VIDEO - Sunday Feast - Sripad Bhakti Pavan Janardan Maharaja - January 20, 2008

Murali_Mohan_das · January 22, 2008

Sripad Janardana Maharaja describes the period preceding Sri Gaura Purnima as it is celebrated at Sri Chaitanya Saraswat Math in Nabadwip, India, including Nabadwip Dhama Parikrama.

Due to the author's error, this video is presented in two parts.

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Murali_Mohan_das · January 24, 2008

Unfortunately, I stopped the video recording a bit prematurely, since a Godbrother subsequently asked Maharaja the classic question: I'm trying to follow this spiritual path and yet I'm still plagued by so many doubts and sufferings, what does this mean?

In reply, Maharaja told of the incident where some of Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Thakur's disciples asked him the same question, saying, "We feel we are making no progress". Saraswati Thakur replied, "None at all? That is actually very good. If you had felt that you had made some progress, I would be concerned."

Beggar · January 24, 2008

Sri Sri Prapanna-jivanamrtam

- The Complete Unabridged English Edition –

Life-Nectar of the Surrendered Souls

Positive and Progressive Immortality

by the Intimate Servitor of

the Illustrious Universal Preceptor of Vaisnava Thought, Vaisnava-siddhantacarya-samrat Jagad-guru Prabhupada Sri Srimad Bhakti Siddhanta Saraswati Goswami Maharaja:

Om Visnupada Paramahamsa Parivrajakacarya-varya

Sarva-sastra-siddhanta-vit Astottara-sata-

Sri Srimad Bhakti Raksaka Sridhara Deva Goswami Maharaja

Chapter 8

Sri Bhakta-vacanamrtam - Words of Nectar from the Devotees Karpanyam - Surrender in Humility

sri-krsna-nama-svarupasya parama-pavanatvam, jivasya durdaivan ca -

namnam-akari bahudha nija-sarva-saktis

tatrarpita niyamitah smarane na kalah

etadrsi tava krpa bhagavan mamapi

durdaivam idrsam ihajani nanuragah

Sri Sri Bhagavatas Caitanyacandrasya

The holy name of the Lord is the supreme purifier, yet the soul's misfortune is to deny it -

"O Lord, Your holy name alone bestows all the good fortune of the soul, and this is why You have revealed Your many different names such as 'Krsna' and 'Govinda.' You have offered all Your transcendental potency in your holy name, without initiating any (scriptural or philosophical) hard and fast rules and regulations, concerning time, place, or circumstance, to be observed in chanting it. Dear Lord, in this way You have given Your mercy to the living entity by making Your name so easily available, and yet, my misfortune in the form of offense (nama-aparadha) does not allow

love for that merciful name to be born within my heart."

-the Supreme Lord Sri Caitanyacandra