Joyfully Following the Lord's Order / SB 5.1.11

The example of Maharaja Priyavrata / Follow the plan of the Lord to be joyful / Three methods to surrender to the Lord’s plan

#8 Joyfully Following the Lord's Order

NYC Ratha - Acyuta Gopi - 6/11/22

Bhadra - Purnima - 2022 - Bhaktivedanta Book - Trust - Amarendra Dāsa

Hare Krishna

Balaram Hall Kirtan - Kadamba Kanana Swami - 1st October 2022 - Vrindavan

The residence of Kulinagram, they were here in Gambhira with the other devotees. Lord Caitanya gave them an instruction that every year at Ratha Yatra the ropes that carry Jagannath, Balaram and Subhadra from the temple to the cart, they always break. I want you to make first class silken ropes in Kulinagram and Lord Caitanya personally showed him the ropes that they were using it. Make it just like this but much stronger.

Pastimes at Gambhira (Part 4)

Melody from Maverick City Music, Chandler Moore - Most Beautiful / So in Love.

2020.08.05 Hari Murari das - Most Beautiful / So in Love Maha Mantra (KBYG | Lenasia)

Japa--Sankarshan Das Adhikari

Hamari Radhe Deenan Ki Rakhvaar

The traditional Bengali bhajan "Sundara Mora Mana Kishora" performed by Ramya Devi Dasi.
The English translation follows......

SUNDARA MORA MANA KISHORA

Refrain: O beautiful one! O youthful boy who lives in my heart! Please come to me, O dark Syamal, O delighter of my eyes!
 
1) The desire of my heart is to worship You intimately. In this hope, I humbly bow unto Your lotus feet.
 
2) O love of my eyes! Please take me with You! While I am suffering in Your separation, the melody of our impending meeting is the only thing that gives me any happiness. O monarch of my life! Why do You remain silent and never speak to me? Tears are flowing from my eyes, and nothing in this world gives me any satisfaction.
 
3) How much longer must I continue living in this condition? You are making me weep and cry out for You, O darling Giridhari Lal! If I cannot attain You in this lifetime, then I shall just give up and surrender myself unto death.

Ramya Devi Dasi

Sundara Mora Mana Kishor:  Ramya Devi Dasi:

Shri Radha-Vinoda-Vihari-Tattvashtakam
(Why Shri Krishna acquired a bright complexion)
Shri Shrimad Bhakti Prajnana Keshava Gosvami Maharaja
 
radha-cinta-niveshena yasya kantir vilopita
shri-krishna-caranam vande radhalingita-vigraham (1)
 
I worship the lotus feet of that form of Shri Krishna when, due to being thoroughly immersed in separation from Shrimati Radhika (who is displaying mana, Her mood of jealous anger), His own dark complexion vanishes and He assumes Her bright, golden luster; or, I worship the lotus feet of Shri Krishna as He is embraced by Shrimati Radhika (after Her mana has broken).
 
sevya-sevaka-sambhoge dvayor bhedah kuto bhavet
vipralambhe tu sarvasya bhedah sada vivardhate (2)
 
When Shri Krishna (sevya - who always takes service from sevaka*) and Shrimati Radhika (sevaka - who is always doing seva to sevya) meet together and enjoy each other, how can there be any distinction between Them? But in vipralambha Their feelings of separateness perpetually intensify. [*Sevya is bhokta Bhagavan - who is always enjoying. Sevaka is bhogya - who is enjoyed. At time of meeting there is no bheda, difference, between Them - They are abheda, non-different whereas in separation Their mood of difference especially increases.]
 
cil-lila-mithunam tattvam bhedabhedam acintyakam
shakti-shaktimator aikyam yugapad vartate sada (3)
 
By the influence of acintya-shakti, the Divine Couple, shakti (potency) and shaktiman (the possessor of potency) who perform unlimited transcendental pastimes, are forever simultaneously different and non-different. [Para-tattva is never without shakti. When shakti-shaktiman are one svarupa, in one body, then gaura-tattva is manifest, and when They are separate in two bodies, Krishna as lila-purusottama enjoys lila with Shrimati Radhika.]
 
tattvam ekam param vidyal lilaya tad dvidha sthitam
gaurah krishnah svayam hy etad ubhav ubhayam apnutah (4)
 
Although the Supreme Truth is one, His pastimes appear in two forms: those of Shyamasundara Krishna and Shri Gaurasundara, both of whom are directly Svayam Bhagavan (and whose contradictory qualities are fully harmonized by acintya-shakti). [The usage of the word varna (complexion) in verse 5 and the word guna (quality) in verse 6 establishes shri-gaura-tattva to be as worshipable as shri-krishna-tattva:]
 
sarve varnah yatravishtah gaura-kantir vikashate
sarva-varnena hinas tu krishna-varnah prakashate (5)
 
Wherever all the colours are combined, a golden hue (gaura-kanti) is manifest; for example, although all colours are present in the sun, its hue is golden. On the other hand, in the absence of all colour, black (shyama-kanti) is manifest (and according to the opinion of modern scientists, black is actually devoid of colour).
 
sagunam nirgunam tattvam ekam evadvitiyakam
sarva-nitya-gunair gaurah krishnau rasas tu nirgunaih (6)
 
There is no difference between the supreme truth manifest as saguna (possessed of transcendental attributes - gaura-kanti) and nirguna (devoid of material attributes - shyama-kanti). They are one and the same. Shri Gaurasundara possesses all eternal divine qualities and Shri Krishna is the embodiment of rasa which is completely devoid of mundane qualities.
 
shri krishnam mithunam brahma tyaktva tu nirgunam hi tat
upasate mrisha vijnah yatha tushavaghatinah (7)
 
Shri Krishna and Shri Gauranga are both the supreme Brahman. Those who abandon serving Them to worship the formless Brahman never attain factual liberation and are precisely like those who try to extract rice by beating empty husks - all they obtain is their fruitless, hard labour.
 
shri vinoda-vihari yo radhaya milito yada
tadaham vandanam kuryam sarasvati-prasadatah (8)
 
By the mercy of my Gurudeva Shrila Sarasvati Prabhupada, I worship Shri Vinoda-bihari and Shrimati Radhika as They meet and take Their darshana at that time.
 
iti tattvashtakam nityam yah pathet shraddhayanvitah
krishna-tattvam abhijnaya gaura-pade bhaven matih (9)

STAVAMRTAM

STAVAMRTAM - S-01-sri-sri-radha-vinod-bihari-tattvastakam

Effective Prayers — Let the Real Me Speak / SB 5.18.8

The prayers of Prahlad Maharaja / The power of prayer / Stepping off the karmic stage

#5 Effective Prayers — Let the Real Me Speak

Radhanath Swami is a Vaishnava sanyassi (a monk in a Krishna-bhakti lineage) and teacher of the devotional path of Bhakti-yoga. He is author of The Journey Home, a memoir of his search for spiritual truth. His teachings draw from the sacred texts of India such as The Bhagavad-gita, Srimad Bhagavatam, and Ramayana, and aim to reveal the practical application of the sacred traditions, while focusing on the shared essence which unites apparently disparate religious or spiritual paths.
Born Richard Slavin, on December 7, 1950, in his teens he came to confront a deep sense of alienation from suburban Chicago life and the civil injustices of mid-century America. At the age of nineteen, while on a summer trip to Europe, his internal struggles culminated in a commitment to search for God wherever it might lead him. Meditating on the Isle of Crete, he felt a supernatural calling and the next morning set off alone to find spiritual India. The Journey Home documents his odyssey as a penniless hitch-hiker though Greece, Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan and finally India. There he lived as a wandering ascetic, first amongst the forest dwelling Himalayan yogis and later amongst a wide variety of gurus and spiritual practitioners throughout India and Nepal. Ultimately, he was led to the holy town of Vrindavan, where he found his path amongst the Bhakti-yogis.
In Vrindavan he found the teacher he was searching for in A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (1896-1977) the founder of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), and representative of Gaudiya Vaishnavism, (the Krishna-bhakti tradition stemming from the 16th century mystic avatar Sri Chaitanya). In choosing Bhaktivedanta Swami, as his guru, Radhanath Swami felt compelled to shear his matted locks and reenter Western society with a mission to share the sacred wisdom he had received. This return exemplifies the form of devotional yoga which is at the heart of Radhanath Swami’s teachings, a spiritual practice expressed as tangible action meant to bring about personal fulfillment and benefit the world.
At the the age of 31 he took the monastic vows of a Vaishnava sanyassin and became known as Radhanath Swami.
Today Radhanath Swami travels regularly throughout India, Europe and North America, sharing the teachings of Bhakti-yoga. He resides much of the year at the Radha Gopinath Ashram in Chowpatty, Mumbai. For the past twenty-five years he has guided the community’s development and has directed a number of acclaimed social action projects including Midday Meals, which daily serves more than 260,000 plates of sanctified vegetarian food to the children of the slums of Mumbai. He has also worked to establish missionary hospitals and eye camps, eco-friendly farms, schools and ashrams, an orphanage, and a number of emergency relief programs throughout India.


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