by Anupam Dasa | May 3, 2022 | katha
Biography Narottama Dasa Thakura was a life long brahmacari. He visited all the holy places and he was the best of pure devotees. On the banks of the Padmavati river, in the town of Gopalpura lived King Krsnanada Datta. His older brother was Purusottama Datta. The...
by Anupam Dasa | May 3, 2022 | katha
At the age of eight or nine, I started to visit the ISKCON project in Mãyãpura regularly. Srìla Prabhupãda’s bhajana-kuthira was already established, and the ground floor of the Lotus Building was in construction. Srìla Prabhupãda was personally present for several...
by Anupam Dasa | Apr 21, 2022 | katha
eta mūrti-bheda kari’ kṛṣṇa-sevā karekṛṣṇera śeṣatā pāñā ‘śeṣa’ nāma dhare “He (Lord Baladeva) is thus called Lord Śeṣa, for He has attained the ultimate end of servitude to Kṛṣṇa. He takes many forms for the service of Kṛṣṇa, and thus He serves the Lord.”...
by Anupam Dasa | Apr 21, 2022 | katha
Our Mṛdaṅga ācāryas have explained the origin of the Mṛdaṅga as follows: When Śrī Kṛṣṇa decided to descend to the material world as Caitanya Mahāprabhu, He said to His flute, “I have an important mission to fulfill. Thus I will go again to the material world, but this...
