BOOKS of His Holiness Satsvarupa Dasa Goswami

50 Dreams of a Struggling Sadhaka

50 Dreams of a Struggling Sadhaka

“Dreams tell us the way we really think and feel, not the way we pretend we think and feel. We can blind ourselves and fool ourselves while we are awake, but noi while we sleep”. —Breakthrough Dreaming, Dr. Gayle Delaney

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Whats Going on Here

Whats Going on Here

In 1996, Satsvarupa dasa Goswami began collecting all his writings under the one series title of Every Day, Just Write (EJW). Each volume of this series has a thematic title and is printed either as a single volume or in a book containing two or three volumes. EJW became “the one big book of my life.”

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Vol 3 Ista Gosthi

Vol 3 Ista Gosthi

Religious people can be just as much attached to this world as materialists. While the materialist is attached grossly, an immature religious person may be attached even to his own saintliness. Srlla Prabhupada has written that a sannyasi is sometimes attached to the temples and the few possessions of a sannyasi…

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Vol 2 Ista Gosthi

Vol 2 Ista Gosthi

The soldiers in this Krsna consciousness movement must always possess physical strength, enthusiasm and sensual power. To keep themselves fit, they must therefore place themselves in a normal condition of life. What constitutes a normal condition will not be the same for everyone, and therefore there are divisions of varnasirama— brahmana, ksatriya, vaisya, sudra, brahmacari, grhastha, vanaprastha, and sannyasa…

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Vol 1 Ista Gosthi

Vol 1 Ista Gosthi

While talking recently with a senior Godbrother, he re- minded me that Prabhupada gave us the legacy of a missionary spirit. He said that we “old store-front boys of 1966” had directly seen Prabhupada preaching, so if we did not set the example of Prabhupada’s missionary spirit, how would others know it? My Godbrother then said, “We each should preach to our full capacity. As far as you’re concerned, you have your writing which is like a ’hotline’ to so many…

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Visitors

Visitors

Bittersweet Swami lives mostly alone in his private health facility. It is a lovely cabin isolated in a northern California pine forest. He lives like a hermit, primarily for health purposes (slowly recovering from anticipatory migraine nervous disorder), but he also takes to semisolitude, like a duck to water. Sweet Swami is a guru, also a senior citizen, and a somewhat wealthy disciple-friend-counselor-brother bought him the cottage…

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Vaisnava Compassion

Vaisnava Compassion

Vaisnava Compassion navigates the intricate and, at times, complicated process of expressing true acts of compassion, teaching how emotive prayer as the core attitude residing in the chanting of the holy names of God empowers compassion. “Feeling helpless in the face of others’ suffereing helps us feel human.” (p. 141) “Although active [helping] is important, it is in prayer where we can recollect ourselves and touch the nature of universal suffering.”

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Truthfulness the Last Leg

Truthfulness the Last Leg

Suta Gosvami had been describing the glories of Maharaja Pariksit, the last emperor in the dynasty of the Pandavas. Suta had narrated other post-Kuruksetra topics, such as the disappearance of Lord Krsna, the Personality of Godhead, and the disappearance of His intimate devotees, the Pandavas. The Age of Kali (hypocrisy and quarrel) had already begun, but its symptoms had not developed due to the presence of the strong, God conscious emperor…

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The Wild Garden

The Wild Garden

The Wild Garden is collected from unpublished manuscripts written over a three-year period. Much of the writing was done between travels and was written not as a book, but as individual writing sessions. A writing session has its own integrity. It starts at the beginning and reaches its own conclusion without being dependent on any other previously written session and without having to fit into a predetermined theme…

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