There is a small Gaura-Nitai temple right across the street from Bankandhi Mahadev temple in Vrindavan. The temple looks more like double story house, but its humble facade hides the glorious pastimes and history of the Gaura-Nitai deities inside. First worshipped by...
In Bengal, everyone from the Gaudiya sampradaya who is serving Sriman Mahaprabhu is a follower of that senior Vaisnavacarya. His other name is Sri Madhvamuni. This matha has been named after him. Sri Krishna Caitanyadeva is the eighteenth descendant from Sripada Ananda Tirtha, or Purna Prajna. The seventeenth descendants are Sri Advaita Prabhu and Sri Nityananda Prabhu. These three prabhus accepted Sri Madhvamuni into their disciplic succession.
ll people are supposed to misunderstand Queen Koikaye for this kind of her cruel mood but the most secret siddhānta vichar can unveil the mystery behind it. Actually though Bharat was her own son but still right from the beginning of the joyful auspicious advent of Ram-lala, she was the most loveful mother of Śrī Ram-lala to take care of Him always and every moment. Even it was impossible for her to bear one fraction of second adarśana (separation) of Śrī Ramchandra, but still how externally she was known to everybody as very cruel mother. How? That is the main question.
A genuine Guru-sevak is surely respectable to me, no doubt in it, because we can discover all the transcendental Qualities of Sri Gurudeva in him—all in applied form. The order of the spiritual master must be obeyed without consideration or hesitation.’
Mahārāja Vṛṣabhānu’s doe-eyed queen, Kīrtidā, adorned with various ornaments, wearing divine garments, anointed with divine perfumes, and surrounded by countless friends and maidservants, was situated on a jewel-studded bed when King Vṛṣabhānu arrived at his palace holding the egg the goddess had given him. Seeing that her husband had arrived, worn out by fearsome austerity, his body covered with dust, but overjoyed at heart, she hurriedly rose and came to stand before him, her face shyly bowed. King Vṛṣabhānu then placed that majestic egg given by the goddess in the hands of his beloved Kīrtidā.
There is one personality whose name is not referred to in the Srimad Bhagavatam, yet the readers of Srimad Bhagavatam nuture the hope of becoming that person’s devoted servant. May that personality, who is everything to Bhagavan, completely destroy our false-ego and grant us shelter at Her feet. Today is Her appearance day. Having accrued all varieties of compassion from Bhagavan, she distributes that as gifts to all. May that personification of great mercy manifest within our hearts and make Her appearance there. May Her appearance day be the concern of our adoration.
Whoever Lalita-devi meets in Vraja-dhama, she requests them to join her own party. And when they come, “Yes, come with me.” At once she is giving admission. “Come! Join the service of Radharani.” She is canvassing to look after the interests of Radharani. Such intense attention to the service of Radharani is never found anywhere else. Lalita-devi sometimes even chastises Krsna boldly. She takes risks by reproaching Krsna, “You do not know the dignity of my Mistress.”Sometimes Radharani feels ashamed within Her mind. She thinks, “What does He say about Me?” Lalita-devi replies, “This shame is very bad. You just sit quietly. You do not know Your own interest. I know what is Your interest, Your position.
Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Gosvami Thakur Prabhupada saying that Sri Balaram is the first expansion of Sri Krsna and he is just non-different from Krsna, so Baladeva Bhagavan is sebbya tattva and at the same time sevaka tattva, which is inconceivable. According to Acintya bheda bheda tattva Sri Baladeva Bhagavan is supposed to do no rasa lila but still he, the first expansion of Krsna can reserve the right of Rasa Lila, but of course with his own group (Jutha) not with the group of Krsna shakti. It is quite natural that both Krsna and Balaram according to Braja rasa bhava always busy to reciprocate rasabhava with all Brajavasis according to their respective demand.
O Srila Gaurakisora, you abandoned the association of worldly people and went to live alone at Kuliya in the island of Koladvipa, where you accepted the service of Sri Dayita dasa. Your effulgent personality illuminates the temple of Sri Dayita dasa in the sacred abode of Sri Mayapura dhama. I eternally offer my obeisances unto you, Srila Gaurakisora.
The apparently inactive conduct of the paramahansa, exhibited by Babaji Maharaj, must not be considered as in any way less beneficial to the world than the activity of preaching the Word in a visible form that is sometimes displayed by the eternal servitors of Sree Krishna by their auspicious descent to the mundane plane.
(Here you can find some extracts from the Harikatha of Shri Shyam das Babaji Maharaja spoken either on Avirbhava or Tirobhava tithis of Sri Srimad Bhakti Pramoda Puri Gosvāmī Mahārāja ) Gaudiya Gosthi Pati Sri Srila Bhakti Siddhanta Sarasvati Thakur Gosvami Prabhupada...
by Srila Saccidananda Bhaktivinoda Thakura Two divisions of sastra—smarta and paramartha The Vedic arya-sastras are divided into two sections—smarta (literature based on smrti) and paramartha (transcendental literature based...
The Harmonist or SHREE SAJJANATOSHANI VOL XXX JUNE 1932, Chaitanya-Era 445 NO. 6 Sree Krishna alone is Godhead. Sree Radhika alone serves Sree Krishna. This is the only Absolute Truth. Sree Krishna is the Ultimate Source of all real Receivers of service. Sree...
By the testimony of the Holy Scriptures Sree Krishna manifested the Divine Lila of His most auspicious Birth in this phenomenal world about five thousand years ago. Godhead was born in the Holy City of Mathura. The worship of Shree Krishna has been confounded with the worship of a historical human hero on the above testimony of the Scriptures. It has been gratuitously assumed even by writers who call themselves believers in the Divinity of Jesus Christ, that Shree Krishna is conclusively proved to be human by the admitted fact of His having been born of human parents. The abnormal term Incarnation’, i e., incarceration in the flesh, of the Divinity Himself, has been invented by so called theologians to denote the ‘miracle’ of the Nativity of Christ.