




Focusing on our fortune
Why is happiness eluding us? Because we are never satisfied. No matter how much we get, we always hanker for more. Such is the nature of every one of us in all fields and walks of life. How then could finite material objects and flickering bodily or intellectual pleasures satiate our infinite hankerings?

The Glory of the
Sri Chaitanya Saraswat Math

Real Initiation -
Nurturing the seed of Krishna-prem
Sadhu-sanga, if we can follow, it will give us relief from so many things. It will give a very good result in the future. But all depends upon sraddha, faith. Adau sraddha, tatah sadhu-sanga. First faith, then the saintly association is ours. And the translation of sraddha is more than just 'faith'. It is actually affectionate faith.
At the time of its humble beginning, the Sri Chaitanya Saraswat Math was no more than a thatched hut on the banks of the Ganges river, yet our Founder Acharya, His Divine Grace Om Vishnupad Sri Srila Bhakti Rakshak Sridhar Maharaj, composed the following verse in 1941, mysteriously predicting the future greatness of the Math....

Nirjal Ekadasi
The history behind this ekadasi, explained by Srila Sridhar Maharaj.
Today is ekadasi. Not just any ekadasi, but nirjal-ekadasi: a total fast, even from water. This Pandava nirjal-ekadasi takes place at the hottest time, usually in June, in the high summer season.
