Song Name: Na Yoga Siddhir Na Mamastu

Official Name: Sri Sri Vrndavanastakam

Author: Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura

Book Name: Stavamrta Lahari

(1)

na yoga-siddhir na mamāstu mokṣo

vaikuṇṭha-loke pi na pārṣadatvam

premāpi na syād iti cet tarāṁ tu

mamāstu vṛndāvana eva vāsaḥ

(2)

tārāaṁ janur yatra vidhir yayāce

sad-bhakta-cūḍāmaṇir uddhavo’ pi

vīkṣyvaiva mādhurya-dhūrāṁ tad asmin

mamāstu vṛndāvana eva vāsaḥ

(3)

kiṁ te kṛtaṁ hanta tapaḥ kṣitīti

gopyo pi bhūme stuvate ras kīrtim

yenaiva kṛṣṇāńghri-p

Kirtana [chanting Hare Krishna] in Every Town and Village

If you vibrate these transcendental sounds everywhere continually, it will pierce their ears and enter their hearts, and then their natural attraction for Krsna will be revived.

My Dear Bansidhari,

Please accept my blessings. I beg to thank you for your nice report from Santa Barbara dated October 22nd, 1970. I am always so glad to know that you are keeping to the standard practices as I have instructed you to do and all the devotees are fe

Song Name: Vande Krsna Nanda Kumara

govinda hari gopāla hari

govinda hari gopāla hari

jaya jaya deva hari

jaya jaya deva hari

vande kṛṣṇa nanda-kumāra

nanda-kumāra madana-gopāla

madana-gopāla mohana-rūpa

mohana-rūpa nanda-kumāra

jaya jaya deva hari

jaya jaya deva hari

jaya prabhu dīna-dayāla hari

govinda hari gopāla hari

govinda hari gopāla hari

jaya jaya deva hari

jaya jaya deva hari

jaya rāma hari jaya kṛṣṇa hari

jaya jaya-śacī-nandana gaura-hari

govinda hari gopāla hari

govinda hari gopāla hari

jaya jaya deva ha

To be humble to superiors is duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness. - Benjamin Franklin

Humility makes great men twice honorable - Benjamin Franklin quotes

To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them. - Charles de Montesquieu

Date: February 8,2010 Verse: Srimad-Bhagavatam 3.32.25 Speaker: HH Bhakti
Caitanya Swami – Mayapur Candrodaya Mandir, Sri Dham Mayapur
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sa tadaivatmanatmanam nihsangam sama-darsanam heyopadeya-rahitam arudham padam
iksate

TRANSLATION: Because of his transcendental intelligence, the pure devotee is equipoised in
his vision and sees himself to be uncontaminated by matter. He does not see anything as
superior or inferior, and he feels himself elevated to the transcenden

That happiness which is derived from contact of the senses with their objects and which appears like nectar at first but poison at the end is said to be of the nature of passion.

PURPORT
A young man and a young woman meet, and the senses drive the young man to see her, to touch her and to have sexual intercourse. In the beginning this may be very pleasing to the senses, but at the end, or after some time, it becomes just like poison. They are separated or there is divorce, there is lamentation, th

(1)

ṭhākura vaiṣṇava pada, avanīra susampada,

śuno bhāi hoiyā eka mana

āśraya loiyā bhaje, tāre kṛṣṇa nāhi tyaje,

āra saba more akāraṇa

(2)

vaiṣṇava caraṇa jala, prema bhakti dite bol,

āra keho nahe balavanta

vaiṣṇava caraṇa reṇu, mastake bhūṣaṇa vinu,

āra nāhi bhūṣaṇera anta

(3)

tīrtha jala pavitra guṇe, likhiyāche purāṇe,

se saba bhaktira pravañcana

vaiṣṇavera pādodaka, sama nahe ei saba,

yāte hoy vāñchita pūraṇa

(4)

vaiṣṇava sańgete mana, ānandita anukṣaṇa,

sadā hoy kṛṣṇa parasańga

dīna narottama kānde, hiyā d

Nrisimha-chaturdasi is the divine appearance day of Nrisimhadeva, Lord Krishna’s man-lion incarnation, who removes all obstacles on the path of devotional service out of His great compassion.

Srila Prabhupada writes (Bhagavatam 7.8.51, purport):

The Supreme Personality of Godhead in His transcendental form of Lord Nrisimhadeva is always ready to kill the demons who always create disturbances in the minds of honest devotees. To spread the Krishna consciousness movement, devotees have to face many d