The relationship between service and rasa. By Śrīla Bhaktī Raksak Śridhar Dev-Goswami Mahārāj Student: Maharaj, since today is Ekādaśi, I was wondering if you could tell us a little something about...
Scientific Understanding of Ekādaśi
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Swami B.R. Sridhar
Who Can be an Ācārya?
Śrīla Bhaktī Rakshak Śridhar Goswāmī Mahārāj QUESTION: Among these four āśramas – gṛhastha, brahmacārī, vānaprastha and sannyāsī – who can be an ācārya? Who has more qualification to become an...
Sri Ray Ramananda
(By His Divine Grace Srila Bhakti Rakshak Sridhar Dev Goswami) Ramananda Raya was a married man, but he was recognized by Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu as a master of his senses to the extreme degree....
The zigzag line of truth
(By Srila Bhakti Rakshak Sridhar Dev Gosvami) We have left all social concerns and so many other shackles. For what? For the Absolute Truth. And wherever I shall find that, I must bow down my head....
Hari Katha
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,...
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 Highest Conception of Conduct
By Srila Bhakti Rakshak Sridhar Dev Gosvami One day, Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura was chanting the Lord's names and wandering in the sky, at his sweet will. Suddenly he found that he was just near...
Sri Lalita-devi and Srimati Radharani
Svarupa-damodara is the constant companion of Mahaprabhu in Puri. He is a scholar of the highest class and also a very good singer. Without consideration of his elevated social position, he will...
SIKSASTAKAM VERSE 3
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...
Oh Baba! Bolacche-re!
(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...
Slow and Steady
amāninā mānadena kīrtanīyaḥ sadā hariḥ We should take resort to kīrtan always, but Mahāprabhu recommends that our attitude should be such: tṛṇād api sunīcha, taror api sahiṣṇu, amānī mānada. It...
Harmonising Instructions of the Upper House
From Golden Staircase; Chapter Two, The Eye to see Sri Guru, section: Devotee: It is said there are five principles for bhakti: associating with devotees, chanting Harinam,...
Levels of God Realisation
(From Search for Sri Krishna, Reality The Beautiful, Eighth Chapter by Srila Bhakti Rakshak Sridhar Dev Gosvami) The gradation of transcendental realisation has been explained by Srila Sanatan...
The worship of the Govardhan-sila
By Srila Bhakti Raksak Sridhar Dev-Gosvami Maharaj Student: I would like to ask your blessings to worship the Govardhan-sila. I thought that it would help me in my chanting, my kirtan. Srila...