Radhanath Swami on Forgiveness
Prahlāda Mahārāja said, “Oh Supreme Lord, because You are so merciful to the fallen souls, I ask you for only one benediction. I know that my father at the time of his death had already been purified by Your glance…
Prahlāda Mahārāja said, “Oh Supreme Lord, because You are so merciful to the fallen souls, I ask you for only one benediction. I know that my father at the time of his death had already been purified by Your glance…
Radhanath Swami: On behalf of Srila Bhakti Vedanta Swami Prabhupad and all of the previous acharyas and all of the assembled vaishnavas, I would like to welcome you all to Sri Sri Radha Gopinath temple. We are most honored and…
Radhanath Swami explains words, mind and ego with their respective controlling demigods have felt to achieve success in knowing the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Therefore we simply have to offer our respectful obeisance’s unto Him as a matter of sanity….
Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu playing the part the of perfect devotee, when He saw that His being a grhastha, was impeding people from hearing His message, He was going to give up, renounce His most loving, chaiste and faithful wife and His most loving mother. Such a wife and mother, nobody could possibly give up in this world.Generally, when a person is ready to take sannyas, he is pretty much frustrated with his family life. I have been so long, now I will be liberated from all of these anxieties, all of these demands, all of these entanglements.
Srila Bhakti Vinod Thakur presents the same compassionate spiritual frame of mind. He was also an empowered incarnation of Godhead. He descended to this world only for purpose of establishing the true principles of Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu. But he could see all around him such a degraded and fallen condition in human society, such rampant materialism, such perverted understandings and practices in the name of religion…….
sei bhakta-gana haya dvi-vidha prakara parisad-gana eka, sadhaka-gana ara Types of Devotees Pure devotees are of two types: personal associates [parisats] and neophyte devotees [sadhakas]. Perfect servitors of the Lord are considered His personal associates, whereas devotees endeavoring to attain…