“বৈশিষ্ট্যাষ্টক”  “Speciality Aṣṭaka”   Offered on the occasion of Para-duḥkha-duḥkhī Jagad-guru Vyāsābhinna (“He who is aggrieved by the sufferings of others, is the teacher of the world, and nondifferent from Śrī Vyāsadeva”) Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Prabhupāda’s Eighty-sixth Appearance Day   By Tridaṇḍi-svāmī Śrī Śrīmad Bhaktivedānta

💡Appearing in English for the first time! Original Bengali included below.   (Translated from Śrī Gauḍīya Patrikā, Year 7, Issue 8 (18/10/55), page 313) In infinite millions of universes, wherever there are living entities and however many there are, ‘they are all my relations’—this kind of vast viśva-prema,

Vairāgya “Renunciation” By Śrīla A.C. Bhaktivedānta Svāmī Prabhupāda (then Śrī Abhayacaraṇa Bhaktivedānta Prabhu) Translated from Śrī Gauḍīya Patrikā, Year 5, Issue 1 (28/2/1953), page 14   Characters: (1) Svāmi Kāñcana-vilāsa “Swami Gold-frolic”                  Sevaite and trustee No. 1 (2) Ananta-kāma “Infinite Lust” Caramahaṁsa                Sevaite and trustee No. 2 (3)

✨Translated from Śrī Gauḍīya-patrikā, Year 7, Issue 7, page 132. Originally published 15/6/1955. See end of document for full scans of original Bengali text.    yasyātma-buddhiḥ kuṇape tri-dhātuke, sva-dhīḥ kalatrādiṣu bhauma ijya-dhīḥ yat-tīrtha-buddhiḥ salile na karhicij-janeṣv abhijñeṣu sa eva go-kharaḥ   (Bhāgavatam 10.84.13) [A person who identifies as