Day 9 - Mayapur Yatra

Day 9 – Mayapur Yatra

We did the morning program at Mayapur temple and then went to Yogapeet

Yogapeeth:

By Gurudeva:

This is where Chaitanya Mahaprabhu appeared under the neem tree. Krsna is so kind that He appears here in the material world. Goloka is nija dhaam, Krsna’s own dhaam, K comes from that dhaam to give us relief from this material world and take us back home back to Godhead. This is His leela, He came on the eclipse and everyone went to the Ganga and stayed in the Ganga chanting the Holy names of the Lord. This was the start of how He spread the Sankirtan movement all over the world. There are 9 islands here and this is non different from Vrindavan. We are in antardwip – this is the inner of the lotus antar mean inside. Mahaprabhu gave Brhma the boon to come down as Haridas Thakur and because of the brahma vimohana lila and then Brahma realized that the only thing most important in the 14 worlds is saying the Holy Name of Krsna.

Sri Vrindavan dhaam is the abode of sweetness, here in Mayapur (Audarya dhaam) the sweetness is a lot and everyone is just distributing it, just by giving out the Holy Name, prasadam, book distribution everything increases more and more and that is the mood Mahaprabhu brought. Only devotees with pure attitude can enter the dhaam but even after entering the dhaam if there is no mood of devotional service they can’t see the dhaam.

Mercy of the dhaam – anyone who can dive into the sankirtan party (it can be done anywhere in the world) if we worship Mahaprabhu in the sankirtan movement we dive into Radha and Krsna pasttimes.  As we go deeper into R and K pasttimes we see Mahaprabhu more and more and as we dive deeper into Gauranga’s pasttimes we go deeper into R and K pasttimes.

Take this mood, dive deeper and go spread this all over the world.

By HG Satyadev Prabhu:

Just like a stone thrown in the water creates ripples which hits all the shores, similarly, from Yogapeeth where Gauranga was born all the sankirtan ripples are hitting all shores of the world. BVT whose house is very close, was searching for the birthplace of Mahaprabhu and by the mercy of Gauranga he found it.

HG Rajendranandana Prabhu

We can see the dhaam by our eyeballs but instead with our ears hearing from senior devotees. This is where the Lord appeared and then spread the sankirtan movement. Just hear from the senior devotees and serve them and if you do then we can become free from all sins and we don’t have to take birth again in this material world. Mahaprabhu smashes pretentious and hypocritical devotional service. Pure devotees touch the hearts of others and we want to serve them so one day our hearts also become pure and we are able to touch the hearts of others also.  Srila BVT wanted to find the birthplace of Mahaprabhu, he noticed a dust cloud coming everday to the birthplace of Mahaprabhu, he followed it and then also confirmed by his Spiritual Master Srila Jagannatha das babaji. He wasn’t able to walk but when he visited this place, he started dancing.

Srila Bhakti Siddhanta Saraswati Thakur’s Samadhi

This was the parent of all Gaudia Math’s. Here Srila Bhakti Siddhanta Saraswati Thakur established Sri Guru Gauranga and Sri Sri Gandharvika Giridhari deities who are very beautiful. Along with the beautiful deities, he also established the 4 sampradayas – Sri Brahma-Madhva Sampradaya; Sri Kumara-Nimbarka Sampradaya, Sri Rudra-Vishunuswami sampradaya and Sri  Sri(laxmi)-Ramanuja Sampradaya.

We sang Ohe-Vaisnava Thakur and then Çré Guru-paramparä Çréla Bhaktisiddhänta Sarasvaté Gosvämé Prabhupäda (The last line of the kirtan was added to glorify Srila Prabhupada)

The main consideration became the diksha line. K was concerned that after his departure that the yadus could also disappear and hence He devised the war at Prabash. Curse was due to the Yadu boys mocked the sages by asking the padding which they had hid under their clothes was going to be a boy or a girl. The sages said you will give birth to a lump of iron and that will be the cause of the death of your entire dynasty. Jara then used that lump of iron on his arrow and used it to pierce the foot of K. This lump of iron was swallowed by the fish which was caught by the fisherman. K was concerned that later groups would claim that only blood lines coming under them could get initated and become devotees of K. They would called this the body line. BSST and BVT ensured that Gurus have to be alive in KC and then the knowledge flows down the line. When K really manifests in our hearts and then soul that is known as real diksha.

 Our acaryas are connected to Shastra, they read the Shastra, listen and follow the Shastra. They know how all the Shastra connect with each other. As the Upanishads can’t be understood so commentaries was given which is the Vedanta sutra by Srila Vyasadeva (Samadhi Bhasya – as Vyasadeva went into Samadhi, saw K and then wrote the SB). The acaryas get the inspiration from the vedas. In order to give a universal religion he takes 2 of each acaraya’s thoughts and presents the SB.

Mahaprabhu took from the Ramanuja sampradaya sanyas – He took that the practice of dev ser must be free from jnana and karma. The highest workship is visnu but higher than that is the worship of Visnu’s tadiya who are actually the devotees.

Mahaprabhu took deity worship from Madhvacarya.

Vishnuswami - The full dependence of K came from Vishnuswami

Nibarka – took the dependence of Radhika and the highest Raag marg.

Book Distribution is very important and they are containers so they are idea seeds and hence we give out the truth to everybody as there is so much mish mash of the truth by Sankaracharya.

Class by HG Rajendrananda:

Significance of Radha Kunda. It was here BSST did his 1 lakh names of Naam vrata. He also got the blessings of BVT and all the acaryas. K is everywhere and same way dhaam is everywhere sometimes its manifest and sometimes unmanifested. BSST, said same way Radha Kund is everywhere and hence BSST asked to dig and establish Radhakund/Shyamkund here.

BSST at Vrindavan first preached heavy philosophy before saying who K is.

HG Satyadeva Prabhu

Our line is a Sikha line. The real cause of going back to Godhead is receiving sikha from a realized soul. The real change comes from association with the realized souls and also acting upon the words of the realized souls makes us go back home back to Godhead. He also showed how all the sampradays were connected and we have a universal religion. .

Srivas Angam

Notable pasttimes which took place at Srivas Prabhu’s house. Srivas Angam was more like Srivas Prabhu’s garage. After Mahaprabhu book initiation at Gaya by Isvara Puri, his spiritual emotions which erupted was visible. One of the places where he showed his emotions were at Srivas Angam. Srivas Pandit was worshipping Narsimha dev and Mahaprabhu kept knocking on the door to tell Srivas that He was Narsimha bhagavan. He also performed the maha Prakash lila at Srivas Angam.  Vrindavan Das Thakur shared that all the vaisnavas knew all the procedures and sang the bathing song to Mahaprabhu.

Mahaprabhu also releaved his 6 armed form to Nityananda Pr. He reveled Narshima bhagavan at Srivas pr at his Angam.

It was also here that Srivas’s son died and he didn’t say anything about it till after the kirtan. It was here for 1 year they performed noctoral kirtan ALL night long – they didn’t sleep at all. We are going to go to that place and try to pray for such inspiration that just like devotees didn’t sleep all night long and kept doing dev service, same way we can also keep doing sankirtan yajna all day/night long.

Evening class By Gurudeva

1.       Chad chapter 17

a.       All problems of life happen due to the mental concoctions. BG solves all the problems. The way to solve the problems of life is to hear the BG everyday. If you still have problems in life and still you aren’t reading BG then it’s our problem!

b.       SP had said we need to cram the shastras. Remember how we crammed our studies, same way we need to cram our shastras and keep reading very repetitively. As we cram, our mind become clear and we get connected to K more and more. So when choice have to be made, we always choose K over maya.

c.       As we cram K Katha, we notice our choices towards KC decisions are much better due to vedic intelligence.

d.       SB- 2.2.35 = Satyadev’s prabhu’s favorite verse. One can perceive the supersoul in themselves by using our vedic intelligence. In the purport of 2.2.35 SP speaks about vedic intelligence.

e.       Various level fear(afraid if I don’t do it I will get smashed)>Profit(doing it for some profit for me)>Duty(I do it because I need to do it, doing it with gratitude)> With love (unalloyed because I want to just please the other person)

f.        When we pray or make request to K, the proper way to pray is “ Oh Krsna, if you so desire, you may supply me with ….”

g.       In whatever stage of spiritual life you are – akama, sakama, moksha kama, tivr bhakti yogena – perform concentrated bhakti yoga as Krsna is the source of all – we have to continue to do bhakti yoga. As we do that we will finally get pure love for Krsna.

h.       SB 5.19.27 – satyam disati arthitam arthitah nrnam….

i.         Just become a motivated devotee (sakama bhakta). If we are a motivated devotee K will eventually make sure we have no material desires and gives us the highest benediction. Even for material motives we should just engage in dev service of the Lord and in the end we can go back home back to Godhead.

j.         K is so merciful that even though we have material desire but if we are engaged in K’s service then K being so merciful will ensure that we come to him and get rid of all material desires.

k.       Very important to give up unfavorable habits by doing regular Ks service and reading and having vedic intelligence. If we don’t voluntarily surrender (VLC = Voluntary Life Changes), then Krsna will give “special mercy” (make the life changes in some way that we are forced to give up this habit) Hence very importance to be fortified by spiritual vedic knowledge that we just give up this habit.

l.         SB 10.14.8= Just by remaining alive in KC, motivated and determined – K automatically makes him come to unmotivated service to Him. (Read the purport of this special verse)

m.     We can also pray so we get rid of material desires. Ex – Prahalad maharaj, Prithu maharaj.

n.       We can also pray like Prithu maharaj, please do whatever you need to do to my life so I can become closer to you and get Krsna prema in this lifetime.

o.       It’s a very small price to pay to give this entire lifetime to K’s service.

p.       SB 11.20.27-28 – Even if we have material desires, how can we get rid of it.

2.       Nityanandahtakam

3.       Dashavatara strotram

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