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Gopāl Tāpanī Upaniṣad - two English renderings. Mahānidhi Swāmī and Tripurāri Swāmī - both published in 2004 Gopāl Tāpanī Upaniṣa...

Mālatī Di received the loving hospitality of my Didis and Dādās in Sādhu Bābā's āshram - they would not allow her to stay any...

THE ADVENT OF ŚRĪ ADVAITA ĀCĀRYA - From 'Adwaita Prakāśa' Once, at the end of the night, Lābhā Ṭhākurāṇī had a wonde...

I had some more thoughts on the culture-gap case Lila: Vaiṣṇava missions in the west (perhaps due to competition) lower the threshold for...

I wish to make a brief comment on the recent killing of 17-year old Lila Salter from Australia in Vṛndāvana. I do not know her or her famil...

3 february 2008 Today's Ekādaśī and to break out of the daily drag I decide not to cook at noon but to go on bike-parikramā of Girrāja...

I still have a number of interesting notes I made on often not-published comments in my notebook. December 2007 - PERSONAL ATTACKS are u...

For making eyes at another man, Reṇukā was killed by her son Paraśurām, to teach complete obedience to the Guru ( ājñāṁ gurūnāṁ hyavicāranī...

Everything is there in the Bhāgavata, and so the concept of misogyny will be there too (the concept itself is not laukika śraddhā , though ...

13.22 Baladeva repeatedly says here that the karma and saṁskāras of the jīva are beginningless. 14.27 "I alone am the shelter of...

Book Review: Gītā Bhūṣaṇa, Bhagavad Gītā commentary by Baladeva Vidyābhūṣaṇa Translated by Bhānu Swāmī This book is philosophical, so i...

LB 5.223 glosses the words śaśvatasya dharmasya in Bhagavad Gītā 14.27 as 'bhagavad dharma ', hearing and chanting according t...

Book Review: Laghu Bhāgavatāmṛta by Śrī Rūpa Gosvāmī With commentary by Śrī Baladeva Vidyābhūṣaṇa Translated by Bhānu Swāmi Rūpa Go...

Rādhākund, December 8, 2007 - Sakhīcaran , my backdoor neighbor, tells me that in the Nitāi-Gaur Rādhe-Śyām Sampradāya, Ekādaśa Bhāva is o...

Congratulations to Mālatī Dāsī  from Melbourne, Australia, for being the second kṛpā pātra of Śrī-Śrī Sādhu Bābā outside India. Her appl...

(Skewed Indian scan) Natural Bhakti by Rām Dās A book review Yesterday I visited the Munghyr Mandir and had darshan of B.V. S...

The Rāsa-līlās at Sandīpani Muni's Āśram are poorly timed - after all introductory performances the actual Līlā starts at 8.15, whi...

October 19, 2007 With a friend I visit my Gurubhāi Dāmu-dā in Gopīnāth Bāgh and enjoy his usual hospitality. He says Golok went back to Na...

Last night my Swiss friend Kṛṣṇacandra visited me, here's some of what we discussed: Kṛṣṇacandra: "One should not take an oath t...

By phone I ask Tapan Dā, now my senior-most Gurubhāi, several questions about sādhana and history. AD: ' Is japa to be done per gran...