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Harikhatha of Srila Bhakti Prapanna Tirtha Goswami Maharaj
Topics:
– Srila Jiva Goswami Prabhu;
– Sri Vamanadev;
and more..
17-09-2021
India, Assam, SREE CAITANYA SRIDHAR SEVA ASHRAM.
English / Russian
Why is happiness eluding us? Because we are never satisfied. No matter how much we get, we always hanker for more. Such is the nature of every one of us in all fields and walks of life. How then could finite material objects and flickering bodily or intellectual pleasures satiate our infinite hankerings?
For as long as we go on searching for happiness within the material plane, our efforts and endeavours are destined to be irrevocably frustrated. Due to their natural limitations, material objects and goals simply cannot satisfy our limitless hankerings. Only by seeking out the beauty and love of the unlimited spiritual realm can we hope to be successful in our common quest for lasting happiness.
Waiting to help us
The Lord is always there, even in the worst period of our lives. He is waiting, waiting to help us. We must only look up for His grace, with sincerity with all sincerity. He is everywhere, waiting; “My boy, look at Me. Don’t make much of the external environment. I am here, very near to you. You have cast your focus aside, you have cast your consciousness outside. Make it internal and you will find Me here. Make it above. You are looking down to secure servants and comforts, but if you look up, for existence higher than you, you will find Me in that plane. Look up! Don’t look down, searching for servants.”
You want to become a master and thus are searching for servants, hunting after things for your service. Take the opposite course, become a servant and search for your master, your Lord, then you will be uplifted, taken up to a higher domain. If you want to live in a higher domain you will have to serve. If you want to be a master, then you will have to come down in the lower zone, where you can be a master.
This is neither exaggeration nor imagination, it is something scientific. You can enjoy only those that are of a lower position. So, by attempting to enjoy, mean association becomes inevitable. Only by preparing for higher service will you be able to come in contact with your soul’s higher position.
Sacrificeby sacrifice you go up; by enjoying spirit you will have to go down. We are to understand what is exploitation and enjoyment, and what is higher service. Divine service is pure, and in that service there is also a pure type of joy and ecstasy. By giving we become gainers and by extorting we become losers. This scientific truth should be understood.
Sri Chaytanya Mahaprabhu saying:
“I have advented to propagate the congregational chanting of the Holy Names of Krsna and by this I will deliver this sinful material world. In this age, those demons and evil forces that have never accepted My lordship and authority will weep in joy by chanting My names. Furthermore, I will vigorously distribute this ordinarily most rare devotional service, which is always most earnestly sought after by the demigods, sages, and perfected beings, to even the most abominable sinners, dog-eaters, untouchables, and women. However, those who, becoming intoxicated with education, wealth, family heritage, and knowledge, criticize and offend My devotees, I will deprive of everything and they will never know My true identity.”
Sri Caitanya-bhagavata, Antya-khanda 4, by Vrndavana dasa Thakura’
CC Madhya 8.77
nandaḥ kim akarod brahman
śreya evaṁ mahodayam
yaśodā vā mahā-bhāgā
papau yasyāḥ stanaṁ hariḥ
Synonyms
nandaḥ — Nanda Mahārāja; kim — what; akarot — has performed; brahman — O brāhmaṇa; śreyaḥ — auspicious activities; evam — thus; mahā-udayam — rising to such an exalted position as the father of Kṛṣṇa; yaśodā — mother Yaśodā; vā — or; mahā-bhāgā — most fortunate; papau — drank; yasyāḥ — of whom; stanam — by the breasts; hariḥ — the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
Translation
Rāmānanda Rāya continued, “ ‘O brāhmaṇa, what pious activities did Nanda Mahārāja perform by which he received the Supreme Personality of Godhead Kṛṣṇa as his son? And what pious activities did mother Yaśodā perform that made the Absolute Supreme Personality of Godhead Kṛṣṇa call her “Mother” and suck her breasts?’
CC Madhya 19.96
śrutim apare smṛtim itare bhāratam anye bhajantu bhava-bhītāḥ
aham iha nandaṁ vande yasyālinde paraṁ brahma
Synonyms
śrutim — Vedic literature; apare — someone; smṛtim — corollary to the Vedic literature; itare — others; bhāratam — the Mahābhārata; anye — still others; bhajantu — let them worship; bhava-bhītāḥ — those who are afraid of material existence; aham — I; iha — here; nandam — Mahārāja Nanda; vande — worship; yasya — whose; alinde — in the courtyard; param brahma — the Supreme Brahman, Absolute Truth.
Translation
Raghupati Upādhyāya recited, “Those who are afraid of material existence worship the Vedic literature. Some worship smṛti, the corollaries to the Vedic literature, and others worship the Mahābhārata. As far as I am concerned, I worship Kṛṣṇa’s father, Mahārāja Nanda, in whose courtyard the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the Absolute Truth, is playing.”
Purport
This verse recited by Raghupati Upādhyāya was later included in Śrī Rūpa Gosvāmī’s Padyāvalī (126).
Divine Words of His Divine Grace Srila B.R. Sridhara Deva Goswami
Sri Sukadeva Goswami explained to Maharaj Prikshit and all the top most assembled sages, ‘This illusory world is full of variety and movement, and above it is the Brahman, the non differentianed plane of the absolute. But on the other side, there is again a differentiated and specified world, the Adhoksaja world (beyond sense perception). This Brahman is not the ultimate existance, but crossing Brahman, on the other side , there is an Adhoksaja world. There we find Krishna lila, which is not a thing of this mundane world. You all know I have no charm of this world whatsoever. And my mind was attracted by the charm of that higher Lila.
Today I shall speak to you all about Lila (divine pastimes).’
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Harikhatha of Srila Bhakti Prapanna Tirtha Goswami Maharaj
Topics:
– Sri Nandotsav;
– Srila Bhaktivinod Thakur, Guna-Kirtan;
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31-08-2021
India, Nabadwip, Kulia Gram, SREE CAITANYA SRIDHAR SEVA ASHRAM.
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22-08-2021
India, Radhakund, SREE CAITANYA SRIDHAR SEVA ASHRAM.
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The Supreme Personality of Godhead, Kṛṣṇa, is the fountainhead of all incarnations. Lord Balarāma is His second body.
These two are one and the same identity. They differ only in form. Lord Balarāma is the first bodily expansion of Kṛṣṇa, and He assists in Lord Kṛṣṇa’s transcendental pastimes.
That original Lord Kṛṣṇa appeared in Navadvīpa as Lord Caitanya, and Balarāma appeared with Him as Lord Nityānanda.
May Śrī Nityānanda Rāma be the object of my constant remembrance. Sańkarṣaṇa, Śeṣa Nāga and the Viṣṇus who lie on the Kāraṇa Ocean, Garbha Ocean and ocean of milk are His plenary portions and the portions of His plenary portions.
Lord Balarāma is the original Sańkarṣaṇa. He assumes five other forms to serve LordKṛṣṇa.
He Himself helps in the pastimes of Lord Kṛṣṇa, and He does the work of creation in four other forms.
He executes the orders of Lord Kṛṣṇa in the work of creation, and in the form of Lord Śeṣa He serves Kṛṣṇa in various ways.
In all the forms He tastes the transcendental bliss of serving Kṛṣṇa. That same Balarāma is Lord Nityānanda, the companion of Lord Gaurasundara.
( cc.adi.5. 4-11)
