The Appearance Day of Lord Nṛsiṁhadeva

The Only Prayer that Everyone Should Offer yadi dāsyasi me kāmān varāṁs tvaṁ varadarṣabha kāmānāṁ hṛdy asaṁrohaṁ bhavatas tu vṛṇe varam     “O my Lord, best of the givers of benediction, if You at all want to bestow a desirable benediction upon me, then I pray from Your Lordship that within the core of [...]

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Vaisnava-seva

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Mahāprabhu’s Prīti-Dharma Process

Mahāprabhu’s Prīti-Dharma Process Excerpt from a lecture given by Śrī Śrīmad Gour Govinda Swami Mahārāja on 6 July 1992, Bhubaneswar, India.    Thus we have ātma-dharma and mano-dharma. Mano-dharma is aprīti-dharma, dharma not based on love, aprīti, which is concocted, imaginative. Therefore mano-dharma is speculation. Ātma-dharma is based on prīti-dharma, love, and descends by the [...]

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Śrī Rāma-Navamī

Śrī Rāma-Navamī Today is Śrī Rāma-navamī, the appearance day of Lord Rāmacandra, who appeared in the Raghu dynasty. Lord Rāmacandra was the Personality of Godhead; He exhibited superhuman activities, which no human being, including the materially advanced Rāvaṇa, could perform. Lord Rāmacandra prepared a royal road on the Indian Ocean with stones that floated on [...]

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The Fourth Dimension

The Fourth Dimension Excerpt from a lecture on Cc. Ādi 5.84-86 given by Śrī Śrīmad Gour Govinda Swami on 14 September 1989, Bhubaneswar, India.   We are conditioned souls, we can only understand or we can only conceive such a thing that has three dimensions; length, breadth and height. We cannot conceive a vastu or thing that has [...]

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Update Samadhi-Bhajan Kutir Issue

Update Samadhi-Bhajan Kutir Issue We recently received the following e-mail from Krishnagati Das prabhu: Dear Maharaj/Prabhuji’s, Kindly accept my humble pranam. Hope, this letter find your goodself in good health & blissful mood of Krishna Consciousness. It is for your information that our National Highway problem is settled with the understanding that the sewerage line shall go [...]

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The Greed of the Lord

The Greed of the Lord   A lecture by Sri Srimad Gour Govinda Swami Bhubaneswar, India, March 17, 1992  on The Appearance Day of Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu Published in Back to Godhead Magazine # 27-02, 1993   Using the word greed is wonderful. Has anyone used the word this way before? No one, but [...]

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Translation of Krsna Krpa Sri Murti

 Translation of Kṛṣṇa Kṛpa Śrī Mūrti The Embodiment of Kṛṣṇa’s Mercy   Devotees in Indonesia have published one of the booklets ‘Kṛṣṇa Kṛpa Śrī Mūrti’ in Indonesian as an offering to Śrīla Gurudeva on His Divine Grace’s Tirobhava this March. The booklet has been translated by His Grace Yudhajit Prabhu, a disciple of Śrīla Gurudeva. [...]

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Update on Bhajan Kutir – Samadhi Disaster BBSR

Update on Bhajan Kutir – Samadhi Disaster Bhubaneswar   Concerned disciples and followers of Sri Srimad Gour Govinda Swami feel let down by the ISKCON leaders in the Bhajan Kutir – Samadhi issue and feel as though that there has not been any response from them to this alarming tragedy of the destruction of the [...]

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Simply by His Will a Pure Devotee Leaves

Icchā-Mṛtyu Simply by His Will a Pure Devotee Leaves Today we celebrate the holy disappearance day of our most beloved and eternal spiritual master, His Divine Grace Oṁ Viṣṇupāda Paramahaṁsa Parivrājakācārya 108 Śrī Śrīmad Gour Govinda Swami Mahārāja   Time To Leave Excerpt from the article “Cry for Kṛṣṇa”.  Published in Back to Godhead Magazine [...]

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