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MONTHLY ARCHIVE OF UPDATES
FEBRUARY 2018
Visiting Kandi and Sri
Nrisingha Palli Temples
(43 photographs, 2.1 Mb | 31 January 2018)
His Divine Grace Om Vishnupad Srila Bhakti Nirmal Acharya Maharaj leaves Sri Ekachakra
Dham and visits our temple in Kandi (near Ekachakra) and Sri Nrisingha Palli temple to
supply paint and supervise the rapid construction progress.
Jaya jaya
gurudeva karuna sagara |
জয় জয়
গুরুদেব করুণাসাগর
Glory to Srila Gurudev, Sri Bhakti Sundar Govinda Dev-Goswami Maharaj, an ocean of
mercy. He manifested the effulgent service of Sri Guru Sri Gaura Sri Nityananda in Sri
Ekachakra Dham for the benefit of the entire world.
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Download / listen to the audio (2.5 Mb, 8 min | 28 January 2018)
Preaching Programme:
DAY ONE
(12 photographs, 0.6 Mb | 1 February 2018)
The month of February begins from a week-long preaching programme that His Divine Grace
Om Vishnupad Srila Bhakti Nirmal Acharya Maharaj undertakes with a group of Western and
Indian devotees. The evening of the first day is spent at a programme in the Hooghly
District.
Preaching Programme:
DAY TWO
(24 photographs, 1.1 Mb | 2 February 2018)
Sharing photographs taken during the second day of preaching that His Divine Grace
Om Vishnupad Srila Bhakti Nirmal Acharya Maharaj undertakes annually before Sri Gaura
Purnima carrying the flag of Sri Chaitanya Saraswat Math to every house and heart.
Revealing Nityananda
Prabhu
"Chandrasekhar Acharya and Srivas Pandit went to search for Nityananda Prabhu, but they
were unable to find Him because Nityananda's glories are actually very guro—very sacred
and of a very high level. It is not easy to find Him."
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Download / listen to the audio (1.2 Mb, 4 min | 26 January 2018)
Preaching Programme:
DAY THREE
(28 photographs, 1.6 Mb | 3 February 2018)
Sharing photographs taken during the third day of preaching that His Divine Grace
Om Vishnupad Srila Bhakti Nirmal Acharya Maharaj undertakes annually before Sri Gaura
Purnima carrying the flag of Sri Chaitanya Saraswat Math to every house and heart.
Seeking Srila
Saraswati Thakur's Mercy
"I am very happy that we celebrate the days of Srila Saraswati Thakur, Srila
Bhaktivinod Thakur together and I am very grateful that you have given me, a lowly
person, an asan on this stage... What teachings did Srila Saraswati Thakur give to the
world?"
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Download / listen to the audio (2.3 Mb, 7 min | 16 February 2017 | Bengali)
sri-siddhanta-sarasvatiti vidito gaudiya-gurv-anvaye
bhato bhanuriva prabhata-gagane yo gaura-sankirtanaih mayavada-timingilodara-gatan uddhrtya jivaniman krsna-prema-sudhabdhi-gahana-sukham pradat prabhum tam bhaje
"I serve my lord, who is known as Srila Bhakti Siddhanta Saraswati
Thakur. Within the Gaudiya sampradaya's lineage of Gurus, he shines like the
sun in the morning sky. Through the sankirtan of Sriman Mahaprabhu he rescues
the souls engulfed within the belly of the timingila of illusionism and
bestows upon them the ecstasy of swimming in the nectarean ocean of divine
love for Krishna."
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"Today is a special day, Srila Bhakti Siddhanta Saraswati Thakur's appearance day. If he had not come, where would we get Srila Guru Maharaj, Srila Gurudev? If we do not get mercy from Srila Bhakti Siddhanta Saraswati Thakur, without Bhakti Siddhanta Saraswati Thakur, we cannot think about Srila Sridhar Dev-Goswami Maharaj."
Biography of Bhagavan Sri
Srila Bhakti Siddhanta Saraswati Thakur Prabhupad
The first part of the biographical compilation dedicated to Bhagavan Sri Srila Bhakti
Siddhanta Saraswati Thakur Prabhupad taken from a lecture of Om Vishnupad Jagad Guru
Srila Bhakti Sundar Govinda Dev-Goswami Maharaj. The page shall be updated and expanded
in the course of time.
Srila Prabhupad:
Embodiment of Mercy
"Today is the holy appearance day of Bhagavan Srila Bhakti Siddhanta
Saraswati Goswami Thakur Prabhupad, whom we are here to offer prayers to in
the assembly of the devotees. He is Jagad Guru and what he gave to the world,
no one else could ever give..."
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Download / listen to the audio (1.9 Mb, 6 min | 28 February 2016)
Srila Prabhupad's
Glory (1)
"Acharya-vandana: If you can realise the meaning this song, you can
get all glorification of Srila Bhakti Siddhanta Saraswati Thakur.
Sujanarvuda-radhita-pada-yugam: We sing it but we do not realise its
meaning because if we realised its meaning, we would get taste singing it. We
must sing it every day and be conscious of it."
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Download / listen to the audio (3 Mb, 9 min | 25 December 2010)
Srila Prabhupad's
Glory (2)
"Mahaprabhu predicted this, and Prabhupad fulfilled it through Srila A.C.
Bhaktivedanta Swami Maharaj, Srila Sridhar Dev-Goswami Maharaj, Srila
Gurudev. Now, in every village, all day, all night there is Hari-katha and
kirtan going on."
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Download / listen to the audio (2.9 Mb, 8 min | 25 December 2010)
"We do not want to stay in the temple because there are so many rules and regulations—everything has to be maintained at a certain time, and if you live alone, nobody will tell you anything, but you will be losing your devotional activities. Srila Bhakti Siddhanta Saraswati Thakur said that nirjan bhajan is self-deception."
• Download / listen to the audio (6.3 Mb, 19 min | 6 March 2016)
Srila Bhakti Siddhanta Saraswati Thakur (Bengali
class)
His Divine Grace Srila B.N. Acharya Maharaj is speaking on this day in 2015
about Srila Prabhupad's birth, youth, initiation, Srila Bhakti Vinod
Thakur's founding the Yogapith temple, Srila Saraswati Thakur's preaching
pastimes, divine power transmission, and vast contribution to the
sampradaya.
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Download / listen to the audio (25.4 Mb, 74 min | 9 February 2015)
Sri Guru Parampara |
শ্রীগুরুপরম্পরা
"The follower of Srila Gaura Kisor Das Babaji, the great soul Dayita Das (Srila
Saraswati Thakur), whose wealth is Sri Krsna-kirtan, fulfilled the desires of the whole
world. He is the dearmost of Sri Varsabhanavi and is always engaged in Her
service."
Sujanarvuda-radhita |
সুজনার্ব্বুদরাধিতপাদযুগং
"My master, Prabhupad Srila Bhakti Siddhanta Saraswati Thakur, established
the religion of the age, Krsna-sankirtan, and is the chief minister of the
universal assembly of leading Vaisnavas. His lotus feet are worshipped
by millions of virtuous souls and fulfil the desires of those who dispel
souls' fears. Eternally I offer my obeisance to my master's worshippable
feet."
Jayare jayare jaya paramahamsa |
জয়রে জয়রে জয় পরমহংস
"Glory, glory, glory to Sri Bhakti Siddhanta Saraswati Goswami Thakur,
this great swan-like perfect personality, abode of highest mercy, who is the
path and refuge for the low and miserable who have no refuge!"
Sri Bhakti Siddhanta Vani
"If someone does not consider it necessary to faithfully follow their Guru
and the Vaishnavs, their endeavour to serve the Lord is not service to the
Lord—it is service to maya."
DAY FOUR(1.7 Mb | 4 Feb '18) |
Preaching Programme
Sharing photographs taken during the third and fourth days of preaching that His Divine
Grace Om Vishnupad Srila Bhakti Nirmal Acharya Maharaj undertakes annually before Sri
Gaura Purnima carrying the flag of Sri Chaitanya Saraswat Math to every house and
heart. |
DAY FIVE(0.6 Mb | 5 Feb '18) |
Mahaprabhu's Stay in
Shantipur
"Nityananda Prabhu understood devotees' feeling and somehow managed to take
Mahaprabhu to Shantipur instead of taking Him straight to Vrindavan. In Shantipur,
Mahaprabhu gave lecture, He sang and danced the whole day and night without
stop..."
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Download / listen to the audio (2.7 Mb, 8 min | 26 January 2018)
Preaching Ideal
"Our duty is to learn what the main teachings of Mahaprabhu are. For as many days you
are alive in this world, you must preach Krishna-katha, Gauranga-katha, Guru-katha,
Guru Maharaj's katha. If you preach that, what is the need for you to worry about your
future?"
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Download / listen to the audio (1.2 Mb, 4 min | 26 January 2018)
Learn and Distribute
"You must learn from Visvanath Chakravarti, from Prabodhananda Saraswati, from Gopal
Bhatta Goswami, Rupa Goswami, Sanatan Goswami. If you learn what they teach, what they
do, what their lifestyle is like, you can understand everything easily then."
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Download / listen to the audio (1.6 Mb, 5 min | 26 January 2018)
Great Good Fortune
"By the mercy of Guru and Vaishnavs, by the mercy of the Lord, we have arrived in this
Sri Ekachakra Dham where our most beloved Lord Nityananda Prabhu appeared. This is not
a matter of small fortune—not everybody gets such fortune."
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Download / listen to the audio (1.6 Mb, 5 min | 27 January 2018 | Bengali)
Preaching Programme: Hooghly
(39 photographs, 2.3 Mb | 9 February 2018)
Taking a few days' break, His Divine Grace Om Vishnupad Srila Bhakti Nirmal Acharya
Maharaj sets out on the next preaching and collection trip in the suburbs of Kolkata
nourishing the devotees and encouraging them to serve the Lord and practise pure
devotion following the footsteps of Sri Guru and Vaishnavs.
"Talks about the Lord, His Name, form, qualities, pastimes and associates are completely non-different from the Lord Himself. Not everybody has the fortune to hear about the Lord or to serve the Lord."
• Download / listen to the audio (1.9 Mb, 6 min | 9 February 2018 | Bengali)
Sri Ekadasi Guidance
Guidelines on how to observe and honour this holy day: Ekadasi takes an
indispensible part in the life of a sincere practitioner. At Sri Chaitanya
Saraswat Math, Ekadasi and paran are observed with affection and without
fail according to the dates given in the Calendar.
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"Sri Ekadasi"
(Sri Sri Prema Vivarta)
"One day, Gaurahari left the Gundicha Temple and sat in the Jagannath
Vallabha garden. It was pure Ekadasi, and the Lord spent the whole day and
night chanting the Name of Krishna..."
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SONG:
Suddha-bhakata |
শুদ্ধ ভকত-চরণ-রেণু
"I carefully observe the holy days related to Madhava, they are the mother
of devotion."
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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..."
ADDITIONAL READING:
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"Observing Ekadasi" (by
Srila B.N. Acharya Maharaj)
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"Ekadasi Vrata:
Make Your Guru Happy" (by Srila B.N. Acharya Maharaj)
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"No Other Shelter" (by Srila B.N. Acharya Maharaj)
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"Mahadvadasi" (by Srila B.N. Acharya Maharaj)
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"Ekadasi and liberation" (by Srila B.N. Acharya Maharaj)
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"Ekadasi Tithi: One of the Practices" (by Srila B.N. Acharya Maharaj)
Not a Game
"We must be serious about our spiritual matters, spiritual life. It is not a play, it
is not childish games. Whatever you do, you must do it seriously. Just as a boat cannot
run without the helmsman, in the same way life cannot run without an aim."
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(2.9 Mb, 9 min | 9 February 2018 | English and Bengali)
Visiting Sri Tarakeswar
Temple
(36 photographs, 2.4 Mb | 10-11 February 2018)
His Divine Grace Om Vishnupad Srila Bhakti Nirmal Acharya Maharaj spends a few days at
the temple of Sri Sri Guru Gauranga Radha Madan Mohan jiu in Tarakeswar while
collecting bhog for the upcoming festival time in the neighbouring areas.
Bhava-Rog Doctor
"When you get sick, you see a doctor—the doctor gives you medicine, you take it and get
well. Here, to cure your disease of material existence, the doctor actually comes to
your house and tells you what things you must avoid to remove your illusory
environment."
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Download / listen to the audio (0.9 Mb, 3 min | 27 January 2018 | Bengali)
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Please remember:
Proceed and
Increase
"I am inviting all devotees to come to Nabadwip to see any festival or for
the Gaura Purnima festival. Come as soon as possible; as much as it is in my
power, as much as I can help anyone, I will try. Please come to
Nabadwip."
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Download / listen to the audio (1.6 Mb, 5 min | 17 June 2001)
Practise. Serve.
Believe.
"Come. Come for Gaura Purnima, come for the parikrama of Virachandrapur in
February. Mahaprabhu went there, Nityananda Prabhu came there to take the
darshan of Mahaprabhu, and His mercy is unlimited. When you do parikrama of
the Holy Dham, your parikrama of the material world comes to an end, you will
not have to come back." (11 December 2011)
Knock, Knock! (Ahvana Poem)
"Who is your friend? Your friend has come to your house as a beggar and prays
to you, 'Please chant the Name of Krishna! Come with us!' Just like a beggar
he comes to you, but you cannot recognise him."
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Download / listen to the audio (2.7 Mb, 8 min | 28 February 2012)
"I am
touching your feet—please come!"
"Gurudev says, 'I am folding my hands, I am touching your feet—please come at
Gaura Purnima!' How many more times will you come to this world? Those who do
this Nabadwip Dham parikrama with devotees do no have to wander any
longer in these three worlds."
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Download / listen to the audio (1 Mb, 3 min | 28 February 2012)
Come to
your home
"I pray to you all that you come every year. You may think, 'How will the
money come?' But if you have a strong desire, Mahaprabhu will send you the
money to come here." (9 March 2012)
Strike While the
Iron Is Hot
"You think, 'I will chant the Holy Name tomorrow—I will wait today, and
from tomorrow I will start.' Are you sure you are going to be in this world
tomorrow?"
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Download / listen to the audio (3.9 Mb, 12 min | 26 May 2015)
Visiting Sri Tarakeswar
Temple
(12 photographs, 0.8 Mb | 13 February 2018)
Photographs taken during the last evening at the temple of Sri Sri Guru Gauranga Radha
Madan Mohan jiu in Tarakeswar. His Divine Grace Srila B.N. Acharya Maharaj speaks about
the glories of Lord Siva and encourages devotees to practise properly.
In honour of Sri Sivaratri:
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Sivji Maharaj and
Nandi: Journey to Sri Nabadwip Dham
His Divine Grace Srila B.N. Acharya Maharaj is telling how Sri Sada Siva
Gangadhar and Nandi came to the Math: "So many things have happened, and
it was all like a miracle..."
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Gopeshwar
Mahadev's Surrender
"...Lord Siva entered the rasa-mancha in this mood, and Krishna
understood who had come. Everyone wondered where the new gopi had come from
and why Krishna was giving her so much honour."
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"কেউ বলে, 'তুমি শিব ভক্ত, আমি কৃষ্ণ ভক্ত !' এরকম বলবেন না । শিব আর কৃষ্ণ আলাদাও নয়, আবার শিব আর কৃষ্ণ একও নয় । শিব হচ্ছেন কৃষ্ণের অংশবিশেষ । শিব ভগবানের সেবক, শিবজী মহারাজ পরমভক্ত ।"
Foster Devotional
Feelings
"What do I want? I do not want wealth, knowledge, beautiful companions—all these things
that the outside people are so proud of... If you run behind the illusory
environment—enjoyment and liberation—Krishna will give it to you, but what will you
think after that?"
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Download / listen to the audio (2 Mb, 6 min | 27 January 2018 | Bengali)
Srila
Jagannath Das Babaji Maharaj's Bhajan Kutir
"This place where we are sitting now is the samadhi mandir and the bhajan
kutir of Jagannath Das Babaji Maharaj. We are paying obeisance to his place. He is
our Guru parampara..."
Ei-bara karuna kara vaisnava
gosai
"O worshippable Vaisnava, be merciful to me this time. O saviour of the fallen,
without you there is no one. In every birth I aspire for the dust of your
feet."
[Chanted at the bhajan kutir of Srila Jagannath Das Babaji
Maharaj during the second day of Sri Nabadwip Dham parikrama in 2017.]
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(0.9 Mb, 3 min | 9 March 2017 | Kirtan)
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Srila
Jagannath Das Babaji Maharaj
"One day Srila Jagannath Das Babaji received a divine call from Radharani
saying, 'Why are you staying in Vrindavan? You must go to Nabadwip!' He could
not walk, so his servant Bihari Das carried him in a basket on his head to
Nabadwip."
Go-Astami
"Feed the cows, give some garland to the cows, give some sweets to the cows.
When Srila Jagannath Das Babaji Maharaj got some pranami, he would buy sweets
and give them to the cows..."
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(1 Mb, 2 min | 14 November 2010)
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SONG:
Krsna haite
chatur-mukha |
কৃষ্ণ হৈতে চতুর্ম্মুখ
"The foremost devotees of Srila Visvanath Chakravarti Thakur are Srila Baladev
Vidyabhusan and Srila Jagannath Das Babaji. All the Gurus in this succession are
associates of Sri Gauranga. I pray for their remnants."
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SONG:
Ye anila prema
dhana |
যে আনিল প্রেমধন
"I will break my head on a rock, I will enter into fire. Not finding the
association of Sri Gauranga, who performed His Pastimes with all these
associates, Narottam Das weeps."
In honour of Srimad Bhakti Dayita Madhav Goswami Maharaj's disappearance:
Reforming
Others
Three educational stories from the life of Srila Bhakti Siddhanta
Saraswati Thakur and his disciple Sripad B.D. Madhav Maharaj.
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Download / listen to the audio (1.4 Mb, 5 min | 12 May 2012)
Guru
Consciousness, Service Consciousness
"I heard from Gurudev, one time it was Janmastami, and Madhav Maharaj (his
brahmachari name was Hayagriva Prabhu) had some service in Delhi, so
he had to travel by train on the Janmastami day...."
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Download / listen to the audio (2.3 Mb, 7 min | 25 December 2010)
Continuous Service
"It happened after Prabhupad Bhakti Siddhanta Saraswati Thakur's time. One
time, Srila Bhakti Dayita Madhav Goswami Maharaj, Srila Bhakti Saranga
Goswami Maharaj and one more sannyasi—three disciples of
Prabhupad—were sitting in one room..."
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Download / listen to the audio (1.4 Mb, 5 min | 7 August 2011)
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Day
One(1.1 Mb) (15 February 2018) |
Busy with the preparations for the coming festivals, His Divine Grace Srila Bhakti Nirmal Acharya Maharaj is taking one more trip to remote corners of West Bengal to nourish devotees, as well as collect rice. Sharing photographs taken during the first and the second days of the preaching and collection programmes. |
Day
Two(1 Mb) (16 February 2018) |
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Association and
Assimilation
"Remember Nityananda Prabhu's tolerance and patience. If somebody tells you something
bad, you become upset, you get angry, but this is not your conception—your Gurudev
never taught you this, Nityananda Prabhu never taught you this."
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Download / listen to the audio (2.6 Mb, 8 min | 27 January 2018 | Bengali)
শুভ তিথি, একাদশী ও উপবাস তিথি, পরাণ সময় এবং আগামী বছরের মহোৎসব তিথি । এখন অনলাইনে পড়তে কিংবা PDF ডাউনলোড করতে পারেন ।
Preaching and Rice
Collection (8 photographs, 0.7 Mb | 18 February 2018)
His Divine Grace Om Vishnupad Srila Bhakti Nirmal Acharya Maharaj continues rice
collection at the mills and distributors in West Bengal—the owners happily donate rice
for the festival, with up to 50kg of rice being collected at some places.
Sri Vaishnava Calendar
for 2018-2019
The calendar of auspicious days, festivals and fasting celebrated and observed at Sri
Chaitanya Saraswat Math for the following year (Sri Gaurabda 533, or 2018-2019) is now
available online, both in English and Bengali.
-Click on a "plus" sign at the bottom of the page to add it to your Google Calendar page
-If you are not logged in Google account, enter your login info
-The calendar will appear in your Google Calendar under "Other calendars"
-Final step, on your phone: synchronise your google account calendar in the settings of your phone. Restart your phone if the Calendar events do not appear immediately.
Note: the calendar has notifications set for the major dates, but you need to see the calendar settings in your phone to make sure you get these notifications. You can also receive notification by email, see the settings in your online Google calendar.
-Wait for a pop-up window, tap "add all" on top. All calendar events should be added to your calendar smoothly.
If you have questions or difficulty with uploading the Calendar to your device, you
can get in touch with us at
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Preaching and Rice
Collection (8 photographs, 0.4 Mb | 19 February 2018)
Sharing a few photographs taken on the last day of rice collection, the total
collection for the Math over the four days amounts to almost two tons of
rice.
We Forget
"The main thing that I want to tell everybody is that everybody is preaching, everybody
knows everything, but sometimes because of the illusory environment, because our ego
attacks us, we forget..."
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Download / listen to the audio (1.5 Mb, 5 min | 20 February
2018)
Evening Class in Kolkata
(7 photographs, 0.4 Mb | 20 February 2018)
His Divine Grace Om Vishnupad Srila Bhakti Nirmal Acharya Maharaj gives the evening
class for the Western devotees assembled for Sri Gaura Purnima celebration with more
devotees arriving in the coming days.
"I am not hopeless"
"We try many things, but everything depends upon Lord Krishna, our Gurudev. He is our
guardian, and we are all instruments. We only try our best, but the result will come
through him. Many phone calls came today, but I told them, 'What is the problem?'"
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Download / listen to the audio (3.1 Mb, 9 min | 20 February 2018)
Other Desires
"People say, 'I am your, Gurudev,' but inside they have some other desire also. We may
have no material desire, we may have some spiritual desire, but we cannot understand
what is a material desire and what is a spiritual desire, or what Gurudev wants."
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Download / listen to the audio (1.3 Mb, 4 min | 20 February 2018)
Sadhus' Mission
"...This is what the sadhus want—they do not need your money. Do not make a show
for the world that you serve Gora, you must love Gora with your heart. Do not be a
hypocrite. You must love with your heart. You must love with your heart, with the real
feeling."
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Download / listen to the audio (2.4 Mb, 7 min | 7 March 2017 (Adhivas day))
Parikrama Will Not Be
Stopped
"By the mercy of Gurudev, by the will of Gurudev and Guru Maharaj, you all have come
from various corners of the world to join Sri Sri Nabadwip Dham parikrama. I am
thinking that one way or another we will still do the Nabadwip Dham
parikrama. We will not stop."
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Download / listen to the audio (1.6 Mb, 5 min | 22 February 2018)
From Sri Nabadwip Dham (Nrisingha Palli):
His Divine Grace Jagad Guru Om Vishnupad Srila Bhakti Nirmal Acharya Maharaj arrives
with the devotees at Sri Nrisingha Palli on Saturday evening and is busily engaged in
organisational services. The adhivas day passes in innumerous services around the
temple striving to provide as many amenities to the devotees as possible. The first
day of Sri Nabadwip Dham parikrama starts with a very heavy storm at night which does
not however put the devotees off—today His Divine Grace takes Sri Parikrama
bhakta-vrinda to Sri Godrumadwip and Madhyadwip (some changes in the order of the
parikrama are made considering that this year parikrama starts from Sri Nrisingha
Palli).
Sri Nabadwip Dham
Parikrama Adhivas
(24 photographs, 1.5 Mb | 25 February 2018)
Sharing photographs from the adhivas (eve) day of the grand annual festival of Sri
Gaura Purnima that His Divine Grace Om Vishnupad Srila Bhakti Nirmal Acharya Maharaj is
leading in a grand and miraculous manner. Fortunate are the souls that get to witness
His Divine Pastimes.
From Sri Nabadwip Dham (Nrisingha Palli):
On the second day of the annual Sri Nabadwip Dham Parikrama, His Divine Grace Jagad
Guru Om Vishnupad Srila Bhakti Nirmal Acharya Maharaj takes the devotees to Sri Dham
Mayapur to visit Sri Antardwip, Sri Simantadwip, and Sri Rudradwip. The festival
proceeds peacefully with the devotees staying happily at the new temple at Sri
Nrisingha Palli.
Time for Sravan
"You must see the sadhu with your ears, because you cannot see a sadhu
with your eyes. This is actually not a place for play or tourism, this is a place for
sravan and kirtan. You must listen with your heart."
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Sri Nabadwip Dham
Parikrama: Day One
(51 photographs, 3.5 Mb | 26 February 2018)
Photographs taken during the first day of the parikrama: old Sri Nrisinghadev Temple,
Subarna Bihar Gaudiya Math, Surabhi Kunja Math, Svananda-sukhada-kunja (bhajan kutir of
Srila Bhaktivinod Thakur), and Sri Hari-Hara Ksetra.
In honour of Srila Madhavendra Puripad:
Sri Madhavendra
Puripad
"Every year on the second day of the parikrama we celebrate this
day—Sri Madhavendra Puripad's disappearance festival. Actually,
Srila Madhavendra Puripad is the root of the wish-fulfilling tree of
devotion..."
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Loving
Search for the Lost Servant
"When will you come to Me? When will you come to serve Me?"—the Lord
goes to the extremes waiting for us to come to Him, so why is it that we
still cannot come to Him?
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Srila Madhavendra Puripad: The Sprout of Love Divine
From Affectionate Guidance: "Today is a most auspicious day—the holy
Disappearance Day of Srila Madhavendra Puripad. The sprout of divine love for
Krishna (Krishna-premankur) appeared in this world in the form of Srila
Madhavendra Puri. Mahaprabhu and Nityananda Prabhu glorified Srila
Madhavendra Puri so much. Nityananda Prabhu and Advaita Prabhu were disciples
of Srila Madhavendra Puri..."
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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?"
Sri Nabadwip Dham
Parikrama: Evening Class
(18 photographs, 1 Mb | 26 February 2018)
Sharing photographs taken during the evening class on the first day of Sri Nabadwip
Dham parikrama. His Divine Grace shares his firm determination to carry on the
parikrama despite any difficulties and encourages the devotees to remember that the
connection between the disciple and the Guru is not a one day relationship.
Sri Nabadwip Dham
Parikrama: Day Two
(111 photographs, 8 Mb | 27 February 2018)
Photographs from the second day of Sri Nabadwip Dham parikrama led by His Divine Grace
Om Vishnupad Srila Bhakti Nirmal Acharya Maharaj carrying the banner of Sri Chaitanya
Saraswat Math to Sri Mayapur Dham. Visited on this day are Sri Antardwip, Sri
Simantadwip, and Sri Rudradwip.
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