Idealism, Maturity, and Realism by Satsvarupa Dasa Goswami
When I was eighteen years old I wrote an essay for the college newspaper about maturity. In the essay, I examined the word maturity and commented that most of my elders equated maturity with selling out on idealistic values. Of course, although my concerns... read more
Between Two Worlds by Satsvarupa Dasa Goswami
THERE ARE TWO WORLDS, the material world and the spiritual world. Great liberated devotees can experience the spiritual world, even while in their present bodies. When Uddhava, Krsna's chief associate in Dvaraka, was fully absorbed in the transcendental ecstasy of... read more
Meditation on Krsna by Satsvarupa Dasa Goswami
WHEN THE SAGE Vyasadeva, after compiling the Vedas, felt despondent, his spiritual master, Narada, told him that the cause of this despondency was that Vyasadeva had not fully glorified Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Vyasadeva therefore meditated... read more
Blessed Forgetfulness by Satsvarupa Dasa Goswami
DEVOTEES SOMETIMES asked Srila Prabhupada if when we go back to the spiritual world we will remember our former lives in the material world. Prabhupada said we would forget them forever. In a purport to Srimad-Bhagavatam (3.33.27), Prabhupada writes: A great... read more