Lord Jagannath’s Ratha Yatra When Lord Krishna became overwhelmed with ecstatic love upon hearing the glories of His devotees, His body transformed into the form of Lord Jagannath. Lord Jagannath represents Krishna’s ‘golita’, or ‘molten love’ form. Sri Jagannath Dev’s Ratha Yatra festival is a very significant festival for us all. We attend this festival…
All glories to Sri Guru & Sri Gauranga The Greatness of Devotion at Gaura-Dham Since 1999, Sri Gopinath Gaudiya Math (located in Mayapur) has been conducting an annual Navadwip Dham Parikrama under the auspices of His Divine Grace Srila Bhakti Pramode Goswami Thakur. Approximately eleven months prior to the 535th Anniversary of the birth of…
Know the importance of wearing tulasi neck beads, in this kariyuga (Iron Age)
Power of Tilaka The meaning of putting Tilaka is to go upwards or make advancement in spiritual life. After becoming purified through a purificatory process, a living entity accepts proper renunciation from his family life. But until he decorates his body with the marks of Tilaka, he does not get any result from undergoing the…
Haridas Thakur’s Divine Disappearance Srila Haridas Thakur appeared in this world in the village of Budhan, in the present district of Sat-Kira, which was previously a subdivision of Khulna, Bangladesh. He was born in 1450 A.D. And his parents named him Mohammed Sikander Khan. He renounced family life at a young age and converted to…
Competitive Spirit If we study the example set by all our previous acharyas, we will find that competition is not a religious principle. Nowadays, however, we see that in the Vaishnava Sampradaya, especially the Sri Brahma Madhva Gaudiya Saraswata Sampradaya, almost all societies, and acharyas are trying to show that they are better than the…
Surrender to Krishna Gives Life In the Bhagavad-Gita (18.66), Sri Krishna told Arjuna, “Abandon all varieties of religion (sarva-dharman) and take exclusive shelter of Me. I shall deliver you from the reactions of your sinful activities. Do not fear.” sarva-dharman indicates “all kinds of religious attitudes.” This means that we must without hesitation reject all…
The Departure of Bhakti Charu Swami Maharaj Our sampradaya’s prominent personality, His Divine Grace Srila Bhakti Charu Swami Maharaja, physically left all of us on the 4th of July 2020. I feel a lot of separation, remembering our association from the previous days. I witnessed how Srila Charu Maharaja used to come to my spiritual…
Pure Devotion – Wish of Every Devotee It is sad to say that in our contemporary Gaudiya Vaishnava community, many of us are Vaishnavas in name only. We make a show of devotion, but what we are calling devotion is in fact the observance of a few rules of moral behavior at best. In essence,…
Vipralambha – True Separation of Divine Love According to the revealed scriptures, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Lord Sri Krishna, is eternal and His pure devotees are also eternal. But the question arises that how can the pure devotees who are in a material body be eternal? Since we all know that this material body…
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