Presented below is Srila Bhakti Siddhanta Saraswati Thakura’s article titled “Organised Religion (Putana and Kamsa).”
I say it is required reading in the hope of drawing the attention of our readers to two important points explained in the essay that follows which, I pray, will facilitate the proper understanding of their meaning.
The first, found in the story of the killing of Putana, should slay for good a long-standing, unfounded criticism of our Gurdeva, Srila Bhaktivedanta
January, 1929
Published in The Harmonist (Sree Sajjanatoshani)
Prof. Albert E. Suthers: What is Vedantism?
Srila Bhakti Siddhanta Saraswati Tahakur: One-sided and biased critics may understand absolute monism by the term Indian Vedantism, but those who are impartial and who judge things from all angles of vision, find the transcendental personality of God-head as the settled conclusion of the Vedantic doctrine. The theory of non-distinction has been wrongly preached as propounded in the Vedanta,
(A lecture delivered on the 24th of August 1933 at the Sri Gaudiya Math, Calcutta, celebrating the appearance day of Srila Bhakti Vinoda Thakura. Unedited by Sri Guru Vandana, except for minor orthographical changes.)
Dear Friends,
I stand before you as a teller. I am going to tell you now a few words more on the Vedanta and specially its ontological aspect, morphology being a former changeable part of the same. My telling craves a reciprocity of your listening to my sound through your aural
(3rd August, 1926)
This brochure contains the essence of true Vaishnavism as revealed in the Vedas, the Upanishads, the Geeta, the Bhagavata etc., and their teachings put into practice by Shri Chaitanya Deva. Four things may stand in the way of realising the truth laid herein -the cloaks of (high, or low) birth and station, (proficiency or deficiency in) worldly knowledge, and (beautiful or ugly, male or female) form. The Over-soul within Whom all individual souls are contained and to Whom
These are answers to the questions put to the author by Pandit Shyamasundar Chakravarty, a famous leader of the Independence movement in India and also the then Chief Editor of Servant and Vasumati (eng). This exchange was originally published in “The Harmonist”.
Q: — Which is the genuine commentary of the Brahma-Sutra?
A: — It is the Srimad Bhagavatam, which was explained by Sri Suta Goswami before sixty-thousand sages at Naimisharanya, the famous holy place
Originally Published in The Harmonist (Sree Sajjanatoshani)
The materialistic demeanor cannot possibly stretch to the Transcendental Autocrat who is ever inviting the fallen conditioned souls to associate with Him through devotion or eternal serving mood. The phenomenal attractions are often found to tempt sentient beings to enjoy the variegated position which is opposed to undifferenced monism. People are apt to indulge in transitory speculations even when they are to educate themselves on
Prem [ecstatic love of God] alone is the purpose of the life of the jivas (spirit souls). Bhava (soul’s feeling) develops into Prem. Turning their face towards Krishna, the more jivas progress, the more do they approach the temple of Prem. Thus, in considering the rights of Prem, we meet at the out-set with two sorts of circumstances-one is an intense longing for the unattained Prem, the other is the stage when the pedestal of Prem is already reached. There is no higher stage beyond
NAMO GAURA-KISORAYA SAKSAD-VAIRAGYA-MURTAYE
VIPRALAMBHA-RASAMBUDHE PADAMBUJAYA TE NAMAH
I offer my respectful obeisances unto Gaurakisora dasa Babaji Maharaja (the spiritual master of Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati), who is renunciation personified. He is always merged in a feeling of separation and intense love of Krsna.
The following descriptions of the most highly renounced acarya (spiritual
Srila Bhakti Siddhanta Saraswati Thakur
The holy command of Shri Guru has been that we shall serve Godhead in association with one another. By the word ‘we’ he did not mean any one individual. There are many persons who are very selfish, indeed. They say, ‘I alone shall serve. It is incumbent on me alone. No one else has any claim to join me in my service of Godhead.’ But the kind heart of Shri Gurudeva says, ‘Come, let all of us jointly worship Godhead by giving up malice.’ The
Srila Bhakti Siddhanta Saraswati Thakur.
During the 1930s, Srila Bhakti Siddhanta Saraswati Thakur sent the first ambassadors of the Gaudiya Vaisnava Sect to Preach in the Western World. These brave men were sent to England and Germany. Before they departed, Srila Bhakti Siddhanta gave a rousing speech to help these men remember the position of a preacher in this mundane world.)
The happy day has come when we are destined to spread the message of our Great Master to distant corners of the earth.