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APRIL 2015
Srila Gurudev's Festival at Sri Nabadwip Dham
Photographs taken today at the morning and noon programmes, on the
disappearance day of His Divine Grace Srila Bhakti Sundar Govinda
Dev-Goswami Maharaj, presided over His Divine Grace Srila Bhakti Nirmal
Acharya Maharaj. (Photographs, 9.3 Mb)
The Gift of
Guru
"If Gurudev had not come, who would have been able to tell us about the
glories of Gauranga?"
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Odds and Ends
Several educating excerpts from the lectures of His Divine Grace Srila
Bhakti Nirmal Acharya Maharaj that were not included in the main posts:
Tiredness • Two modern gurus • The 3 a.m. loudspeaker in
Nabadwip • All the glitters is not gold • Purpose of collection
• Stepmothers serving prasadam • Using Guru for your pleasure
• Daily kirtans • Addiction to arepa.
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Guidance: Issue #02, 2015/1 (ePub, 0.3 Mb)
An ePub file for offline reading on mobile phones and tablets containing
the lectures of His Divine Grace Srila Bhakti Nirmal Acharya Maharaj
published here from January to March 2015. We pray this serves as a source of
guidance, nourishment, and life to all the devotees and well-wishers
worldwide.
Srila Gurudev's Disappearance Day, Morning Class (Bengali)
Appreciating the good fortune and practice • Urging to preach for
Gurudev • Separation from devotees—the most painful •
Reading from Sri Sri Prema-vivarta (Chaters 6-10)
অত্যন্ত দুর্লভ সৌভাগ্য • ভক্ত বিরহ সবচেয়ে খারাপ দুঃখ • গুরু ভোগ
জন্য নয় • শ্রীশ্রীপ্রেমবিবর্ত্ত থেকে পড়া: "জীব-গতি", "সকলের পক্ষে
নাম", "কুটীনাটী ছাড়", "যুক্তবৈরাগ্য", "জাতিকুল" (অধ্যায় ৬-১০).
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Kirtans: Sri Rupa-manjari pada • Srimad Rupa Goswami
Prabhur Sochaka • Hari Haraye
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Srila Gurudev's Disappearance Day, Noon Programme (Bengali)
Raghunath Das Goswami's pain of separation and nourishment • Guru
as nondifferent from the Lord • Srila Gurudev's coming to the Math,
relationship with Srila Sridhar Maharaj, pranam mantra • The glory of
the Math • Prayer to Srila Gurudev's feet and guidance for the
devotees.
রঘুনাথদাস গোস্বামীর বিপ্রলম্ভব্যথা ও আশা • গুরুদেব সাক্ষাৎ ভগবান
• শ্রীল শ্রীধর মহারজের সঙ্গে শ্রীল ভক্তি সুন্দর গোবিন্দ দেবগোস্বামী
মহারাজের সম্পর্ক • মাঠের প্রচুর মহিমা • গুরুদেবের চরণে প্রর্থনা
ও ভক্তের জন্য উপদেশ, ইত্যাদি.
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Kirtans (preceding the lecture):
• Ye anila prema-dhana • Amara jivana sada pape rata
• Jaya Radha-Madhava
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Jagadananda
Pandit's Chastity
Pastimes of Jagadananda Pandit and Sanatan Goswami that are an example for
the whole world to follow: what is the real meaning of praise and
chastisement? How extreme can one's chastity be?
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Evening Class (Bengali)
Sanatan siksa, Reading from Sri Sri Prema-vivarta (chapters 10-16).
সনাতন সিক্ষা, শ্রীশ্রীপ্রেমবিবর্ত্ত থেকে পড়া: "জাতিকুল", "নবদ্বীপ-দীপক",
"বৈষ্ণব-মহিমা", "শ্রীগৌরদর্শনের ব্যাকুলতা", "বিপরীত বিবর্ত্ত",
"শ্রীনবদ্বীপে পূর্বাহ্ন-লীলা", "পীরিতি কিরূপ ?" (অধ্যায় ১০-১৬).
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Kirtans:
• Sri Guru charana-padma • Sri Krishna Chaitanya
Prabhu daya kara more • Ei-bara karuna kara Vaisnava Gosai •
Akrodha paramananda Nityananda Raya • Yadi Gaura na ha'ta • Gaya
Gora madhur svare • Hari Haraye.
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Divine Guidance
Printed originally in 1993, this is the third book by Srila Bhakti Sundar
Govinda Dev-Goswami Maharaj that was published from Sri Chaitanya Saraswat
Math. Now this book is added to the Library and is available for online
reading, download, and worship.
Wholesome
Transformation
Kirtan, purity of mind, good association, and prasad—transform your
life with chaste practice: "Practise Krishna consciousness in this way and
you will see how much your spiritual life will increase."
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The Ball Is
in Your Court
Now is the time to make the best of your good fortune: fulfil your Guru's
desire, practise, and become successful!
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Daily Kirtans
The page is prepared as a guideline for the devotees keeping in their
hearts the express and repeated desire of His Divine Grace Srila Bhakti
Nirmal Acharya Maharaj that all devotees, wherever they may be staying,
sing bhajan songs daily, try to learn them by heart and understand their
meaning, for their own eternal benefit.
Nityananda
Consciousness
The glory of Sri Nityananda Prabhu and the offence of
worshiping Mahaprabhu ignoring Nityananda Prabhu or His devotees.
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A Purposeful Assembly (Bengali)
His Divine Grace Srila B.N. Acharya Maharaj speaking to the assembly of
Vaishnavs just prior to the beginning of the Gaura Purnima festival week.
Class: Vital meaning of Hari-katha
• Gopal's mercy for Madhavendra Puri • Mahaprabhu's teachings:
constant chanting, not to talk nonsense, not to dress fancy, not to mix with
materialists, taking prasad.
Kirtans: Vandana • Sri Guru
charana-padma • Sri Krishna Chaitanya Prabhu daya kara more •
Ei-bara karuna kara Vaishnava Gosai • Parama karuna pahu dui jana •
Avatara sara Gora avatara • Hare Krishna mahamantra.
Class continues: Parikrama and the
festival programme outline • True jive daya • Hari Haraye Namah
Krishna.
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Stay On Board
The key how not to find yourself thrown off the board: take in the
Captain's instructions and stay on board without discriminating against
the members of the family.
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A Reality
Check
"Our Gurudev and Vaishnavs bestow their mercy on us, but we cannot see it
because our ego is standing in the way. We think we know everything, we
have everything, we are very powerful and very knowledgeable, but in fact
we know nothing, we have nothing."
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Hampering
or Hankering?
Are you hampering your spiritual life with position, ego, tiredness, and
pride, or hankering to proceed? Heed the words of Sri Gurudev: "Until
death—for as long as you have life in this body—you must
continue your practitioner's life! That is the most important thing for us
in our life."
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"We are sad when others are happy and we always tells lies, but actually if somebody is preaching Krishna consciousness, it is good for us!"
• Download / listen to the audio (1 Mb, 3 min) Ye Anila Prema-Dhana Karuna Prachura (Sung on disappearance days of Vaishnavs)
"Where has Advaita Acharya, the Lord who mercifully brought the wealth of divine love to this world, gone? I will break my head on a rock, I will enter into fire—where shall I go to reach the reservoir of all qualities, Sri Gauranga?"
• Download / listen to the audio (2.6 Mb)
Hari-katha at Mamgachhi (the birthplace of Srila Vrindavan Das Thakur)
• Two kirtans written by Srila Vrindavan Das Thakur: 'Bimala hemajini
tanu anupama re!' and
'Are
bhai! Nitai amara dayara avadhi!'
• Hari-katha: Mahaprabhu giving His blessing to Narayani Devi (mother
of Srila Vrindavan Das Thakur), kirtan in the house of Srivas Pandit.
• Download
(5.6 Mb, 17 min)
Paupers and
Misers (Preaching Guidance)
O paupers! Become rich by practising Krishna consciousness yourself, then
preach to others. O misers! You have accumulated some
property—distribute it; otherwise one day you will become a mango tree
on a hill and all your fruit will rot!
• Download
the audio (1.8 Mb, 6 min)
Sri Ekadashi Guidance
Guidelines on how to observe and honour this holy day: Ekadashi takes an
indispensible part in the life of a sincere practitioner. At Sri Chaitanya
Saraswat Math, Ekadashi and paran are observed with affection and without
fail according to the dates given in the Calendar.
Stick to Your
Guns
"We are in the battlefield, and if some opposition group or enemy is coming
towards you, you cannot go back. You must go forward and fire otherwise if
you turn back and run away, they will shoot you in your back!"
• Download
the audio (2 Mb, 6 min)
Note: the Mac OS iCal file of the Vaishnava Calendar has been updated, please re-upload your calendar! Download here.
The Bliss of
Solitude
Are you tired of the world around and feel like being alone? An educational
story told by Srila Bhakti Siddhanta Saraswati Thakur may help you curb that
desire—and all other material desires as well.
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More Than
Meets the Eye
"Gurudev is pleased through service. We may not be able to see it with our
eyes, but that is because our eyes are always full of dust. We may see and
understand him only externally...."
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Pranam mantra of Sri Gadadhar Pandit
Goswami:
nilambhodhi-tate sada sva-viraha-ksepanvitam bandhavam
"On the shore of the broad blue ocean Gadadhar Pandit used to read Srimad
Bhagavatam to Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, who was suffering from the great
internal pain of separation from Himself (Krishna). Gadadhar Pandit supplied
the wine of Krishna-lila to intoxicate his afflicted friend and give Him
relief. As he read, tears would fall from his eyes like flower offerings onto
the pages of Srimad Bhagavatam. May the pleasure of that brilliant
personality, Gadadhar Pandit, the best of the Goswamis, be my only object in
writing this book." |
Austerity in
Service
"You think in your service everything will go smoothly, but it is
impossible—everything cannot go smoothly. Krishna will test you, will
examine you: how much tolerance do you have? How much love and affection do
you have for the Lord and for your Guru?"
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Passed or
Failed?
"When you join the temple who will give you a certificate? You must make your
certificate yourself. You can easily understand yourself whether you pass or
fail. Examine yourself, 'Is the taste for Hari-katha, Krishna-katha coming to
me or do I think more about other things?'"
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Glory of the Holy
Name: Pastime at Gora Daha
Mahaprabhu rescues a child god at the lake that later became known as Gora
Daha (Gora's lake), revealing the glory of the Holy Name—a Pastime that
is recorded on the holy pages of Sri Sri Prema-vivarta.
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Chanting: Any
Time
"You can chant at all times. It is not necessary to always chant on the
beads, you can chant with your mouth: your mouth has two lips, just open your
lips, say, 'Hare Krishna', and 'Hare Krishna', 'Hari' will come out of your
mouth. What is the problem?"
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Chanting: Any
Place
A Pastime of Sri Krishna Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, short and straightforward:
"One day Mahaprabhu went to the bathroom with His tongue stuck out between
His teeth...."
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First Steps
in Surrender
Global answers to two global questions about surrender that can make even the
boldest dreams come true.
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Questions
and Answers: Family, Books, Weeds, and Chanting
His Divine Grace is replying to the questions: How to adjust with family
members? How to bring them to Krishna consciousness? What to do if there is
virtually no time to read books? How to get rid of the weeds growing in our
heart? Does Gurudev accept our day-to-day material activities? What to think
of while chanting the Holy Name?
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Standing
Invitation
"You can make an announcement and tell everyone that I want devotees to come
and stay here, do some service. It is my humble prayer to everyone—any
time you want to come, I always say to you, 'Please come.'"
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"I am Gora's!"
"If somebody does not follow our main conception, does not follow Srila
Sridhar Maharaj's conception, does not follow Gurudev's conception, Gurudev's
order, we cannot mix with them, we cannot accept the religion that they
themselves have invented."
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"I am Gora's!"
The video recording of the class given by His Divine Grace Srila Bhakti
Nirmal Acharya Maharaj on the first day of Sri Chandan-yatra festival, in Sri
Nabadwip Dham. (10 min, 113Mb)
News From the Veranda
(Second initiation & two new books)
Several pictures taken today at the veranda of His Divine Grace Om Vishnupad
Srila Bhakti Nirmal Acharya Maharaj.
Sri
Chandan-Yatra
The first days of Sri Chandan-yatra programmes at Sri Nabadwip Dham held
under the guidance of His Divine Grace Srila Bhakti Nirmal Acharya
Maharaj.
News from Sri Ekachakra
Dham
A new construction underway that largely expands the temple compound for the
service to Their Lordships Sri Sri Guru Gaura Nityananda Jiu. (Photograps
taken a few weeks ago.)
News from Ladies' Ashram in
Kalna
With most of the recent construction and reconstruction works being finished,
the ashram is now ever so radiant in its simple beauty and quiet
environment.
Chastity Is
Not Lip-Deep
"My word is very heavy, but I have to say it..." Who can appreciate
chastisement coming from the lotus mouth of Sri Gurudev? Fortunate is the
soul who hears such chastisement, and even more fortunate is the soul who
digests it.
The New Land
in Sri Nrisimha Palli (26 April 2015)
Photographs of the new land purchased by His Divine Grace Srila Bhakti Nirmal
Acharya Maharaj for Sri Chaitanya Saraswat Math.
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Open letter to devotees:
All glory to Sri Guru and Sri Gauranga Dear devotees, Please accept my dandavat pranam. I am writing to convey my great happiness that we have succeeded in acquiring land in Sri Nrsimha Palli. By the mercy of the devotees in Brazil, Turkey, Venezuela, and England, it has been possible. We tried to acquire this land in the time of Srila Gurudev, but some obstacles came up amongst the persons who were in possession of it and it was not possible. Now at last those obstacles have gone away, and we have succeeded in obtaining the land. I believe Srila Gurudev will be very happy about this. I plan to start to establish a Temple at this site soon. Yours sincerely, Swami B. N. Acharya |
Sleeping
Habit
Sri Ekadashi Guidance
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"To maintain the brahmacharya life, you must wake up for mangal arati—then
your sannyas, your brahmacharya will last longer... If at your young age you
sleep for 10-12 hours, it is very bad for your future."
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All glory to Sri Guru and Sri Gauranga
Dear Devotees,
In view of the recent earthquakes in Nepal and North India, many devotees
have expressed their concern for His Divine Grace, the Math temples, and
the devotees. His Divine Grace Srila Bhakti Nirmal Acharya Maharaj is
requesting everyone not to worry and assures that by the mercy of Srila
Gurudev everything is continuing peacefully at all branches and temples of
the Math here in India and all devotees, foreign and Indian, are not
affected and continue their service uninterrupted.
Your servants,
On behalf of Sri Chaitanya Saraswat Math International
Guidelines on how to observe and honour this holy day: Ekadashi takes an
indispensible part in the life of a sincere practitioner. At Sri Chaitanya
Saraswat Math, Ekadashi and paran are observed with affection and without
fail according to the dates given in the Calendar.
Sri Sri Prema-vivarta
(Online reading and download)
Ever since its publication, His Divine Grace has been continually giving
classes, Bengali and English, reading from this holy book and stressing the
importance of realising and following its every word. Available both for
purchase in the online bookstore and for download, Sri Sri
Prema-vivarta is now added to the library for online reading.
New Preaching
Paraphernalia
A new Tata Winger van has been added to the preaching paraphernalia of Sri
Chaitanya Saraswat Math for the service to the lotus feet of Sri Gurudev, the
devotees, and the Mission.
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| Jagadananda Pandit's Chastity |
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| 'Pastimes of Jagadananda Pandit and Sanatan Goswami that are an example for the whole world to follow: what is the real meaning of praise and chastisement? How extreme can one's chastity be?' |
| Sri Sri Prema-Vivarta |
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| “Gora knows your thoughts, so how will you cheat Him? When you are sincere, you will understand Gora's teachings.” |
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“You are proud that you got initiation, got connection with Gurudev so many years ago, but actually you may not have got anything—otherwise why do you become tired? Why do you become hopeless?” | |
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