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Once the late Sripada B. S. Govinda Maharaja—spiritual heir to the Sri Caitanya Saraswata Math of Srila B R Sridhara Maharaja—said of the followers of Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Thakura, “We are all living on the remnants of Swami Maharaja.”
In honor of Srila Prabhupada’s boarding of the Jaladuta on this day in 1965, Srila Sridhara Maharaja glorifies Prabhupada’s blessed journey, life, and the prayer that Prabhupada composed while traveling across the ocean.
The males are the aggressors; they are responsible for all the difficulties and troubles, not the ladies. That we possess the aggressive nature of a male is the disease in us.
For some un-reason, we feel that our ability to reason is limitless and infinitely perfectible. Nobody has voiced the idea that the exercise of our ability to think can reach the point of diminishing, then negative, returns.
Srila Sridhara Maharaja describes his own “wholesale” conversion to Caitanya Vaishnavism.
Under the influence of hallucinogenic drugs, one may have visions of Krishna, Buddha, Jesus, or dancing elephants for that matter, but such visions are only temporary creations of the mind.
Nobel Prize winning physicist and foundational contributor to quantum mechanics Werner Heisenberg gives us a glimpse into the “science and religion” discourse as it took place among some prominent scientists of the twentieth century.
With news of Dove World Outreach’s “Islam is of the Devil” campaign and “International Burn a Quran Day”, we are called to inquire, “What makes something ‘of the Devil?’”
His eccentric nature, his unkempt look and crazy brown cloth, his frustration with the status quo and his tendency to periodically boil over and without restraint speak in such a way as to be censured by authority. He was anything but a generic Hare Krishna devotee.
The interaction of Eastern spirituality and Western science has expanded methods of stress reduction, treatment of chronic disease, psychotherapy and other areas. But that is only part of the story.
