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Nitai Gaura Nama

Song Name: Nitai Gaura Nama

Official Name: None

Author: Locana Dasa Thakura

Book Name: None

Language: Bengali

LYRICS:

(1)

nitāi-gaura-nāma, ānandera dhāma, jei jana nāhi laya

tāre yama-rāya, dhare la’ye jāya, narake ḍubāya tāya

(2)

tulasīra hāra, na pare je chāra, yamālaye vāsa tā’ra

tilaka dhāraṇa, na kare je jana, vṛthāya janama tā’ra

(3)

nā laya harināma, vidhi tā’re vāma, pāmara…

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Jagannathastaka

Jagannathastaka

(As issued from the mouth of Lord Caitanya)

kadacit kalindi-tata-vipina-sangitaka-ravo

mudabhiri-nari-vadana-kamalasvada-madhupaha

rama-shambhu-brahmamara-pati-ganesharcita-pado

jagannathah svami nayana-patha-gami bhavatu me

"Sometimes in great happiness Lord Jagannatha, with His flute, makes a loud concert in the groves on the banks of the Yamuna. He is like a bumblebee who tastes the beautiful lotus-like faces of the cowherd damsels…

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Caitanya Bhagavad adi lila chapter 1

dear Vaisnavas

dandavat pranams all glories to the lotusfeet of Sri Guru and Gauranga

Alll glories to Srila Prabhupada who saved me from the material world

Try read this chapter 1 of CB ,5 to 10 times of even 20 times again and again see the impact this chapter will have on your consciouness and if there is something you do not understand

ask vaisnavas who know the KC philosophy better than you this is deep and every detail is important

your servant

Paramananda…

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Caitanya Bhagavata Adi lila chapter one

 

Sri Chaitanya Bhagavat

Adi Lila Chapter One



 

I worship their Lordships Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu and Sri Nityananda Prabhu, whose long arms extend down to their knees, whose beautiful complexions are the radiant yellow of molten gold and whose elongated eyes are like red lotuses. They are the topmost of the brahmanas, the guardians of religious principles for this age, the munificent benefactors of all living…

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SB 1.3

SB 1.3: Kṛṣṇa Is the Source of All Incarnations

SB 1.3.1 — Sūta said: In the beginning of the creation, the Lord first expanded Himself in the universal form of the puruṣa incarnation and manifested all the ingredients for the material creation. And thus at first there was the creation of the sixteen principles of material action. This was for the purpose of creating the material universes.

SB 1.3.2 — A part of the puruṣa lies down within the water of the universe, from the navel…

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Sri Sri Prema Dhama Deva Stotram

Pranams

all glories to the lotus feet of Sri Guru and Gauranga

I saw Agnideva Prabhu sing Srila Sridha Maharaja prayer to Lord Caitanya at ISKCON Seattle I was surprised and same time delighted,

Srila BR Sridhara Maharaja was the favorite sannyasi of Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Prabhupada and he is the one that placed Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Prabhupada in Samadhin in 1936 he sang Sri Rupa Manjari Pada before Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Prabhupada left this world,He was also a dear…

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Lord Caitanya embracing women in Harivilas preaching center ,Temple but why?

dear devotees

Please accept my humble obaisences

All glories to Srila Prabhupada

All glories to Sri Sri Radha Nila Madhava dear devotees 

Please accept my humble obaisences
All glories to Srila Prabhupada
 All glories to Sri Sri Radha Nila Madhava 
 (the Istadevatas  of ISKCON Seattle)
 I actually served there for a few month in end of 1994 ,it is a long story , but I will focus on what I saw…
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Soka Satana

INTRUDUCTION TO CHAPTER THREE - SOKA-SatanaImage result for Srivasa Thakura dancing

This chapter consists of thirteen songs describing one pastime of Lord Caitanya as follows:

Once, during an all-night kirtana performed by the Lord in Srivasa Pandita's courtyard, one of the five sons of Srivasa died within the house due to some disease. All the household ladies began to cry loudly in lamentation, which was heard by Srivasa as he was chanting and dancing with Lord Caitanya out in the courtyard. Entering the…

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Caitanya Bhagavata Adi lila chapter 7

Sri Chaitanya Bhagavat

Adi Lila Chapter Seven

All glories, all glories to Lord GauraChandra Who is the Supreme Lord of Lords; all glories, all glories to Sri Visvambhara and His dear most devotees. All glories to the illustrious son of Sri Jagannatha Misra and Mother Sacidevi. He is the life and soul of all surrendered devotees.

O Lord Visvambhara, please glance upon us mercifully and deliver us all. Using the pretext of mirthful childish pastimes, Lord Gaurasundara…

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Sb 1.2

SB 1.2: Divinity and Divine Service

SB 1.2.1 — Ugraśravā [Sūta Gosvāmī], the son of Romaharṣaṇa, being fully satisfied by the perfect questions of the brāhmaṇas, thanked them and thus attempted to reply.

SB 1.2.2 — Śrīla Sūta Gosvāmī said: Let me offer my respectful obeisances unto that great sage [Śukadeva Gosvāmī] who can enter the hearts of all. When he went away to take up the renounced order of life [sannyāsa], leaving home without undergoing reformation by the sacred thread…

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Cc Antya 16 Kali das

Antya 16: Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu Tastes Nectar from the Lips of Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa

The sixteenth chapter is summarized by Śrīla Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura in his Amṛta-pravāha-bhāṣya. When the Bengali devotees of the Lord returned to Jagannātha Purī, a gentleman named Kālidāsa, who was an uncle of Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī, went with them to see Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu. Kālidāsa had tasted the remnants of food of all the Vaiṣṇavas in Bengal, even Jhaḍu Ṭhākura. Because of this, he received…

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Bhagavad Gita chapter 11

Chapter 11, Verse 1

Arjuna said: I have heard Your instruction on confidential spiritual matters which You have so kindly delivered unto me, and my illusion is now dispelled.

Chapter 11, Verse 2

O lotus-eyed one, I have heard from You in detail about the appearance and disappearance of every living entity, as realized through Your inexhaustible glories.

Chapter 11, Verse 3

O greatest of all personalities, O supreme form, though I see here before me Your actual…

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Sb 1 chapter 1

SB 1.1: Questions by the Sages

SB 1.1.1 — O my Lord, Śrī Kṛṣṇa, son of Vasudeva, O all-pervading Personality of Godhead, I offer my respectful obeisances unto You. I meditate upon Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa because He is the Absolute Truth and the primeval cause of all causes of the creation, sustenance and destruction of the manifested universes. He is directly and indirectly conscious of all manifestations, and He is independent because there is no other cause beyond Him. It is He only who first…

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Gita Mahatmya chapter 11

The Glories of Eleventh Chapter of the Bhagavad Gita from the Padma Purana

Lord Shiva said “My dear Parvati, now I will relate to you the glories of the Eleventh Chapter of Srimad Bhagavad-gita. It is not possible to tell it’s full glories, as there are thousands of stories, I will relate one of them only.

On the banks of the Pranita river is a large town of the name Megankara in which is the famous temple of Jagat Isvara. Jagat Isvara is holding in His hand a bow. In that town of…

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Jayantis in 2019 not mentioned in Gaudiya Vaisnava calendar

Matsya Jayanti 2019 date is April 8.

Laxmi Jayanti ,March 20

Hanuman Jayanti 19 of April

Kurma Jayanti 17 May

Parasurama May 6

August 5th Kalki Jayanti

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Disapperance of Srila Madhavendra Puri

 Madhavendra Puri was a well known sannyasi of the Madhva sampradaya. His grand-disciple was Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu. Prior to his appearance, there was no evidence of prema bhakti in the Madhva line. In his verse, ayi dinia-dayardra-natha (Chaitanya Charitamrita 2.4.197), the seed of the religious doctrines of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu can be found.”

– Bhaktivinoda Thakur

“Madhavendra Puri was the fist shoot of the desire tree of divine love that came out of the Madhva lineage. Prior to…

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Prīti - Love by Śrīla Saccidānanda Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura

Dedicated to

nitya-lila pravista om visnupada

Sri Srimad Bhakti Prajnana Kesava Gosvami Maharaja

Inspired by and under the guidance of

Sri Srimad Bhaktivedanta Narayana Gosvami Maharaja

From Rays of The Harmonist, Kartik 2003

Prīti - Love

by Śrīla Saccidānanda Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura

The Sweetness of the word "love"

Love (prīti) is a very sweet word. When it is spoken, a very sweet mood arises in the hearts of both the speaker and the…

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CC Antya Lila 17

Antya 17: The Bodily Transformations of Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu

Śrīla Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura gives the following summary of the seventeenth chapter in his Amṛta-pravāha-bhāṣya. Absorbed in transcendental ecstasy, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu went out one night without opening the doors to His room. After crossing over three walls, He fell down among some cows belonging to the district of Tailaṅga. There He remained unconscious, assuming the aspect of a tortoise.

CC Antya 17.1 — I am…

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Srila Madhavendra Puri Disapperance day

18 Mar 2019

Monday  

18 Mar 2019

Monday

Dvādaśī, G, 06:15, Āśleṣā

+Break fast 06:15 - 07:15 (Daylight-saving time not considered)

+Śrī Mādhavendra Purī ~ Disappearance

Madhavendra Puri









During Nityananda Prabhu's tour of all the holy places of India for the purpose of purifying them, by the will of providence, he happened to meet Madhavendra Puripada somewhere in western India. When Nityananda Prabhu saw Madhavendra…

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