Gaudiya Vaishnavas are fond of chanting “Jaya Radhe!” Love of Radha, Sri Krishna’s principle consort, is central to this theistic school of Vedanta. Such love is described as the brightest jewel of sacred aesthetic rapture,unnatojjvala rasa. This love is accessible to devotees following in the footsteps of Sri Rupa Goswami both in terms of his teaching onbhakti rasa in general and in terms of his own personal ideal of sacred ae
Vishnu sahasranama is the essence of the Mahabharata. Mahabharata also confirms the Lord’s appearance in the Kali-yuga as Sri Caitanya as follows:
suvarna-varno hemango
varangas candanangadi
sannyasa-krc chamah santo
nistha-santi-parayanah
The Lord (in the incarnation of Gaurasundara) has a golden complexion. Indeed, His entire body, which is very nicely constituted, is like molten gold. Sandalwood pulp is smeared all over His body. He will take the fourth order of spiritual life (sannyasa) and
Here's a video that keep me mesmerized always.
Isn't it beautiful?
Here's the meaning of the Sanskrit lyrics:
prasanna vadanaaM saubhaagyadaaM bhaagyadaaM
who is of smiling face, bestower of all fortunes
hastaabhyaaM abhayapradaaM maNigaNair
whose hands are ready to rescue anyone from fear
naanaavidhair-bhuushhitaaM
who is adorned by various ornaments with precious stones
In Tomsk, there's angst;
About a Scripture in fame,
That man goeth against;
Truth, is verily a shame.
"Consign to Siberia",
Oft' heard as nowhere;
But with a new criteria;
'tis here now somewhere !
'Cos to ban they chose,
The Gita - a love tale;
Then Of souls there arose;
In India, a gale !
To surrender soul and mail,
For pure Love is amiss,
The Gita doth detail;
'Cos religions' no bliss !
How be it extreme ?
For a father's such care;
Now, He is the Supreme,
& In Love 'tis all fair.
Extremist notion,
prosecutors foi
Govindadas Kaviraj (c 1535-1613) Vaisnava poet, contemporary of Chaitanyadev, born in the village of Teliabudhuri in Murshidabad district, West Bengal, son of Chiranjib, a follower of Chaitanyadev.
Govindadas came from a literary family: his maternal grandfather, Damodor Sen, was the writer of Sangeet Damodar, and his brother, Ramchandra Sen, used to write poems in Bangla and Sanskrit. Both Ramchandra and Govindadas were initiated intovaisnavism by Sreenivas Acharya. After his initiation, Govinda
So people have got the tendency for sense gratification. That is the material disease. So instead of satisfying your senses, try to satisfy the senses of Krsna. Then you become liberated. This is called cikitsitam. There is sense gratification. Here when you chant and dance, this is not your sense gratification; this is Krsna's sense gratification: "Oh, these devotees, they are glorifying Me, they are dancing. Blessed they are." Immediately you draw attention of Krsna, because it is bhakti.
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Moscow: Press Trust of India says that a court in Tomsk has turned down a petition that asked for a ban on a translated version of Bhagavad Gita.
The petition was originally filed in June in Siberia and has created a diplomatic stress point for India and Russia.
India's External Affairs Minister SM Krishna met the Russian Ambassador Alexander Kadakin earlier this week to discuss the matter.
Prosecutors in the Siberian city of Tomsk have argued that the Russian translation of "Bhagavad Gita As It I
In the great Naimasharaya forest, in the assembly of the exalted rishis headed by Rishi Śaunaka, the perfect one – Śrī Sūta Gosvāmi recited to them – the Bhāgavat Purāna as sung by Śrī Sukadeva Goswami to Maharaj Parikshit on the banks of Ma Ganga near Hastinapur, amidst the greatest confluence of enlightened sages from all over the universe. Śrī Sukadeva, a self-realized perfect soul – an Avadhuta, narrated the greatest of purana when only 16 years old, but more learned than al
krsnera pratijna eka ache purva haite
ye yaiche bhaje, krsna tare bhaje taiche
Lord Krsna has a promise from before to reciprocate with His devotees according to the way they worship Him.
Adi 4.177
ye yatha mam prapadyante
tams tathaiva bhajamy aham
mama vartmanuvartante
manusyah partha sarvasah
As all surrender unto Me, I reward them accordingly. Everyone follows My path in all respects, O son of Prtha.
Bg 4.11
se pratijna bhanga haila gopira bhajane
tahate pramana krsna-sri-mukha-vacane
That promise h
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Srila Acharyadeva asked us to post this here. It's a beautiful testimony to HG Yamuna Devi by Kalakantha Prabhu, enjoy! A Few Memories of Yamuna Devi
My wife Jitamitra and I became close to Yamuna and Dinatarine Prabhus over the last five years. We run a fairly intense college outreach program. Some years ago, looking for a place to get away during the summer breaks, we decided to spend some time in Saranagati, as we had lived and served in Vancouver temple years ago and had many friends there.
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In 1971 Srila Prabhupada went to Allahabad for the Ardha-kumbha-mela, and Yamuna-devi and I were in the party that accompanied him. Srila Prabhupada spoke on the story of Ajamila and the holy name, from the Sixth Canto of Srimad-Bhagavatam. Only the first two cantos had been translated and published, so Prabhupada read from his Sanskrit Bhagavatam with commentaries, sometimes translating from Sridhara Svami’s and occasionally from Jiva Gosvami’s. While there, I heard that Srila Prabhupada had sa
With great sadness, the Governing Body Commission (GBC) of ISKCON, deeply mourn the departure of Her Grace Yamuna Devi. She dedicated the last 45 years of her life to the worship of Krishna and Srila Prabhupada. She was a mentor, guide, and friend to many and a beloved member and hero of ISKCON. At every ISKCON temple, her singing of "Govindam" greets the Lord.
Yamuna Devi was one of the most influential devotees during ISKCON's fledgling years. She was among a handful of people who established
Tomorrow at 12:30 hours IST, Tomsk court, Russia, is due to pass its verdict on banning the Bhagavad Gita. An "anti-cult" group affiliated to the Russian Orthodox Church, has called for a ban on the Gita terming it an 'extremist' text. And the verdict can have far reaching repercussions - either way.
An expert panel was constituted to examine if the text incites religious hatred and humiliation.
"Banning the Gita as an extremist piece of literature would mean banning the Russian chapter of the Int
In the backdrop of the present sad controversy over the banning of the Bhagavad-gita in Russia, we present Lord Krishna’s side of the story. His take on the controversy is presented as a song based on poetic translations of four important Gita verses that express its message of love. The song comprises a chorus English verse and English renditions of those four verses followed by their Sanskrit originals.
My message of love,
Will you ban,
All beings are my children beloved, the seed of life, I give
This is the goal that every vaisnava should have somehow or the other, I may become Krsna Conscious in a manner that my desire is only to save the other living entities even if it means that I have to undergo personal inconveniences.(Srimad Bhagavatam 4.18.7).
By H.H. Gopal Krishna Goswami Maharaj
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We are reading from the Bhagavatam, canto 3, chapter 9 and text no 37. Translation and purport by Srila Prabhupada. Srila Prabhupada ki jay!
“When you were contemplating whether there was a source to stem of the lotus of your birth and you even entered into that stem. You could not trace out anything. But at that time I manifested my form from within.” This is Sri Bhagavan Uvaca. Lord speaking unto Brahma.
Purport: Personality of Godhead can be experienced only by his causeless mercy, not by menta
