Utthana Ekadasi and the TOVP 2021

Thu, November 11, 2021 by Sunanda Das

This Ekadasi has four names: Utthana – Haribodhini – Prabodhini – Devotthani, and it is the second Ekadasi (Kartik Shukla, light fortnight) in the month of Kartik. It is said that Lord Vishnu goes to rest for four months during the period known as Chaturmasya. Starting from Sayana Ekadasi, which is the first Ekadasi that

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Tagged under: Devotthan, Ekadasi, Haribodhini, Prabodhini, Skanda Purana, Utthana

Why Build the TOVP? Do We Really Need Another Temple? Part 3

Wed, October 03, 2018 by Sunanda Das

In Part 1 of this series of articles we summarized the overall spiritual and philosophical reasoning behind building temples for Vishnu/Krishna as opposed to focusing on altruistic or philanthropic welfare work for human society through the opening of hospitals, feeding the poor, etc. Part 2 offered several important specific reasons from various perspectives why we

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Tagged under: Agni Purana, Narasimha Purana, Skanda Purana, Srimad Bhagavatam, Vishnu temple

Happy Kartika: Even A Mouse Get’s Mercy

Fri, October 06, 2017 by Sunanda Das

“In a temple of Lord Visnu, there lived a mouse that daily ate the ghee from the extinguished ghee lamps, which had been offered to the Lord. One day when the mouse felt hungry, she tried to eat the ghee from a lamp that was not yet extinguished. While nibbling at the lamp, the cotton

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Tagged under: Hari Bhakti Vilasa, Kartika, Padma Purana, Skanda Purana