Once in Vrindavan My spiritual master was drinking soft drink and joking with his devotees. Counting his fingers Like you do when you chant the Gayatri Mantra. “Maha Jana Tapa Satya, Seven up” We all laughed as he was referring to going beyond the upper planetary systems of […]
Krishna Hey!
matta-simha-praya prabhu karila gamana premavese yaya kari’ nama-sankirtana Almost like a mad lion, Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu went on His tour filled with ecstatic love and performing sankirtana, chanting Krishna’s names as follows. The Lord chanted: Krishna! Krishna! Krishna! Krishna! Krishna! Krishna! Krishna! he Krishna! Krishna! Krishna! Krishna! […]
The One
yo māḿ paśyati sarvatra sarvaḿ ca mayi paśyati tasyāhaḿ na praṇaśyāmi sa ca me na praṇaśyati For one who sees Me everywhere and sees everything in Me, I am never lost, nor is he ever lost to Me. – Śrīmad Bhagavad gītā 6.30
Bhaktastakham
“The holy Devotees of Krishna cleanse the mirror of the heart and forever extinguish the fire of material suffering, that great conflagration in the forest of birth and death. As the evening lotus blooms in the moon’s cooling rays, the heart begins to blossom in the nectar of their association. […]
Vipralamba Forever
sunyayate maha-goshtham girindro ’jagarayatevyaghra-tundayate kundam jivatu-rahitasya me ~ Raghunath Das Goswami “In the absence of my Gurudev, Govardhan Hill, the representation of Kṛṣṇa Himself, seems to me just like a big python coming to devour me. And Rādhā Kuṇḍa, the holiest place of divinity of the Gauḍīya sampradāya, seems like […]
Descent of the Holy Name
suditasrita-janarti-rasaye ramya-cid-ghana sukha-svarupine nama gokula-mahotsavaya te krsna purna-vapuse namo namah O Hari-nama! O Krsna! You destroy the miseries of those who take Your shelter. For Your devotees You are very charming and delightful. Your divine form is the personification of revealed knowledge and bliss, and You are a festival for […]
Trance of the Gaurachandra
andhyā samāgama tapana magana keno hema ghana kole aparūpa kata pūraba parvvata suvarṇa chandramā bhāle As the sunset approaches, the sun shines on the mountain illuminating it like it has golden ornaments. This is especially so in the springtime. Then as the moon rises it also beautifies that mountain with its rays. suvarṇa […]
Brahma’s Dream
Cupid and the Kama-Gayatri The eternal Cupid, Shri Krishna, is eternally distinct from the material Cupid. The material Cupid produces pleasure only temporarily, but then lulls one into material dullness in just the next moment. But the eternal Cupid is ever-awakening and the transcendental pleasure is ever-increasing in ever-renewing developments. […]
Progression and Conceptual Adjustment
Seva – service, dedication, is the summum bonum of the teachings of the Vaisnava school, the third plane of life where every unit is a dedicating member in an organic whole. In such a normal adjustment, everyone mutually assists one another in their service to the center, the higher […]
Versions of Reality
Three people are on a mountain concentrating upon their consciousness, after some time one person experiences the true nature of their soul and experiences the bliss of that realisation, the second person not wishing to be outdone by the first, imitates the first person’s behaviour without the internal experience of the divine […]
Premāstra
Premāstra :~ The force of divinity that creates an explosion within one’s consciousness when in the association of a saint who is rich in divine love (prema). It is a piercing force like a arrow ( astra ) that steals the mind and one’s very self from the inside out. […]
Reality is Searching for itself
“Why did you stay away? Why have you been living away from home for so long? How was it possible for you? How could you bear My separation? You left Me, and you have been passing lives after lives without Me? Still, I know what trouble you took to […]
