The Pastimes of Scholarship

Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura, a great scholar and spiritual master, has written that in his youth he absorbed himself in speculative books on religion and philosophy. This song is his reflection on the value of that scholarship.   ...Read More

The Evolution of Spiritual Science

If the reader carefully considers, it will be found that the spiritual science gradually evolved from ancient times and became more simple, more clear and more condensed. The more impurities arising from time and place are removed, the more the beauties of the spiritual science brightly shine before us. This spiritual science took birth in the land of kusha grass on the banks of the Sarasvati river in Brahmavarta. As it   ...Read More

Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu: His Life and Precepts

The moon was eclipsed at the time of Caitanya Mahaprabhu’s birth, and the people of Nadia were then engaged, as was usual on such occasions, in bathing in the Bhagirathi [Ganges] with loud cheers of Haribol!   ...Read More

The story of the chastisement of Bisakisen by Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura

While Srila Bhaktivinode Thakur was living in Puri, he was given the task of quelling the disturbance caused by a mystic yogi who claimed to be an incarnation of Maha-Vishnu. This yogi was called by the name Bisakisen and he established a temple in the jungle near the village of Shardaipur. He exhibited many mystic powers and numerous people came to serve him.   ...Read More