Mysteries of the Vedas

Subscribe to receive new articles by e-mail. It’s free, but if you like, you can pledge a donation: Join the Telegram group if you would like to join the live lessons. This course is maintained with your donations. Click here to donate . 💬 Text of the lesson The hellish planets The descriptions of hell in the Fifth Canto are another difficult passage of the text. At first, the punishments describ...

Prefer listening? There is my narration of the article. ⤴️ You can receive new articles directly in your inbox. Subscription is free; donations are welcome. Kṛṣṇa showing His universal form to Arjuna is one of the most intriguing passages of the Bhagavad-gītā. We normally think of Kṛṣṇa as the beautiful Supreme Personality of Godhead, the enchanting youth who plays the flute and performs so many w...

Prefer listening? There is my narration of the article. ⤴️ You can receive new articles directly in your inbox. Subscription is free; donations are welcome. Everyone wants to be loved for who they are. But here is a problem: Often, what we call “who I am” is exactly what prevents other people from loving us. Without realizing it, we often develop qualities and patterns of behavior that push others...

⤴️ There is a narration of the article in my voice. You have the option to hear it instead of reading. You can receive new articles directly in your inbox. Subscription is free; donations are welcome. In the tenth chapter of the Gītā, Kṛṣṇa describes His vibhūtis, or divine opulences. The purpose of these descriptions is not to give us a catalog of cosmic manifestations but to teach us to see Kṛṣṇ...

⤴️ There is a narration of the article in my voice. You have the option to hear it instead of reading. You can receive new articles directly in your inbox. Subscription is free; donations are welcome. Prabhupāda described on a number of occasions the possibility of a golden age of 10,000 years in which humanity would continue to progress spiritually, up to the point that life would become like in...

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Subscribe to receive new articles by e-mail. It’s free, but if you like, you can pledge a donation: Join the Telegram group if you would like to join the live lessons. This course is maintained with your donations. Click here to donate . 💬 Text of the lesson Recovering the Vedas: Bhadraśravā worships Hayaśīrṣa in Bhadrāśva-varṣa Bhadrāśva-varṣa is the tract of land east of Ilāvṛta-varṣa, ruled by...

One of the eight sets of mountains surrounding Mount Sumeru, in Ilāvṛta-varṣa, is Kailāsa, located to the south. This is the abode of Lord Śiva. This abode is described in the Fourth Canto, chapter six (in the episode when the demigods go there to apologize to Lord Śiva after having offended him at the sacrifice organized by Daksa), as a paradisiac place, with pristine nature and all natural opule...

The lifestyle and opulence of the inhabitants of Jambūdvīpa “On the side of Supārśva Mountain stands a big tree called Mahākadamba, which is very celebrated. From the hollows of this tree flow five rivers of honey, each about five vyāmas wide. This flowing honey falls incessantly from the top of Supārśva Mountain and flows all around Ilāvṛta-varṣa, beginning from the western side. Thus the whole l...

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All the measurements in the description of Śukadeva Goswami are given in yojanas, an ancient Vedic unit of distance used in Sanskrit texts. The length of the yojana can vary according to the context, but Prabhupāda concludes that the descriptions of the Śrīmad Bhāgavatam are based on a yojana of eight miles. Jambūdvīpa is described as being circular in form (round like the leaf of a lotus flower),...

The Vedic Cosmology of the 5th Canto The first part of the Fifth Canto describes the descendants of Mahārāja Priyavrata (who ruled during the first Manvantara), including the description of the activities of Mahārāja Āgnīdhra, the pastimes of Lord Ṛṣabhadeva, the fall of King Bharata, and so on. The second part enters into details about Vedic cosmology, including the structure of Bhū-mandala, the...