In the following excerpt from Sermons of the Guardian of Devotion Srila Sridhara Maharaja begins to speak about some of the numerous events that make Vasanta-pancami an especially holy day.

In the following excerpt from Sermons of the Guardian of Devotion Srila Sridhara Maharaja begins to speak about some of the numerous events that make Vasanta-pancami an especially holy day.

Often the line between renegade and reformer is a fine one. Here I offered Gauravani and Mantralogy a chance to draw the lines themselves instead of having others do it for them.

To share Gaudiya Vaishnavism in a way that will resonate with a world that is reaping the fruits (some ripe, some spoiled) of reason and science necessitates an understanding of the essential spirituality that serves as the tradition’s basis.

“‘The Cloud of the Impossible’ is the experience that you simply can’t not enter, if you’re not going to settle for clichés and incoherencies, or repressed questions, in your spirituality.

Just as steady sadhana or recognizing opportunities to apply a spiritual perspective are activities worthy of cultivation, learning to take care of the temporary vehicle of our body is worth our effort as well.

“After performing this service, he aspires after a life in the cow-keeping lila of Krishna, and he is appreciating that sort of friendly service of Krishna very much from the core of his heart, his aspiration after finishing his worldly preaching campaign.”

Much has been published revealing the loving friendship of Bhakti Raksaka Sridhara Deva Goswami and Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, but it is also important for us to know Srila Sridhara Maharaja as he stands alone, fully illustrious in his own right.

A brahmachari for his entire life, Narottama dasa visited all the places of pilgrimage. He was on the highest platform of devotional achievement. (Bhakti-ratnakara 1.256)

We must seek out pure acts of expenditure that have no benefit to our immediate survival, which undermine our sense of individuality, which go against pragmatically oriented reason; we must learn to give freely in the midst of life or have it imposed on us as we rush past teeth of fear into the flaming mouth of destruction.

The feeling of dependence is purifying and humbling and is the foundation for treading the path of saranagati.