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MONTHLY ARCHIVE OF UPDATES
DECEMBER 2020
"Even if you live as a householder, you can still try to preach. It is possible. I am telling to everyone—the minimum requirement for all householders is that you must give 50% of your labour to your family and minimum 50% to your Gurudev. You must spend minimum 50% of your time on service and spiritual life."
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Sri Nrisingha Palli:
Construction Progress
(30 November 2020 | 25 photographs, 2.6 Mb)
His Divine Grace Om Vishnupad Jagad Guru Srila Bhakti Nirmal Acharya Maharaj
spends several days at Sri Nrisingha Palli supervising the construction works
and nourishing devotees with his holy association.
"We must preach properly. We must reach everyone, door to door. Practising must be door to door! I like this kind of preaching that was inaugurated by Srila Bhaktivinod Thakur, Srila Prabhupad. Mahaprabhu said, 'Preach village to village!' Srila Prabhupad said, 'Go door to door!' and our Gurudev and Guru Maharaj said, 'Reach to everyone, heart to heart.'"
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Preaching
Programme
(1 December 2020 | 16 photographs, 1.9 Mb)
Photographs taken during a preaching programme in Sirajpur (Burdwan district)
during which His Divine Grace Om Vishnupad Jagad Guru Srila Bhakti Nirmal
Acharya Maharaj nourishes all assembled devotees with Hari-katha and
Hari-kirtan, grants the Holy Name to several new devotees, and invites
everyone for the forthcoming grand festival in honour of Srila B.S. Govinda
Dev-Goswami Maharaj's appearance day.
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"This is very urgent, very important. You may have a temple, and you think, 'Oh, I am opening a centre, everyone must come to me!' It is not so easy for people to come to your temple in this age of Kali! You have to take your temple and go to everyone's door!"
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CENTENARY ANTHOLOGY:
Part 2. Chapter 14. Harmony—Beauty's Necessity
"We are not to try to create another world, but we are to understand what
already exists. Just as a serpent moves in a crooked way, the nature of
Love's progress is similar to that. The nature of affection is not
straightforward because it has to accommodate everything in it. Everything
possible in existence is accommodated in love. So try to adjust to this. Do
not be eager to create another world."
Preaching
Programme in Kakdwip
(2 December 2020 | 19 photographs, 1.9 Mb)
Sharing photographs from a large preaching programme in the area of Kakdwip
attended by His Divine Grace Om Vishnupad Jagad Guru Srila Bhakti Nirmal
Acharya Maharaj for the eternal benefit of all assembled fortunate devotees
and guests.
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"(1) This is what is said in the scriptures. If your position is like this or you can bring yourself to this position, or level, then, yes, Krishna will hear your prayer. (2) Why was it necessary? What is the reason of it? We cannot judge what is necessary and what is not necessary. If something is to happen by the will of Krishna, who can stop it? It does not depend on us or anybody else."
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Preaching
Programme in Kalarait (Kolkata)
(4 December 2020 | 24 photographs, 2.6 Mb)
Photographs from a small preaching programme at the house of Sri Chaitanya
Saraswat Math devotees in the suburbs of Kolkata. His Divine Grace Om
Vishnupad Jagad Guru Srila Bhakti Nirmal Acharya Maharaj comes to nourish
everyone with beautiful Sri Hari-katha and Sri Hari-kirtan after a long time
of being unable to meet with the devotees due to the pandemic situation.
"What makes you think you can take such a decision not to offer milk to the Lord? I do not support this. You must offer milk to the Deities, and if you personally do not like to take milk, that is your decision. We do not take any food—we take prasadam."
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CENTENARY ANTHOLOGY:
Part 2. Chapter 15. Ambition of Life
"We do not like to live in this material world that is so nasty. We are
trying to realise how to live in the land of the soul. We are soul and we
should live there. Our ambition of life is the higher plane of Krishna. We
want to live in a country where the general insult and disregard is absent.
We can live an honourable life there."
ভগবানকে কুঁজে পেতে হয়
শ্রীল গুরুপাদপদ্ম ওঁ বিষ্ণুপাদ শ্রীলভক্তিনির্ম্মল আচার্য্য মহারাজের
হরিকথামৃত সিরাজপুরে (বর্ধমান):
"ভারত ভূমিতে এই মনুষ্য জন্ম আমরা লাভ করেছি কিন্তু আমরা আমাদের নিজের ভালটা
জানি না, নিজের ভালটা বুঝতে পারি না—শুধু এই দেহের ভালটার জন্য এই সব টাকা,
খাওয়া, পরা, ঘুম ভাবছি । আমরা মায়ার দাসত্ব করলাম—আমরা সবাই জন্মিয়েছি
কৃষ্ণের দাসত্ব করবার জন্য কিন্তু জন্ম লাভ করবার পর আমরা ভুলে গিয়েছেন যে, জীব
নিত্য কৃষ্ণদাস..."
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"তাঁর জিনিস তাঁর সেবায়"
শ্রীল গুরুপাদপদ্ম ওঁ বিষ্ণুপাদ শ্রীলভক্তিনির্ম্মল আচার্য্য মহারাজের
হরিকথামৃত কলকাতায় :
"কৃষ্ণ বলেছেন, 'আমি ভক্তগণের হৃদয়ে থাকি—ভক্তগণ আমাকে ছাড়া কাউকে জানেন না,
আমিও ভক্তগণকে ছাড়া কাউকে জানি না ।' আপনারা অনেকে বলেন, 'ভগবান ত আমার কথা
শুনছেন না !' কেন শুনবেন ? 'ষড়ঙ্গ শরণাগতি হইবে যাঁহার, তাঁহার প্রার্থনা শুনে
শ্রীনন্দকুমার ।'"
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"This is the first explanation Krishna gives. When Arjuna heard it, he was not happy—he still did not want to fight. Only when Krishna spoke about bhakti-yoga did Arjuna gradually start to understand it and eventually changed his mind. However, we think in another way..."
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CENTENARY ANTHOLOGY:
Part 2. Chapter 16. Place of Solution, Sri Nabadwip Dham
"If we can develop the eye to see, then every atom of Gaura-Dham will
charm us to the utmost. Only the eye is necessary. By charm every atom is
sufficient to engage us fully and accommodate us wholesale. One particle of
dust can give us fullest engagement because all is infinite and of the most
generous type here. All the dust is of the most generous type and promising
for Krishna."
(১৩) শ্রীবিদ্যানগর ও শ্রীজহ্ণুদ্বীপ বর্ণন
(শ্রীনবদ্বীপধাম মাহাত্ম্য-মুক্তা-মালা)
"শ্রীবিদ্যানগরে আসি নিত্যানন্দরায় । বিদ্যানগরের তত্ত্ব শ্রীজীবে শিখায় ॥
শুনি জীব প্রেমানন্দে সে বেদ নগরে । ব্যাসপীঠে গড়াগড়ি যায় প্রেমভরে ॥
নিত্যানন্দ শ্রীচরণে করে নিবেদন । আমার সংশয় ছেদ করহ এখন ॥ সাঙ্খ্য বিদ্যা তর্ক
বিদ্যা অমঙ্গলময় । কেমনে এ নিত্যধামে সে সকল রয় ॥"
"Gurudev is always in my heart, and I think and understand that I am also always in Gurudev's heart, then they can only try to throw me out of a building, but they can never throw me out of Gurudev's heart and out of devotees' hearts. That is my solace."
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"It is important and necessary for us to hear these things—how we must practise, how we will get our real benefit. These are the main things in our spiritual life. Sixty thousand rishis asked Srila Suta Goswami a question, 'What is ultimately good for a jiva soul?'"
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"If somebody thinks they came to the temple and wasted their life there, it means they do not see their own fault. Use your eyes to see your own faults, not others'. Those who have tolerance can stay longer, can practise more, whereas those who stay at the temple but think about material things, material enjoyment, leave the temple and go to another life."
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Preaching Programme in Bhagabanpur and Visiting Midnapore
(8 December 2020 | 40 photographs, 4.7 Mb)
His Divine Grace Om Vishnupad Jagad Guru Srila Bhakti Nirmal Acharya Maharaj
attends a small preaching programme in Eastern Midnapore and then proceeds to
visit Sri Chaitanya Saraswat Math temple in Midnapore nourishing all the
fortunate devotees and inviting everyone to the forthcoming grand festival of
Srila Gurudev's holy appearance.
"If you have the means (the capacity) to spend money for the Lord, you must do it. Otherwise you will reap the fate of those trees that were cursed and had to be born in a forest where not even birds or beasts entered, only some demon donkey lived there."
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One More Day at Midnapore
Temple
(9 December 2020 | 52 photographs, 5.6 Mb)
Sharing photographs from one more day spent at Sri Chaitanya Saraswat Math,
Midnapore, during which His Divine Grace Om Vishnupad Jagad Guru Srila Bhakti
Nirmal Acharya Maharaj gives several initiations to new devotees, takes a
stroll around the premises, gives class, and also makes arrangements for four
new residents of our Mission.
"Mercy is always necessary, and we must always try to be good. We must listen properly from our Guru, we must give ourselves to the service of our Gurudev without any second thoughts. Gurudev always says that you must have a good character, you must always tell the truth, and follow his instruction, you must not follow your mind."
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Last Day at Midnapore
Temple
(10 December 2020 | 15 photographs, 1.4 Mb)
Photographs from the last day spent at Sri Chaitanya Saraswat Math,
Midnapore, during which devotees take a walk around the city preaching and
collecting for the Temple, and His Divine Grace Om Vishnupad Jagad Guru Srila
Bhakti Nirmal Acharya Maharaj spends last hours in the associate of the
local devotees before leaving the Temple to continue preaching activities in
other places.
Today in the calendar: Krishna Ekadashi. Trisprisha Mahadvadashi. Fast. Disappearance of Srila Narahari Sarkar Thakur and Srila Kaliya Krishnadas. Disappearance of Sriyukta Dhananjay Das Prabhu.
His Divine Grace Om Vishnupad Srila B.N. Acharya Maharaj: "Even if you do not know anything about the Vaishnav mentioned in the calendar, you must still give them 'jay' on this day."
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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:
"You must try to stay in Gurudev's heart through your service, good behaviour, and good practice. We are alive in this world now, and we are suffering from so many diseases and elements, so we must always practise Krishna consciousness—we must always remember our Gurudev, Guru Maharaj, Prabhupad, as well as the Supreme Personality of Godhead."
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Today in the calendar: Krishna Trayodashi. Paran between 6:13 and 9:45 a.m. Disappearance of Srila Saranga Thakur.
His Divine Grace Om Vishnupad Srila B.N. Acharya Maharaj: "Even if you do not know anything about the Vaishnav mentioned in the calendar, you must still give them 'jay' on this day."
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"Give respect to everybody. Basically, tridandi sannyas means to be humble, tolerant, and give honour to others. However, I am bound to say that sometimes they take sannyas or saffron, and their ego becomes very big. They forget that they must serve more. It makes me very sad."
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"I do not want to go preaching alone, when there are only two-three devotees. I always want devotees' association. 'Ekaki amara nahi paya bala hari-nama-sankirtane. When I am alone, I get no strength to chant.' Devotees' enthusiasm gives me inspiration."
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Preaching
Programme in Basirhat Area: Day One
(13 December 2020 | 44 photographs, 4.5 Mb)
Sharing photographs taken during the first day of His Divine Grace Om
Vishnupad Jagad Guru Srila Bhakti Nirmal Acharya Maharaj's preaching
programme in Basirhat area. On the first day, His Divine Grace holds a fire
sacrifice in honour of a recently departed devotee, and spends time with the
devotees, preaching and taking devotees' association after a long period of
not being able to meet due to the lockdown.
Today in the calendar: Amavasya. Disappearance of Sri Jagabandhu Bhakti Ranjan.
His Divine Grace Om Vishnupad Srila B.N. Acharya Maharaj: "Even if you do not know anything about the Vaishnav mentioned in the calendar, you must still give them 'jay' on this day."
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"We do service, we have so many good qualities, we worship the Lord and His devotees, but if we at the same time nurture some bad qualities inside us, we cannot progress in our spiritual life. Never speak bad about anybody. It is not necessary to say such things."
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"You always charge the battery of your phone, and in the same way you must charge your spiritual 'battery'. I am telling this to everybody through you. Every country must have programmes in this way. Everybody must join Krishna-sankirtan movement."
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Preaching
Programme in Basirhat Area
(15 December 2020 | 36 photographs, 3.1 Mb)
Sharing photographs taken during the third day of His Divine Grace Om
Vishnupad Jagad Guru Srila Bhakti Nirmal Acharya Maharaj's preaching
programme in Basirhat area. His Divine Grace goes village to village and
speaks at numerous small programmes throughout the day, nourishing devotees'
hearts and inviting everyone for Srila Gurudev's forthcoming festival.
"If we do not expose other conceptions' faults, how will we prove the superiority of our consciousness? When I told you not to criticise, I mean not to criticise Vaishnavs and not to gossip or discuss others. If you can understand these things, you can harmonise it."
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Preaching
Programme in Basirhat Area
(16 December 2020 | 17 photographs, 2.3 Mb)
Photographs taken during the last day of His Divine Grace Om Vishnupad Jagad
Guru Srila Bhakti Nirmal Acharya Maharaj's preaching programme in Basirhat
area. His Divine Grace gives one lecture after another, encouraging the
devotees in every possible way to preach the conception of Krishna
consciousness and inviting everyone again and again for the forthcoming
festival of Srila Gurudev's appearance to be held in Sri Nrisingha Palli.
Weekend Programme in Bokaro
(December 2020 | 12 photographs, 2.8 Mb)
Photographs taken during a regular weekend programme of Sri Hari-kirtan, Sri
Hari-katha, and Sri Hari-prasad hosted by the devotees in Bokaro for the
pleasure of His Divine Grace Om Vishnupad Jagad Guru Srila Bhakti Nirmal
Acharya Maharaj.
"If you only take the initiation and a few days later forget your guru, forget the service of your guru, then how can you be happy through that? If you do not think about all this and just take initiation, what will be the result?"
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"They are Gurudev's devotees, they must do something for their practising life. If you always search others' faults, the whole life will finish and one day death will come and you will not be able to overcome it. If they think, 'We know everything!' they have a big problem."
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ক্ষুধার্ত জীবনযাত্রা
শ্রীল গুরুপাদপদ্ম ওঁ বিষ্ণুপাদ শ্রীলভক্তিনির্ম্মল আচার্য্য মহারাজের
হরিকথামৃত ভগবানপুরে (মেদিনিপুরে):
"এই মায়াবদ্ধ জীব শুধু নিজের টাকা, খাওয়া, পরা, ঘুম, এই সব নিয়ে চিন্তা করে—কী
করে ভাল খাব ? কী করে ভাল পরব ? সেটা কে না করে ? আমা যখন শুয়োর ছিলাম কত
বিষ্ঠা খেয়ে শেষ করেছি, যখন হাতি ছিলাম কত কলা গাছ শেষ করেছি, তাতে কি ক্ষিদা
মিটেছে ? সব সমত আরো চাই । যাঁকে পেলে আর কোন চাওয়া-বাসনা থাকে না, সেই ভগবানের
কাছে—নিজের বাড়িতে—যেতে হবে ।"
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"If you follow our guru-varga, then 'sweet relationship' means you sometimes talk with others, but you talk for service. Except for Krishna-katha, everything else is nonsense talks. So, it will be better if you talk with others only about Krishna-katha. Try to avoid other kinds of relationship, it will be good for you, good for everybody also."
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Preaching
Programme in Uluberia
(20 December 2020 | 12 photographs, 1.4 Mb)
Photographs from a preaching programme in Uluberia. His Divine Grace Om
Vishnupad Jagad Guru Srila Bhakti Nirmal Acharya Maharaj speaks Hari-katha
and chants Hari-kirtan in front of the assembled fortunate souls of Uluberia
district.
Preaching
Programme in Kajiakhali
(19 December 2020 | 23 photographs, 2.4 Mb)
His Divine Grace Om Vishnupad Jagad Guru Srila Bhakti Nirmal Acharya Maharaj
comes to Kajiakhali, a place close to the Uluberia Temple to hold a
Vaishnav-hom for Sri Balai Das Adhikari Prabhu, who departed recently.
The fire sacrifice and the rites are followed by kirtans and a
nourishing class of Hari-katha. After the programme, His Divine Grace visits
Uluberia Temple to check on the construction progress.
"সম্বন্ধ জানিয়া ভজিতে ভজিতে অভিমান হউ দূর"
শ্রীল গুরুপাদপদ্ম ওঁ বিষ্ণুপাদ শ্রীলভক্তিনির্ম্মল আচার্য্য মহারাজের
হরিকথামৃত কাজিয়াখালিতে (উলুবেড়িয়া):
"তাঁর পিতৃ চলে গিয়েছেন বলে শ্রীপাদ নিত্যানন্দ প্রভু কিছু বৈষ্ণব সেবা, বৈষ্ণব
হোম এবং ভক্তসেবা আয়োজন করেছেন, তাই আমরা সেই উপলক্ষে আজকে খুব সৌভাগ্যের ফলে
এসে উপস্থিত হয়েছি । গুরুদেব সব সময় একটা কথা বলতেন, ‘বৈষ্ণবগণ যদি চলে যান এই
জগৎ থেকে, সেই বৈষ্ণবগণের ক্রিয়াকার্য বেশি গুরুত্বপূর্ণ নয় । কিন্তু
গুরুত্বপূর্ণ হয়েছে বৈষ্ণব-সেবা এবং বৈষ্ণব হোম । ভক্তসেবা যেন ঠিক মত হয়, সেই
দিকে আমাদের লক্ষ্য রাখতে হবে ।"
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Kirtans
His Divine Grace chants kirtans at the recent preaching programme
in Kajiakhali.
• Kripa kara Vaisnava Thakura
• E ghora-samsare
• Gaya Gaura Madhur Svare
• Yasomati Nandana
• Jay Sachi-nandana
• Hare Krishna maha-mantra
• Hari Haraye Nama Krishna.
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"It is not necessary to become a great guru—we must become great disciples. If you worship the Lord understanding your relationship with Him, then your ego will be removed. We must understand that we are servants of devotees. When this relationship comes, your ego will be removed."
• Download / listen to the audio (1.4 Mb, 4 min | 19&20 December 2020)
"Everybody should remember Gurudev's appearance day, always think about it every day. When Gurudev left this world, I thought my head, shoulders, everything was gone, I was like a doll, or a statue, but when I see you all, I get back my life, my heart, etc."
• Download / listen to the audio (1.7 Mb, 4 min | 13 December 2020)
Today in the calendar: Gaura Ashtami. Disappearance of Srila Madhusudan Das Babaji Maharaj.
His Divine Grace Om Vishnupad Srila B.N. Acharya Maharaj: "Even if you do not know anything about the Vaishnav mentioned in the calendar, you must still give them 'jay' on this day."
"It is necessary to practise. Always practise Krishna consciousness, always remember the Absolute. Everything has its proper time and it is necessary to do things in good time. In this world, people say that the young age is for enjoyment, but this is completely incorrect. If you do not try to preach and practise from your young age, what will become of you in your old age?"
• Download / listen to the audio (2.3 Mb, 6 min | 20 December 2020)
Today in the calendar:
Gaura Navami. Appearance of Tridandi Swami Srimad Bhakti Kamal Madhusudan
Maharaj.
His Divine Grace Om Vishnupad Srila B.N. Acharya Maharaj: "Even if you do not know anything about the Vaishnav mentioned in the calendar, you must still give them 'jay' on this day."
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"I have been attending some programmes before Gurudev's appearance day and I will have more programmes after the festival. I want to make an assembly Sri Dham Pracharani Sobha dedicated to the preaching of the glorification of Sri Nabadwip Dham, guru-varga, as well as the glory and teachings of Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu. This is my view and my idea."
• Download / listen to the audio (4 Mb, 10 min | 20 December 2020)
DAILY PRACTICE:
Observing
Festivals
A page of the Daily Practice section dedicated to Vaishnav-seva and
observing festivals. "Why are you making a festival? Making a festival
means you are inviting many people and you are giving them some
prasadam, engaging them in Krishna consciousness—it means practising
Krishna consciousness."
Today in the calendar:
Gaura Dashami. Disappearance of Tridandi Swami Srimad Bhakti Kusum Shraman
Maharaj (a diksa disciple of Srila Bhakti Siddhanta Saraswati Thakur
Prabhupad, publisher of Nadiya Prakash; later, after Sripad B.V. Tirtha
Maharaj's disappearance, he presided over Sri Chaitanya Math in
Mayapur).
His Divine Grace Om Vishnupad Srila B.N. Acharya Maharaj: "Even if you do not know anything about the Vaishnav mentioned in the calendar, you must still give them 'jay' on this day. We must always remember disappearance and appearance days of all Vaishnavs. If we can remember such personalities, such great souls, it will bring a great benefit to our spiritual life. If you remember the glories of Vaishnavs, if you speak about the glories of Vaishnavs, they can rescue you from all kinds of material bondage. We have heard a hundred times that if we glorify Vaishnavs, it gives great benefit, but even though we have heard it a thousand times, how much are we able to glorify Vaishnavs from our heart? How much can we serve Vaishnavs with heart and soul? This is the question."
"You may have seen something, but it is not necessary to broadcast these things. This is called gramya-katha and prajalpa. This is not good for any devotee. Actually, devotees are always busy with their service, when will they get time for all this? Do not waste your time on others' faults."
• Download / listen to the audio (2.5 Mb, 6 min | 20 December 2020)
A pearl of guidance:
Buddhi-Suddhi
"You recite mantras for the archan, you chant that the cloth is clean,
the chamara is clean, the peacock fan is clean, the
pancha-pradip is clean, etc. Everything is clean, but do you ever
think, 'Is my mind clean?'"
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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:
"(1) We cannot stop our spiritual practice. Otherwise time will pass and our life will finish while we are waiting for all the problems to go away. (2) Gurudev always thinks in a practical way—the worship of Radha-Krishna is very high, but the worship of Nitai Gaurachandra is simpler."
• Download / listen to the audio (2.8 Mb, 7 min | 20 December 2020)
A pearl of guidance:
Gurudev's Vyasa
Puja Is Coming
"Gurudev's lila is going on, but only the fortunate souls can see it, that
is why we must engage everybody in service on his appearance day. Whatever
capacity we have—in kaya, mana, vakya, body, mind, and
speech—we must serve his appearance day, his birth day."
"Devotees must be always humble, it is necessary for everyone. Learn to be humble, tolerant and to give honour to others from Mahaprabhu and Gurudev. You must apply all these things in your life. These are the main things in one's life."
• Download / listen to the audio (3.1 Mb, 8 min | 20 December 2020)
Arrival at Sri
Nrisingha Palli
(26 December 2020 | 40 photographs, 4.5 Mb)
His Divine Grace Om Vishnupad Jagad Guru Srila Bhakti Nirmal Acharya Maharaj
arrives with his associates and abundant paraphernalia at Sri Nrisingha Palli
to prepare for the forthcoming grand festival of Srila B.S. Govinda
Dev-Goswami Maharaj's divine appearance day.
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Note: Some of the many preparations known to be favourite to His Divine Grace Srila B.S. Govinda Dev-Goswami Maharaj: Rice, mung or chana dal, stir-fried karela, sak, posto bora, aloo siddho (boiled potato, mashed with chilli, mustard oil and salt), cauliflower pakoras, singara (samosa), mixed vegetable subji, paneer rasa, tomato chutney, achar (pickle), avocado salad (with a little salt and olive oil), cucumber salad, mango, paramanna (sweet rice), rasagullas, sandesh, a cake, vanilla ice-cream, sarpuri/sarbhaja.
"How can I tell you it is easy to forget it. It is not easy. Even I cannot do that, then how will you do it? When somebody abuses you, it is not something you can forget. It is not that easy... But at least you can try."
• Download / listen to the audio (1.4 Mb, 4 min | 20 December 2020)
সেবাময় জীবন
শ্রীল গুরুপাদপদ্ম ওঁ বিষ্ণুপাদ শ্রীলভক্তিনির্ম্মল আচার্য্য মহারাজের
হরিকথামৃত শ্রীনৃসিংহপল্লীতে:
"আজকে অনেক দিন পরে আবার শ্রীনবদ্বীপ ধামে আমরা সব উপস্থিত হয়েছি । নবদ্বীপধাম
অভিন্না বৃন্দাবন ধাম, তার মধ্যেও এটা হচ্ছে শ্রীগোদ্রুমদ্বীপ । গুরুদেব কিসের
খুশি হন?—সেই দিকে সব সময় নজর রাখতে হবে । আমি গুরুদেবের উৎসব করবার জন্য এসেছি
। কেন ? সেটা আমার গুরুর উৎসব, আমি এই দিনের জন্য সুন্দরভাবে নিজে হাতে সব কিছু
করছি । এই ভাবে আমি প্রথম থেকে গুরুদেবকে সন্তোষ করতাম । গুরুসেবা যদি না করতে
পারি তাহলে কিছু লাভ হবে না ।"
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A pearl of guidance:
What Is
Vaishnav Seva?
"We did not come here to become Vaishnavs—we must become servants of the
servants of Vaishnavs. We must not think how we can please ourselves—we must
think how we can please our Gurudev. We must not only say, 'Oh, their feet
dust is the means of my subsistence.' We must have faith."
"It is necessary to understand how one should serve their Guru. You will serve your Guru with much love and affection. They do not know how close the relationship between Gurudev and me was. Gurudev gradually started to depend on me—when he came to Nabadwip, he would always depend on me in everything, and he said, 'I am coming here only because I know I can come and you will take care of everything.'"
• Download / listen to the audio (3.9 Mb, 10 min | 27 December 2020)
Festival Preparations at Sri Nrisingha Palli
(27-29 December 2020 | 33 photographs, 3.4 Mb)
Photographs taken during the past two days at Sri Chaitanya Saraswat Math in
Sri Nrisingha Palli: devotees busily and eagerly engage in countless services
around the temple in preparation to the grand festival of Srila B.S. Govinda
Dev-Goswami Maharaj's divine appearance day. His Divine Grace Om Vishnupad
Jagad Guru Srila Bhakti Nirmal Acharya Maharaj happily supervises the
preparations, does the marketing and makes sure that everything is arranged
as best as possible for the service of Sri Gurupadpadma and the devotees.
In honour of the forthcoming festival of Srila B.S. Govinda Dev-Goswami Maharaj's divine appearance:
Sri Guru:
Merciful Shelter
"We got this human body, but we did not do what a human should be doing. We
were spending our life busy with eating, sleeping, mating, defending (dogs,
goats, cats, sheep, etc. do all this and we did the same), but our Gurudev
has brought us to this path..."
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Practise Carefully
"That is why we have fallen into the illusory environment—we forget the Lord,
we forget the real thing and run here and there... Remember this. It is my
prayer to you all—you have all had darshan of Gurudev, but now it is
necessary to practise."
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Practise. Serve. Believe.
"You have come here to serve the Lord and you have come to a real, bona fide
Guru. This is your Math, you have received so much blessing from Gurudev. You
must think that this Sri Chaitanya Saraswat Math is a ship, and the captain
of this ship is Gurudev. If we can stay on this ship, we can reach the place
that this ship is taking us to."
• (11 December 2011)
"Chatak bird always waits for rain, and we too should have this hankering for service. By hook or by crook, I always wanted to please Gurudev. It is necessary to have service mood, and to have service mood you must have love and affection and always engage in sravanam, kirtanam, smaranam, etc."
• Download / listen to the audio (3.8 Mb, 9 min | 27 December 2020)
In honour of the forthcoming festival of Srila B.S. Govinda Dev-Goswami Maharaj's divine appearance:
Service: Proof of Love
"Every year we make this festival together, and we must promise on this
day: Gurudev is giving us life for one more year, and for one more year we
will engage ourselves in service to our Guru."
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Love for Guru: Service and Commitment
"We are always busy with our own interest, with our own enjoyment, but we
must understand: who do we love more, our Guru or ourselves? We must
realise it for ourselves in our heart. If we love our Guru more, then we
must serve more—we must give more time for our Guru."
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Download / listen to the audio (4 Mb, 11 min | 7 December 2014)
Guru's Mission
"Who can understand Gurudev? Can we recognise the Guru with these material
eyes? Can we recognise the Lord with these material eyes? Can you recognise
the Lord with your knowledge? Never. It is to understand him with your
heart..."
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Download / listen to the audio (1.7 Mb, 5 min | Bengali | 8 December 2014)
Mercy Is All in All
"You cannot know the Lord through your education, through your intelligence,
or knowledge. You must feel it with your heart."
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Gurudev: His Example and Teachings
"Gurudev conquered the whole world with his love and affection. Many
people throughout the world do not know English language or cannot fully
understand it, but they could understand Gurudev through their heart."
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Ideal of Surrender"Sri Sri Prapanna-jivanamritam is an important book in our line. There are so many highest things written here in a very beautiful way. I read it today again after many years, and I liked it a lot, I am thinking I must read it again and again."
• Download / listen to the audio (2.1 Mb, 5 min | 27 December 2020)
News from Sri Nrisingha Palli: Adhivas Day
(31 December 2020 | 50 photographs, 7.8 Mb)
A grand full house: sharing photographs from the adhivas day of the festival.
As devotees from all over Bengal continue to flock in, His Divine Grace Om
Vishnupad Jagad Guru Srila Bhakti Nirmal Acharya Maharaj mecifully manifests
his pastimes of arranging and celebrating the grand festival of Srila B.S.
Govinda Dev-Goswami Maharaj's divine appearance.
News from Sri Nrisingha Palli: Festival Is Starting
(30 December 2020 | 31 photographs, 3.4 Mb)
His Divine Grace Om Vishnupad Jagad Guru Srila Bhakti Nirmal Acharya Maharaj
and the devotees make last minute preparations before devotees start
arriving, and in the evening, the nat mandir becomes joyfully filled with the
fortunate devotees coming for Sri Hari-katha, Hari-kirtan, and Hari-seva
after many months of the lockdown restrictions.
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Taking the dust from the holy feet of all devotees and well-wishers of Sri
Chaitanya Saraswat Math, hankering to serve you all on the occasion of the
grand festival of Om Vishnupad Srila B.S. Govinda Dev-Goswami Maharaj's
divine appearance day, we humbly bow down at your holy feet and present a
collection of 51 recordings of Srila Govinda Maharaj chanting kirtans in
various years between 1988 and 2009. May this nectar of Sri Hari-Kirtan from
the holy lotus mouth of His Divine Grace nourish and massage the hearts of
the entire Devotional Family of Sri Chaitanya Saraswat Math.
In honour of the festival of Srila B.S. Govinda Dev-Goswami Maharaj's divine appearance:
Our Divine Master
"Sometimes some problem comes in our spiritual life, but we should not be
disheartened because of that. Gurudev said, 'Wherever you live you must
continue your practising life.' We must follow this."
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Gurudev's Teaching and
Pastimes
"Srila Sridhar Maharaj always depended on Gurudev in everything. So many
sannyasis, so many great scholars came to him, but he finally chose
our Gurudev as his successor. We can see then how much love and affection he
had for him."
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A Perfect Disciple
"It is those who can take Gurudev's responsibility that can be a Guru. Only
taking a mantra does not make one a disciple—one who can take their
Gurudev's responsibility, who can take away pain from their Gurudev, is
called a perfect disciple."
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