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You should first try to come in niṣṭhā. Do you know what is niṣṭhā? At first there is śraddhā, and when śraddhā is matured it becomes niṣṭhā. Niṣṭhā is a good, high thing. Then the mind is fixed. There is no doubt in any siddhānta—no doubt. At that time māyā will not attract. At that time we will chant harināma, yet with no taste, but we see that there is no remedy without taking the chanting of Hari’s name. So, even if there is no taste at the time of niṣṭhā, we know that there is nothing…

SB 2.6: Puruṣa-sūkta Confirmed

SB 2.6.1 — Lord Brahmā said: The mouth of the virāṭ-puruṣa [the universal form of the Lord] is the generating center of the voice, and the controlling deity is Fire. His skin and six other layers are the generating centers of the Vedic hymns, and His tongue is the productive center of different foodstuffs and delicacies for offering to the demigods, the forefathers and the general mass of people.

SB 2.6.2 — His two nostrils are the generating centers…

Antya 4: Sanātana Gosvāmī Visits the Lord at Jagannātha Purī

The fourth chapter is summarized by Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura in his Amṛta-pravāha-bhāṣya as follows. Śrīla Sanātana Gosvāmī came alone from Mathurā to Jagannātha Purī to see Lord Caitanya. Because of bathing in bad water and not getting enough food every day while traveling on the path through Jhārikhaṇḍa (Jharkhand) Forest, he developed a disease that made his body itch. Suffering greatly from this itching, he resolved that in…

please accept my pranams and my blessings

All glories to Sri Guru and Gauranga

All glories to Srila Prabhupada

all glories to Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura

If we want to perfect our human form of life , you must read Harinama Cintamani not only one time but over and over again as it helps us understand the glories of Sri Harinama ,Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura was a liberated soul and is the eternal manjari of Radha Krsna ,Kamala Manjari so for us to read his Hari Nama…

Chapter 16, Verse 1-3

The Blessed Lord said: Fearlessness, purification of one's existence, cultivation of spiritual knowledge, charity, self-control, performance of sacrifice, study of the Vedas, austerity and simplicity; nonviolence, truthfulness, freedom from anger; renunciation, tranquility, aversion to faultfinding, compassion and freedom from covetousness; gentleness, modesty and steady determination; vigor, forgiveness, fortitude, cleanliness, freedom from envy and the passion…

Antya 5: How Pradyumna Miśra Received Instructions from Rāmānanda Rāya

The following summary of the fifth chapter is given by Śrīla Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura in his Amṛta-pravāha-bhāṣya. Pradyumna Miśra, a resident of Śrīhaṭṭa, came to see Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu to hear from Him about Lord Kṛṣṇa and His pastimes. The Lord, however, sent him to Śrīla Rāmānanda Rāya. Śrīla Rāmānanda Rāya was training the deva-dāsī dancing girls in the temple, and when Pradyumna Miśra heard about this, he…

SB 2.5: The Cause of All Causes

SB 2.5.1 — Śrī Nārada Muni asked Brahmājī: O chief amongst the demigods, O firstborn living entity, I beg to offer my respectful obeisances unto you. Please tell me that transcendental knowledge which specifically directs one to the truth of the individual soul and the Supersoul.

SB 2.5.2 — My dear father, please describe factually the symptoms of this manifest world. What is its background? How is it created? How is it conserved? And under whose…

Chapter 15, Verse 1

The Blessed Lord said: There is a banyan tree which has its roots upward and its branches down and whose leaves are the Vedic hymns. One who knows this tree is the knower of the Vedas.

Chapter 15, Verse 2

The branches of this tree extend downward and upward, nourished by the three modes of material nature. The twigs are the objects of the senses. This tree also has roots going down, and these are bound to the fruitive actions of human…

1967 Correspondence

Letter to Brahmananda -- San Francisco 21 December, 1967: Please accept my blessings. Your handwritten letter of 12/18/67 is a great pleasure. Your handwritten letter is more valuable than type written. Regarding Damodara's plight, we are very sorry but we must always expect that some of the weak soldiers may fall down in a fight waged against the great Maya external energy of Krishna. The sex attraction is very great in the material world. But in the spiritual world…

Please accept my humble obaisences

All glories to Srila Prabhupada

Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura and Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Prabhupada did nirjala fasting on Gadadhara Pandits Apperanceday, so true Raganuga vaisnavas or just any real Gaura Gadadhara bhaktas should in my humble opinion do the same. He is non different from Sri Radha and is the life and soul of Lord Gauranga and Gadadhara Pandits life and soul is Lord Gauranga

"No one can describe the characteristics and ecstatic…

Canto One, Volume Four

Chapter Three

Kalindy-agamana-varnana

Description of the Yamuna's Arrival

Text 1

sri-sannanda uvaca

goloke harinajnapta

kalindi saritam vara

krishnam pradakshini-kritya

gantum abhyudyatabhavat

Sri Sannanda said: Ordered by Lord Krishna in Goloka, Yamuna, the best of rivers, circumambulated the Lord and was about to go (to the earth).

Text 2

tadaiva viraja sakshad

ganga…

ubject: Resurrection and three modes of material nature

We just passed Easter for the Christians it is the most important event, the Greek Orthodox faith fast for 40 days only having a Vegan meal in the Evening , on Long Friday , they bow down to Jesus Christ hundreds of times .

In all Historical accounts of something that happened so long ago, the cruzification of Jesus Christ and his death is described in so many written testimonies now only of his disciples but of other…

SB 2.4: The Process of Creation

SB 2.4.1 — Sūta Gosvāmī said: Mahārāja Parīkṣit, the son of Uttarā, after hearing the speeches of Śukadeva Gosvāmī, which were all about the truth of the self, applied his concentration faithfully upon Lord Kṛṣṇa.

SB 2.4.2 — Mahārāja Parīkṣit, as a result of his wholehearted attraction for Lord Kṛṣṇa, was able to give up all deep-rooted affection for his personal body, his wife, his children, his palace, his animals like horses and elephants, his…

The Glories of the Fourteenth Chapter of

the Bhagavad Gita from the Padma Purana

Lord Shiva said “Oh, Parvati kindly hear from Me the glories of the Fourteenth Chapter of the Srimad Bhagavad-gita, with the greatest attention.

In Simhaldvip was a king of the name Vikram-Vetala. One day, when he was going to the forest for hunting, he took his son and two hunting dogs along with him. When he reached the forest he released one dog to chase a rabbit. When that dog was chasing…

Chapter 14, Verse 1

The Blessed Lord said: Again I shall declare to you this supreme wisdom, the best of all knowledge, knowing which all the sages have attained to supreme perfection.

Chapter 14, Verse 2

By becoming fixed in this knowledge, one can attain to the transcendental nature, which is like My own nature. Thus established, one is not born at the time of creation nor disturbed at the time of dissolution.

Chapter 14, Verse 3

The total material substance,…

SB 2.3: Pure Devotional Service: The Change in Heart

SB 2.3.1 — Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: Mahārāja Parīkṣit, as you have inquired from me as to the duty of the intelligent man who is on the threshold of death, so I have answered you.

SB 2.3.2-7 — One who desires to be absorbed in the impersonal brahmajyoti effulgence should worship the master of the Vedas [Lord Brahmā or Bṛhaspati, the learned priest], one who desires powerful sex should worship the heavenly King, Indra, and one…

Antya 6: The Meeting of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu and Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī

A summary of this chapter is given by Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura in his Amṛta-pravāha-bhāṣya as follows. When Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu went into transcendental fits of ecstatic love, Rāmānanda Rāya and Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī attended to Him and satisfied Him as He desired. Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī had been attempting to come to the lotus feet of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu for a long time, and finally he left his home and…

Subject: Commentary by Sri Sridhara Swami of Rudra Sampradaya: to Bhagavad Gita 13,1 and 2

In verse seven of the previous chapter Lord Krishna declares sammuddharta mrtyu-samsara sagarat meaning saves them from the perpetual cycle of birth and the death which is like an ocean because in a day of Brahma every human being has approximately 43,000 separate births and life cycles. So the figure is astronomical if one calculates how many human lifetimes transpire in a only year of Brahma’s…

29 Apr 2019

Monday

Daśamī, K, 05:13, Śatabhiṣā

+Śrī Vṛndāvana dāsa Ṭhākura ~ Disappearance

from a website about Srila Vrindavana Thakura

Birthplace of Srila Vrindavana Das Thakura, Mamgachi, Navadvipa (Modadrumadvipa)

mamgachi“What one attains by travelling to all the holy places is attained just by remembering the transcendental abode of Navadvipa” –

Navadvipa Dham MahatmyaSri Kavi karnapura reveals in his Gaura ganoddesha…