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Antya 5: How Pradyumna Miśra Received Instructions from Rāmānanda Rāya

The following summary of the fifth chapter is given by Śrīla Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura in his Amṛta-pravāha-bhāṣya. Pradyumna Miśra, a resident of Śrīhaṭṭa, came to see Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu to hear from Him about Lord Kṛṣṇa and His pastimes. The Lord, however, sent him to Śrīla Rāmānanda Rāya. Śrīla Rāmānanda Rāya was training the deva-dāsī dancing girls in the temple, and when Pradyumna Miśra heard about this, he…

SB 2.5: The Cause of All Causes

SB 2.5.1 — Śrī Nārada Muni asked Brahmājī: O chief amongst the demigods, O firstborn living entity, I beg to offer my respectful obeisances unto you. Please tell me that transcendental knowledge which specifically directs one to the truth of the individual soul and the Supersoul.

SB 2.5.2 — My dear father, please describe factually the symptoms of this manifest world. What is its background? How is it created? How is it conserved? And under whose…

Chapter 15, Verse 1

The Blessed Lord said: There is a banyan tree which has its roots upward and its branches down and whose leaves are the Vedic hymns. One who knows this tree is the knower of the Vedas.

Chapter 15, Verse 2

The branches of this tree extend downward and upward, nourished by the three modes of material nature. The twigs are the objects of the senses. This tree also has roots going down, and these are bound to the fruitive actions of human…

1967 Correspondence

Letter to Brahmananda -- San Francisco 21 December, 1967: Please accept my blessings. Your handwritten letter of 12/18/67 is a great pleasure. Your handwritten letter is more valuable than type written. Regarding Damodara's plight, we are very sorry but we must always expect that some of the weak soldiers may fall down in a fight waged against the great Maya external energy of Krishna. The sex attraction is very great in the material world. But in the spiritual world…

Please accept my humble obaisences

All glories to Srila Prabhupada

Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura and Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Prabhupada did nirjala fasting on Gadadhara Pandits Apperanceday, so true Raganuga vaisnavas or just any real Gaura Gadadhara bhaktas should in my humble opinion do the same. He is non different from Sri Radha and is the life and soul of Lord Gauranga and Gadadhara Pandits life and soul is Lord Gauranga

"No one can describe the characteristics and ecstatic…

Canto One, Volume Four

Chapter Three

Kalindy-agamana-varnana

Description of the Yamuna's Arrival

Text 1

sri-sannanda uvaca

goloke harinajnapta

kalindi saritam vara

krishnam pradakshini-kritya

gantum abhyudyatabhavat

Sri Sannanda said: Ordered by Lord Krishna in Goloka, Yamuna, the best of rivers, circumambulated the Lord and was about to go (to the earth).

Text 2

tadaiva viraja sakshad

ganga…

ubject: Resurrection and three modes of material nature

We just passed Easter for the Christians it is the most important event, the Greek Orthodox faith fast for 40 days only having a Vegan meal in the Evening , on Long Friday , they bow down to Jesus Christ hundreds of times .

In all Historical accounts of something that happened so long ago, the cruzification of Jesus Christ and his death is described in so many written testimonies now only of his disciples but of other…

SB 2.4: The Process of Creation

SB 2.4.1 — Sūta Gosvāmī said: Mahārāja Parīkṣit, the son of Uttarā, after hearing the speeches of Śukadeva Gosvāmī, which were all about the truth of the self, applied his concentration faithfully upon Lord Kṛṣṇa.

SB 2.4.2 — Mahārāja Parīkṣit, as a result of his wholehearted attraction for Lord Kṛṣṇa, was able to give up all deep-rooted affection for his personal body, his wife, his children, his palace, his animals like horses and elephants, his…

The Glories of the Fourteenth Chapter of

the Bhagavad Gita from the Padma Purana

Lord Shiva said “Oh, Parvati kindly hear from Me the glories of the Fourteenth Chapter of the Srimad Bhagavad-gita, with the greatest attention.

In Simhaldvip was a king of the name Vikram-Vetala. One day, when he was going to the forest for hunting, he took his son and two hunting dogs along with him. When he reached the forest he released one dog to chase a rabbit. When that dog was chasing…

Chapter 14, Verse 1

The Blessed Lord said: Again I shall declare to you this supreme wisdom, the best of all knowledge, knowing which all the sages have attained to supreme perfection.

Chapter 14, Verse 2

By becoming fixed in this knowledge, one can attain to the transcendental nature, which is like My own nature. Thus established, one is not born at the time of creation nor disturbed at the time of dissolution.

Chapter 14, Verse 3

The total material substance,…

SB 2.3: Pure Devotional Service: The Change in Heart

SB 2.3.1 — Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: Mahārāja Parīkṣit, as you have inquired from me as to the duty of the intelligent man who is on the threshold of death, so I have answered you.

SB 2.3.2-7 — One who desires to be absorbed in the impersonal brahmajyoti effulgence should worship the master of the Vedas [Lord Brahmā or Bṛhaspati, the learned priest], one who desires powerful sex should worship the heavenly King, Indra, and one…

Antya 6: The Meeting of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu and Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī

A summary of this chapter is given by Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura in his Amṛta-pravāha-bhāṣya as follows. When Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu went into transcendental fits of ecstatic love, Rāmānanda Rāya and Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī attended to Him and satisfied Him as He desired. Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī had been attempting to come to the lotus feet of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu for a long time, and finally he left his home and…

Subject: Commentary by Sri Sridhara Swami of Rudra Sampradaya: to Bhagavad Gita 13,1 and 2

In verse seven of the previous chapter Lord Krishna declares sammuddharta mrtyu-samsara sagarat meaning saves them from the perpetual cycle of birth and the death which is like an ocean because in a day of Brahma every human being has approximately 43,000 separate births and life cycles. So the figure is astronomical if one calculates how many human lifetimes transpire in a only year of Brahma’s…

29 Apr 2019

Monday

Daśamī, K, 05:13, Śatabhiṣā

+Śrī Vṛndāvana dāsa Ṭhākura ~ Disappearance

from a website about Srila Vrindavana Thakura

Birthplace of Srila Vrindavana Das Thakura, Mamgachi, Navadvipa (Modadrumadvipa)

mamgachi“What one attains by travelling to all the holy places is attained just by remembering the transcendental abode of Navadvipa” –

Navadvipa Dham MahatmyaSri Kavi karnapura reveals in his Gaura ganoddesha…

Dandavat pranams

All glories to Sri Guru and Gauranga

I was thinking about the verse SB 9.19.17 .even the great sage Saubari Muni though he fully absorbed in Sri Krsna fell temporary down from devotional service due to an offence to the lotusfeet of Garuda.He was sitting under water in the Yamuna in Vraja Mandal Area but had no sadhu sanga, so when he saw the fish copulate somehow due to mayas influence he developed a desire to become a grhastha .

SB 9.6.39-40 —…

SB 2.2: The Lord in the Heart

SB 2.2.1 — Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: Formerly, prior to the manifestation of the cosmos, Lord Brahmā, by meditating on the virāṭ-rūpa, regained his lost consciousness by appeasing the Lord. Thus he was able to rebuild the creation as it was before.

SB 2.2.2 — The way of presentation of the Vedic sounds is so bewildering that it directs the intelligence of the people to meaningless things like the heavenly kingdoms. The conditioned souls hover in…

Chapter 4: Transcendental Knowledge

TEXT 9

janma karma ca me divyam

evam yo vetti tattvatah

tyaktva deham punar janma

naiti mam eti so 'rjuna

SYNONYMS

janma—birth; karma—work; ca—also; me—of Mine; divyam—transcendental; evam—like this; yah—anyone who; vetti—knows; tattvatah—in reality; tyaktva—leaving aside; deham—this body; punah—again; janma—birth; na—never; eti—does attain; mam—unto Me; eti—does attain; sah—he; arjuna—O Arjuna.

TRANSLATION

One…

Dandavat pranams

all glories to Srila Prabhupada

Sri Sri Guru Gauranga and Sri Sri Gandarvika Giridhari

In 1980 I was initiated in front of Sri Sri Gandharvika Giridhari at New Radha Kunda in Sweden (ISKCON Korsnaas) .Harikesa and Vegavan Prabhu had decieded to call the Deities Gandarvika Giridhari after Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Prabhupadas Deities in Mayapure 

Srila Bhaktisiddhant Prabhupada had a printing press there and ISKCON Korsnaas produced Srila…

Vallabha Bhatta is who in Krsna lila ? Gaura Ganodessa Dipika states he is the incarnation of Srila Sukadeva Goswami , the worship of Sri Gopal the presiding Deity of Govardhana was given to Sri Vallabha Bhattacarya and his sons continued this worship in Rajasthan when Sri Gopal left Vraja due to the muslims treats.Sri Gopal is thus known as Nathadvara as He resides

in Nathadvara ,Rajasthan

from Bhakti-ratnākara:

One hot summer’s day, while Rupa Gosvāmī was writing…

Antya 7: The Meeting of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu and Vallabha Bhaṭṭa

The following summary of chapter seven is given by Śrīla Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura in his Amṛta-pravāha-bhāṣya. In this chapter, Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s meeting with Vallabha Bhaṭṭa is described. There was some joking behavior between these two personalities, and finally Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu corrected Vallabha Bhaṭṭa and sympathetically accepted an invitation from him. Before this, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu saw that…