The Pada-Yatra of Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu
By
His Holiness Bhakti Charu Swami (Calcutta)
The word pada-yatra literally means to walk on foot. In early India people used to travel by chariot, horseback, elephant, bullock-cart, or palanquin. But saintly persons, having renounced such worldly comforts, would travel by foot. Their main concern was to teach the glories of God to the conditioned living entities and thereby deliver them from their miserable materialistic lives. Walking was the best means
Krsna is instructing us how to understand Him. That is our only business. This human form of life is meant for understanding Krsna because we are very thickly related with Krsna, just like father and the son. This relation cannot be broken. Maybe son is out of home, son may have forgotten, but Krsna, the supreme father, He does not forget.
Prabhupada:
sri bhagavan uvaca
mayy asakta-manah partha
yogam yunjan mad-asrayah
asamsayam samagram mam
yatha jnasyasi tac chrnu
Krishna, Bhagavan, the Supreme… Bhag
Srila Gopal Bhatta Goswami
The all merciful Lord Sri Gaur Hari, as He travelled from village to
village throughout the south of India, continued to distribute love of
Godhead wherever He went. Hearing the nectarean names of Hari from His
lotus mouth, thousands and thousands men and women felt relief from the
blazing fire of material existence. Various wretched, miserable and fallen
souls lives were completely rejuvenated and thus they became virtuous and
happy. While causing rains of love of God
The eternal Cupid, Shri Krishna, is eternally distinct from the material Cupid. The material Cupid produces pleasure only temporarily, but then lulls one into material dullness in just the next moment. But the eternal Cupid is ever-awakening and the transcendental pleasure is ever-increasing in ever-renewing developments. Such pleasure is eternally-existing and is not subject to the laws of material nature. The transient pleasure derived from the material Cupid is an enjoyable object to the mate
Now let me see what do i have today in my mind to share with all of you? Oh yes i have just returned from a most spiritually enlivening experience in Barsana by serving the Brijwasis in the Barsana Dental Camp. Everyday we would go in the morning for the darshan of Shriji for mangalarati and for chanting. After that come down and start work by 9 am and work untill 7 pm, with only a 20 min break for lunch. Like this we worked for 4 days without a sign of fatigue or irritation. Now that is complet
