Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura: Writings

Medieval Missionary Finds a Place Where the Earth Touches Heaven

Religion and Science

For applied scientists, each respective science is indeed worthy of respect. Their duty is to develop science and technology, and thereby serve the knowers of truth. Ātma-tattva is exceedingly profound; those engaged in its deliberation have no leisure to be confined within ordinary pursuits of science and technology. Others should take up those concerns to provide for their bodily needs.

Vaishnava Seva

Vaishnavas might be householders or renunciants, but in vaiṣhṇava-seva, it is not merely the devotee’s ashrama that commands respect. Rather, gradation among Vaiṣhṇavas is gauged according to their advancement in bhakti.
Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu — His Life & Precepts book cover

Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu — His Life & Precepts

The great preceptor Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura, who is considered the pioneer of the modern day revival of the Gaudiya Vaishnava tradition, had a grand vision of the fulfilment of Sri Caitanya Maha

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Bhaktivinoda Thakura

Mahāprabhura Śikṣā (Daśa-mūla-tattva)

Sriman Mahaprabhura Siksa (The teachings of Śrīman Mahāprabhu) also known as Dasha-mula-tattva (The Ten Roots of Gaudiya Vaishnavism) was written by Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura in 1892.

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Jagannatha Temple

Jagannatha Mandira

There is not a Hindu who has not heard the name of this temple. The old and the young, the male and the female, the Rajah and the ryot, and the weak and the stout, all visit this temple out of a religious curiosity.