Today is a super excellent auspicious day called Gopashtami— the entire day is known as Ashtami tithi (eight days from new moon)....

Today is super auspicious as it is the appearance day of nitya-lila-pravishta om vishnupada ashtottara-shata Srila Bhakti Rakshaka Sridhara Gosvami Maharaja. vaishnavera guna gana, korile jivera trana In Chaitanya-bhagavata , Vrindavana dasa Thakura explains that if you glorify Vaishnavas, you will be protected from maya . When you listen to the character of a Vaishnava, your heart will be inspired to practice and perform some devotional service to the Lord. Perhaps, when yo

This is a very pure day, as it is the day when Radha-kunda was manifested and as earlier, we had the great fortune of performing a choti parikrama (small circumambulation) of Giriraja, arriving at the banks of Radha-kunda. For some special reason, we were unable to speak a long and detailed hari-katha (narrations of the Lord) while there. We also visited the bhajana-sthali (place of spiritual practices) of Srila Raghunatha dasa Gosvami and his samadhi (sacred meditation pla

The Birth of Srimati Radhika in Raval In different kalpas (days of Brahma) Srimati Radharani appears in different ways. Gurudeva says that in this kalpa Radhaji was born in Raval. In Brahmanda Purana and in other Puranas it is written about the birth of Radha. So, Radhaji sometimes takes birth in Varshana, and in another kalpa, She is born from an egg or the fire. In this kalpa, Radha manifested here in Raval. Raval is more of a title, like how Vraja means chalan (moving). An

Today is a very auspicious day, it is Lalita-saptami (appearance day of Lalita-devi). Over the last couple of days we have heard about radha-tattva from the lotus mouths of Vrajavasis. This tattva (truth) is so gambhira (deep), however, they have nicely simplified these truths in their beautiful descriptions of the pastimes. Many demigods, like Brahmaji, cannot attain the darshana (auspicious sight) of Srimati Radharani. And Srimati Radharani, also known as Vrishabhanu-nandin