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                                              Pancharatra All Glories to HDG Srila Bhakti Promode Puri Goswami Maharaj All Glories to HDG Srila Bhakti Siddhanta Saraswati Goswami Prabhupada This Pancharatra is an important branch of the Vaishnava scriptures. In ancient times the Vaishnavas were divided into twelve categories namely, Phenapa, Baaliakhya ,Vaikhanas, Sattvata ,Pancharatra ,Bhagavat, Bhakta, Paramahamsa ,Vaishnava ,Karmahina and Nirmatsaramad .The meaning of Pancharatra signifies the five types of knowledge gained. That is the reason the Narada Pancharatra was written in this way as pancharatra. ratrancha jnanavacanam jananam panchaviddham smrtam tenedam pancharatrancha pravadanti manisinah  SriJiva Goswami has commented in Para atma Sandharbha  that one can understand the by  gist of the Vedas by studying the Pancharatra scripture which demonstr...

                                                   ACTUAL AND NAME SAKE VAISHNAVAS All Glories to HDG Srila Bhakti Promode Puri Goswami  Maharaja All Glories to HDG SRILA Bhakti Siddhanta Saraswati Goswami Prabhupada Two types of people worship Krishna with the use of Krishna mantra. In order to understand the difference between the two we have to understand the meaning of the word pancopasana worship. The ultimate goal of this type of worship is to attain the undifferentiated Brahman. These category of worshippers understanding the difficulty of worshipping Brahman without form  formulate a speculative way of worship to purify their mind at the start. The scholar ,Vidaranya has tactfully expressed this as  sadhaka kamanam hitaarthaya brahman   rupakalpena . Although their worship is within the modes of nature ,it is the belief o...

                                  THE METHOD OF SECOND INTIATION OR DIKSHA All Glories to HDG Srila Bhakti Promode Puri Goswami  All Glories to HDG Srila Bhakti Siddhanta Saraswati Goswami Prabhupada U sually human beings to free themselves from their previous sinful activities perform the ten type of purificatory rituals as ordained in the scriptures. One of them is the awarding of the gayatri thread .On partaking of such a ritual ,one is said to have  received a purified second birth. Those who do not undertake this form of purification will mean their latent sins remain in them. The scholars praise those who follow these Vedic  tenets as being of very pious descent. Those who have  large stock of resultant sinful activities at birth are  born Sudras and those who have pious activities to their credit are promoted to be brahmins. Still, it is not that after being born as a bra...

                                                           DURGA DEVI  All Glories to HDG SRILA BHAKTI PROMODE PURI GOSWAMI MAHARAJ All Glories to HDG SRILA BHAKTI SIDDHANTA  SARAWATI THAKUR PRAHBHUPADA The word Durga when broken up each letter has different meanings. Da means to destroy the demons. The u stands for removal of all obstacles. The r stands for removal of all diseases. The ga stands for destruction of all sins. Finally the ending a means the destruction of all the fearful enemies. In the Vedas, the prayers to Chandi are as follows Durga asi durga bhava sagara nora sanga  meaning your name is Durga as you are the boat to cross the material ocean of suffering or as she Durga who removes all afflictions. Another verse of the scriptures states ,she who is renowned as Durga  for having killed the fearsome Mahas...

  above                              HDG Srila Bhakti Promode Puri Goswami               below                           HDG Srila Bhakti Siddhanta Saraswati Thakur Prabhupada ADVERSE DEVOTION For the devotee who worships The Supreme Lord in order to enjoy his turbulent senses ,SriKrishna mercifully makes the ignorant devotee forget that enjoying mood by recharging him with the absolute bliss of his devotional service. Srila Krishna Das Kaviraja in the Chaitanya Charitamrta explains the pastime of of     Dhruva Maharaja where at the onset   he desired for the highest regal opulence but by the worship of the Supreme Lord  gradually  that desire waned away. In the scriptures ,devotion to the Lord is mentioned as very difficult to achieve. From time immemorial ,this quest h...

THE VISION OF VRNDAVAN  All glories To HDG Srila Bhakti Promode Puri Goswami Maharaj All glories to HDG Srila BhaktiSiddhanta Saraswati Thakur Prabhupada Ordinarily if we were to evaluate the holy Vrndavana Dham as within the scope of our external senses then then definitely we are speaking of the Northwest portion of presently the country India  and  in the district of Mathura. .Anybody can go there by train and  there giving full vent to our taste buds as eating mango pickles and betel and touring the holy places supposedly in satisfying our external senses as the beautiful sights and sounds and when returning back to our domicile proceed to tell your friends how he had just visited the holy land of Vrndavan. Unfortunately the great souls do not consider much of this type of vision  without there being any actual service done to the holy land. Irrespective of the place they stay ,the great souls are always engaged in the service of Sri Radha Krishna in complet...

 All glories to my spiritual master H.D.G.Srila  Bhakti Pramode  Puri Goswami Maharaja. All glories to H.D.G Srila Bhakti Siddhanta Saraswati Thakur Prabhupada. The literary incarnation, Srila Vyasa Dev even after compiling many scriptural texts as the voluminous Mahabharatha and the many Puranas with so much effort was not able to maintain his peaceful composure. His guru then was able to relieve him out of that dilemma by his nectarine instructions. Srila Vyasa then engaged in rigid devotional service  and in that state of total concentration or samadhi was able to perceive the vision of the Supreme Lord together with His internal energy. He was able to note the non differential marginal energy as the living entity and also the material energy which was situated at the back of the Lord. The living entity by essence is a transcendental spark of  the Supreme consciousness and in reality above the  three modes of nature .Nevertheless ,The living entity by mi...

 In  Vedic Religion or what is termed as Hinduism we have a pantheon of gods or so it seems but the fact of the matter is that as in all the other standard religions there is in truth only one God who is the creator ,maintainer  and destroyer of the manifold variety of creation. This has been misconstrued by some due to the affinity of a votary to worship  a particular divine being or demigod who have been simply  placed by the Supreme Creator in different roles of governance for the maintenance of the different aspects of the creation .In truth ,all  living beings have to die irrespective ,still ,divine beings have a very long life span according to their position and responsibility in this universe. Only the one Supreme God remains immortal as the Original Person. Sometimes the question is raised why did He bring about the creation and with it so much suffering .In fact the answer by some sages is that all we perceive is the sport of the Lord .In fact , b...