Spiritual Journeys

Reaching the Supreme

This podcast outlines a clear progressive route to the higher stages of bhakti yoga.

Spiritual Journeys

Devotees at the Hare Krishna Centre and online speak about their spiritual journey and how they came to know about Krishna consciousness.

There is Another Nature

Discourse on Bhagavad Gītā 8.19-20. bhūta-grāmaḥ sa evāyaṁ bhūtvā bhūtvā pralīyate rātry-āgame ’vaśaḥ pārtha prabhavaty ahar-āgame “Again and again, when Brahmā’s day arrives, all living entities come into being, and with the arrival of Brahmā’s night they are helplessly annihilated.” paras tasmāt tu bhāvo ’nyo ’vyakto ’vyaktāt sanātanaḥ yaḥ sa sarveṣu bhūteṣu naśyatsu na vinaśyati “Yet there is another unmanifest nature, which is eternal and is transcendental to this manifested and unmanifested matter. It is supreme and is never annihilated. When all in this world is annihilated, that part remains as it is.”

Attaining Liberation

This is a discourse on the Bhagavad Gītā verse 8.17 sahasra-yuga-paryantam ahar yad brahmaṇo viduḥ rātriṁ yuga-sahasrāntāṁ te ’ho-rātra-vido janāḥ “By human calculation, a thousand ages taken together form the duration of Brahmā’s one day. And such also is the duration of his night.”

The Yo-Yo of the Universe

This podcast is a discourse on the Bhagavad Gītā verse 8.16. ā-brahma-bhuvanāl lokāḥ punar āvartino ’rjuna mām upetya tu kaunteya punar janma na vidyate “From the highest planet in the material world down to the lowest, all are places of misery wherein repeated birth and death take place. But one who attains to My abode, O son of Kuntī, never takes birth again.”