Spiritual Wisdom & Insights

Though we bought them the stuffed toys of Radha Krsna, Nrsimha deva, Prahlad maharaja etc. when the kids were as young as a year old, I never saw them consciously treating them as the forms of the Lord. To my great surprise, with the addition of new small Radha Krsna...

Kids made this year’s Diwali and Govardhan puja very special by making these wonderful offerings to Krsna.

First two are the essays written by them at their school – Goswami Academy.

Next one is Nrsimha’s coloring of Giriraj

Next one is their beginning of “Rama Koti” – Rama in Sanskrit...

Speaker: Srila Prabhupada
Source: SB 6.1.1-2, Melbourne, May 22, 1975 Devotee: “It says in the scriptures that Lord Brahma rides on a swan. Do we take this to mean it’s a real swan, or is it symbolic?” Prabhupada: “Not symbolic, it is fact. Why do you say symbolic?” Devotee: “Because...

Source: Chapter 16, Nectar of Devotion

The story of the sages of Daṇḍakāraṇya can be explained as follows. When Lord Rāmacandra was residing in Daṇḍakāraṇya, the sages who were engaged in devotional service there became attracted by His beauty and immediately thought of the gopīs at Vṛndāvana, who enjoyed conjugal loving affection with Kṛṣṇa....

Source: Putana Killed

When the gopīs saw little Kṛṣṇa fearlessly playing on Putana’s lap, they very quickly came and picked Him up. Mother Yasoda, Rohiṇī and other elder gopīs immediately performed the auspicious rituals by taking the tail of a cow and circumambulating His body. The child was completely washed with the...

Speaker: Srila Prabhupada
Source: Devotee Doesn’t Want Anything

Just like Caitanya Mahaprabhu teaches: aslisya va pada-ratam pinastu mam marma-hatam karotu va adarsanat. A devotee desires to see Krsna. But he says: “I don’t mind if You break my heart by not being present. I don’t mind. You break my heart.”...