Guest (2): My son who lives in America is very Westernized, and as he picked up Gītā, and he tried to understand it, now he now is so much a follower of Gītā that every single letter he quotes Gītā to anyone whom he writes. Prabhupāda: Which Gītā he hasContinue Reading
Incidents mentioned in the Vedic literatures, such as the Puranas, Mahabharata and Ramayana are factual historical narrations that took place sometime in the past, although not in any chronological order. Such historical facts, being instructive for ordinary men, were assorted without chronological reference. Besides that, they happen on different planets,Continue Reading
Brahmana is a highest in varnasrama not because he may be born in a brahmana family, but because: vaiśeṣyāt prakṛtiśraiṣṭhyānniyamasya ca dhāraṇāt | saṃskārasya viśeṣācca varṇānāṃ brāhmaṇaḥ prabhuḥ || Manu samhita 10.3 || The Brāhmaṇa is the lord of the varnas, on account of his distinctive qualities, of the superiorityContinue Reading
For more kindly read this: akincana.net/tag/mundane-welfare Indian man: [break] …is there are social act which this Hare Kṛṣṇa movement has taken? Prabhupāda: What is the best social activity? Our is the best… Indian man: Serving the poor and the natives… Prabhupāda: Everyone is poor. Who is rich? First of allContinue Reading
This essay by Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarawati Thakur…what an excellent find! Just imagine the misfortune of the people of kaliyuga that there are was just one website, whose creators were fortunate and merciful enough to have made available online this essay by Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarawati Thakur. This essay should have beenContinue Reading
Astrology decides (shows) what your body is meant for. It’s a duty of parents to rise and educate child in this direction. Towards ideal and predestined natural qualities. In a case of daughter – that’s easier – stri dharma do not depend on varna dharma, it’s separate. Varna of daughterContinue Reading
vata-vasana rsayah sramanah urdhva-manthinah brahmakhyam dhama te yanti santah samnyasino ‘malah vayam tv iha maha-yogin bhramantah karma-vartmasu tvad-vartaya tarisyamas tavakair dustaram tamah (bha. 11.6.47-48) “Great sages labouring hard under stringent regulative principles for salvation by suspending semina onwards and thus remaining naked, as well as successful mendicants who have attainedContinue Reading
As aspiring seekers of the truth, we must look for what is actually real by taking shelter of disciplic succession. “Taking shelter” means always following closely in the footsteps of our spiritual predecessors and whatever we say concerning this Krsna consciousness philosophy is identical with what we have submissively heardContinue Reading
In the pandemonium of which among the 330 million demigods of the Vedas to choose and worship and India’s polytheism being one gambit of an anti-Hindu person’s unscrupulous attempts to put down Vedic culture (varnashrama dharma), this book written by Gokula Chandra Prabhu, the disciple of Tridandi Sannyasi Pramam PujyaContinue Reading