Philosophical Articles

If you have been attending extensive hari-katha in recent years then you may have heard or read the story of Radha’s parrot generally known as Sriya Suka. The story is paraphrased as follows...

This Bengali bhajana was composed by His Divine Grace Srila Bhakti Raksaka Sridhara Deva Gosvami Maharaja commemorating the divine appearance of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu

by Swami B.V. Tripurari Our present environmental crisis is in essence a spiritual crisis. Evidence of this has been documented in the well-known seminal work...

The idea that I shall have to labor to live is very dishonorable. I have to live, I must labor; that is very dishonorable. So the ancient scholars searched for a position where we can live without labor, where without pain we can live easily.

Once Bhimasena, the younger brother of Maharaja Yudhisthira, asked the great sage Shrila Vyasadeva, the grandfather of the Pandavas, if it is possible to return to the spiritual world without having observed...

Throughout the infinite planets, you will find all the pastimes of Sri Krishna going on continuously, one after another. In this sense, His appearance pastime is eternal.

Srila Bhakti Raksaka Sridhara Maharaja borrowed the expression “die to live” from German philosopher Georg Hegel to convey a substantial and pressing point: in order to live in absolute reality we must let our ego die.

As per the scriptures, Supreme Personality of Godhead Sri Krishna's plenary portion is Sri Sadashiv and Sri Sadashiv's partial manifestation is Lord Shiva. From the...

by Madhavananda das In honor of the auspicious appearance day of Bhagavan Nrsimhadev and the disappearance day of Hiranyakasipu we present two verses spoken by...

by Srila Bhakti Ballabh Tirtha Goswami Maharaja Sree Sree Guru Gaurang Jayatah! It is not difficult to propitiate Sri Krishna. Prahlad Maharaj, to persuade demon boys...