Teachings, stories, and glimpses of life from our spiritual family around the world.
The Vrajavāsīs’ love has no selfishness. They have no desire for sense enjoyment. The Vrajavāsīs’ love is based on a pure and fathomless friend. There is no selfishness. Their love is spotlessly pure. A cow…
Read moreSin is inevitably attached to the wealth you earn by work. If you use that wealth only to fill your own stomach, ill-effects will certainly befall you. If you offer what you have to God…
Read more(Press play and turn on sound) Today is the birthday of Srila Vyasadeva, the son of Parasara Rsi. Srila Vyasadeva divided the Vedas into four sections and then he took the essence of all the…
Read moreBy chanting Kṛṣṇa’s name just once, all your sins, anarthas, and offenses will be destroyed. And then, the sādhaka will be admitted into the realm of prema-bhakti. The sādhaka will then be ornamented with the…
Read moreNarottama dāsa bole paḍinū asat-bhole, paritrāṇa kara mahāśaya. Śrīla Narottama dāsa Ṭhākura says, “Alas! I have lost my life. I never met with honest people. I was cheated of my welfare by associating with degraded…
Read moreThis niṣṭhā Hanumān has for Rāma is very favorable for bhajana. Gauḍīya-vaiṣṇavas are ekaniṣṭha towards Śrī Rādhā, Kṛṣṇa, and Mahāprabhu, but still they glorify the niṣṭhā of Hanumānji. Once, Garuḍa came to Hanumān and said,…
Read moreNityānanda Prabhu didn’t beat or smash everyone. He humbly requested, and prayed to everyone. He sweetly said, “Please accept My words! This is good for you.” People then naturally changed by the Lord’s sweetness. Similarly,…
Read moreIf you are serving and obeying a guru like that, like Lokanatha dasa Gosvami, then sadhana-bhakti will manifest in your heart, after which bhava-bhakti, and then prema-bhakti will manifest – and after that all kinds…
Read moreWe see in rasa-lila in Vrndavana that the gopis are all weeping, rolling on the earth, always searching for Krsna, "O Krsna, Krsna, where are You? Without You we will die." On the other hand,…
Read moreIf a person can selflessly surrender in this way, it does not matter whether or not he worships his gurudeva with flowers and so forth, for such worship is just a symbolic act meant to…
Read moreToday is the birthday of Srila Vyasadeva, the son of Parasara Rsi. Srila Vyasadeva divided the Vedas into four sections, and then he took the essence of all the Vedas and Upanisads and wrote Brahma-sutra…
Read moreThis knowledge of the bhāgavata or parakīya-paramparā is the most important treasure available in Vyāsadeva’s gurukula. We pray to the Guru-varga for the ability to properly understand and observe vyāsa-pūjā, and we beseech Vyāsadeva to…
Read moreThe Srimad-Bhagavatam is a glorification of the bhaktas and Bhagavan. There are two kinds of bhagavata: bhakta-bhagavat and grantha-bhagavat. When you approach the bhaktas and take shelter of them then through them you can understand…
Read moreMantra-śakti will control your mind and bring you to harināma, hari-bhakti and the dhāma. If you seriously chant the mantra given to you by Śrī Guru, then you will get strong relationship with the mahā-bhāgavatas,…
Read moreOur welfare begins when we become serious, and accept that guru-sevā and vaisnava-sevā are the wealth of our life. By carefully taking up the step-by-step process given by Mahāprabhu and preached by the Guru-varga, starting…
Read moreAt that time, they think that their real dharma is to maintain the body and serve the body, but this is a temporary situation and is not the eternal dharma of the soul. We have…
Read moreIf a person brings a pile of fresh stool to another person and requests him to accept it then he will be entirely uninterested and disgusted. But if that stool was brought to pigs and…
Read moreThe soul has no birth or death and can never be destroyed. The dharma of the body should not be considered that of the soul, and the food of the body should not be considered…
Read moreFor the pleasure of the dear devotees of Sri Gauranga, we are offering this newsletter, "Engineering the Inner Self" as our humble effort for the service of the Vaisnava community. Our savants of yore and…
Read moreThe dharma of the body; rules and regulations of the body is on one side, and on the other there are the rules and regulations of the soul and its dharma. That which is truth…
Read moreWho is a sādhu? Sādhnoti sādhayati ca kṛṣṇa-prema iti sādhu—that person who himself is performing sādhana-bhajana to awaken kṛṣṇa-prema and who helps engage others in this type of sādhana-bhajana as well, is a sādhu. The…
Read moreArjuna says, "How can I give up this lamentation? I do not understand. My senses are controlling me, so please give me shelter Prabhu. I see that even if I attain everything, I will not…
Read moreThe ISKCON leaders once asked Śrīla Gurudeva: “Please tell us what rasa Śrīla Prabhupāda was in and, if we are qualified to hear, please disclose his spiritual identity.” Hesitant to speak about this, Gurudeva said,…
Read moreSo first we should try to know what our sadhya is. What do we want? If you want fruit then if you go to the car shop you won’t be able to get an orange.…
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