Category: Reality

Satyam – Shivam – Sundaram

Satyam – Shivam – Sundaram Act I – IV 2016 Acrylic on paper 190 x 140mm This work is symbolises a scene in the conceptual reality described in the Brahma-saṁhitā, where the womb of Māyā is being penetrated by the glance of Śrī Viṣṇu. The fundamental fabric of reality revealed in the Veda is consciousness, […]

Svaha

All the Vedic mantras say we must sacrifice ourselves in the plane of dedication. In the Vedic mantra, svāhā means, “First dedicate yourself. See to your own self first.” Kṛṣṇa says in Bhagavad-gītā (6.5), “Ātmaiva hy ātmano bandhur ātmaiva ripur ātmanaḥ: the mind is the conditioned soul’s best friend or his worst enemy.” We must […]

Seven Up

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 the Vedic cosmology and entering the realm of Vaikuntha and beyond […]

Krishna Hey!

matta-simha-praya prabhu karila gamanapremavese 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! heKrishna! Krishna! Krishna! Krishna! Krishna! Krishna! Krishna! heKrishna! Krishna! Krishna! Krishna! Krishna! Krishna! […]

The One

yo māḿ paśyati sarvatrasarvaḿ ca mayi paśyatitasyāhaḿ na praṇaśyāmisa 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.

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. And at last the soul […]

Vipralamba Forever

vyaghra-tundayate kundam jivatu-rahitasya me Purport: “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 a tiger’s mouth coming to devour me. They are giving me […]

Descent of the Holy Name

suditasrita-janarti-rasayeramya-cid-ghana sukha-svarupinenama gokula-mahotsavaya tekrsna purna-vapuse namo nam 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 the residents of Gokula. I bow down again […]

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 recipient, the highest entity. I saw […]