The great sage Ṛṣabhadeva instructed his sons in this way: “My dear boys, in this life you have acquired these beautiful bodies. Now you should know that they are not meant for
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
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
Śrīla Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura states that according to the Buddhist cult there are two ways of understanding philosophy. One is called Hīnāyāna, and the other
One should note how Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, advised Raghunātha Bhaṭṭācārya to learn Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam. He advised him to understand Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam not from professional men but from a real bhāgavata, devotee. He
TRANSLATION Rudra, who is an expansion of Sadāśiva and who appears in unlimited universes, is also a guṇāvatāra [qualitative incarnation] and is the ornament