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 Necessity of Guiless Humility
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Sarasvati Thakur
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...
Srila Sarawati Thakur “Interview by Albert Suthers of Ohio University”
Published in The Harmonist (Sree Sajjanatoshani) January, 1929 Prof. Albert E. Suthers: What is Vedantism? Srila Bhakti Siddhanta Saraswati Tahakur: One-sided and biased critics may understand...
A possibility of mistaken distortions
by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura Prabhupāda Question 1: If Jesus Christ was a jagad-guru, and his instructions capable of bringing us deliverance, why do we need a spiritual master?...
Associates of Shree Chaitanya
From The Harmonist or SHREE SAJJANATOSHANI VOL XXIX JUNE 1931, Chaitanya-Era 445 NO. 5 SHREE Krishna Chaitanya is Shree Krishna Himself, The Associates of Shree Krishna Chaitanya are...
Srimad Bhagavatam–Lecture One
(These explanations of Srimad Bhagavatam were published in the weekly Gaudiya magazine during Srila Bhakti Siddhanta Sarasvati Thakura´s time. Later on, they were published in the monthly Gaudiya...
To Be a Vraja-vasi
On 8 October 1932 in Mathura, in the presence of pilgrims assembled for the upcoming Vraja-mandala Parikrama, Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati requested Srimad Bhakti Vilasa Gabhastinemi Maharaja to...
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...
Brother Sahajiyā are you Gauḍīya (2nd flow of our siddhānta-vicar–The appendix part of the book)
“Śrīla Prabodhānanda”—This Article was written by Gauḍīya Goṣṭhī Pathi Śrī Śrīla Bhakti Siddhānta Sarasvatī Gosvāmī Ṭhākura Prabhupāda to prove that Śrīla Prabodhānanda Sarasvatīpada and...
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 Thakur Bhaktivinod
( From The Harmonist, No.2 VOL.XXVI ) By Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Gosvami Thakur Prabhupada It is not possible to understand Thakur Bhaktivinode by dissociating him from Sri Chaitanya...
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...
Bhaktisiddhanta Vani
( Extract From The Harmonist 26.249–50 (April 1929); SCT 362–63.) Gaudiya Gosthi Patih Sri Srila Bhaktisiddhnata Sarasvati Thakur Gosvami Prabhupada told : Those who...