’s {Srila Bhaktisidanta Saraswati} book Brahma-Samhita Srila Prabhupada…” So even there is difficulty, let them read over and over and again. … Read More
UPDATE ON MY WORK ON THE MAHA-BHARATA
I received a few questions about this topic and I’d like to share them with you. I have been asked, why are you working on a Maha-bharata edition when there are already good Maha-bharata on sale? … Read More
How long it took to write the Maha-bharata?
ANSWER TO QUESTION: The Maha-bharata was completed in three years. This is the time that Srila Vyasadeva needed to dictate it and to Sri Ganesa to write it down. – Maha-bharata, Adi Parva, Adivansavatarana Parva, section … Read More
Where are the original manuscripts of Vyasadeva?
Where are the original manuscripts of Vyasadeva? Dear Antonio and Marcelo, Hare Krishna. I have a particular liking for the questions no one has ever done to me and after so many years of studying … Read More
Odana Sasthi
Sri Caitanya Caritamrta – Madhya 16.78 gadadhara-pandite tenho punah mantra dila odana-shashthira dine yatra ye dekhila TRANSLATION Pundarika Vidyanidhi initiated Gadadhara Pandita for the second time, and on the day of Odana-shashthi he saw the festival. … Read More
Helping others to reside in Sri Vrindavana Dham
“One who helps others reside in Vrindavan Dham by supplying them food, clothes, and residence develop wonderful attachment for Krishna and accumulates a million times more piety than one who resides there, because who reside there … Read More
The did not come to hear Hare Krishna; they came for the prasadam
December 10, 1976 : Hyderabad Hari-sauri Dasa : In the early morning of December 10th, Srila Prabhupada called in Mahamsa Swami, along with Hamsaduta Swami and Harikesa Maharaja, who had arrived the night before from Germany. … Read More
THANK YOU ALL!
Now that the day of my 63rd birthday has passed, I would like to thank all those who spent kind words for me. On Facebook, I mainly received happy birthdays, but in private I received many … Read More
Why so-called advanced devotees are sometimes rude?
Question Hare krsna Maharaja. Good day. Dandavas. I have a question. Why some devotees who perform very good service for Srila Prabhupada and sometimes have many years in Krishna consciousness are rude and hostile to other … Read More
When a disciple behaves disrespectfully
When a disciple behaves disrespectfully, he should never be forgiven by the preceptor if the latter is really desirous of benefiting the former. – Devayani to Sukracarya, Maha-bharata, Adi Parva, Sambhava Parva, section 79 … Read More
Kaliya Krsnadasa
Kaliya Krsnadasa Srila Kaviraja Goswami writes (Chaitanya Charitamrta-lila Adi 11:37.) that Kaliya Krishna Dasa Thakura was one of the principle devotees of Nityananda Prabhu. He knew nothing other than the lotus feet of Sri Nityananda Prabhu. … Read More
Drinking wine is a serious sin
From the Maha-bharata, Adi Parva: Vaisampayana continued, The learned Sukra, having been deceived while under the influence of wine, and remembering the total loss of consciousness that is one of the terrible consequences of drink, … Read More
