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His Grace Trnikrta Trnavarta has officially taken initiation as a disciple of HDG A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada !!
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Once in the house of Srivasa Thakura Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu sang while Vakresvara Pandit danced in, constant ecstasy for seventy-two hours. At that time Lord Caitanya said, "Vakresvara, I have only one wing like you, but if I had another certainly I could fly in the sky".
Expert at singing and dancing, Vakresvara Pandit always pleased Lord Caitanya with his service in the Navadvipa sankirtana parties (which he joined from the beginning), the dramas at Srivas Angam, and the yearly Ratha-yatra at Jagannatha Puri.
Vrindavana Dasa Thakura said, 'To awaken the sleeping souls in the age of Kali Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu came to distribute the nectar of the holy name of Krishna. When He came the khol (mrdanga) and karatals sounded like thundering clouds. Absorbed in moods of ecstatic love and shouting "Hari bol Hari bol," Sri Gauranga told everyone to chant the holy name of Krishna. Raising His golden arms to the sky, Lord Gaura Hari would dance in ecstasy. At that time, Vakresvara Pandit and
Summer 1973. It’s 8am, and already Washington, DC is bustling with activity, as everyone hurries to work. A group of ISKCON devotees also leave their temple, crossing Q Street and heading towards Connecticut Avenue, a heavily populated business district. But their job is different: as they walk, they sing kirtan, an ancient Vedic call-and-response style of chanting God’s Holy Names.
Suddenly, a young fellow appears out of nowhere, a flute tucked under his arm and long red hair streaming out behind him as he runs as fast as he can, trying to catch up with them. The devotees are surprised and delighted.
Then, just as he’s almost reached them, the young man loses one of his flip-flops (A backless sandal held to the foot by a thong between the big toe and the second toe). The devotees indicate to him that he should go back and get it, they’ll wait for him. But he refuses. There’s no way he’ll risk losing them or miss out on even a few seconds of kirtan. He joins the kirtan party, and that ve
The importance of reading Srila Prabhupada’s books
By: Compiled by Bhakta Corey (Texas, USA)
Is a physically present guru required for us to understand spiritual life? What should be the source of our instructions? Where should we learn about spiritual life, if the spiritual master is not physically present before us?
Devotee: Srila Prabhupada when you're not present with us, how is it possible to receive instructions? For example in questions that may arise...
Srila Prabhupada: Well the questions are answ...answers are there in my books.
- Srila Prabhupada, Morning Walk, Los Angeles, May 13, 1973
Srila Prabhupada says that we can get the answers to our questions through reading his books. He does not say that we “need a living guru so that we can personally receive instructions”.
"In my books the philosophy of Krishna Consciousness is explained fully so if there is anything you do not understand, then you simply
By: Compiled by Bhakta Corey (Texas, USA)
Is a physically present guru required for us to understand spiritual life? What should be the source of our instructions? Where should we learn about spiritual life, if the spiritual master is not physically present before us?
Devotee: Srila Prabhupada when you're not present with us, how is it possible to receive instructions? For example in questions that may arise...
Srila Prabhupada: Well the questions are answ...answers are there in my books.
- Srila Prabhupada, Morning Walk, Los Angeles, May 13, 1973
Srila Prabhupada says that we can get the answers to our questions through reading his books. He does not say that we “need a living guru so that we can personally receive instructions”.
"In my books the philosophy of Krishna Consciousness is explained fully so if there is anything you do not understand, then you simply
He was a Vaidya by caste.
In his past incarnation he was Vira Duti.
(GGD. 176).
His Sripata was located at Kumarahatta at Halisahara (Pata Paryatana).
Sivananda had three sons named Caitanyadasa, Ramadasa, and Paramanandadasa (Kavi Karnapura).
Sivananda was one of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu's intimate associates.
As directed by the Lord, he escorted the Gaudiya devotees to Nilacala every year, providing them with food and lodging along the way.
During one pilgrimage to Nilacala a dog joined their party and Sivananda took personal care of him, even paying extra fare to allow the dog to across the river along with them.
One night Sivananda was detained for sometime and arrived at the camp late in the evening, only to find that the dog had not been given prasada and, despite a thorough search, the dog was nowhere to be found.
Thus Sivananda did not accept any food that night.
When their party arrived in Nilacala, they found the dog in the presence of the Lord.
The dog was eating some coconut given by t
Shri Svarupa Damodara is an eternal associate and friend of Shri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu.
Previously his name was Shri Purushottama Acharya.
He lived in Nabadwipa.
He always stayed with Mahaprabhu.
When Shriman Mahaprabhu took sannyasa, he became half-mad.
He went to Varanasi and took sannyasa from a sannyasi named Chaitanyananda, who ordered him to study Vedanta and teach it to the people in general.
Shri Purushottama Acharya did not accept the dress of a sannyasi, but only gave up the shikha and sacred thread.
His name became Svarupa.
After this, taking up the order of his sannyasa-guru, Shri Purushottama Acharya went to Jagannatha Puri.
At that time, he again met with Shri Chaitanya.
The Chaitanya Charitamrita (ML 10:102-104) records this meeting as follows:
"One day, Svarupa Damodara arrived.
His mystic awareness of the Lord's inner purpose was deep and unfathomable.
He was an ocean of rasa.
In his previous ashrama, his name had been Purushottama Acharya.
When he was in Nabadwipa, he had attained th
Author: Adi Sankaracarya
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kadacit kalindi-tata-vipina-sangitaka-ravo
mudabhiri-nari-vadana-kamalasvada-madhupah
rama-sambhu-brahmamara-pati-ganesarcita-pado
jagannathah svami nayana-patha-gami bhavatu me
1) Sometimes in great happiness Lord Jagannatha makes a loud concert with His flute in the groves on the banks of the Yamuna. He is like a bumblebee tasting the beautiful lotus like faces of the cowherd damsels of Vraja, and great personalities such as Laksmi, Siva, Brahma, Indra, and Ganesa worship His lotus feet. May that Jagannatha Svami be the object of my vision.
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bhuje savye venum sirasi sikhi-puccham kati-tate
dukulam netrante sahacara-kataksam vidadhate
sada srimad-vrndavana-vasati-lila-paricayo
jagannathah svami nayana-patha-gami bhavatu me
2) In His left hand Lord Jagannatha holds a flute, on His head He wears peacock feathers, and on His hips He wears fine yellow silken cloth. From the corners of His eyes He bestows sidelong glances upon His loving devotees, and He always reveals
pamho Tamohara Prabhu , agt A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada ! Bhubaneswara Krsna-Balarama Temple
Thank you for posting this nice video on the unforgettable rasa rasika bhakta as HDG GAURA GOVINDA MAHARAJ, i stored the video. I am hoping to come in the same platform of a such exalted Vaisnava from birth, as SRILA GAURA GOVINDA MAHARAJ.
I just associated few times with HIM in vapu seva, in north italy, and in london, but my association through HIS sublime realizations is still keeping going. In vani seva,is a slow process, but pukka.
Toward the "step a day to take maha maya away", we know pure bhakti yoga is what everyone is looking for. It may be that it takes many lives, but it can take also a lava matra ie. a fraction of a second to get all the sarva siddhi hoy perfections in our daily bhakti yoga practice.
Most important think is to not get discouraged, because we are proud to announce that we are conscious of kr
Likith Kumar
Prabhupada: Punah punas carvita-carvananam: "Again and Again chewing the chewed." But if they make it point that "If one is not Krsna consciousness, I'll not give a vote," then everything will be perfect, nice.
Hari-sauri: Some countries fine you if you don't vote. If you don't vote, they fine you just to make people vote, because they know otherwise everybody's so disgusted.
Prabhupada: Just see. I have never given vote. Since we have got this sva-raj, as soon as the vote question, I go away. Because I think, "Why shall I give this nonsense vote? None of them are liked by me." I avoid it. In my grhastha life, the municipal board and the......, I avoid. I don't believe in. So give Mr. Asnani some fruits.
Srila Prabhupada. Room Coversation January 8, 1977, Bombay.
A flower that decorated the body of our spiritual master at the time of his samadhi, puspa, pressed and sealed inside my Bhagavada Gita from the seventies, will hopefully yet be used to build a puspa samadhi for HDG A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada.
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"So there was a whole big splash of political ideology going around ISKCON (74/75). There was a book about a conspiracy from The John Birch Society that made a big hit. And Prabhupada had confirmed that yes, it's a fact, there are conspiracies and the whole material society is being manipulated by a handful of vested interest groups, demons, raksasas, who take birth on this planet just to control and manipulate." (Ramesvara Interview - page 58)
“The GBC should all be the instructor (siksa) gurus. I am the initiator (diksa) guru, and you should be the instructor guru by teaching what I am teaching and doing what I am doing. This is not a title, but you must actually come to this platform. This I want.” (Srila Prabhupada Letter, August 4th, 1975)
Tdasa; Srila Prabhupada told us, "I am diksha guru, you be siksha" paraphrase. So, he suggests both are wanted. Similarly, how many of us read and understood Gita, all on our own? For most, we needed association with disciples through parampara to understand, so, it is clearly the case that the books may be adequate, but is the follower ADEQUATE ?? I don't think so. So, when Gour Govinda Swami and others emphasize the importance of association with the person Guru, not just reading alone, it should be understood correctly. Srila Gour Govinda said that a tape alone is not enough, but he used them in combination with siksha. This Srila Prabhupada did. Now, it is incumbent upon all of us
The Nature of the Guileless Servant of Śrī Guru
by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura Prabhupāda
by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura Prabhupāda
(Portrait of Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura Prabhupāda)
Question 1: What is the nature of the guileless servant of śrī guru?
Answer: Were a servant of śrī guru truly selfless, he would consider śrī guru to be devatātmā – that is, he would consider him to be [non-different from] the Supreme Lord (devata) and the one person truly worthy of his love and affection (dear like his own ātmā). And he would always foster the conception, or belief, that “Śrīla Gurudeva is my eternal master, and I am his eternal servant.” Service to śrī guru would be his very life; it would be his ornament and his existence.
He knows nothing but śrī guru. Under all circumstances – while he is sleeping or dreaming or eating or engaged in bhajana – he is always thinking of śrī gurudeva, taking his guidance and following in his footsteps. He knows that śrī gurudeva, who is very dear to Śrī Kṛṣṇa, is co
