Guest guest Posted March 20, 2000 Report Share Posted March 20, 2000 Sri Sri Guru Gauranga Jayatah Few comments not on the chart itself but on the life of Bhakti Promode Puri Goswami based his biography in The Art of Sadhana and few things I learned from BP Hrishikesh Maharaja who is a sanyassa disciple of BP Puri Goswami, when he was here in Zagreb this year. >From the book: " <.......>Along with the study of sanskrit, he worshiped the family deities of Sri Sri Radha Gopinatha. Once, during the winter, he forgot to cover the Lord with a blanket. That night he himself began to shiver uncontrollably with fever and chills. The Lord appeared to him in a dream and showed him that He had been left without a blanket. The young Promode Bhusan woke up and immediately covered the Lord, after which his fever subsided. Promode Bhusan completed his high school education in Baruipur near Diamond Harbour and then went on to study chemistry at Bangabasi College, Calcutta. In 1917, he met his Guru, Prabhupada Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Goswami Thakura. From the first meeting Sri Promode Bhusan accepted Prabhupada in his heart as his eternal master. His strong attachement to spiritual life brought him regularly to his Guru's lectures at the Calcutta ashram of the Gaudiya Matha. In 1923, on the holy occasion of Sri Krishna Janmastami, he surrendered at his Guru's lotus feet and received harinama and mantra-diksa. He was thenceforth known as Sri Pranavananda Brahmacari. Sri Pranavanada's service attitude was so exemplary that soon Prabhupada Srila Sarasvati Thakura engaged him as the editor of Gaudiya Math publications. Pranavananda Brahmacari would summarize Srila Sarasvati Thakura's lectures, elaborate on them, and with Prabhupada's approval, publish them in various periodicals including Dainika Nadiya Prakasa, the world's only daily spiritual newspaper. In recognition of his scholarship and historical researches, Sarasvati Thakura honored him with the title, Mahopadesaka Pratna-vidyalankara. He served in close association with his Guru for thirteen years. <....> In 1942, Srila Prabhupada Sarasvati Thakura appeared to him in a dream and gave the divine order to accept Tridandi-sannyasa. Srila Prabhupada has requested him to accept Tridandi-sannyasa earlier in 1933, yet considering himself unfit he humbly declined. At this time he accepted sannyasa initiation and its symbol, the danda(staff) from his godbrother Srila Bhakti Gourava Vaikhanasa Maharaja at the Sri Sri Gaura-Gadadhara temple in Champahati. He was given the name Tridandi Swami Bhakti Promode Puri. For more than seven years, Tridandi Swami Bhakti Promode Puri Goswami Maharaja served as a head pujari and temple president of Sri Yogapitha, the birthplace of Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu discovered by Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura. During this time the deities were internally urging him to take up a more intense study of the scriptures and a life of solitary worship and bhajana. He moved to a humble cottage on the banks of the Ganges at Kalna in the district of Burdwan, where he lived with his beloved deities Sri Sri Radha Gopinatha. The King of Burdwan was extremely impressed with the saintly character of the ascetic. On the appearance day of Srimati Radharani in 1958 he presented Srila Puri MAharaja the large and ancient Ananta Vasudeva temple of Kalna. He accepted this offering and engaged in service at the temple for several years. <........> Srila Puri Maharaja was well known as the best kirtana leader in the early days of Sri Gaudiya Math and often sang on radio programs. He also gained a wide reputation for extensive knowledge and meticulous practice of deity worship and the rituals for deity installation and temple consecration. His service to Srila Sarasvati Thakura in these areas resulted in his being widely known as Pujayapada. Over and above his senior position and high qualificaions, many are attracted to Tridandi Swami B.P. Puri Goswami by his divine personality. He emanates sweetness and love. He is seen by them as a well-wishing guide to the spiritual domain. The opening of the Sri Gopinatha Gaudiya Math in Ishodyan during the 1989 Gaura Purnima provided a dorway to that spiritual domain.. " Unofficially, few things told to me by Hrishkesh M. was that he was most humble personality you could find(I was told that by literaly anybody who knew BP Puri Mj), in his Math most of the emphasis was on the Hari Nama. When he was leaving his body last year he was all the time offering prayers with folded hands to different invisible personalities in different places of the room. Devotees could not fathom to whom he is doing that. Only once he got very much excited and started telling to the devotee: " Do you see!? Do you see?! " , ointing to a place in a room. Devotee asked " Whom? Krishna? " . Promode Puri Mj answered: " No, Radha, Radha! " So it seems that his beloved deities have appeared to him before his disappearance and also probably demigods came to offer him their obeisances before the departure of such a soul. He was truly a saint. Was first president of World Vaisnava Organisation that loosely unifies diferent organisations of Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura's disciples and their disciples. Everybody respected him. An like that. humbly, Zavisa > Hamsa Om So'ham > Dear Jyotisha, > Any comments on this fantastic chart? In the sapta Rishi Nadi, there is > a > combination mentioned that if Jupiter is in Lagna and malefics are in > Quadrants, then a Vishnu temple is in the vicinity....or the person > could be > a Vaishnava. Other works mention that if Lagna associates with a > benefic and > is aspected by malefics, then Vishnu is indicated whereas if the lagna > is > associated with a malefic and benefics aspect, then it is Shiva. > Om Tat Sat > Best Wishes > Sanjay Rath > - > Zavisa Nikac <zavisa.nikac > <varahamihira > > Saturday, February 19, 2000 2:19 PM > [Jagannath] B Promod Puri's chart > > > Sri Sri Guru Gauranga Jayatah > > > > I just recieved few days ago the book Art of Sadhana by BhaktiPromode > > Puri Goswami Maharaja. He was the person that was leading the World > > Vaisnava Association since its formation. It gives the time of October > > 8, 1898, Brahma Muhurta time, village Ganganandapur, District > > Jessore(now in Bangladesh). I do not have the Atlas. Could somebody > help > > me with the place? Chart is somewhat like this: > > > > Date of Birth: October 8, 1898 > > Time of Birth: 4:10:48 am > > Time Zone of Birth: 5:30 East of GMT > > Longitude of Birth: 89 E 17 > > Latitude of Birth: 23 N 04 > > Lunar month (maasa): Aswayuja > > Lunar day (tithi): Krishna Ashtami > > Tithi balance: 0.3269 > > Nakshatra balance: 0.6785 > > Sun-Moon Yoga: Siva > > Sun-Moon Karana: Kaulava > > Vara (weekday): Friday > > > > Sunrise = 5:26 am (Apparent rise - upper limb) > > Ayanamsa = 22-27-50 > > Dasa year length chosen = 365.2425 days > > > > Planet Position Pada CharaK > > > > Ascdt 3 Vi 55 U.Pha. 3 - > > Sun 22 Vi 12 Hastha 4 MK > > Moon 24 Ge 17 Punarvasu 2 BK > > Mars 27 Ge 11 Punarvasu 3 AK > > Mercury 13 Vi 34 Hastha 2 PK > > Jupiter 26 Vi 51 Chitra 2 AmK > > Venus 7 Sc 31 Anuradha 2 DK > > Saturn 15 Sc 52 Anuradha 4 PiK > > Rahu 20 Sg 31 Poo.Shaa. 3 GK > > Ketu 20 Ge 31 Punarvasu 1 - > > > > > > > > +----------------------+ > > | | | | Glk GL | > > | | | | | > > | | | | Mnd Ket | > > | | | | | > > | | | | Moo Mar | > > |-------------|---------------------------|-------------| > > | | | | > > | | | | > > | | | | > > | | | | > > | | | | > > |-------------| R A S I |-------------| > > | | | | > > | | | | > > | | | HL | > > | | | | > > | | | | > > |-------------|---------------------------|-------------| > > | | | | BL Asc | > > | | Ven | | | > > | Rah | | | Mer | > > | | Sat | | | > > | | | | Sun Jup | > > +----------------------+ > > > > +----------------------+ > > | | | | | > > | GL | | Moo | | > > | | Ket | | Mar | > > | Mnd | | Mer | | > > | | | | | > > |-------------|---------------------------|-------------| > > | | | | > > | | | | > > | Asc | | Sun | > > | | | | > > | | | | > > |-------------| N A V A M S A |-------------| > > | | | | > > | | | | > > | BL | | HL | > > | | | | > > | | | | > > |-------------|---------------------------|-------------| > > | | | | | > > | | | | Jup | > > | Glk | Sat | Rah | | > > | | | | Ven | > > | | | | | > > +----------------------+ > > > > > > Vimsottari Dasa: > > > > Jupi 1898-10-08 Ketu 1900-07-23 Venu 1901-06-29 > > Sun 1904-02-28 Moon 1904-12-16 Mars 1906-04-17 > Rahu > > 1907-03-24 > > Satu 1909-08-17 Merc 1912-08-19 Ketu 1915-04-30 Venu 1916-06-07 > Sun > > 1919-08-08 > > Moon 1920-07-20 Mars 1922-02-18 Rahu 1923-03-30 > Jupi > > 1926-02-03 > > Merc 1928-08-16 Ketu 1931-01-13 Venu 1932-01-10 Sun 1934-11-10 > Moon > > 1935-09-16 > > Mars 1937-02-15 Rahu 1938-02-12 Jupi 1940-08-31 > Satu > > 1942-12-07 > > Ketu 1945-08-16 Venu 1946-01-13 Sun 1947-03-15 Moon 1947-07-20 > Mars > > 1948-02-19 > > Rahu 1948-07-17 Jupi 1949-08-04 Satu 1950-07-11 > Merc > > 1951-08-20 > > Venu 1952-08-16 Sun 1955-12-17 Moon 1956-12-16 Mars 1958-08-17 > Rahu > > 1959-10-17 > > Jupi 1962-10-16 Satu 1965-06-16 Merc 1968-08-16 > Ketu > > 1971-06-17 > > Sun 1972-08-16 Moon 1972-12-03 Mars 1973-06-04 Rahu 1973-10-10 > Jupi > > 1974-09-04 > > Satu 1975-06-23 Merc 1976-06-04 Ketu 1977-04-10 > Venu > > 1977-08-16 > > Moon 1978-08-16 Mars 1979-06-17 Rahu 1980-01-16 Jupi 1981-07-17 > Satu > > 1982-11-16 > > Merc 1984-06-16 Ketu 1985-11-15 Venu 1986-06-16 > Sun > > 1988-02-15 > > Mars 1988-08-16 Rahu 1989-01-12 Jupi 1990-01-30 Satu 1991-01-06 > Merc > > 1992-02-15 > > Ketu 1993-02-11 Venu 1993-07-10 Sun 1994-09-10 > Moon > > 1995-01-15 > > Rahu 1995-08-17 Jupi 1998-04-29 Satu 2000-09-21 Merc 2003-07-29 > Ketu > > 2006-02-15 > > Venu 2007-03-05 Sun 2010-03-05 Moon 2011-01-27 > Mars > > 2012-07-28 > > > > > > --- > --- > > HARE RAMA KRISHNA > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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