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How do we understand when different Vaishnava acharyas give different meanings of the same scriptural verse?

By Chaitanya Charan - 15.9 2023 From Revati Vallabh Pr: Sometimes different Vaishnava acharays give different meanings of the same scriptural verse. Which is the original, actual meaning of the verse? If the same verse can have multiple interpretations, then how can some...Read more...

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The Post is Paramahamsa

BY: SUN STAFF - 15.8 2023 A lecture by Srila A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, New Vrindavana. So every Vaisnava, every devotee of Krsna, pure devotee of Krsna, is a paramahamsa. We are teaching people to become immediately paramahamsa, the highest stage of sannyasa. The...Read more...

Reincarnation: A Simple Explanation

By Stephen Knapp - 30.6 2023 Reincarnation is called samsara in the classic Vedic texts of India. The word samsara is Sanskrit and means being bound to the cycle of repeated birth and death...Read more...

The Reincarnation(s) of Jaya and Vijaya: A Journey through the Yugas

Reincarnation and Near-death Exp.

Two Energies Choices

By Satsvarupa Dasa Goswami - 22.6 2023 Which way does one go in moments of despair? LORD KRSNA HAS TWO ENERGIES, material and spiritual, but they can be used interchangeably if one knows how. Just as the same electricity can be used to heat or cool a building, so Krsna’s...Read more...

Dialectical Spiritualism: John Stuart Mill

BY: SUN STAFF - 15.3 2023 Conversations wtih HDG A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, excerpted from Dialectical Spiritualism: A Vedic View of Western Philosophy. IX. UTILITARIANISM AND POSITIVISM John Stuart Mill (1806 - 1873) Hayagriva dasa: In Essay on Nature, Mill writes:...Read more...

Dialectical Spiritualism: Rene Descartes

Dialectical Spiritualism: Sigmund Freud

Shankaracarya's Misinterpretation of Krsna's Personal Form

BY: SUN STAFF - 9.2 2023 Vasudeva–Narayana "Vasudeva, Sankarsana, Pradyumna and Aniruddha constitute this second quadruple. They are purely transcendental." "Purport: Sripada Sankaracarya has misleadingly explained the quadruple form (catur-vyuha) in his...Read more...

Sankaracarya biography

“It’s All One”—Not! (A Vaishnava Response to Advaita Vedanta)

Personal and Impersonal Realization

BY: SUN STAFF - 8.2 2023 Lord Caitanya Defeats the Mayavadi Philosophers. "The Puranas are called supplementary Vedic literatures. Because sometimes in the original Vedas the subject matter is too difficult for the common man to understand, the Puranas explain matters simply by the...Read more...

A Vedic Argument for the Existence of God

“It’s All One”—Not! (A Vaishnava Response to Advaita Vedanta)

Sanātana Dharma: The Eternal Religion of the Soul

By editor - 6.1 2023 – Śrīla Prabhupāda: “What is known in India as sanātana-dharma, or “the eternal religion,” is meant for this living spirit. That is to say, real spiritualism is transcendental to the various religions that focus on the gross material body or...Read more...

World Peace and Sanatana Dharma

Understanding Sanatana Dharma

Six Schools of Indian Philosophy, Part 6

BY: SUN STAFF - 2.1 2023 The last in a six-part summary of the primary schools of classic Indian philosophy. The Vedanta School "In summary it should be understood that all these materialistic philosophers have tried to avoid the Supreme Personality of Godhead by putting forward...Read more...

Six Schools of Indian Philosophy, Part 5

Six Schools of Indian Philosophy, Part 4

Six Schools of Indian Philosophy, Part 5

BY: SUN STAFF - 31.12 2022 Adi Sankaracarya Samadhi murti, Kedernath Temple A six-part summary of the primary schools of classic Indian philosophy. The Mayavada School "According to Mayavada philosophy, this manifested world or the material world is mithya or maya, false. Their...Read more...

Six Schools of Indian Philosophy, Part 4

Six Schools of Indian Philosophy, Part 3

Six Schools of Indian Philosophy, Part 4

BY: SUN STAFF - 29.12 2022 Sage Kapila, founder of Sankhya School Patna, 19th c. A six-part summary of the primary schools of classic Indian philosophy. The Sankhya School "There are actually two Kapilas: one Kapila, the son of Kardama Muni, is an incarnation of God, and the...Read more...

Six Schools of Indian Philosophy, Part 2

Six Schools of Indian Philosophy, Part 3

BY: SUN STAFF - 29.12 2022 Fruitive Activities A six-part summary of the primary schools of classic Indian philosophy. The Karma-Mimamsa School "The Mimamsaka philosophers, following the principles of Jaimini, stress fruitive activity and say that if there is a God, He...Read more...

Six Schools of Indian Philosophy, Part 2

Six Schools of Indian Philosophy

Which of our emotions are material and which are spiritual?

By Chaitanya Charan das - 28.10 2022 Question: Hare Krishna, how do we decide which of our emotions are material and which are spiritual, it is said that we have to give up material emotions and develop spiritual emotions. But often it is difficult to decided that a...Read more...

Transforming Emotions through Pranayama and Meditation

Samvit, Sandhini and Hladini The Three Original Energies of the Lord

Four schools of Buddhism refuted by Vedanta-sutra

By Suhotra Prabhu - 10.5 2022 Srila Vyasadeva, being tri-kala-jna, foresaw 5000 years ago the rise of Buddhism. Therefore in his Vedanta-sutra (second adhyaya, second pada) he encapsulated a description and a refutation of each of the four main schools of Buddhist philosophy...Read more...

Jainism and Buddhism

Which is the oldest religion in the world?

What are the six characteristics of pure devotional service?

By Purushottam Kumar - 2.2 2022 The six characteristics of pure devotional service are: klesaghni: Pure devotional service gives immediate relief from all kinds of material distress. subhada: Pure devotional service is the beginning of all auspiciousness. moksa –...Read more...

Narada Muni – The Father of Devotional Service

Ahankara – Foundational principle of our material existence

What exactly is the mind

By Chaitanya Charan - 10.1 2022 Question: What exactly is the mind and where does it reside? Answer: Generally we think of two things-jada and chetan, so conscious and unconscious. They are referred to as things and beings. Things are those which exist but don...Read more...

Mind and Consciousness

Mind as Your Best Friend or Worst Enemy

Mayavadis

What is the difference between brahma of Mayavadis and shunya of voidists? By Chaitanya Charan - 10.1 2022 Question: What is the difference between the nirmal jyoti of the impersonalists and the void of the voidists? Answer: We can look at it in three different ways-...Read more...

Mahaprabhu’s Victory – Over the Mayavadis at Benares

Why we criticize Mayavadis?

The Tree of Vedic Literature

By Atmatatva das - 28.12 2021 An insight into the tree of Vedic literature in relation to Bhagavad Gita As It Is, Nectar of Devotion (Bhakti-rasamrita-sindhu), Srimad Bhagavatam and Caitanya Caritamrita. A complete explanation of: Vedas, Samhitas, Mantras, Brahmanas, Aranyakas,...Read more...

Review of Vedic Literature

If smriti is compiled by sages, how can we know that it is free from the four defects?

The Nyāya Conception of a Scientific Theory

By editor - 10.9 2021 Below is the translation and commentary on some of the Nyāya Sutras, which describe the nature of a scientific theory as comprised of four aspects. The first aspect represents the purpose of the system; the second, the functional parts that execute this purpose; the...Read more...

The Tree of Vedic Literature

Indian Philosophy

Impersonalism

Impersonalism and the Doomed to Fail Attempt to Judge Sadhus By Madhavananda Das - 9.8 2021 The proud practice of using our dull material senses to try to judge who is sadhu and who is not is the same as the neti neti endeavor of the impersonalists. The impersonalists try to understand...Read more...

Impersonalism vs demigod worship

Impersonalism, Voidism and Science

Challenges Facing Science and Religion

By Sadaputa Dasa - 6.8 2021 While scientific discoveries test religious dogma, religious and paranormal experiences challenge scientific theories. In the Vaisnava tradition of India, God is defined as Brahman, Paramatma, and Bhagavan: the unlimited light of pure being...Read more...

Science and Krishna Consciousness

Focus on Spiritual Science

Four schools of Buddhism refuted by Vedanta-sutra

By Suhotra Prabhu - 21.6 2021 Srila Vyasadeva, being tri-kala-jna, foresaw 5000 years ago the rise of Buddhism. Therefore in his Vedanta-sutra (second adhyaya, second pada) he encapsulated a description and a refutation of each of the four main schools of Buddhist philosophy...Read more...

Seven Days North Of Tibet

The History of Ancient India

Impersonalism vs demigod worship

Urmila (Devi Dasi) ACBSP - 18.6 2021 It is difficult to say which is "better." In the Isopanisad it is stated that impersonalism is worse than demigod worship, and that demigod worship leads one to ignorance. But in Bhagavad-gita demigod worship is described as being in...Read more...

Indra and Kuvera

Varuna and Vayu

Raja Yoga, Hatha Yoga and Asana

Dr David Frawley - 10.6 2021 Raja Yoga commonly refers to the royal or higher Yoga of meditation. While the term is not specifically mentioned in the Yoga Sutras, the Yoga Sutra tradition has been commonly called Raja Yoga over time. Raja Yoga is an ancient term found in the works...Read more...

Hatha Yoga and the Bhagavad-gita

5 Differences Between Ashtanga Yoga and Hatha Yoga

Make Progress Towards the Transcendence

BY: SUN STAFF - 14.4 2021 HDG Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Thakur, 'Colloquies With Foreigners'. Talk to Mrs. Nora Morell of Germany September 1, 1936 We should have firm faith in the Divinity. We are absolute infinitesimals, and it is only proper we should associate...Read more...

Pictorial journey into the life of Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati (video)

Bhaktisidhanta Saraswati Thakur biography

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