SRI GAUDIYA GITANJALI : INTRODUCTION

Sri Bhaktisiddhanta Vani

‘Devotees dedicated to the Lord’s service are eternal servants of Sri Guru and eternal servants of Sri Krishna. Devotees eternally serve Sri Krishna following their guru with faith and in strict adherence. If someone tries to practise Krishna consciousness without faithfully following their guru and Vaishnavs, this is not service to the Lord – it is service to maya. If someone does not faithfully follow their guru but, following their own ideas, behaves virtuously, visits holy places, performs the sixty-four practices of devotion to the Lord, practises renunciation, austerities, Nama-sankirtan, japa, meditation or engages in any other devotional(?) practices, they do not do even a little service to the Lord thereby; rather, they are simply fulfilling their desire to gratify their own senses.

‘When service to the Lord appears to be sense gratification in disguise, many people are often cheated by such disguised enjoyment. A deceitful show of service to the Lord motivated by the desire for fame, wealth and women is not “service to the Lord” – it is simply hypocritical cheating of oneself and others.

‘Service to the Lord is based on following your guru and Vaishnavs with chaste submission. Pretending to serve the Lord without faithfully following your guru is a nonsensical idea compared to “jumping over the goda to eat grass”. In the conditioned state, one cannot gain entrance into the Lord’s service without faithfully adhering to their guru and Vaishnavs, and even in the liberated state, when one serves the Lord in the spiritual body, constant adherence to one’s gurudev continues.

If one does not faithfully follow Sri Gurudev – the eternal embodiment of the Lord’s shelter (asraya-vigraha) – and his followers, then one, in essence, only commits the offence of worshipping one’s own self.’

—Sri Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Thakur

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INDEX

• Sri Bhaktisiddhanta Vani
• Introduction
• Foreword (1)
• Foreword (2)
• Guidance
• Daily Kirtan Guidelines

VANDANA

SRI GURU VANDANA

• Krsna haite chatur-mukha
• Jaya jaya gurudeva acharya nirmala
• Jaya jaya gurudevera arati ujjvala
• Jaya guru maharaja yati-rajesvara
• Sujanarvuda-radhita-pada-yugam
• Sri-guru-charana-padma
• Sri-guru-charana-padma
• Gurudev! krpa-bindu diya
• Gurudev! bada krpa kari
• Gurudev! kabe tava karuna prakase
• Gurudev! kabe mora sei dina habe?
• Gurudeve vraja-vane
• Sri-rupa-manjari-pada

SRI VAISHNAV VANDANA

• (Ohe) vaisnava thakura, dayara sagara
• Ei-bara karuna kara vaisnava gosani
• Thakura vaisnava pada, avanira susampada
• Thakura vaisnava-gana! kari ei nivedana
• Krpa kara vaisnava thakura
• Ki-rupe paiba seva muni durachara
• Dhana mora nityananda
• Mana tumi tirthe sada rata
• Bhaja re bhaja re amar
• Vaisnava Ke?
• Viraha Giti

SRI NITYANANDA VANDANA

• Nitai pada-kamala
• Akrodha paramananda
• Nitai gunamani amara
• Parama karuna pahu dui jana
• Dayal-Nitai Chaitanya bale
• Are bhai! nitai amara dayara avadhi
• Nitai mora jivana dhana, nitai mora jati
• Daya kara more nitai
• Jaya jaya nityananda gauranga
• Sriman Nityananada Dvadasakam

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