भगवद्गीता यथारूप 108 महत्त्वपूर्ण श्लोक

अध्याय नौ परम गुह्य ज्ञान

मया ततमिदं सर्वं जगदव्यक्तमुर्तिना ।

मत्स्थानि सर्वभूतानि न चाहं तेष्ववस्थितः ।। 4 ।।

मया– मेरे द्वारा;ततम्– व्याप्त है;इदम्– यह;सर्वम्– समस्त;जगत्– दृश्य जगत;अव्यक्त-मूर्तिना– अव्यक्त रूप द्वारा;मत्-स्थानि– मुझमें;सर्व-भूतानि– समस्त जीव;न– नहीं;च– भी;अहम्– मैं;तेषु– उनमें;अवस्थितः– स्थित।

भावार्थ : यह सम्पूर्ण जगत् मेरे अव्यक्त रूप द्वारा व्याप्त है। समस्त जीव मुझमें हैं, किन्तु मैं उनमें नहीं हूँ।

तात्पर्य : भगवान् की अनुभूति स्थूल

In around 1503 AD, Raghunath Bhattacharya appeared as the son of Tapana Mishra, a dear devotee of Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu who hailed from the village of Ramapura on the banks of the Padma River in East Bengal.

Mahaprabhu first met Tapana Mishra when he went to East Bengal during his career as a teacher of Sanskrit. Tapana Mishra had studied many scriptures but was still bewildered about the purpose of life and what to do to attain it. He had a dream in which he was instructed by a Brahmin to go

By Sri Radha Govinda Dasi  

ISKCON Community Life, a division of the ISKCON Congregational Development Ministry, recognized the outstanding contributions to devotee care of three very special individuals by giving them the following awards:

Trailblazer in Community Wellness Award – Rambhoru Devi (ACBSP)
Director/Founder & Training Supervisor, Karuna Care Association. After 26 years of international pioneer outreach work (while raising two sons), Rambhoru Devi completed her B.A. in Religious Stud

The Hindu Mandirs Empowerment Council (formerly known as the Hindu Mandirs Executive Conference) held its annual gathering of North American Hindu Leaders representing all the various Hindu Mandirs and Organizations across the region. ISKCON leaders were among the presenters at the September 27th to 29th, 2024 conference, held in Raleigh, North Carolina.

HMEC is the largest annual conference of its kind, welcoming hundreds of past and present executives, community leaders, and scholars of Mandi

PLEASE COME AND JOIN OUR COURSES GIVEN DURING JANUARY 2025....!

Click on the link below:
COURSE SCHEDULE FOR MAYAPUR.pdf

SCHEDULE AND VENUE

 * All courses will be offered this year from Monday to Friday, 10:30am to 1:00pm - NOT IN THE AFTERNOONS LIKE PREVIOUS YEARS.

 * It will take place in the class room of the Vaisnava Academy, 2nd floor (opposite the Goshala in Mayapur)

 * 30th of Dec to 3rd of Jan 2025:
 Mentorship in Krishna Consciousness

 * 6th to 10th of January 2025:
 Meeting Death wi

Today is the auspicious disappearance day of three great acharyas in the Gaudiya-Vaishnava sampradaya: Srila Raghunatha dasa Gosvami, Srila Raghunatha Bhatta Gosvami, and Srila Krishnadasa Kaviraja Gosvami. We shall read about Srila Raghunatha Bhatta Gosvami from Srila Krishnadasa Kaviraja’s Sri Caitanya-caritamrta.

Sri Caitanya-caritamrta, Antya-lila, Chapter Thirteen: “Pastimes with Jagadananda Pandita and Raghunatha Bhatta.”

TEXT 89

etha tapana-misra-putra raghunatha-bhattacarya
prabhure de

Raghunatha dasa Gosvami used to reside on the bank of Sri Radha-kunda. At the time Radha-kunda was just a small pond of water, and therefore sometimes Raghunatha would meditate on enlarging the kund. Then he would chastise himself for desiring something which would require a large amount of money.

Around this time one very wealthy Seth underwent great austerity by walking to Badarikasrama in the Himalayas. Arriving there he very reverently worshiped Sri Badrinarayana and offered much wealth at H

भगवद्गीता यथारूप 108 महत्त्वपूर्ण श्लोक

अध्याय नौ परम गुह्य ज्ञान

राजविद्या राजगुह्यं पवित्रमिदमुत्तमम् ।

प्रत्यक्षावगमं धर्म्यं सुसुखं कर्तुमव्ययम् ।। 2 ।।

राज-विद्या– विद्याओं का राजा;राज-गुह्यम्– गोपनीय ज्ञान का राजा;पवित्रम्– शुद्धतम;इदम्– यह;उत्तमम्– दिव्य;प्रत्यक्ष– प्रत्यक्ष अनुभव से;अवगमम्– समझा गया;धर्म्यम्– धर्म;सु-सुखम्– अत्यन्त सुखी;कर्तुम्– सम्पन्न करने में;अव्ययम्– अविनाशी।

भावार्थ : यह ज्ञान सब विद्याओं का राजा है, जो समस्त रहस्यों में सर्वाधिक गोपनीय है। यह परम शुद्ध है और चूँकि यह

By Atma Tattva Das

Sanga, service, and spiritual adventure awaited devotee youth in the sunny environment of San Diego. The inaugural West Coast summer retreat for The Sanga Initiative (TSI) saw 45 attendees from 24 cities across seven states join together at ISKCON San Diego for an immersive and energizing spiritual experience. A dedicated team of organizers led by Abhirama Thakura Das, Braja Priya Devi Dasi, Kapiduach, and Sruthi worked diligently to organize this experience for West Coast you

By Kulavati Krishnapriya Devi Dasi

ISKCON Sacramento recently held a Devotee Care Course from September 13th to 15th, 2024, facilitated by Radha Gopinath Das and Damodar Das. The event, which was attended by 15 participants, was designed to deepen their understanding of the role of devotee care in sustaining a loving and vibrant spiritual community.

Throughout the three-day course, the facilitators explored key insights into what it truly means to care for others within the ISKCON community. Pa

What a pleasure it is to hear from an expert on the early days of the Hare Krishna movement as it took hold in the U.S.’s west coast in the summer of love, 1967. Guru Das has come to grace us with his presence and making us feel present in those olden golden times. He was a former civil rights activist but became a radical in the Vaishnav tradition under the watchful guard of the spiritual master, Prabhupada. 

Guru Das, who is now in his 80’s was an instant hit with our youth.

Srimad-Bhagavatam (Bhagavata Purana) – Canto 2: The Cosmic Manifestation – SB 2.9: Answers by Citing the Lord’s Version

Frustration gives way to illumination during one extraordinary night in the life of a prostitute.

While prostitutes are often depicted negatively in traditional literature, some religious texts depict them positively as testimonies to the transformational potency of divine grace. Thus, in the Gospel is found a story of a prostitute (considered by some to be Mary Magdalene) who was redeemed by Jesus. In Gaudiya Vaishnava literature such as the Chaitanya Charitamrita comes the story of the saint

By His Divine Grace Srila A.C.B. Swami Prabhupada

sri bhagavan uvaca
abhayam sattva-samsuddhir
jnana-yoga-vyavasthitih
danam damas ca yajnas ca
svadhyayas tapa arjavam

ahimsa satyam akrodhas
tyagah santir apaisunam
daya bhutesv aloluptvam
mardavam hrir acapalam

tejah ksama dhrtih saucam
adroho natimanita
bhavanti sampadam daivim
abhijatasya bharata

Srila Prabhupada: The first thing is that bhagavan uvaca. These things required for purification. Sattva-samsuddhih. The human life is meant for sat

भगवद्गीता यथारूप 108 महत्त्वपूर्ण श्लोक

अध्याय आठ भगवत्प्राप्ति

वेदेषु यज्ञेषु तपःसु चैव दानेषु यत्पुण्यफलं प्रदिष्टम् ।

अत्येति तत्सर्वमिदं विदित्वा योगी परं स्थानमुपैति चाद्यम् ।। 28 ।।

वेदेषु– वेदाध्ययन में;यज्ञेषु– यज्ञ सम्पन्न करने में;तपःसु– विभिन्न प्रकार की तपस्याएँ करने में;च– भी;एव– निश्चय ही;दानेषु– दान देने में;यत्– जो;पुण्य-फलम्– पुण्यकर्म का फल;प्रदिष्टम्– सूचित;अत्येति– लाँघ जाता है;तत् सर्वम्– वे सब;इदम्– यह;विदित्वा– जानकर;योगी– योगी;परम्– परम;स्थानम्– धाम को;उपैति– प्राप्त करता है

“Sripada Madhvacarya took his birth at Udupi, which is situated in the South Kanarada district of South India, just west of Sahyadri. This is the chief city of the South Kanarada province and is near the city of Mangalore, which is situated to the south of Udupi. In the city of Udupi is a place called Pajaka-ksetra, where Madhvacarya took his birth in a Sivalli-brahmana dynasty as the son of Madhyageha Bhatta, in the year 1040 Sakabda (A.D. 1119). According to some, he was born in the year 1160

Madhvacharya was born into a Brahmana family in the coastal town of Udupi, South India. His early life was marked by extraordinary events and displays of divine power, such as turning tamarind seeds into coins and defeating a snake demon with a touch of his toe.

His exceptional intellect and insatiable thirst for knowledge led him to embark on a spiritual journey at the age of twelve when he accepted sannyasa, a renounced way of life. Madhvacharya traveled extensively across India, seeking wisdo

I am very grateful to be with all of you, thank you for being here. Bhakti Vinod Thakur has written that the difficulties endured in his service to the Lord, for the pleasure of the Lord, is his greatest happiness.

“Material life is when we put the flickering pleasures and securities of the mind and the senses in the center of our lives, our decisions, our aspirations, our goals are according. Spiritual life or true bhakti is when we put the pleasures of God or Krishna in the center of our lif