Month: September 2026

Published by Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati in “The Harmonist”, December 1931, vol. XXIX No.6 We avail of the opportunity offered by the Anniversary Celebrations of the advent of Thakur Bhaktivinoda to reflect on the right method of obtaining those benefits that have been made accessible to humanity by the grace of…

Sri Krsna manifest His eternal birth the pure cognitive essence of the serving soul who is located above all mundane limitations, King Kamsa is the typical aggressive empiricist, ever on the lookout for the appearance of the truth for the purpose of suppressing Him before He has time to develop….

In the ancient times there only one caste lived in India called hamsa. They were yogis, devotees of the Lord, or knowers of Brahman engaged in studying the Vedas. Among the hamsas, those who on the strength of devotional service, yoga or impersonal knowledge distinguished themselves over their respective groups…

Batasur is one of the demons slain by the Boy-Krishna. He represents evils that are peculiar to boyhood. The neophyte is extremely susceptible to such evils. They cannot be got rid of except by the Mercy of Krishna. If one engages in the service of Krishna the juvenile vices are…

There is a beautiful lake of very sweet water in the Yamuna, which bears the name of Kaliya. This lake happened to be infested by a most venomous Serpent from whom the lake derives its name. On a certain day while the cowboys of Braja were out pasturing their calves…

Written in December, 1928, and published in The Harmonist (Sree Sajjanatoshani) The ceremony of diksha or initiation is that by which the spiritual Preceptor admits one to the status of a neophyte on the path of spiritual endeavour. The ceremony tends to confer spiritual enlightenment by abrogating sinfulness. Its actual…

Published in The Harmonist (Sree Sajjanatoshani) (Herr Schulze was a great German scholar and a famous writer, who became a disciple of Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati, living in India as a monk.) We require the fullness of things. The plenary transcendence is to be approached. The difficult problem to be solved…

September 1, 1936Published in The Harmonist (Sree Sajjanatoshani) We should have firm faith in the Divinity. We are absolute infinitesimals, and it is only proper we should associate ourselves with the Absolute. If we show our diffidence to do so, we are likely to be entangled with the ephemeral matters…

December 26, 1935Published in The Harmonist (Sree Sajjanatoshani) Q: — Your Holiness, kindly enlighten me about the different aspects of human pursuits. Sri Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati: — In India as in Europe we find people holding different views, but here we have attempted to classify them into three divisions. One class…

Q: — What is Vedantism? Sri Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati, anwers: — One-sided and biased critics may understand absolute monism by the term Indian Vedantism, but those who are impartial and who judge things from all angles of vision, find the transcendental personality of God-head as the settled conclusion of the Vedantic…

by Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Goswami The praises of the Holy Land of Bharatvarsa are sung by the Scriptures but are liable to be grossly misunderstood by empiric commentators. It has often been supposed by such persons that the Holy Land means the Land which has got sacred associations for the…

By Sri Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Goswami Prabhupada The first act of new-born infant Krishna recorded by the Bhagavatam is the slaying of the demoness Putana. The demoness Putana was deputed by King Kansa to kill all the newborn babies of the realm of Braja where he was informed by the Divine…

The Solar Eclipse as an astronomical phenomenon has been fully explained by science and no one in this twentieth century can be pardoned if he seriously pretends to be ignorant of its real explanation. – Prabhupada, Sri Bhakti Siddhanta Saraswati Goswami (as published in The Harmonist, May 1929) The vast…