The human heart is naturally eager to know what God is and how to attain Him. Authors of scripture have come and gone, having shown various paths like dhyāna [meditation], dhāraṇā [holding of prāṇa in a specific cakra], nāma-saṅkīrtana [chanting of God’s names], etc. Let us see from analysis

śrī śrī guru-gaurāṅgau jayataḥ   The following consists of Śrīla Prabhupāda Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura’s introductory remarks in response to Vyāsa-pūjā glorifications (Year 4 of Gauḍīya, Issue 28–29, page 13) and then the entire Śrī Śrī Nṛsiṁha Stava by Śrī Śrīdhara Svāmipāda:     At the beginning of Bhārata [Mahābhārata], we pronounce

💡Translated from page 39 of Prabhupāder Patrāvalī, Vol. 1, published from Śrī Caitanya Maṭha, Śrīdhāma Māyāpura, 505 Śrī Gaurābda. śrī śrī guru-gaurāṅgau jayataḥ   Śrī Gauḍīya Maṭha, Kolkata 29 Keśava, Gaurābda 440   To Paṇḍita-vara Śrīyukta Madhusūdana Gosvāmī Mahārāja of Rādhā-ramaṇa-gherā, Śrīdhāma Vṛndāvana: śrī gauḍīya-vaiṣṇavācāryocita-sambhāṣaṇam etat— "With due honor as befitting

💡Translated from page 34 of Prabhupāder Hari-kathāmṛta, published in 1973 by Śrīla Bhakti-vilāsa Tīrtha Mahārāja from Śrī Caitanya Maṭha, Māyāpura. Question: Which tattvas would Śrī, Bhū, and Nīlā-śaktis be designated as? Who are they in Gaura-līlā? Śrīla Prabhupāda’s answer: The Para-tattva-vastu, in His opulent manifestation as Nārāyaṇa has three

(For the occasion of Vyāsa-pūjā, February 26, 1927. Originally published on page 473 of Vol. 5, Issue 28 of the Gauḍīya.)  The followers of Śrī Kṛṣṇa-Dvaipāyana Veda-Vyāsa, the crest-jewel of self-realized masters, say: “That Being whom the tattva-vid seers of the truth indicate to be the aggregate of jñāna (knowledge)

(Written on the occasion of his Vyāsa-pūjā in 1924, in humble response to the effusive offerings of his disciples. Originally published in the weekly Gauḍīya (2nd Vol., 28th Issue – March 1, 1924) My dear friends, delivering me from catastrophe (vipada-uddhāraṇa-bāndhava-gaṇa), Before saying anything, I am, as per the tradition of