28th of December 2009 (UK) is Putrada Ekadasi The glories of Putrada Ekadashi which occurs during the waxing moon in the month of December/January is described in Bhavisya Uttara Purana in the conversation between Lord Krishna and Maharaj Yudhister. Lord Krishna said to Udhister, My dear king the Ekadashi which occurs during the waxing moon in the month of [...]

Dear devotees, Hare Krishna, Dandvat Pranam to Swami Gaurangapada. Dandvat Pranam Srinath Prabhu, Dandvat Pranam to all the devotees on the forum. By Shyam Sundar ji My understanding is that this forum is for discussion on devotional topics. The first stage in devotion is sraddha : “sraddha sabde visvas kahe, sudridh niscay, Krishna bhakti kaile [...]

Nityaananda ! Gauraanga ! Hare Krishna ! As a self appointed gardener of this garden called Nitaaiyoga.com, I am going to pluck some beautiful flowers (read posts) at the Lotus Feet of their Lordships Nityaananda , Gauraanga and our beloved Gurudeva.  “Krishna is the avatara of Dvapara-yuga. Gaura is the Kali-yuga avatara. We should sing [...]

Nityaananda ! Gauraanga ! Hare Krishna ! When you think of a pilgrimage place or a Holy river what all comes to your mind first? People from all part of the world assembling at a place and enthusiastically participate in various spiritual activities. You could see saintly people taking a holy dip, offering water to [...]

Dear Gurudev, Nityaananda ! Gauraanga ! Hare Krishna ! Dandavat Pranaams ! Shrila Haridas Thakur said that loud japa(Vachika) is 100 times better than soft japa. Can you pls guide me that by saying soft japa did he mean Upanshu or Manasa ? If it is refered to as Manasa then when he said loud japa [...]

To all devotees, Haribol! All I can say is that the Lord has been unlimitedly kind on us by giving us a chance to immediately get to the purest platform of devotion. At least in this life, we over here are far away, both physically and otherwise from all the “white noise” that is going [...]

Babaji: On the day that the jiva accepts suddha-nama, one name that he utters certainly destroys the sum total of all his prarabdha and aprarabdha-karma, and through the second name, prema will arise. (—Sri Sacchidananda Bhaktivinode Thakur) PS : The mantrarajas Nityananda and Gauranga bring us quite close to realizing that this is quite possible [...]

Nityaananda! Gauraanga! Hare Krishna! At Copenhagen, world top leaders are meeting to arrive at consensus to quantify the level of carbon emissions. Negotiations are still going on. On this very important issue of global warming there seems to be vertical split between developed and developing countries. The developing countries are defending their case and according [...]

  Tomorrow 12th December is Saphala Ekadasi in some parts of the world. This Saphala Ekadashi occures during the waning moon in the month of December/January. The glories of this Ekadashi is described in Brahmanada Puran in the conversation between Lord Krishna and Maharaj Yudhisthira. Maharaj Yudhisthira said, ‘O Krishna, what is the name of [...]

Swamiji, Just wanted to know that formatting option (through WordPress) is available  for new post only ? It seems that for reply to the post this facility is not available. Aspiring to serve Your Lotus Feet Chhotoo & Family ShareTweet

Dear Guruji and sincere devotees, Nityananda Gauranga Hare Krishna! Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Sri Sri Guru and Gauranga! The absolute and relative point of view: I have thought about this for quite a while. It comes back to us in so many ways and it causes so many confusions and contradictions [...]

Lord Krishna becomes extremely offended when someone criticizes His devotees. He says in one sloka; “That even if My four arms make an offense to such a devotee, I will take my own chakra and I will cut off My four arms, My own arms, if they make an offense to such a person. This [...]

Few days back i was asked to make a presentation on how we are serving our client.  I begin the presentation with this sentence “Serving client is akin to serving God”.  I was not able to finalize the structure of the presentation. Immediately three words of Jaiva Dharma came to my rescue.   1) Sambandha 2) [...]

Nityaananda ! Gauraanga ! Hare Krishna ! Interesting analogy from day to day life I was carrying my son on my shoulder as I always do. Amount of joy my son gets is immeasurable. How can i experience the same joy since I cannot see him? Only if i can go back to my childhood [...]

I would like to point a problem with the RSS feed. If any author posts more than once a day, only one of the posts (most recent) shows up in the RSS thread on Facebook on our Nitaaiyoga page there and this causes huge loss at times. Even trying to re-adjust time stamps doesn’t help. [...]