Let There Be Calamities
by Pari Devi Dasi
vipadaḥ santu tāḥ śaśvat
tatra tatra jagad-guro
bhavato darśanaṁ yat syād
apunar bhava-darśanam
"I wish that all those calamities would happen again and again so...
Pure Bhakti is True Emancipation
The common decision of men, whether discriminative or otherwise, is not identical with Truth. The common sense of people to follow blindly, like foolish cattle being driven by a herdsman, is always defective, wrought with error borne of the faculty of mind.
What Have You Got to Lose?
Sraddha is a wonderful substance. In no time it transports us beyond the calculations of this world. The sraddha that I speak of is not the same as it is perceived by the majority of temple-goers.