Blogs by Bhakti Charu Swami

Guru Maharaja recites:

om ajnana-timirandhasya jnananjana-salakaya
caksur unmilitam yena tasmai sri-gurave namah
sri-caitanya-mano-’bhishtam sthapitam yena bhu-tale
svayam rupah kada mahyam dadati sva-padantikam
sri-krishna-chaitanya prabhu-nityananda
sri-advaita gadadhara srivasadi-gaura-bhakta-vrinda
hare krishna hare krishna krishna krishna hare hare
hare rama hare rama rama rama hare hare

Just a little while ago I was talking to Mr. Pillay, the ex education minister. And Mr. Pillay was asking me whether we have any publication on Vedanta. (more…)

Hare Krishna,
So, how was the class yesterday? Did you benefit from it? It was beneficial? Did you learn something? I’m sure you already knew that. What I spoke yesterday, you all knew that, didn’t you? So, no response means yes. So, today we will go more deep into this Vaisnava etiquette. Yesterday we dealt mostly with what a Vaisnava should do. Like today I see more of you are wearing tilaka. Like this kind of reminder is needed from time to time. Like, as a Vaisnava should he be ashamed to wear tilak? Or should he feel proud to wear tilaka? Are you proud of being a Vaisnava, why? Because, to be a Vaisnava means to be in the highest platform of existence. (more…)

The first thing today is because it is a seminar there may be a need to take notes. Did you bring paper and a pen? Everyone brought pens and paper? Who did not bring? Anyway, I can see that most of you have brought a pen and paper. That is very nice. Vaisnava etiquette is a very vast subject but here we will conduct it only for two days. Today, being the first day, we will discuss about the general understanding of Vaisnava etiquette, the general external aspect of Vaisnava etiquette and tomorrow we will deal with more of an internal and behavioural aspect of Vaisnava etiquette. For example, the first thing we will today will be “what is the meaning or definition of Vaisnava etiquette?”

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