KRIPA - Krishna Prema Academy

01/17/2023

Help Bhaktabandhav Ashram and Sri Sri Radha Ramanjiu have warm water!

New Year's Update

12/23/2022

"What is guru-seva? Sitting around guru all day long is not guru-seva. To follow Gurudeva's instructions is guru-seva. Also to go to those who have lost faith in guru and to bring them back on the right path - that is real guru-seva. ... If one has firm faith in guru then he can engage in guru-seva wherever he is and can also instill faith in others as well."

~ Sri Srimad Bhaktivedanta Narayana Gosvami Maharaja Srila Gurudeva.

12/18/2022

I am fully indebted to Sri Gurudeva, because he is giving me so many things. He is giving me the holy name containing the highest form of thought, aspiration, and ideal, and he is giving me the service of that great savior, the son of Mother Saci, Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, who is like the golden mountain indicating the way to krsna-lila. And Sri Gurudeva has brought me to Svarupa Damodara, who is Lalita-devi, Srimati Radhika's closest friend. Then he has brought me to Sri Rupa, who was ordered to distribute rasa-tattva, and then to Sri Sanatana Gosvami, who adjusts our position in relation to raganuga-bhakti. Gurudeva has brought me to Mathura Mandala, where Radha and Govinda have their pastimes, where the forest, hills and every creeper, shrub and grain of sand are uddipana (stimuli) to help me remember Radha and Govinda. He has given me Radha-kunda and Giriraja Govardhana, and aho! He has given me assurance of all these, so I bow my head with deep respect unto his lotus feet." (Sri Mukta-carita, Raghunatha dasa Gosvami)

12/17/2022