Excerpts from a lecture delivered by:Sri Srimad Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura Prabhupadain the Sarasvata Assembly Hall, Sri Caitanya Matha, MayapuraSaturday, 9.00 pm, on the 28th day of the...
Sarasvati Thakur
Venu and vapu
Śrī Śrīla Bhakti Siddhānta Sarasvatī Gosvāmī Ṭhākura Prabhupāda Paramahaṁsa-Jagatguru (Gauḍīya Goṣṭhī Pati) (Translated and published by Raya Ramananda dasa for the first time in English dated...
Is this Bhakti or Bhukti?
The word bhakti means service, whereas bhukti means enjoyment. The term bhagavad-bhakti refers to the service of Śrī Bhagavān. However, depending on...
Śiva-Tattva
By Śrīla Bhakti Vilāsa Bhāratī Gosvāmī Mahārāja "nimnaganāṁ yathā gaṅgā devānāmacyuto yathā।vaiṣṇavānāṁ yathā śambhuḥ purāṇānāmidaṁ tathā॥" (Bhāg. 12.13.16) "Just as among all rivers, the Gaṅgā is...
Śaṁbhu
By Śrīla Bhakti Vilāsa Bhāratī Gosvāmī Mahārāja Śaṁbhu is the very embodiment of pure knowledge and renunciation. Those who, like Dakṣa, are adept in the work of progeny-creation (deeply engaged in...
Archana (Diety-Worship)
By Srila Bhaktisiddhant Saraswati Gosvami Thakur Prabhupada (Translated from the Gauḍīya weekly magazine 10th Volume, Gauḍīya Maṭha, Saturday, Āṣāḍha 11, 1339 Bengali Era, June 25, 1932, 45th Issue...
Who is the True Jagad-Guru
— The one and only Jagad-Guru of all concious sentient beings is Śrīla Prabhupāda Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Gosvāmī Ṭhākura. All others are merely bound within the thread of his divine dispensation....
How far I am from the Heart of The Prabhupāda!’—Śrīla Prabhupadera cittavritti hoite āmi kotoṭā dūre!
(From Śrī Gauḍīya, Volume 18, Issue 22, Published under the shelter of Śrīla Prabhupāda Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Gosvāmī Ṭhākura (Translated for first time in English on the auspicious appearance...
Editor’s response to Sree Vyasa-Puja Adresses
This response to the Sree Vyasa Puja (1936) by Srila Prabhupada Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakur was published in The Harmonist or Sajjana Toshani March 19, 1936. In today's great gathering of such...
ARJUNA AND EKALAVYA
Śrī Śrīla Bhakti Siddhānta Sarasvatī Gosvāmī Ṭhākura Prabhupāda Ekalavyas devotion to his guru (described in Mahdbhdrata, Adi Parva 134.2-3) is widely considered an ideal for everyone, but it is...
Prārthanā Rasa–Vivritti(প্রার্থনা রস–বিবৃত্তি)
(The Unfolding of Nectarine Prayers of Śrīla Narottama Dāsa Ṭhākura) by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Gosvami Ṭhākura Prabhupāda Translated for first time in English dated 12.02.2025, Originally...
A Lecture on Śrī Nityānanda Trayodaśī
Overview This talk by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura Prabhupāda was given on the evening of Śrī Nityānanda Trayodaśī at the Yogapīṭha in Śrīdhāma Māyāpura on 5th February, 1936. It was...
Upadeshamrita of Śrīla Bhaktisiddhant Saraswati Gosvami Thakur Prabhupada
Question 1—Is kīrtana the best limb of devotional service? Answer—Among all the limbs of devotional service (bhakti), kṛṣṇasaṅkīrtana is the most prominent and essential limb. One receives the...
Śrī Gauḍīya Patrikā
By stealing Hari-kathā ,true Hari-kathā can never be spoken —Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Gosvami Ṭhākura Prabhupāda (Hari-kathā at Bāguḍā) One cannot steal from the house of bhāva (divine...