taḿ śrīmat-kṛṣṇa-caitanya-devaḿ vande jagad-gurumyasyānukampayā śvāpimahābdhiḿ santaret sukhamLet me offer my respectful obeisances unto the spiritual master of the entire world, Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya Mahāprabhu, by whose mercy even a dog can swim
arjuna uvācapaśyāmi devāḿs tava deva dehesarvāḿs tathā bhūta-viśeṣa-sańghānbrahmāṇam īśaḿ kamalāsana-sthamṛṣīḿś ca sarvān uragāḿś ca divyānArjuna said: My dear Lord Kṛṣṇa, I see assembled in Your body all the demigods and various other living entitie
vande gurūn īśa-bhaktānīśam īśāvatārakāntat-prakāśāḿś ca tac-chaktīḥkṛṣṇa-caitanya-saḿjñakamI offer my respectful obeisances unto the spiritual masters, the devotees of the Lord, the Lord's incarnations, His plenary portions, His energies and the pri
kunty uvācanamasye puruṣaḿ tvādyamīśvaraḿ prakṛteḥ paramalakṣyaḿ sarva-bhūtānāmantar bahir avasthitamŚrīmatī Kuntī said: O Kṛṣṇa, I offer my obeisances unto You because You are the original personality and are unaffected by the qualities of the mater
manye tvāḿ kālam īśānamanādi-nidhanaḿ vibhumsamaḿ carantaḿ sarvatrabhūtānāḿ yan mithaḥ kaliḥMy Lord, I consider Your Lordship to be eternal time, the supreme controller, without beginning and end, the all-pervasive one. In distributing Your mercy, Yo
In many places devotional service has been compared to a creeper.One has to sow the seed of the devotional creeper, bhakti-latā, within his heart.As he regularly hears and chants, the seed will fructify and gradually growinto a mature plant and then
The Krsna Book: Worshiping Govardhana Hill.While engaged with the brāhmaṇas who were too much involved in the performance of Vedic sacrifices, Kṛṣṇa and Balarāma also saw that the cowherd men were preparing a similar sacrifice in order to pacify Indr
Srimad-arca-stavah.PRAYERS TO THE DEITY FORM OF THE LORD.FROM SRI KRSNA LILA STAVA.(1)pāṣāṇa-dhātu-mṛd-dāru-sikatā-maṇi-lekhajāsādā te prātikṛtir acalā vā calā prabho(2)śālagrāma-śilā cātha yatra kutrāpy avasthitāyādṛśī tādṛśī vāpi bhaktair bhaktyābh
By constant chanting, then one come to realize Parabrahman (the Supreme Brahman), or the Absolute Truth.Any person, under any circumstances, can reach an elevated state of consciousness by properly hearing the Bhagavad-gītā, and then, by constantly c
(1)paramātman vāsudevapradhāna-purūśeśvarasarva-jṇāna-kriya-śakti-dātre tubhyaḿ namo namaḥ(2)hṛt-padma-karṇikā-vāsagopāla puruśottamanārāyaṇa hṛśikeśanamo 'ntaryāmine `stu teTRANSLATION1) O Krsna, O all-pervading Supresoul, O Controller of the unmani
Mantra: "man" means "mind" and "tra" means "to deliver".Thus a mantra is a transcendental sound vibration with potency to liberate the mind from material conditioning."Hare" is the vocative case (addressing form) of "Hari". This is another name for K
FROM JAIVA DHARMA BY SRILA BHAKTIVINODA THAKURA.Vijaya: Please make us understand all these offenses by explaining each sloka completely.Babaji: The first sloka describes two offenses. It is a great offense to blaspheme, censure, or disrespect bhakta
There are no hard and fast rules for chanting the Hare Krishna maha-mantra.One can chant anywhere, anytime, in any situation.In fact, the Caitanya-caritamrta (Antya-lila, 20.18) describes that chanting the holy name at any time or place, even during
Once the child, Caitanya Mahāprabhu, chastised His mother with His soft hand, and His mother pretended to faint. Seeing this, the Lord began to cry.The neighbouring ladies told Him, "Dear child, please bring a coconut from somewhere, and then Your mo
In the Caitanya-bhāgavata this pastime is described as follows: The Lord, with His beautiful eyes, would cry, but He would stop immediately upon hearing the Hare Kṛṣṇa mahā-mantra. When the ladies, understanding the fun of the Lord, discovered that H
