Vigata Vatsarera Samālocanā (A Review of the Previous Year) was first published in Sajjana Toṣaṇī, Vol. 11 issue 1 in 1899. In this review, Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura describes the hardships of the...
Samāvedana (A Respectful Petition) was first published in Sajjana Toṣaṇī Vol.3, issue 1 in 1886. In this brief editorial for the third year of Sajjana Toṣaṇī, Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura prays to...
By Swami Sadananda dasa, one of the foremost disciples of Srila Bhakti Siddhanta Sarasvati Thakur Prabhupada and the first western adherent to Gaudiya Vaishnava philosophy in the 20th century....
‘Śraddhā and Śaraṇāgati’ was first published in Sajjana Toṣaṇī Vol. 4, Issue 9 in 1892. (translated into English by Swami B.V. Giri) In this article, Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura explains the difference...
Within this world, only those who attend to Śrī Bhagavān’s holy name (nāma), His abode (dhāma) and His desires (kāma) are truly worthy of adoration. No being can extricate himself from...
You must put all manner of worldly tasks aside and chant one lakh daily, perform pūjā and arcana of the deity, study various sacred texts, and go to the maṭha to take advantage of hearing śrī...
(from the Foreword to the Bengali edition of Śrī Dāmodarāṣṭakam) Excerpts from the writings of Śrī Śrīmad Bhaktivedānta Vāmana Gosvāmī Mahārāja Bhagavān Śrī Kṛṣṇa, the possessor of all...
Sri Vyasa Puja- 100 years of devotion. A short sketch of the life history of His Divine Grace, my spiritual master Srila Bhakti Promode Puri Gosvami Maharaja - Prabhupada-varya, written by Shyamal...
1. Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu’s instructions in Sikastakam, “param vijayate Sri-Krishna -Sankirtanam” is the only motto of the Gaudiya math.2. The Supreme Personality of Godhead Sri Krishna is the only...
Who is a true guru? It is he who is constantly engaged in the service of Śrī Hari. And who is the truly learned man? It is he who, in the words of Śrī Kṛṣṇa, is well conversant with actual...
Please preach the kirtana of the Supreme Lord, even if in doing so you have to incur debt; then in order to pay off that debt, you will have to be even more engaged in seva. When your creditors put...
trnad api sunicena taror iva sahisnuna amanina manadena kirtaniyah sada harih “One who is humbler than a blade of grass, more forbearing than a tree who gives due honour to others without desiring...
(An article which was written by Srila Sridhara Maharaja, prior to his acceptance of sannyasa, for the Gaudiya Matha’s daily newspaper, Dainika Nadiya Prakasa on April 18th, 1928) One gentleman had...
Śrī Bhagavān has said: “A truly intelligent person should shun evil company but seek the association of holy saints who, with their instructions, gnaw away the knot of our mind’s worldly...