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Worshipful Mood
"...We worship Suddha Saraswati, it is necessary if you want to get the
result. Unless we get the mercy of Nityananda Prabhu, we will not have any
brain. We must have the mercy of Nitaichand. When will we attain His
mercy?"
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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:
Our Dearmost
"Who is there in this world who is truly close and dear to you except for
Nityananda Prabhu? Who else can you call your dear and near? If you can get
the mercy of Nityananda Prabhu, you will get the mercy of Gauranga.
Nityananda Prabhu is Guru-tattva. You cannot get anything without the mercy
of Gurudev..."
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Do Not Compromise
with Maya
"So many problems came in their time, and they did not back off—they spoke
the truth; but we are ready to compromise our principles—we compromise what
Mahaprabhu teaches us with other things. Srila Sridhar Maharaj saw a big
dream that Mahaprabhu's proper conception would be preached all over the
world by Sri Chaitanya Saraswat Math, and that is happening now. We must not
surrender to maya."
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Life of Loving Service
"You must remember one thing. There is no relationship between our bodies and
the Lord. It is our soul, what we call 'I', that has a relationship with the
Lord, and the soul (atma) knows perfectly well what Paramatma wants,
what Paramatma needs. The body does not and cannot know this."
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Capturing Lord's Heart
"Krishna is very merciful. If you can do just some small service to Him with
heart and soul, you can capture the Lord. Krishna is saying, 'I do not give
My mercy to anyone so easily, but when I do give My mercy to someone, I do
not leave them.'"
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Today in the calendar: Krishna Ashtami. Disappearance of Srila Lochan Das 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. 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."
"We should always check the calendar, and when we see some dates mentioned there, even if we do not know anything about the Vaishnav or events mentioned there, we can at least give 'jay' to them—that also brings some good sukriti, some purification to us. Seeing the calendar and taking devotees' names early in the morning, from the beginning of the day, is very good for all devotees."
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Never Too
Early, Never Too Late
"If you serve and run behind the Lord's devotees—then the Lord Himself will
run behind you to serve you! You will not have to run behind the Lord, the
Lord Himself will run behind you to catch you—if you can serve devotees
properly. However, you cannot serve devotees without being a devotee
yourself..."
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Download / listen to the audio (1.8 Mb, 5 min | 5 February 2020 | Bengali)
Today in the calendar: Krishna Saptami. Disappearance of Srila Jayadev Goswami.
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."
"We should always check the calendar, and when we see some dates mentioned there, even if we do not know anything about the Vaishnav or events mentioned there, we can at least give 'jay' to them—that also brings some good sukriti, some purification to us. Seeing the calendar and taking devotees' names early in the morning, from the beginning of the day, is very good for all devotees."
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Greatest Wealth
"We say all these big, big things, we give lectures, but to what extent are
we able to practise it? Just think about it—how hard it is to practise
atma-nivedanam, how hard it is to give everything to the lotus feet of
the Lord..."
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Spiritual Trade-Off
"Dhruva Maharaj went to the forest and spent there five years sitting in one
place, unswervingly meditating on Krishna. He did not meditate on the Lord to
get the Lord—he actually meditated on the Lord to get the throne of his
father's kingdom!"
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Today in the calendar: Krishna Chaturthi. Disappearance of Sripad Yadavendu Bhakti Chandan.
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."
"We should always check the calendar, and when we see some dates mentioned there, even if we do not know anything about the Vaishnav or events mentioned there, we can at least give 'jay' to them—that also brings some good sukriti, some purification to us. Seeing the calendar and taking devotees' names early in the morning, from the beginning of the day, is very good for all devotees."
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Deeply Anxious
to Serve
"Many of you are householder devotees, living in your homes—you also offer
bhog to the Lord every day and take prasad, but can you say
that your material illusion (prapancha) has gone away? Why is it not
going away?"
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Today in the calendar: Krishna Tritiya. Appearance of Srila Gopal Bhatta Goswami Prabhu. Disappearance of Srila Ramachandra Kaviraj.
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."
"We should always check the calendar, and when we see some dates mentioned there, even if we do not know anything about the Vaishnav or events mentioned there, we can at least give 'jay' to them—that also brings some good sukriti, some purification to us. Seeing the calendar and taking devotees' names early in the morning, from the beginning of the day, is very good for all devotees."
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Service Quality
"It is necessary to always be alert and make sure there is no defects in
your service. When you are giving something to your Guru, you must always see
if that thing is clean and neat or not. We make sure everything is clean, but
last we should see whether our mind is clean or not."
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Download / listen to the audio (7.2 Mb, 17 min | 5 February 2020 | Bengali)
Kali Yuga
Brahmans
"Who is great, a brahman or a Vaishnav? If you have 100,000 rupees, it
automatically means you have 1,000 rupees as well. So, 1,000 rupees is
brahman, and 100,000 rupees is Vaishnav—it means that those who have
the qualities of a Vaishnav automatically have all qualities of a
brahman."
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Download / listen to the audio (5.9 Mb, 14 min | 23 February 2021 | Bengali)
Ten Days in Shantipur
"...When Mahaprabhu came to Shantipur and the news about it spread
everywhere, so many devotees started coming there—so many boats, full of
people, came to Shantipur to see Mahaprabhu..."
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Memorable Pastimes
"I have remembered one story that Srila Gurudev told me. The name of Srila
Prabhupad's guru was Srila Gaura Kishor Das Babaji Maharaj. When Srila Gaura
Kishor Das Babaji Maharaj came to Nabadwip from Vrindavan, people thought he
was like a madman..."
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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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Path to Indigestion
"Can you eat the same amount as a young person? You cannot. Therefore, a
young person has more qualification and right to eat than you. If you speak
about things that are beyond your right, you will have indigestion—your
devotion will be destroyed."
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Today in the calendar: Purnima. Pushyabhisheka Yatra of Sri Krishna. Disappearance of Sripad Bhakti Sharan Vaisnava 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. 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."
"We should always check the calendar, and when we see some dates mentioned there, even if we do not know anything about the Vaishnav or events mentioned there, we can at least give 'jay' to them—that also brings some good sukriti, some purification to us. Seeing the calendar and taking devotees' names early in the morning, from the beginning of the day, is very good for all devotees."
Snowball of Offences
"If you keep making and making offences, then these offences will go up to
the Guru. You can never get any benefit like this. Such people become
alienated from others—nobody likes them..."
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In memory of today's events related to Sriman Mahaprabhu's sannyas-lila:
Memorable Day In
Bamunpara
"One morning Gurudev went to Bamunpara. Only Gurudev, his driver, me, and
Gurudev's servant who cooked for him, went at that time. That day, Gurudev
showed me that place in Bamunpara where Mahaprabhu passed after taking
sannyas..."
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Remembering
Mahaprabhu's Sannyas-Lila
"Srila Param Guru Maharaj said that during this time Nabadwip was covered by
thick clouds—there was no sun in the sky and everything was very dark. Even
the sun too cried because the Lord had left Nabadwip. It was such a sad time,
everybody felt very deep separation."
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Ten Days in Shantipur
"...When Mahaprabhu came to Shantipur and the news about it spread
everywhere, so many devotees started coming there—so many boats, full of
people, came to Shantipur to see Mahaprabhu..."
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Heart-Breaking Decision
"Mahaprabhu's mother, Gadadhar, Brahmananda, Chandrasekhara, and Mukunda.
Mahaprabhu told Nityananda Prabhu, 'Nobody except them knows about it.' Sri
Sachi Mata cried so much and other devotees also tried to dissuade Mahaprabhu
in so many ways..."
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Sannyas
Lila: Roaming the Land
"Mahaprabhu would go in a zigzag way—sometimes He went to the East,
sometimes to the West, and the devotees followed Him not knowing where He
was going..."
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Sri Nimai Sannyas
(English, Bengali, an audio recording)
Srila Bhakti Raksak Sridhar Dev-Goswami Maharaj's poem expressing the
grief-stricken hearts of the residents of Nabadwip: "Vishvambhar, the son
of Jagannath Mishra, who resides in Nabadwip, Sachi's Nimai, has taken
sannyas. A tumult of cries filled the sky—Sachi's Nimai has
taken sannyas!"
From Sri Sri Prema Dhama Deva Stotram:laksa-lochanasru-varsa-harsa-kesa-kartanam
koti-kantha-krsna-kirtanadhya-danda-dharanam
nyasi-vesa-sarvadesa-ha-hutasa-kataram
prema-dhama-devam eva naumi gaura-sundaram
"Sri Gaurasundara departed from Nabadwip and went away to become a sannyasi (monk), leaving behind his family members and friends whose eyes were filled with tears. He accepted the staff and waterpot as his only possessions, the emblems of a renunciate. When his long hair was cut off and his head was shaved, thousands of voices sang the holy names. The devotee's eyes shed rivers of tears, since they knew he was going into the world and leaving them behind. From that time, whoever saw him in the red garments of a sannyasi cried out loud in grief. I sing with joy the unending glories of my sweet Lord, my golden Gaurasundara, the one and only divine abode of pure love."
Perverted
Tastes and Habits
"Listen to what I am saying. If you do not learn to be like that, you will
never be able to practise Krishna consciousness. Those who make offences
against Vaishnavs can never get any good result—they cannot even chant the
Holy Name no matter how much they count the beads."
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Today in the calendar: Remembrance of Sriman Mahaprabhu's sannyas-lila.
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."
"We should always check the calendar, and when we see some dates mentioned there, even if we do not know anything about the Vaishnav or events mentioned there, we can at least give 'jay' to them—that also brings some good sukriti, some purification to us. Seeing the calendar and taking devotees' names early in the morning, from the beginning of the day, is very good for all devotees."
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CALENDAR FOR 01/2022
28 January (Fri). Krishna Ekadasi. Shat-tila Ekadasi. Fast.
29 January (Sat). Krishna Dvadasi. Paran between 6:24 and 10:01 a.m.
CALENDAR FOR 02/2022
2 February (Wed). Gaura Pratipad. Disappearance of Tridandi Swami Srimad Bhakti Gaurava Vaikhanas Maharaj. Disappearance of Sri Haripada Chaudhuri Das Adhikari.
3 February (Thu). Gaura Dvitiya. Disappearance of Tridandi Swami Srimad Bhakti Sharan Shanta Maharaj.
5 February (Sat). Gaura Chaturthi. Appearance of Om Vishnupad Srila Bhakti Pavan Janardan Maharaj.
6 February (Sun). Gaura Panchami. Sri Krishna Vasanta Panchami. Appearance day of Sri Vishnu Priya Devi. Appearance of Srila Pundarik Vidyanidhi, Srila Raghunath Das Goswami, and Srila Raghu Nandan Thakur. Disappearance of Srila Visvanath Chakravarti Thakur, Tridandi Swami Srimad Bhakti Viveka Bharati Maharaj, and Tridandi Swami Srimad Bhakti Svarup Parvat Maharaj. Sri Saraswati Puja.
8 February (Tue). Gaura Saptami. Appearance of Mahavishnu Avatar, Sri Advaita Acharya.
9 February (Wed). Gaura Ashtami. Disappearance of Sripad Virendra Krishna Prabhu.
10 February (Thu). Gaura Navami. Disappearance of Srila Madhva Acharya.
11 February (Fri). Gaura Dashami. Disappearance of Srila Ramanuja Acharya.
12 February (Sat). Gaura Ekadasi. Bhaimi Ekadasi. Fast.
13 February (Sun). Gaura Dvadashi. Varaha Dvadashi. Paran between 6:17 and 10:00 a.m. after the worship of Sri Varahadev. Appearance of Lord Varaha.
14 February (Thu). Gaura Trayodashi. Appearance of Sri Nityananda Prabhu. Grand festival and installation anniversary of Sri Sri Guru Gaura Nityananda Jiu at Sree Chaitanya Saraswata Krishnanushilana Sangha, Ekachakra Dham. Fast until noon.
16 February (Wed). Purnima. Sri Krishna's Madhurotsav. Appearance of Srila Narottam Das Thakur.
19 February (Sat). Krishna Tritiya. Disappearance of Tridandi Swami Sripad Bhakti Premik Siddhanti Maharaj.
21 February (Mon). Krishna Panchami. The 149th divine appearance festival of the founder of the Sri Chaitanya Math and worldwide Sri Gaudiya Maths, Bhagavan Sri Srila Bhakti Siddhanta Saraswati Goswami Prabhupad. Anniversary festival of the installation of Sri Gupta Govardhan Sri Mandir, Sri Govinda Kunda, Nabadwip.
22 February (Tue). Krishna Shashthi. Disappearance of Srila Purushottam Thakur. Appearance of Tridandi Swami Srimad Bhakti Saranga Goswami Maharaj.
27 February (Sun). Krishna Ekadasi. Trisprisha Mahadvadashi. Fast. Disappearance of Sripad Krishna Govinda Das Adhikari.
28 February (Mon). Krishna Dvadashi. Paran between 6:05 and 9:55 a.m.
CALENDAR FOR 03/2022
1 March (Tue). Krishna Chaturdashi. Sri Sri Shivaratri (optional fast). Disappearance of Sripad Yudhamanyu Prabhu Seva Vikram.
2 March (Wed). Amavasya. Paran between 6:04 and 9:54 a.m. for those who fasted. Anniversary festival of the installation of Sri Sadasiva Gangadhar, Sri Govinda Kunda, Nabadwip, Deities at the temple in Tarakeshwar, and the inauguration of the temple of Lord Siva in Kadigachha.
3 March (Thu). Gaura Pratipad. Disappearance of Vaishnava Sarvabhauma Srila Jagannath Das Babaji Maharaj, Srila Rasikananda Dev Goswami, and Tridandi Swami Srimad Bhakti Dayita Madhav Maharaj.
4 March (Fri). Gaura Dvitiya. Appearance of Om Vishnupad Srila Bhakti Kusum Ashram Maharaj.
5 March (Sat). Gaura Tritiya. Sri Sri Guru Gauranga Gandharva Radha Ramanasundar Jiu installation anniversary festival, at Sree Chaitanya Saraswata Krishnanushilana Sangha, Kaikhali, Kolkata.
6 March (Sun). Gaura Chaturthi. Appearance of Srila Purushottam Thakur. Disappearance of Sripad Tulasidas Das Adhikari Prabhu.
7 March (Mon). Gaura Panchami. Disappearance of Sriyukta Tarangini Devi.
12 March (Sat). Gaura Navami. Adhivas festival of Sri Nabadwip Dham Parikrama. Beginning of annual seven day festival.
13 March (Sun). Gaura Dashami. Sri Nabadwip Dham Parikrama begins. Parikrama of Sri Ishodyan, Sri Yoga Pith (Sriman Mahaprabhu's appearance place), Srivas Angan, Sri Nrisimha Mandir, Sri Advaita Bhavan, Murari Gupta Bhavan, Sri Chaitanya Math, the Temple of Sri Sri Gandharvika-Giridhari and Sriman Mahaprabhu surrounded by the Acharyas of the four Vaishnava sampradayas, Srila Prabhupad's Samadhi Mandir, Srila Gaura Kishor Das Babaji Maharaj's Samadhi, Sri Kazi Samadhi, Sharadanga Sri Jagannath Mandir, Sridhar Angan, and Sri Antardwip.
14 March (Mon). Gaura Ekadasi. Amlaki Ekadasi. Fast. Parikrama of Sri Simantadwip and Sri Rudradwip.
15 March (Tue). Gaura Dvadashi. Paran between 5:52 and 9:48 a.m. Parikrama of Praudha Maya, Vriddha Shiva, Sri Vishnu Priya's Deity of Sri Gauranga, Sri Jagannath Das Babaji Maharaj's Samadhi Mandir, Sri Koladwip. Disappearance of Sripad Madhavendra Puri.
16 March (Wed). Gaura Trayodashi. Parikrama of Sri Godrumadwip and Madhyadwip, Sri Surabhi Kunja, Suvarna Bihar Math, Sri Nrisimha Palli, Sri Harihara Ksetra.
17 March (Sat). Gaura Chaturdashi. Adhivas observance ceremony of the appearance of Sri Gauranga. Parikrama of Sri Koladwip, Sri Ritudwip, Sri Jahnudwip, Sri Modadrumadwip, Old Sri Sri Gaura-Gadadhar Mandir, Vidya Nagar Sarvabhauma Gaudiya Math, Srila Vrindavan Das Thakur's appearance place, and the Deity served by Sri Saranga Murari and Vasudev Datta Thakur.
18 March (Fri). Sri Gauravirbhava Paurnamasi. Sri Gaura Purnima. Divine appearance of Sri Gauranga. Total fast until moonrise, then no grains. Grand festival at Sri Chaitanya Saraswat Math. Vasantotsav and Dol Yatra of Sri Sri Radha-Govinda. Special offering of worship and arati. Sri Chaitanya-charitamrita reading and mahasankirtan. End of year 536 Gaurabda.
19 March (Sat). Krishna Pratipad. Sri Gaura Purnima paran between 5:48 and 9:46 a.m. Anandotsav of Sri Jagannath Mishra. Last gathering of the week-long yearly meeting at Sri Chaitanya Saraswat Math and yearly festival. Start of year 537 Gaurabda.
23 April (Wed). Krishna Panchami. Festival at the appearance place of Srila Bhakti Raksak Sridhar Dev-Goswami Maharaj, Sripat Hapaniya: grand appearance of the Holy Deities of Sripat Hapaniya, Sri Sri Guru Gauranga Radha Gopinath Jiu at Sri Chaitanya Saraswat Ashram. Appearance of Tridandi Swami Srimad Bhakti Sharan Shanta Maharaj. Pancham Dol.
THE HOLY NAME:
2) Consider Lord Siva and gods to be independent of Lord Krishna
3) Consider Guru to be an ordinary mortal man
4) Criticise scriptures
5) Interpret the Name with the help of a dictionary, etc.
6) Consider the Name imaginary.
7) Sin and chant to remove the sin.
8) Consider chanting equal to pious activities.
9) Instruct faithless people in chanting, inattentive chanting.
10) Remain attached to things, your body, etc.
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| 'O Tulasi, you shower mercy upon one who offers you incense, lamps, foods, worship, and flowers.' | নমো নমঃ তুলসী মহারাণি |
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