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Madhukar das

Madhukar das

🖐️ Five ways I get others to hold me accountable

🖐️ Five ways I get others to hold me accountable

When the desire to please śrī guru is blazing in the heart, all laziness and unwanted desires will automatically burn away. That desire alone will open our hearts to receive his instructions, after which we'll have all we need to attain our ultimate well-being. "Āra nā kariho

Songs to sing for Śrī Rāmacandra

Songs to sing for Śrī Rāmacandra

Jaya Śrī Śrī Sītā-Rāma! If you are subscribed to the Gaudiya Kirtan mailing list, then you've already received what I'm posting below. I didn't have time to prepare anything else and I thought these kīrtans might be helpful for your observance of Śrī Rāma

Figuring out what I'll be doing in Gaurābda 537

Figuring out what I'll be doing in Gaurābda 537

For us, in the line of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, the day of His appearance is the real New Year. What’s 2023? The real year for us is Gaurābda 537! I didn’t start off this year very strong because, after Gaura Pūrṇimā, I got pretty sick and didn’t

Remembering Śrīmatī Umā Dīdī

Remembering Śrīmatī Umā Dīdī

Yesterday we had a wonderful viraha-utsava in honor of Śrīmatī Umā Dīdī, absorbing ourselves in her many inspiring and heart-melting glories: her humility, her honesty, her boldness in crushing apasiddhānta, her addiction to hari-kathā, her intense sādhana, her happily enduring any kind of difficulty, her motherly warmth, and on and

One Must Correctly Identify A Vaiṣṇava

One Must Correctly Identify A Vaiṣṇava

by Śrī Śrīmad Bhakti Prajñāna Keśava Gosvāmī Mahārāja (Listen to the article read out below) Some Misconceptions The mercy of śrī guru and the Vaiṣṇavas is the one and only means by which a jīva can attain the ultimate goal of life. Only by their mercy is it possible for

The Glories of Nityānanda | Śrīla B.R. Śrīdhara Gosvāmī Mahārāja

The Glories of Nityānanda | Śrīla B.R. Śrīdhara Gosvāmī Mahārāja

Jaya Śrī Nityānanda Rāma! Haribol dear devotees! Please accept my praṇāma. Below are two excerpts from glorifications by Śrīla Bhakti Rakṣaka Śrīdhara Gosvāmī Mahārāja that I found on Śrī Caitanya Saraswat Maṭha's website, Śrī Gauḍīya Darśana, and Chapter Four of Śrī Guru and His Grace. I read them

Preparing for the auspicious arrival

Preparing for the auspicious arrival

Every year from 1996 onwards, my Śrīla Gurudeva blessed Badger, a little town in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountains, with the dust of his lotus feet and transformed it into New Braj. In Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam (1.13.10), Yudhiṣṭhira Mahārāja said to Vidura that because he carried the Lord