Ramanavami 2009

[Paramananda das]

Sri Rama Naumi 2009
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Today is the auspicious apperance day of Lord Ram Chandra , May Lord Rama, along with Sita, Laksmana and Hanuman and all His nitya parisads-eternal assocaites bless us
Srila Prabhupada brought this KC to the west .I was sitting last night and listening to the nice singing of Jayasacinandana Prabhu of Srila Prabhupada’s bhajan Markin Bhagavat:, and the Prayers to Krsnas lotus feet , it seems more beautiful each time I read it :

prayer unto the Lotus Feet of Krsna
by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupäda
on board the ship Jaladuta, September 13, 1965
(refrain)
kåñëa taba puëya habe bhäi
e-puëya koribe jabe rädhäräëé khusé habe
dhruva ati boli tomä täi
I emphatically say to you, O brothers, you will obtain your good fortune from the Supreme Lord Kåñëa only when Çrématé Rädhäräëé becomes pleased with you.
çré-siddhänta saraswaté çacé-suta priya ati
kåñëa-sebäya jära tula näi
sei se mohänta-guru jagater madhe uru
kåñëa-bhakti dey öhäi öhäi
Çré Çrémad Bhaktisiddhänta Sarasvaté Öhäkura, who is very dear to Lord Gauräìga, the son of mother Çacé, is unparalleled in his service to the Supreme Lord Çré Kåñëa. He is that great saintly spiritual master who bestows intense devotion to Kåñëa at different places throughout the world.
tära icchä balavän päçcätyete öhän öhän
hoy jäte gauräìger näm
påthivéte nagarädi äsamudra nada nadé
sakalei loy kåñëa näm
By his strong desire, the holy name of Lord Gauräìga will spread throughout all the countries of the Western world. In all the cities, towns, and villages on the earth, from all the oceans, seas, rivers, and streams, everyone will chant the holy name of Kåñëa.
tähale änanda hoy tabe hoy digvijay
caitanyer kåpä atiçay
mäyä duñöa jata duùkhé jagate sabäi sukhé
vaiñëaver icchä pürëa hoy
As the vast mercy of Çré Caitanya Mahäprabhu conquers all directions, a flood of transcendental ecstasy will certainly cover the land. When all the sinful, miserable living entities become happy, the Vaiñëavas' desire is then fulfilled.
se kärja je koribäre äjïä jadi dilo more
jogya nahi an déna héna
täi se tomära kåpä mägitechi anurüpä
äji numi sabär pravéëa
Although my Guru Mahäräja ordered me to accomplish this mission, I am not worthy or fit to do it. I am very fallen and insignificant. Therefore, O Lord, now I am begging for Your mercy so that I may become worthy, for You are the wisest and most experienced of all.
tomära se çakti pele guru-sebäya bastu mile
jébana särthak jadi hoy
sei se sevä päile tähale sukhé hale
taba saìga bhägyate miloy
If You bestow Your power, by serving the spiritual master one attains the Absolute Truth-one's life becomes successful. If that service is obtained, then one becomes happy and gets Your association due to good fortune.
evaà janaà nipatitaà prabhavähiküpe
kämäbhikämam anu yaù prapatan prasaìgät
kåtvätmasät surarñiëä bhagavan gåhétaù
so 'haà kathaà nu visåje tava bhåtya-seväm
My dear Lord, O Supreme Personality of Godhead, because of my association with material desires, one after another, I was gradually falling into a blind well full of snakes, following the general populace. But Your servant Närada Muni kindly accepted me as his disciple and instructed me how to achieve this transcendental position. Therefore, my first duty is to serve him. How could I leave his service? (Prahläda Mahäräja to Lord Nåsiàhadeva, Bhäg. 7.9.28)
tumi mor cira säthé bhuliyä mäyär läthi
khäiyächi janma-janmäntare
äji punaù e sujoga jadi hoy jogäyoga
tabe päri tuhe milibäre
O Lord Kåñëa, You are my eternal companion. Forgetting You, I have suffered the kicks of mäyä birth after birth. If today the chance to meet You occurs again, then I will surely be able to rejoin You.
tomära milane bhäi äbär se sukha päi
gocärane ghuri din bhor
kata bane chuöächuöi bane khäi luöäpuöi
sei din kabe habe mor
O dear friend, in Your company I will experience great joy once again. In the early morning I will wander about the cowherd pastures and fields. Running and frolicking in the many forests of Vraja, I will roll on the ground in spiritual ecstasy. Oh when will that day be mine?
äji se subidhäne tomära smaraëa bhela
baro äçä òäkiläm täi
ämi tomära nitya-däsa täi kori eta äça
tumi binä anya gati näi
Today that remembrance of You came to me in a very nice way. Because I have a great longing I called to You. I am Your eternal servant and therefore I desire Your association so much. O Lord Kåñëa, except for You there is no other means of success.
JD 8.2: Märkine Bhägavata-dharma
Märkine Bhägavata-dharma
by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupäda
at Boston Harbor, September 18, 1965
baro-kåpä kaile kåñëa adhamer prati
ki lägiyänile hethä koro ebe gati
My dear Lord Kåñëa, You are so kind upon this useless soul, but I do not know why You have brought me here. Now You can do whatever You like with me.
äche kichu kärja taba ei anumäne
nahe keno äniben ei ugra-sthäne
But I guess You have some business here, otherwise why would You bring me to this terrible place?
rajas tamo guëe erä sabäi äcchanna
bäsudeb-kathä ruci nahe se prasanna
Most of the population here is covered by the material modes of ignorance and passion. Absorbed in material life, they think themselves very happy and satisfied, and therefore they have no taste for the transcendental message of Väsudeva. I do not know how they will be able to understand it.
tabe jadi taba kåpä hoy ahaituké
sakal-i sambhava hoy tumi se kautuké
But I know Your causeless mercy can make everything possible because You are the most expert mystic.
ki bhäve bujhäle tärä bujhe sei rasa
eta kåpä koro prabhu kori nija-baça
How will they understand the mellows of devotional service? O Lord, I am simply praying for Your mercy so that I will be able to convince them about Your message.
tomära icchäya saba hoy mäyä-baça
tomära icchäya näça mäyär paraça
All living entities have become under the control of the illusory energy by Your will, and therefore, if You like, by Your will they can also be released from the clutches of illusion.
taba icchä hoy jadi tädera uddhär
bujhibe niçcai tabe kathä se tomär
I wish that You may deliver them. Therefore if You so desire their deliverance, then only will they be able to understand Your message.
bhägavater kathä se taba avatär
dhéra haiyä çune jadi käne bär bär
The words of Çrémad-Bhägavatam are Your incarnation, and if a sober person repeatedly receives it with submissive aural reception, then he will be able to understand Your message.
It is said in the Srémad-Bhägavatam (1.2.17-21):
çrnvatäà sva-kathäù kåñëaù
punya-çravaëa-kértanaù
hådy antaù-stho hy abhadräëi
vidhunoti suhåt satäm
nañöa-präyeñv abhadreñu
nityaà bhägavata-sevayä
bhagavaty uttama-çloke
bhaktir bhavati naiñöhiké
tadä rajas-tamo-bhäväù
käma-lobhädayaç ca ye
ceta etair anäviddhaà
sthitaà sattve prasédati
evaà prasanna-manaso
bhagavad-bhakti-yogataù
bhagavat-tattva-vijïänaà
mukta-saìgasya jäyate
bhidyate hådaya-granthiç
chidyante sarva-saàçayäù
kñéyante cäsya karmäëi
dåñöa evätmanéçvare
"Çré Kåñëa, the Personality of Godhead, who is the Paramätmä [Supersoul] in everyone's heart and the benefactor of the truthful devotee, cleanses desire for material enjoyment from the heart of the devotee who has developed the urge to hear His messages, which are in themselves virtuous when properly heard and chanted. By regular attendance in classes on the Bhägavatam and by rendering of service to the pure devotee, all that is troublesome to the heart is almost completely destroyed, and loving service unto the Personality of Godhead, who is praised with transcendental songs, is established as an irrevocable fact. As soon as irrevocable loving service is established in the heart, the effects of nature's modes of passion and ignorance, such as lust, desire and hankering, disappear from the heart. Then the devotee is established in goodness, and he becomes completely happy. Thus established in the mode of unalloyed goodness, the man whose mind has been enlivened by contact with devotional service to the Lord gains positive scientific knowledge of the Personality of Godhead in the stage of liberation from all material association. Thus the knot in the heart is pierced, and all misgivings are cut to pieces. The chain of fruitive actions is terminated when one sees the self as master."
rajas tamo hate tabe päibe nistär
hådayer abhadra sate ghucibe tähär
He will become liberated from the influence of the modes of ignorance and passion and thus all inauspicious things accumulated in the core of the heart will disappear.
ki ko're bujhäbo kathä baro sei cähi
khudra ämi déna héna kono çakti nähi
How will I make them understand this message of Kåñëa consciousness? I am very unfortunate, unqualified and the most fallen. Therefore I am seeking Your benediction so that I can convince them, for I am powerless to do so on my own.
athaca enecho prabhu kathä bolibäre
je tomär icchä prabhu koro ei bäre
Somehow or other, O Lord, You have brought me here to speak about You. Now, my Lord, it is up to You to make me a success or failure as You like.
akhila jagat-guru! bacana se ämär
alaìkåta koribär khamatä tomär
O spiritual master of all the worlds! I can simply repeat Your message, so if You like You can make my power of speaking suitable for their understanding.
taba kåpä ha'le mor kathä çuddha habe
çuniyä sabära çoka duùkha je ghucibe
Only by Your causeless mercy will my words become pure. I am sure that when this transcendental message penetrates their hearts they will certainly feel engladdened and thus become liberated from all unhappy conditions of life.
äniyächo jadi prabhu ämäre näcäte
näcäo näcäo prabhu näcäo se-mate
käñöhera puttali jathä näcäo se-mate
O Lord, I am just like a puppet in Your hands. So if You have brought me here to dance, then make me dance, make me dance, O Lord, make me dance as You like.
bhakti näi beda näi näme khub daro
"bhaktivedänta" näm ebe särthak kor
I have no devotion, nor do I have any knowledge, but I have strong faith in the holy name of Kåñëa. I have been designated as Bhaktivedänta, and now, if You like, You can fulfill the real purport of Bhaktivedänta.
Signed-the most unfortunate, insignificant beggar
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami,
on board the ship Jaladuta, Commonwealth Pier,
Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
dated 18th of September, 1965


Let me offer my prostrated obaisences at Srila Prabhupada millions of times. Srila Prabhupada also brought the sweet transcended form of Lord Rama to the west.We have read a letter written by Srila Prabhupada where he shows his great eagerness to have Valmiki Ramayana translated to English.HH Bhakti Vikas Maharaja has done a beautiful translation of the Ramayana also His Grace Krsna Dharma Prabhu has done a nice translation--one sannyasi was working on the Ramayana with Sanskrit and everything but became a victim of maya.And left the devotees assocaition.. We have heard that Srila Prabhupada told one Gaudiya math sannyasi that he had captured a bunch of monekeys in a large net.( his devotees) (November 1977) However devotional service is so potent it even purifies the monkeyes as we seen in the pastimes of Lord Rama.
Of course Srila Prabhupada talks about the moneky like disciples (in the 5 canto) ,that leave ISKCON to create their own society of women and drugs. One former ISKCON Guru did just that and became the one of the buggest distri buters of “ecstasy” in the UK--the ecstasy did not last long as he ended up with his head cut of for cheating with a socalled disciples wife.
Srimad Bhagavatam saya : phulinda

So can we also become purified ? Srila Prabhupada states on one morning walk in Melbourn Australia if the disciple does not commit sins again after initiation he is completely purified.Jagai and Madhai performed many sins but after initiation never engaged in sins again.
Now there is many kinds of sins to avoid as a devotee , one of them is divorce.We see from the ideal life of Lord Rama he never got divorced but only had one wife.It appears that Sita and Rama got separated or divorced at part of their lila, but Srila Prabhupada explains nicely in Srimad Bhagavatam that Sita and Rama are never really separated, just like light and heat can not be separated from fire.
So many lessons are there in Rama lila..then why are devotees getting divorced? This means they did not understand Rama lila.Of course ultimately the soul is not husband or wifes in this material world that is just and illlusion created by maya we are actually all prakrti,,and meant to serve Lord Ramachandra.Lord Rama
always establishes Ramaraja, the perfect KC society.Can ISKCON also help establish Rama Raja,the perfect KC society ? But not if everyone sits back and wait for the feollow devotee to spread KC and preach , distri bute Srila Prabhupadas books, Prasad am etc.We all have to particiapte from Bhakta to GBC.Srila Prabhupada said in one conversation in London ,we want to create vaisanva heroes--not this sitting down class devotee that does nothing. In the name of renounciation one should not shy away from serving Krsna, college preaching , book distribution ,Harinama etc,Krsan says in Bhagavad Gita.The varnaras like Hanuman and Sugriva and Nila where so seriously involved in service to Lord Rama..this active KC is very much wanted. Can everyone not clean the temple for example? Why not even Lord Caitnaya did so in Gundica to set the example for the rest of us.Srila prabhupada writes in SB 7.9,44 purport : That rather it is the duty of every member of ISKCON to go door to door and present Bhagavad Gita as it is? And we are just trying to be comfortable in this temporary ,misrabel world?
Lord Rama broke the bow of Lord Siva …later Parasurama gave another bow to Kamsa telling him that whoever would brake that bow would kill him (Kamsa).
In His beautiful Sad Bhuja form Lord Caitanya showed He is both Rama and Krsna.This Sad Bhuja form is very dear to the vaisnavas.we pray this form my always manifest in our heart of hearts,.In the inner most core of our heart. This happens when we are fileld with love for Krsna--premanjana churuta bhakti vilocannena..then we can see Lord Rama and Lord Krsna and Lord Caitanya everywhere and not only in the temple (but also there)..The uttama Bhakta sees Krsna everywhere and is never lost to him.This is the stage we should aspire for, and come to ,withdrawing from all material objects and making Lord Rama , Krsna and Lord Ciatna our supreme object of love with no other contemplation of a material nature.
What happened when all the Varanas got comfortable after the killing of Vali, they became intoxicated by sense gratification, until Lord Rama and Laksmana and Sita Hanuman showed up to remind everyone of the pittfall of material comfort..May Lord Ramachnadra again rally all the devotee troops in ISKCON to go preach against maya and conquer over the atheistic principles.
Fully fixed at the lotus feet of Sri Rama.
Your servant
Payonidhi das