Questions and Answers

So how to cleanse your heart and create conducive environment?

By restricting oneself…by having minimum interaction with the visible world around us. By accepting oneself as a sadhaka with only one desire “When will my desire to serve you Oh divine couple  be fulfilled? “. This desire if stoked deeply in the heart will serve to reduce to ashes all that is non-conducive to Bhakti. Continue reading “Questions and Answers”

Our Ultimate destination

When we undertake Hari nama from a God-realized master of the Gaudiya Paramapara we have this surety that we are not orphans any more. That the Supreme Lord has designed for us eternal life from where there is no more fall. One who has taken Hari nama from such a master has to firmly bear this in mind and perform unabated Sadhana. When by divine arrangement ; Continue reading “Our Ultimate destination”

Difference between Rasa and Tattwa

This is a very important topic on Bhakti. Generally when we discuss Bhakti we refer to Sastras but do not look at the practical side of how Sastras can be applied in “real” life and make it work for us. This topic of Rasa and Tattwa have to be dealt with objectively to see how these two aspects work to make us good devotees.

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Harinam, Deeksha and Conception of the highest – Parivaras of Radhakund

Harinaam Samskaar: This is a terminology used by the Parivars. (The 6th Parivar I missed out is the Gadadhara Parivar which is popularly found in Radha Kunda, Jagannatha Puri and Nabadweep).During this process Srila Gurudeva hands over the Hari Nama by means of “Shabda Brahma” to the disciple

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Harinaam, Diksha and Conception of the highest

References for the below article:

  1. The Bhakti Trilogy – Translation of Bengali writings by Srila Visvanath Chakravarthy Thakura
  2. Prema Bhakti Chandrika – Narottama Thakhura Mahasaya
  3. Raga Vartma Candrika – Visvanath Chakravarthy Thakura
  4. Walking with a saint – Morning Walks with Srila Narayana Maharaj
  5. Elucidations about Siddha Deha by Gurudeva – Param Pujya Premdasa Babaji Maharaj

There is a hell of a confusion amongst many people I met in the past about initiation and the various connotations of the word initiation itself with respect to thevarious institutions. I shall try to elaborate on the topics based on a study of the above books and clarifications provided to me by Srila Gurudeva himself.

There are these following terms : Initiation, Hari Nama Samskar, Deeksha, Brahmaniyam , Siddha Pranali or Guru Pranali. Continue reading “Harinaam, Diksha and Conception of the highest”

True Devotional Service

The movement of Sriman Mahaprabhu needs to be understood in the proper perspective as to “What is exactly meant by devotional service”. In simple terms anything done for the pleasure of Lord Krishna alone is termed as Devotional Service. This is the general understanding and rightly the correct understanding. However the “mood” is where the entire ideology can get mangled and what we call pleasure of Krishna can turn into a saga of  “unending hypocritical nightmare”.

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The Parampara Line in Gaudiya Vaishnavism

Sriman Chaitanya Mahaprabhu established the Acintya-Bheda-Bhed principle based on 4 major Vaishnavic principles namely Shuddha Advaita, Dvaita Advaita,Vishishta Advaita and Dvaita of the 4 Acaryas namely  Vallabhacarya and/or Visnuswami ,Nimbaditya, Ramanuja and Madhwa and Himself adopted the Brahma Madhwa Sampradaya , the non-Tattvavadi school called Gaudiya Vaishnavism because this thought emerged from Gauda Continue reading “The Parampara Line in Gaudiya Vaishnavism”