Jagamohan pari munda.. yau!
Let my head fall at the feet of Jagannatha in the kirtana hall known as Jagamohana.
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Mushikavaahana modaka hastha,
Chaamara karna vilambitha sutra,
Vaamana rupa maheshwara putra,
Vighna vinaayaka paada namasthe
- O Lord Vinayaka! The remover of all obstacles, the son of Lord Shiva, with a form which is very short, with mouse as Thy vehicle, with sweet pudding in hand, with wide ears and long hanging trunk, I prostrate at Thy lotus-like Feet!
ganananh tva ganapatim havamahe kavim kavinam - upamashravastamam |
jyeshhtharajam brahmanan.h brahmanaspata A nah shrivnvannutibhih sida sadanam || (Rig Veda 2.23.1)
- We invoke You, O Ganapati of the ganas (Lord Shiva attendants), Who are Brahmana-spati of the brahmas (prayers), the wisest among the wise, Who abound in treasure beyond all measure, the most brilliant one. Do listen to our prayers, come with Your blessings and assurances of protection into our home, and be seated. (Rig Veda 2.23.1)
ni shhu sida ganapate ganeshhu tvamahurvipratamam kavinam |
na rite tvat.h kriyate kinchanare mahamarkam maghavan.h chitramarcha || (Rig Veda 10.112
Sita Thakurani
Shri Sita Thakurani is to be worshiped just as much as Sachidevi herself, as the mother of the universe. She is the eternal wife of Shri Advaita Acharya. She was the daughter of Shri Nrishinga Baduri. She was married to Shri Advaita Acharya in Phuliya Nagara. After their wedding, Advaita Acharya went to Nadiya, to live in Shantipura. Sita Thakurani was always absorbed in vatsalya prema for Shri Gaurasundara Prabhu, and, out of parental concern used to instruct Jagannatha Mishra on how to care for the boy. Shri Krishna Dasa Kaviraja Goswami has described the birth celebration at the house of Jagannatha Mishra upon the advent of the Lord, giving special attention to the position of Shri Sita Thakurani. Advaita Acharya's wife, worshipable by all the three worlds was Sita Thakurani. Taking the Acharya's orders on her head, she had come to take a look at this new child, this jewel of jewels, and to offer him presents.
On the eve of his son's advent Shri Jagannath
Sisyatva (Discipleship)
Sisyatva (Discipleship)
Class delivered by His Divine Grace Srila Gour Govinda Swami Maharaja
(Bhubaneswar – March 18, 1993)
One who can inculcate pure loving devotion unto you, he is a real guru.
He who has given me prema-bhakti at the lotus feet of Krishna, he is my supreme friend, he is my eternal father and mother. He is a real guru. If you tread this path of prema-bhakti then there is no fear of death, no fear of Yamaraj. No fear. So he has saved me from the clutches of Maya, clutches of Yamaraja. Those who cannot given me prema-bhakti at the lotus feet of Krishna, their guruship is partial guruship he who has made me realize this eternity eternal servitude ship is my eternal guru, real guru — he has establish my relationship with that Supreme Eternal.
“So one who is completely cent percent surrendered unto the lotus feet of such a guru, who is fortunate enough and has gotten such a guru he will get the mercy. He
Antya 10.1 - Let me offer my respectful obeisances unto Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, who is always pleased to accept anything given with faith and love by His devotees and is always ready to bestow mercy upon them.
Antya 10.2 - All glories to Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu! All glories to Lord Nityānanda Prabhu! All glories to Advaitacandra! And all glories to all the devotees of Lord Caitanya!
Antya 10.3 - The next year, all the devotees were very pleased to go to Jagannātha Purī [Nīlācala] to see Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu.
Antya 10.4 - Advaita Ācārya Gosāñi led the party from Bengal. He was followed by Ācāryaratna, Ācāryanidhi, Śrīvāsa Ṭhākura and other glorious devotees.
Antya 10.5 - Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu had ordered Lord Nityānanda to stay in Bengal, but nevertheless, because of ecstatic love, Lord Nityānanda also went to see Him.
Antya 10.6 - Indeed, it is a symptom of real affection that one breaks the order of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, not caring for the regulative principles, to
The Flute of Krishna, glorified!
Gauraharibol!
I like red, and the Maha mantra!
"If a person is unable to fast on these days, he should observe the fasts during the extra month according to his ability."
Sri Yudhishthira Maharaja said, "Oh Supreme Lord, what is the name and character of that Ekadasi that occurs during the dark fortnight (krishna paksha) of the extra, leap year month of Purushottama. Also, Oh master of all the universes, what is the process for observing it properly? Kindly narrate all of this to me?"
The Supreme Personality of Godhead, Lord Sri Krishna, replied, "Oh Yudhishthira, this meritorious day is called Parama Ekadasi. It bestows the great benediction of an enjoyable life and ultimate liberation, release from birth and death. The process for observing it is similar to that for observing the Ekadasi that occurs during the light part of this month of Kartika. That is to say, on this Ekadasi one should worship Me, the best of all living beings, with full love and devotion. In this connection I will now tell you a wonderful history, just as I
Fifty centuries ago, during a fierce war, ...
In the midst of the great battle, surrounded by the clash of arms, the pounding of hooves, the rattle of trappings, the shouts of warriors, and the screams of wounded men and beasts, where the dust churned up by the horses dimmed the sun and blood turned the earth to mud, Krsna suddenly stopped the chariot and sprang to the ground. Raising the wheel of a disabled chariot over His head, the Lord raced toward the great general Bhismadeva like a lion charging an elephant. Just moments before, wave after wave of lethal arrows from Bhismadeva's bow had crashed relentlessly down upon Arjuna's chariot. In amazement, the other warriors had seen the figures of Arjuna and his driver Sri Krsna completely disappear behind the curtains of the general's arrows. It had been certain that Arjuna was about to fall before the fury of the attack.
And then Bhismadeva's bow was still. It dropped to the ground, and the invincible ge
For everyone who has ever felt pinned to the ground by the sharp arrows of life in this material world - Bhismastami, the day Grandfather Bhisma left his body and went back to Godhead.
Life is surely not a bed of roses. But there's mercy here amidst the suffering: Krishna is present personally, and Arjuna lovingly shoots an arrow into the ground so that Bhisma can quench his thirst. So bitter-sweet. — at Kuru-kshetra.
The Passing Away of Bhismadeva in the Presence of Lord Krsna
TEXT 1
Suta Gosvami said: Being afraid for having killed so many subjects on the Battlefield of Kuruksetra, Maharaja Yudhisthira went to the scene of the massacre. There, Bhismadeva was lying on a bed of arrows, about to pass away.
PURPORT
In this Ninth Chapter, as it is willed by Lord Sri Krsna, Bhismadeva will impart instructions to King Yudhisthira on the subject of occupational duties. Bhismadeva will also offer his last prayer to the Lord on the verge of passing away from this mortal world and
There is no one like my Guru
From a class on Srimad Bhagavatam 2.4.92 Bhubaneswar
The Gaudiya sampradaya, the parampara of Caitanya Mahaprabhu, is a bona fide Vaisnava sampradaya. One should accept the instructions with a simple heart, which are coming from the acaryas in this parampara as it is, and practice them in one’s life. Then you will get the mercy of Sriman Mahaprabhu.
Srila Prabhupada and Srila Gour Govinda Swami (hand in beadbag)
We are not speaking anything pseudo-sampradayist. We should not hear the words of pseudo-sampradayists. When Mahaprabhu ordered, “You become guru and deliver this world,” that instruction has come unto my guru, Srila Prabhupada, and my guru gave me this same order. So I will never develop any duplicity or crookedness in executing this order. That means I will never come in murkha-sampradaya or kapatya-sampradaya or phalgu-sampradaya, the schools of fools, hypocrites and pretenders. I will never teach duplicity or crookedness to anybody.
Those who
Life Story
Re-posted from www.gourgovindaswami.org
Krishna sent him…— Srila Prabhupada’s comment on his disciple Srila Gour Govinda Swami
Srila Gour Govinda Swami at Bhaktivedanta Manor
Here is a summary biography of Srila Gour Govinda Swami Maharaja (compiled by Janeswar dasa using material from the Tattva Vichar Publications official biography “Krsnalingita Vigraha” and from the websites iskconbbsr.org & srilagourgovindaswami.org)
Early life
Bauri Giri’s daughter Pata Devi was very devoted to Gopal. From her early childhood she would come to see Gopal every day. Every morning she would sweep Gopal’s temple, make garlands, and cook for Him. Pata Devi married Ishwara Manik from the nearby village of Jagannathpur. Like the Giri family, Ishwara Manik was also in the business of selling bell metal. Ishwara and Pata had two sons, named Braja Bandhu and Kripa Sindhu, and one daughter named Swadhuri Devi. Their eldest son, Braja Bandhu, born on the 2nd September 1929 was later to be known
If you are forgetful about rendering your service to Śrī Kṛṣṇa, you will be denied the entire benefit and compelled to walk the stage of conditioned life. So the true duty of the mind is to associate itself, through the senses, with the Divine. We are now engrossed in our passionate senses, and these are flying in different directions, so we do not concentrate on One. Hence there is deviation from the Absolute.
Because of that deviation, we find that hundreds of things appear before us; they tempt us, and we engage ourselves in rendering service to them. But when we are assured that the only duty of the soul is to render service to the Over-Soul, and that the other incorporations are but temporary, we shall decide that we should fully emerge from these different engagements of the world, which are placed before us.
We shall come to understand that we are part and parcel of the Fountainhead, the Over-Soul, and though we are not the substance itself, we are fractional parts of one of Hi
On August 6th, while the majority of devotees were away from the temple, collecting and preparing for the Sri Krishna Janmastami festival (only 4 days hence), a number of NHAI (National Highways Authority of India) officers, in full display of arrogance and disregarding the signed agreement paper and court order, arrived at the temple with 50 armed police, and bulldozers, and proceeded to demolish temple property, razing to the ground the large double entrance gates, the three-roomed stall housing a Prasadam shop, a bookshop and a reception room, as well as the room that Srila Prabhupada stayed in for 17 days in 1977.(Editor- I lived here for three years, and GGS translated SP's books into Oriya here. )
The few devotees protesting this violence were offering obeisances to the officers' feet, pleading with them that they wait for the temple authorities and senior devotees to arrive before doing any more damage, but they were paid no heed and the workers were signaled to continue |
HDG 108 Sri Srila Bhaktisiddhnata Saraswati Goswami Maharajah Thakura Prabhupada
Question 1: What is the specific necessity of surrender and determination?
Answer: hari-bhajana, the process of devotional service. I must receive His grace. I must not go astray. I must always go on chanting His name. God will undoubtedly help me if I am bona fide.
If someone is exclusively surrendered to the lotus feet of Sri Gurudeva, he will certainly attain the fulfillment of all his desires. May the mercy of Sri Gurudeva, who is non-different from Sri Rupa, indeed be our sole support. Only then can we attain our spiritual welfare.
Question 2: krsna-bhajana without accepting the shelter and guidance of Sri Guru?
Answer: krsna-anusilana (perpetual, ardent endeavour meant exclusively for Sri Krsna)." This krsna-anusilana is possible only under the guidance, or direction, of Krsna's devotees. Sri Varsabhanavi-devi (Sri Radha) is anukula - genuinely kind to Sri Krsna. Indeed, Anukula is another name for
