Compiled by Yasoda nandan das Today is the disappearance day of Sri Madhvacarya, who is the sampradaya-acarya of our Brahma-Madhva-Gaudiya Vaisnava Sampradaya. Srila Prabhupada: “Srila Madhvacarya is the original acarya for those who belong to the Madhva-Gaudiya-sampradaya.” (Srimad Bhagavatam, 6.1.40.purport “… This Madhva-Gaudiya-sampradaya is also known as the Brahma-sampradaya because the disciplic succession originally began from […]
Hare Krsna Below we have two separate letters from Srila Prabhupada regarding how Vrndavana and New Vrndavana should be developed. Both should be a village like atmosphere where simple living goes on, just the it was 5000 years ago when Krsna and Balaram was there. Today we have a totally different picture developing and even by the […]
Hare Krsna-This is a very instructive story Srila Prabhupada tells to us about a yogi and a businessman who tried to cheat him. It is directly related to sadhana bhakti and how we cannot light the fire of KC by having only smoke-instead of fire. In other words, if we cheat, change the process, or […]
1. Do not create your own process for worshipping Deities “The greatest danger to our movement will come when we manufacture and create our own process for worshiping the Deities. So don’t ask any more new questions, whatever is going on, follow it just to the exact standard as I have given you, that’s all…” Srila Prabhupada […]
What do you understand by the word-Maya ? June 13 1974 Paris Prabhupāda: What do you understand by the word “māyā”? Yogeśvara: That which is not. Puṣṭa-kṛṣṇa: Things which we place value on that have no relation to Kṛṣṇa. Prabhupāda: The māyā is explained very nicely in the Bhāgavata, yathābhāso yathā tamaḥ. Just like sun is reflected […]
Grhastha Mahatma-become one, by hearing Lecture Oct 22 1975 JOH So this material energy is… Every energy is woman. The spiritual energy is also woman, material energy is woman.The material energy is tamo, darkness, and the other energy is the light. Therefore Vedic injunction is tamasi mā jyotir gamaḥ. Don’t remain under the darkness material energy. […]
Hare Krsna-below is a short summary of a book by William Hazlitt given by Chota Haridas das where he gives some important information that any sane devotee should not ignore. dd ———————- Saints and Psychopaths Psychopaths pretending to be saints present a very serious problem for all spiritual traditions. There are many more psychopaths pretending […]
Hare Krsna- Below we have listed several verses in the chapter of Bhagavad Gita called the divine and the demoniac. It is important for everyone, especially devotees of the Lord to become familiar with and be able to recognize these demoniac qualities both in ourselves and others as well. For ourselves we should know if […]
Sex life is suffering-either legal or illicit 1.)Oct 18 1975 Johannesburg And nature has made the woman’s face so attractive, beautiful, their breast, their hips, attractive, their sound, talking, singing, all very attractive, walking, and now they are dressing naked. They are showing simply the vagina, all other parts of the body clothed. This is […]
Sadhana bhakti-warnings from our Acarya NBS 13 Narada-bhakti-sutra If a diseased person is being cured of the symptoms of his disease but does not care for the principles of healthy living, there is every possibility of a relapse. Similarly, the neophyte devotee serious about advancing in devotional service must carefully follow the principles of regulative devotional […]
