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Can a disciple ever excel his Guru in spiritual advancement?

Yes remember when the Buddhists made offences to Lord Caitanya and the students and Guru offered Lord Caitanya contaminated food .Lord Garuda came picked up the plate and dropped it on the head of the Buddhist Guru Lord Caitanya initiated the disciples of that Buddhist Guru and told the disciples to now chant the holy name of Krsna into his ears and wake him back to consciousness thus they became his Guru .That is an unusual…

if you are jealous of another Vaisnava only Lord Caitanya can heal you , Lord Caitanya told Amogha to give up the envy in his heart and then he started chanting 64 rounds daily to clean his envious heart .Why 64 rounds ?Because that was the minimum standard of Lord Caitanya .Jagai and Madhai chanted 128 rounds daily .Srila Jagannath das babaji used to say please complete 128 rounds aday at least do 64 rounds daily !…

Diapperance day of Lord Caitanya is on 29 of June according to our western Calendar

Actually around this time of year Lord Caitanya left this world by entering Lord Jagannath , Tota Gopinath and the Ocean of Puri at 3 places ,it is not celebrated ,as the disappearance days of the Lord is never celebrated those who are very advanced in Bhakti will simply give up their body on such days .We need not worry we are far from such a level of Bhakti and if we where so advanced that separation…

Last time I met Sankirtana Prabhu was in Dubai in 2010 in ISKCON Dubai and we where making some prasadam ,There where some sweet potatoes that had been burned in the oven ,and we wanted to throw them out .I mean there was charcoal on them that badly burned we begged him not to honor this as prasadam .However he would not listen and he had charcoal on his lips eating those sweet potatoes,I told him that actually Lord Krsna states in Haribhakti Vilasa not to offer him burned food and such food…

Lord Caitanya chanting Hare Krsna in the latrin!

Vakresvara Pandit had one disciple a young boy Gopal ,he was engaged in the service of Lord Caitanya , so one day Lord Caitanya playing the role of a human being went to pass stool .Such activities are not there in the Supreme Lord His body is Sac Cid Ananda.SO while Lord Caitanya was using the Toilet ,He chanted Hare Krsna constantly .Lord Caitanya would always chant Hare Krsna he chanted 192 rounds daily as well .So Lord Caitanya…

when you know Krsna in Vrindavana is properly outfitted He will have a pearl in His nose :

Sri Nanda-Nandanastakam

sucaru-vaktra-mandalam sukarna-ratna-kundalam sucarcitanga-candanam namami

nanda-nandanam

sudirgha netra-pankajam sikhi-sikhanda-murdhajam ananga-koti-mohanam

namami nanda-nandanam

sunasikagra-mauktikam svacchanda danta-panktikam navambudanga-cikkanam

namami nanda-nandanam

karena venu-ranjitam gati-karindra-ganjitam dukula-pita…

NEVER AGAIN SWAMI

Never again Swami Navayogendra Swami chastised me on Navadvipa Mandal Parikrama in 2010 , he has never done a full Navadvipa Mandal Parikrama on foot for all those days I had many cuts and had to put on shoes and this dog like rascal comes and chastise me for wearing shoes ? He is also extremely envious of Srila Narayana Maharaja because he knows I took diksa from him so he asked if I was there to steal ISKCON devotees to bring to Narayana Maharaja .That is why I…

The question was raised :

U took initiation from Harikesha Swami.

But what do you mean by reinitiation?

How can it possible?

The answer is Harikesa since i joined ISKCON never ever attended mangal artik and full morning program thus disobeying Srila Prabhupada ,he became more and more independent thinking he is an acarya.He did not chant 64 rounds as an acarya is supposed to do he also was way to much attached to money power and women ,thus he fell down and refused…

 Skanda Purana   states:

matr ha pitr has caiva bhratr ha guru has tatha

ekadasyas tu ya bhunkte visnu-lokac cyuto bhavet

“Those who eat grains on Ekadasi and on the Day of Lord Hari (including Janmastami, Gaura Purnima etc.) obtain the sin equal to killing one’s own mother, own father, own brother and own Guru; and they cannot reach the spiritual world, which is why one should never eat grains on fasting days.”

yani kani ca papani brahma hatyadikani…

thus nourishing one another" Gita 3.11

In 1987 in ISKCON Vrindavana Jayadvaita Swami had his first Ista Ghosthi about book changes and I asked him about changes he had done to this sloka :

CHAPTER 3: KARMA-YOGA

TEXT 11

devan bhavayatanena

te deva bhavayantu vah

parasparam bhavayantah

sreyah param avapsyatha

SYNONYMS

devan—demigods; bhavayata—having been pleased; anena—by this sacrifice; te—those; devah—the demigods; bhavayantu—will please;…

Lord Sri Krsna has 3 kinds of Tilaka , 1 made of kasturi , musk from the deer , it makes a black line on Krsna forhead, 2 is Gorocana ,gallstones from cows , and 3 kunkuma .It sppears Lord Sri Krsna at times wore tilaka as one line made of Sandalwood. Unfortunatly there is no mention I could find of the Tilaka worn by Lord Caitanya and His associates.Except for Lord Caitanya having tilaka made of chandan sandalwood in Navadvipa.

There is a common misconception that Sri Krsna…

In the Vraja Vilasa Stava by Srila Raghunath das Goswami hei s glorified in this way”: TEXT 22

Filled with deep love for him, and anxious that they may be separated, Subala never, even in dream, lets go of the hand of Sri Krsna, the moon of Gokula. Subala’s heart is sprinkled with the waters of the swiftly moving mountain stream of devotion to Srimati Radhika. I offer my respectful obeisances to Subala whose body trembles with love for Sri Sri Radha-Krsna.”

Where was Srila…

Before the Srila Prabhupadas marathon in 1983 in Germany , Harikesa came to a place devotees had purchased near the city of Koblenz it was called Laubach and in the country site , it was a former guest house and hotel and so there was enough space for the over hundred devotees either selling paintings or Srila Prabhupadas books .So during the lecture he mentioned devotees could let the books fly because the Laxmi had already been covered by devotees selling paintings.That time also printing…

Srila Narahari Thakura has warned us:

ohe bhai vaisnavete sabadhana habe

pranapana kari’ aparadha ksamaibe

O my brothers, please be very careful in dealing with the Vaisnavas. Beg their forgiveness for any offense with your heart and soul.

Vaisnava aparadha

yo hi bhagavatam lokam upahasam nrpottama

koroti yasya nasyanti artha dharma yasah sutah

hanti nindati vai dvesti vaisnavan na abhinandati

krudhyate yati no harsam…

Anyone who think they are wife and husbands are in illusion, Krsna only is the Supreme Husband of all Jivas,we hear this clearly from Laxmidevi and Rukmini devi in Srimad Bhagavatam:

SB 5.18.17: Accompanied during the daytime by the sons of the Prajāpati [the predominating deities of the days] and accompanied at night by his daughters [the deities of the nights], Lakshmīdevī worships the Lord during the period known as the Samvatsara in His most merciful form as Kāmadeva. Fully…

Navadvipa Sataka and Navadvipa Stuti

 

In 2009 I posted the Navadvipa Sataka on Dandavats.com http://www.dandavats.com/?p=7276 These prayers to Sri Navadvipa are essential reading . The 9 ISlands of Navadvipa contains all 12 forest of Vrindavana in actuality Navadvipa and Vrindavana is non different. Srila Jagannatha das Babaji spend many years in Surya kunda near Radha Kunda chanting his 128 rounds or more daily then he transfered to…

On being a book worm of sastra !

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was remembering one thing today from before becoming a devotee, I was taking an exam in Latin , and I really studied hard to get the best grade possible. I even bought some extra books to help me master the grammar. So in my country Denmark the best grade you can get is an 11 but sometimes very very rare you get 13 that is when you know even more than the teacher.It is almost never given.So I got a 13 , I was thinking today with the same…

Many devotees do not know how to properly treat guests .Even though Duryodhana was a demon he was treated with kindness when he visited the Pandavas ,but Draupadi offended Duryodhana and Yuddhistira Maharaja wanted to chastise her for that , the whole battle between the Kauravas and Pandavas increased after this but the Kauravas hated the Pandavas from birth .

Krsna Himself once washed the feet of all the guests imagine that the Supreme Lord washing the feet of all the guests.At least…

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

my Gurudeva says in a lecture that sage Parasara Muni impregnated Satyavati simply by glancing at her and Srila Vyasadeva was born and she even kept her virginity after giving birth to Srila Vyasadeva.These things are impossible to understand with our blunt material senses. The Bible has two accounts of birth without sex , one is Jesus Christ being born from Virgin Mary, and then there is John…

Chapter 4 of Vaisnava nectar

Srivatsa on the chest of Lord Krsna

One devotee asked me about Srivatsa so Ekanath Prabhu from Germany has written something but it is not complete and some misunderstandings are there.

The meaning of Srivatsa on Visnu

Ekanath Das

What exactly is the mark of Srivatsa on Lord Visnu's or Krsna's chest? There are a number of passages in our books that seem to offer different explanations, and many devotees do wonder what this mark actually…