Category: General

It is very clear that the relationships that we pursue on this material world are on the bodily platform be it the relationship between mother and son, father and daughter, husband and wife, brother and sister or between friend and friend. Continue reading “Vaishnava Sambandha”

India imports many products of consumerism from the west and it also exports something called “Positivity” or “Be Positive” from the west. This has been happening since the past twenty five odd years. People with the so-called scientific bent of mind have been relentlessly playing on the “Be Positive” zither for pepping up folks and running an alternate market which flourishes on conning people. Unfortunately today it is a multi-million dollar market in India. Thanks to the western education that we have been exposed to! On a similar note, things like Creative Visualization, “Think Positive” and other paradigms have flooded the Indian “spiritual market” scene. It is indeed “sad” but there is hope. Continue reading “Positivity and Bhakti”

Every living entity on the face of the planet is under the regime of Karma. Especially human beings are the species, which on the basis of Sastric facts established the connection between Karma and the course of life. Continue reading “Despite Body, Mind and Intelligence”

The Supreme Lord is the creator of all that is conceivable and also the inconceivable. This is a true statement of the Srimad Bhagavatam. One of the names of the Lord is “Sarveswara” or the Lord of everything that can be. Thus the Creator and Creation are to be seen as two sides of the same coin. One comes to know the glory of the Creator through His creation. Respect for the creation itself qualifies one to know the Creator.
Continue reading “Trust”

The Project of Krishna Bhajana is for the deep experience. Our senses are addicted to sight, hearing, sound, touching, and tasting. When one is committed to the cause of serving Krishna in the absolute sense it becomes natural that the object world of sense perception interests us no more. Continue reading “Deep Experience”

The world is spinning and so is our mind. The whole of existence is in the wake of spin. However if we analyze closely we will observe that the phenomenal world is the spin of consciousness. Continue reading “From Gross to Subtle”

The Gaudiya Vaishnavas of Radha Kunda wear the Greyish black tilaka of the Parivaras which represents the highest ideals in Bhakti. However in the tilaka itself there are two varieties that we usually find. Continue reading “Mood of Black Tilaka”

The other day, I was at the Mathura train station to see off Rajeshwari Dasiji (my newest God-sister) and Subala Charan Dasji. Rohini Dasi was there with me in the car. As I took my position on the Car-wheel to drive back to Vrindavana, I suddenly heard somebody greet me “Radhe Radhe”. Continue reading “Tryst with a saint”

The anecdote of Prakashanand Saraswatipada and Sriman Chaitanya Mahaprabhu is the very inspiration of Srila Gurudeva’s mood. Srila Gurudeva feels that the example that the Kaliyuga Avatar set during the course of this Leela should be the mood of every Acarya in our Parampara. Srila Gurudeva says that unless the Acarya accepts this mood of Sriman Mahaprabhu real kripa cannot reach the hearts of the bound living entities. Continue reading “Mercy on Prakashanand”

The mission of Sriman Chaitanya Mahaprabhu had already been decided even before His advent.Yet for the sake of Leela, Sriman Mahaprabhu had sweet transactions with His devotees. In that context even the Leelas in the jungle of Jharkhand had its resolution even much before the advent of Sriman Mahaprabhu. Continue reading “Ecstatic Moods – Charan Pahari Leela”