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Vaiṣṇava: It is said in Caitanya-Caritāmrta [Adi 8. 29-31]  "Gaur-Nitāi don’t take offenses" hena kṛṣṇa-nāma yadi laya bahu-bā...

Vaiṣṇava-dress, part 4 On wearing Vaiṣṇava-dress the post-modern rationalist Vaiṣṇava-lobby may argue: “The terms "dhoti" or ...

Mahāprabhu’s associates, svakīya-vāda and aiśvarya mixtures Vaisnava - "At the end of the Caitanya Candrodaya Nāṭaka M...

Śrī Ananta dās Bābājī Mahārāja  lecturing in Gopinath Mandir, Radhakund, Kartik 1984 Śrī Ananta dās Bābājī Mahārāja left his body ...

Vaiṣṇava – “Bābā, some say that the verses in Śrīmad-bhāgavata glorifying the gopīs ’ good fortune as being greater than that of Lakṣm...

There is this famous picture depicting Advaita Ācārya worshiping Śālagrāma-śilā to invoke the advent of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, and t...

Vaiṣṇava - On the one hand we see Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa meeting from birth, as Padma Purāṇa says that Rādhikā was born blind and got Her vi...

Śrīmad Bhāgavata, 10.28.16, speaks of the Vrajabāsīs' darśana of the spiritual world - te tu brahma-hradam nītā magnāḥ kṛṣṇena codd...

It is often heard that if we cannot freely choose, then there is no question of love. Is love actually really 'free', however? ...

7 Instances of siddha deha in Śrīmad Bhāgavat  On October 14, 2014, I published a blog which listed 4 instances in which a siddha deha, ...

Vaiṣṇava – Can you give a link or verses that establish the superiority of Rādhā’s mañjarīs over Her sakhīs ? (Of course according to age...

Inspired by the excellent blog of Panditji Śrī Satya-nārāyanjī, I added a paragraph to my paper on Vaiṣṇava-dress on my website (it is...

25 most essential ślokas I was asked, for the benefit of hard-working devotees who have little time to study, what are the 25 most essent...