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When I became a Guru !

In Gaudiya math they say as soon you wish to become a Guru you become a Gauru,,cow ,,so I never wanted to be someones Guru ,but I have brought many souls to devotional service from Karmi life over my devotional life,, so being someone Vartama Pradaksa Guru is nothing new.. when you are Bhakta Leader and Sankirtana leader and TP you also sometimes or often take responsibility as a Guru ,,even as a husband and father one is a Guru,, Lord Rrsabhadev also said do not…

have you read Camatkari Chandrika by Srila Visvanath Chakravati Thakura ? These pastimes of Radha Krsna are studied in Kartika this is the translation by Srila Narayana Maharaja

Camatkara-candrika https://www.purebhakti.com/.../english/58-camatkara-candrika

have you read Camatkari Chandrika by Srila Visvanath Chakravati Thakura ? These pastimes of Radha Krsna are studied in Kartika this is the translation…

Canto One, Volume Four

Chapter Fifteen

Sri Radha-Krishna-premodyoga-varnana

Description of Sri Radha-Krishna's Falling in Love

Text 1

sri-narada…

Obtaining Narasimha Gayatri how I obtained it

In 1985 I was on South Indian Padayatra , and we went to a place in Kerala where Lord Caitanya had visited 4 Visnu Temples, but Padayatra skipped them because they where all in Ruins they are mentioned in Caitanya Caritamrta. However I thought if Lord Caitanya went there I want to pay my obaisences even to the ruins of these temples..so that is what I did ,,and I met one Sri Vaisnava who gave me the Narasima Gayatri mantra,, it came in good…

The half hen philosophy not properly observing Nityananda Trayodasi and Balarama Purnima

Many temples have come under the spell of the half hen philosophy

Adi Samhita:

Yah Krsnah so pi Ramah syad yo Ramah Krsna eva sah anayor antaradarsi samsaran na nirvattate;

He who is Krsna is He who is Balarama , He who is Balarama is He who is Krishna.Anyone who sees Them as being different will never leave

the world of birth and death.

Skanda Purana states:

matr ha…

Srila Prabhupadas least popular instruction(s)

Brahmananda Prabhu lived in Washington Dc area in 1995 and he did not come much to the temple at all but at one point before going to Europe and serve there I stayed with disciples of Tripurari Swami so I had a program on Wedensday and we would talk about Krsna and I would cook prasadam and offer to Salagrama Silas and Giriraja Sila and Srila Prabhupada .So he said you want to hear Srila Prabhupada least popular instruction?

SO he told…

Garga Samhita

Canto 2,

Chapter Eight

Sri Krishna-darsana-varnana

Description of Seeing Lord Krishna

Text 1

sri-narada uvaca

adrishtva vatsakan etya

vatsapan puline harih

ubhau vicinvan vipine

mene karma vidheh kritam

Sri Narada said: Not seeing the calves, returning to the riverbank and not seeing the gopas, and then searching in the forest for them both, Krishna thought, "This must be Brahma's work."

Text 2

tato…

Lord Caitanyas visit to Bangladesh and Sri Laxmidevis going back to the SPIRITUAL WORLD DUE TO SEPERATION

Shri Krishna Chaitanya-carita Mahakavya, written by Shrila Murari Gupta (1513 A.D.).

FIRST PRAKRAMA

Eleventh Sarga

shri-gauranga-dhananjayash ca shri-lakshmi-vijayotsava

Gauranga Travels East for Wealth, and Celebration of Laksi Devi's Victorious Death

tatah shaci dvija-stribhih / ktva sumahad-utsavam

snua praveshayam asa / nija-gehe sa-bhartkam 1

tatah…