Visit to Surabhi Kunj
It's a very sublime feeling to be home at Surabhi Kunj. BVT wanted all of us to come here and his vision was that all over the world, everyone should take advantage of the mercy of Mahaprabhu. BVT prayed to have a ray of Vishnu who was BSST and he wrote many many books and shared this with the world. SP said we are bringing people to the Dhaam and now BVT can deliver them. Many of the Vaishnava songs are by BVT and just by singing these songs we and understand the mood of our acharyas. Bhakti is about bias and we are attracted to different aspects of Bhakti. Happiness through alignment, through our gana. If we are out of our gana then we will smash on the rocks but only by the connection of Mahaprabhu and the entire parampara can we be aligned. Here we sang the beautiful song -
The keys of spiritual path is not what you know but who you know. Example of the dog in the Sivananda Sen's party. Just by his association, the dog got purified and went back home back to Godhead. Vaishnavas show compassion. Even when someone is not interested, we still preach and all we give us love and empathy. Wherever we are, when we follow the path then we can be absorbed in the ecstacy of bhajan. Get your bhajan going, don't complain just chant, just chant more and better and all other problems will just diminish. If we want residence in the land of vraja then just follow the sadhus who follow Sri Rupa and Sanatana.
HG Rajendranandana prabhu
This place is so auspicious. The Dhaam can keep expanding and expanding, ever increasing bliss. Ananda is unlimited and give us the misery. Just by remembering Mayapur we get the benefit of going to all the Holy places all around the world. BVT says when we read the Mayapur Parikrama book it increases the bliss. By hearing from the devotees and association - those who come to the Holy place only come to take a bath, they are just like cows, crows, donkeys. We don't want to be such cows and asses, hence we have to hear and increase our bliss. There is a covering on the Dhaam, who is duplitious and proud they don't get to get inside the Dhaam but by the devotees mercy that person can give us his pride and do devotional activities. That person who sings the glories of Mahaprabhu, such a person gets the mercy to go deeper and deeper into the Dhaam.
HG Navina Nirada Prabhu
The difficulties that arise in my devotional practice are my ecstasies. BVT'S biography says how in his childhood his entire village died and he was raised by a distant relative and very meticulously he climbed his way and worked his way up. He faced so much difficulty in his life and in his work also he faced lot of difficulties. His life was threatened, his family was threatened. How to transform difficulties into ecstasy? Devotional service is like a relationship, comes like a package deal. Krishna tailor makes the exact type of difficulties to help cleanse us from the last type of material attachments we have. Krsna leaves no work undone to help purify us. He custom makes these issues for us so we can be purified from the material attachments. Krishna does it to purify us from the entitlement mentality and justification. The mind says I was here first so I should get the mercy first but it doesn't work like that. Advaita Acharya went to Haridas thakur to take the jayapatra to prove the point that the person who thinks they are the least qualified is the most qualified. A true Vaishnava is one who despite all issues he carries the same thing, he's dependable, consistency. Jiva Goswami says sweet speech and steadiness. Being steady. All our acharyas faced many difficulties, all we need to do is just tag along. Just wish for the mercy of Mahaprabhu.
Bhakti Vinod Thakur's home
BVT was establishing the dharma, the standard of the SB and there was great pushback on that. When he had to go to the great assembly of people who wanted to hear the debate, he got ill and he had obstacles in his life and hence BSST went to represent and spoke from the SB. At this debate, everyone wanted to touch BSST's feet. Great soul's feet's dust and water. BVT and BSST did a lot of their reading, poems etc from this place. BVT saw a cloud of dust going down the road everyday to worship Mahaprabhu at Yogapita. BVT then imagined an adbhuta mandir. Jagannatha Das babji Maharaj was the head of all the Vaishnavas. Navadwip dhaam doesn't take any offenses and hence Jagannatha Das babaji maharaj stayed here at the dhaam. Mind becomes strong. Great acharyas read the SB. Today we are praying to BVT to accomplish 10,000 sets of SB around the world. We did 7000 SBs last year. If we want to be a champion, champion is someone who is promoting the cause and will help us how to get more involved to distribute SBs all around the world.
HG Navina Nirada Prabhu
KC can be accessed from anywhere just by hearing and chanting. BVT's daily schedule was amazing. He allocated 1 hr for his family and would eat very simply and then would chant and read the entire night. He did it seemingly effortless and all he had to do from his inner life. Through his kindness he was just making it available to all of us. BVT personally went and knocked on doors of people and did it himself, that means acharya. So we should not be shy, we should go out and preach to everyone. Same like SP, he did it himself. Hence he's acharya.
HG Rajendrananda Prabhu
He build his home here because it's in Godrumadwip which enhances the chanting and how did he do his chanting, by his books he spread the books everywhere. He came here which is the kunja of Lalita devi the right hand gopi of Radharani. He was in the line of Jhanavadevi. He is the maid servant of anangamanjari who is the gopi of Lord Balarama.
Videos from today:
Surabhi Kunj Part 1
Surabhi Kunj Part 2
Evening Class
Pictures from today:
It's a very sublime feeling to be home at Surabhi Kunj. BVT wanted all of us to come here and his vision was that all over the world, everyone should take advantage of the mercy of Mahaprabhu. BVT prayed to have a ray of Vishnu who was BSST and he wrote many many books and shared this with the world. SP said we are bringing people to the Dhaam and now BVT can deliver them. Many of the Vaishnava songs are by BVT and just by singing these songs we and understand the mood of our acharyas. Bhakti is about bias and we are attracted to different aspects of Bhakti. Happiness through alignment, through our gana. If we are out of our gana then we will smash on the rocks but only by the connection of Mahaprabhu and the entire parampara can we be aligned. Here we sang the beautiful song -
LYRICS:
(1)
bhaja re bhaja re āmār mana ati manda
(bhajan vinā gati nāi re)
(bhaja) braja-bane rādhā-kṛṣṇa-caraṇāravinda
(jñāna-karma parihari’ re)
(bhaja) (braja-bane rādhā-kṛṣṇa)
(2)
(bhaja) gaura-gadādharādwaita guru-nityānanda
(gaura-kṛṣṇae abheda jene’ re)
(guru kṛṣṇa-preṣṭha jene’ re)
(smara) śrīnivās, haridās, murāri, mukunda
(gaura-preme smara, smara re)
(smara) (śrīnivās haridāse)
(3)
(smara) rūpa-sanātana-jīva-raghunātha-dvandva
(kṛṣṇa-bhajan jadi korbe re)
(rūpa-sanātane smara)
(smara) rāghava-gopāla-bhaṭṭa swarūpa-rāmānanda
(kṛṣṇa-prema jadi cāo re)
(swarūpa-rāmānande smara)
(4)
(smara) goṣṭhi-saha karṇapūra, sena śivānanda
(ajasra smara, smara re)
(goṣṭhi-saha karnapūre)
(smara) rūpānuga sādhu-jana bhajana-ānanda
(braje bās jadi cāo re)
(rūpānuga sādhu smara)
TRANSLATION
1) My dear mind, how foolish you are! Oh just worship, oh just worship the lotus feet of Radha and Krsna in the forests of Vraja! (Oh, without such worship there is no means of spiritual advancement!) Just worship the lotus feet of Radha and Krsna in the forests of Vraja! (Oh, giving up all speculative knowledge and materialistic activities!)
2) Just worship Gaura, Gadadhara, Advaita, and Lord Nityananda, the original spiritual master! (Oh, knowing Lord Gaura and Lord Krsna to be the same!) (Oh, knowing the spiritual master to be very dear to Krsna!) Just remember the dear associates of Lord Caitanya, namely Srivasa Thakura, Haridasa Thakura, Murari Gupta, and Mukunda Datta! (Oh, in deep love for Lord Gaura, you should remember, just remember!) (Just remember the two great personalities Srivasa Thakura and Haridasa Thakura!)
3) Just remember Sri Rupa Goswami, Sanatana, Jiva, and the two Raghunathas! (Oh, if you are engaged in worshiping Lord Krsna!) (Just remember the two great souls Sri Rupa Goswami and Sanatana Goswami!) Just remember Raghava Pandita, Gopal Bhatta Goswami, Svarupa Damodara Goswami, and Ramananda Raya! (Oh, if you really seek love of Krsna!) (Just remember Svarupa Damodara Goswami and Ramananda Raya!)
4) Just remember Srila Kavi Karnapura and all his family members, especially his father, Sivananda Sena! (Oh, always remember, always remember!) (Sri Kavi Karnapura and his family!) Just remember all the sadhus who follow the path of Sri Rupa Goswami and who are absorbed in the ecstasy of bhajan! (Oh, if you actually want residence in the land of Vraja!) (Just remember the sadhus who are followers of Srila Rupa Goswami!)
The keys of spiritual path is not what you know but who you know. Example of the dog in the Sivananda Sen's party. Just by his association, the dog got purified and went back home back to Godhead. Vaishnavas show compassion. Even when someone is not interested, we still preach and all we give us love and empathy. Wherever we are, when we follow the path then we can be absorbed in the ecstacy of bhajan. Get your bhajan going, don't complain just chant, just chant more and better and all other problems will just diminish. If we want residence in the land of vraja then just follow the sadhus who follow Sri Rupa and Sanatana.
HG Rajendranandana prabhu
This place is so auspicious. The Dhaam can keep expanding and expanding, ever increasing bliss. Ananda is unlimited and give us the misery. Just by remembering Mayapur we get the benefit of going to all the Holy places all around the world. BVT says when we read the Mayapur Parikrama book it increases the bliss. By hearing from the devotees and association - those who come to the Holy place only come to take a bath, they are just like cows, crows, donkeys. We don't want to be such cows and asses, hence we have to hear and increase our bliss. There is a covering on the Dhaam, who is duplitious and proud they don't get to get inside the Dhaam but by the devotees mercy that person can give us his pride and do devotional activities. That person who sings the glories of Mahaprabhu, such a person gets the mercy to go deeper and deeper into the Dhaam.
HG Navina Nirada Prabhu
The difficulties that arise in my devotional practice are my ecstasies. BVT'S biography says how in his childhood his entire village died and he was raised by a distant relative and very meticulously he climbed his way and worked his way up. He faced so much difficulty in his life and in his work also he faced lot of difficulties. His life was threatened, his family was threatened. How to transform difficulties into ecstasy? Devotional service is like a relationship, comes like a package deal. Krishna tailor makes the exact type of difficulties to help cleanse us from the last type of material attachments we have. Krsna leaves no work undone to help purify us. He custom makes these issues for us so we can be purified from the material attachments. Krishna does it to purify us from the entitlement mentality and justification. The mind says I was here first so I should get the mercy first but it doesn't work like that. Advaita Acharya went to Haridas thakur to take the jayapatra to prove the point that the person who thinks they are the least qualified is the most qualified. A true Vaishnava is one who despite all issues he carries the same thing, he's dependable, consistency. Jiva Goswami says sweet speech and steadiness. Being steady. All our acharyas faced many difficulties, all we need to do is just tag along. Just wish for the mercy of Mahaprabhu.
Bhakti Vinod Thakur's home
BVT was establishing the dharma, the standard of the SB and there was great pushback on that. When he had to go to the great assembly of people who wanted to hear the debate, he got ill and he had obstacles in his life and hence BSST went to represent and spoke from the SB. At this debate, everyone wanted to touch BSST's feet. Great soul's feet's dust and water. BVT and BSST did a lot of their reading, poems etc from this place. BVT saw a cloud of dust going down the road everyday to worship Mahaprabhu at Yogapita. BVT then imagined an adbhuta mandir. Jagannatha Das babji Maharaj was the head of all the Vaishnavas. Navadwip dhaam doesn't take any offenses and hence Jagannatha Das babaji maharaj stayed here at the dhaam. Mind becomes strong. Great acharyas read the SB. Today we are praying to BVT to accomplish 10,000 sets of SB around the world. We did 7000 SBs last year. If we want to be a champion, champion is someone who is promoting the cause and will help us how to get more involved to distribute SBs all around the world.
HG Navina Nirada Prabhu
KC can be accessed from anywhere just by hearing and chanting. BVT's daily schedule was amazing. He allocated 1 hr for his family and would eat very simply and then would chant and read the entire night. He did it seemingly effortless and all he had to do from his inner life. Through his kindness he was just making it available to all of us. BVT personally went and knocked on doors of people and did it himself, that means acharya. So we should not be shy, we should go out and preach to everyone. Same like SP, he did it himself. Hence he's acharya.
HG Rajendrananda Prabhu
He build his home here because it's in Godrumadwip which enhances the chanting and how did he do his chanting, by his books he spread the books everywhere. He came here which is the kunja of Lalita devi the right hand gopi of Radharani. He was in the line of Jhanavadevi. He is the maid servant of anangamanjari who is the gopi of Lord Balarama.
Videos from today:
Surabhi Kunj Part 1
Surabhi Kunj Part 2
Evening Class
Pictures from today:
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