Although Ganges water and tulasi blossoms are not difficult to acquire, Advaita offered them with uncommon love, and thus the world knows something about love that in our times has never been known before.
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In the sixth verse of Siksastakam Sri Gaurasundara speaks to Ramananda and Svarupa with deep spiritual emotion, longing for prema.
For one whose life goal is enlightenment in divine love—yogic perfection—there is a place for holidays, when one can reflect on how they have been spending their days and reorient themselves to take advantage of all that life has to offer.
Taking statements out of context some argue that A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami did not want his students to hear from Srila Sridhara Maharaja, but a careful study of Prabhupada’s statements reveals that this is far from an accurate representation of Prabhupada’s feelings on the issue.
“‘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.
The Yamuna River starts out clear as rainwater from a lake and hot spring at the foot of a glacier, 19,200 feet up in the Himalayas. But for much of its 853-mile length, it is now one of the world’s most defiled rivers.
Thomas Merton’s introduction to Srila A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada’s 1968 Bhagavad-Gita As It Is.
At the confluence of India’s holiest rivers, two childhood friends meet and share the respective traditions to which they have committed their lives.
