There were six great Gosvamis of Vrndavana — Srila Rupa, Sanatana, Bhatta Raghunatha, Sri Jiva, Gopala Bhatta and Dasa Raghunatha — and none of them inherited the title of gosvami. All the Gosvamis of Vrndavana were bona fide spiritual masters situated on the highest platform of devotional service, and for that reason they were called gosvamis. […]

Lord Krsna, as the teacher of human society, personally showed by His acts that the mercantile community, or the vaisyas, should herd cows and bulls and thus give protection to the valuable animals. According to smrti regulation, the cow is the mother and the bull the father of the human being. The cow is the […]

[Sukracarya to Lord Visnu]: There may be discrepancies in pronouncing the mantras and observing the regulative principles, and, moreover, there may be discrepancies in regard to time, place, person and paraphernalia. But when Your Lordship’s holy name is chanted, everything becomes faultless. PURPORTSri Caitanya Mahaprabhu has recommended: harer nama harer namaharer namaiva kevalamkalau nasty eva […]

Srila Prabhupada said, “Krsna is very strict and Radharani is very nice.” He continued, “A woman, unless she is unnatural, is very softhearted and very kind-hearted. And Radharani is not unnatural.” From: The Art Of Spiritual Life by Jadurani dasi

Our treatment is for the spiritually diseased person. When a person is afflicted with a disease, there are no distinctions between a poor man and a rich man. They are both admitted to the same hospital. Just as the hospital should be in a place where both the poor man and the rich man can […]

This kind of writing that convinces people to the point of taking some action is very special. I know because I have done a lot of writing . . . to write letters to people to convince them to donate for some particular cause. And it’s very, very difficult — to have someone to just […]