Jiva Institute of Vedic Studies
Questions & Answers
The Most Essential Principles of Bhakti
Question: Were Jaya and Vijaya, by definition, practicing uttamā-bhakti by their original decision to take on these roles despite their.
Krishna’s Routine, Dharma, Catur-vyuha
Question: Does ākāśa (ether) record almost everything in existence—all information, activities, thoughts, and actions? Answer: No. Question: What does? Answer:.
Near Death, Devotee’s Anger, Varna
Question: When someone goes through a near-death experience, he vividly remembers what he felt, saw, and experienced while the body.
Articles
Ahankara vs. Ahankara
There are 24 evolutes of prakṛti, ahaṅkāra (egotism) being the second in the list. Although second, it is the boss.
Gita’s Solution to Raga-Dvesha
According to Indian schools of thought, darśanas, the root cause of the suffering of a living being is its conditioning.
What is Anartha?
The word artha is derived from the Sanskrit root artha, which means “to desire.” Thus the word artha means a.
Quizzes
Shastra Quiz 54
This quiz is designed to motivate you to study the Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇava scriptures in specific, and the Sad Darshanas in.
Shastra Quiz 53
This quiz is designed to motivate you to study the Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇava scriptures in specific, and the Sad Darshanas in.
Shastra Quiz 52
This quiz is designed to motivate you to study the Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇava scriptures in specific, and the Sad Darshanas in.
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Daily Bhakti Byte
The Vedas are beginningless. Just as God is without a beginning, then his knowledge is also without a beginning. It may be revealed at a certain point in time to a specific person, but that does not mean that the Veda did not exist before. God’s knowledge is eternal because it’s God’s knowledge. The attributes of an eternal object are also eternal. That is why we are also eternal. We also have no beginning. The soul is not created because it is one of the potencies of God.