Whether or not someone believes the universe was created by God or by forces of nature instead, without a doubt the universe is real. A real thing cannot come from nothing, so another thing must have caused the universe. What the other reality is is hard to say. And who are we to talk...

Carefully considering the knowledge I received directly from Srila Bhakti Rakshak Sridhar Maharaj, my initiating Guru, and my Param Guru Maharaj, Sri Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Goswami, I present a series of articles for consideration by swan-like Vaishnavas. These articles discuss the Lord’s power or Shakti, reflecting on the Shakti Tattva from different viewpoints. Further posts...

When the American war machine built a bomb that exploded at Hiroshima in 1945, splitting atoms of plutonium inside the bomb and releasing atomic energy, they produced a blast that was equivalent to 16 kilotons of TNT, obliterating the centre of that Japanese city. This explosion showed that atoms are not indivisible. It proved...

Salutations to you, O Devi Maya, Goddess Narayani, who abides as intelligence within the heart of all beings, giving each living being their own views, their rewards, and final liberation. (Markandeya Purana, 91.8) Srila Sridhar Dev Goswami Maharaj one day recited many parts of the Markandeya Purana, Chapter 85, to me. I was most...

Before the billions of worlds in the stars were forming at the start the power and potential of fire and water was unmanifest. There was no distinction between any positive and negative values. Geometric shapes did not occupy spaces, partition or divide things,...

by Muralidhar Das. Carefully considering the knowledge I received directly from Srila Bhakti Rakshak Sridhar Maharaj, my initiating Guru, I now feel I understand something about the mysterious state of consciousness “I am” that exists inside me, and beyond me. I know that when sleepers awake, the awareness “I am” encounters new landscapes and...

ULTIMATUM | TO BN ACHARYA MAHARAJA December 6, 2013 by goswami.  Dear Srila Acharya Maharaja, My dandabat pranam, Forgive my bluntness, but you have run out of time. If I catch your bray, its as follows: You expect the members of the Primary Trust Board to endanger the lives of themselves and their...

By Sri Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Goswami Prabhupada The first act of new-born infant Krishna recorded by the Bhagavatam is the slaying of the demoness Putana. The demoness Putana was deputed by King Kansa to kill all the newborn babies of the realm of Braja where he was informed by the Divine sage Narada that his...

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Shiva once waged war against Sri Krishna, because Shiva’s compassion for Banasura his worshiper influenced his judgment. His feelings of compassion misled him. Srila Sridhar Maharaj explained this to me one day, telling me directly that compassion can be the gateway to samsara. In the case of Bhisma, his compassion or kindness towards Duryodhana...

Question: I always understood that by practising sādhana-bhakti, one comes to the spontaneous, or rāga, platform. But I’ve heard here at Śrī Chaitanya Sāraswat Maṭh that our line is rāga-mārg from the beginning. Śrīla Bhakti Sundar Govinda Maharaj: Yes, from the beginning. There are two mārgas : one is rāga, and the other is...

Śrīla Bhakti Sundar Govinda Dev-Goswāmī Mahārāj address to the devotees in Australia on the last night of his visit during his first world tour “We are not here to make a building, or a Temple, or anything like that. We want to make everyone‘s heart a Temple. We want that Mahāprabhu’s Mission will be...

Zarathustra is a very ancient philosopher. His philosophy never found followers in India until relatively recently, but Zarathustra preached successfully in Iran long ago. It was by the influence of Zarathustra’s ideas that Satan, an equally powerful rival to God, first made his imaginary appearance in the religion of the Jewish people and...

Srila Bhakti Sundar Govinda Maharaj: Why do I say “Joy Maa Kali” from time to time? I should not say why, because if you hear then you will feel very shy. It is because it is not appropriate to discuss Sri Sri Radha Krishna’s pastimes in the place where we are living at present....

The life and teaching of Sri Krishna Chaitanya are not merely the concern of a curious sect that paint lines on their foreheads with coloured ochre. The knowledge Sri Krishna Chaitanya revealed to the world is the purest, radiant spiritual knowledge. A knowledge that reveals the truth about this life we are all struggling...