Srila Govinda Maharaj tells the miraculous story of when Lord Shiva gave him the medicine to cure Srila Sridhar Maharaj who, due to ill health, was on the verge of departing from this world.
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Srila Govinda Maharaj says, “Karmma and seva, action and divine service, are identical from the external perspective. Bhakti-yoga and karmma-yoga are the same apart from one thing—and that is the inner mood of the practitioner. The inner intention is the all-important, differentiating factor.”
This article is an excerpt from an informal talk by Srila Govinda Maharaj on Snan Yatra day in 2007.
Srila Govinda Maharaj describes how Sri Gadadhar Pandit was like Mahaprabhu’s shadow. He was always with Him. During their childhood they were students together, when Mahaprabhu took sannyas Gadadhar Pandit also took sannyas, and when Mahaprabhu decided to stay in Puri Dham, he also stayed.
Srila Govinda Maharaj explains to the devotees who have come from all over the world, the importance of practicing spiritual life with love & affection and how harmful enviousness will be for the sincere devotee.
Srila Govinda Maharaj says, “If ‘struggle’ means ‘movement,’ then there, on that [spiritual] plane, where movement is so sweet, struggle is a high thing. But if we think that struggle means something painful, then that struggle must be of the lower plane…”