Author: Gabriel Brandis Publisher: ISBN: 9780595312641 Category : Cults Languages : en Pages : 0
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Servant of the Lotus Feet: A Hare Krishna Odyssey is the true story of an adolescent's quest for spiritual meaning. Enchanted by the wisdom of the Orient, Sidd drops out of his freshman year of college in the early 1980's to join the Hare Krishnas while visiting Boston. During the course of four years in New England and New York City, Sidd struggles as a fund-raiser for the cult. As an initiated Brahman priest, he gains privilege and responsibility. Sidd's innocent question posed to the spiritual master in a room of hundreds of curious guests and devoted followers shakes the foundations of the temple walls, engaging the "holy man's" wrath. Disillusioned by the contradictions and deceits perpetrated by the elders of the Indian religious cult, including his and other allegedly "pure" spiritual masters, Sidd gradually backs out of the movement. While visiting his family for a holiday reunion, Sidd is abducted and compelled to review the facts about the religious cult he had embraced.
Author: Srila Rupa Goswami Publisher: Golden Age Media ISBN: 8187057912 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 284
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The purpose of this book Sri Padyavali (English) Hard Bound is nicely described in the very first verse: This Padyavali (Anthology of Poetry) was written by devotees expert in the mellows of devotional service. This book contains many beautiful verses, which have been collected for the pleasure of the devotees. It illuminates the darkness of ignorance, and it is an ocean of transcendental bliss. Of course, there are many anthologies of verses written by great devotees, but one notable point is explained in the conclusion of the work: Jayadeva Gosvami, Bilvamangala Thakura, and other famous authors have written many books. Without referring to their verses, the work of other, less-famous authors, has been assembled in this book.
Author: Gopal Krishna Goswami Publisher: Golden Age Media Private Limited ISBN: 8119582470 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 212
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“Your Insignificant Servant” by author Gopal Krishna Goswami is a poignant reflection on the humility, devotion, and deep connection between a disciple and the Divine. Through heartfelt writings and personal experiences, this book offers a profound exploration of the path of surrender and service in the Bhakti tradition. It inspires readers to embrace their role as humble servants of the Divine, leading to profound spiritual growth and fulfillment.
Author: Srila Raghava Pandit Goswami Publisher: Golden Age Media ISBN: 8195255108 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 304
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guru-carana-saroruha-dvayotthän mahita-rajah-kanakan pranamy murdhnä | gaditam iha vivicya näradadyair yajana-vidhim kathayami śärngapaneḥ||2||| First Ray of Light-Text 2 I bow down, placing my head in the glorious pollen of my spiritual master’s lotus feet. After carefully deliberating on the instructions of Narada Muni and other great devotees, I shall now describe the process of devotional service to Lord Krsna, who carries the sariga bow in His hand.
Author: Steven Rosen Publisher: Lexington Books ISBN: 1498558348 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 259
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Tucked away in ancient Sanskrit and Bengali texts is a secret teaching, a blissful devotional (bhakti) tradition that involves sacred congregational chanting (kīrtana), mindfulness practices (japa, smaraṇam), and the deepening of one’s relationship with God (rasa). Brought to the world’s stage by Śrī Chaitanya Mahāprabhu (1486–1533), and fully documented by his immediate followers, the Six Goswāmīs of Vrindāvan, these unprecedented teachings were passed down from master to student in Gauḍīya Vaishnava lineages. The Golden Avatāra of Love: Śrī Chaitanya’s Life and Teachings, by contemporary scholar Steven J. Rosen, makes the profound truths of this confidential knowledge easily accessible for an English language audience. In his well-researched text, modern readers—spiritual practitioners, scholars, and seekers of knowledge alike—will encounter a treasure of hitherto unrevealed spiritual teachings, and be able to fathom sublime dimensions of Śrī Chaitanya’s method. Using the ancient texts themselves and the findings of contemporary academics, Rosen succeeds in summarizing and establishing Śrī Chaitanya’s life and doctrine for the modern world.
Author: His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada Publisher: The Bhaktivedanta Book Trust ISBN: 9171496610 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 1284
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Sri Chaitanya-charitamrta is the main work on the life and teachings of Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, the incarnation of Krishna who appeared in India five hundred years ago. Lord Chaitanya introduced the chanting of the holy names of God as the prescribed method of God-realization for our time. He began what is today called the Hare Krishna movement, since the movement's founder, Srila Prabhupada, comes in the Chaitanya line of spiritual masters. Lord Chaitanya transformed the face of India in four respects: philosophically, by encountering, defeating and converting the greatest philosophers and thinkers of His day; religiously, by organizing the largest, most widespread theistic movement in India's history; socially, by His strong challenges to the religious inequities of the caste system; politically, by His organization of a massive civil disobedience movement in Bengal, more than four centuries before Gandhi. This English translation with commentary, by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, reveals his consummate Bengali and Sanskrit scholarship, his intimate familiarity with the precepts of Sri Chaitanya, and his pure devotion to God.
Author: Gabriel Brandis
Author: Srila Rupa Goswami
Author: HH Bhanu Swami
Author: Bhaktivedānta Nārāyaṇa
Author: Srila Bhaktivedanta Narayana Maharaja
Author: HH Bhanu Swami
Author: Gopal Krishna Goswami
Author: Srila Raghava Pandit Goswami
Author: Steven Rosen
Author: His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada