Katha at Mamgachi
Very special place, it's Srila Vrindavan Das Thakur's birthplace. We sang a very beautiful song here:
26) He is the life-breath of Srila Gadadhara Pandita, the shelter of Srila Srivasa Pandita, the thief of the hearts of all the devotees of Lord Krsna, and the supreme purifier of the degraded age of Kali.
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Very close to Mamgachi, there is a beautiful temple where there are wonderful deities at the temple and all deities were served by great devotees of Mahaprabhu. The tree is also a very important associate of the Lord. Prahalad Maharaj says in his prayers - In order to attain perfection in devotional life, one must take a Rajos abhishek - dust of the lotus feet of a pure devotee. It means literally but also a place to serve a pure devotee. This is highly effective as SP said, the more times someone is removed das das das, million times removed that is liberation. Serving a pure devotee is very important. We should not distinguish between small or big devotees. Just like there are waves in the ganga - small waves and big waves similarly there are devotees who are doing service. If you hear anyone who is saying Hare Krishna, we have to pay obeisances in our mind. In the mind we should pay respects to that person. If we see anyone chanting on beads and bead bag, pay full obeisances and if someone who doesn't criticize anyone, we should sought after that devotee.
Dhruva Maharaj had the attitude of I'm going to show them and Krsna took to task everyone who gave him trouble. Never judge anyone, because we don't know who who is. We should take the dust of the feet of a devotee and smear it on our body also means, we are serving devotees. Both figuratively and also serving the devotees.
The tree is a Bakula tree and Mahaprabhu spoke about trees as tolerant as a tree. Trees gave shelter to all devotees and the tree became a favorite place and entity of Sri Ranga thakur and as it was serving Sri Ranga Thakur, when the tree had died, Mahaprabhu embraced the tree and brought the tree back to life.
Hence, we just need to catch on to a devotee and just render service to the devotee and Mahaprabhu will bring you back to life, spiritually.
Sri Ranga Thakur was the last disciple Nityananda prabhu had. BSST said that. Vrindavan Das Thakur wrote the Chaitanya Bhagavat and is sometimes called the partial incarnation of Ved Vyasa. His mother also got the mercy from Mahaprabhu. Narayani is the mother and she is famous because of the mercy she got from Mahaprabhu and the ongoing mercy she got was in the form of prasadam.
Just serve a devotee with love and then you will be favored by the Lord. When we wake up and we feel this is all real, but it's actually sleeping state too. This Harinaam will wake us up to the awake state. We become uncovered when we come to the Shuddha sattava and that is the true awakening. Murari Chaitanya like this became a wonderful devotee.
Even though we know this material world is not good, still we are stuck in this orbit of birth and death and again birth and death and hence we have to get out of this orbit and hence we need to see the pastimes of the Lord and hear the pastimes of the Lord to get out of this orbit. Hence we are praying to the exalted devotees here to allow us to see the pastimes of the Lord so we can get out of this orbit and also show these pastimes to everyone in this world.
Only by hearing and seeing the pastimes of the Lord can this help us to get out of the orbit of the material world and hence we are pryaing here to give us the mercy so we can see the pastimes and the hearing of Holy Name and honoring a lot of Prasadam and a lot of counseling and coaxing can we get out of this material world.
Rajendrananda Prabhu
Godrumadwip is a very special place. This place is off the charts. It is the island representing dasyam and we can realize our eternal position of being servant of Krsna. Once someone asked SP what does it mean to be KC. KC means to be fearless. The wonderful devotee had actually died and came back and hence he was fearless and wasn't afraid. Sri Ranga Thakur's disciple had the same fearlessness. Bhakti is the love, love for Krsna. All these Parmahansas we hear about are names but he's grandaughter of Paurnamasi - Nandamukhi in Krsna lila. Semanthini devi, protecting Mayapur dhaam and as yogamaya in Vrindavan was Paurnamasi and grand daughter was Nandamukhi.
If we just hear their names we get purified. Sravana eva ki kevalam. If we come to the Holy Dhaam we can make our lifetime successful. Navadwip is the resovoir of all Holy Dhaams same as Vrindavan. The pandavas were also here and they came and stayed and it was non-different than Kamyavan and they requested to hear from Vyasadev and he incarnated as Vrindavan Das Thakur.
Chaitanya comes every Kali yuga but this Kali Yuga Mahaprabhu is giving Vraj Prema. We are so fortunate and hence we should take advantage of this time. This island is very beautiful and we should read the Navadwip Mahatmya. Ramanujacharya is the incarnation of Lakshman anuja mean dear of Ram which is Lakshmana. He came here to clean up the standards of the worship of Jagannatha. Hence we was kicked out and he went to Kurmashetra. BVT explains that Lord then said no you are a special devotee of me and come to Navadwip and Lord showed his form as Mahaprabhu.
Madhvacharya also came here and he got Gaura prema also and he wanted to share this nectar with everyone. Mahaprabhu said, I will take 2 qualities - deity worship, destroy mayavad philosophy. Ramanucharya - Service to the Vaishnavas, Devotional service free from karma and jnana.
Mahaprabhu giving Krsna prema to everyone in Kali Yuga. Narada Muni also came to see Gauranga and when he went to Dwarakadish and when he went to Dwaraka, he saw Gauranga again.
Vasudeva Datta Thakur also lived here and BSST said he was the most munificent of all devotees who gave love to everyone. He helped all the conditioned souls. Mahaprabhu glorified him with thousands of mouths. He said Mahaprabhu, if you so desire, I would take the karma and sins of everyone if you can liberate them all and give Love to everyone. Jesus Christ also took all the sins but he didn't get everyone liberated and love for Krsna. Love for Krsna gives you vairagya vidya. Mahaprabhu shared when he heard this, if you so desire everyone will get love for Krsna. Bhakti Tirtha Maharaj also prayed in such a way that Krsna please give me the karma of all the devotees in ISKCON.
Analogy of a pot of water with mustard seeds similarly what is for Krsna to liberate all the entities of the world. When we have complete faith in the Holy Name then we get empowered. Uttama Adhikari is someone who is always thinking of how to spread this movement.
Evening Class
We read from Adi Lila Chapter 17 - Pastimes of Mahaprabhu in His youth.
Had reflections from devotees about realizations
Then we sang a beautiful Vaishnava song - Parama Karuna
Video Links for Toaday's Yatra:
Srila Vrindavana Das Thakur's Birth Place, Mamgachi, India
Evening Class
Pictures from today:
Very special place, it's Srila Vrindavan Das Thakur's birthplace. We sang a very beautiful song here:
LYRICS:
(refrain) nadīyā-nagare nitāi nece’ nece’ gāy re
(1)
jagannātha-suta mahāprabhu viśvambhara
māyāpur-śaśī navadvīpa-sudhākara
(2)
śacī-suta gaurahari nimāi-sundara
rādhā-bhāva-kānti-ācchādita naṭabara
(3)
nāmānanda capala bālaka mātṛ-bhakta
brahmāṇḍa-vadana tarkī kautukānurakta
(4)
vidyārthi-uḍupa caura-dvayera mohana
tairthika-sarvasva grāmya-bālikā-krīḍana
(5)
lakṣmī-prati bora-dātā uddhata bālaka
śrī-śacīra pati-putra-śoka-nibāraka
(6)
lakṣmī-pati pūrva-deśa-sarva-kleśa-hara
digvijayi-darpa-hārī viṣnu-priyeśwara
(7)
ārya-dharma-pāla pitṛ-gayā piṇḍa-dātā
purī-śiṣya madhvācārya-sampradāya-pātā
(8)
kṛṣṇa-nāmonmatta kṛṣṇa-tattva-adhyāpaka
nāma-sańkīrtana-yuga-dharma-pravartaka
(9)
adwaita-bāndhava śrīnivāsa-gṛha-dhana
nityānanda-prāna gadādharera jīvana
(10)
antardwīpa-śaśadhara sīmanta-vijaya
godruma-bihārī madhyadwīpa-līlāśraya
(11)
koladwīpa-pati ṛtudwīpa-maheśwara
jahnu-modadruma-rudradwīpera īśwara
(12)
nava-khaṇḍa-rańganātha jāhnavī-jīvana
jagāi-mādhāi-ādi durvṛtta-tāraṇa
(13)
nagara-kīrtana-siḿha kājī-uddhāraṇa
śuddha-nāma-pracāraka bhaktārti-haraṇa
(14)
nārāyanī-kṛpā-sindhu jīvera niyantā
adhama-paḍuyā-daṇḍī bhakta-doṣa-hantā
(15)
śrī-kṛṣṇa-caitanya-candra bhāratī-tāraṇa
parivraja-śiromaṇi utkala-pāvana
(16)
ambu-lińga-bhuvaneśa-kapoteśa-pati
khīr-cora-gopāla-darśana-sukhī yati
(17)
nirdaṇḍi-sannyāsī sārvabhauma-kṛpāmoya
swānanda-āswādānandī sarva-sukhāśroya
(18)
puraṭa-sundara vāsudeva-trāna-kartā
rāmānanda-sakhā bhaṭṭa-kula-kleśa-hartā
(19)
bauddha-jain-māyāvādi-kutarka-khaṇḍana
dakṣina-pāvana bhakti-grantha-uddhāraṇa
(20)
ālāla-darśanānandī rathāgra-nartaka
gajapati-trāna devānanda-uddhāraka
(21)
kuliyā-prakāśe duṣṭa paḍuyāra trāna
rūpa-sanāntana-bandhu sarva-jīva-prāna
(22)
bṛndābanānanda-mūrti balabhadra-sańgī
yavana-uddhārī bhaṭṭa-ballabhera rańgī
(23)
kāśībāsi-sannyāsī-uddhārī prema-dātā
markaṭa-vairāgī-daṇḍī ā-caṇḍāla-trātā
(24)
bhaktera gaurava-kārī bhakta-prāna-dhana
haridāsa-raghunātha-swarūpa-jīvana
(25)
godruma-pati gora nitāi-jīvana
vṛndāvana-bhāva-vibhora advaitera dhana
vṛndāvana-bhāva-vibhora advaitera dhana
(26)
gadādhara-prāṇa, srīvāsa-śaraṇa,
kṛṣṇa-bhakta-mānasa-cora kali-yuga-pāvana
kṛṣṇa-bhakta-mānasa-cora kali-yuga-pāvana
(27)
nadīyā-nagare nitāi nece’ nece’ gāy re
bhakativinoda tā’r poḍe rańga-pāy re
TRANSLATION
(Refrain:) Oh! In the towns and villages of Nadiya, Lord Nityananda ecstatically dances and sings these names of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu:
1) Lord Caitanya is the beloved son of Jagannatha Misra. He is Mahaprabhu, the great master, and maintainer of the whole world. He is the shining moon of Mayapur, and the source of all nectar for the land of Navadvipa.
2) He is the beloved son of Saci Mata, and is Lord Hari with a fair golden complexion. As He was born under a nim tree He was called Nimai-sundara (beautiful Nimai). He is covered by the sentiment and luster of Srimati Radharani, and He is the best of all dancers.
3) He becomes restless upon hearing the holy names of Lord Hari. In His boyhood pastimes He is swift and agile, and is devoted to His mother. He displays the entire universe within His mouth, is a great logician, and is fond of joking and playing pranks.
4) He is the moon among scholarly students, and He bewildered two thieves who tried to steal His jewels when He was a small child. He is the cynosure of all philosophers, and He teased and joked with the village girls of Nadiya.
5) He is the giver of blessings to Laksmi-priya (His first wife). He is very mischievous as a child, and is the dispeller of the grief Saci-mata felt after losing her husband Jagannatha and first son Visvarupa.
6) He is the Lord and husband of Laksmi-priya. By His sankirtan movement He removed all the distress of East Bengal. He eradicated the pride of the conquering pandita named Kesava Kasmiri, and is the beloved Lord of Visnu-priya (His second wife).
7) He is the preserver of sanatana-dharma, and the giver of the pinda oblation at the holy town of Gaya after the disappearance of His father Jagannath Misra. He became the disciple of Isvara Puri, and is the protector of the Madhvacarya Sampradaya.
8) He becomes madly intoxicated by tasting the holy name of Krsna, and is the professor of the science of Krsna consciousness. Thus He inaugurated the religion of the age, nama-sankirtan.
9) He is the friend of Advaita Acarya, the treasure of Srivasa Thakura's home, the life and soul of Nityananda Prabhu, and the very source of life for Gadadhara Pandita.
10) He is the moon of Antardvipa, and the triumph of Simantadvipa. He enjoys wandering and frolicking on the island of Godruma, and is the shelter of pastimes in Madhyadvipa.
11) He is the Lord of Koladvipa, the great controller of Ritudvipa, and the creator of Jahnudvipa, Modadrumadvipa, and Rudradvipa.
12) He is thus the Supreme Lord of the nine islands of Navadvipa, which serves as the stage for His wonderful pastimes. He is the life of the River Ganga, and the deliverer of all sorts of rogues and rascals beginning with Jagai and Madhai.
13) He is the lion of the village kirtanas, and the deliverer of Chand Kazi. He is the preacher of the pure holy name, and the remover of the distresses of His devotees.
14) He is the ocean of mercy for Narayani (the mother of Srila Vrndavana dasa Thakura), and is the regulator of all souls. He is the chastiser of the fallen students who criticized His chanting of "gopi! gopi!", and is the destroyer of the sins of His devotees.
15) He was initiated into sannyasa with the name of Sri Krsna Caitanya, and He is beautiful like the moon. He delivered His sannyasa-guru Kesava Bharati, is Himself the crest-jewel of all wandering renunciates, and is the savior of the region of Orissa.
16) He is the master of Lord Siva, who is known in three different Saiva tirthas as Sambu-linga, Bhuvanesvara, and Kapotesvara (visited by Lord Caitanya on His way to Jagannatha Puri). As a sannyasi He rejoiced at the sight of the Orissan deities Ksira-cora Gopinatha and Saksi Gopala.
17) He became a sannyasi without a danda (due to Lord Nityananda's breaking it in three parts and throwing it in the Bhargi River), and is full of mercy for Sarvabhauma Bhattacarya. He is ecstatic by tasting the bliss of Himself in the form of Krsna, and He is the resting place of all universal happiness.
18) He is beautiful like molten gold, and He delivered the leper Vasudeva. He is the intimate friend of Ramananda Ray, and the remover of all miseries from the family of Vyenkata Bhatta.
19) He is the refuter of the atheistic arguments of the Buddhists, Jains, and Mayavadis. He is the savior of South India, and He has brought to light the two devotional literatures, Krsna-karnamrta and Brahma-samhita.
20) He became ecstatic at the sight of the deity Alalanatha, and He danced in front of the Jagannatha cart during the Ratha-yatra festival. He delivered Gajapati Pratapa-Rudra, and was the savior of Devananda Pandita.
21) By His appearance at Kuliya He delivered the ill-behaved student community there. He is the friend of Rupa and Sanatana Goswami, and the life of all souls.
22) He is the personification of bliss in the transcendental realm of Vrndavana, and He is the companion and friend of Balabhadra Bhattacarya. On His return from Vrndavana He delivered many Mohammedans, and He is very fond of intimate exchanges with Vallabha Bhatta.
23) He delivered the Mayavadi sannyasis of Kasi, and He is the bestower of love of God. He is the chastiser of the false renunciates (called markata-vairagis for being like monkeys), and He is the savior of everyone down to the lowest class of men.
24) He is the glorifier of His devotees, and is the treasured wealth of their lives. He is the very life of such devotees as Haridasa Thakura, Raghunatha Dasa Goswami, and Svarupa Damodara.
25) He is the Supreme Master of the island of Godruma. He possesses a golden complexion and is the very life of Srila Nityananda Prabhu. He constantly remains overwhelmed with the ecstatic moods of Vrndavana, and is the supreme treasure of Srila Advaita Acarya.
26) He is the life-breath of Srila Gadadhara Pandita, the shelter of Srila Srivasa Pandita, the thief of the hearts of all the devotees of Lord Krsna, and the supreme purifier of the degraded age of Kali.
27) Oh! In the towns and villages of Nadiya, Lord Nityananda dances and dances ecstatically while singing these divine names, and Bhaktivinoda falls down at His reddish lotus feet. Oh!
Very close to Mamgachi, there is a beautiful temple where there are wonderful deities at the temple and all deities were served by great devotees of Mahaprabhu. The tree is also a very important associate of the Lord. Prahalad Maharaj says in his prayers - In order to attain perfection in devotional life, one must take a Rajos abhishek - dust of the lotus feet of a pure devotee. It means literally but also a place to serve a pure devotee. This is highly effective as SP said, the more times someone is removed das das das, million times removed that is liberation. Serving a pure devotee is very important. We should not distinguish between small or big devotees. Just like there are waves in the ganga - small waves and big waves similarly there are devotees who are doing service. If you hear anyone who is saying Hare Krishna, we have to pay obeisances in our mind. In the mind we should pay respects to that person. If we see anyone chanting on beads and bead bag, pay full obeisances and if someone who doesn't criticize anyone, we should sought after that devotee.
Dhruva Maharaj had the attitude of I'm going to show them and Krsna took to task everyone who gave him trouble. Never judge anyone, because we don't know who who is. We should take the dust of the feet of a devotee and smear it on our body also means, we are serving devotees. Both figuratively and also serving the devotees.
The tree is a Bakula tree and Mahaprabhu spoke about trees as tolerant as a tree. Trees gave shelter to all devotees and the tree became a favorite place and entity of Sri Ranga thakur and as it was serving Sri Ranga Thakur, when the tree had died, Mahaprabhu embraced the tree and brought the tree back to life.
Hence, we just need to catch on to a devotee and just render service to the devotee and Mahaprabhu will bring you back to life, spiritually.
Sri Ranga Thakur was the last disciple Nityananda prabhu had. BSST said that. Vrindavan Das Thakur wrote the Chaitanya Bhagavat and is sometimes called the partial incarnation of Ved Vyasa. His mother also got the mercy from Mahaprabhu. Narayani is the mother and she is famous because of the mercy she got from Mahaprabhu and the ongoing mercy she got was in the form of prasadam.
Just serve a devotee with love and then you will be favored by the Lord. When we wake up and we feel this is all real, but it's actually sleeping state too. This Harinaam will wake us up to the awake state. We become uncovered when we come to the Shuddha sattava and that is the true awakening. Murari Chaitanya like this became a wonderful devotee.
Even though we know this material world is not good, still we are stuck in this orbit of birth and death and again birth and death and hence we have to get out of this orbit and hence we need to see the pastimes of the Lord and hear the pastimes of the Lord to get out of this orbit. Hence we are praying to the exalted devotees here to allow us to see the pastimes of the Lord so we can get out of this orbit and also show these pastimes to everyone in this world.
Only by hearing and seeing the pastimes of the Lord can this help us to get out of the orbit of the material world and hence we are pryaing here to give us the mercy so we can see the pastimes and the hearing of Holy Name and honoring a lot of Prasadam and a lot of counseling and coaxing can we get out of this material world.
Rajendrananda Prabhu
Godrumadwip is a very special place. This place is off the charts. It is the island representing dasyam and we can realize our eternal position of being servant of Krsna. Once someone asked SP what does it mean to be KC. KC means to be fearless. The wonderful devotee had actually died and came back and hence he was fearless and wasn't afraid. Sri Ranga Thakur's disciple had the same fearlessness. Bhakti is the love, love for Krsna. All these Parmahansas we hear about are names but he's grandaughter of Paurnamasi - Nandamukhi in Krsna lila. Semanthini devi, protecting Mayapur dhaam and as yogamaya in Vrindavan was Paurnamasi and grand daughter was Nandamukhi.
If we just hear their names we get purified. Sravana eva ki kevalam. If we come to the Holy Dhaam we can make our lifetime successful. Navadwip is the resovoir of all Holy Dhaams same as Vrindavan. The pandavas were also here and they came and stayed and it was non-different than Kamyavan and they requested to hear from Vyasadev and he incarnated as Vrindavan Das Thakur.
Chaitanya comes every Kali yuga but this Kali Yuga Mahaprabhu is giving Vraj Prema. We are so fortunate and hence we should take advantage of this time. This island is very beautiful and we should read the Navadwip Mahatmya. Ramanujacharya is the incarnation of Lakshman anuja mean dear of Ram which is Lakshmana. He came here to clean up the standards of the worship of Jagannatha. Hence we was kicked out and he went to Kurmashetra. BVT explains that Lord then said no you are a special devotee of me and come to Navadwip and Lord showed his form as Mahaprabhu.
Madhvacharya also came here and he got Gaura prema also and he wanted to share this nectar with everyone. Mahaprabhu said, I will take 2 qualities - deity worship, destroy mayavad philosophy. Ramanucharya - Service to the Vaishnavas, Devotional service free from karma and jnana.
Mahaprabhu giving Krsna prema to everyone in Kali Yuga. Narada Muni also came to see Gauranga and when he went to Dwarakadish and when he went to Dwaraka, he saw Gauranga again.
Vasudeva Datta Thakur also lived here and BSST said he was the most munificent of all devotees who gave love to everyone. He helped all the conditioned souls. Mahaprabhu glorified him with thousands of mouths. He said Mahaprabhu, if you so desire, I would take the karma and sins of everyone if you can liberate them all and give Love to everyone. Jesus Christ also took all the sins but he didn't get everyone liberated and love for Krsna. Love for Krsna gives you vairagya vidya. Mahaprabhu shared when he heard this, if you so desire everyone will get love for Krsna. Bhakti Tirtha Maharaj also prayed in such a way that Krsna please give me the karma of all the devotees in ISKCON.
Analogy of a pot of water with mustard seeds similarly what is for Krsna to liberate all the entities of the world. When we have complete faith in the Holy Name then we get empowered. Uttama Adhikari is someone who is always thinking of how to spread this movement.
Evening Class
We read from Adi Lila Chapter 17 - Pastimes of Mahaprabhu in His youth.
Had reflections from devotees about realizations
Then we sang a beautiful Vaishnava song - Parama Karuna
Video Links for Toaday's Yatra:
Srila Vrindavana Das Thakur's Birth Place, Mamgachi, India
Evening Class
Pictures from today:
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