Nityananda, Gauranga, Hare Krishna! Jaya Guru Parampara! Jaya Swamiji Gaurangapada! Dandavats to all the Vaishnavas. Recently, there was a documentary on television concerning anxiety and depression and a way to escape this awful state of mind. The newest technique the psychiatrists presented is an ancient technique now known as mindfulness. In a nutshell, mindfulness is [...]

Question: I have been wanting to take up the practice of Nitai-Gaur Lekhana (Writing) Yoga for a while now to strengthen my loud chanting. There is a verse from one of the scriptures on that page:- “If one desires siddhi or the supreme perfection of life, then one must engage in Mental Japa Yoga. If [...]

[b]Question:[/b] hi swami, i tried to do gauranga kriya for 15 mins but i have difficulty breathing and chanting the mantra. i don’t know why everytime i do this yoga i would feel very tired and have difficulty going on. i have chronic fatigue for many years now but when i chant the two mantras [...]

[b]Question:[/b] Shall we just happily apply other methods if we experience that doing Reiki or “just follow your breath” type of meditation (shamatha), yoga, pranamayama etc. is conducive to our sattvic state of mind and God consciousness? [b]Answer by Swami Gaurangapada:[/b] Reiki and other new age stuff is not recommended in the Vedic scriptures before [...]

Nityananda Gauranga Writing (Lekhana) Yoga [Nityananda Gauranga Akshara Para Brahma Yoga] By His Holiness Swami Gaurangapada Lekhana is the Sanskrit word for Writing. Akshara means the divine infallible Syllables of the Nityananda and Gauranga Mantrarajas and the Hare Krishna Mahamantra which are non-different from and the direct incarnations of the Para Brahma or the Supreme [...]