Today is the super excellent and auspicious appearance day of Nityananda Prabhu, who is the direct manifestation of Baladevа Prabhu. In...

Today is a super excellent auspicious day and I want to speak a few words on this topic of Gaudiya Vaishnavism. In our line of Gaudiya...

I would like to speak a few words about a prominent acharya  in our Gaudiya Brahma-Madhva Sampradaya, Sri Madhvacharya. If anyone asks you which sampradaya you belong to, you can say, “We belong to Sri Brahma-Madhva Sampradaya.”   I want to quickly clarify the meaning of sampradaya . Sampradaya simply means a group or section. You can explain this word in many ways. Sampradaya means samyaka rupena prema dadati iti sampradaya.  In Sanskrit da dhatu, the verbal root   means ‘to

Today is very super excellent and auspicious because it is the appearance day of a great acharya  in our Gaudiya Vedanta Samiti,...

On this auspicious occasion, I want to glorify Srila Bhakti Kamala Madhusudana Maharaja, his life history and his philosophy. Similar to...

We are very fortunate that on this day, from our guru-parampara (disciplic succession of spiritual masters),   we celebrate the disappearance day of Srila Gaurakishora dasa Babaji Maharaja. I am honoured to glorify him on this most auspicious occasion. namo gaura-kiśorāya sākṣād-vairāgya-mūrtaye vipralambha-rasāmbhode pādāmbujāya te namaḥ ( Pranama-mantra  of Srila Gaurakishora dasa Babaji Maharaja) [“I offer my respectful obeisances unto Gaurakishora dasa Babaji Maharaja, w

Today is Divapali which is a very super excellent, auspicious day. On this day, we offer ghee  lamps to Sri Giriraja Govardhana. We do...

We are here to commence our Vraja - mandala  parikrama  or Kartika  parikrama . I have mentioned how the month of Kartika has many names....

Today is a very auspicious day as it is Dvadashi tithi and the disappearance days of three Gosvamis. Thus, today is a very super-excellent, auspicious day. I want to speak about their life histories and contributions, especially that of Srila Raghunatha Bhatta Gosvami, who was very nearest and dearest of Lord Chaitanya Mahaprabhu.  When Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu travelled in East Bengal, He arrived at Raghunatha Bhatta Gosvami’s father, Tapana Mishra’s house. His family were a

Today is a very super-excellent auspicious day as it is Vijaya-dashami, Vijaya Mahotsava (Sri Ramachandra Vijayotsava). And also today is our Sampradaya’s acharya, Madhvacharya’s appearance day or avirbhava tithi .  Lord Chaitanya Mahaprabhu did not manifest any sampradaya of His own . In Padma Purana, there are four sampradayas mentioned:  sampradāya vihīnā ye mantrās te niṣphalā matāḥ ataḥ kalau bhaviṣyanti catvāraḥ sampradāyinaḥ śrī-brahma-rudra-sanakā vaiṣṇavā kṣiti-pāvan