RATHA YATRA


 
[Dear Readers,
Please accept our humble obeisances. All glories to Sri Sri Guru and Gauranga.
July 30, 2022 is the commemoration of the divine Ratha Yatra festival. Please accept this lecture excerpted from Srila Narayana Gosvami Maharaja’s book, The Origin of Ratha-yatra, chapter 5.
Your aspiring servants,
The hari-katha team]
 
Mahaprabhu’s mood at Ratha-yatra
 
At the beginning of the Ratha-yatra Festival, Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu offers a prayer to Jagannatha-deva, not to His form as Lord Jagannatha or Vasudeva-Krsna, but to His form as Vrajendra-nandana Sri Krsna:
 
jayati jana-nivaso devaki-janma-vado
yadu-vara-parisat svair dorbhir asyann adharmam
sthira-cara-vrjina-ghnah su-smita-sri-mukhena
vraja-pura-vanitanam vardhayan kama-devam
Srimad-Bhagavatam (10.90.48)
 
[“Sri Krsna is He who is known as jana-nivasa, the ultimate resort of all living entities, and who is also known as Devaki-nandana or Yasoda-nandana, the son of Devaki and Yasoda. He is the guide of the Yadu dynasty, and wi

Sri Srimad Bhaktivedanta Narayana Gosvami Maharaja
EXCERPTS ON SRI GADADHARA PANDITA


Sri Sri Gaura-Gadadhara
 
[The following are two excerpts from lectures by Srila Gurudeva, Sri Srimad Bhaktivedanta Narayana Gosvami Maharaja, about Srila Gadadhara Pandita Prabhu. We are submitting these excerpts because on June 28, 2022 we will all observe Sri Gadadhara Pandita Prabhu's divine appearance day. The first excerpt is from Srila Gurudeva’s lecture in Los Angeles on May 30, 2000. In this lecture, he glorifies our Srila Prabhupada Bhaktivedanta Swami Maharaja in his relationship with Sri Gadadhara Pandita Prabhu.]
  
Srila Bhaktivedanta Swami Maharaja came to this world with the mission of Iskcon – Vaisnavism. What was that? It is the same mission as Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu. And who is Mahaprabhu? He is the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Lord Sri Krsna Himself. But He is also more than that; He is not only Krsna. He is the combination of both Srimati Radhika and Krsna. Sri Krsna has combined wit

Symptoms of Ecstatic Love

Dancing

"There are two classes of human beings, namely the envious and the obedient. Since the Supreme Lord is one and the father of all living beings, the envious living beings are also His sons, but they are known as the asuras. But the living beings who are obedient to the supreme father are called devatas, or demigods, because they are not contaminated by the material conception of life. Not only are the asuras envious of the Lord in even denying the existence of the Lord, but they are also envious of all other living beings. The predominance of asuras in the world is occasionally rectified by the Lord when He eliminates them from the world and establishes a rule of devatas like the Pandavas. His designation as kala in disguise is significant. He is not at all dangerous, but He is the transcendental form of eternity, knowledge and bliss. For the devotees His factual form is disclosed, and for the nondevotees He appears like kala-rup

Kanistha, Madhyama, Uttama"

Chapter 16, Verse 1-3

The Blessed Lord said: Fearlessness, purification of one's existence, cultivation of spiritual knowledge, charity, self-control, performance of sacrifice, study of the Vedas, austerity and simplicity; nonviolence, truthfulness, freedom from anger; renunciation, tranquility, aversion to faultfinding, compassion and freedom from covetousness; gentleness, modesty and steady determination; vigor, forgiveness, fortitude, cleanliness, freedom from envy and the passion for honor-these transcendental qualities, O son of Bharata, belong to godly men endowed with divine nature.

Chapter 16, Verse 4

Arrogance, pride, anger, conceit, harshness and ignorance-these qualities belong to those of demonic nature, O son of Prtha.

Chapter 16, Verse 5

The transcendental qualities are conducive to liberation, whereas the demonic qualities make for bondage. Do not worry, O son of Pandu, for you are born with the divine qualities.

Chapter 16, Verse 6

O son of Prtha, in this world there a

“We, Vaiṣṇavas, have two considerations: apāra-vicāra and tattva-vicāra – apparent consideration and absolute consideration. All the Vaishnava philosophy is based on tattva-vicāra, on absolute consideration and not on apparent consideration, not on apāra-vicāra.”

Evening program

Sydney – November 6, 1990

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Today we are observing the disappearance of His Holiness Srila Gour Govinda
Swami Maharaj. And my dear friend Madhavananda Prabhu has given me some of
the manuscript of an incredibly outstanding book that he is compiling. I
would like to share some excerpts beginning with the parallels of Dhruva
Maharaj and Gour Govinda Maharaj.

Gour Govinda Maharaj was also from a very early time in his childhood
inspired by his mother to worship the Deity of Gopal and here at Sri Mayapur
Dhama like Dhruva Maharaj with a photo of Gopal in his hand surrounded by
devotees doing kirtana he entered into the ultimate trance and went back to
the spiritual world. He was born on Sept 2nd 1929 near Orissa in a village
called Jagannatha-pura. He was named Braja-bandhu. His family was very, very
serious devotees coming from the very old tradition of Gaudiya Vasinavaism.
His mother from a village of Gadeigiri worshipped for all her life the Deity
of Gopal Jui. That deity was worshipped in her family for over thr

Abnormalcy of the Demonics, Tamohara dasa acbssp, MS.
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"Living entities seperated from Krsna/God, either by too much genetic change to His design, or too much ego-desire to play at being God, both cannot enter normalcy or God's Kingdom. Tortured in deviated genetically altered mundane material bodies, the rebels suffer, just as souls who refuse God's Kingdom due to childish selfishness or sense of wild adventure, and fall to Earth or other mundane worlds, suffer spiritual loss, a loss of true nature and eternal blissful life.
Ever after, the seperatists simply try to recover from their losses, but it is not possible, because we are by nature eternal servitors of Krsna,and when we lose that precious nature, we suffer. Both an excessively altered body and selfishly altered ego, are in a rejected status, seperated from God. Those in such statuses often feel resentment towards the pure, even wage war aga

1. Tdasa ;  We consider ourselves simply the modern followers of HDG A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupad, as he taught and set the perfect examples. There is no such thing as "ritvik philosophy", per se,  as we are simply following Prabhupada's philosophy.

Srila Prabhupada ;

" From now on unless I order you do something change or in addition, go on with the usual standard way. "

 "Kṛṣṇa consciousness does not meant to be one-sided. Kṛṣṇa is all-pervading, the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement also should be all-perv

Srila Prabhupada has told us:

"Machines mean unemployment for the many. The tractor they're using means unemployment for bulls and plowmen. Then the bulls must be killed. This is going on. Unemployment, then kill them. Send all the men to fight in Vietnam and kill them. As soon as there is overpopulation of unemployed, they declare war so that people may be killed."
(Morning Walk, Mayapur, February 12, 1976)

So these wars are not right wars, righteous wars. No. They are play of the diplomats, politicians--they engage. When they cannot manage things very nicely, they engage people into war. That's all. Divert the attention. But war is not meant for that.

[Bhagavad-gita Lecture 2.32 London, September 2, 1973]

"The Krishna Consciousness movement can solve all the problems of life, all the problems in the world. Social, political, philosophical, religious, economic—everything can be solved by Krishna consciousness. It is very scientific and authorized. It is not a mental concoction or a se

Devotee:
In the early '80s, in Bangalore, I was required to make at  least two Life Members a month.

 I was a bad Life Membership maker and  one month I had only ten days left. I was looking in the telephone  directory for Bengali names and I found a 'Ganguly.' I called and said,  "I'm speaking from the International Society for Krishna Consciousness. I  want to come and see you today."

 Mr. Ganguly sounded positive. He said,  "Oh, you are from the Hare Krishna Movement?
Please see me at eleven  o'clock."
I took the membership form, a small set of books, a  poster and so on, and I went to see him. To my surprise, I
 found that  his was a huge place, almost equal to the aeronautical engineering place  in Bangalore. I lost hope - there was no way this man was going to  become a member.

I went to one secretary, then another, then another,  and when my appointment time came, I was still with secretaries. Ganguly  was the top man. I thought, "Since I came all this way, I should see  him."
Finally t

"I, this life, I shall get recognition by Kṛṣṇa, that I have sacrificed everything for Kṛṣṇa," this is required."
(Prabhupada Lecture, December 26, 1972, Bombay)