Lord Balarāma became very anxious to see His father and mother, Mahārāja Nanda and Yaśodā. Therefore, He started for Vṛndāvana on a chariot with great enthusiasm. The inhabitants of Vṛndāvana had been anxious to see Kṛṣṇa and Balarāma for a very long time. When Lord Balarāma returned to Vṛndāvana, all the cowherd boys and the gopīs had grown up; but still, on His arrival, they all embraced Him, and Balarāma embraced them in reciprocation. After this He came before Mahārāja Nanda and Yaśodā and offered His respectful obeisances unto them. In response, mother Yaśodā and Nanda Mahārāja offered their blessings unto Him. They addressed Him as Jagadīśvara, or the Lord of the universe who maintains everyone. The reason for this was that both Kṛṣṇa and Balarāma maintain all living entities, and yet Nanda and Yaśodā were put into such difficulties on account of Their

The Supreme Personality of Godhead, Lord Sita-Rama, Patita-pavana, Great Warrior and Descendent of the Raghu-vamsa dynasty, brother of Laksmana. Give us Rama Rajh ! Rama Rama.             Jaya Hanuman  !

Lord Sri Rama, Srimati Sita Mahisi, and Laxmana Maharajah, brother of Rama !  Friends of the fallen, maintainers of saintly rajah, Lords of India, Godhead, last here roughly 5 millions years ago now.

Jaya Sri Sri Sita-Ram ki Jaya!

ramante yogino 'nante
satyanande cid-atmani
iti rama-padenasau
param brahmabhidhiyate

""The mystics derive unlimited transcendental pleasures from the Absolute Truth, and therefore the Supreme Absolute Truth, the Personality of Godhead, is also known as Rama.""

verse courtesy Suresh Anand Prabhu

"vede ramayane caiva, purane bharate tatha ..." Sri Caitanya Caritamrta Adi 7.131
"In the Vedic literature, including the Ramayanam, Puranas, and Mahabharata, from the beginning to the end, as well as in the middle, only Hari, the Personality of Godhead, is explained."

But what of those who do not accept sastra, but depend upon their tiny brains instead? How can they be delivered? How can the agnostics take the Pure Names? I have had occasion to have to preach to some atheists lately. These persons, who are often devotees of modern science, try to influence innocent others by making cheap criticisms of the Christians, for example, so my tendency is to want to sway them with deeper reason.

It occurs to me, from seeing our Srila Prabhupada preach to scientists, that an honest person can be shown truth by a path of successive approximations. One starts out at a low enough level to capture their materialistic vision and reason, and then proceeds logically upward from there. An example o

Hope all have a Krsna conscious Siva ratri. Lord Shiva is most favorably inclined to the Hare Krsna devotees, being very kind and topmost among Vaisnavas. Many thanks to Mahadeva for helping us in our lives ! He does so much service, is a perfect example of absorption in Krsna consciousness.

We walked bullock cart sankirtan from Prayaga after attending maha kumbha mela with Srila Prabhupada. Lokanatha Swami led, party of eight or so, mixed Westerners and Indians. Padmapani was there, myself, and the famous film producer Jon Kay. We arrived in Varanasi without knowing the 500th anniversary of Mahaprabhu's visit. There were even processions in the street of Caitanya murthi. We did kirtan, wound up the rich metal seller's markets narrow avenues to the Srila Visvanatha Temple, and were very nicely and happily greeted, were asked to touch the Deity Linga, Srila Visvanatha, held kirtana hari haraya namah krsna, hare krsna maha mantra etc, priest put tilak and prasadam to us etc. 500 years to the day, Mahaprabhu's mixed disciples showed up to do kirtana just as He had ! We stayed at Ram ghat at a Ram baba temple that evening, full eclipse of moon, we bathed in Ganga that early evening. I watched the silver blue moon sitting at the steps of the ghat with the devotees, chanting Har

"Śrī Krishna Balarām Mandir"

"Perfect question,
Perfect answer"

Devotee #1: You said that we should eternally remain as a disciple. Some devotees say we are eternally the disciple of one particular guru, one jiva. Is that correct?

Śrīla Gour Govinda Swami: Yes.
He is eternally my guru. I am eternally his disciple.

Devotee #1: What does "eternally guru" mean? The person who is appearing as guru may be different in different lifetimes. It may not be the same person.

Śrīla Gour Govinda Swami:
It is the same soul, not the body, 'caksu-dana dila yei, janme janme prabhu sei' — Life after life he is my master. [Narottam Das Thakur's Śrī Guru-vandana]. My master is he who has opened my eyes. Which eyes? Bhakti-caksu, the eyes of devotion.
That person is my master life after life eternally. If you have that eye you can see him. "Oh, here is my guru."

Devotee #1: Some disciples have< /> two spiritual masters. One may have< /> a diksa-guru, and a siksa-guru.

Śrīla Gour Govinda Swami: Diksa-guru i