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This channel is a sanctuary for spiritual clarity, practical wisdom, and heartfelt encouragement. Through insightful talks, uplifting conversations, and the timeless teachings of the Bhagavad-gītā and Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, HG Vaiśeṣika Dāsa makes spiritual life accessible, joyful, and deeply relevant to our everyday experiences.
Known for his warmth, simplicity, and empowering style, HG Vaiśeṣika Dāsa emphasizes the transformative power of chanting the holy name, studying Śrīla Prabhupāda's books, and sharing spiritual knowledge with the world. Whether you are new to bhakti-yoga or have been practicing for years, this channel offers the inspiration to live with purpose, devotion, and compassion.
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Be a Sage Page by Page: Get Your Bhāgavatam Number
We recommend that everybody take this year—where there is uncertainty in the world—to take shelter of the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam. Get grounded in the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam so that you’re not carried away by the news of the world. There’s bigger news here in the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam. You just read five pages a day, or even one page a day religiously—meaning that, without fail, you read your Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam every day. Set it up in your house so it’s open, it’s on the stand, it’s ready to go, it’s marked. Whatever happens—there’s a gas leak in your house and they tell you to evacuate—you take the Bhāgavatam with you. You wait for PG&E outside, and you read your five pages before they come to make sure your house doesn’t blow up. That’s how dedicated you should be to the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam.
We all have to be dedicated to something, but right now, we get distracted and dedicated to those things that are here today, gone tomorrow, and such investments produce no permanent result. But reading even one page of Bhāgavatam a day will give us a view to the spiritual world and the opportunity to leave this world and go back home, back to Godhead at the end.
So, we ask everyone to start this program today of picking a number. Please download the app called Be a Sage, Page by Page. It’s good for iOS and for Android. And then sit with your families, sit by yourself, and pick the number that you’re going to do. Write it on a piece of paper and say: "From now, from now until the 26th of September, I’m going to read this many pages every day of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam."
Try to get your family members involved, and try to get your neighbors involved. If you have friends or family anywhere else, start a Zoom call and get them involved, too, so you can read to them between now and the 26th September your number of pages. We are going to try to get everybody on the planet—starting with all of us. Each one of us gets three people, who can get three more people. I know, it’s multi-level marketing! Then we can expand the vibration of the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam all over the planet between now and the 26th.
And after that, we’ll go back to scrolling. Does that sound okay? You can read the newspaper, you can do anything you want, as long as you take up this vow between now and the 26th of September to do some portion of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam every day and involve some other people in it. What do you think?
Maya Delayed is Maya Denied | HG Vaisesika Dasa | ISV | 22 Mar 2026 https://youtu.be/09TMx-RT1Pk
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Last night I found in our attic a box of books that Nirākulā inherited from her father—although she blames me because she said, "You’re the one who probably got attached to them." They’re classics: Plato, Aristotle; and they’re old classics, too. They have original binding and pictures in them and things like that. I took them down from the attic—painstakingly, I might add; it was not easy. I looked at them early this morning. I took a picture of the stack for ChatGPT, my new buddy. I didn’t make any comment. I just said, "Here, I found these."
And do you know what he told me? He said, "You don’t need these." He said, "You have Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam and Bhagavad-gītā." He said, "Maybe out of these twenty, you know, you pick out two or three." Then I looked around my room and around our house. We have Bhāgavatam in every room, plus we have all the other books. We are just finishing this book, Miracle on Second Avenue, and I was thinking—I’ve been calculating how much time I have left in the world, if I’m lucky—and I couldn’t read these. I can’t read Ivanhoe, and I can’t read Plato’s dialogues and all these things. I really don’t have time for it, what’s the point of keeping them? That’s what ChatGPT was trying to tell me.
One of the points here is that we don’t have much time. The Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam says, āyur harati vai puṁsām—that the sun rises and sets, udyann astaṁ ca yann asau—and that you should know that every time it’s going overhead, it’s saying, "Look, I’m taking away your life." But if somebody is engaged in hearing from Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, it says it’s life-giving. You’re investing. So, all other books can go away. We really don’t have to read that many self-help books, because Bhāgavatam has everything.
In fact, I’ve had a long-standing relationship with Rūpānuga Prabhu, the one who’s the head of the GBC College. He teaches management at Chapman University down in Irvine—top-flight university. He has been teaching there for many years. The first time he picked us up at the airport in Irvine, when we went down to visit Southern California, I got in the car and I said, "Okay, teach me about management."
He said, "Prabhupāda already taught you everything."
I said, "How do you mean that?"
He said, "tṛṇād api sunīcena."
Of course, I wheedled more out of him over time. But there are so many books, so many ideas, and there’s very little time. The main teachings that will help us in life are all here in the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam. So, reading it once will not be enough. Of course, even reading one word or one verse could be enough, but I’m saying it in terms of: the more you read Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, the more you’ll be astounded. If you think you’re astounded by the brilliance of ChatGPT, multiply that by a trillion when it comes to Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam. Because you have this feeling when you read the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam that, "Oh, it’s speaking to me. It knows me. It knows my foibles and the ways I’ve been caught up here in the material world since time immemorial." So, this is a living, breathing Deity of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. It’s the sound vibration from the spiritual world.
Maya Delayed is Maya Denied | HG Vaisesika Dasa | ISV | 22 Mar 2026 https://youtu.be/09TMx-RT1Pk
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Success is Built Before it is Seen
You have to follow the scriptures —pramāṇais tat-sad-ācārais (BS 5.59), and you have to behave properly, tad-abhyāsais. You have to have abhyāsa; you have to practice again and again. And about that, I’m going to read you a couple of quotes. Do you want to hear a couple of quotes about practice?
Success is built before it is seen.
Growth requires commitment.
Leaders grow strongest in quiet consistency.
I was really inspired by 'Success is built before it is seen,' because in the early practices of devotional service, there are oftentimes complaints: 'How come I’m the only one who can’t get anything?' 'I’ve been left behind,' and 'I don’t have a taste,' and so forth. But if we apply ourselves—pramāṇais tat-sad-ācārais tad-abhyāsair—practice. How much? A lot!
How much should you practice? A lot. It’s two words. How much? A lot. Some people make it one word, 'a lot.' Okay, so how much abhyāsa? Nirantaram, he says. How much did you practice? Pretty much all the time. Nirantaram means without stopping.
'Bodhayan ātmanātmānaṁ' means then there will be awakening. Bodhayan means an awakening of the soul to the relationship with the Lord. 'Bodhayan ātmanātmānaṁ bhaktim apy uttamāṁ labhet'—one will attain this bhakti. Bhaktyā sañjātayā bhaktyā (SB 11.3.31), like this verse says: if you practice the first kind of bhakti properly, then naturally there will be an awakening.
So this idea of rāgānuga—it’s our practice, and we’re fully equipped. Everything is there. The Holy Name is the consolidated practice given by Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu, who has taken everything in all of the cultures of the Vedic system and all the śāstras, and He has put it in one place. We need that. By chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa without offense, then one can achieve the perfection of life which we’re just describing.
Success is Built Before it is Seen | SB 11.3.31| HG Vaisesika Dasa | POTH, Puri | 16 Feb 2026
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Ami Bangla Boli !!
Books are what we call literary kīrtana. Nāmāny anantasya yaśo ’ṅkitāni yat (SB 1.5.11) — the literatures are written kīrtana.
Imagine you do a kīrtana, which we should do in every place we go; then, when you give somebody a book, they walk away with a kīrtana in their hand. It goes into their house, it goes into the company, it goes everywhere. It is the same thing only; it is called Bṛhat-mṛdaṅga. It is the 'greater kīrtana' because it can go further.
So: give out books, give out prasādam, give out the Holy Name, and then teach these basic principles. People will be very satisfied with you.
Two Key Instructions of Caitanya Mahaprabhu | HG Vaisesika Dasa | GYR | Kurma Kshetra | 26 Dec 2025
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