Being prayed for by the demigods, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the Absolute Truth Himself, directly appeared with His expansion and expansions of the expansion. Their holy names were Rama, Lakṣmaṇa, Bharata and Satrughna. These celebrated incarnations thus appeared in four forms as the sons of Maharaja Dasaratha.
Radhanath Swami reads out “The Supreme Personality of Godhead said to the brahmana: I am completely under the control of My devotees. Indeed, I am not at all independent. Because My devotees are completely devoid of material desires, I sit…
tato niñkramya laìkäyä yätudhänyaù sahasraçaù mandodaryä samaà tatra prarudantya upädravan (SB 9.10.24) Thereafter, all the women whose husbands had fallen in the battle, headed by Mandodaré, the wife of Ravana, came out of Lanka. Continuously crying, they approached the…
“evam sada karma-kalapam atmanah Pare ‘dhiyajne bhagavaty adhoksaje Sarvatma-bhavam vidadhan mahim imam Tan-nistha-vipabhihitah sasasa ha” (SB 9.4.21) Translation In performing his prescribed duties as king, Maharaja Ambarisa always offered the results of his royal activities to the Supreme Personality…
sa vai manaḥ kṛṣṇa-padāravindayor vacāḿsi vaikuṇṭha-guṇānuvarṇane karau harer mandira-mārjanādiṣu śrutiḿ cakārācyuta-sat-kathodaye (SB 9.4.18) mukunda-lińgālaya-darśane dṛśau tad-bhṛtya-gātra-sparśe ‘ńga-sańgamam ghrāṇaḿ ca tat-pāda-saroja-saurabhe śrīmat-tulasyā rasanāḿ tad-arpite (SB 9.4.19) pādau hareḥ kṣetra-padānusarpaṇe śiro hṛṣīkeśa-padābhivandane kāmaḿ ca dāsye na tu kāma-kāmyayā yathottamaśloka-janāśrayā ratiḥ…
Lord Nityananda Prabhu Today is auspicious appearance of Lord Nityananda Prabhu. There is a beautiful song by Srila Narottam Das Thakur where he sings – brajendra-nandana jei, śacī-suta hoilo sei, balarāma hoilo nitāi He is offering his obeisances to Lord…
śrī-rājovāca manvantarāṇi sarvāṇi tvayoktāni śrutāni me vīryāṇy ananta-vīryasya hares tatra kṛtāni ca (SB 9.1.1) Translation : King Parīkṣit said: My lord, Śukadeva Gosvāmī, you have elaborately described all the periods of the various Manus and, within those periods, the…
Ravana.. Personlification of Lust.. One who follows the path of Ravana is condemned in two ways: his body is fit to be eaten by dogs and vultures, and the soul goes to hell. As stated by the Lord Himself in…
