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MANERA  ĀNANDA, SAKHI MANDA MANDA, JHULĀYATO DUHUṄ SUKHE VEGA AVAŚEṢA, PĀI AVAKĀŚE, TĀMBŪLA DEYAI MUKHE "Blissfully the ...

Sripad Bhānu Swāmi's English translations of the śāstras are great and carry a higher philosophical integrity than most other English ...

BRAHMAN MERELY THE MODE OF GOODNESS? Recently I wrote the following mail to Dr. Satya Nārāyan Dās about a problem I had with an 11th ...

ERRATUM In November, 1992 I translated Śrīla Raghunātha Dāsa Goswāmī's Sva Niyam Daśakam, and only now, 20 years later, I saw that I ...

Bhakta: "What do you think of the new custom of giving women the title 'Prabhu'?” Advaitadās: "The word Pra...

Bhakta - "In Caitanya Caritāmṛta (Antya Lila, chapter 9), Gopīnātha Paṭṭanāyak was saved from capital punishment by Śrī Caitan...

JĪVA GOSVĀMĪ'S NĀMA TATTVA (In November-December 2010) I only blogged on Viśvanātha Cakravartī's commentaries on the Ajāmila-stor...

RIGHT EAR DĪKṢĀ - There is some confusion about whether the dīkṣā-mantra is to be spoken into the right ear or the left ear. The Bhāgava...

MURĀRI GUPTA'S GRAIN-OFFERINGS Bhakta: You claim Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu only ate from Brahmins, but in Caitanya Bhāgavat, Madhya 20....

This song in praise of Sādhu Bābā's father is written in around 1962 by Rādhā Govinda Dās, one of his disciples. ŚRĪLA ĀNANDA GOPĀL G...

ĀNANDA GOPĀL GOSWĀMĪ UPGRADE My friend Partha Dutta Bhowmick was so kind last month to send me Śrī Kandarpa Gopāl Goswāmī’s public...

There was a lively debate on Facebook about my Vaiṣṇava-dress blog, so i decided to post a sequel to that blog containing some of the best...

This is my 2 cents about the ongoing discussion about whether Vaiṣṇava dress is spiritual or cultural (and can be compromised or even tot...

I wrote this blog some years ago, but never posted it yet, and since there is at present not much to say I post it now, after editin...

A friend made a video recording of this year's Sītānāth Utsav in Sādhu Bābā's āśram, last January 30, and I noted this nice narra...