Brilliant as the Sun (ENG)

As I have several times mentioned that your standard of living in America is very nice. So others, people from other parts, they also try to come here and settle here. But you have got restriction, … Read More

Trai-vidya means Vedas. There are three kinds of knowledge in the Vedas, trai-vidya:  karma-kanda,  upasana-kanda, and  jnana-kanda.    Karma-kanda means this, how we can adjust to material happiness or material living very nicely. That is called … Read More

So they are soma-pah. Soma is a kind of beverage. Just like in this material world we have got different kinds of liquors. It is not intoxicating, but there is mention. Here in the Bhagavad-gita it … Read More

So anyway, all of them, the first-class mahatma and all these people, they are transcendentalists. They are trying to realize the Absolute Truth. Maybe in different grades, but they are trying.    And besides that, besides … Read More

He gives personally Bhagavad-gita 9.20-22 class, given by His Divine Grace Sri A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, on December 6, 1966, New York.   Prabhupada: trai-vidya mam soma-pah puta-papa yajnair istva svargatim prarthayante te punyam asadya surendra-lokam … Read More

The Messenger from Vaikuntha by Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Prabhupada Question: Everything I know is based on my experience of this world. So how will I know about anything that is transcendental? Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati: 
 It … Read More

The Perfection of all Bhajana By Srila Bhaktivinode Thakura   Bhaktivinode Thakur discusses the glories of Sri Radha Kunda in his piyusha-varshini commentary on the last verse of Srila Rupa Gosvami’s Upadesamrita.   sri-radha-krishnera svabhavika mahatmya … Read More

Question: Hare Krishna – I am happy to know how glorious is the holy name from your article i.e., “Namabhasa offers eternal residence in the spiritual abode of Vaikuntha, especially in Kali-yuga.” This is the declaration … Read More

Extract from a private email You come from the spiritual world but at a certain point in time you decided to leave and try an adventure in another world, where you may have the illusion of … Read More

The subject of this book is the wisdom contained in the Vedas.  The word Veda means knowledge and that has been handed down through the ages by sages of spotless character. One has to learn this … Read More

Extract from a private email You come from the spiritual world but at a certain point in time you decided to leave and try an adventure in another world, where you may have the illusion of … Read More

Candravali’s mood is very deep. Sometimes if Krsna meets with another gopi and then meets with Candravali and there are signs on his body that He has met with somebody else, it is hard for Krsna … Read More

  6. Sastha-yama Sadhana Bhajana during the evening Bhava (The transcendental emotion)   The external symptoms of perfection are found in the Siksastaka (6): nayanam galad-asru-dharaya vadanam gadgada-ruddhaya gira pulakair nicitam vapuh kada tava nama-grahane bhavisyati … Read More