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I've got a gift for you! 🎁 A Vaiṣṇava calendar on all your devices

I've got a gift for you! 🎁 A Vaiṣṇava calendar on all your devices

Haribol everyone, please accept my daṇḍavat praṇāma. I hope you are having a nourishing and inspiring Vāruthinī Ekādaśī. Over the next few weeks or months, I would like to explore a very important part of our Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇava culture: the Vaiṣṇava pañjikā, or calendar. There are many topics to discuss:

Should I restart the Rūpa-śikṣā study program? 🤔

Should I restart the Rūpa-śikṣā study program? 🤔

When I looked at the calendar yesterday, I noticed Akṣaya-tṛtīyā approaching in just two weeks' time. I was reminded that this was the day we began the Śrī Rūpa-śikṣā program last year. With it coming so soon, I'm now starting to feel mental, wondering whether or not

🖐️ 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

Final Darśana with Śrī Śrīmad Gour Govinda Swami Mahārāja

Final Darśana with Śrī Śrīmad Gour Govinda Swami Mahārāja

Final Darśana with Śrī Śrīmad Gour Govinda Swami Mahārāja A personal account told by Vaijayantī-mālā dāsī (A note from Madhukar das: If you'd like to listen to me reading out Vaijayanti-mālā's account, which I did this morning in our daily reading group, click here. You'