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Date uploaded in London –30 April 2026
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Festivals in May 2026; First of May- Chitra Pournami/Full Moon Day Festival; May Day; Madurai Vaigai River Azakar Festival; May 4- Agni Nakshatra period begins/Hot Days; May 26 Plnet Jupiter Transfer Day; May 28- Agni Star/Hot period ends; Bakrid; May 30- Vaikasi Visakam
Auspicious Days — May14, 15, 18,25, 28.
New moon day -16; Full moon days-1, 30; Ekadasi Fasting Days-13, 27.
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नारदभक्तिसूत्राणि प्रथमोऽध्यायः परभक्तिस्वरूपम्
अथातो भक्तिं व्याख्यास्यामः । 1
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सा त्वस्मिन् परप्रेमरूपा । 2
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अमृतस्वरूपा च । 3
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यल्लब्ध्वा पुमान् सिद्धो भवति अमृतो भवति तृप्तो भवति । 4
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यत्प्राप्य न किञ्चिद् वाञ्छति न शोचति न द्वेष्टि न रमते नोत्साही भवति 5
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यज्ज्ञात्वा मत्तो भवति स्तब्धो भवति आत्मारामो भवति । 6
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सा न कामयमाना निरोधरूपत्वात् । 7
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निरोधस्तु लोकवेदव्यापारन्यासः । 8
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तस्मिन्ननन्यता तद्विरोधिषूदासीनता च । 9
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अन्याश्रयाणां त्यागोनन्यता । 10
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लोकवेदेषु तदनुकूलाचरणं तद्विरोधिषूदासीनता । 11
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भवतु निश्चयदार्ढ्यादूर्ध्वं शास्त्ररक्षणम् । 12
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अन्यथा पातित्यशङ्कया । 13
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लोकोऽपि तावदेव भोजनादि व्यापारस्त्वाशरीरधारणावधि । 14
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तल्लक्षणानि वाच्यन्ते नानामतभेदात् । 15
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पूजादिष्वनुराग इति पाराशर्यः । 16
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कथादिष्विति गर्गः । 17
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आत्मरत्यविरोधेनेति शाण्डिल्यः । 18
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नारदस्तु तदर्पिताखिलाचारता तद्विस्मरणे परमव्याकुलतेति । 19
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अस्त्येवमेवम् । 20
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यथा व्रजगोपिकानाम् । 21
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तत्रापि न माहात्म्यज्ञानविस्मृत्यपवादः 22
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तद्विहीनं जाराणामिव । 23
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नास्त्येव तस्मिन् तत्सुखसुखित्वम् । 24
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द्वितीयोऽध्यायः
परभक्तिमहत्त्वम्
सा तु कर्मज्ञानयोगेभ्योऽप्यधिकतरा । 25
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फलरूपत्त्वात् । 26
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ईश्वरस्याप्यभिमानद्वेषित्वात् दैन्यप्रियत्वात् च । 27
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तस्याः ज्ञानमेव साधनमित्येके । 28
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अन्योन्याश्रयत्वमित्यन्ये । 29
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स्वयं फलरूपतेति ब्रह्मकुमारः । 30
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राजगृहभोजनादिषु तथैव दृष्टत्वात् । 31
Taken from Sanskritdocuments website; thanks.
This free translation of Narada Bhakti Sutras was dictated by Swami Vivekananda in America.
Please note that it is not verbatim translation of Sanskrit aphorisms.
CHAPTER I
May 1 Friday
1. Bhakti is intense love for God.
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May 2 Saturday
2. It is the nectar of love;
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May 3 Sunday
3. Getting which man becomes perfect, immortal, and satisfied for ever;
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May 4 Monday
4. Getting which man desires no more, does not become jealous of anything, does not take pleasure in vanities:
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May 5 Tuesday
5. Knowing which man becomes filled with spirituality, becomes calm, and finds pleasure only in God.
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May 6 Wednesday
6. It cannot be used to fill any desire, itself being the check to all desires.
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May 7 Thursday
7. Sannyâsa is giving up both the popular and the scriptural forms of worship.
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May 8 Friday
8. The Bhakti-Sannyasin is the one whose whole soul goes unto God, and whatever militates against love to God, he rejects.
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May 9 Saturday
9. Giving up all other refuge, he takes refuge in God.
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May 10 Sunday
10. Scriptures are to be followed as long as one’s life has not become firm;
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May 11 Monday
11. Or else there is danger of doing evil in the name of liberty.
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May 12 Tuesday
12. When love becomes established, even social forms are given up, except those which are necessary for the preservation of life.
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May 13 Wednesday
13. There have been many definitions of love, but Nârada gives these as the signs of love: When all thoughts, all words, and all deeds are given up unto the
Lord, and the least forgetfulness of God makes one intensely miserable, then love has begun.
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May 14 Thursday
14. As the Gopis had it —15. Because, although worshipping God as their lover, they never forgot his God-nature;
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May 15 Friday
15. Otherwise they would have committed the sin of unchastity.
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May 16 Saturday
16. This is the highest form of love, because there is no desire of reciprocity, which desire is in all human love.
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May 17 Sunday
17. Bhakti is greater than Karma, greater than Jnâna, greater than Yoga (Râja-Yoga), because Bhakti itself is its result, because Bhakti is both the means and the end (fruit). CHAPTER II
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May 18 Monday
18. As a man cannot satisfy his hunger by simple knowledge or sight of food, so a man cannot be satisfied by the knowledge or even the perception of God until love comes; therefore love is the highest.
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May 19 Tuesday
19.These, however, the Masters have said about Bhakti:
One who wants this Bhakti must give up sense enjoyments and even the company of people. CHAPTER III
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May 20 Wednesday
20. Day and night he must think about Bhakti and nothing else.
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May 21 Thursday
21. (He must) go where they sing or talk of God.
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May 22 Friday
22. The principal cause of Bhakti is the mercy of a great (or free) soul.
May 23 Saturday
23. Meeting with a great soul is hard to obtain, and never fails to save the soul.
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May 24 Sunday
24. Through the mercy of God we get such Gurus.
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May 25 Monday
25. There is no difference between Him and His (own) ones.
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May 26 Tuesday
26. Seek, therefore, for this.
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May 27 Wednesday
27. Evil company is always to be shunned;
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May 28 Thursday
28. Because it leads to lust and anger, illusion, forgetfulness of the goal, destruction of the will (lack of perseverance), and destruction of everything.
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May 29 Friday
29. These disturbances may at first be like ripples, but evil company at last makes them like the sea.
May 30 Saturday
30. He gets across Maya who gives up all attachment, serves the great ones, lives alone, cuts the bandages of this world, goes beyond the qualities of nature, and depends upon the Lord for even his living.
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May 31 Sunday
31. He who gives up the fruits of work, he who gives up all work and the dualism of joy and misery, who gives up even the scriptures, gets that unbroken love for God.
To be continued in June 2026 Calendar……………………………
Tags- Narada Bhakti Sutras , May 2026 Calendar, English, Swami Vivekananda
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