Oh Gurudeva I am enmeshed in this worldly affair. I realize that my own mind and my conception about my own self and the world around me are false yet I am forced by habit to feel confident about it. Kindly infuse into me your grace and help me understand the real purport of the word “surrender”. Continue reading “Confessions to Srila Gurudeva”
Spirituality and the Corporate
Spirituality and Religion are two different sides of the same coin and two different paths to be traversed. Religion is the rituals observed and taught to us right from the childhood and spirituality is never taught in any schools or colleges Continue reading “Spirituality and the Corporate”
Basis of the Absolute
Kaliyuga is a very powerful Yuga. One way of looking at this Yuga is that this is an age where the personality of Kali is buoyant and thus considering the corrosive nature of the personality of Kali, everything in this age right from intelligence Continue reading “Basis of the Absolute”
Guru Seva
The Lord can be attained in many ways. However one philosophy that Shastra exhorts invariably is service to the Spiritual master. In the beginning when one is in search of the truth one takes help of Shastra and Vaishnavas. Continue reading “Guru Seva”
In Pursuit – Part Six
Avidya or Ignorance is the main obstruction a practitioner faces during bhajana. The main basis of this ignorance is vices caused by past good deeds, vices caused by past offensive deeds and vices caused by one’s Continue reading “In Pursuit – Part Six”
Bhakti Tattva – Part Fourteen
A god-brother of Lord Caitanya’s Guru who was called Ramachandra Puri criticized the Lord’s eating of Prasadam. The Lord, for the sake of setting a social norm immediately reduced His intake of prasadam. The Vaishnavas were very worried about the Lord and hence the Lord increased a bit of His intake bringing it to half as much as He used to take in His early days. Continue reading “Bhakti Tattva – Part Fourteen”
Chaitanya-ism
Bhakti is the essence of our eternal relationship with the Lord. As living entities we have been separated parts and parcels of the Lord. Bhakti is that process which revives the lost link with the Lord. The world is populated with myriads of such living entities that have been traversing the eight point four million species Continue reading “Chaitanya-ism”
Unhooking the Mind
Bhakti is the process of submitting our mind and emotions to the service of the Lord. When one serves with the mind , it means service. Merely involving the senses and things external bereft of the mind engagement does not in itself represent service. Continue reading “Unhooking the Mind”
Lost Love
Every individual in this world, some time or other has fallen in love. Even if it were just one-sided, an emotion simply felt in the heart, every single person still has experienced this emotion. Continue reading “Lost Love”
Sentimentalism and Bhakti
Many times people mix up sheer emotionalism and Bhakti. Many times we find reckless sentimentalism wearing the garb of Bhakti or devotion. One needs to understand that such loud display of emotions is only a disturbance in society. Loud emotional display has always been linked with Bhakti over aeons Continue reading “Sentimentalism and Bhakti”
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