Day 5 - Yatra Blog

SB class by Gurudeva on Apperance day of Advaitya Acarya.He is 1 but becomes many

-          Lord K created this world just for His joy to expand. He is 1 but becomes many for His own pleasure.

-          Entities tangled in this material world = tattva Shakti

-          Srila Advaita Acarya’s internal purpose of is to give K to all jiva souls so they can come back Home, back to Godhead.

-          Advaita Acarya called out in a roar for Krsna to descend in the form of Mahaprabhu and worshipped with ganga water and tulsi leaves as he felt compassion for the jiva souls.

-          This should be our mood – preach to everyone, give K to everyone

-          From Narsimha Purana – Since K is easily obtained by offering patram, pushpan, phalam, toyam + with a LOT OF DEVOTION/BURNING DESIRE.

Haridas Thakur’s Samadhi– Class by HG MadavaNanda Prabhu

This area is called sat asan road – place of 7 temples. Skanda purana, Indradyumna maharaj found some strange people and asked who are you, they were the saptarishis and they wanted to serve Lord Jagannatha. They asked him if you could bring Jagannatha Mahaprasad. Deities of Brahma Bharati and many important deities are here satasan road.

This place is Brahananda Bharati, he was wearing a deer sing and Mahaprabhu didn’t like it. Jagadananda bharati was right opposite this temple and he brought a sandalwood oil for Mahaprabhu to honor but Mahaprabhu didn’t want to as He was a sanyasi so Jagadananda broke the pot here.

Advaita Acarya – He is Maha Visnu Avatar they all come through the doorway of Ksirodaksayi visnu. From Gaur Ganesh deepika he is both SadaShiva and Maha Visnu. Kuvera Pandit,he was worshipping Lord Shiva and Kuvera Pandit said you should become my son after Shiva was pleased with his worship. Hence he became the son of Nabhi devi and Kuvera pandit. There is a purpose for Maha Visnu’s coming as Advaita Acarya. He brings the different aspects of Krsna also. How is it that Maha Visnu who is strict with rules and regulations, how did He call the most merciful form of Krsna . There is a reason both internal and external. How is he calling the combined form of Radha and Krsna by Sada Shiva (Advaita Acarya)

Today,  all important temples Madan Mohan, Govind deo, Gopinath they all go to Gopesvar Mahadev on this day. Maha Visnu joined with Sada Siva and called Advaita. Gopesvar Mahadev is the chaukidar of Rasa Lila. When our acaryas want to enter the inner aspects of R and K they go there and pray. So when K wanted to taste R’s love he had to go to Gopesvar Mahadev and hence Siva is connected in Advaita Acarya.

Antaranga karan was served (internal reason) By Gopesvar Mahadev to allow K to enter into R’s mood and come down through the medium of Ksirodaksyaki Visnu.

What about external reason – Baharanga Karan? – From Mahaprabhu came rasa and came many rivers. Srota bahi jaye Advaita Chandra. That river of Gaura rasa (Sankitan movement) Advaita Chandra is the current of the sankirtan movement.

Advent Of Advaita Chandra – one more aspect: They were always absorbed in K kirtan. Kuvera Pandit and his wife saw someone doing vaisnava aparadha. They decided what shall we do? They had a dream, they saw 2 men – golden complexion and ___ complexion holding hands. The golden He said you go there to relieve the sufferings of the people there and you will attract me along with my older brother.  At an auspicious moment that other man entered into nabhi devi’s womb and then as soon as he entered he started shouting HARIBOL!

Mathur Brahman – Vaishnava NENDUKA – Advaita Chandra saw him and wanted to punish by invoking sudarshan – manifested 4 handed form and was very ferocious. As soon as the Mathur brahman saw him he said please punish me. He was very sorry and said I had bad association and hence he said I committed a big offence and said please correct me, please help me. Advaita Acarya said, you have to admit your guilt and have to go to hell for this. You have to do 3 things:

1.       Give us all sense pleasures

2.       Naam sankirtan

3.       Serve with your heart and soul all the vaisnavas – If you do that then you may be delivered.

He followed this in Mathura with grass between his teeth. So he got his forgiveness of all the vaisnavas but with forgiveness it’s not just enough, we also require to get anugraha (Please). Example = we borrow money and we lose it, we can say sorry and get forgiveness but we also need to get the anugraha (please) ex Daksha had to please Lord Siva even after asking for forgiveness. How to get anugraha – only by chanting the Holy Name.

External reason = stop vaisnava aparadha, internal reason to help K enter into R’s pastime through Gopesvar mahadeva in the form of Mahaprabhu

When we do vaishanava aparadha, the bhakti lata beej isn’t lost but we just have separation from bhakti for a very very long time. Anindita hrde tasmi Shastra bhajana chodine. We should have the right attitude when chastising someone. Example – parents chastising kids, we should draw the line where we aren’t hurting the super soul but make sure we are correcting the child correctly. Same way Guru has a right and obligation to chastise his disciples.

Intention of one’s heart becomes manifests when we chastise.

What is Vaisnava Aparadha? It’s a subtle thing, there is a fine line – 6 things which are Vaisnava Aparadha – Kill a Vaishnava, attack a vaishanav, not be happy to see a Vaishnava, criticize a devotee, …

If we have ill will or bad attitude or envy, anger towards another devotee that’s Vasinava aparadha. Also envious or dislike towards anybody not even a devotee – it dampens our progress in spiritual life and keeps us attached to the material world. That is a red flag and we should always correct ourselves.

We can have the prayer to Haridas Thakur, Nityananda, Advaita Acarya – that we are attracted to hear about others faults, then we should pray to them to help us clear out this tendency. False ego is attracted to the stool but the atma is truly attracted to the Super soul and we should have a red flag go up when we notice ourselves that we like hearing other’s faults and when we notice that the tendency with go away.

Haridas Thakur had got very old and he shared with Mahaprabhu that we isn’t able to complete his rounds and he is also having concern that Mahaprabhu will leave him before him. So Mahaprabhu did Maha sankirtan and there He glorified Haridas Thakur. That is the solution to vaishanava aparadha – glorify the devotees.

At that time Haridas Thakur put Mahaprabhu’s feet on his chest and took the dust of all vaishanvas on his head and then he just started to chant “ SRI KRSNA CHAITANYA….SRI KRSNA CHAITANYA” He left his body. Then Mahaprabhu picked up Haridas thakur’s body, danced, bathed in the ocean and personally, with his hands he started  to dig a hole and put his body there. Whoever takes bath in the ocean will get love of God.

Don’t worry about all these small material things – getting a car, getting a house, getting this getting that….JUST BHAKTI YOGA is all what you need. Attentively remember Krsna, Crying for Krsna.

What will we do when Gurudev leaves, we all want to be with Gurudeva. Same way Haridas Thakur was feeling so sad thinking Mahaprabhu will leave before him. Puri is place of separation, Vipralambha kshetra, actually it’s twice vipralambha kshtra. At Haridas Thakur’s Samadhi we want to cry for our Guru, Vaisnavas.

We can’t replace our Guru, same way you can’t replace Haridas Thakur, You can’t replace SP. Hence there is only one naam acarya = Haridas Thakur. Guru is to be served = We shouldn’t feel that Guru is here to serve me. Guru is not an ordinary person, He is never dead. If you think he’s dead then you are dead, you are brain dead. We should always experience separation from Guru. Separation is also so much love. April 3, 1969 to Brhamananda pr – about separation from Guru = meeting and separation is like flowing tide of river. Separation is eternal and meeting is also eternal. We have to get permission from Gurudev.

3 types of bahir mukya sisya:

1.       Sneha salita. Devotees who want affection from Guru.

2.       Guru Giri = Makes a business of the Guru. He makes an advertisement of disciple of Guru even though we might be a big badmaash.

3.       visayi siyasis – 2 types of visayi sisyas = anutap siyasas (Sisyas who lament that they can’t keep up their vows and by the fire of that it will help the lust go away) other is Na-anutap sisyas (Sisyas who are just making a show of their bhakti) and Devotee who can’t control his senses.

A good disciple is one who thinks – If I can see Gurudev all the time everything will be good and when everything is good, then I can’t make progress. But if I can’t see Gurudev then I cry and I cry and in that separation I will be able to make progress, because Gurudev is Krsna’s representative.

When your near and dear ones leave it’s not the time for philosophy but it’s time to cry. It’s the feeling in our heart, the philosophy is there so we can understand. When vaisnavas leave or separation, it’s time to cry and not to have philosophy so we can have feeling in our heart.

Class by Gurudeva

Glorification of Haridas Thakur. He was chanting 192 rounds a day (64*3). Seeing this the local majistrate was envious as he knew Haridas Thakur is better than him and he arranged in the city to have him fall down by sending a prostitude there and then he thought his envy will be relieved. He had another person to record the activity so there is a witness for his fall down. When the prostitude when there Haridas Thakur said something very practical – sure I will be fully with you but as soon as I finish my rounds. So for 3 nights continuously sitting by him, her heart changed and she shared her heart and took shelter from Haridas Thakur – shaved her head, sat by tulsi plant and chanted her rounds.

One thing to remember we will always have seductions in this material world. However when various temptations comes we should follow this practice – not right now, as soon as I attentively chant my rounds and my prescribed vows then I will do it. But as we keep growing spiritually, we become so involved in our vows that we don’t have time for these urges or what to say things to maintain our body.

Evening class by Gurudeva:

1.       Sri Dasavatara Stotra

2.       CHAD – 17^th chapter : Gurudev explained the 11^th verse by giving us the example of the wives of the brahmanas how after they left their husbands came to the forest and how Krsna asked them to return as He explained that love for Krsna doesn’t only come by physical proximity but also worshipping the deities. When they returned the Brahamans weren’t very angry but were happy to see their wives. They also were very sad about their vedic sacrifices and wanted to follow their wives to Krsna; The wives of the brahmanas had some rules and regulations but wives of the brahmanas had spontaneous love for K and they just left everything and ran to see K.

3.       Song by Bhaktivinod Thakur – oh he vaisnava Thakur

4.       When we are in the dhaam, all these experiences we have leave impressions in our heart and these will transform us to take us back home back to Godhead. 

Pictures from today: For more pictures click here