Gauranga Sundar Das

POWER OF CHANTING THE LORD’S NAME

July 19, 2021

T here are seven stages of transcendental purification and elevation that takes place when we chant the Holy Names of Krishna. SEVENTH PURIFICATION “Param vijayate Sri Krishna sankirtanam.” Lord Caitanya says, go on with this chanting, go on with this Sri Krishna Sankirtan. Let it be victorious in all directions....

TURNING TO THE BEAUTY OF LORD KRISHNA

July 5, 2021

T here are seven stages of transcendental purification and elevation that takes place when we chant the holy names of Lord Krishna. FIFTH PURIFICATION “Anandam buddhi vardhanam.” When we surrender to Krishna and agree to live in harmony with Krishna, be the servant of His servants, then by the grace...

TO SURRENDER TO THE WILL OF GOD IS REAL LIBERATION

June 28, 2021

THIRD PURIFICATION “Sreyah kairava candrika vitaranam.” We have just eliminated the negative. And now the positive is being introduced. We have cleansed the mirror heart of all the dirt and filth of the anarthas of material attachment. We have extinguished the blazing forest fire of material existence, which is the...

SEVEN STAGES OF PURIFICATION

June 21, 2021

T here are seven stages of transcendental purification and elevation that takes place when we chant the Holy Names of Krishna. Those who are sincere to make progress in Krishna consciousness should carefully understand this. FIRST PURIFICATION Ceto darpanam marjanam Lord Caitanya begins by chanting Ceto darpanam marjanam. The congregational...

EXPLAINING KARMA AND ITS DIFFERENT TYPES

June 7, 2021

1. LAW OF ACTION AND REACTION The term “karma” is inseparably connected with reincarnation. While trying to understand the reincarnation process one can’t avoid this term. Sanskrit word “karma” literally means “action, activity, work.” In the West, this term was first used by Russian theosophist Helena P. Blavatsky who defined...

UNDERSTANDING LORD KRISHNA AND HIS ENERGIES

May 24, 2021

T he Supreme Person who is completely independent and free to act according to His desire is Sri Krishna. He exists as the Supreme Truth, one without a second; but is inconceivably always in the company of His eternal energies. These energies are never independent of Krishna; rather they are...

Sanatana Dharma: Eternal occupation of the living entity

May 10, 2021

The Sanskrit word Sanatana means “eternal” and the word Dharma means “occupation.” Therefore the term “Sanatana Dharma” can be taken to mean our eternal occupation. The Supreme Lord and His transcendental abode are both Sanatana, eternal, as are the living entities, and the combined association of the Supreme Lord and...

THE TRANSFORMATIVE NATURE OF CONSCIOUSNESS ENERGIES

April 19, 2021

The individual consciousness can never live independently of other energies. Do we have experience of any energy being independent? In the current material circumstances of consciousness, as soon as the current situation terminates the consciousness, particles must associate themselves immediately with another energy, either, according to the Vedas, as energies...

KARMA AND REINCARNATION

March 29, 2021

In human society, if one kills a man he has to be hanged [or punished]. That is the law of the state. Because of ignorance people do not perceive that there is a complete state controlled by the Supreme Lord. Every living creature is the son of the Supreme Lord,...

TRI-GUNA: THE MODES OF MATERIAL NATURE

March 22, 2021

The English word “mode” best conveys the sense of the Sanskrit word “guna” (material quality). “Mode” comes from the Latin word “modus”, and it has a special application in European philosophy. Modus means “measure”. It is used to distinguish between two aspects of material nature: That which is immeasurable (called...

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