"Śrī Patrikā"

(Translated from the first issue of Śrī Bhāgavata Patrikā, published June 5, 1955. Śrī Śrīmad Bhaktivedānta Nārāyaṇa Gosvāmī Mahārāja writes:)

“The village gossip, or any manner of discourse that simply reiterates our meaningless materialistic preoccupation with eating, sleeping, mating, and defending, will find no place in “Śrī Patrikā”. All poetry, philosophy, and prose that condones indulgent gratification of the senses cannot come under the title “Śrī Patrikā”. Hence, ideas that are vi-śrī (without śrī) are not worthy of our honor. In other words, “Śrī” is the one and only supreme truth. We will check this modern world’s onslaught of beauty-less ideas and instead distribute the message that is replete with beauty (śrī-sampanna-vāṇī) as it descends from the transcendental realm of Vaikuṇṭha.”

In honor of the Śrī Rūpānuga-Gauḍīya guru-varga as served by Saccidānanda Śrīla Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura’s Sajjana-toṣaṇī, Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasavatī Ṭhākura Prabhupāda’s weekly Gauḍīya, The Harmonist, and numerous other publications, Śrī Śrīmad Bhakti-Prajñāna Keśava Gosvāmī Mahārāja’s Śrī Gauḍīya-Patrikā and Śrī Bhāgavata-Patrikā (which were diligently published by his successors Śrī Śrīmad Bhaktivedānta Vāmana Gosvāmī Mahārāja and Śrī Śrīmad Bhaktivedānta Nārāyaṇa Gosvāmī Mahārāja), as well as the Back to Godhead magazines of Śrīla A.C. Bhaktivedānta Svāmī Prabhupāda and The Rays of the Harmonist published under the guidance of Śrī Śrīmad Bhaktivedānta Nārāyaṇa Gosvāmī Mahārāja, this “Śrī Patrikā” humbly seeks to serve out but particles and drops of the veritable ocean of sublime teachings bequeathed to us by the great Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇava luminaries who light our way forward on the path of pure bhakti.