Who Can Offer Bhoga To Krsna?

Sunday, 16 December 2001



Tridandiswami Sri Srimad Bhaktivedanta Narayana Gosvami Maharaja
Germany: Dec. 16, 2001 (eve)

offering to Krsna
Srila Narayana Gosvami Maharaja making an offering

[Dear Respected Readers:

Please accept our humble obesiances. All glories to Sri Sri Guru and Gauranga.
The following lecture was sent to the Harikatha mailing list approximately one year ago. Since then, about one thousand devotees have joined the list. Wherever we travel around the world, devotees who do not have second initiation (diksa) enquire from us how to offer their bhoga to Krsna. Therefore, due to popular demand, we are sending it again.
your aspiring servants,
The Hari-katha team]

[Srila Narayana Maharaja is sometimes asked why the procedures and standards for offering bhoga to the Deities, as taught by him, appear different from those established by Srila Prabhupada Bhaktivedanta Swami Maharaja. In the following class, given on Dec. 16, 2001, Srila Maharaja replies:]

[Srila Narayana Maharaja:] If you want to ask anything, you can ask. For example, I heard a question regarding a person who is not initiated, or a person who has only received first initiation (harinama). The question was asked, "Has such a person the right to make offerings to Krsna? What should he do?"

Suppose a person is not initiated at all, but he has faith and honor for Krsna and he knows that Krsna is Supreme Personality of Godhead. Or, he believes in Nrsimadeva or Rama or any Visnu-tattva as the Supreme Personality of Godhead. He wants to serve, he is engaged in some puja, and he has learned something from his family, his father, mother, or anyone else. He can offer preparations to Krsna. We have heard from sastra:

nanopacara-krta-pujanam arta-bandhoh
premnaiva bhakta-hrdayam sukha-vidrutam syat
yavat ksud asti jathare jaratha pipasa
tavat sukhaya bhavato nanu bhaksya-peye

["As long as there is hunger and thirst within the stomach, varieties of food and drink make one feel very happy. Similarly, when the Lord is worshiped with pure love, the various activities performed in the course of that worship awaken transcendental bliss in the heart of the devotee." (Caitanya-caritamrta, Madhya-lila 8.69)]

If you are fully initiated but you do not have love and affection for Krsna, then even if you offer something by mantra and 16 kinds of paraphernalia, Krsna will not accept your offering. On the other hand, if you have prema, Krsna will have so much hunger for taking whatever you offer. Krsna thinks, "When My devotee offers anything to me, I will take it. I will accept it, because he has prema. If that pure devotee is bringing something to Krsna and he has not yet offered it, Krsna will run after him to take it.

Even if one has not received second initiation, if he offers anything with bhakti, Krsna is bound to accept his offering. It may be that one has devotional impressions from past births, and in this birth he has surrendered to a sad-guru. The abovementioned verse is for him only. It is not meant for kanistha-adhikaris, those who are without such past impressions and who are just beginning to receive impressions in this birth by somehow associating with devotees. If one has some transcendental sraddha, he can make an offering. The kanistha-adhikari Vaisnava does not have very much faith. He is not of that high caliber.

Srila Swami Maharaja introduced something for his new disciples. Even if they had not received second initiation, he told them, "You can offer bhoga to Krsna by the mantra:
namo maha-vadanyaya krsna-prema-pradaya te / krsnaya krsna-caitanya-namne gaura-tvise namah and namne bramanya jagat"

A question may arise here: "Did Srila Swami Maharaja take initiation from his Gurudeva or not? Did he know all the rules and regulations for offering bhoga? Did he give those mantras [which are not for offering bhoga, but rather for offering obeisances] out of his ignorance, or did he purposely and knowingly give them? What is the reality?" The reality is that Srila Swami Maharaja considered, "Somehow I should gradually introduce all the rules and regulations. For these neophytes, the only rule and regulation is that they should not take meat, eggs, and alcohol. They should not smoke or engage in other abominable activities. They should think that they are devotees." For that purpose your Prabhupada gave initiation into the Hare Krsna mantra, and he told his young disciples, "Now you are devotees. You can now offer bhoga by this mantra: 'Namo brahmanya devaya…'"

This is not an offering mantra. He knew this, but he purposely did not give the offering mantra because at that time his disciples were not qualified to receive it. Proper following was very difficult for them. Now, however, so much water has passed under the bridge. Now they are very qualified, even more so than Indians. They can do it now. Now they should make offerings according to the proper procedures, and your Prabhupada has therefore sent me. He told me, "Go and introduce all these principles."

At present, the devotees are offering agarbatti (incense) for much longer than necessary when they perform arati. At that time Krsna is very hungry, thinking, "When will he finish?!" Then, after the incense, they offer a lamp, again for too long. Again Krsna thinks, "I'm so hungry. If he does not stop this arati soon, I will die of hunger. I will definitely die today." Therefore, Krsna runs away as they perform arati. Don't follow this drawn-out procedure. Try to follow what has been written in the scriptures that teach the proper procedures. You can offer agrabatti to Krsna three times, and then to His associates. The lamp may be offered fourteen times, but not more than that. Otherwise, Krsna will be very upset and run away. He especially fears if someone improperly offers the camara. He thinks, "Oh, he came to make an offering, but now he is exercising." Don't discover new things. Follow what is written in the authorized sastras.

Srila Swami Maharaja somehow engaged them. It was very, very difficult for him, as it would have been for any pure guru at that time, to introduce the actual strict procedures. "Jena tena prakarena" He introduced them to the line of bhakti and engaged them. [In his lecture of Dec. 20, 1966, Srila Prabhupada explained, "Rupa Gosvami, one of the big acaryas, says, yena tena prakarena manah krsne nivesayet: 'The first business is that somehow or other people should be Krsna conscious." So far rules and regulations are concerned...

yena tena prakarena
manah krsne nivesayet
sarve vidhi-nisedha syur
etayor eva kinkarah

If one takes to that line of activities, Krsna consciousness, then all regulations will follow as a servant follows a master. If the master starts, the servant follows. Similarly, the rules and regulations will follow automatically.'"] Now the time has come for us to reform and progress. At the time of offering your preparations, you should utter the correct mantras: "Etat naivedyam sa tulasi paniya jalam, kling gauraya svaha," and so on.

At first you should remember your Gurudeva and think, "Krsna may reject my offering, but He cannot reject my Gurudeva's offering." You should offer the bhoga to Gurudeva, not for his eating it, but for his offering it to Radha-Krsna and Mahaprabhu. Then you should call the Deity. Still now, in Puri, at the Radha-Kanta Matha, the vigraha of Sri Gopal Guru is presented the bhoga, and after that, thinking that Gopal Guru is making the offering, the bhoga is offered to Thakurji. Try to follow all these principles. Those who have not received second initiation, therefore, should take initiation. Otherwise, if the Guru thinks they should wait for some time, they can offer in this way: "Prabhu , I don't know anything. Gurudeva, please offer this." And he can do it. Krsna is 'bhava grahi janardana.' He accepts an offering according to the level of devotional qualification of the devotee making the offering. Such a devotee can offer according to his ability.
[Prabhupada stated in his lecture of May 25, 1969, "But in everything we do, devotion and sincerity are the real things. There is a word in Sanskrit; bhava grahi janardana: This means the Lord accepts service in devotional emotion. If we are sincere in offering something to the Lord in devotional love, He will accept it. The procedure may not be very correct, but the desire being sincere, He accepts our offering. This is also confirmed in the Bhagavad-gita. He accepts foodstuffs from devotees because they are offered to Him in complete love and affection. That is required."]

Now our time is over. If you have any questions, or you want to discuss anything with me, you can come to see me. Our classes here in Germany are finished, and now our school will go to America for some days.

Editorial advisor: Sriman Brajanath dasa
Typists: Vasanti dasi and Radhika dasi
Editor: Syamarani dasi

Origin of Life Hare Krishna

Origin of Life The Hare Krishna Philosophy Part 2 of 2

Origin of Life The Hare Krishna Philosophy Part 1 of 2

Anotem em seus corações

Tridandisvami Sri Srimad Bhaktivedanta Narayana Maharaja
Austrália, Murwillumbah; 18 de fevereiro de 2002

(Uma aula sobre o Jaiva Dharma)

[Há 10 verdades essenciais acerca da existência que são denominadas de Dasamula. O Dasamula Siksa ou os ensinamentos sobre estas verdades foram delineados por Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura.


amnaya praha tattvam harim iha paramam sarva-saktim rasabdim

tad bhinnamsams ca jivan prakrti-kavalitan tad vimuktams ca bhavad

bhedabheda-prakasam sakalam api hareh sadhanam suddha-bhaktim

sadhyam tat pritim evety upadisati janan gauracandrah svayam sah



”A mensagem dos Vedas recebida através do guru-parampara é chamada de amnaya. Os Vedas e smrti-sastra (tais como Srimad-Bhagavatam) que seguem os Vedas são aceitos como prova autorizada, assim como outros diferentes tipos de evidência, como a percepção direta desde que confirmem a versão Védica. Destas fontes de evidências, as seguintes verdades essenciais são estabelecidas:

1. Hari é a Suprema Verdade;

2. Ele é sarva-saktiman, aquele que possui todas as potências;

3. Ele é akhila rasamrta-sindu, o oceano de toda as melosidades nectáreas transcendentais;

4. Os dois tipos de jivas, nominalmente mukta-jiva e baddha-jiva (almas liberadas e almas condicionadas) são Suas expansões separadas (vibhinnamsa-tattva);

5. As almas condicionadas estão sob o controle de maya;

6. As mukta-jivas estão livres da influência de maya;

7. Tudo o que existe, seja conscientes ou não, é uma manifestação de Sri Hari; sendo, portanto simultaneamente e inconcebivelmente uno e diferente dEle;

8. Bhakti é o único sadhana (meio para se alcançar a meta);



9. O amor de Krsna (prema) é o único objetivo (sadhya);



Svayam Bhagavan Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu deu instruções sobre estes dez tipos de tattva para as jivas sinceras. Destas instruções, a primeira explica o princípio da evidência (pramana-tattva) enquanto que as nove restantes são prameya-tattva, ou os temas que são estabelecidos por pramana-tattva."

(Dasamula-tattva)

No final de sua aula sobre o Jaiva Dharma em Murwillumbah, Srila Narayana Maharaja explicou estas dez verdades.]


[Srila Narayana Maharaja:] Anote estes princípios em seus corações, em seu caderno, e quando precisar, você poderá dizer com coragem: "Esta é a nossa filosofia". O que é amnaya?

[Sripad Asrama Maharaja:] Amnaya praha quer dizer os ensinamentos védicos conforme trazidos através de nossa sucessão discipular. Há muitos ensinamentos nos Vedas, mas nem todos são aceitos na linha do serviço devocional puro. Amnaya praha significa, especificamente, aqueles ensinamentos presentes nas escrituras védicas que são aceitas por nossos acaryas anteriores e que nos são passados na linha de sucessão guru-discípulo.


[Srila Narayana Maharaja:] Qual é a segunda ?

[Syamarani dasi:] Amnaya apresenta-se separado uma vez que é o pramana, a evidência. Amnaya determina o que é prameya, isto é, o que é estabelecido pelo pramana sástrico. Há nove princípios estabelecidos pela literatura Védica e são chamados de prameya.



O primeiro destes nove é que Hari, Vrajendranandana Sri Krsna é a Suprema Verdade Absoluta. Ele é o advaya-jnana para -tattva. Ele é único sem existir um outro. Todas as demais encarnações e manifestações de Deus vêm dEle. Ele é amsi, ou a origem de todos os avataras e de outras encarnações - como os purusa-avataras, lila-avataras e guna- avataras que são todos emanações dEle. Este é o primeiro prameya estabelecido pelo pramana ou pelo amnaya.

[Srila Narayana Maharaja:] Você deve saber que a palavra Brahma, e também as palavras Alá e Deus, tem o mesmo significado. Brahma significa o maior, como Alá. Mas a palavra Bhagavan tem um significado muito doce. Se alguém tem opulência e grandeza ilimitadas, mas não pode ser muito pequeno e leve, como pode então ser Deus? Ele não pode ser Deus. Mas Krsna tem ambas as qualidades: Ele é o maior, porque o mundo inteiro está situado em um de Seus poros, e Ele está em todos os lugares. Ao mesmo tempo Ele é anoraniyam; Ele está dentro de cada átomo diminuto e em cada partícula dos raios do sol.



Krsna está em todo lugar. Ele está em nós e também nas trepadeiras, árvores, pedras secas e em todos os lugares. Ele está também neste livro. Mas se Krsna está em todo lugar - em átomos, árvores e trepadeiras - porque eles não falam? Nós falamos porque Krsna está em nós, mas por que este livro não fala? Não há jivatma (alma) no livro. Onde há ambos, jivatma e paramatma, falar é possível. Nós podemos falar. Quem somos nós? Somos alma. Krsna está presente no livro, mas não há alma lá. Tanto a alma quanto a Superalma estão presentes nas árvores, assim, elas podem sentir e dizer algo em sua linguagem. Krsna é Supremo. Ele pode ser o mais diminuto do diminuto, e Ele pode ser o maior do maior. Narayana tem muita opulência; Deus tem muita opulência, contudo, a maioria das pessoas pensa que Ele não tem forma e que não pode vir até nós. Mas Krsna vem até nós em uma forma muito doce. Ele é muito ardiloso e amável. Ele pode vir como um filho, um amigo ou como o mais amado. Narayana, Deus, Alá e Huda não virão desta forma, e, por esta razão. Krsna é o Supremo. Hari parama-tattva.

O terceiro ponto é sarva-saktiman (o possuidor de todos os poderes e energias).



[Sripad Madhava Maharaja:] Krsna é todo-poderoso. Ele tem assim muitas saktis (poderes), como jiva-sakti, cit-sakti e maya-sakti, essas três saktis proeminentes. Na verdade, sakti é uma sendo chamada de antaranga-sakti, hladini-sakti ou para-sakti. De acordo com o desejo de Krsna, esta sakti é definida como diferente de acordo com suas diferentes funções. Nos Upanisads está declarado:

na tasya karyam karanam ca vidyate

na tat-samas cabhyadhikas ca drsyate

parasya saktir vividhaiva sruyate

svabhaviki jnana-bala-kriya ca

["O Supremo Senhor não tem nada a fazer e ninguém é igual ou superior a Ele, pois tudo é feito natural e sistematicamente por Suas múltiplas energias." (Svetasvatara Upanisad 6.8)]

Neste mundo, tudo depende da teoria da causa e efeito. Primeiro há uma causa e então se observa um resultado. Mas para Bhagavan Sri Krsna, na tasya karyam karanam ca vidyate. Ele está completamente além da teoria de causa e efeito.



[Srila Narayana Maharaja:] Krsna é sarva-saktiman. Nós não podemos vê-lO com estes olhos ou com esta inteligência, nem podemos tocá-lO com estes sentidos. Embora Ele esteja além de nossos limites, quando Ele quer, Ele chama Yogamaya e ela toca este mundo e Krsna também, e, neste momento, é possível vê-lO.


Alguns acreditam que Krsna é o Deus dos deuses e outros não conseguem acreditam nisto. Kamsa viu Krsna e Krsna tocou seu corpo. Carana e Mustika também O viram, e Ele também tocou seus corpos; mas Eles nunca realizaram que Ele era Deus. Duryodhana e Jarasandha também O viram, assim como Ravana, Kumbhakarna e outros demônios viram Rama. Rama também é Krsna, mas eles nunca realizaram isto. Eles estavam sob a influência de Maya, enquanto que aqueles que estão na associação de Vaisnavas podem realizar quem é Deus através da misericórdia de Yogamaya. Ele é, portanto, sarva-saktiman.


Krsna manifesta-Se neste mundo por meio de pradhana, que por sua vez manifesta o ar, a água, o fogo, o éter e a terra. Pradhana é material, mas também é uma sakti, e este poder de Krsna é chamado maya-sakti ou bahiranga- sakti (energia externa). As manifestações mundanas de pradhana não são eternas, mas o poder em si mesmo é eterno.

O que é rasabdim?



[Pundarika dasa:] Em seguida, Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura explica que Krsna também é referido como rasabdim, que significa o oceano de rasa, Ele do qual todas as rasas ou doçuras estão emanando. Krsna também é referido como raso vai saha nos Vedas. Ele é o reservatório original de todas as rasas e Ele é a própria personificação da rasa. O que isto significa? Acabamos de ouvir que Krsna é o todo-poderoso e que é dotado com uma potência completamente transcendental. Esta potência manifesta-se de inúmeras maneiras e satisfaz os desejos de Krsna. Os três aspectos principais da potência interna de Sri Krsna são conhecidos como samvit, hladini e sandini, e afetam todas as atividades das potências interna, marginal e externa. Neste mundo material, devido à influência da potência externa, todas as jivas experimentam jadananda, prazer material. Este prazer material é, na verdade, um reflexo pervertido da potência interna de hladini-sakti. Aqueles que cruzam este nível e são capazes de chegar à plataforma de Brahma-bhuta prasanatma (experimentar o brahman) também estão experimentando um reflexo da potência interna do Senhor. Neste estágio mais puro, em Goloka Vrindavana e em todos os mundos espirituais, hladini-sakti provê todos os prazeres para o Senhor. Por esta razão, é dito que Ele é o reservatório de todas as rasas experimentadas por alguém, em qualquer lugar.



[Srila Narayana Maharaja:] Há dois tipos de jivas que vêm de Krsna. Qual é o significado de bhedabheda?

[Srila Bhakti Sara Maharaja:] Neste mesmo sloka, Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura diz: bhedabheda-prakasam. A Verdade Absoluta é simultaneamente una e diferente de tudo. Em outras palavras, Deus está em todo lugar, mas tudo não é Deus. Esta é a diferença entre a filosofia monista de Shankara e as várias escolas do pensamento Vaisnava, como as de: Madhva, Ramanuja, Visnusvami e Nimbaditya.

[Srila narayana Maharaja:] Em um sentido podemos ver que as jivas são não diferentes de Krsna, mas, ao mesmo tempo, elas são diferentes. As jivas vêm da sakti e são uma transformação da sakti; elas não são manifestações completas como svamsa. Há algumas diferenças e também algumas não-diferenças. As jivas têm algumas qualidades de parambrahma, mas não todas. Elas não podem criar. Elas não podem ser como svamsa, expansões plenárias (Visnu) de Krsna. Elas podem ficar encobertas a qualquer momento. Esta diferença e não-diferença (igualdade) não são concebíveis para as almas condicionadas. Somente pelas palavras dos gurus, ou seja, pelo amnaya, entendimento através do Veda-sastra, que elas podem saber isto.



[Devoto:] Você disse há pouco que a jiva pode sempre pode ser encoberta, mas há dois dias, citou o Jaiva Dharma sobre o fato de Baladeva manifestar certas jivas que são associados eternos de Krsna em Vrindavana.

[Srila Narayana Maharaja:] Não são jivas.

[Devoto:] Mas a palavra no livro é jiva.

[Srila Narayana Maharaja:] Não há palavra apropriada em nossa linguagem. Eles são todos parikaras (associados eternos). A palavra jiva somente é aplicável aqui - neste mundo. Todas as jivas podem ser encobertas. Naquela morada, as expansões de Baladeva Prabhu são chamadas de parisada (associados), e também de chamados nitya-mukta (sempre liberadas). Aqui as almas não são nitya-mukta; mas sim são nitya-baddha. De fato, essas almas não são nitya-baddha (condicionadas eternamente), mas anadi-baddha (condicionadas desde tempos imemoriais). Elas podem ser liberadas.


O que é sadhana?



[Vraja Vallabha dasa:] Sadhana é o processo pelo qual a jiva pode se libertar do reino de maya e também ...

[Srila Narayana Maharaja:] Isto é externo. O que é interno?

[Vraja Vallabha dasa:] Por este processo se alcançará suddha-bhakti.

[Srila Narayana Maharaja:] Através do sadhana, de bhakti, podemos alcançar bhava e gradualmente prema. Sadhana é a execução de sravanam, kirtanam, visnu smaranam, pada-sevanam, arcanam, vandanam, dasyam, sakhyam e atma-nivedanam.

["Ouvindo e cantando sobre os santos nomes transcendentais, forma, qualidades, parafernália e passatempos do Senhor Visnu, lembrando-se deles, servindo os pés de lótus do Senhor, oferecendo respeitosamente adoração ao Senhor com dezesseis tipos de parafernália, oferecendo orações ao Senhor, tornando-se Seu servo, considerando o Senhor como o seu melhor amigo, e rendendo-se totalmente a Ele (em outras palavras, servindo a Ele com o corpo, mente e palavras)."(SB 7.5.23)]


Além disso, os cinco processos mais importantes são:



sadhu-sanga, nama-kirtana, bhagavata-sravana

mathura-vasa, sri-murtira sraddhaya sevana

[Deve-se associar com devotos, cantar os nomes santos do Senhor, ouvir o Srimad-Bhagavatam, residir em Mathura e adorar as Deidades com fé e veneração." ( Cc Madhya 22.128)

Dentre esses cinco processos, os três mais proeminentes são sravanam, kirtanam e visnu smaranam; e entre estes, o mais importante processo é cantar Hare Krsna.

harer nama harer nama

harer namaiva kevalam

kalau nasty eva nasty eva

nasty eva gatir anyatha



["Nesta era de desavenças e hipocrisia o único meio de libertação é cantar os santos nomes do Senhor. Não há outra maneira. Não há outra maneira. Não há outra maneira." (Cc Adi 17.21)].

Nama-sankirtana é o melhor sadhana dentre todos, porque os santos nomes são os próprios Radha e Krsna. Por cantar, podemos alcançar prema, o qual é nosso prayojana. A primeira das dez verdades essenciais é a evidência, e esta evidência é amnaya- aquela que é aceita pelo nosso guru-parampara.

Dentre todas as evidências sastricas, o Srimad-Bhagavatam é supremo. As próximas verdades revelam sambandha-jñana, abhideya e krsna prema- prayojana. Krsna é o Supremo, sem existir um segundo, advaya-jnana-para-tattva. Ele é o oceano de rasa, e Ele é sarva-saktiman. Existem dois tipos de jivas que vêm dEle, e há uma diferença e uma não defierença entre as jivas e o Deus Supremo. O sadhana é a prática de suddha-bhakti, enquanto que prema é prayojana (meta última). Desta maneira, há dez verdades fundamentais. Este Dasamula Siksa foi dadod e forma resumida no Jaiva Dharma, e todos vocês devem se lembrar destas dez verdades.



Meus agradecimentos a todos aqueles que, de alguma maneira, vieram se reunir aqui. Oro para que Krsna derrame Sua misericórdia sobre todos aqueles que auxiliaram com dinheiro, energia ou por dar aulas. Oro para que Krsna e Caitanya Mahaprabhu sejam misericordioso com eles. Além disso, para aqueles que estão cantando (bhajanas e kirtanas) e que estão me auxiliando de alguma maneira - oro para que eles desenvolvam amor e afeição por Krsna e apego por krsna nama. Eles nunca devem ser fracos.

Minhas bênçãos afetuosas para todos vocês.



Advisory: Pujyapada Madhava Maharaja
Transcribers: Raghunatha dasa and Jagad Mohini dasi
Editor: Syamarani dasi
Typist: Radhika dasi

Tradução: Basanti dasi

His Divine Grace Sri Srimad Bhaktivedanta Narayana Gosvami Maharaja

A Short Biography

"About the Author"
(From Venu-gita, The Song of Krsna's Flute)



His Divine Grace Sri Srimad Bhaktivedanta Narayana Gosvami Maharaja is the disciple of Om Visnupada Sri Srimad Bhakti Prajnana Kesava Gosvami Maharaja, who was one of the foremost leading disciples of Om Visnupada Sri Srimad Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Prabhupada.

Srila Narayana Maharaja was born in a village named Tewaripur located near the bank of the sacred Ganges river in Bihar, India. The area was renowned for being the place where Lord Ramacandra and Visvamitra Muni came and killed the Taraka demon. He was born on the Amavasya (new moon) day of February 16th, 1921, into a very religious Trivedi brahmana family. Throughout his childhood he had many opportunities to regularly accompany his father when he would go to attend kirtana and pravachan assemblies.

In February of 1947 he had his first meeting with his Gurudeva in Sri Navadvipa Dhama, West Bengal. He had travelled there from his village after meeting a disciple of Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura named Srila Narottamananda Brahmacari, who was touring and preaching the message of Sri Caitanyadeva in the area. After initial discussions with this devotee, he was convinced of the paramount position of the philosophy given by the acaryas in the line of Srila Rupa Gosvami Prabhupada, and within days he left home to join the mission of his spiritual master and surrender his life.

When he arrived in Sri Navadvipa Dhama, the annual parikrama was under way and he joined with the group. Upon its completion on Gaura-purnima, he was given both harinama and gayatri initiations by Srila Kesava Maharaja and received the name Sri Gaura Narayana. Very soon afterward, his Gurudeva also awarded him the title of Bhakta-bandhava, which means "friend of the devotees," because he was always serving all of the Vaisnavas in a very pleasing manner.

He travelled extensively along with Srila Kesava Maharaja on preaching tours throughout India over the next five years, and in 1952, on Gaura-purnima, his beloved Gurudeva awarded him initiation into the sacred order of sannyasa. In 1954 Srila Kesava Maharaja posted him in charge of the newly opened temple in Mathura named Sri Kesavaji Gaudiya Matha. Srila Bhaktivedanta Narayana Maharaja began to spend part of the year in Mathura and the other part in Bengal, carrying on extensive services in both areas. This went on over the period of the next fourteen years. He was also appointed by Srila Kesava Maharaja as Vice-President of his institution, the Sri Gaudiya Vedanta Samiti, and Editor-in-Chief of its Hindi publications and the monthly magazine Sri Bhagavat Patrika. In 1968 Srila Kesava Maharaja passed from this world, and Srila Narayan Maharaja performed all the necessary ceremonial rituals for his samadhi burial.

During this time period, as a humble servitor of the Sri Gaudiya Vedanta Samiti, Srila Narayana Maharaja began to organize the annual Karttika Vraja Mandala Parikrama, which he continues to carry on up to the present day. Srila Narayan Maharaja was requested by his Gurudeva to translate the books of Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura from Bengali into his native language, Hindi. He has carried out this request by translating some of the Thakura's most prominent books, such as Jaiva Dharma, Caitanya-siksamrta, Bhakti-tattva-viveka, Vaisnava-siddhanta-mala, to name only a few. All these books are also presently being translated into English by his followers. He also continues to lecture in Hindi, Bengali and English throughout India. All of his discourses are tape-recorded and are gradually being transcribed as well as translated into English for publication.

A significant relationship in the life of Srila Narayana Maharaja was his association with His Divine Grace Srila A.C. Bhaktivedanta Svami Maharaja Prabhupada, the world-famous preacher of Gaudiya Vaisnavism and Founder-Acarya of the International Society for Krsna Consciousness. They first met in Calcutta in 1948 on the occasion of the inauguration of a new branch of the Gaudiya Vedanta Samiti (co-founded by Srila Bhaktivedanta Svami Maharaja) on Ghosh Para Lane, where they had both come to render their services. Their association continued a few years later when Srila Narayana Maharaja accompanied Srila Kesava Maharaja to Jhansi where Srila Bhaktivedanta Svami Maharaja had been attempting to start a Vaisnava society named The League of Devotees. A few years later in the early 50's, Srila Bhaktivedanta Svami Maharaja came to reside at Mathura in Sri Kesavaji Gaudiya Matha, by invitation of his godbrother, Srila Kesava Maharaja, where he stayed for some months. By having regular devotional exchanges with him and deep discussions of Vaisnava siddhanta, Srila Narayana Maharaja developed a very intimate relationship with him during this time period, regarding him both as his senior and superior, as well as his friend.

In 1959 Srila Kesava Gosvami Maharaja initiated him into the sacred sannyasa order, giving him the sannyasi name and title Sri Srimad Bhaktivedanta Svami Maharaja. The ceremony of Vedic fire yajna and all the rituals were performed by Srila Narayana Maharaja.

Srila Bhaktivedanta Svami Maharaja was already residing in Vrndavana during this period, first at the Vamsi Gopala Mandira and a few years later at the Sri Sri Radha Damodara Mandira. Srila Narayana Maharaja would often go there to visit with him. He would cook for him, honor the prasada with him, and have intimate discussions on Vaisnava philosophy.

When Srila Bhaktivedanta Svami Maharaja went to preach in the West, and succeeded in starting the first Radha Krsna temple in America, Srila Narayana Maharaja sent the first mrdanga drums and karatalas to him to be used for sankirtana. Srila Bhaktivedanta Svami Maharaja maintained regular correspondence every month or two with Srila Kesava Maharaja and Srila Narayana Maharaja up until 1968 when Srila Kesava Maharaja entered nitya-lila. And after that, he continued to write Srila Narayana Maharaja until his own divine departure.

Toward the end of his life, he personally requested Srila Narayana Maharaja several times to kindly give his association to his Western disciples and help them to understand the deep truths of the Vaisnava philosophy in the line of Srila Rupa Gosvami Prabhupada. Srila Narayana Maharaja humbly agreed to honor his request, considering him to be one of his worshipable siksa gurus. He also requested Srila Narayana Maharaja to take complete charge of performing all the rituals for his samadhi burial after his departure. Both of these requests by Srila Bhaktivedanta Svami Maharaja clearly demonstrated the firm and utter confidence that he held in Srila Narayana Maharaja.

For a period spanning over three decades since his departure in November 1977, Srila Narayana Maharaja has unwaveringly been carrying out this final request by providing insightful guidance and loving shelter to all who come to him seeking such, and through the medium of his English books he is now giving his purifying association and divine realizations to sincere searchers of truth all over the globe.

For more than a half century Srila Narayana Maharaja has demonstrated and exemplified the pure, unadulterated life of utter dedication and loving service to his Gurudeva, Sriman Mahaprabhu, and the Divine Couple, Yugala-kisora, Sri Sri Radha-Krsna. Srila Narayana Maharaja, as Their intimate servitor, continues to illuminate the path for those who wish to discover and dive deep into the ecstatic ocean of radha-dasyam, service to the radiantly beautiful lotus feet of Sri Krsna's dearly beloved, Srimati Radhika.

Below you will find a collection of Srila Bhaktivedanta Narayana Gosvami Maharaja's lectures through out the years.


http://www.purebhakti.com/teachers/srila-gurudeva-mainmenu-93.html

Jaya Srila Gurudeva .

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Srila Bhaktivedanta Narayana Maharaja

Sua graça Sri Srimad Bhaktivedanta Narayana Maharaja é o discípulo de Om Visnupada Sri Srimad Bhakti Prajnana Kesava Gosvami Maharaja, que foi um dos mais proeminentes discípulos de Om Visnupada Sri Srimad Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Prabhupada.

Srila Narayana Maharaja nasceu em um vilarejo chamado Tewaripur localizado próximo das margens do sagrado rio Ganges em Bihar, Índia. A área é renomada por ser o lugar onde o Senhor Ramacandra e Visvamitra Muni vieram e mataram o demônio Taraka. Ele nasceu em Amavasya (lua nova) dia 16 de fevereiro de 1921, em uma família brahmana Trivedi muito religiosa.Durante sua infância ele teve muitas oportunidades para regularmente acompanhar seu pai ao ir realizar kirtanas e assembléias pravachan.

Em fevereiro de 1947 ele teve seu primeiro encontro com seu Gurudeva em Sri Navadvipa Dhama, Bengala ocidental.Ele tinha viajado de seu vilarejo após ter encontrado um discípulo de Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura chamado Srila Narottamananda Brahmacari, que estava viajando e pregando a mensagem de Sri Caitanyadeva na região. Após iniciais discussões com este devoto, ele ficou convencido da preeminente posição da filosofia dada pelos acaryas na linha de Srila Rupa Gosvami Prabhupada, e dentro de dias ele deixou sua casa para ingressar na missão de seu mestre espiritual e entregou sua vida.

Quando ele chegou em Sri Navadvipa Dhama, o parikrama anual estava no caminho e ele juntou-se ao grupo. sob sua compleição em Gaura-purnima, a ele foi dada ambas, iniciações harinama e gayatri por Srila Kesava Maharaja e recebeu o nome de Sri Gaura Narayana. Logo após, posteriormente, seu Gurudeva também lhe concedeu o título de Bhakta-bandhava, que significa “amigo dos devotos”, porque ele estava servindo sempre todos os Vasinavas de uma maneira muito satisfatória.

Ele viajou extensivamente junto com Srila Kesava Maharaja em sua viagem de pregação através da Índia nos 5 anos subseqüentes, e em 1952, em Gaura-purnima, seu amado Gurudeva lhe concedeu a iniciação na sagrada ordem de sannyasa. Em 1954 Srila Kesava Maharaja colocou-o no encargo de abrir um novo templo em Mathura chamado Sri Kesavaji Gaudiya Matha. Srila Bhaktivedanta Narayana Maharaja começou a despender parte do ano em Mathura e outra parte na Bengala, executando extensivos serviços em ambas as áreas. Isto tudo ocorreu sobretudo nos 14 anos subseqüentes. Ele também foi indicado por Srila Kesava como Vice-Presidente de sua instituição, a Sri Gaudiya Vedanta Samiti, e o editor-chefe de suas publicações em Hindi e da revista mensal Sri Bhagavat Patrika. Em 1968, Srila Kesava Maharaja partiu deste mundo, e Srila Narayana Maharaja realizou todas as coisas necessárias para o ritual cerimonial para seu sepultamento no samadhi.

Durante este período, como um humilde servidor da Sri Gaudiya Vedanta Samiti, Srila Narayana Maharaja começou a organizar o anual Parikrama de Karttika Vraja Mandala, que ele continua a executar até agora.Srila Narayan Maharaja foi requisitado pelo seu Gurudeva para traduzir os livros de Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura do Bengali, para sua língua nativa, Hindi.Ele executou este pedido ao traduzir alguns dos mais preeminentes livros de Bhaktivinoda Thakur, tal como: Jaiva Dharma, Caitanya-siksamrta, Bhakti-tattva-viveka, Vaisnava-siddhanta-mala, estes são os nomes de alguns deles.

Todos estes livros estào sendo no momento traduzidos para o inglês pelos seus seguidores. Ele continua a palestrar em Hindi, Bengali e Inglês através da Índia. Todos os seus discursos são gravados e gradualmente sendo transcritos bem como traduzidos para o inglês para publicação.

Uma expressiva relação na vida de Srila Narayana Maharaja foi sua associação com Sua Divina Graça A. C. Bhaktivedanta Svami Maharaja Prabhupada, o mais famoso pregador do Gaudiya Vasinavismo e Fundador-Acarya da Sociedade Internacional para a Consciência de Krsna.Eles se encontraram em Calcutá em 1948 na ocasião da inauguração de um novo ramo da Gaudiya Vedanta Samiti (co-fundada por Srila Bhaktivedanta Svami Maharaja) em Ghosh Para Lane, onde ambos tinham vindo para oferecer seus serviços.Sua associação continuou poucos anos mais tarde quando Srila Narayana Maharaja acompanhou Srila Kesava Maharaja para Jhansi onde Srila Bhaktivedanta Svami Maharaja tinha se empenhado em iniciar uma sociedade Vaisnava chamada A Liga de Devotos. Poucos anos mais tarde, próximo da década de 50, Srila Bhaktivedanta Svami Maharaja veio para residir em Mathura na Sri Kesavaji Gaudiya Matha, a convite de seu irmão espiritual, Srila Kesava Maharaja, onde ele permaneceu por alguns meses. Por ter regular intercâmbio devocional com ele e profundas discussões de Vaisnava siddhanta, Srila Narayana Maharaja desenvolveu um relacionamento muito íntimo com ele durante este período, considerando-o como seu senior e superior, bem como seu amigo.

Em 1959 Srila Kesava Gosvami Maharaja lhe iniciou na sagrada ordem de sannyasa, dando-lhe o nome e o título de Sri Srimad Bhaktivedanta Svami Maharaja. A cerimônia Védica de sacrifício de fogo e todos os rituais foram realizados por Srila Narayana Maharaja.

Srila Bhaktivedanta Svami Maharaja havia anteriormente residido em Vrindavana, durante este período, primeiro no Vamsi Gopala Mandira e depois, no Radha Damodara Mandira.Srila Narayana Maharaja deveria freqüentemente lhe visitar. Deveria cozinhar para ele, honrar prasada com ele, e ter íntimas discussões sobre filosofia Vaisnava.

Quando srila Bhaktivednata Svami Maharaja foi pregar no ocidente,e sucedeu de estabelecer o primeiro templo de Radha e Krsna na América, Srila Narayana Maharaja enviou a primeira mrdanga e karatalas para ele, para serem usados em sankirtana. Srila Bhaktivedanta Svami Maharaja manteve regular correspondências todo mês ou a cada dois meses com Srila Kesava Maharaja e Srila Narayana Maharaja até 1968 quando Srila Kesava Maharaja entrou em nitya-lila. E, após isto, ele continuou a escrever a Srila Narayana Maharaja até sua própria divina partida.

Com respeito ao fim de sua vida, ele pessoalmente requisitou a Srila Narayana Maharaja inúmeras vezes para gentilmente lhe dar sua associação para seus discípulos ocidentais e lhes auxiliar a entender as profundas verdades da filosofia Vaisnava na linha de Srila Rupa Gosvami Prabhupada. Srila Narayana Maharaja humildemente concordou em honrar seu pedido, lhe considerando como um de seus mais adoráveis siksa gurus. Ele também solicitou a Srila Narayana Maharaja para tomar toda a responsabilidade de realizar todos os rituais para seu sepultamento em seu samadhi, após sua partida. Ambos estes pedidos de Srila Bhaktivedanta Svami Maharaja demosntram claramente a firme e absoluta confiança que ele mantinha em Srila Narayana Maharaja.

Por um período que atravessou sobre duas décadas de sua partida em Novembro de 1977, Srila Narayana Maharaja tem decididamente executado este pedido final por proporcionar compreensiva direção e refúgio amoroso para todos àqueles que vem a ele buscando por isto, e através de seus livros em inglês ele está gora, dando sua purificante associaçào e divinas realizações para sinceros buscadores da verdade em todo o globo.

Por meio século Srila Narayana Maharaja tem demonstrado e exemplificado a pura, inadulterada vida e total dedicação e serviço amoroso a seu Gurudeva, Sriman Mahaprabhu, e ao Divino Casal, Yugala-kisora, Sri Sri Radha-Krsna. Srila Narayana Maharaja,como seu íntimo servo, continua a iluminar o caminho para aqueles que desejam descobrir e mergulhar profundo no oceano de êxtase de radha-dasyam, o serviço para o radiante belos pés de lótus da mais amada de Sri Krsna, Srimati Radhilka.

Those who think they are God, are like tiny glow worms.

In this age of Kali there are many personalities on this earth like scientists, political leaders, etc., who pose themselves as being very expert and advanced in knowledge. They are like glow worms, and their glowing attracts the innocent people who become misdirected and confused in this way. Although impersonalist philosophers claim that every living entity is equal to God, they callously step over the heads of their so-called spiritual masters and freely speculate on the nature of the Absolute, giving their own whimsical opinions in defiance of the impersonal whims of their so-called gurus. In other words, although Mayavadi impersonalists claim that everyone is God, they ultimately show an offensive mentality toward the Supreme Personality of Godhead in rejecting the reality of His eternal form and pastimes. Thus, they unwittingly belittle the eternal position of all living beings by denying their eternal personality and activities in the kingdom of God. The impersonalists, through their mental concoctions, try to minimize the position of the Supreme Personality of Godhead and the living entities who are part of Him, reducing them theoretically to a formless, nameless light, which by their concoction they claim to be the Absolute God. The Vaisnavas, however, welcome the Supreme Personality of Godhead and easily understand that the unlimited Supreme Personality has nothing to do with the conditioned, limited, mundane personalities we find in the material world. The impersonalists arrogantly assume that there could not be any transcendental or unlimited personality beyond our present experience. But the Vaisnavas intelligently understand that there are many wonderful things far beyond our limited experience. Therefore they accept the words of Krishna, who states in the
Bhagavad-gita (15.19) Whoever knows Me as the Supreme Personality of Godhead, without doubting, is the knower of everything. He therefore engages himself in full devotional service to Me, O son of Bharata.

It is not possible for the mayavadie impersonalists would like to be gods, to understand the Krishna consciousness movement; therefore we do not value their philosophical conclusions. However expert such quarrelsome impersonalists are in putting forward their so-called logic, we defeat them in every respect and go forward with our Krishna consciousness movement. Their imaginative mental speculation cannot deter the progress of the Krishnaconsciousness movement, which is completely spiritual and is never under the control of such Mayavadies


Jaya Srila Gurudeva , Jaya Srila Prabhupada !

compassion

to those who are innocent, the devotee should be merciful, just to awaken their Krishna Consciousness - Srila Prabhupada

Gaudiya Math Kirtan outside Iskcon Mayapur

Nagar Sankirtan outside Iskcon Mayapur during Gaur Purnima 2009

Srila Bhaktivedanta Narayan Maharaj and Srila Bhaktivedanta Swami Maharaj

Srila Bhaktivedanta Narayan Gosvami Maharaj leading kirtan, Je anila prema dhana, after Srila Bhaktivedanta Swami Maharaj departure

Bhaktivedanta Narayan Maharaj with Iskcon

Srila Bhaktivedanta Narayan Gosvami Maharaj performing Nagar Sankirtan with Iskcon

Srila Bhaktivedanta Narayan Maharaj and Srila Bhaktivedanta Swami Maharaj

Srila Bhaktivedanta Narayan Gosvami Maharaj performing samadhi with His own Hands for Srila Bhaktivedanta Swami Maharaj



Jaya SrilaGurudeva , Jaya Srila Prabupada !

-Sri Gurvastakam--- Srila Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura

---Sri Gurvastakam---
Srila Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura, page 13

samsara-davanala-lidha-loka-
tranaya karunya-ghanaghanatvam
praptasya kalyana-gunarnavasya
vande guro sri caranaravindam

mahaprabhoh kirtana-nrtya-gita-
vaditra-madyan-manaso rasena
romanca-kampasru-taranga-bhajo
vande guroh sri caranaravindam

sri vigraharadhana-nitya-nana-
srngara-tanmandira-marjanadau
yuktasya bhaktams ca niyunjato'pi
vande guroh sri caranaravindam

catur-vidha-sri-bhagavat-prasada-
svadv-anna-trptan hari-bhakta-sanghan
krtvaiva trptim bhajatah sadaiva
vande guroh sri caranaravindam

sri radhika-madhavayor apara-
madhurya-lila-guna-rupa-namnam
prati-ksanasvadana-lolupasya
vande guroh sri caranaravindam

nikunja-yuno rati-keli-siddhyai
ya yalibhir yuktir apeksaniya
tatrati-daksyad ati-vallabhasya
vande guro sri caranaravindam

saksad-dharitvena samasta-sastrair
uktas tatha bhavyata eva sadbhih
kintu prabhor yah priya eva tasya
vande guro sri caranaravindam

yasya prasadad bhagavat -prasado
yasyaprasadan na gatih kuto'pi
dhyayam stuvams tasya yasas tri-sandhyam
vande guro sri caranaravindam

srimad guror-astakam etad uccair
brhme muhurte pathati prayatnat
yas tena vrndavana-natha saksat
sevaiva labhya januso'nta eva

vande guro sri caranaravindam
vande guro sri caranaravindam
vande guro sri caranaravindam
vande guro sri caranaravindam


Jaya Gurudeva! jaya Gurudeva
Gurudeva jaya Gurudeva
Jaya jaya Gurdeva
Gurudeva jaya Gurudeva

The Hidden Meaning In Srila Prabhupada's Pranama Mantra

The Hidden Meaning In Srila Prabhupada's Pranama Mantra
Monday, 28 May 2001

Srila Narayana Maharaja performs archan and puja for Srila A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada on Srila Prabhupada's appearance day.



Alachua, Florida : May 28, 2001
Tridandisvami Sri Srimad Bhaktivedanta Narayana Maharaja



[Srila Narayana Maharaja:] What is the second sloka in the pranama mantra of your Gurudeva?

[Drstadyumna dasa:] namas te sarasvate deve gaura-vani pracarine nirvesesa-sunyavadi-pascatya-desa-tarine

[Srila Narayana Maharaja:] What is that gaura-vani he preached?

[Drstadyumna dasa:] There are four reasons for which Lord Caitanya came to this world. One was to establish the yuga-dharma of the chanting of the holy name, another was because Advaita Acarya had called Him to come, and…

[Srila Narayana Maharaja:] I want to hear what was that gaura-vani of your Gurudeva.

[Drstadyumna dasa:] In simple words it was to chant Hare Krsna, and that meant to worship…

[Srila Narayana Maharaja:] Sri Advaita Acarya may have given this. So many acaryas have given this. Even Maha-Visnu can give the chanting of the holy name, but He cannot give that gaura-vani.

[Drstadyumna dasa:] It was to give an understanding of the essence of the feelings and mood of Srimati Radharani and…

[Srila Narayana Maharaja:] What is that gaura-vani he gave?

[Drstadyumna dasa:] Would it be the mood of the manjaris; service to the Divine Couple?

[Srila Narayana Maharaja:] Was this his vani? I want to hear about that vani. What is that gaura-vani he preached throughout the world? It has been explained in the words of Srila Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura, and Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura has also explained it.

aradhyo bhagavan vrajesa-tanayas tad-dhama vrndavanam

ramya kascid upasana vraja-vadhu-varga-ya kalpita srimad-bhagavatam amalam puranam prema pumartho mahan sri-caitanya mahaprabhor matam idam tatradarah na parah

This is the special gaura-vani. Krsna is our highest worshipable Deity, but there are so many manifestations of Krsna. Dvarakadhisa Krsna is the son of Vasudeva and Devaki. Is He our worshipable Deity? He may be for so many others, and there is no harm in that. He is worshipable for them, and He should be. We do namaskara to Him, but we worship that very Vrajendranandana who took birth from the womb of Yasodamaiya.

At the time of His birth, Vrajendranandana Krsna had no long hair, no decorations, and no ornaments. He appeared as a simple baby, weeping, "Kya, kya, kya!" All the Vrajabasis understood that He was born from the womb of Mother Yasoda. We worship that very Nandanandana.

You should know that Nandanandana is always nava-kisora natavara. He is eternally an ever-fresh cowherd youth, and Mother Yasoda thinks, "He is my son." We worship this very Krsna who was bound by His mother in Vrndavana. She ran faster than Him, caught hold of Him, and bound Him. That is why He is called Damodara-Krsna. He killed Putana, who tried to take His life by poisoning Him, and He gave her a motherly position in Goloka. We worship that Krsna who was playing in the courtyard of Nanda Baba and Mother Yasoda, and who was controlled by them with affection and love. We worship that Krsna who was always surrounded by His friends like Dama, Sridama, Sudama, Vasudama, Stokakrsna, Lavanga, Arjuna, Subala, Madhumangala, and so on. They used to defeat that Krsna, and, being defeated, Krsna was very happy. That Krsna always played with the gopa-ramanis.

Aradya bhagavan. Although He is Bhagavan, His bhagavata (Godhood) has been covered. All His opulences are covered by Yogamaya, and thus He has no idea that He is Brahma, Parabrahma, or Bhagavan. That very Krsna is our aradhya, our object of worship. Another manifestation of Krsna is the husband of Rukmini and the son of Vasudeva and Devaki. He should be the aradhya of the Mathuravasis and others. Let them worship Him in that way, but Caitanya Mahaprabhu is saying, "Aradyo bhagavan vrajesa-tanaya tad dhama vrndavanam." That Krsna is always in Vrndavana. He never gives up Vrndavana. He never goes elsewhere. His manifestations may go to Kuruksetra, to Dvaraka, and to Mathura. They can go, but that Krsna never leaves Vrndavana.

Ramya karcit upasanam vrajavadhu. The process of serving Krsna that was adopted by all the gopis to please Krsna, especially by Radha and Her group, is the highest. They can even place their feet on His head. They can chastise Him - to please Him. They can order Him to do so many things, and He will very happily carry out their orders. He does not feel so much happiness by hearing the prayers of Brahma, Sankara, and all others like them, but He wants the gopis to chastise Him and call Him 'thief.'

Srimad bhagavatam pramanam amalam The way and the process by which the gopis pleased Krsna cannot be attained by anyone else, and to understand this, Srimad Bhagavatam is the highest evidence among all sastras. Only in Srimad Bhagavatam can you see all these truths. Caitanya Mahaprabhu offers pranama to the Upanisads and all other scriptures because they are all the breathing of Krsna, but He particularly glorifies Srimad Bhagavatam. In Srimad Bhagavatam, Krsna Himself told the gopis, "Na paraye 'ham niravadya-samyujam. I cannot repay you, My dear gopis. I cannot repay you in thousands of thousands of births. Be pleased, therefore, by your own bhakti to Me. Be merciful to Me." Srimad Bhagavatam is revealing all this. This truth has been told there, but you can only realize it by the commentaries of Srila Sanatana Gosvami, Srila Jiva Gosvami, and Srila Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura.

Prema pumartha mahan. Prema is the ultimate goal, and the prema in the heart of Radhika is supermost. Hanuman also has prema, Dhruva Maharaja also has prema, and Prahlada Maharaja also has some love and affection. The Pandavas and Uddhava also have some prema, and all the queens of Dvaraka have so much love and affection. The sakhas and sakhis of Vrndavana, and Mother Yasoda and Nanda Maharaja all have prema, but no one has that prema of Srimati Radhika. Hers is the highest love and affection towards Krsna. Her love is in the heart of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, and He Himself is telling about it. This is gaura-vani. This vani (message or teaching) is the vani of Caitanya Mahaprabhu. No one ever preached this before Him. Only "You should do nama-sankirtana" was preached. So many acaryas in Kali-yuga have told us that we should perform kirtana, but no one gave that love and affection given by Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu. He preached love and affection, Vraja-prema, through nama-sankirtan. This is His vani.

ceto-darpana-marjanam bhava-mahadavagni-nirvapanam

sreyah-kairava-candrika-vitaranam vidyavadhu-jivanam anandambudhi-vardhanam prati-padam purnamrtasvadanam sarvatma-snapanam param vijayate sri krsnanama-kirtanam

This is gaura-vani.

trnad api sunicena taror api sahisnuna

amanina manadena kirtaniyah sada harih

No one ever explained this before. Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu became very happy when, by His order and inspiration, Sri Rupa Gosvami explained the glory of the name:

tunde tandavini ratim vitanute tundavali-labdhaye karna-kroda-kadambini ghatayate karnarbudebhyah sprham cetah-prangana-sangini vijayate sarvendriyanam krtim no jane janita kiyadbhir amrtaih krsneti varna-dvaya

"I do not know how much nectar the two syllables 'Krs-na' have produced. When the holy name of Krsna is chanted, it appears to dance within the mouth. We then desire many, many mouths. When that name enters the holes of the ears, we desire many millions of ears. And when the holy name dances in the courtyard of the heart, it conquers the activities of the mind, and therefore all the senses become inert." (Caitanya-caritamrta, Antya-lila 1.99)

Hearing this verse, Srila Haridasa Thakura began to jump, laugh, and chant, "Hari Bol! Hari Bol!"

Give up all worldly sense gratification. Don't pray for a very good wife, good family, salvation, or anything else. Only pray for causeless bhakti, the bhakti that is in the heart of Srimati Radhika. That bhakti is established when hladini and samvit manifest in ones heart, on the platform of sandini.

Caitanya Mahaprabhu is telling us who we are.

ayi nanda-tanuja kinkaram

patitam mam visame bhavambudhau

krpaya tava pada-pankaja-

sthita-dhuli-sadrsam vicintaya

We always want to be a particle of dust at the lotus feet of the son of Nanda Maharaja. No one had ever told all this before. Especially, no one had previously told:

nayanam galad asru dharaya

vadanam gadgada ruddhaya gira

pulakair nicitam vapuh kada

tava nama grahane bhavisyati

Hairs standing on end, voice choked, and all kinds of asta-sattvika-bhavas were present in Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu. When will a day come that I can chant like this: weeping, with my bodily hairs standing on end, and my heart melting? No one had ever seen all these symptoms before Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu exhibited them. Valmiki had some symptoms, and Dhruva Maharaja and Prahlada Maharaja also had some, but not like this. This wonderful thing was taught by Mahaprabhu. Moreover He taught:

yugayitam nimesena caksusa pravrsayitam

sunyayitam jagat sarvam govinda virahena me

There are hardly any qualified persons to realize all the truths in this verse. If a rare person realizes this, he will give up his body - because the material body cannot tolerate the emotions of prema.

Moreover:

aslisya va pada-ratam pinastu mam

adarsanän marma-hatam karotu va

yatha tatha va vidadhatu lampato

mat-prana-nathas tu sa eva naparah

"Lord Krsna, who is the lover of many devotees (women), may embrace this fully surrendered maidservant or may trample me with His feet. Or, He may render me brokenhearted by not being present before me for a long duration of time. Still, He is nothing less than the absolute lord of my heart."

The transcendental emotions revealed in this verse cannot be found in this world. This is only found in Goloka Vrndavana-dhama. We should pray that a day will come that we can serve under the guidance of the gopis, especially being the maidservant of Srimati Radhika, under the guidance of Lalita, Visakha, and Rupa-manjari. This is gaura-vani.

Srila Bhaktivedanta Swami Maharaja preached this, but in the beginning he had to cut so many jungles of mayavada, nirvesesa, and sahajiya philosophies. He saw that in order to make the land of the world fertile, it would take a long time. He therefore put all these truths in his transcendental literatures. He thought that if any of his disciples would be qualified to go deep into those truths, all this vani would be taught there. He wanted to preach it also, but it was rare to find a student who could go so deep. Most of his students could not follow him, and that is why so many fell down even from sannyasa. They made many offenses to him, and they are now burning in hell.

You should know all this vani, and be very strong in preaching and in glorifying your Prabhupada. Gaura-vani-pracarine. Krsna has sent him for this.

After our Srila Rupa Gosvami, Srila Jiva Gosvami, and Srila Raghunatha dasa Gosvami came, Srila Narottama dasa Thakura, Srila Syamananda prabhu came, and after that Srila Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura, Srila Baladeva Vidyabhusana, Srila Jagannatha dasa Babaji Maharaja, Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura, Srila Prabhupada Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura, and then our Gurudeva and so many associates of Srila Prabhupada. One of Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura's hands was Srila Bhaktivedanta Swami Maharaja, who came to the western countries, and in a couple of years preached everywhere. We should try to know his glories. Gaura-vani has so much deep meaning, but the meaning is very hidden. Don't think there is no reason for the word 'gaura-vani.'

Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati is described in his pranama mantra to be gaura-vani murti. [Namaste gaura-vani sri murtaye dina-tarine.] Murti means embodiment. He is the embodiment of gaura-vani, and Srila Swami Maharaja, your Prabhupada, is in the same line. He is not different from Srila Prabhupada Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura. The term 'Prabhupadanuga' is a wrong idea. Srila Bhaktivedanta Swami Maharaja and Srila Prabhupada Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura are both followers of Srila Rupa Gosvami, and therefore they are rupanuga. Following them, we are all rupanuga.

We have now told in brief about the vani of Caitanya Mahaprabhu. Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura has also, in a brief form, collected gaura-vani in his Dasa-mula siksa. You should note it very carefully in your heart. Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura wrote down that vani in his Jaiva-dharma, his last and best book. It is an authentic literature, and is the essence of all the Vedas, Upanisads, Bhagavatam, Caitanya-caritamrta, and all the books of our Gosvamis. The essence of all sastra is there in Jaiva-dharma.

Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura has written:

amanayaha praha tattavam harim iha paramam sarva saktima rasabdhima tata bhinansansa ca jivan prakritir kavalitan tada vimuktansa ca bhavada bhedabheda prakasam sakalampi harch sadhanam sudha bhaktim sadhayam tata pritim eva iti upadesayati janan gauracandra savayam saha

"The authoritative knowledge of the Vedas, received through the bona fide disciplic succession, establishes the following fundamental truths:style='font-size: 10.0pt'>

1. Hari is the supreme absolute truth.

2. He is omnipotent.

3. He is the reservoir of all mellows.

4. The living entities are His separated parts and parcels.

5. The conditioned souls are covered by Maya.

6. The liberated souls are beyond the influence of Maya.

7. The entire cosmic manifestation is simultaneously one and different from Him.

8. Suddha-bhakti is the only means to achieve love of Godhead.

9. The goal is to attain love of Godhead.

These teachings have been instructed by Gauracandra Himself."

Gaura Premanande.

Transcriber: Srimati Premanidhi devi dasi
Typist: Srimati Radhika devi dasi
Editor: Srimati Syamarani devi dasi

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