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Welcome to the Fan The Spark channel where you will find encouragement and support for expanding your book distribution, sadhana, and understanding of sastra.
Considering the desire of the soul to experience something that is pleasurable—because we’re naturally pleasure-seekers—sac-cid-ānanda is ou...
It’s helpful to be relentless in your practice of devotional service, and it’s quite natural to be unsteady in the beginning. Part of being...
Chaitanya Mahāprabhu gave a condensed list of the great benefits of chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa, and one of them—śreyaḥ-kairava—is poetical. It is t...
First, I offer my respectful obeisances to Śrīla Prabhupāda, and note that this is an historic event. Hopefully, there will be plenty of pho...
We have a special treat, which is a bhajan written by Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura, five prayers to Nṛsiṁhadeva in Navadvīpa. In a very revealing wa...
Here at Govardhan Hill, many people come to ask your Girirāj for anything. In fact, in this Śrī Īśopaniṣad (Mantra 8), it is said: sa paryag...
When you are chanting, be aware that you pronounce the mantra and then let your mind follow each syllable carefully. Keep it in your heart t...
Medicine is something that everyone's vitally interested in. I have anecdotal proof every time I get something. For instance, when I was jus...
In our lives, the phenomenon is there that when we don't have a clear idea, a clear goal, then we tend to tip over. Somebody will come along...
Awareness is all important. Just be aware that you’re aware. You could do that. Try to wrap your awareness around the mantra so that it’s wr...
There's a story my teacher told about a person. In this case it is a man, Scott. Poor Scott, he put his money in the wrong bank account. He...
See, how yajña works! You do a little something, and the next thing you know, food’s coming in your door. That happened with Mṛgāri the hunt...
There’s a statement we’ve heard: 'We live in our minds; we see through the lens of our minds.' So, japa isn’t just repetition, but it’s a ki...
I had a similar experience going on—being on saṅkīrtana and hearing music when I was a brahmacārī. And, I distinctly remember once I heard a...
You should have a quota for reading.Take a number where you mark it and you make sure you finish it—even if it's one verse or one page—or if...
It's nice to have everything lined up. My wife and I were just on a personal retreat recently—five days to step back and really look into wh...
We often talk about trying to remember, Kṛṣṇa; we try to be fully conscious of His holy name. But keep in mind also that when Draupadī calle...
In fact, the whole concept of the world given in the Vedas is called bhava. Bhava means that everything is morphing into something different...
I wrote Our Family Business, and it took me a long time to get started because I had already written the book in my mind. My editor was Kais...
Thus although the subject matter is durvijñeyam, extremely difficult to understand, it becomes easy if one follows the prescribed method. Co...
In this Age of Kali, hari-kīrtana is very, very important. The importance of chanting the holy name of the Lord is stated in the following v...
The Supreme Personality of Godhead is situated as the Supersoul within the cores of the hearts of all living entities—whether moving or non-...
I would like to offer this class to my very dear friend and Godbrother, Caru Dāsa Prabhu, who is one of the great pioneers of the saṅkīrtana...
The main objective of varṇāśrama, is to surrender to Kṛṣṇa ultimately—but while we’re practicing Kṛṣṇa consciousness, there are ways in whic...
(1) nadīyā-godrume nityānanda mahājana patiyāche nām-haṭṭa jīvera kāraṇa (2) (śraddhāvān jan he, śraddhāvān jan he) prabhura ājñāy, bhāi,...
Kṛṣṇa likes it when we care about other peoples' consciousness and we take steps to help them. He says so in the Bhagavad-gītā; He says, "On...
As I was driving over here to your famous school of economics, I was thinking about opportunity cost. Because, of course, any choice we make...
harer nāma harer nāma harer nāmaiva kevalam kalau nāsty eva nāsty eva nāsty eva gatir anyathā “In this age of quarrel and hypocrisy, the onl...
If we want to serve Kṛṣṇa in a particular way, then Kṛṣṇa accommodates that. Take for example the Daṇḍakāraṇya ṛṣis; they thought, "Oh, He’s...
The real issue is not time management; it’s self-awareness management. Just as you’re saying: how do we manage our awareness? In essence, th...
Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued: My dear King, the chanting of the holy name of the Lord is able to uproot even the reactions of the greatest sin...
(1) (kiba) jaya jaya gorācāńder āratiko śobhā jāhnavī-taṭa-vane jaga-mana-lobhā jaga-jana-mana-lobhā (Refrain 1) (gaurāńger ārotik śobhā ja...
A prostitute came to Haridāsa Thākura's āśrama to try to distract him. She was put up to it; they paid her to do it to try to defame Haridās...
Chapter Twelve Devotional Service TEXT 1: Arjuna inquired: Which are considered to be more perfect, those who are always properly engaged in...
TEXT 1 arjuna uvāca evaṁ satata-yuktā ye bhaktās tvāṁ paryupāsate ye cāpy akṣaram avyaktaṁ teṣāṁ ke yoga-vittamāḥ TEXT 2 śrī-bhagavān uvāca...
Our goal for 2026 is 100,008 Śrīmad-Bhāgavatams; this is not a new goal. We set this goal five years ago, in 2021, and said, "By 2026, we de...
You’ll find in the Caitanya-caritāmṛta that Lord Caitanya says the Holy Name doesn’t wait for initiation; it’s sufficient for everything. An...
We’re an organization meant only for pure devotional service, and it’s important to keep a humble attitude and be "the servant of the servan...
Chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa is a transcendental activity meant to revive our original consciousness. Our original consciousness is Kṛṣṇa consciousne...
Even going to Jaipur—it was like one of those bumpy roads that we went on yesterday, but for the whole way. Now it’s nicer, but it still tak...
(1) udilo aruṇa pūraba-bhāge, dwija-maṇi gorā amani jāge, bhakata-samūha loiyā sāthe, gelā nagara-brāje (2) 'tāthaī tāthaī bājalo khol, gh...
To achieve the highest success in life by becoming a gosvāmī and then a pure devotee of the Lord, one must follow the instructions known as...
The Swāmi watched his visitors eat the lunch he had prepared for them, monitoring their progress through their meals and replenishing the pr...
My point is: you should assimilate what you have first. We already have so much, and it’s highly assimilatable—but not many people have assi...
Yesterday, I had a conversation with Judson Brewer. He’s a psychiatrist and a neurologist, and he has written several books. He teaches at B...
Song Name: Bhaja Re Bhaja Re Amar Author: Bhaktivinoda Thakura Book Name: Gitavali Language: Bengali (1) bhaja re bhaja re āmār mana ati man...
Vijñāpti-pañcaka - Padma Purāṇa 437 mat-samo nāsti pāpātmā nāparādhī ca kaścana parihāre ‘pi lajjā me kiṁ bruve puruṣottama yuvatīnāṁ yathā...
We heard that in the invocation verse that we sang—yuvatīnāṁ yathā yūni yūnāṁ ca yuvatau yathā | mano 'bhiramate tadvad mano me ramatāṁ tvay...
(1) madhuraḿ madhurebhyo ‘pi mańgalebhyo ‘pi mańgalam pāvanaḿ pāvanebhyo ‘pi harer nāmaiva kevalam (2) ābrahmā-stamba-paryantaḿ sarvaḿ m...
Recently, Nirākulā, my wife, and I have been getting our affairs in order—trying to make sure that we don’t have any extra stuff (because th...