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...
Śrī Nāma-sevā in Śrī Dhāma
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Sarasvati Thakur
Duties of a Married Man
Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Prabhupada was traveling trough Orissa with his disciples. On one day as he was coming back from Saksi Gopal’s temple, some people on the way asked for alms from the married...
64 Quotes from Srila Bhakti Siddhanta Sarasvati Thakura
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?
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...
The Standard of Living in Gaudiya Math
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...
Sri Radhastami
(The following discourse was spoken by Srila Sarasvati Thakura Prabhupada in the Sarasvata Natya-mandira, Sri Gaudiya Matha, at 6:00 pm in the evening of Sri Radhastami, September 19th, 1931) There...
Utilize Every Moment to Attain True Well-being
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...
My Advice
(Published in “Sri Sajjana Toshani –or The Harmonist No.6 Vol.XXX, June1932) Editor's speech at the farewell-meeting held at Sree Gaudiya Math, Calcutta, on March 18, 1933, in honour of the...
THE GAUDIYA CREED
From SREE SAJJANA-TOSHANITHE HARMONISTSeptember, 1934 It is probably the most hopeful trait of the Western mentality, that it has been capable even now of expecting to be enlightened by “Men from...
The Lotus feet of Sri Guru
If I disobey the law that has come down to me through the chain of preceptorial succession, the offense due to omission to carry out the command of the guru will sever me from the lotus-feet of Sri...
Vaishnava and Vaishnavism
( From The Harmonist Vol. 2, page 203, by Bishweshwar Das, B. A., Emeritus Head Master, Shantipur Municipal H. E. School) Vaishnavism is pre-eminently the religion of transcendental Love. It...
The Real Acharyya and Our Duty
(By Brahmachari Kirttanananda, from The Harmonist Vol.2. page 199) As truly said in the Bhagabata, one must, in order to know and realise the Absolute Truth, first of all serve and worship the Holy...
The Necessity of Guiless Humility
My friends who have greater aptitude of love for the All-love, Kṛṣṇa, will not despise me but will kindly count me as their humble friend by graciously allowing me to be blessed with an unalloyed...
The Revolutionary Preacher of Truth
The spiritually-minded will judge how many major revolutions in history compare to the revolutionary preaching by the Gaudiya Matha against the materialistic thought patterns of the world. Srila...