Devotion

The ultimate duty of a person is to perform duties which will lead one to have pure love for God. Such pure love for God is known as ‘bhakti’. In the Narada-bhakti-sutra Lord Krishna is described as sa tv asmin param-prema-rupa, the Ultimate Eternal Love. Bhakti means intense love for God. The sages refer to…

A Protagonist Shri Krishna is a protagonist, whereby His philosophy is very clear. He says that when righteousness wanes in society, when anti-social elements are on the rampage, when the bullies harass the innocent and the weak people of society then the righteous suffer hardships and the vile and villainous partake in all pleasures and…

Today, the Shrimad-Bhagavat katha is imparting a feeling of peace and happiness to people all over the world. Brahma-vidya (Supreme Knowledge) is expounded and expressed as yoga in the Bhagavad-Gita, whereas in the Shrimad-Bhagavatam, the same Brahma-vidya manifests itself as love. Today, the world experiences a woeful lack of love. Material wealth and prosperity has…

    My birthday celebration is an excuse to hold a gathering whereby I get the opportunity to listen to saints, great scholars and divine people. Many thoughts presented by such divine saints enter the heart and many adhere to the brain. I then relay these thoughts and messages in several of my kathas and…

Human beings, when born in this world, undergo all sorts of difficulties, illnesses and sufferings. The mind’s attachment to this world makes humans run helter skelter from one end to another like a mirage in search for happiness. Believe the truth, that amidst all this useless running around in search for happiness, only satsang is…

When building a grand and divine temple, let us ask ourselves, ‘who have we built this temple for?’ The answer is that although we say we are building it for God, as a matter of fact, we build this temple for our purpose, so that we can go there sit, pray, sing bhajans, meditate and…