Duhkhiya set out for Ambika Kalna. Arriving there[1], he inquired from the local people where he might find the house of Gauri Dasa Pandita. Outside the gate of the temple he fell down and offered … Read More
It is written in the Visnu-rahasya: yad abhyarcya harim bhaktya krte kratu-satair api phalam prapnoty avikalam kalau govinda-kirtanat Whatever fruit is obtainable in Satya-yuga, worshiping Sri Hari with devotion by performing hundreds of sacrifices, in Kali-yuga … Read More
Question Is the argument that the material energy is deceitful, disloyal, and ungrateful Vedic? Answer If you are cooking and by misusing the knife you cut yourself, you may blame the knife that for … Read More
The news of Jayanta’s dramatic event spread in a flash throughout Hastinapura. From homes and public places people began pouring into the streets. Little by little an immense crowd formed that, shouting and condemning the impious … Read More
While he was residing in the house of Sri Rasamaya in Dharenda, Syamananda Prabhu once instructed Rasikananda Prabhu to organize such a Rasa Festival in Sri Gopiballabhpur that the inhabitants of the whole universe would … Read More
Vrindavana Lila Asta-kaliya Nitya Lila The following eight slokas are excerpts from Srila Kaviraja Gosvami’s classic, Govinda Lilamrita, and are named Sri Radha-Krishnayoh Asta Kaliya Lila Smarana Mangala Stotram. Pratham-yama-kirtanam Chanting during … Read More
The glories of the Supreme Personality of Godhead are so great that the impersonalistic followers of the Upaniṣads cannot reach the platform of knowledge to understand them. Especially the transcendental forms of the Lord are beyond … Read More
The word rahasyam in this verse has been explained by the acaryas in several ways. Sridhar Svami states that it means bhakti. Jiva Gosvami argues that rahasyam refers to prema-bhakti. The latter explains that after being … Read More
The day of the departure arrived. Vidura, too, had sensed that there was something strange about that trip organized by the nephews, and that Pandu’s children could be in danger. Having thus investigated the background … Read More
One day, Kisori Radhika was watching the cows being milked, and She too desired to milk them. She took a clay pot and proceeded to do so. Mischievous Krishna arrived at that spot and said, … Read More
Syamananda Prabhu was born in 1534 AD[1] in the town of Dharenda Bahadurpura, which is near the Kharigapura railway station in Medinipura, in the state today known as Orissa, formerly known as Utkala or Utkaladesh. His … Read More
Brahmanas sheltered Vasatkara, Svadhakara, Praghara and others belong to those brahmanas sheltered in the family. Their wives are Samadheni, Mahakavya, Vedika and others. This is a section of the book “Radha Krishna Ganoddesa Dipika”, en … Read More
Parjanya (Sri Krishna’s paternal grandfather) and Sumukha (Sri Krishna’s maternal grandfather) are best friends. In their youth, these two companions promised each other that other cowherd men could give their children the same names as … Read More
Then Draupadi said with sobs: “I appeal to the elders of the respectable Kurava court, and to all the righteous men who are present here. Haven’t you seen what this dastardly villain has done to me? … Read More
