According to the preacher’s intensity and purity of realization, their preaching of hari-katha may be of many types. The mahā-bhagavata, madhyama-bhagavata, kaniṣṭha-bhagavata may talk about Hari,...
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Sarasvati Gaudiya Writings 1
The Glories of Sri Purushottama Month by Srila Saccidananda Bhaktivinoda Thakura
The Vedic arya-sastras are divided into two sections – smarta (literature based on smrti) and paramartha (transcendental literature based on sruti). Those who are eligible (adhikari) for the smarta...
The One Absolute
Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya told us that we should first acquire self-determination, without which we will mistake the mind for the soul. Mind is quite different from soul. The mind conducts all the...
The Only Ideal Couple
Svami Sadananda Dasa Extract from “Shraddha” (MS, page 10) and a commentary in the “Corrections” to page 218 Into English and © Kid Samuelsson 2021 Last changed: 15 June 2021 [From] Krishna- [and...
Appreciate His Success and Rejoice
(Srila Bhakti Raksak Sridhar Dev-Goswami Maharaj praises the service and qualities of his dear godbrother Srimad Bhakti Saranga Goswami Maharaj.) In remembrance of the holy appearance days ofOm...
The Impetus for sense Gratification
by Srila Bhakti Kumuda Santa Gosvami Maharaja Categories of Jivas We observe many types of jivas around us. A jiva is a conscious being: jivati iti jivah that which has life is a jiva. They have...
Prajapati Brahma, Indra and Virovana
By Śrī Śrīmad Bhaktivedānta Vāmana Gosvāmī Mahārāja The guru of the universe, Prajāpati Brahmā, once said: “The ātma, or soul, is beyond piety and impiety, old age and death,...
Sambandha. Abhidheya & Prayojana
by Śrīla Bhakti Siddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura Prabhupāda In His instructions to Śrīla Sanātana Gosvāmī (sanātana-śikṣā), Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu has said, “The Veda discusses sambandha (the...
Viraha-tattva (The truth about divine seperation)
Srila Bhakti Prajnana Keshava Gosvami Maharaja A Festival of Bliss, not Sorrow Separation is a source of great pain for every living entity, so why, yearly, do we make elaborate arrangements in...
The Absolutely Revolutionary Metaphysics
The incredible thought which no one in want of His power of knowledge (bhakti) does not even dare to think is this: each and everyone, all of His forms are always present everywhere but are not...
The Subtleties of True Sevā
What is to be understood before serving yaḥ śāstra-vidhim utsṛjyavarttate kāma-cārataḥna sa siddhim avāpnotina sukhaṁ na parāṁ gatim Śrīmad Bhagavad-gīta (16.23) He who discards the injunctions of...
Ekadasi
On Ekadasi, Srila Bhakti Siddhanta Sarasvati Gosvami Thakur Prabhupada would fast until around four o´clock in the afternoon and then take a little fruit, and at night just a glass of milk. Although...
Initiation into Spiritual Life
An article from the magazine SREE SAJJANA-TOSHANI or THE HARMONISTEdited by Paramahamsa Paribrajakacharyya Sri Srimad Bhakti Siddhanta Saraswati Goswami Maharaj. Published between 1927 - 1936 The...
Initiation into Spiritual Life
The Harmonist Magazine December 1928 The ceremony of diksha or initiation is that by which the spiritual Preceptor admits one to the status of a neophyte on the path of spiritual...