Sanatan
Goswami's Madan Mohan
"Many years ago Vrindavan was all forest, a jungle, so Sanatan Goswami would
every day go begging to Mathura. Once, he went to a house where there lived a
husband and a wife who had been married for twelve-fourteen years but did not
have any children..."
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2010)
Mon, 2 May 2016: (Disappearance day of Srila Vrindavan
Das Thakur)
Devotees' Love
"In this age, people live in family life, they love each other, but in this
world when somebody loves somebody, it is for their own selfish interest, but
Mahaprabhu's interest, Mahaprabhu's love and affection is not like that."
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Remembering Srila Vrindavan Das Thakur:
Under a Haritaki Tree
"Vrindavan Das Thakur's mother's name is Narayani, and she was a niece of
Srivas Pandit. Mahaprabhu always held kirtans in the house of Srivas Pandit,
and Narayani lived in that same house. When she was very little, she got
Mahaprabhu's mercy..."
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Clasping
Nityananda Prabhu's Feet
"Nityananda is nondifferent from Guru-tattva: without mercy of the Guru you
cannot get the mercy of Krishna. When will Nityananda Prabhu give me some
mercy? When will He be compassionate to me and relieve me from the mundane
illusion?"
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Srila
Vrindavan Das Thakur
His holy birthplace (Mamgachhi), his holy Deities (Sri Sri Gaura Nitai), his
holy pastimes place (haritaki tree), and his holy samadhi
(Denur)...
•SONG:
Ye
anila prema-dhana |
যে আনিল প্রেমধন "Where has Advaita Acharya gone? Where are my Svarup, Rupa, Sanatan? Where
is my Raghunath? Where are the saviours of the fallen souls?"
Tue, 3 May 2016: (Sri Varuthini Ekadasi)
Brain Treatment
"Actually this body is not only for eating, sleeping, and enjoying. We
enjoyed in our previous lives, but it is like a mad man who is walking in the
street searching for some dirty paper. If you give the man some dirty paper,
it cannot give any benefit to him."
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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.
Wed, 4 May 2016: (Sri Ekadasi paran is at 5:06-8:21 a.m.)
Sanatan-Dharma: Universal
Religion
"Everything in this world is born and exists for the service to the Lord, and
the sanatan-dharma (your religion) is to use everything for the
service to the Lord. It is not only my religion, or your religion—everybody's
religion should be one."
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Thu, 5 May 2016:
Cheating
Yourself Out of Happiness
"There are so many religions in this world, but Srimad Bhagavatam says
it is all cheating. Why is it cheating? ...Ultimately, it will depend upon
your faith—if you have 20% faith, that is the kind of happiness you will
get."
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When One
Feels Hopeless[Revised]
"What is there to be hopeless about? You must think that when maya attacks
you it is not maya's fault, it is your own fault. Why does maya attack
you? Because you are not following properly."
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Fri, 6 May 2016: (Appearance of Srila Gadadhar Pandit
Goswami)
শ্রীমদ্ভগবদ্গীতা•ত্রয়োদশোঽধ্যায়ঃ
: প্রকৃতিপুরুষ-বিবেক-যোগ
"সেই ক্ষেত্র—যে বস্তু, যাদৃশ, ধর্ম্মবিশিষ্ট, যেরূপ বিকারযুক্ত, যাহা হইতে
যেরূপে উৎপন্ন, এবং সেই ক্ষেত্রজ্ঞ যে স্বরূপবিশিষ্ট ও যেরূপ প্রভাবযুক্ত, সেই
সমস্ত সংক্ষেপে আমার নিকট শ্রবণ কর ।"
— { Pranam mantra of Sri Gadadhar Pandit Goswami
} —
nilambhodhi-tate sada sva-viraha-ksepanvitam bandhavam
srimad-bhagavati katha madiraya sanjivayan bhati yah
srimad-bhagavatam sada sva-nayanasru-payanaih pujayan
gosvami-prabaro gadadhara-vibhur-bhuyat mad-eka-gatih
"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."
(Composed by
Srila B.R. Sridhar Dev-Goswami Maharaj)
Sri Gadadhar Pandit's
Life in Puri
A special discourse given by His Divine Grace Srila Bhakti Sundar Govinda
Dev-Goswami Maharaj for Sri Gaudiya Darshan, 1995, dwelling on "Puri
Sri Chaitanya Saraswat Math" and "Jagannathdev and His Dham." Later, this
article was included in the compilation of lectures Affectionate
Guidance (Chapter 23).
Pandit Sri Gadadhar Goswami[Posted at Sri Gaudiya
Darshan]
Srila Bhakti Raksak Sridhar Dev-Goswami Maharaj's article on Srila Gadadhar
Pandit's paramount sacrifice: "Pandit Goswami's life is a special offering
of silent and complete self-sacrifice to his beloved. Only those who can
taste unprecedented joy by appreciating the wonder within the ornament of
contradiction in seeing the bag of a beggar on Laksmi Devi’s shoulder are fit
to appreciate the extraordinary glory of Srimat Pandit Goswami's
unprecedented personality..."
পণ্ডিত শ্রীগদাধর
গোস্বামী["Pandit Sri Gadadhar Goswami," the original
Bengali article]
শ্রীল ভক্তিরক্ষক শ্রীধর দেব গোস্বামী মহারাজের প্রবন্ধ: "পণ্ডিত গোস্বামী
চরিত্র নিজ প্রিয়তমের উদ্দেশ্যে একটী নীরব পূর্ণ-আত্মোৎসর্গময় উপটোকন বিশেষ ।
লক্ষ্মীদেবীর স্কন্ধ ভিক্ষার ঝুলি দর্শনে যাঁহারা বিরোধালঙ্কারের চমৎকারিতা
হৃদয়ঙ্গমে যে অপূর্ব্ব সুখাস্বাদনে সমর্থ, তাঁহারাই শ্রীমৎ পণ্ডিত গোস্বামী
অপূর্ব্ব ব্যক্তিত্বের অসাধারণ মহিমা অনুভবের অধিকারী ।"
•SONG:
Ei-bara karuna kara |
এইবার করুণা কর "O worshippable Vaisnava, be merciful to me this time. O saviour of the fallen, without you there is no one."
Sat, 7 May 2016:
Sri Hari-Vasare
"Hari-vasar activities are like this. Every day when the
sankirtan started, Mahaprabhu started to dance. They would start at
Srivas Pandit's angan early in the morning and first sing the 'Gopala
Govinda' song..."
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2010)
•SONG:
Sri hari-vasare |
শ্রীহরি-বাসরে হরি "On the holy day of Sri Hari, Sriman Mahaprabhu, the life and
soul of the universe, began dancing..."
Sun, 8 May 2016: (Appearance of Sri Srimad Bhakti
Vichar Jajavar Maharaj)
Our Grand
Heritage
His Divine Grace Om Vishnupad Srila Bhakti Nirmal Acharya Maharaj is speaking
on the unparalleled gift, mercy, and purity of our Guru-varga.
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2009)
"I offer my obeisance unto my great master, the worshippable Srimad Bhakti
Vichar Jajavar Maharaj. He is a beautiful follower of Srila Bhakti Siddhanta
Saraswati Thakur and has been a bee in the lotus feet of the Lord since his
youth. He has a divine form and a moonlike face. He is filled with the Name's
ecstasy and his heart is tranquil. He is gentle, he relieves the fallen of
their distress, and he delivers the world."
Sripad Bhakti
Vichar Jajavar Maharaj(by Srila B.S. Govinda
Dev-Goswami Maharaj)
"Srila Jajavar Maharaj joined the Gaudiya Mission of Srila Bhakti Siddhanta
Saraswati Thakur at a very young age. He could sing nicely, and he looked
very simple—there was not a shadow of inauspiciousness in his
body..."
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Mon, 9 May 2016: (Aksaya Tritiya: a good day to start
some works)
Vaishnava Frame of
Mind
"This is Vaishnavism; this is humility and giving honour to others. The
conception is very nice. I heard it from my Guru Maharaj. We must serve Nitai
and Gaura, Nityananda means Guru-tattva—without service to the Guru we cannot
get service to the Lord."
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2009)
ভক্তির অভাব (ওঁ
বিষ্ণুপাদ শ্রীল ভক্তি নির্ম্মল আচার্য্য মহারাজের হরি-কথামৃত)
"জগতে অনেক কিছু পাওয়া যায়, কিন্তু জগতের লোকের ভক্তির খুব অভাব, সেই ভক্তি টাকা
দিয়ে কিনতে পারি না, পয়সা দিয়ে কিনতে পাওয়া যায় না — হৃদয় থেকে এগুলো করতে হয় ।
ভক্তি মধ্যে ভাগ আছে : কর্ম্মমিশ্রভক্তি, জ্ঞানমিশ্রভক্তি,
জ্ঞানশূন্যাভক্তি..."
Tue, 10 May 2016:
Beginning of Sri
Chandan Yatra at Sri Nabadwip Dham (6 photographs,
0.4 Mb)
As each year on Sri Chandan Yatra day, with sankirtan and special
offerings devotees take Sriman Mahaprabhu to His temple of divine water play
to sport in Sri Govinda Kunda. (Photographs taken yesterday, 9 May.)
Wed, 11 May 2016:
Our
Predicament and Prospect
"Gurudev says that we are very fortunate because we have got this human
body—only in this body we can worship the Lord, we cannot do it in any
another body. But it is very sorrowful that although we have got this human
body, we forget our Lord..."
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2009)
Thu, 12 May 2016:
Niskapata Service
"You should be a sincere seeker—chastity and sincerity are necessary.
Niskapata seva is causeless. You do not need to ask Him for anything,
only serve Him."
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2009)
Fri, 13 May 2016:
Surrendered
Souls' Sustenance
The Lord says, "If somebody only serves Me without asking Me for anything, I
always stay with them. I personally supply food for the surrendered souls,"
but there was once a brahman who did not believe it...
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2009)
শ্রীমদ্ভগবদ্গীতা•চতুর্দ্দশোঽধ্যায়ঃ
: গুণত্রয়-বিভাগ-যোগ
"যিনি (জ্ঞানকর্ম্মাদি দোষবর্জ্জিত) শুদ্ধ ভক্তিযোগ দ্বারা (শ্যামসুন্দরাকার)
আমাকেই সেবা করেন, তিনি এই গুণত্রয়কে সম্যক্ অতিক্রম করিয়া চিৎস্বরূপসিদ্ধির
যোগ্য হন । আমিই অখণ্ড চৈতন্যের, অফুরন্ত অমৃতের, নিত্যলীলার ও ঐকান্তিক
প্রেমসুধাস্বাদনের মূল অবলম্বন ।"
Preaching
Programme(13 photographs, 0.9 Mb)
On the invitation of the devotees, His Divine Grace Om Vishnupad Srila Bhakti
Nirmal Acharya Maharaj takes part in a four-day preaching programme and
graces the local community by installing the vigrahas of Mahaprabhu
and Radha-Krishna, sealing thus the bond of service in the devotees' lives
and hearts.
Sat, 14 May 2016:
"Bhajahu Re Mana"(Vandana, short talk and kirtan)
"This song was written by Govinda Das. There were two brothers who used to
always fight: one brother, Govinda, worshipped Mother Kali, and the other
brother worshipped Lord Krishna..."
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2009)
Sun, 15 May 2016: (Appearance of Sri Jahnava Devi and
Sri Sita Devi)
Kali-Yuga's
Treasure
"In Dvapar-yuga Krishna thought, 'How will people be rescued from this
environment in Kali-yuga?' Krishna Himself came in this world in Kali-yuga as
Gauranga Mahaprabhu and said, 'I have come here, so I must give them
something.' What does He give?"
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2009)
Anniversary Festival at
Siliguri(27 photographs, 1.8 Mb)
His Divine Grace Om Vishnupad Jagad Guru Srila Bhakti Nirmal Acharya Maharaj
leads the festival at Siliguri Sri Chaitanya Saraswat Math celebrating the
anniversary of installation of Their Lordships Sri Sri Guru Gauranga
Gandharva Govindasundar jiu. Sharing glimpses of the sweet and peaceful
Vaishnava festival that took place today.
চকচক করলেই সোনা হয়
না
(ওঁ বিষ্ণুপাদ শ্রীল ভক্তি নির্ম্মল আচার্য্য মহারাজের
হরি-কথামৃত)
"বর্ধমান জেলায় এক গ্রাম মানকর ছিল । এই গ্রামে এক ব্রাহ্মণ জীবন চক্রবর্ত্তী
নামে ছিল । সে জীবন চক্রবর্ত্তী শিবের পূজা, আরাধন করতেন এবং তার পূজার দ্বারা
সন্তুষ্ট হয়ে শিব ঠাকুর এক রাত্রে তার কাছে এসে জিজ্ঞাসা
করলেন..."
Attachment to
Chanting
"Those who have taken initiation must always chant. You can chant Hare
Krishna the whole day, and if you can chant without offences, the result will
come quickly. The Holy Name is nondifferent from Krishna, it is
transcendental, so it comes to your tongue on its own."
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2009)
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.
Wed, 18 May 2016:
Godbrothers'
Bond
His Divine Grace Om Vishnupad Srila Bhakti Nirmal Acharya Maharaj tells about
the close and reverent relationship that Srila Bhakti Raksak Sridhar
Dev-Goswami Maharaj had with his godbrothers, Srila Bhakti Saranga Goswami
Maharaj, Srila Bhakti Kamal Madhusudan Maharaj, and Srila Krishna Das Babaji
Maharaj.
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2009)
Thu, 19 May 2016:
Giving Respect:
What to Do and What Not to Do
"This is an example for us how we must respect senior Vaishnavs. You can also
find some lessons and teachings in Chaitanya-charitamrita, you can see
what Mahaprabhu's conception is. When some devotees dishonoured others,
Mahaprabhu chastised them."
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2009)
Fri, 20 May 2016: (Sri Nrisingha Chaturdasi,
fast till dusk/sunset)
Lord
Nrisinghadev's Pastime
"Today is a very auspicious day, today is Lord Nrisinghadev's appearance
day—the Lord appeared in this world on this day to protect His
devotee..."
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class)
ito nrsimha parato nrsimho
yato yato yami tato nrsimhah
bahir nrsimho hrdaye nrsimho
nrsimham adim saranam prapadye
"Nrsimha is here, Nrsimha is there—Nrsimha is wherever I go.
Nrsimha is outside, Nrsimha is within my heart. I am surrendered unto that
primeval Lord Nrsimha."
Lord
Nrisinghadev
"'Please, remove the obstacles to pure devotion and bad elements from our
society'—that is our only prayer to Lord Nrisinghadev."
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•SONG:
Sri Dasavatar
Stotram |
দশাবতারস্তোত্রম্ "O Hari! O Kesava! O Lord of the universe! You have assumed a half-man,
half-lion form! All glory to You! You ripped apart the bee-like body of
Hiranyakasipu with the amazingly sharp nails of Your beautiful lotus
hands."
শ্রীশ্রীনৃসিংহ-চতুর্দ্দশী
(১৯৯০ সাল)
শ্রীল ভক্তিসুন্দর গোবিন্দ দেবগোস্বামী মহারাজ ভগবানের লীলা আর মহিমা বর্ণনা
করছেন এবং শ্রীমদ্ভাগবতম্ থেকে পড়ছেন ।
(Extensive Bengali lecture of Srila B.S. Govinda Dev-Goswami Maharaj, spoken
in May 1990, describing the Pastimes of the Lord in His form of Sri
Nrsimhadev and reading from Srimad Bhagavatam, Canto 7)
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Sat, 21 May 2016:
Developing
Detachment
"It is a gradual process. You must serve with full faith and surrender—if you
can serve with full surrender, then attachment will be removed automatically.
If you think more about service, if you remember, 'This is not my body,'
eventually that attachment will go."
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2009)
Sun, 22 May 2016:
A Few Glimpses from Sri
Nabadwip Dham(3 photographs, < 1 Mb)
Sharing a few photographs taken on Sri Nrisingha Chaturdasi and yesterday
during an online class of His Divine Grace Om Vishnupad Srila Bhakti Nirmal
Acharya Maharaj.
The Golden Volcano
Of Divine Love This book has been compiled from the lectures of His Divine Grace Om
Vishnupad Srila Bhakti Raksak Sridhar Dev-Goswami Maharaj and found a very
special place in the heart of its author to the extent that His Divine Grace
remarked it was his favourite English language publication. The text
presented here is the second edition of the book.
On behalf of His Divine Grace Om Vishnupad Srila Bhakti Nirmal Acharya
Maharaj we would like to extend a cordial invitation to all devotees and
friends to come and join us in the pilgrimage to Sri Jagannath Puri Dham from
1 July to 7 July, 2016. As previous year, we start off from the Howrah
station (Kolkata), and you may join us there, or travel directly to Puri as
per your convenience.
You are welcome to contact us at should
you have any questions. The address of our Puri Temple is Sri Chaitanya
Saraswat Math, Bidhava Ashram Road, Gaur Batsahi.
Please see the photographs from the previous years of Sri Jagannath
Ratha Yatra:
Learning to
Appreciate
Four questions and answers about the value of the human body, worshipping
Lord Siva, offending Vaishnavs, and eternal relationship with the Guru.
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2009)
গৃহে আবদ্ধ
(ওঁ বিষ্ণুপাদ শ্রীল ভক্তি নির্ম্মল আচার্য্য মহারাজের
হরি-কথামৃত)
"আপনারা গৃহে থাকবেন, কিন্তু গৃহতলে কি করতে হবে ? গৃহে থাকতে হবে অতিথির মত ।
আপনি এ বাড়িতে অতিতি । যেরা বিবেচনা করিয়া আনাসক্ত ভাবে অতিথির ন্যায় গৃহে বাস
করলে, 'মমতা-মম' অহঙ্কারশূন্য, তারা কখোনো গৃহে আবদ্ধ হবে না ।"
Tue, 24 May 2016:
Lord's
Reciprocation
"Our fortune is to take Krishna Name in the association of the sadhus. That
is our life. Krishna also said, 'I always stay wherever there is the chanting
of My Holy Name, wherever there is good association.'"
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2009)
Wed, 25 May 2016:
Reaching Out
Educational Pastimes of Lord Gauranga Mahaprabhu: "Why are you shouting at
Me? You always call Me, 'Please take this food,' but when I come you chastise
Me. What is this? Perhaps you do not recognise Me..."
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2009)
Thu, 26 May 2016:
Nityananda
Prabhu's Marriage
"Everybody says that for the devotees Nityananda Prabhu never marries, but He
has two saktis, Jahnava and Vasudha. They were actually daughters of Surya
Das, Gauri Das Pandit's brother..."
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2009)
A Glimpse from Sri
Nabadwip Dham(2 photographs, < 1 Mb)
Devotees restore the holy verses adorning the samadhi mandir of His
Divine Grace Om Vishnupad Srila Bhakti Sundar Govinda Dev-Goswami Maharaj.
Two photographs taken yesterday at Sri Nabadwip Dham.
Fri, 27 May 2016: (Disappearance of Srila Ramananda
Ray)
What Are
You Hiding In Your Heart?
"Living in a family is not a problem, but the family must be Krishna's
family. A phalgu-vairagi shows he is a renunciate, shows he is a
sannyasi, but inside, in his heart, he has another desire. Prabhupad
Srila Bhakti Siddhanta Saraswati Thakur told one story..."
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2009)
•SONG:
Ye
anila prema-dhana |
যে আনিল প্রেমধন "Where has Advaita Acharya gone? Where are my Svarup, Rupa, Sanatan? Where
is my Raghunath? Where are the saviours of the fallen souls?"
Sat, 28 May 2016:
From Sri
Nabadwip Dham(17 photographs, 1.3 Mb)
A series of photographs of the fruit-bearing trees growing happily and
lavishly around Sri Chaitanya Saraswat Math in Sri Nabadwip Dham during the
current summer season. All is well and the services are proceeding
peacefully in the shade of the lotus feet of His Divine Grace Om Vishnupad
Srila Bhakti Nirmal Acharya Maharaj.
শ্রীমদ্ভগবদ্গীতা•পঞ্চদশোঽধ্যায়ঃ : পুরুষোত্তমযোগ
"যেহেতু আমি ক্ষর পুরুষের অতীত, এবং অক্ষর পুরুষ নিত্যপার্ষদ হইতেও উত্তম, অতএব
জগতে ও বেদাদি শাস্ত্রে আমাকেই ‘পুরুষোত্তম’ বলিয়া কীর্ত্তন করে ।"
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Bhuliya tomare |
ভুলিয়া তোমারে "Forgetting You and coming to the material world, I have undergone all
sorts of suffering. Now I have come before Your feet and will express my tale
of distress..."
Sun, 29 May 2016:
Mahaprabhu's Danda and 3.5 Devotees
"Do you know what question they once asked me in Russia in 2002? I was giving
the class in the morning and somehow it was mentioned that Mahaprabhu had
three and a half close devotees..."
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মায়ের পেট থেকে মায়ার পেটের
মধ্যে
(ওঁ বিষ্ণুপাদ শ্রীল ভক্তি নির্ম্মল আচার্য্য মহারাজের
হরি-কথামৃত)
"আপনি যখন মায়ের পেটে ছিলেন কত কষ্ট তখন করেছিলেন, সেখনে আপনি ভগবানকে ডেকেছেন
"প্রভু, আমাকে এখান থেকে ছেড়ে দাও !" যে ইন্দ্রিয়গুলো দিয়েছে সে ইন্দ্রিয়গুলো
দিয়েছে সব গোবিন্দের সেবা করার জন্য, কিন্তু আপনি কি করলেন ? ওই মায়ের কবলে পতিত
হয়ে পড়লেন..."
Heaven Is Not
Home
"Anyone who is in heaven has to come down. Heaven is temporary. Everybody has
to go and change their position. It is said in the scriptures that
somebody who has a human body can also become a demigod."
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2009)
On this day we are bound to give the sorrowful news that a group of Indian
devotees from Nabadwip has got into a car accident that led to the loss of
Sripad Santosh Krishna Prabhu, a senior servitor and secretary of Sri
Chaitanya Saraswat Math, as well as Vikash Prabhu of Uluberia (it is known
that all other devotees who were in the car are hospitalised, out of
danger).
Taking the blessings and feet dust of Sri Gurupadpadma Om Vishnupad Srila
Bhakti Nirmal Acharya Maharaj, the preaching party left Nabadwip today in the
morning and was on the way to a preaching programme in Midnapore; the
accident happened as they were in the outskirts of Kolkata.
The Vaishnava-seva will be held on Thursday, 9 June, and we are humbly
inviting all devotees of our Sri Chaitanya Saraswat Math, as well as other
Gaudiya Missions, to please join us on this day.
Tue, 31 May 2016:
Satisfaction
"Preaching is necessary. How do so many devotees come for the
parikrama? We invite them—they do not know anything about Mahaprabhu,
but we just invite them, 'Come and see.' They listen to Hari-katha and get
some sukriti and through that become devotees."
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2009)
'Sometimes your mind tells you something, but you should not follow your
mind. If something bad comes to your mind, say to yourself, 'Oh, it is not
good. Why will I do that? It will damage my life. I will chant, I will read
a book at this time instead.''