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Three Stages of Yoga
In the Gītā, three yogas are described viz. karma-yoga, jñāna-yoga and bhakti-yoga. The first step is karma-yoga. Not karma, but karma-yoga. There is a difference between them. Only those karmas which have been connected (yoga)…
Read moreNot For Ordinary People
Srimati Radharani is the most important of all the gopis, and Her specific loving service is the highest expression of madhurya-prema. Therefore, it is better that the neophyte practitioners in the devotional field not try…
Read moreSAPTAMA-YĀMA-SĀDHANA. Pradoṣa-kālīya-bhajana. Vipralambha-prema. Verses 1 - 5
...Both pūrva-rāga (attachment prior to meeting one’s beloved) and pravāsa (separation by distance) are favourable to bhajana in the mood of separation. Rati (attachment) that is filled with eagerness and which exists prior to meeting…
Read moreGaura-Nitāi maṅgala-ārati, Arcana-mārga, Preaching in L.A.
...There should be one altar with a dividing structure of any material. First sing to Gaura-Nitāi (Udilo aruṇa) and then to Rādhā-Kṛṣṇa (Maṅgala Śri Guru-Gaura). If you only have time to sing one song, then…
Read morePujyapada Premananda Prabhu Bhakti Vilasa Gandhastanemi Maharaja Glories, Sri Sankaracarya Avirbhava - Prabhuji 17 May 2021
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Read moreSudarsana Tattva
...The real disciple cannot tolerate seeing Śrī Guru working very hard in front of him. Sudarśana thought, “Why am I allowing this disturbance to my Prabhu? He may not invite me to Vraja but how…
Read moreMost Magnanimous
It is very difficult to understand the lila of Sri Sri Radha-Krsna, but Lord Caitanya is the most liberal, magnanimous, merciful, and willing benedictor of all living beings in this age of Kali. He is…
Read moreṢAṢṬHA-YĀMA-SĀDHANA. Sāyaṁ-kālīya-bhajana. Bhāva. Verses 26, 27
...When Śrī Rādhā sees that evening has come, in Her heart She becomes very eager and thinks, “Now Kṛṣṇa must have returned from cowherding!” In the kitchen, She wears a white dress, and together with…
Read moreA Morning Walk
...Now you are somewhat realizing, “There is some defect in me, and that is why I have no taste in hearing from Vaiṣṇavas. It may be that I am offending a Vaiṣṇava.” Those in this…
Read morePujyapada Premananda Prabhu Gopal-campu 2.32.17 - Prabhuji, 16 May 2021
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Read moreṢAṢṬHA-YĀMA-SĀDHANA. Sāyaṁ-kālīya-bhajana. Bhāva. Verses 21 - 25
...Śrī Jīva Gosvāmī says, “The name Mukunda comes from muktiṁ dadāti, which means ‘He who gives liberation from one’s hair plait or waist cloth’.” Śrīla Sanātana Gosvāmī’s purport of mukunda-padavī is tad-anurakti-bhajana, or bhajana imbued…
Read moreThe Topmost Servitor
Having already discussed the superexcellent qualities of the transcendental mellowness known as madhurya-prema and Sri Krsna's inability to repay the service of the spotlessly pure-hearted cowherd girls of Vraja, Ramananda then proceeded further in the…
Read moreWhat is the Essence of all the Instructions of Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī? Darśana
...While living in Vraja as a follower of the eternal residents of Vraja, who possess inherent spontaneous love for Śrī Kṛṣṇa, one should utilize all his time by sequentially engaging the tongue and the mind…
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Kṛṣṇa took Sannyāsa
Understanding His shortcoming, Kṛṣṇa took sannyāsa in His pastimes as Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu and He became one-pointed. He learned from Viśākhā-devī who came as Raya Ramānanda and intimately instructed Him in relishing the highest moods…
Read morePujyapada Premananda Prabhu Candan-yatra, Special - Prabhuji, 15 May 2021
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Read moreṢAṢṬHA-YĀMA-SĀDHANA. Sāyaṁ-kālīya-bhajana. Bhāva. Verses 16 - 20
By the influence of His cit-śakti, Bhagavān Śrī Kṛṣṇa manifests a completely captivating form appropriate for His human-like pastimes. The unparalleled beauty of this form astonishes even Śrī Kṛṣṇa Himself. Śrī Kṛṣṇa has unlimited pastimes…
Read moreNot Possible to Reciprocate
Although the Personality of Godhead reciprocates accordingly with the dealings of His different devotees in different stages of loving service, He has declared His inability to reciprocate with the dealings of the gopis, the damsels…
Read moreA Morning Walk
...If everyone prays, then Kṛṣṇa is bound to hear. Go on preaching in your university. Many Ph.D scholars will come from that program, and they will preach...
Read moreAksaya-tritiya And Candana-yatra. Kesava-vrata.
Today is Aksaya-tritiya. Candana-yatra Maha-mahotsava also starts today. Today is also Parasurama Jayanti and on this very day, the doors of the Badrinatha temple open. Badrinarayana gives His darsana on this day. Satya-Yuga also started…
Read morePujyapada Premananda Prabhu Aksaya Tritiya - Prabhuji, Krsna Karunya Prabhu, 14 May 2021
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