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His Divine Grace Śrī Śrīmad Bhakti Dayita Mādhava Gosvāmī Mahārāja

Śrī Heramba Kumāra Banḍopādhyāya (Śrīla Bhakti Dayita Mādhava Gosvāmī Mahārāja) appeared on 18th November 1904, (Uṭṭhāna Ekādaśī) in an aristocratic brāhmaṇa family in Kāñcanapāḍa, East Bengal.

He was saintly, forbearing, amiable and virtuous. His devout mother raised him with strong spiritual orientation, personally reading out many scriptures to him. She would also make him recite the Bhagavad-gītā daily...

Śrī Svarūpa Dāmodara

Today is the Ratha-yātrā of Jagannātha and it is also the disappearance day of Svarūpa Dāmodara. By worldly considerations, Svarūpa Dāmodara

Cleaning of the Guṇḍicā Mandira

Prior to Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, devotees never performed Guṇḍicā Mandira-marjana; it was the responsibility of the servants of the king to

Saccidānanda Śrīla Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura

Śrīla Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura stayed in Jagannātha Purī for five years. When he was appointed superintendent of the temple, he introduced a new

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Vijñāna Sāra

Śrī Mukunda Datta and Śrī Śrīdhara Paṇḍita

Why did Mahāprabhu refuse to see him initially? Mukunda Datta used to sing beautiful kīrtanas of Mahāprabhu [but he wasn’t one-pointed.] He

Śrī Śyāmānanda Prabhu

Once while Śyāmānanda Prabhu was sweeping the grove at Sevā Kuñja in Vṛndāvana, he found Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī’s ankle bracelet lying on the gro

Snāna-yātrā

There is one local adage – ‘On Snāna-yātrā it will definitely rain and on Ratha-yātrā it won’t.’ The candratāpa (awning) on the top of the b

Ciḍā-dadhi-mahotsava

When Rāghava Paṇḍita introduced him to Nityānanda Prabhu saying – “This is Raghunātha offering praṇāms”, Nityānanda Prabhu responded, “O Cor

Śrī Gaṅgāmātā Gosvāminī

Śrīmatī Śacī-devī was quite scholarly. Being very conversant with the scriptures, she would give excellent discourses on the Śrīmad-Bhāgavat

Śrīla Baladeva Vidyābhūṣaṇa

Śrīla Baladeva Vidyābhūṣaṇa went to the temple of Govinda-deva, who is the abhidheya devatā, and fell at His feet in prayer. In sanction, Go

Śrīla Vṛndāvana dāsa Ṭhākura

Yet no one dared to speak anything objectionable before Vṛndāvana dāsa Ṭhākura, who by the mercy of Nityānanda Prabhu, fearlessly explained

Rāmānanda Rāya

Knowing Rāmānanda Rāya to be a Vaiṣṇava, Sārvabhauma Bhattacharya considered him a mere sentimentalist and did not hold him in high regard.

Nṛsiṁha-caturdaśī

Prahlāda did not plead for protection from Bhagavān; nonetheless, could Hiraṇyakaśipu cause any harm to Prahlāda? Hiraṇyakaśipu meted out al

The Disappearance of Pūjyapāda Bhakti Sāraṅga Gosvāmī Mahārāja

Tridaṇḍi-svāmī Śrīmad Bhakti Sāraṅga Gosvāmī Mahārāja, was one of the foremost pillars of Śrī Śrīmad Bhakti Siddhānta Sarasvatī Gosvāmī Prab

Vaiśākha Pūrṇimā

Today is a very special day for it includes so many auspicious tithis. It is the appearance day of Śrī Rādhā-ramaṇa Deva, Śrīla Śrīnivāsa Āc

Śrī Śrīmad Bhakti Sāraṅga Gosvāmī Mahārāja

Prior to joining the maṭha full-time, Śrīla Gosvāmī Mahārāja (then known as Śrī Atulacandra Bandopādhyāya) worked for Indian Railways, which

Jāhnavā-mātā and Sītā-devī

Jāhnavā Mātā was exceedingly courageous and her glories are limitless. After the disappearance of Nityānanda Prabhu, she became the revered

Jahnu Saptamī

Bhagiratha getting Gaṅgā to this material world was for everyone’s benefit, not merely for his ancestors so that anyone who bathes in Gaṅgā

Śrī Śrīmad Bhakti Vilāsa Gabhastinemi Gosvāmī Mahārāja

‘Gabhastinemi’ means the effulgent (gabhasti) sharp edge (nemi) of the cakra cutting the fallacious doctrine of Māyāvāda philosophy. First h

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