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The process of hearing
Chapter Three from the book Secret Truths of the Bhāgavatam, 2nd edition by Śrīla Bhaktivedānta Nārāyaṇa Mahārāja Yesterday, I explained that we should try to hear Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam from superior, self-realised rasika Vaiṣṇavas. This is written throughout...
Chastity in the Vedic scriptures
The following is an excerpt from a darśana with Śrīla Gaura Govinda Svāmī Mahārāja in Bhubaneswar, India, on November 5, 1993, published in Kṛṣṇa Kathāmṛta Bindu Issue 144 (Gopaljiu.org/bindu-archive/) Devotee: You have been speaking about spiritual pride. Once you...
The glories of Rāmānujācārya
The following is a transcription of a discourse delivered by Śrīla Bhaktivedānta Nārāyaṇa Mahārāja on Hawaii’s North Shore, on January 26, 2007 (Respected hari-kathā readers, the following is a transcription of Śrīla Bhaktivedānta Nārāyaṇa Mahārāja’s informal...
Kṛṣṇa meets the gopīs at Kurukṣetra
Chapter Six of the book The Origin of Ratha-yātrā, by Śrīla Bhaktivedānta Nārāyaṇa Mahārāja As Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu dances at the Ratha-yātrā Festival, He remembers a poem from a mundane Sanskrit literature called Sāhitya-darpaṇa. He raises His arms and...
‘Tricks’ of the bona fide guru
The following is a transcription of a discourse delivered by Śrīla Bhaktivedānta Nārāyaṇa Mahārāja in Perth, Australia, on January 31, 2001 Once, the king of heaven, Indra, and the king of demons, Virocana, both went to Brahmā for ātmā-jñāna (transcendental...
Lord Brahmā steals the cowherd boys and calves
The following is Chapter 6 from Kṛṣṇa - The Lord of Sweetness, First Edition by Śrīla Bhaktivedānta Nārāyaṇa Mahārāja For the last three days, I have spoken about dāmodara-līlā, the pastime of Kṛṣṇa being bound to a grinding mortar. After this pastime, all the...
Kṛṣṇa kills the demons
The following is a transcription of a discourse delivered by Śrīla Bhaktivedānta Nārāyaṇa Mahārāja in Maui, Hawaii, on May 23, 1999 (Bhakta Bandhav Anthology Volume 43) (An Indian devotee leads a Hindi bhajana) Śrīla Bhaktivedānta Nārāyaṇa Mahārāja: He’s...
The repository of jewels
The following is a transcription of a discourse delivered by Śrīla Bhaktivedānta Nārāyaṇa Mahārāja in Jagannātha Purī, India, on August 6, 2004 sañcārya rāmābhidha-bhakta-meghe sva-bhakti-siddhānta-cayāmṛtāni gaurābdhir etair amunā vitīrṇais...
Attachment to Kṛṣṇa
The following is a transcription of a discourse delivered by Śrīla Bhaktivedānta Nārāyaṇa Mahārāja in Hawaii on January 18, 2002 (Bhakta Bandhav Anthology Volume 79) Śrīla Bhaktivedānta Nārāyaṇa Mahārāja: My heartfelt obeisances at the lotus feet of my...
The satisfaction of Kṛṣṇa
The following is a transcription from a discourse delivered by Śrīla Bhaktivedānta Nārāyaṇa Mahārāja in Boven-Leeuwen, The Netherlands, on May 11, 1996 (Bhakta Bandhav Anthology Volume 1) Śrīla Bhaktivedānta Nārāyaṇa Mahārāja: I explained before that we should...