"Shri Mahesh Pandit, the seventh of the twelve gopalas, tasting Krishna prema, used to dance like a madman to the sound of a huge kettledrum." Especially dear to Shri Nityananda Prabhu, he traveled and preached with the Lord. He established Deities of Nitai-Gauranga, Radha Madana Mohana, Radha Govinda, Gopinatha.
 
   In Vraja lila he serves Krishna-Balarama as the cowherd boy, Mahabahu. His samadhi is in the 64 Samadhis Area. - See more at: http://gaudiyahistory.iskcondesiretree.com/sri-mahesh-pandit/#sthash.4D0yWJb2.dpuf

"Paramahamsa: We have heard that Gandhi was a great mahatma.

Prabhupada: You have heard. You have heard so many things. That mountain gave birth to a mouse. You have heard like that.

Paramahamsa: But Gandhi also read the Bhagavad-gita, and he made so many wonderful comments on the Gita.

Devananda understood the divinity of Sri Krishna Chaitanya and surrendered to Him. (In the image: Lord Sri Krishna Chaitanya).

    Living in Kuliya during Sri Chaitanya's pastimes, Sri Devananda Pandit gave professional readings of Srimad Bhagavatam tainted with Mayavada philosophy. One day Shrivasa Pandit heard his Bhagavata-katha, began crying, and fell to the ground. Becoming disturbed by this display, the foolish disciples of Devananda threw Shrivasa out of the assembly. By silently observing this misbehavior of his disciples Devananda committed the hati-mata aparadha, the mad elephant offense of blaspheming a pure Devotee of Lord Chaitanya.
 
   Later, by the mercy of Vakreshvara Pandit, an intimate Devotee of Sri Gaura Raya, Devananda understood the divinity of Sri Krishna Chaitanya and surrendered to Him. The Lord pardoned his offense and blessed him with bhakti. He serves in Krishna lila as Bhaguri Muni

- See more at: http://gaudiyahistory.iskcondesiretree.com/sri-devananda-pand

Śaraṇāgati Depends on Sambandha-jñāna

by Śrīla Bhaktivedānta Vamana Gosvāmī Mahārāja

Śrī Śrī Guru Gaurāṅgau Jayataḥ

c/o Śrī Bankebihārī Dāsādhikārī
Jaleśvara Road, Subhāṣa-nagara
PO: Mayanāguḍi (Jalapāiguḍi)
Date: 15.05.1978

My dear..., [The recipient’s name was not published.]

The idea that the conditioned soul shall forever remain in a state of material bondage and will never endeavor to liberate himself is baseless. While the living entity is in a materially conditioned state, all his thoughts, moods and activities are inherently full of mundane conceptions. To transcend this material or mundane state is indeed the primary objective of performing sādhana-bhajana.

Direct audience (darśana) of śrī guru, the Vaiṣṇavas and their instructions and directions is certainly the most valuable treasure for a spiritual practitioner (sādhaka). One only receives the opportunity and good fortune of their divine association as a result of spiritual merits accumulated over many, many lifetimes.

It

Pūtanā

by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura Prabhupāda

Śrī Kṛṣṇa manifests through His eternal birth the pure cognitive essence of the serving soul who is located above all mundane limitations. King Kaṁsa is the typical aggressive empiricist, ever on the lookout for the appearance of the truth for the purpose of suppressing Him before He has time to develop. This is no exaggeration of the real connotation of the consistent empiric position. The materialist has a natural repugnance for the transcendent. He is disposed to link that faith in the incomprehensible as the parent of dogmatism and hypocrisy in the guise of religion. He is also equally under the delusion that there is no real dividing line between the material and the spiritual. He is strengthened in his delusion by the interpretation of scriptures by persons who are like-minded with himself. This includes all the lexicographic interpreters.

The lexicographical interpretation is upheld by Kaṁsa as the real scientific ex

Christ Is Our Guru

A vow to observe austerities to please Katyayani Devi, or Yogamaya Devi, the spiritual energy of Lord Krsna. - See more at: http://harekrishnacalendar.com/vaishnava-calendar/katyayani-vrata-ends-2015/#sthash.1Ymx7OJA.dpuf

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Srila Prabhupada: "Don't be disappointed. Kṛṣṇa will act through His movement and kill them, these demons. How it will be done, that you cannot know now, but it will be done. Let us remain true soldiers. That's all. And if it is a fight, suppose we die in the fight. The fight means with vow, with determination either to gain victory or die. Because it is fight against māyā, why we shall be afraid of being killed? Where there is fight, one must know that "Either I am going to be killed or gain victory." Jīvo vā māro vā. Those who are devotees, either they live or they die—the same thing. While they live they are serving Kṛṣṇa; when they die they will serve Kṛṣṇa. Jīvo vā māro vā. Tyaktvā dehaṁ punar janma naiti mām eti (BG 4.9). He goes to Kṛṣṇa. (laughs) So what is the loss? We are working for Kṛṣṇa, and if we die we go to Kṛṣṇa. So what is the loss? Same business." (Evening Darsana. February 15, 1977, Mayapura)

Godhead is Form. He is not formless. The formless is a view of the Effulgence radiated by the form. The Effulgence acts as a blinding zone of pure blissful light encircling the Form. This radiated Divine Effulgence has the quality of obscuring the vision of the spiritual Form of the individual soul bound on the quest of the Absolute. Arriving in this zone of light, the seeker is apt to receive the overpowering impression that he has no individual Form of his own and that he is one with the vast undifferentiated Effulgence. He is so fully satisfied in making this discovery that he has no mind to question the legitimacy of his overwhelming satisfaction.

True, the light emitted by the Divine drives away all worldly ignorance and misery and draws the purified soul into itself. It is as if a great light draws to itself one of its own rays gone astray. What happens to the individual ray after it is merged in the great light, is left undescribed. No vocabulary, it is urged, can carr