Sri Mathura Mandal Parikrama Sri Mathura Mandal Parikrama is Translated by Pundarika Vidyanidhi dasa and Bhumipati dasa from Narahari Cakravarti Thakura‖s Bhaktiratnakara (Fifth Wave). Covers Srinivas and Narottama Dasa Thakura‖s tour of Vrndavana.

On Hindu pilgrim center in Vrindāvan, India.

Vraja-maṇḍala Darśana is not only a guide through Vṛndāvana but a means to live in Vraja. Lokanāth Mahārāja has narrated Kṛṣṇa’s pastimes in his simple yet erudite style so we may learn to live with Kṛṣṇa and thus be insulated from the Lord’s external potency. In this way, our dormant attachment for Vraja and its residents will gradually awaken in our hearts.

Sanskrit text with English translation on manifestation of Krishna, Hindu deity and devotion (bhakti) presenting viewpoint of the Chaitanya school in Vaishnavism.

Loving Stones is a study of devotees' conceptions of and worshipful interactions with Mount Govardhan, a sacred mountain located in the Braj region of north-central India that has for centuries been considered an embodied form of Krishna. It is often said that worship of Mount Govardhan "makes the impossible possible." In this book, David L. Haberman examines the perplexing paradox of an infinite god embodied in finite form, wherein each particular form is non-different from the unlimited. He takes on the task of interpreting the worship of a mountain and its stones for a culture in which this practice is quite alien. This challenge involves exploring the interpretive strategies that may explain what seems un-understandable, and calls for theoretical considerations of incongruity, inconceivability, and other realms of the impossible. This aspect of the book includes critical consideration of the place and history of the pejorative concept of idolatry (and its twin, anthropomorphism) in the comparative study of religions. Loving Stones uses the worship of Mount Govardhan as a site to explore ways in which scholars engaged in the difficult work of representing other cultures struggle to make "the impossible possible."

On Hindu spiritual life.