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Do Ramanandacharya & Ramanujacharya follow same tradition?

Shri Ramananda Sampradaya is entirely different from the Shri Ramanuja Sampradaya. It is completely futile and ignorant to say that Bhagavan Ramanandacharya comes in the guru parampara of Shri Ramanujacharya. Because the Ramanuja Sampradaya originated in the Kali Yuga, while the Shri Ramananda Sampradaya has been in existen

To launch Sacred Street Party’s mission to distribute 108 sets of Sri Caitanya Caritamrta as part of the BBT’s Be A Gardener campaign, HG Sutapa Das took us on a journey to connect with this most important scripture. Click to hear the story of how Krsnadasa Kaviraja Goswami was empowered to write.

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Full transcript (including thought-provoking QnA) below.

This evening we are discussing Gauranga, Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, the karuna avatar. The incarnation who epitomises mercy, co

Today is Siva-ratri. Vaishnavas generally do not celebrate Siva-ratri, and to begin, I will explain why, with reference to the Bhagavad-gita. We read from Bhagavad-gita As It Is, Chapter 7, “Knowledge of the Absolute,” text 23.

antavat tu phalam tesam
  tad bhavaty alpa-medhasam
devan deva-yajo yanti
  mad-bhakta yanti mam api

TRANSLATION

Men of small intelligence worship the demigods, and their fruits are limited and temporary. Those who worship the demigods go to the planets of the demigods,

From Back to Godhead

By Satsvarupa Dasa Goswami

Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu, who was also known as Visvambhara (“Lord of the universe”), appeared in Bengal, India, 489 years ago and taught love of Krsna. The Vedic scriptures, such as the Vedas, Upanisads, Vedanta-sutra and especiallyBhagavad-gita and Srimad-Bhagavatam, all reveal Krsna to be the Supreme Truth and the dearmost friend of every living being. Lord Krsna says in Bhagavad-gita “Give up all other forms of religion and surrender to Me. I

Today is the disappearance day of Sri Madhavendra Puri, who appears in the line of disciplic succession as the grand spiritual master of Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu. Madhavendra Puri’s disciple Isvara Puri was accepted by Chaitanya Mahaprabhu as His spiritual
master. Sri Madhavendra Puri is very important for us, and today we shall read about his disappearance from Srila Prabhupada’s translation of Sri Caitanya-caritamrta, Antya-lila, Chapter Eight: “Ramacandra Puri Criticizes the Lord.”

Introdu

By Giriraj Swami

Today is Siva-ratri. Vaishnavas generally do not celebrate Siva-ratri, and to begin, I will explain why, with reference to the Bhagavad-gita. We read from Bhagavad-gita As It Is, Chapter 7, “Knowledge of the Absolute,” text
23.

antavat tu phalam tesam
  tad bhavaty alpa-medhasam
devan deva-yajo yanti
  mad-bhakta yanti mam api

TRANSLATION

Men of small intelligence worship the demigods, and their fruits are limited and temporary. Those who worship the demigods go to the planets

By Krishna-kripa das

This is an excerpt from the Diary of a Traveling Sadhaka, Vol. 14, No. 3 available here: https://goo.gl/tkcZmU

Julia Zimmerman, director of University Libraries for over ten years, stopped by my book table at Landis Green at Florida State University. She was familiar with Bhagavad-gita, and she had eaten Krishna Lunch years ago. Yoga was part of her life, and she been involved in different yoga groups in her youth. She was happy to see me on the campus as example of diversi

By Giriraj Swami

Srila Prabhupada’s beloved disciple Yamuna-devi dasi passed away on Saphala-ekadasi.

There is so much to be said about Srimati Yamuna-devi dasi.

In October of 1970 I was one of a group of Srila Prabhupada’s disciples from America going to join him in India. On the way, we stopped in Brussels, and it was there, in an apartment, that I first met Yamuna-devi—and Malati and Syamasundara (I had met Gurudas before that, in Boston). Upon entering, I could immediately feel their intens

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101. GBC Officers and Members

1. His Holiness Bhakti Charu Swami is elected GBC Chairman. 

2. His Grace Madhu Sevita Das is elected First Vice-Chairman. 

3. His Holiness Bhakti

From Back to Godhead

By Satsvarupa Dasa Goswami

Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu, who was also known as Visvambhara (“Lord of the universe”), appeared in Bengal, India, 489 years ago and taught love of Krsna. The Vedic scriptures, such as the Vedas, Upanisads, Vedanta-sutra and especiallyBhagavad-gita and Srimad-Bhagavatam, all reveal Krsna to be the Supreme Truth and the dearmost friend of every living being. Lord Krsna says in Bhagavad-gita “Give up all other forms of religion and surrender to Me. I

Utpanna Ekadasi: Suta Goswami said, "O learned brahmanas, long ago Lord Sri Krishna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, explained the auspicious glories of Sri Ekadasi and the rules and regulations governing each observance of fasting on that holy day. O best of the brahmins, whosoever hears about the origins and glories of these sacred fasts on the Ekadasi days goes directly to the abode of Lord Vishnu after enjoying many different kinds of happiness in this material world. "

Arjuna, the son

Gopiparanadhana Dasa, Bhaktivedanta Book Trust (BBT) Sanskrit editor and translator for more than 25 years, addresses the difference between Western and Eastern approaches to textual authority. By examining texts from Srila Prabhupada’s commentaries he highlights the difference between Western ideas of plagiarism, and the primacy of originality, and ­Eastern notions of ensuring the safe passage of traditional thought. He also looks at how in Indian traditions the qualification for authorship is

In honor of the passing of our dear Godsister, Nandalal Dasi ACBSP

By Deena Bandhu Das

In honor of the passing of our dear Godsister, Nandalal Dasi, here is part of a manuscript she wrote about her dandauti parikrama of Govardhan. Many thanks to Annabelle Anavadyangi Dasi Younger!
My dear Godsister Nandalal departed this world this morning (March 16, 2015), an auspicious Ekadasi. She would have turned 73 in May. Here is a document she wrote of an important event in her life.
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Because

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

Giriraj Swami commemorates the first anniversary of Srimati Yamuna Devi Dasi's departure. Much can be said about the exalted nature of this beloved daughter-disciple of Srila Prabhupada. However, it is her realisations - especially on vani & vapuh, the direct and indirect presence of the spiritual master, which have made of her the devotee everyone looks up to.

Below we reproduce Giriraj Swami's profound appreciation of Yamuna Mataji: -

"As we approach the first anniversary of Yamuna-devi’s depart

        Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura was born on Sunday, Sept. 2, 1838 in Biranagara 

(Ulagrama) in the Nadia district of Bengal. He was the seventh son of Raja 

Krsnananda Datta, a great devotee of Lord Nityananda. He was also known as the 

great grandson of Madana Mohana and the third son of his Godfather 

Anandacandra. He would be known as daitya-kulera prahlada (Prahlada in the 

family of demons). This was because Vaisnavism was not very much respected in 

his family; on his mother's side, there was

Live From Sri Mayapur Candrodaya Mandir!

Date: February 25th, 2011

Topic: Dhruva Maharaja Goes Back To Godhead

Verse: SB 4.12. 19

Speaker: HH Bhanu Swami
dadarsa vimanagryam

nabhaso 'vatarad dhruvah

vibhrajayad dasa diso

rakapatim ivoditam

TRANSLATION: As soon as the symptoms of his liberation were manifest, he saw a very beautiful airplane coming down from the sky, as if the brilliant fullmoon were coming down, illuminating all the ten directions.

PURPORT: There are different levels of acquired knowledge

Lochan Dasa Thakura

Shrila Lochan Das Thakura took his birth in a family of brahmans who lived in a village in the rada-desh, in Mahakumara, near Katwa, in the Burdhaman district of Bengal. When he was only a little boy, he enjoyed the good fortune of meeting the devotees of Shri Gauranga. His guru was Narahari Sarakara Thakura. In his Chaitanya Mangala, Shrila Lochana Dasa Thakura has written: "My hope of hopes is to be near the lotus feet of Shri Narahari Thakura, to serve and worship him with