Principles That Slowdown Growth (Discussion For School Of Bhakti) | June 2020

KI 25_01_Welcome to Kartik Inspirations 2025

KI 25_02_The Permission to Enter

According to the saints and according to the scriptures, one single grain of dust in Vrindavan is ‘chintamani,’ it is transcendental jewel. All the wealth in all this world, in all the heavenly planets, in all the creation is not enough to purchase a single grain of dust from Vrindavan, and you are thinking you just bought an acre of land. 

How Srila Prabhupada Got Land in Sri Vrindavan Dham? (Part 1)

Krishna's Final Lesson | The Uddhava Gita | Kiental, Switzerland | Svayam Bhagavan Keshava Maharaja

Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu told us that the only way to understand Vrindavan, the only way to understand Krishna, the only way to understand bhakti, the only way to understand kirtan is mahajano yena gatah sa panthah, which means to follow in the footsteps of the great souls.

How Srila Prabhupada Got Land in Sri Vrindavan Dham (Part 2)

Akrura’s mission was to take Krishna out of Vrindavan for the first time. Everyone else in the whole Vrajbhumi was very disturbed with this Akrura, but Krishna understood his heart and was pleased. 



We Have to Enter Vrindavan in The Mood of Surrender

KI 25_03_The Moonlit Path of Meditation

Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, how much he valued Vrindavan. When we see how the great personalities perceived Vrindavan, then we get some understanding of how we can enter into Vrindavan. 

We Are Coming to Vrindavan as Beggars

Prabhupada’s example: material acquisition, whether it be wealth or fame or followers or knowledge or mystic powers, whatever it means, from a spiritual perspective its all zeroes. Some people have one zero, some people two, some people have ten million zeroes. 

Love For Krishna Means Service to Krishna

One of the greatest, most worshipable acharyas to this day was teaching us how to appreciate Vrindavan with such love, with such gratitude. He would sweep the pathways practically all day every day and because he was so grateful to be doing this seva in this holy place, feeling himself so undeserving that Krishna reciprocated.



How Our Acharyas Appreciate the Dust of Vrindavan (Part 1)

Svayam Bhagavan Keshava Maharaja is a spiritual author, community mentor, dynamic teacher and worldwide traveler. In 2002, after graduating from UCL (University College London) with a BSc in Information Management, he adopted full-time monastic life to expand his knowledge, deepen his spirituality, and share these timeless principles with the wider society.

For over twenty years, Keshava Maharaja was a resident monk at ISKCON UK’s headquarters, Bhaktivedanta Manor. There he pioneered the School of Bhakti (www.schoolofbhakti.com), led the monastic training programme and drove forward national outreach projects. He has designed numerous courses on Vedic theology, lifestyle management, and spiritual self-development, and also authored ten books which bring the ancient wisdom into the modern context.

Principles That Slowdown Growth (Discussion For School Of Bhakti) | June 2020

Wisdom That Breathes by Keshava Maharaja