Gross and Subtle Bodies

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Question: I want to ask about the material energy … more specifically the bodies which are made up of material energy: If we are...   Read More

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1. Thinking of Krishna at the Time of Death Q: Is going to Goloka (Krishna’s transcendental abode) really as simple and mechanical as visualizing...   Read More

Identity versus Cancer

by Satyanarayana Dasa: Everybody has the innate desire to be healthy, happy and immortal. Yet everybody experiences sickness, sadness and death. By nature we are healthy and sickness is an abnormal state. The word for healthy is svastha or ‘situated in the self’. Thus, being unhealthy or sick means ...

Addiction means Slavery of the Mind

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Usually, the word ‘addiction’ is used in the negative sense. It has been defined with regard to psychoactive substances such as alcohol and tobacco which, if ingested, alter the mood and/or perception of the person consuming them. But addiction, in true sense of the word, is not limited only to alcohol and drugs, etc. One may become addicted to gambling, a particular type of food such as chocolate or coffee, sex, pornography, computers, video games, internet, work, exercise, TV, shopping and even spirituality.

Jiva Goswami Disappearance Day Celebrations

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In January a group of devotees led by Baba Satyanarayana Dasji went to celebrate Sri Jiva Goswami’s disappearance day at the Sri Chaitanya Sanskrit School of the Jiva Institute at Radha Kunda, first visiting Radha Kunda Mahant Pandit Ananta Das Babaji ...

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    Even if you practice with devotion and attachment, you don’t get bhava so easily. This is because of your unfavorable samskaras called anarthas. You have to take responsibility for and clean up your anarthas. Anarthas take your mind away from devotion.

    — Babaji Satyanarayana Dasa
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