Jiva Institute of Vedic Studies
Questions & Answers
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.
Advaitavada and Gaudiya Philosophy
Question: Recently some people have spoken with me about Advaitavāda and Māyāvāda. One person said that Advaitavāda is different from.
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.
Videos With Bababji
Daily Bhakti Byte
The mind has the nature of not being in the present. It is always in the past or future. The characteristic of the senses is that they can only function in the present. The nose cannot smell a fragrance that is coming tomorrow or that was there yesterday. We can only hear through our ears what is being spoken now. If you can hook your your sense onto something it likes, the mind goes along with that sense into the present moment. This is the easiest way to bring the mind into the present state.