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Raghunatha dasa Gosvami

Please Do Not Engage in Dharma or Adharma

~ All the wealth of the entire universe cannot change the mentality of a mahat or great devotee.~ If we think, “I am guru. He knows nothing. He is not as good a servant of our Gurudeva as I...

Cida-dahi-danda-mahotsava of Raghunatha dasa Gosvami – Distributing Vraja-prema

ṣaṣṭhe—raghunātha-dāsa prabhure mililā nityānanda-ājñāya ciḍā-mahotsava kailā Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Antya 20.112 The sixth chapter of Antya-līla explains how Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī met Caitanya Mahāprabhu and performed the flat rice festival under the order of Nityānanda Prabhu. Hearing this, Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī became extremely happy. All...

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Elephantine Ecstasy

...The different ecstasies of hairs standing on end, horripilation, changing of colors, choked voice, incessant tears, and so forth, were like soldiers attacking the divine form of Mahaprabhu. These ecstasies were like many elephants entering a field of sugarcane. The elephants generally eat plants and grass that are not sweet, so when they taste sugarcane they become intoxicated. They take up...