IN the course of his pilgrimage through the southern parts of India, Sri Chaitanya Deva came across a certain devotee who was in tears all the while a pundit was reading from the Gita. Now this …
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Enmeshed in Maya, Brahman Weeps!
VISHNU incarnated Himself as a sow in order to kill the demon Hiranynksha. After killing the demon, sow remained quite happy with her young ones. Forgetting her real nature, she was suckling them very …
All Else is Unreal
THE truth is that God alone is real and all else is unreal. Men, universe, house, children — all these are like the magic of the magician. The magician strikes his wand and says: "Come delusion! Come …
Then, What’s the Way?
You may ask, "If worldly life is so difficult, then what is the way?" The way is constant practice. At Kamarpukur I have seen the women of the carpenter families flattening rice with a …
Chandogya Upanishad 1.6.5
अथ यदेतदादित्यस्य शुक्लं भाः सैवर्गथ यन्नीलं परः कृष्णं तत्साम तदेतदेतस्यामृच्यध्यूढं साम तस्मादृच्यध्यूढं साम गीयते ॥ १.६.५ ॥ atha yadetadādityasya śuklaṃ bhāḥ saivargatha yannīlaṃ paraḥ kṛṣṇaṃ …
Chandogya Upanishad 6.6.5
अन्नमयं हि सोम्य मन आपोमयः प्राणस्तेजोमयी वागिति भूय एव मा भगवान्विज्ञापयत्विति तथा सोम्येति होवाच ॥ ६.६.६ ॥॥ इति षष्ठः खण्डः ॥ annamayaṃ hi somya mana āpomayaḥ prāṇastejomayī vāgiti bhūya eva mā …