Ekadasi Eve

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

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

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

New Year’s Day, the day billions of people around the world make new resolutions, has coincided with Ekādaśī Eve, the infinitely more powerful day to make resolutions. Unless you're like Dhruva, who sustained only on air by breathing once every twelve days, or Jarāsandha, who, despite being

I'm sitting here at my computer, the night before Ekādaśī, thinking of what to write for the pre-Ekādaśī posting I'm supposed to be sending out now. Yesterday was one of the most important days of the year for me: the disappearance day of my Śrīla Gurudeva

Starting today, I will try to regularly write something to post the day before Ekādaśī. I got the idea to do this yesterday and only late last night did I write the article below. Although it should still be a rough draft😅, I'm posting it now so it