Weekly Sanga

11) Nitya-dharma & Idolatry/Jaiva-Dharma/Wednesday Sangas

Jaiva-Dharma – Wednesday, April 1, 2015

Posted on April 1, 2015 by Rathi Krishna dasa

In today’s sanga, Śrīla Dhanurdhara Swami continues with Śrīla Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura’s 1896 novel, Jaiva-Dharma.

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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam/Sunday Sangas/The Son of Droṇa Punished

Srimad Bhagavatam Canto 1 Chapter 7 Text 9 (March 29, 2015)

Posted on March 29, 2015 by Rathi Krishna dasa

Śrīmad Bhāgavatam
Canto 1 Chapter 7 Text 9

śaunaka uvāca
sa vai nivṛtti-nirataḥ
sarvatropekṣako muniḥ
kasya vā bṛhatīm etām
ātmārāmaḥ samabhyasat

TRANSLATION
Śrī Śaunaka asked Sūta Gosvāmī: Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī was already on the path of self-realization, and thus he was pleased with his own self. So why did he take the trouble to undergo the study of such a vast literature?

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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam/Sunday Sangas/The Son of Droṇa Punished

Srimad Bhagavatam Canto 1 Chapter 7 Text 8 (March 15, 2015)

Posted on March 15, 2015 by Rathi Krishna dasa

Śrīmad Bhāgavatam
Canto 1 Chapter 7 Text 8

sa saṁhitāṁ bhāgavatīṁ
kṛtvānukramya cātma-jam
śukam adhyāpayām āsa
nivṛtti-nirataṁ muniḥ

TRANSLATION
The great sage Vyāsadeva, after compiling the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam and revising it, taught it to his own son, Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī, who was already engaged in self-realization.

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11) Nitya-dharma & Idolatry/Jaiva-Dharma/Wednesday Sangas

Jaiva-Dharma – Wednesday, March 11, 2015

Posted on March 11, 2015 by Rathi Krishna dasa

In today’s sanga, Śrīla Dhanurdhara Swami continues with Śrīla Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura’s 1896 novel, Jaiva-Dharma.

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10) Nitya-dharma & History/11) Nitya-dharma & Idolatry/Jaiva-Dharma/Wednesday Sangas

Jaiva-Dharma – Wednesday, March 4, 2015

Posted on March 4, 2015 by Rathi Krishna dasa

In today’s sanga, Śrīla Dhanurdhara Swami continues with Śrīla Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura’s 1896 novel, Jaiva-Dharma.

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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam/Sunday Sangas/The Son of Droṇa Punished

Srimad Bhagavatam Canto 1 Chapter 7 Text 7 (March 1, 2015)

Posted on March 1, 2015 by Rathi Krishna dasa

Śrīmad Bhāgavatam
Canto 1 Chapter 7 Text 7

yasyāṁ vai śrūyamāṇāyāṁ
kṛṣṇe parama-pūruṣe
bhaktir utpadyate puṁsaḥ
śoka-moha-bhayāpahā

TRANSLATION
Simply by giving aural reception to this Vedic literature, the feeling for loving devotional service to Lord Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, sprouts up at once to extinguish the fire of lamentation, illusion and fearfulness.

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10) Nitya-dharma & History/Jaiva-Dharma/Wednesday Sangas

Jaiva-Dharma – Wednesday, February 25, 2015

Posted on February 25, 2015 by Rathi Krishna dasa

In today’s sanga, Śrīla Dhanurdhara Swami continues with Śrīla Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura’s 1896 novel, Jaiva-Dharma.

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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam/Sunday Sangas/The Son of Droṇa Punished

Srimad Bhagavatam Canto 1 Chapter 7 Text 6 (February 22, 2015)

Posted on February 22, 2015 by Rathi Krishna dasa

Śrīmad Bhāgavatam
Canto 1 Chapter 7 Text 6

anarthopaśamaṁ sākṣād
bhakti-yogam adhokṣaje
lokasyājānato vidvāṁś
cakre sātvata-saṁhitām

TRANSLATION
The material miseries of the living entity, which are superfluous to him, can be directly mitigated by the linking process of devotional service. But the mass of people do not know this, and therefore the learned Vyāsadeva compiled this Vedic literature, which is in relation to the Supreme Truth.

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Festivals/Puri Kirtan-Katha Retreat 2015/Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam/The Stealing of the Boys and Calves by Brahmā

Puri Kirtan-Katha Retreat 2015 – January 27, 2015

Posted on February 19, 2015 by Rathi Krishna dasa

Purī Kirtan-Kathā Retreat 2015 – Brahma-vimohana-līlā – January 27, 2015

Śrīmad Bhāgavatam
Canto 10 Chapter 13 Text 64

śanair athotthāya vimṛjya locane
mukundam udvīkṣya vinamra-kandharaḥ
kṛtāñjaliḥ praśrayavān samāhitaḥ
sa-vepathur gadgadayailatelayā

TRANSLATION
Then, rising very gradually and wiping his two eyes, Lord Brahmā looked up at Mukunda. Lord Brahmā, his head bent low, his mind concentrated and his body trembling, very humbly began, with faltering words, to offer praises to Lord Kṛṣṇa.

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Festivals/Puri Kirtan-Katha Retreat 2015/Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam/The Stealing of the Boys and Calves by Brahmā

Puri Kirtan-Katha Retreat 2015 – January 26, 2015

Posted on February 19, 2015 by Rathi Krishna dasa

Purī Kirtan-Kathā Retreat 2015 – Brahma-vimohana-līlā – January 26, 2015

Śrīmad Bhāgavatam
Canto 10 Chapter 13 Text 50

candrikā-viśada-smeraiḥ
sāruṇāpāṅga-vīkṣitaiḥ
svakārthānām iva rajaḥ-
sattvābhyāṁ sraṣṭṛ-pālakāḥ

TRANSLATION
Those Viṣṇu forms, by Their pure smiling, which resembled the increasing light of the moon, and by the sidelong glances of Their reddish eyes, created and protected the desires of Their own devotees, as if by the modes of passion and goodness.

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