Taking the World by Storm

You owe to yourself to get out of the rut which is keeping you entangled in the cycle of repeated birth and death. Why punish yourself by remaining in illusion when you could instead be relishing unlimited bliss at every minute? There's a tidal of divine mercy, which is right now sweeping the world. Catch that wave and be carried by it to the transcendental world while life is eternal, full of knowledge, and full of bliss. Don't foolishly punish yourself by continuing to drown in illusion.

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Lord Caitanya Launches a Tidal Wave of Bliss

Lord Caitanya Launches a Tidal Wave of Bliss

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Question: Change in Taste in Literature?

Did your taste in literature change after spiritual awakening?

Susan Min

Answer: Swan Literature

Even when one seriously begins the path of spiritual awakening he loses his taste for all mundane literatures seeing them as being nothing more than places of pilgrimage for crows. He prefers those literatures which are compared to places of pilgrimage for swans. This is described as follows in the cream of all literatures, the Srimad Bhagavatam, First Canto, Chapter 5, Text 10:

na yad vacaś citra-padaṁ harer yaśo jagat-pavitraṁ pragṛṇīta karhicit / tad vāyasaṁ tīrtham uśanti mānasā na yatra haṁsā niramanty uśik-kṣayāḥ

Translation:
Those words which do not describe the glories of the Lord, who alone can sanctify the atmosphere of the whole universe, are considered by saintly persons to be like unto a place of pilgrimage for crows. Since the all-perfect persons are inhabitants of the transcendental abode, they do not derive any pleasure there.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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