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In this Pandemic situation the number of patients on the rise, human society needs an introspection about what's going wrong about it. The series of two articles would help analyze the same.…
Śrīla Rāmānujācārya writes in his book Vedārtha-saṅgraha: evaṁ-vidha-parābhakti-svarūpa-jñāna-viśeṣasyotpādakaḥ pūrvoktāharahar upacīyamāna-jñāna-pūrvaka-karmānugṛhīta-bhakti-yoga eva; yathoktaṁ bhagavatā parāśareṇa — varṇāśrameti. nikhila-jagad-uddhāraṇāyāvanitale ’vatīrṇaṁ para-brahma-bhūtaḥ puruṣottamaḥ svayam etad uktavān — “svakarma-nirataḥ siddhiṁ yathā vindati tac chṛṇu” “yataḥ pravṛttir bhūtānāṁ yena…
In 1942 Srila Prabhupada experienced the ''UNIVERSAL FORM-VISVARUPA'' of the Supreme Personality of Godhead KRSNA and heard the deafening sound '' chiiiii-goww ''--- Devotee: Prabhupada, we were reading earlier this morning in…
Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī describes pure devotional service as anyābhilāṣitā-śūnyaṁ jñāna-karmādy-anāvṛtam. One should not worship the Supreme Personality of Godhead to fulfill some material desire for success in fruitive activities or mental speculation. To serve…
Varnasrama — Exceptions for Engagement Against One’s Nature emergency work and desired activities are the two exceptions to routine work Three Subdivisions of Prescribed Duties As far as prescribed duties are concerned,…
This past December’s Prabhupada Marathon proved to be amazing for many temples. Pune was the No. 1 temple in the world, with 663,371 book points. Who would have thought twenty years ago…
Indian Consulate General, Mr. Sanjay Panda, received a Hindi Bhagavad Gita in San Francisco during Indian Republic Day celebrations.
There are five branches of irreligion, appropriately known as irreligion [vidharma], religious principles for which one is unfit [para-dharma], pretentious religion [ābhāsa], analogical religion [upadharma] and cheating religion [chala-dharma]. One who is…
Hare Krishna, We are very happy to share that taking the teachings from "Srimad Bhagavad Gita" and by the permission from Ujjain IG - Mr Rakesh Gupta (IPS) HG Vrajendra Krishna Prabhu…
tathaiva rājann uru-gārhamedha- vitāna-vidyoru-vijṛmbhiteṣu na veda-vādeṣu hi tattva-vādaḥ prāyeṇa śuddho nu cakāsti sādhuḥ Here two words are significant — veda-vāda and tattva-vāda. According to
