Archive - Mysteries of the Vedas (Caitanya Chandra Dasa)

Four interesting facts about the life of Śukadeva Goswami

Srila Prabhupada gives some interesting details about the life of Sukadeva Goswami. How he was conceived, how he expanded in two to return home and…

8 hrs ago • Caitanya Chandra Dasa

We start as prasāda bhaktas. What comes next?

After some time, Prabhupada explained they should eat less. Some immediately protested. Śrila Prabhupada jabbed: "Oh when I said to eat more, you didn't…

Jul 15

Signs of victory: the sounding of the conchshells (Bg 1.12 to 1.19)

Kṛṣṇa and Arjuna answer, followed by the other Pāndavas, blow their conchs. Their vibration reveals the reality Duryodhana’s diplomacy could not change…

Jul 15

Let them keep their karma: a spiritual path to healing

How do we feel when others wrong us? When someone takes our money, neglects or humiliates us, or even when we are victims of violence? The mixture of…

Jul 14

The political game before the battle (Bg 1.10 and 1.11)

Duryodhana continues to manage the situation politically. He first tries to influence Drona, securing his full commitment. Then, he must also praise…

Jul 14

The intricate meaning of the famous verse, nityo nityānām

There is a very famous passage of the Upaniṣads, the verse nityo nityānām, which appears both in the Kaṭha Upaniṣad (2.2.13) and Śvetāśvatara Upaniṣad…

Jul 13

“God’s mistake”: How Kṛṣṇa had the last laugh

There are large chunks of our DNA that are noncoding. In other words, they don’t carry instructions that are used to create proteins in the cells. Some…

Jul 13 • Caitanya Chandra Dasa

How our life choices become our destiny

Every human body offers the same basic choice: sense gratification or self-realization. In the Fourth Canto of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, we have the allegory…

Jul 13 • Caitanya Chandra Dasa

Duryodhana speaks to Droṇācārya (Bg 1.2 to 1.9)

Concerned about the powerful army assembled by the Pāndavas, Duryodhana approaches his guru, Dronacārya. His attitude, however, is falsely confident and…

Jul 12

Understanding the structure of Bhū-mandala (5th Canto #26)

After concluding the description of the central island of Jambūdvīpa, Śukadeva Gosvāmī starts the description of the other six islands that form the…

Jul 11

A serious invitation

Today, you can make a resolution that may change the course of your life, seriously.

Jul 11 • Caitanya Chandra Dasa

Setting the scene of the Gītā

Dharma-kṣetre kuru-kṣetre. These words are important because they stress that the Gītā is not an allegory or metaphor but a dialogue spoken on an actual…

Jul 11

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