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 spiritual path is very important to understand. Why is it said to have a guru and surrender to a guru? If you don’t surrender, you are only going to hang on to your own mind and material lens. That’s what you have, you can’t get rid of it. It’s not possible. You have to surrender your mind, body, and speech to guru. You have to have this faith that if he is saying something and it doesn’t match my understanding, then I am going to give up my understanding.