Title: Govinda Steps over GaurangaUser: Swami Gaurangapada    Date: 2006-06-10 07:10:49 Commentary by Swami Gaurangapada from Shri Chaitanya Charitamrita: Lord Gauranga finally stopped the kirtana. Shri Gauranga Mahaprabhu then took all of the devotees with Him and went to bathe in the sea. Thereafter, Shri Gauranga Mahaprabhu had lunch, along with His devotees, and at last, He [...]

Title: Vision at Puri Bhakti KutiUser: Swami Gaurangapada    Date: 2006-06-09 20:44:27 Seventh Goswami Paramhansa Shrila Saccidananda Bhaktivinoda Thakura writes in Shri Sajjana-toshani XV.1: “We are now sitting in our bhajana-kutira in Shri Purushottama Kshetra. Why, have we abandoned the capital of scholarship, the crowded and busy Calcutta, to escape to this far off place? Some time [...]

Title: Shri Haridasa Babaji and Gaudiya Holy BooksUser: Swami Gaurangapada    Date: 2006-06-09 20:17:01 Appearance: Bhadra 30, 1305 = Sept. 14, 1898Disappearance : Ashwin 3, 1364 = Sept. 20, 1957 Nityananda! Gauranga! Hare Krishna! Though Shri Haridasa Dasa Babaji who is in the line of the Gadadhara Parampara, is not in the line of our Bhaktivinoda Sarasvata [...]

Title: Govinda Becomes GaurangaUser: Swami Gaurangapada    Date: 2006-02-07 04:34:56 Lord Shri Krishna becomes Lord Shri Gauranga from the Varaha Samhitahttp://www.naam-yoga.com/Govinda-becomes-Gauranga.html Searching-for-Shrimati-Radha During the rasa-lila, Shrimati Radharani left the dancing arena. Lord Krishna went searching for Shrimati Radhika throughout the groves of Shri Vrindavana Dhama, but He could not find Her due to the nature of His [...]

Title: Challenging that Gauranga is GodUser: Swami Gaurangapada    Date: 2005-07-10 17:20:10 Reply to a received email: Nityananda! Gauranga! Hare Krishna! It would have been better if you have restricted your email to a philosophical challenge about Lord Gauranga being Lord Krishna Himself but rather you have chosen to openly attack the Lord, the Acharyas, the entire [...]

Title: ISKCON PolicyUser: Swami Gaurangapada    Date: 2005-07-10 10:57:19 Nityananda! Gauranga! Hare Krishna! Jaya Shrila Prabhupada! This message is for general information. ====================================================== From the ISKCON Law Book: 8.2.1.1    Seeking Instruction Outside ISKCON Improperly Since all the spiritual knowledge and instruction required is available in Shrila Prabhupad’s books and from ISKCON, no ISKCON member shall be allowed [...]

Title: Spiritual SectarianismUser: Swami Gaurangapada    Date: 2005-05-29 16:44:23 Spiritual Sectarianismby Shrila Sacchidananda Bhaktivinoda Thakura in Shri Krishna Samhita Sectarianism is a natural byproduct of the Absolute Truth. When acaryas first ascertain and instruct the Truth, it is not polluted with sectarianism. But the rules and regulations received through disciplic succession regarding the goal and the method [...]

Title: Who came first: Gauranga or Radha Krishna?User: Swami Gaurangapada    Date: 2005-05-02 19:48:22 Who came first: Gauranga or Radha Krishna?Live Temple Room Satsanga: 2nd May 2005: 10.15 – 11 pm, Indian Standard Time. – Swami Gaurangapada says:    Chapter 1: Mangalacarana: Prema Vivarta by Shrila Jagadananda Pandita. – Swami Gaurangapada says:    ”The loving affairs of Shri Shri Radha and [...]

Title: "You are most magnanimous": Shrila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati PrabhupadaUser: Damodara Svarupa dasa    Date: 2005-04-14 12:55:04 “You are most magnanimous”: Shrila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Prabhupada — By Swami Gaurangapada Shrila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura Prabhupada: “O Shri Krishna Chaitanya! O Lord Gauranga! You are most magnanimous! You have not established so-called schools and orphanages, nor have You spent Your [...]

Title: Spiritual Greetings and AddressUser: Damodara Svarupa dasa    Date: 2005-04-05 07:02:45 Spiritual Greetings and Address in Gauranga Dharma — By Swami Gaurangapada Q. (by devotee): I have seen various forms of greetings in Gauranga Dharma while writing or when meeting in person. Kindly tell me what greetings should be followed when we meet physically and greet [...]

Title: The Tota-Gopinatha TempleUser: Damodara Svarupa dasa    Date: 2005-04-05 06:39:35 The Tota-Gopinatha Temple — By Swami Gaurangapada The Tota-Gopinatha Temple is situated in a remote area on the Cataka-Parvata sand dunes near the beach, and a tall city water tower; a 15 minute walk from the Samadhi tomb of Haridas Thakur. The Gaudiya Vaishnavas accept that [...]

Title: Pearls of Instruction from Shrila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura PrabhupadaUser: Damodara Svarupa dasa    Date: 2005-04-04 19:35:02 Pearls of Instruction from Shrila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura Prabhupada — By Swami Gaurangapada Pearls of Instruction from His Divine Grace Om Vishnupada Paramhansa Shrila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura Prabhupada: 1. We are constantly put to test and trial in this world. [...]

Title: The Spiritual Duties of HouseholdersUser: Damodara Svarupa dasa    Date: 2005-04-03 21:02:29 The Spiritual Duties of Householders — By Swami Gaurangapada The Spiritual Duties of Householders This is classic essay on this subject By Shrila Sacchidananda Bhaktivinoda Thakura, the Modern Pioneer Spiritual Preceptor of Gauranga Dharma, written in his Vaishnava Toshani magazine. What is proper occupation? [...]

Title: Basic Philosophy Chat with a devoteeUser: Damodara Svarupa dasa    Date: 2005-04-01 19:27:16 Basic Philosophy Chat with a devotee — By Swami Gaurangapada (SG = Swami Gaurangapada, G = Devotee) G : hare krishnaG : i want to tell u 1 thingG : ii will need some time to absorb the concepts of Gauranga Dharma.SG: Yes.SG: [...]

Title: Nityananda-gauranga-kara-pada-yugala-dhyanaUser: Damodara Svarupa dasa    Date: 2005-04-01 17:51:35 NITYANANDA-GAURANGA-KARA-PADA-YUGALA-DHYANA — By Swami Gaurangapada The Meanings of the Auspicious Marks on the Lotus Feet and Hands of TheirLordships Shri Shri Nityananda Gauranga These beautiful meanings should be meditated upon while chanting the Nityanandaand Gauranga Mantrarajas Sources – Shrimad Bhagavatam, Saratha-darshini, (Visvanatha Chakravarti’sBhagavatam commentary), Ananda-chandrika (Visvanatha’s tika on [...]

Title: Vaishnava Funeral RitesUser: Damodara Svarupa dasa    Date: 2005-03-11 20:28:37 Vaishnava Funeral Rites — By Swami Gaurangapada Vaishnava Antyesti-kriya: Funeral Rites hari-namadmoksara-yuktom bhale gopl-mrddnkitam tulasi-mdlikoraskarh sprseyur na yamodbhatah “Those whose body is adorned with tilaka or gopi-candana, and marked allover with the Holy Names of the Lord, and whose neck and chest are adornedwith tulasi-mdld, will [...]

Title: Gauranga Dharma is glorified in Krishna UpanishadUser: Damodara Svarupa dasa    Date: 2005-03-09 21:02:17 Gauranga Dharma is glorified in Krishna Upanishad — By Swami Gaurangapada sa eva bhagavan yuge turiye ‘pi brahma-kule jayamanah sarva upanisadah uddidirsuhsarvani dharma-sastrani vistarayisnuh sarvan api janan santarayisnuh sarvanapi vaishnavan dharman vijrmbhayan sarvan api pasandan nicakhana. (Krsnopanisad ) In the Krishna Upanisad [...]

Title: What is Gauranga DharmaUser: Damodara Svarupa dasa    Date: 2005-03-08 13:22:38 What is Gauranga Dharma? — By Swami Gaurangapada Gauranga Dharma or Gaurangaism is the spiritual, scientific, universal, constitutional, original and eternal nature, characteristic, dynamic activity and religion of the soul in relation to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the Supersoul and the Supreme Absolute Truth [...]

Title: Uncompromising Enemy of UntruthUser: Damodara Svarupa dasa    Date: 2005-03-05 11:44:36 Uncompromising Enemy of Untruth — By Swami Gaurangapada From the Great Favor, a Harmonist article, by Shrila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura Prabhupada: “A chanter of the Kirtan of Hari is necessarily the uncompromising enemy of wordliness and hypocrisy. As chanter of the Kirtan of Hari, it [...]

Title: The History of Shri Tirupati Balaji Venkateswara from the PuranasUser: Damodara Svarupa dasa    Date: 2005-03-01 20:02:32 The History of Shri Tirupati Balaji Venkateswara from the Puranas — By Swami Gaurangapada Some extracts from the Varaha Purana: The Rishis headed by Kasyapa began to perform a sacrifice (yaga) on the banks of the Ganges. Sage Narada [...]

Title: The Simple Faith of a BrahmanaUser: Damodara Svarupa dasa    Date: 2005-02-26 16:44:06 A Brahmana’s Simple Faith — By Swami Gaurangapada In the holy place of Shri Ranga-ksetra, a brahmana Vaishnava used tovisit the temple daily and recite the entire text of the Bhagavad-gita. The brahmana regularly read the eighteen chapters of theBhagavad-gita in great transcendental [...]

Title: Chat transcript about how Lord Gauranga saved a puppy Dog!User: Damodara Svarupa dasa    Date: 2005-02-26 16:14:07 Chat transcript about how Lord Gauranga saved a puppy Dog! — By Swami Gaurangapada Swami Gaurangapada (Spiritual M: One who is not taken efforts to beblessed by the Supremely wonderful nayak Lord Nityananda Balarama,such a person’s life is simply [...]

Title: Brahma-Muhurta – The 48 mins from 1 hr 36 min to 48 min before SunriseUser: Damodara Svarupa dasa    Date: 2005-02-24 17:05:06 Brahma-Muhurta – The 48 mins from 1 hr 36 min to 48 min before Sunrise — By Swami Gaurangapada 1 Muhurta = 48 minutes. 1 day = 24 hrs = 30 Muhurtas.Brahma-Muhurta is the [...]

Title: Meditation during Offering of Bhoga to Lords Nityananda-GaurangaUser: Damodara Svarupa dasa    Date: 2005-02-24 16:57:57 Meditation during Offering of Bhoga to Lords Nityananda-Gauranga — By Swami Gaurangapada When we offer the bhoga to our Guru and Shrila Prabhupada, he passesit on to his own Guru and so on until it reaches Lordships Nityananda-Gauranga and Lordships Radha-Krishna. [...]

Title: 17.7 million years agoUser: Damodara Svarupa dasa    Date: 2005-02-24 16:55:43 17.7 million years ago — By Swami Gaurangapada Shrila Rupa Goswami’s Laghu Bhagavatamrta Text 78: kausalyayam dasarathannava-durva dala-dyutihtretayam avirabhavaccaturvimse catur-yugebharatena sumitrayanandanabhyam ca samyutah kausalyayam-in the womb of Kausalya-devi; dasarathat-from DasarathaMaharaja; nava-fresh; durva-dala-durva grass; dyutiH-with the splendor;tretayam-during the Treta-yuga; avirabhavat-appeared; caturvimse-during the24th; catuh-yuge-cycle of four yugas; [...]

Title: Gaurangapada NectarUser: Damodara Svarupa dasa    Date: 2005-02-22 11:34:59 “One should thus associate and hear from Vaishnavas not on the basisof such a narrow-minded secular organizational understanding, ratherone should consider their adherence to the teachings of Guru-Sadhu-Shastra and how nicely they have imbibed the instructions of Guru andGauranga.” — By Swami Gaurangapada “Just like the glorification [...]

Title: 146 ways to describe Krishna or GodUser: Damodara Svarupa dasa    Date: 2005-02-22 11:27:12 146 ways to describe Krishna or God — By Swami Gaurangapada Nectar from Tenth Canto, Shrimad-Bhagavatam (All the references in the brackets are to chapter and verse of theTenth Canto of Shrimad Bhagavatam). Krishna is possessed of an unlimited intellect (10/84/22).Krishna is [...]

Title: Lord Chaitanya And The Acharyas On 64 RoundsUser: Damodara Svarupa dasa    Date: 2005-02-22 07:17:11 Lord Chaitanya And The Acharyas On 64 Rounds — By Swami Gaurangapada The perfection of life is to get the degree of laksesvara from LordChaitanya those who don’t chant 100,000 names daily will developmaterial desires and become incapable of serving even [...]

Title: Shrila Prabhupada On 64 RoundsUser: Damodara Svarupa dasa    Date: 2005-02-22 07:13:23 Shrila Prabhupada On 64 Rounds — By Swami Gaurangapada SO YOU HAVE TO INCREASE (THE CHANTING). THAT IS THE ONLY REMEDY. DETERMINATION TO CHANT 64 ROUNDS IS DRDHA-VRATAH. (CONCLUSION: IF THE MATERIAL FEVER IS NOT BEING DIMINISHED, CHANTING64 ROUNDS IS THE ONLY REMEDY IN [...]

Title: SP on Vani & VapuUser: Swami Gaurangapada    Date: 2005-02-05 01:16:49 Shrila Prabhupada’s Quotes on Vani and Vapu Physical presence is immaterial. Presence of the transcendental soundreceived from the Spiritual Master should be the guidance of life.That will make our spiritual life successful. If you feel verystrongly about my absence you may place my pictures on [...]

Title: Prayers to BeadsUser: Swami Gaurangapada    Date: 2005-02-05 00:36:15 (1) Shri Nama-mala-grahana-mantra (upon taking one’s beads):“His form bent in three places, His hands bent over the holes of His flute, the son of Nanda Maharaja Lord Krishna stands resplendent amidst a circle of gopis.” The Verse is as follows:tribhanga-bhangima-rupamvenu-randhra-karancitamgopi-mandala-madhya-sthamsobhitam nanda-nandanam (2) Shri Nama-mala-grahana-mantra (on taking the [...]

Title: Lord Shiva in Vraja and NavadvipaUser: Swami Gaurangapada    Date: 2007-04-22 07:46:26 LORD SHIVA IN VRAJA & ,NAVADVIP MANDAL (MAYAPUR) MATHURAfour ancient deities  of lord shiva residing at mathura are known asdik-palas, protectors of directions. they stay in mathura to protect thedhama.Bhuteswar mahadev is the protector of western side fo mathura. Peppaleswrmahadeva resides near vishram ghat [...]

The Actual Secret of Lord ShivaAdapted from Shri Padma Purana, Uttara Khanda Chapters 235-236.From Madhavananda Dasa’s article in the Krishna Kathamrita magazine copyrighted by Gopal Jiu Publications. Please support the author bybuying the Krishna Kathamrita Magazine. Parvati Said, "O Lord Shiva, You once told me that one should avoid speaking with Pasandi atheistic demon,and that [...]

Crocodile Becomes Vegetarian From the NDTV Correspondent, Saturday, August 26, 2006 (Kasargod):We’ve all heard of celebrities who turn vegetarian, but here’s someone who’s become a celebrity purely on the virtue of being vegetarian! A crocodile in a temple pond in Kasargod in Kerala has now shot to fame locally after news got out that this [...]

Civilization Before 3000 BC Nityananda! Gauranga! Hare Krishna!Gurudeva, please acept my humble dandavats at your lotus feetdandavats at the lotus feet of all devotees We had done a presentation on mystries of the world,for our Communication Skills Term work, here is an exerpt from it challanging modern historical concept that civilization began from 3000 b.c. [...]

Global Warming Due to Ugra Karma Nityananda! Gauranga! Hare Krishna! All of us have experienced the extreme heat of summer this year. Even Navadvipa Dhaam had a record-breaking heat wave. In just one minute we would become drenched with our own perspiration. What is the reason for this? From an article: The world is in [...]

DISSENT FROM DARWIN “GOES GLOBAL” AS OVER 600 SCIENTISTS FROM AROUND THE WORLDEXPRESS THEIR DOUBTS ABOUT DARWIN’S THEORY SEATTLE — Over 600 doctoral scientists from around the world have now signeda statement publicly expressing their skepticism about the contemporarytheory of Darwinian evolution. The statement, located online atwww.dissentfromdarwin.org, reads: “We are skeptical of claims for theability [...]

Morality Proves that God Exists The moral argument appeals to the existence of moral laws as evidence ofGod’s existence. According to this argument, there couldn’t be such a thingas morality without God; to use the words that Sartre attributed toDostoyevsky, “If there is no God, then everything is permissible.” Thatthere are moral laws, then, that [...]

Can God Create a Stone which He cannot Lift Some of the various arguments for atheism claim that the concept of God isincoherent, that there are logical problems with the existence of such abeing. Perhaps the best known of these is the paradox of the stone: Can Godcreate a stone so heavy that he cannot [...]

Harvard to Investigate Origins of LifeAugust 15, 2005. CAMBRIDGE, Mass.(excerpts) – Harvard University is joining the long-running debate over the theory of evolution by launching a research project to study how life began. The team of researchers will receive $1 million in funding annually from Harvard over the next few years. Harvard has told the [...]

Did Life Begin by Chance? === By Holiness Swami Gaurangapada == To get some idea of what exactly is involved in speculating that life could have emerged by random combination of chemicals in a primordial soup, let us imagine that this soup covered the entire surface of the earth to a depth of one mile. [...]

Life by Chemical Combination === By His Holiness Swami Gaurangapada === Based on a vast amount of laboratory data, the currently popular scientific theory holds that life is a coordinated chemical reaction. This theory involves the basic assumption that the various life forms we see today originated by chance in a primitive and complex chemical [...]