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March 22, 2006 Sītānāth's Dol-Saptamī. I shoot a pic of Giridhārī on the wooden Brajabāsī-swing in 'my' gośālā at Rādhākuṇḍa....

(Tulasis in Yadunath's garden) March 14, 2006 2006 Colour Holi/Gaurpurnima It's cloudy and windy, so no weather to be soaked...

Due to difference of opinion most people did Śiva Pūjā and the vigil yesterday, so today it really peaceful at Gopeśvara Mahādeva Mandir. A...

My Dutch friend Vāsu Ghoṣa tells me that women cannot live without social life. Men can. I remember the līlā of the sacrifice of Dakṣa. Sa...

Today, during his Bhāgavata- pāṭha , Satya Nārāyan Bābā discussed Viśvanātha Cakravartī's ṭīkā on Śrimad-Bhāgavata 1.9.26, where he say...

As Lord Sadāśiva, the transcendental deity from Vaikuṇṭha who is the fountainhead of all the forms of Śiva within the innumerable mundane...

Kṛṣṇā Di Kīrtan in the pandal Golok and Rākhā Dā Thanks to Prāngovinda for the hottest photos of Sītānāth's Utsava - th...

Returning to the discussion of meat-eating and other practices in the Vedic civilization, I have this entry in my Indian diary, early Novem...

On siddha pranali , Muralidhara das states today in Audarya-fellowship: In fact there is a situation where, generation after generation, ...

While reading a thread on gaudiyarepercussions.com about meat-eating in the Vedic civilization I am wondering if the participants have ever...

From Caitanya Caritāmṛta (Antya 4. 135-169) we learn that junior devotees should not instruct senior devotees . In this narration we see th...

Śrīla Jīva Gosvāmī said in Gopāl Campū (1.23.1) that the Rāsa-līlā  is for private discussion, not public hearing: tad etad govinda vraja v...

I remember that, in 1988, when the late Rohiṇīndranāth Mitra of Keśī-ghāṭ found out that I had translated Govinda Līlāmṛta into English, he...

Trying to place the modern western term 'orthodox' into Vedic/Indian/Vaiṣṇava perspective has proven interesting and flattering ind...

Today, as I browsed through Murāri Gupta's 'Caitanya Carita Mahākāvya', I found a beautiful verse in the introduction (1.20) w...

Thanks to Yadupati for sending me an essay by Rebecca J. Manring, called Sita Devi, an Early Vaishnava Guru , about Sri Sita Devi, the spo...

My friend Madanmohan quoted this brilliant verse from Śrīmad Bhāgavata 4.17.20 - praharanti na vai strīṣu kṛtāgaḥsvapi jantavah kim ut...

From a recent lecture by Swami Tripurāri in the USA : “On symbolism and Kṛṣṇa līlā, Swami said this morning that it is unavoidable that ...

From Jīva Gosvāmī's Bhakti Sandarbha 238 - guror apyavaliptasya kāryākāryam ajānataḥ utpatha pratipannasya parityāgo vidhīyate S...

The new English edition of Mādhurya Kādambinī  should be on sale now, so I withdrew my translated and edited version from my book catalog a...