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In regards to the siddha-praṇālī controversy I found this letter today from my senior Guru-brother Śrī Nirañjan Prasād Dās, dated May 20, 1...

Śrīla Raghunātha dās Gosvāmī 's Prarthanasraya Caturdasakam, verse 3: UDAÑCAT KĀRUṆYĀMṚTA VITARAṆAIR JĪVITA JAGAD YUVADVANDVAṀ ...

Qualification for siddha praṇālī  does not come by just being formally or socially initiated into the renounced order, since rāgānugā bhak...

Though I am not a fan or ally of Kṛṣṇa-kīrti Dās, I did find this sentence on his blog siddhanta.com very much to the point: "There ...

Recently I heard a humble Vaiṣṇava admitting to driving his car with one hand and doing japa with the other. Since ignorance IS an excuse,...

The Bhakti Ratnākara describes in connection with Śrīla Raghunātha Dās Gosvāmī how siddha mahātmās show physical symptoms of their transc...

Anonymous reply: I heard that Radhakund is for siddhas, not for sadhakas, still, many people say it is very auspicious to live there. In ...

I have received the following response to a blog from last February: haribol dear advaita, i have been reading your blog last time and wo...

In his booklet « Rasarāja Śrī Gaurāṅga » Gadādhara Prān Dās quotes the following verses from the Śrī-Śrī-Gaurāṅga-Pratyanga-Varṇanākhya-Sta...

On pages 18-19 of the biography of Sādhu Bābā a new paragraph is created, all about japa. In it are known teachings of Sādhu Bābā to which ...

I have received the following reaction to my last blog and I am posting the essence of it here in case it is not properly understood: “I c...

Although most western devotees have been initially taught that all westerners go to hell because they don’t follow the Vedic principles an...

In my archives I found some more nectarean examples of my beloved and revered Guru-brother Śrī Nirañjan Prasād Dās’ Guru bhakti. On a tape ...

I just found this post by Chanahari in Gaudiya-repercussions (Academic, controversial, eclectic) of one year ago. Never noticed this one un...

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...