Panakam, also known as Panagam or Panaka, is a traditional South Indian drink that is especially prepared during the festival of Rama Navami. It’s a refreshing and cooling beverage made with jaggery, water, and spices, perfect for the summer season when Rama Navami is celebrated. Here’s a simple recipe to make Panakam: Ingredients: Instructions: This […]

“One must perform sacrifices as prescribed in the śāstras, and they must give in charity their hard-earned money for Kṛṣṇa’s cause. That is called dāna. Yajña, dāna and tapasya. Tapasya. Just like tomorrow is Śrī Rāma-navami. The tapasya will be that all the devotees will observe fasting from morning till evening. This is called tapasya.”.(Pandal […]

Sunday, 06 April 2025 [Mayapura, West Bengal, Indian Time] Sri Rama Navami – The Appearance Day of Lord Ramacandra Srila Prabhupada: “The Personality of Godhead Śrī Rāma assumed the form of a human being and appeared on the earth for the purpose of doing some pleasing work for the demigods or the administrative personalities to […]

Srila Prabhupada explains the amazing story of Sri Mula Rāma “In the book known as Adhyātma-rāmāyaṇa, there are statements in Chapters Twelve to Fifteen about the worship of the Deities Śrī Rāmacandra and Sītā. There it is stated that during Lord Rāmacandra’s time there was a brāhmaṇa who took a vow refusing to accept breakfast […]

Śrīla Prabhupāda: “[…] One feature of the Supreme Personality of Godhead Lord Rāmacandra is omnipotence. The Lord can act without regard to material impediments or inconveniences, but to prove that He is the Supreme Personality of Godhead and was not merely advertised as Godhead or elected by popular vote, He constructed a wonderful bridge over […]

Śrīla Prabhupāda: “[…] Somehow or other, Rāvaṇa was raised to an exalted position as the king of a great kingdom with all material opulences, but because of his sinful act of kidnapping mother Sītā, all the results of his pious activities were destroyed.” If one offends an exalted personality, especially the Supreme Personality of Godhead, […]

Śrīla Prabhupāda: “[…] The material opulences a person obtains by offering prayers to the goddess Durgā are temporary. As described in Bhagavad-gītā (7.23), antavat tu phalaṁ teṣāṁ tad bhavaty alpa-medhasām: men of meager intelligence desire temporary happiness. We have actually seen that one of the disciples of Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura wanted to enjoy the property […]

by Haripada dasa Each madman with his subject means that each person gets involved in life with the subjects according to his interest. In this world there are five themes, I will try to explain them, First religion, in human society there are various religious concepts described as Hindu, Christian, Hebrew, Mohammedan, Buddhist, etc., hypocritical […]

Śrīla Prabhupāda: “[…] The separation of Lord Rāmacandra from Sītā is spiritually understood as vipralambha, which is an activity of the hlādinī potency of the Supreme Personality of Godhead belonging to the śṛṅgāra-rasa, the mellow of conjugal love in the spiritual world. In the spiritual world the Supreme Personality of Godhead has all the dealings […]

Śrīla Prabhupāda: “Modern Rākṣasas, posing as educationally advanced merely because they have doctorates, have tried to prove that Lord Rāmacandra is not the Supreme Personality of Godhead but an ordinary person. But those who are learned and spiritually advanced will never accept such notions; they will accept the descriptions of Lord Rāmacandra and His activities […]