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Pujyapada Sri Saurīndranāth Bhakti Vāridhi Prabhu

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Pujyapada Sri Saurīndranāth Bhakti Vāridhi Prabhu

Śrīla Bhakti Sundar Govinda Dev-Goswāmī Mahārāj remembers an exalted servant of Śrī Guru and Śrī Gaurāṅga.

The Departure of Param Bhāgavat
Śrīpād Saurīndranāth Bhakti Vāridhi Mahoday

by Śrīla Bhakti Sundar Govinda Dev-Goswāmī Mahārāj

Translated from the Bengali article published in Śrī Gauḍīya Darśan, Volume 13, Issue 1, Sunday, 24 August 1969.

There is a village named Madla not far from Bogra. In this village is the opulent home of the renowned and powerful landholder Yogendranāth Sarkār Mahoday. Yogendra Bābu himself was a very clever and forceful administrator. He twice fought in lawsuits that went up to the Privy Council (Supreme Court of Great Britain) between a landholder in Bogra and Śrī Mohamed Ali, the former chief minister of Pakistan [Bangladesh]. Once, he also invited the Bahadur governor of Bengal at that time to his home and honourably hosted him.

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We must practice to give ourselves

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Divine words of His Divine Grace Srila Bhakti Rakshak Sridhar Dev Goswami

‘ataḥ śrī-kṛṣṇa-nāmādi
na bhaved grāhyam indriyaiḥ
sevonmukhe hi jihvādau
svayam eva sphuraty adaḥ’
—-Srila Rupa Goswami

There are many sayings in the scriptures to encourage our realisation of the Holy Name in different ways, but Śrīla Rūpa Goswāmī has given us a central thought. He quotes from the Padma Purāṇa: ataḥ śrī-kṛṣṇa-nāmādi na bhaved grāhyam indriyaiḥ. Our senses, physical or mental, are ineligible to come in touch with the transcendental. The Name is nonmaterial (aprakṛta), without mundane limitation (vaikuṇṭha). It belongs to another plane. So, nothing about Kṛṣṇa, His Name, Form, Qualities, or Pastimes can be touched by our physical or mental senses. But when we have a serving attitude, He comes down to us of His own accord. Only then can our tongue really pronounce the Name of Kṛṣṇa. Otherwise, only the physical sound of the letters of the Name can be produced. Our tongue, our hands, physical sound, all these mundane things cannot come in touch with Kṛṣṇa. Some intervening medium is necessary to connect this body with the supramundane. And that connection is our earnest desire to serve Kṛṣṇa, to satisfy Him. A bulb won’t light if there is no electricity. Only when the electrical current is there will the bulb be illumined. So, the name may appear on the tongue and in the ear, in the mind, or in writing, but we must have a connection from Vaikuṇṭha to this mundane world. And that connection is devotional service, a functional serving attitude. That alone can connect the physical realm with Vaikuṇṭha and Vṛndāvana.

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About Surrender to the Supreme Lord

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SARANAGATI

About Surrender to the Supreme Lord

 

sarva-dharman parityajya mam ekam saranam vraja
aham tvam sarva-papebhyo moksayisyami ma suchah

Abandon all forms of religion and surrender exclusively unto Me. I will liberate you from all sin. Do not despair.

—Sri Gita

 

tasmat tvam uddhavotsrjya chodanam pratichodanam
pravrttin cha nivrttin cha srotavyam srutam eva cha
mam ekam eva saranam atmanam sarva-dehinam
yahi sarvatma-bhavena maya sya hy akuto-bhayah

O Uddhava, abandoning the Vedas and their auxiliaries, all of their prescriptions and prohibitions, and everything you have heard or may ever hear, with all your heart take exclusive shelter of Me, the life of all beings. By My grace you will become completely fearless.

—Srimad Bhagavatam

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Holy feet of Vishnu

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Divine words of His Divine Grace Srila Bhakti Rakshak Sridhar Dev Goswami

HOLY FEET OF VISHNU

But in order to develop this kind of humility and forbearance, we must learn to see the Lord’s hand in everything. And therefore the Vedas tell us to remember that the glance of the Lord is always upon us.

Om tad visno paramam padam sada pasyanti suraya:

We are asked to see the holy feet of Narayana as we see the sun in the sky. Why the sun? The sun is described as pradarsaka: the seer, the witness. Apparently, we see the sun, but really the sun helps us to see. The holy feet of Visnu means the lowest part of Visnu—yoge vidhayam yasya vidyate kvacit. His lower part to us is the beginning of realization for us. The beginning of realization is to think that God is always seeing us. As the sun helps us to see, Visnu’s holy feet are like the sun. So we should try to always see everything by the rays of the holy feet of Visnu.

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Pranam mantras of Srila Bhakti Raksak Sridhar Dev-Goswami Maharaj

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His Divine Grace Srila Bhakti Sundar Govinda Dev Goswami Maharaj’s Divine composition

PRANAM MANTRAS

Pranam mantras of Srila Bhakti Raksak Sridhar Dev-Goswami Maharaj

Originally published in Sri Gaudiya Darsan, Volume 1, Issue 4, Tuesday, 15 November 1955.

দেবং দিব্যতনুং সুছন্দবদনং বালার্কচেলাঞ্চিতং
সান্দ্রানন্দপুরং সদেকবরণং বৈরাগ্য-বিদ্যাম্বুধিম্ ।
শ্রীসিদ্ধান্তনিধিং সুভক্তিলসিতং সারস্বতানাম্বরং
বন্দে তং শুভদং মদেকশরণং ন্যাসীশ্বরং শ্রীধরম্ ॥

devam divya-tanum suchhanda-vadanam balarka-chelanchitam
sandrananda-puram sad-eka-varanam vairagya-vidyambudhim
sri-siddhanta-nidhim subhakti-lasitam sarasvatanam varam
vande tam subhadam mad-eka-saranam nyasisvaram sridharam

His divine form is adorned with garments the colour of the newly-risen sun. His speech is most pleasing, and he is an ocean of renunciation and knowledge. He is an abode of divine ecstasy, resplen­dent with pure devotion. He is a treasure-house of perfect conclusions, the leader of the tridandi sannyasis, and the best of Srila Saraswati Thakur’s followers. He is the only choice of the sadhus, the giver of all goodness, and my only shelter. I offer my obeisance unto my lord, Srila Bhakti Raksak Sridhar Dev-Goswami Maharaj.

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Krishna story: The best and PRICELESS Murti!

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There was once a maker of Deities, who made three Deities, all exactly the same in every way.

Each was made using 100 grams of gold.

He brought it to the court of King Vikramaditya and told him I am not asking money for these; but I want to know if there is any one in your court who can put a price to them, and who can tell which of these is more valuable?

Many learned persons ( Vidhvans) were sitting in the court, and many of them came up to inspect the Moortis, but none of them could make out any difference at all!

The Karigar, or moorti maker told the king that I am disappointed that there is no one in your whole court who can make out the difference.

Then the King told Kalidas, who was also present, to check the moortis.

Kalidas discovered that the Moortis had a hole in the ear and he was intrigued.

So he took a thin wire and picked the first moorti and put it into the ear. It came out in the other ear.

Kalidas said this Moorti is totally useless.

Then he put the wire in the second Moorti, and it came out in the mouth.

Kalidas said this Moorti is worth a Thousand gold coins.

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Divine words of His Divine Grace

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Divine words of His Divine Grace
Srila Bhakti Rakshaka Sridhar Dev Goswami

The siksa-guru parampara should be considered the most substantial thing. Eliminating the sahajiya-vada which gives much importance to the outer cover, try to look within, and see things more deeply. Try to understand the deeper vibrations of the outside environment, and see within yourself also. Dive deep, and you will find the plane of the finest vibration which will carry that news to you, and you will see that truth.

We are slaves of the truth. We are beggars for the pure current of truth that is constantly flowing: the fresh current. We are not charmed by any formality. I will bow down my head wherever I find the river of nectar coming down to me.

Maya means ‘local interest’, to see things or read the environment by local interest, not from the standpoint of universal interest.

So if my inner voice, my spiritual conscience decides that a type of company cannot really help me, then I will be under painful necessity to give it up, and to run away towards my destination, in the direction that my spiritual conscience guides me. Otherwise it will be hypocrisy, and it will check our real progress.

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23.04.2021 About form of Lord Jagannath, Brihad Bhagavatamrita part 1

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Harikhatha of Srila Bhakti Prapanna Tirtha Goswami Maharaj and Sripad Bhakti Kamal Tyagi Maharaj

Topics:
– About form of Lord Jagannath,
– Meaning of “Tripti”,
– Brihad Bhagavatamrita part 1

23.04.2021

 

India, Nabadwip, Kulia Gram, SREE CAITANYA SRIDHAR SEVA ASHRAM.

 

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22.02.2021 Sri Advaita Probhu Apperence Day

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Harikhatha of Srila Bhakti Prapanna Tirtha Goswami Maharaj

Topic: Sri Advaita Probhu Apperence Day.

22.02.2021

 

India, Nabadwip, Kulia Gram, SREE CAITANYA SRIDHAR SEVA ASHRAM.

 

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Science of Devotion Proper

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Real progress towards the Infinite gives the idea that, “I am nothing, I am in great danger.” Progress towards the Infinite is like that. Thinking, “I have it, I am above,”—this is a foolish feeling, a foolish statement. The very nature of advancement is that, “I am low, I am undone, I am the most helpless.” The closer we are, the further away we will feel, whereas the further away we actually are from divinity, we may complacently feel we are close. As much as we come into the relativity of the Infinite, we cannot but conceive ourselves to be the lowest of the low.

That is the criteria.

The very sign of real progress will show I am nothing, I am the most needy, the most wretched and the most helpless. The negative aspect must be improved to attract the positive. If one point of the negative will say, “I am positive” then immediately it will be rejected, you are under the false control of måyå.

His Divine Grace Srila Bhakti Raksak Sridhar Dev-Goswami