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N.B. In this time of lockdown I am going to start uploading videos to my YouTube channel on the Priti Sandarbha. As I have probably stated, I started work a few weeks ago on this last of the Six Sandarbhas. I wish to concentrate fully on this project, and I think that making videos will be a helpful way of improving my concentration. These are imperfectly done, but I am doing it primarily for my own edification and purification. If anyone wishes to follow along, they can by using the Priti Sandarbha GGM edition . We will be updating the on-line edition as we go along. The current version is already 20 years old and has many mistakes. The first video is uploaded here . N.B. E-books are now available from jiva.org, as are the other first four Sandarbhas . Also anyone interested in taking Sanskrit with me or participating in the continuing Jiva Tirtha course (Oct. 2020) can register here . It is worth saying here that Babaji's continued determination and unflagging commitmen...

This is the last portion of the Service to Guru series, which is taken from a collection of articles by Bhakti Promode Puri Maharaj, originally published in Chaitanya Vani, the magazine of the Chaitanya Gaudiya Math. 4. Sudama Vipra at the ashram of Sandipani Muni The glories of service to the spiritual master have been sung in all the scriptures—in both the Upanishads and the Puranas. The disciple who is indifferent to service to the spiritual master will never get the mercy of Krishna. The Bhagavatam recounts that even Krishna himself set the example of how to serve the spiritual master. We see in the Bhagavatam that the Supreme Lord Krishna himself set the example of service to the spiritual master. After Krishna had returned to Mathura and killed Kamsa, he was reunited with his parents, Vasudeva and Devaki. Since he and Balaram had spent their childhood in the cowherd community, they had not received an education befitting the princely life they were now to lead. Not o...