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Essential guide: Receiving and perfecting the mantra

The following injunction is given in the Hari-bhakti-vilāsa (1.194): tāntrikeṣu ca mantreṣudīkṣāyāṁ yoṣitām apisādhvīnām adhikāro ‘stiśūdrādīnāṁ ca sad-dhiyām “Śūdras and women who are chaste and sincerely interested in understanding the Absolute Truth

August 28, 2025

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Who is authorized to chant the holy name Hare Kṛṣṇa

September 3, 2025

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Kṛṣṇa can eat the food with any one of His transcendental senses

December 6, 2024

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Householders can start a center at home by installing the Deity

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The ten offenses in chanting the holy name Hare Kṛṣṇa explained

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A description of the inhabitants in the spiritual planets

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Beyond Darwin: The Vedic View of Spiritual Evolution

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What does Prabhupāda mean?

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The deity of Kṛṣṇa is not material

January 10, 2025

The conversation between Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa and the brāhmaṇa is proof that the Lord in His arcā-mūrti, or form made of material elements, is not material, for those elements, although

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Householders can start a center at home by installing the Deity

December 11, 2024

The cult of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, the Hare Kṛṣṇa movement, is very nicely explained by Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu authoritatively. It is not that everyone has to take sannyāsa like Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu. Everyone can execute the

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Only the devotee of Kṛṣṇa can become desireless

September 1, 2025

TRANSLATION “Because a devotee of Lord Kṛṣṇa is desireless, he is peaceful. Fruitive workers desire material enjoyment, jñānīs desire liberation, and yogīs desire material

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Kṛṣṇa ordered us to surrender, but Śrī Caitanya taught us how to

December 2, 2024

As stated in the Bhagavad-gītā (4.7): yadā yadā hi dharmasya glānir bhavati bhārataabhyutthānam adharmasyatadātmānaṁ sṛjāmy aham “Whenever and wherever there is a decline in religious

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The Bible and Koran are the scriptures of the meat-eaters

November 3, 2024

The śāstras of the yavanas, or meat-eaters, are not eternal scriptures. They have been fashioned recently, and sometimes they contradict one another. The scriptures

The Nectar of Devotion

Every man has the birthright to accept devotional service

May 12, 2025

In the Middle Ages, after the disappearance of Lord Caitanya’s great associate Lord Nityānanda, a class of priestly persons claimed to be the descendants of Nityānanda,

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Only by the mercy of Kṛṣṇa one gives up the life of a worm in stool

August 26, 2025

TRANSLATION Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu said, “The mercy of Lord Kṛṣṇa is stronger than anything else. Therefore the Lord has delivered you from the

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Buddhist philosophy defeated

February 13, 2025

Śrīla Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura states that according to the Buddhist cult there are two ways of understanding philosophy. One is called Hīnāyāna, and the other

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Only by the mercy of Kṛṣṇa one gives up the life of a worm in stool

August 26, 2025

TRANSLATION Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu said, “The mercy of Lord Kṛṣṇa is stronger than anything else. Therefore the Lord has delivered you from the

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A Vaiṣṇava is never a non-brāhmaṇa

August 24, 2025

In his statement, Jhaḍu Ṭhākura presents himself as being born in a low-caste family and not having the qualifications of a bona fide devotee

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Bhāva-bhakti is the first seed of love of Godhead

August 22, 2025

TRANSLATION “When that ecstatic emotional stage intensifies, it is called love of Godhead. Such love is life’s ultimate goal and the reservoir of all

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Chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa without offenses vanquishes all sinful activities

August 20, 2025

One cannot be situated in the devotional service of the Lord unless one is free from sinful life. This is confirmed in the Bhagavad-gītā

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An explanation of the kāma-gāyatrī

August 18, 2025

This Vṛndāvana is described in the Brahma-saṁhitā (5.56) in this way: śriyaḥ kāntāḥ kāntaḥ parama-puruṣaḥ kalpa-taravodrumā bhūmiś cintāmaṇi-gaṇa-mayī toyam amṛtamkathā gānaṁ nāṭyaṁ gamanam api

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The six darśanas or philosophical processes of India

August 6, 2025

In his Amṛta-pravāha-bhāṣya, Śrīla Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura gives the following summary of the six philosophical processes. Prakāśānanda admitted that Śrīpād Śaṅkarācārya, being very eager to

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The glories of Śrīmatī Tulasī Devī

August 4, 2025

In the Skanda Purāṇa there is a statement eulogizing the tulasī tree as follows: “Let me offer my respectful obeisances unto the tulasī tree,

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Praising the holy name of Lord Kṛṣṇa

August 2, 2025

Śrīla Jīva Gosvāmī Prabhu gives the following directions in his Bhakti-sandarbha (270): iyaṁ ca kīrtanākhyā bhaktir bhagavato dravya-jāti-guṇa-kriyābhir dīna-janaika-viṣayāpāra-karuṇā-mayīti śruti-purāṇādi-viśrutiḥ. ataeva kalau svabhāvata evātidīneṣu

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The qualifications of a bonafide guru and a disciple

June 24, 2025

In the Padma Purāṇa, the characteristics of the guru, the bona fide spiritual master, have been described: mahā-bhāgavata-śreṣṭhobrāhmaṇo vai gurur nṛṇāmsarveṣām eva lokānāmasau pūjyo

Elevation to Kṛṣṇa Consciousness

Beyond Darwin: The Vedic View of Spiritual Evolution

June 20, 2025

Actually we are all spirit souls and are intended to associate with God in the spiritual sky where there are innumerable spiritual planets and

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