Reflections on the path of devotion.

What Is That Bhakti?

What is that bhakti? We know navadhā-bhakti and all bhakti-rasa as told and explained in Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, and I gave examples. Bhakti-rasa-sāra is gopi-prema, moreover...

Rāgānugā-bhakti-rīti: The Path of Loving Attachment (Text 5)

Śrī Rūpa Mañjarī, Śrī Rati Mañjarī, Lavaṅga Mañjarī, Mañjūlalī-māñjarī, and Śrī Rasa Mañjarī eagerly and lovingly serve Śrīmatī Rādhārānī, supplying Her musk and various other articles. Śrīla Narottama dāsa Ṭhākura prays, “When will I serve…

Verse 12: Bhāva-bhakti

When bhāva-bhakti manifests in the heart of the sādhaka his hankering to obtain Śrī Kṛṣṇa increases day by day. The desire to serve Śrī Kṛṣṇa becomes the obsession of his heart. This is nicely expressed…

Pujyapada Premananda Prabhu Sayana Ekadasi and Caturmasya - Prabhuji 1 July 2020

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Sayana Ekadasi and Caturmasya - Prabhuji 1 July 2020

How Can You Become Expert

...If we want to learn anything, if we want to be an engineer or doctor or be an expert in any job, we will have to go to school with teachers. Then we can be…

Sri Purusottama-vrata

According to the instruction of Vaisnava Acarya Srila Thakura Bhaktivinoda, members and followers of the Sri Gaudiya Vedanta Samiti observe purusottama-vrata like kartika-vrata. Two essays regarding the month of Purusottama are published in Sri Gaudiya-patrika’s…

Sayana Ekadasi

Sastra has many quotations that glorify the specialty of Sayana Ekadasi. During these four months, some devotees adopt mauna-vrata; they adopt the vow of silence. They completely stop talking to people. They start manasi-seva; their…

Pujyapada Premananda Prabhu Gopal-campu - Prabhuji 30 June 2020

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WHY ARE WE WORSHIPPING LORD RAMACHANDRA?

In the meantime, Rama Navami came – the Appearance Day of Sri Rama. On this day the celebration of His appearance took place, and His marriage also took place. On the day before, Maharaja Dasaratha…

Śrī Nārada Ṛṣi

...Nārada Ṛṣi is very near and dear to Kṛṣṇa. He always discovers many ways by which he can glorify high-class devotees. He is very tricky. No one can say, “Why does he act in such…

Pujyapada Premananda Prabhu Gopal-campu - Prabhuji 29 June 2020

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Rādhā-prema – Śrī Rādhā’s love for Kṛṣṇa

It is impossible for sādhakas to attain the prema of Śrī Rādhā, which is the crown jewel of all perfections. However, in the stage of perfection, the jīva becomes qualified for the highest mood of…

Śrī Kṛṣṇe Svābhīṣṭa-lālasātmaka Prārthanā

Śrīla Narottama dāsa Ṭhākura was the son of a king. He had enjoyed the life of a prince, but in this prayer, he says, “I will wear a kaupina, carry a waterpot and use old…

Parama-Dharma

The explanation of the word parama-dharma can be understood by Srila Rupa Gosvami’s verse defining uttama bhakti. We should follow this parama-dharma of chanting, remembering and meditating on Lord Krsna. Hari-katha (The naration of the…

The Teachings of Our Holy Guru, Ācārya, and Vaiṣṇavas

We should try where we are, try to develop this consciousness. These are the teachings of our holy guru, ācārya, and Vaiṣṇavas. This was the mission of Svāmījī also, who took from India, from our…

Pujyapada Premananda Prabhu Gopal-campu - Prabhuji 28 June 2020

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What is God? What is the soul?

...If you want to be pure to serve God, then you must follow this. There is only one religion, that religion is natural, and that natural religion is love and affection to God and everyone.…

Our Relation Depends Only on the Divine Love

...I don’t want to cheat you. Really, I want to help you in the line of Svāmījī. I want to glorify Svāmījī from my heart. Not by worldly things, but by divine love, and all…

If Someone Say: “God has no form...”

...The unintelligent people who follow this path have an idea of God that is foolish idolatry. They think that God is formless and all-pervading, like the material sky. Thus the object of their worship is…

Pujyapada Premananda Prabhu Hera Pancami - Prabhuji 27 June 2020

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Verse 11: Five Types of Rāgānuga-sādhana

Among the limbs of bhajana, some are tad-bhāvamaya (composed of bhāva), some are tad-bhāva-sambandhī (related to bhāva), some are tad-bhāva-anukūla (favourable to bhāva), some are tad-bhāva-aviruddha (neither opposed to nor incompatible with bhāva) and some…

The Power of Impossible

Kṛṣṇa speaks very sweetly, cooling all hearts. The receiver of His speech feels cooled and filled with power. And if that person passes that message on to another, it becomes even more helpful...

Take All the Essence of Bhakti in You

...We should try to be like this. Otherwise, how we can be devotees? Try to take all the essence of bhakti in you, then I will think that, if even one person will be collected,…