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Ekadasi Eve

From Śrīmad Bhāgavata to Caitanya Bhāgavata

From Śrīmad Bhāgavata to Caitanya Bhāgavata

In our daily Bhāgavatam reading today, the auspicious disappearance day of Śrīvāsa Ṭhākura, we have arrived at the culmination of Śrīla Śukadeva Gosvāmī's seven-day bhāgavata-kathā to Parikṣit Mahārāja. The timing felt incredibly fitting: After three years of reading Bhāgavatam almost every day, we had the great opportunity on

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:

🖐️ 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

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

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

Noting Śrīla Gurudeva’s Instructions

Noting Śrīla Gurudeva’s Instructions

In a few days it will be my Śrīla Gurudeva’s Vyāsa-pūjā. On Guru Pūrṇimā, or Vyāsa-pūjā day, he would explain what it means to truly perform guru-pūjā. So in today’s Ekādaśī-eve posting, I will share some quotes on this topic so that my mind will hopefully start contemplating