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Bhaktivinod –Gaura –Sarasvati Vani Seva Center already have started Nama Sankirtan Yagya on the eve of Akshaya Tritiya tithi
The ceremony of the Nama Sankirtan Yagya together with Harinam Japa Yagya was observed at the Bhaktivinod –Gaura- Sarasvati Vani Seva Center on the auspicious occasion of Aksaya Tritiya tithi with full enthusiasm (It was éclat success). A lecture on the subject—“Sankirtan yagya in Kali Yuga” was delivered there by His Holiness Srila Shyam Das Babaji Maharaja. Srila Maharaj started with the sloka
Society – Community – Math
The principle of a religious community is based on a form of sublimated selfishness covered under the mask of “love” for one’s “Godbrother” or even for “God”. But is it possible at all to call an attitude of expecting reward for some pseudo-renunciation of some selfish interests by the name of “love”? Practically everything is done on payment. Even religions that contain some hint at the implicit truth of nature of the spiritual Subject, objects and their relation, follow this method of ethical and emotional materialism in their practices. We are expecting material profit and are strengthened in the tendency by the injunctions of the Scriptures of these religions.
One Must Correctly Identify a Vaishnava
It is insufficient merely to dwell on how much the Vaishnavas love us or consider us to be their own. This is because the personal satisfaction that comes from thinking we are loved by the Vaishnavas is nothing but an external symptom of the desire for sense gratification, which lurks in the deepest region of our hearts. If, instead, we begin to measure how much we have become bound in affection to the Vaishnavas, it indicates that we are on our way to attaining the very perfection of all desires. Until we can identify Vaishnavas and develop an intimacy with them in which we regard them as our bosom friends, we will be unable to realise the true nature of their affection for us.
At present, there is a dearth of love, affection, and goodness
By 𝑺́𝒓𝒊̄ 𝑺́𝒓𝒊̄𝒎𝒂𝒅 𝑩𝒉𝒂𝒌𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒅𝒂̄𝒏𝒕𝒂 𝑽𝒂̄𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒂 𝑮𝒐𝒔𝒗𝒂̄𝒎𝒊̄ 𝑴𝒂𝒉𝒂̄𝒓𝒂̄𝒋𝒂 “To tell the truth, seeing the present state [of the world] I do not have the desire to go anywhere anymore. Man’s heart is extremely polluted. No one is accustomed to seeing the good in others. Hatred,...
Akṣaya Trītīyā and Candana-yātrā
If one seeks wealth and performs charity on this tithi [with this motivation], one will never experience any deficiency of wealth in his whole life. His wealth will become inexhaustible; but it does not mean he will attain Vaikuṇṭha. With respect to the example above, the term ‘akṣaya’ implies that such an individual will never experience any deficit of wealth in this life.
Try to understand the difference between Bhaktivinoda-dhara and Non-Bhaktivinod-dhara
The day we can realize the difference between Bhaktivinod-dhara and Non-Bhaktivinod-dhara, that day must be a green signal for us. This I can promise you blindly by touching the Lotus Feet of Srila Prabhupada and Bhaktivinod Thakur. Be sure that I am not going to speak anything out of Prabhupada. I am always going to speak what Prabhupada told, so there is no place to fight with me unnecessarily.
Recognizing a Praṇayi-bhakta
Although a praṇayi-bhakta may be present before us, and though we may personally witness his conduct, we will be unable to recognize him until we become completely sincere and surrender ourselves to his will. Without sincerity and surrender, we will not realize that his activities are those of a mahā-bhāgavata, and not of an ordinary devotee.
Harmonising Instructions of the Upper House
And one thing we must always keep in mind is that we can’t investigate all of the subtle, higher knowledge as a subjective researcher. Rather, according to the degree of our saranagati, our surrender, the Truth will come down to make Himself known to us.
Levels of God Realisation
The gradation of transcendental realisation has been explained by Srila Sanatan Goswami in his book Brhad Bhagavatamrta. There we find that in the course of the realisation of suddha-bhakti, pure devotional service, the great sage Narad Muni is visiting different places. First, he encounters karma-misra bhakti, or devotional service mixed with fruitive activities.
Darśana-Śāstra (Philosophical Treatise)
In the Chāndogya Upaniṣad, in the narrative of Prajāpati’s teachings to Indra and Virocana, it is clear that Virocana accepted the gross Mleccha mentality and considered this material body as the ātmā, teaching his students the system of preservation of the material body after death. Apparently, his Egyptian followers taught the practice of mummification in their homeland. In other Mleccha countries, by changing that custom a little, burial has become the general rule. As scientific śāstra develops, all these things will become clearer.