By Srimad Bhakti Vijnana Bharati Gosvami Maharaja The topmost manifestation of bhakti – the ultimate fruit of sādhana-bhakti - is prema-bhakti. Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī has described the symptoms of the...
SOME TEACHINGS BY ŚRĪ RŪPA GOSVĀMĪ PAD
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Sarasvati Gaudiya Writings 1
Non-duplicity and Compassion
Prerequisites for the Sincere Observance of Bhāgavata-dharma by Sri Srimad Bhakti Vijnana Bharati Gosvami Maharaja In the beginning of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam,Śrīla Vedavyāsa has stated: dharmaḥ...
SRI SRI PREMA DHAMA DEVA STOTRAM
by Srila Bhakti Raksak Sridhar Dev-Goswami Maharaj A unique compilation of Sanskrit verses that contain most Pastimes of Sri Krishna Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, written by Om Vishnupad Srila Bhakti Raksak...
FORBEARANCE
By His Divine Grace Srila B.R. Sridhara Dev Gosvami Maharaja, We should not think that our path will be very smooth. So many troubles may come from outside. In India, when you go out in the streets...
Accepting and distributing in the service of Śrī Hari
By Srila Bhakti Vijnana Bharati Gosvami Maharaj Śrīla Prabhupāda used to say, “Never in my life have I once accepted anything from anyone belonging to this material world. As a servant of śrī guru,...
Srila Prabhupadas perspective on jīva-hiṁsā
By Srila Bhakti Vijnana Bharati Gosvami Maharaj Ordinarily, the term jīva-hiṁsā is understood by people to mean ‘a physical or emotional act of violence against living entities, including oneself.’...
TAKING THE NAME OF RADHARANI
Even when taking the Holy Name of Radharani, we give some pranama . “Oh, please forgive me, I am not qualified to take Your Holy Name, I am not qualified. I am trying to say so much. With my small...
The Significance of Sannyas Ashram in Gaudiya Bhajan
All Glories to Sri Sri Guru and Gauranga Since time immemorial there is a system of four Ashram categories in India. Some saying that the age factor of human being has been divided into four...
How to Knock
[ From The Harmonist or Sree SajjanaToshani VOL. XXVII, No 3 , June, 1929 By Prof. Jatindra. Mohan Ghose, M.A., B.L. ] “KNOCK, and the door will be open unto you"—so says the Holy Bible. Let...
THE CORRECT ANGLE OF VISION
A Conversation with Major Rana N. J. Bahadur at Armadale, Darjeeling, on 14 June 1935. Originally published in The Harmonist (Vol. XXXI, No.21) on 27 June 1935 Question: I cannot understand this...
Srila Sarasvati Thakur in Nilachal Kshetra
(From the book Sri Bhaktisiddhanta Vaibhava) Next day the devotees toured the main holy places of Puri while performing sankirtana, finally arriving at the Simha-dvara gate of the Jagannatha temple....
The Car Festival of Sri Sri Jagannath Deva
(FROM THE HARMONIST OR SHREE SAJJANATOSHANI VOL. XXVIII JULY 1930, Chaitanya-Era 444 | NO. 2) The Car Festival of Sri Sri Jagannath Deva was celebrated on the 28th of June. It proved to-be a...
Without Faith One Cannot Have Darshan
“I see the statue.” — This kind of thinking is in the spirit of enjoyment, whereas “The deity sees me, my uncovered pure self,” is deity darśana. If in the same way that I see a movie,...
The Greatness of the Acharya
Gaudiya Gosthi Patih Sri Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakur Gosvami Prabhupada told : Despite knowing that one’s hands may be injured while uprooting thorny bushes, and that wild animals or...