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R-s 4b ❤️‍🩹 In whom do I place my trust?

R-s 4b ❤️‍🩹 In whom do I place my trust?

❧ Cc Madhya 19.144–150 ❧ Last week, in the first video, we went over the verse kṛṣṇa-bhakta—niskāma ataeva santa (Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta Madhya-līlā 19.149), but I mostly discussed just the Bengali grammar and didn’t explain the verse so deeply. This is such an important verse so I decided

R-s 4a 😌 Only the devotee of Kṛṣṇa is peaceful

R-s 4a 😌 Only the devotee of Kṛṣṇa is peaceful

Cc Madhya 19.144–149 This week, we are going through the next eight verses of Rūpa-śikṣā where Mahāprabhu explains the increasing rarity of one who has taken birth the human species, then of one who follows the scriptures, then of one who engages in fruitive activity, and then of

R-s 3b ❇️ My position in relation to the Lord

R-s 3b ❇️ My position in relation to the Lord

❧ Cc Madhya 19.142–143 ❧ Ooooh man, I'm sitting at my desk after Maṅgala-ārati having stayed up the whole night (again) working on the last video. I was determined to get it done on Saturday like I said I would. Well, it's Sunday at 5:00AM

R-s 3a 🔬 Zooming IN

R-s 3a 🔬 Zooming IN

❧ Cc Madhya 19.139–141 ❧ This week, the verse that I think is most important to learn is also quite long and difficult. There’s so much in it and it’s been taking me quite some time to be able to understand it. So in order to not put

Commencing daily readings of the Tenth Canto

Commencing daily readings of the Tenth Canto

26 years ago on this Tritīya tithi, my Śrīla Gurudeva, nitya-līlā-praviṣṭa Śrī Śrīmad Bhaktivedānta Nārāyaṇa Gosvāmī Mahārāja, embarked on his first Western tour to spread rūpānuga-bhakti to countless fortunate souls all over the world. So in 7 1/2 hours from now, on such an auspicious day, we are commencing

One less verse to memorize this week!

One less verse to memorize this week!

This morning, as I went to start writing the script for the video on the second verse of this week, I had a huge mental block. I decided to make a mind-map and I began to fill it up with more and more things I found on the topic of

R-s 2 🐜 Zooming OUT

R-s 2 🐜 Zooming OUT

❧ Cc Madhya 19.138 ❧ This week we are memorizing two verses instead of one.* So to give you extra time to memorize the verses, and also in order to not conflict with devotees' Nṛsiṁha Caturdaśī celebrations, I am moving our verse recitation on Zoom a couple days later to