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Lord Nityananda Prabhus mercy

Lord Nityananda Prabhu was so merciful He wanted to forgive everyone and give them love of Krsna, actually His mood is different from Lord Balaramas that can not tolerate offences to Sri Krsna ,still Duryodhana the biggest offender was a devotee of Lord Balarama , he would chant 1000 names of Lord Balarama , Balarama Kavacha etc, but because of his envy of Lord Krsna and the Pandavas he was killed .Lord Nityananda Prabhu is so merciful,I was thinking of Jesus Christ who was so kind of…

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Added by Paramananda das on January 18, 2021 at 11:06am — 1 Comment

Lord Nityananda/ Lord Balarama has expanded Himself to serve Sri Krsna in all Rasas also as Ananga Manjari

Lord Nityananda/ Lord Balarama has expanded Himself to serve Sri Krsna in all Rasas also as Ananga Manjari , in Gaura Lila Ananga Manjari became Jahnava Mata

Author: Vrndavana Dasa ThakuraImage may contain: 1 person

Caitanya Bhagavata

Language: Bengali

LYRICS:

(refrain)

antare nitāi bāhire nitāi nitāi jagatamaya

nāgara nitāi nāgari nitāi kathā ye kaya

(1)

sādhana nitāi bhajana nitāi nitāi nayana

tārā daśadika maya nitāi sundara…

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Added by Paramananda das on January 18, 2021 at 10:37am — No Comments

Distributing Srila Prabhupadas books in Jaipure

Distributing Srila Prabhupadas books in Jaipure

Once I was sankirtana leader for the Vrindavana sankirtana bus we did sankirtana in Jaipure on Ekadasi and we sold lots of books, next morning I went to get Mahasweets from Sri Sri Radha Govinda to break our ekadasi fast when I got attacked from all sides by 7 large Monkeys and it happened so fast I dropped the bags to not get scratched or bitten ,some bags flew into the sky , and all the Hanuman monkeys had already emptied those bags…

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Srila Jiva Goswamis instruction to chant 64 rounds and he gave Mahamantra Tika

Srila Jiva Goswami instructed all Gaudiya Vaisnavas to daily chant minimum 64 rounds and gave a Mahamantra Tika (commentary on the Hare Krsna Maha Mantra )

today is the disapperance day of Srila Jiva Goswami : The Mahamantra are names of Radha Krishna ,and Srila Jiva Goswami has written a commentary to the Mahamantra :

Hare Krsna Hare Krsna Krsna Krsna Hare Hare Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare

(1-Hare)

sarva-ceta-harah krsnas tasya cittam haratyasau…

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Shut up and chant Hare Krsna and the Narayana Kavacha

Shut up chant Hare Krsna and the Narayana Kavacha

When I was serving in ISKCON Boston in 1993 the temporary Tp Jayagaurasundara das was envious and jealous of me so he complained how I chanted the Narayana Kavacha.My Guru Niranjana Swami chants is properly .The temple had started chanting it daily on my suggestion before the Srimad Bhagavatam class.We had the Susan Murphy case, Visnujana Swami had hooked up a girl that was a minor 15 Susan up with another older boy Greg and said they…

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Added by Paramananda das on January 16, 2021 at 2:32pm — 1 Comment

Lord Caitanya taking sannyasa

such a beautiful description of Lord Caitanyas taking sannyasa by Srila Sridhara Swami Srila Prabhupada dear godbrother ; A Tragedy of Separation

According to solar calculation, it was on the day of Makara-Sankranti, an auspicious conjunction of the stars, that Nimai Pandit went to Katwa to take sannyasa, the renounced order of life. After this, He would become known as Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu. He swam across the Ganges and in wet cloth ran towards Katwa. Just before this, He told only…

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Added by Paramananda das on January 14, 2021 at 11:50pm — 1 Comment

Lord Caitanya took sannyasa on Makara Sankranti

Lord Caitanya took sannyasa on Makara Sankranti

Lord Caitanya chanted Gopi Gopi one day and the Smarta Brahmanas of Navadvipa got offended what is this nonsense chanting Gopi Gopi ? Lord Caitanya was absorbed in the mood of the Gopis, just like the six Goswamis that are all manjaris ,Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura has helped us remember this lila in his Gauranga lila Smarana mangala stotram :

Verse 34

gopi-bhavat parama-vivaso danda-hastah pareso

vadasaktan ati-jada-matims…

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Lord Caitanya took sannyasa on Makara Sankranti !

Lord Caitanya took sannyasa on Makara Sankranti

Srila B.R. Sridhar Maharaja

(The following is an excerpt of a lecture by Srila Sridhara Deva Gosvami Maharaja given on the occasion of Makara Sankranti, the day of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu's acceptance of sannyasa, on January 14th 1984)

On this day, early in the morning, Mahaprabhu crossed the river by swimming at three o’clock or so, and ran towards Katwa. It was winter season, but He had no care for the cold. There was so much heat…

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distributing Prabhupadas books is not Bible sales

Aindra Prabhu once said Harinama is more important than bookdistribution I said no, that time I was managing a Harinama program in Copenhagen 8 hours chanting a day 6 days a week all year around in all kind of weather, because Srila Prabhupada did not agree with this philosophy of yours,and daily we also distributed many books, because Srila Prabhupada said three weapons against Maya, book distribution and Harinama and prasadam distribution ,so daily we distributed 1500 pieces of Prasadam…

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Added by Paramananda das on January 13, 2021 at 3:31pm — 1 Comment

Manager mistakes on Sankirtana

Manager mistakes on Sankirtana

I could write a whole book ,how ISKCON managers made wrong descisions for sankirtana devotees, and properly one day I will write a book about so the future generation of devotees can learn from these mistakes.Of course the first mistake is that not enough devotees take bookdistribution serious and they do not make it their life and soul they are looking instead for comfort and positiones in ISKCON ,pure devotiona service in ISKCON means to dedicate your…

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Prema Vivarta chapter 1

Chapter 1. Invocation of Auspiciousness

Sri Sri Prema-vivarta

রাধাকৃষ্ণপ্রণয়বিকৃতির্হ্লাদিনী শক্তিরস্মাদ্

একাত্মানাবপি ভুবি পুরা দেহভেদং গতৌ তৌ

চৈতন্যাখ্যং প্রকটমধুনা তদ্দ্বয়ং চৈক্যমাপ্তং

রাধাভাবদ্যুতিসুবলিতং নৌমি কৃষ্ণস্বরূপম্

rādhā-kṛṣṇa-praṇaya-vikṛtir hlādinī-śaktir asmād

ekātmānāv api bhuvi purā deha-bhedaṁ gatau tau

chaitanyākhyaṁ prakaṭam adhunā tad-dvayaṁ chaikyam āptaṁ

rādhā-bhāva-dyuti-suvalitaṁ naumi kṛṣṇa-svarūpam

(Sri…

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16 rounds of "Suddha nama"?

16 rounds of "Suddha Nama"

I wrote this on July 5th 2011

Please accept my humble obaisences

all glories to the lotusfeet of my Gurudeva Srila Bhaktivedanta Narayana Goswami 

All glories to Srila Prabhupada

Day before yesterday I had a talk with Jayadvaita Swami and 2 other sannyasis about chanting.We all agreed on that the most important thing is to first avoid Nama aparadha.

Srila Prabhupada writes in Nectar of Instruction vers one purport:…

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Mahesh Pandit

Śrī Mahesa Paṇḍita ~ Disappearance today 1/10 2021

GLORIES OF SRILA MAHESH PANDIT

MAHESH PANDIT, AN ASSOCIATE OF NITYANANDA PRABHU, RESEMBLED HIM IN BEING EXTREMELY MAGNANIMOUS AND DEVOTED TO THE SALVATION OF ALL THE FALLEN LIVING BEINGS. IN HIS ECSTASIES OF DEVOTIONAL LOVE, HE WOULD DANCE MADLY.

maheśa-paṇḍitaḥ śrīman-mahābāhur vraje sakhā

In Vraja, Mahesh Pandit is Kṛṣṇa’s cowherd friend, Mahābāhu.

(Gaura gaṇoddeśa dīpikā 129)

Mahesh Pandit is Mahabahu…

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Dvadasa Ditya tila

Dvadasyaditya Tila is the name of where Sri Sri Radha Madan Mohan temple is located in Vrindavana . Srila Sanatana Goswami obtained Madan Mohan from a Brahmana family in Mathura. Actually when Sri Advaita Acarya had come to Vrindavana He discovered Madan Mohan also known as Madan gopal .This place is called Advaita vat , if you go to Vrindavana do not neglect this place, make sure to always pay obaisences there , because Sri Advaita Acarya stayed there for some time and He is Lord MahaVisnu…

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BG 18,42

Chapter 18: Conclusion-The Perfection of Renunciation

TEXT 42

samo damas tapah saucam

ksantir arjavam eva ca

jnanam vijnanam astikyam

brahma-karma svabhava-jam

SYNONYMS

samah—peacefulness; damah—self-control; tapah—austerity; saucam—purity; ksantih—tolerance; arjavam—honesty; eva—certainly; ca—and; jnanam—wisdom; vijnanam—knowledge; astikyam—religiousness; brahma—of a brahmana; karma—duty; svabhava-jam—born of his own…

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from Narasimha volume 2

with the blessings of Srila Gurudeva and Srila Prabhupada and all true Gaudiya vaisnavas i am working on Volume 2 of Sri Narasimha here is a glimpse : this is from my next Narasimha book :Skanda Purana explains how Narada Muni installed Lord Narasimha in Jagannath Puri this was before Lord Jagannatha Baladeva Subhadra and Sudarshan were installed !

Narad Installs the Idol of Nrisimha

Narad told Indradyumna–‘ Now, we should install an idol of Lord Nrisimha near Neelkanth’s temple…

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Vaisnava Brahmins do not work for Salary in ISKCON !

Srila Prabhupada quoted Chanakya Pandit as a perfect example of a Vaisnava Brahmana that did not take Salary for devotional service, ,that a real Vaisnava Brahmin never accepts a salary in ISKCON ,thus who do are Sudra !Srila Prabhupada here says he is a dog, so if you get a salary in ISKCON please returne it so Srila Prabhupada will not consider you a dog !

Canakya Pandit by Srila Prabhupada, in his conversation with Prof. Kotovsky, as quoted in 'Science of Self Realization", chapter…

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Chankya Pandit was a Vaisnava

Chanakya Pandit was not an impersonalist :

ko ’rthaḥ putreṇa jātena

yo na vidvān na dhārmikaḥ

kāṇena cakṣuṣā kiṁ vā

cakṣuḥ pīḍaiva kevalam

“What is the use of a son who is neither glorious nor devoted to the Lord? Such a son is like a blind eye, which simply gives pain but cannot help one see.”

~ SB 6.11.4

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chanakya

Chanakya -…

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Frog in the well !

Frog in the well !

Some aspiring vaisnavas are very offended when we preach to them about the importance of chanting 64 rounds as given by Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu.They are like frogs in the well , they think a reduced number of rounds is the same as 64 rounds or 120 rounds or 192 rounds.They blow themselves up in their tiny worlds that I am the Supreme Lord of my well Image may contain: text that says 'Everyday he shouts "Op op op..." resound around the well, making other small animals are frightened. Frog thought the tiny sky like alid and he is imposing as as Lord. OP... OP... OP.. OP...'

Chapter 16: The Divine and Demoniac Natures

TEXTS 13-15

idam adya maya labdham

imam prapsye…

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Frog in the well !

Frog in the well !

Some aspiring vaisnavas are very offended when we preach to them about the importance of chanting 64 rounds as given by Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu.They are like frogs in the well , they think a reduced number of rounds is the same as 64 rounds or 120 rounds or 192 rounds.They blow themselves up in their tiny worlds that I am the Supreme Lord of my well Image may contain: text that says 'Everyday he shouts "Op op op..." resound around the well, making other small animals are frightened. Frog thought the tiny sky like alid and he is imposing as as Lord. OP... OP... OP.. OP...'

Chapter 16: The Divine and Demoniac Natures

TEXTS 13-15

idam adya maya labdham

imam prapsye…

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