by TVP BOOKS | May 20, 2012 | Tattva Siddhanta
NINTH OFFENCE nāma grahaṇa samaye asāvadhānatā anavadhānatā To Be Inattentive While Chanting From the up and coming booklet Nama-Aparadha – The Ten Offences By His Divine Grace Srila Gour Govinda Swami Fix the Mind on Krishna While chanting the mahā-mantra on...
by TVP BOOKS | May 17, 2012 | Tattva Siddhanta
The Chanter of Kirtana is Always Prepared to Submit to Being Trodden Upon Sent in by Goloka Vrindavana dasa Our Srila Gurudeva Gour Govinda Swami Maharaja Acarya Thakura is the Chanter of Hari-kirtana A chanter of Hari-kirtana is necessarily the uncompromising enemy...
by TVP BOOKS | May 15, 2012 | Tattva Siddhanta
Who is a True Disciple? A selection from a class delivered by His Divine Grace Srila Gour Govinda Swami Maharaja.(Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 9.18.44 Bhubaneswar — April 18, 1995)Sent in by Goloka Vṛndāvana Dāsa One Indian poet has spoken of putra and mūtra....
by TVP BOOKS | May 14, 2012 | Tattva Siddhanta
How Can Krishna See His Beauty? Vṛndāvane ‘aprākṛta navīna madana’ (Cc. Madhya 8.138) – He is always fresh and young, the transcendental spiritual Cupid in Vṛndāvana, ever fresh and new. Any time you will see Him He is new, newer. He never grows old. He is ever...
by TVP BOOKS | May 13, 2012 | Tattva Siddhanta
A Devotee Fixed in Loving Service Purifies the Entire Universe Śrī Kṛṣṇa says to Uddhava: vāg gadgadā dravate yasya cittaṁrudaty abhīkṣṇaṁ hasati kvacic cavilajja udgāyati nṛtyate camad-bhakti-yukto bhuvanaṁ punāti A devotee whose speech is sometimes choked...
by TVP BOOKS | Apr 17, 2012 | Tattva Siddhanta
This story is part of a lecture delivered by His Divine Grace Srila Gour Govinda Swami Maharaja on 21 July 1995 in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Sinful Activity is Rampant Suka Gosvami, addressing Saunaka and the rsis, said, “I will narrate a story full of bhakti. I...