(6:00 a.m.—8:24 a.m.) Prātaḥ-līlā I worship Gauracandra, the golden moon, lying asleep in His bed at sunrise, His body injured from the previous night’s saṅkīrtana. Mother Śacī entered His sleeping chambers, observed Gaura’s injuries and … Read More
Arjuna And Duryodhana In Dvaraka After being properly instructed on what to say in front of the Kurava’s assembly, the ambassador left. On the same day, the allies of the Pandavas had returned to their kingdoms … Read More
Rankini Devi suspending her service After taking initiation from Syamananda Prabhu, Rankini Devi did not go back to the kingdom of King Navina Kishora Dhal. She went to Sripat Gopiballabhpur with Sri Rasikananda Prabhu and started … Read More
The Third Day The previous day’s defeat had warned Bhishma, who more prudently organized his armies into the Garuda formation. He had placed himself in the beak of the gigantic bird; in the eyes stood Drona … Read More
The Second Day With the image of Bhishma still before their eyes, the Pandavas deployed their troops in the form called krauncha, deeming it more effective in countering his action. Seeing this, Duryodhana became alarmed and … Read More
Other main disciples A short list of some of Syamananda’s prominent disciples is given in the Bhakti Ratnakara[1]: Rasika Murari, Radhananda, Purusottama, Manohara, Cintamani, Balabhadra, Jagadisvara, Uddhava, Akrura, Madhuvana, Govinda, Jagannatha, Gadadhara, Anandananda and Radhamohana. … Read More
Krishna took compassion upon Brahmā because of his inability to see how Krishna was displaying the forms of Visnu and transforming Himself into calves and cowherd boys, and thus, while fully manifesting the Visnu expansions, … Read More
At that point it was necessary to choose the right place to hide. In fact, the quiet period that followed the union of Bhima with Hidimbi had certainly not canceled the serious problem that poisoned their … Read More
After this manifestation of Lord Visnu, Brahmā saw that many other Brahmās and Śivas and demigods and even insignificant living entities down to the ants and very small straws – all moving and nonmoving living entities … Read More
It was late at night. Not far from their camp lived a Rakshasa named Hidimba and his sister Hidimbi. For years the two had been spreading death and pain and the inhabitants of that region trembled … Read More
But let’s go back to the Pandavas. The escape of the five brothers was so frantic that Kunti could not keep up. Bhima then took his mother on his shoulders so that they could continue running … Read More
After this event, Aksobhya Tirtha went to Pandharapur, on the banks of the Bhima-rathi River, where he met his future disciple Jaya Tirtha. Jayatirtha, whose name before initiation was Dhondo Pantraya Raghunatha, was the son of … Read More
After some time, Dhritarastra invested Yudhisthira with the post of crown prince. Obviously, this could not make the king particularly happy, as he would have preferred his son Duryodhana to succeed him, but he certainly could … Read More
Aksobhya Tirtha was a contemporary of the great advaitin philosopher Vidyaranya and the great exponent of Visistha-advaita, Vedanta Desika. Desika was the respected founder of the Vadakalai Movement. The name Desika means Master. In 1336, … Read More
Meanwhile, thanks to the teachings of the guru, the young students had developed great warrior skills in the use of all types of weapons. As was tradition in those days, Drona, Bhishma, Dhritarastra, and the elders … Read More
Some documents claim that Aksobhya was initiated directly by Madhvacarya. The Vyasa-raja Matha claims that Padmanabha, Nrhari, Madhava and Aksobhya were all direct disciples of Madhvacarya. However, the three previous Acaryas of our line (Srila Bhaktivedanta … Read More
When Brahmā was thus standing baffled in his limited power and conscious of his limited activities within the eleven senses, he could realize that he was also a creation of the material energy, just like … Read More
Thus, Parasurama kept him with him by delving into the innermost secrets of martial science. Over time Karna had felt kissed by luck because even in his wildest dreams he had never imagined being able to … Read More
Birth Akshobhya Tirtha (Akshobhya means “the undisturbed”) is part of an important group of little-known spiritual masters in the Vaisnava lineage. The acaryas from Sripad Madhvacarya to Madhavendra Puri were a mystery for most of … Read More
Let us remember how Kunti, before her marriage to Pandu, had a son with Vivasvan, the Deva of the sun. Karna is one of the main characters of Maha-bharata, therefore we must go back in time … Read More
