Weekly Sanga

vidyante ’bhukta-pūrvāṇi
phalāni surabhīṇi ca
eṣa vai surabhir gandho
viṣūcīno ’vagṛhyate

TRANSLATION
In the Tāla forest are sweet-smelling fruits no one has ever tasted. Indeed, even now we can smell the fragrance of the tāla fruits spreading all about.

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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam/The Brahmanas' Wives Blessed/Wednesday Sangas

Srimad Bhagavatam Canto 10 Chapter 23 Text 27

Posted on January 11, 2006 by Rathi Krishna dasa

Śrīmad Bhāgavatam
Canto 10 Chapter 23 Text 27

prāṇa-buddhi-manaḥ-svātma
dārāpatya-dhanādayaḥ
yat-samparkāt priyā āsaṁs
tataḥ ko nv aparaḥ priyaḥ

TRANSLATION
It is only by contact with the self that one’s vital breath, intelligence, mind, friends, body, wife, children, wealth and so on are dear. Therefore what object can possibly be more dear than one’s own self?

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Srimad Bhagavatam Canto 10 Chapter 15 Text 19

Posted on January 7, 2006 by Rathi Krishna dasa

Śrīmad Bhāgavatam
Canto 10 Chapter 15 Text 19

evaṁ nigūḍhātma-gatiḥ sva-māyayā
gopātmajatvaṁ caritair viḍambayan
reme ramā-lālita-pāda-pallavo
grāmyaiḥ samaṁ grāmya-vad īśa-ceṣṭitaḥ

TRANSLATION
In this way the Supreme Lord, whose soft lotus feet are personally attended by the goddess of fortune, concealed His transcendental opulences by His internal potency and acted like the son of a cowherd. Yet even while enjoying like a village boy in the company of other village residents, He often exhibited feats only God could perform.

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Srimad Bhagavatam Canto 10 Chapter 23 Text 24

Posted on January 4, 2006 by Rathi Krishna dasa

Śrīmad Bhāgavatam
Canto 10 Chapter 23 Text 24

tās tathā tyakta-sarvāśāḥ
prāptā ātma-didṛkṣayā
vijñāyākhila-dṛg-draṣṭā
prāha prahasitānanaḥ

TRANSLATION
Lord Kṛṣṇa, who witnesses the thoughts of all creatures, understood how those ladies had abandoned all worldly hopes and come there simply to see Him. Thus He addressed them as follows with a smile upon His face.

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Srimad Bhagavatam Canto 10 Chapter 15 Text 18

Posted on January 1, 2006 by Rathi Krishna dasa

Śrīmad Bhāgavatam
Canto 10 Chapter 15 Text 18

anye tad-anurūpāṇi
manojñāni mahātmanaḥ
gāyanti sma mahā-rāja
sneha-klinna-dhiyaḥ śanaiḥ

TRANSLATION
My dear King, other boys would sing enchanting songs appropriate to the occasion, and their hearts would melt out of love for the Lord.

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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam

Srimad Bhagavatam Canto 10 Chapter 23 Texts 20-21

Posted on December 28, 2005 by Rathi Krishna dasa

Śrīmad Bhāgavatam
Canto 10 Chapter 23 Texts 20-21

niṣidhyamānāḥ patibhir
bhrātṛbhir bandhubhiḥ sutaiḥ
bhagavaty uttama-śloke
dīrgha-śruta-dhṛtāśayāḥ

yamunopavane ’śoka
nava-pallava-maṇḍite
vicarantaṁ vṛtaṁ gopaiḥ
sāgrajaṁ dadṛśuḥ striyaḥ

TRANSLATION
Although their husbands, brothers, sons and other relatives tried to forbid them from going, their hope of seeing Kṛṣṇa, cultivated by extensive hearing of His transcendental qualities, won out. Along the river Yamunā, within a garden decorated with buds of aśoka trees, they caught sight of Him strolling along in the company of the cowherd boys and His elder brother, Balarāma.

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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam/The Brahmanas' Wives Blessed/Wednesday Sangas

Srimad Bhagavatam Canto 10 Chapter 23 Text 12

Posted on December 21, 2005 by Rathi Krishna dasa

Śrīmad Bhāgavatam
Canto 10 Chapter 23 Text 12

na te yad om iti procur
na neti ca parantapa
gopā nirāśāḥ pratyetya
tathocuḥ kṛṣṇa-rāmayoḥ

TRANSLATION
When the brāhmaṇas failed to reply even with a simple yes or no, O chastiser of the enemy [Parīkṣit], the cowherd boys returned disappointed to Kṛṣṇa and Rāma and reported this to Them.

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Srimad Bhagavatam Canto 10 Chapter 15 Text 8

Posted on December 18, 2005 by Rathi Krishna dasa

Śrīmad Bhāgavatam
Canto 10 Chapter 15 Text 8

dhanyeyam adya dharaṇī tṛṇa-vīrudhas tvat-
pāda-spṛśo druma-latāḥ karajābhimṛṣṭāḥ
nadyo ’drayaḥ khaga-mṛgāḥ sadayāvalokair
gopyo ’ntareṇa bhujayor api yat-spṛhā śrīḥ

TRANSLATION
This earth has now become most fortunate, because You have touched her grass and bushes with Your feet and her trees and creepers with Your fingernails, and because You have graced her rivers, mountains, birds and animals with Your merciful glances. But above all, You have embraced the young cowherd women between Your two arms — a favor hankered after by the goddess of fortune herself.

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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam/The Brahmanas' Wives Blessed/Wednesday Sangas

Srimad Bhagavatam Canto 10 Chapter 23 Texts 10-11

Posted on December 14, 2005 by Rathi Krishna dasa

Śrīmad Bhāgavatam
Canto 10 Chapter 23 Texts 10-11

deśaḥ kālaḥ pṛthag dravyaṁ
mantra-tantrartvijo ’gnayaḥ
devatā yajamānaś ca
kratur dharmaś ca yan-mayaḥ

taṁ brahma paramaṁ sākṣād
bhagavantam adhokṣajam
manuṣya-dṛṣṭyā duṣprajñā
martyātmāno na menire

TRANSLATION
Although the ingredients of sacrificial performance — the place, time, particular paraphernalia, mantras, rituals, priests, fires, demigods, performer, offering and the as yet unseen beneficial results — are all simply aspects of His opulences, the brāhmaṇas saw Lord Kṛṣṇa as an ordinary human because of their perverted intelligence. They failed to recognize that He is the Supreme Absolute Truth, the directly manifest Personality of Godhead, whom the material senses cannot ordinarily perceive. Thus bewildered by their false identification with the mortal body, they did not show Him proper respect.

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Srimad Bhagavatam Canto 10 Chapter 15 Text 6

Posted on December 11, 2005 by Rathi Krishna dasa

Śrīmad Bhāgavatam
Canto 10 Chapter 15 Text 6

ete ’linas tava yaśo ’khila-loka-tīrthaṁ
gāyanta ādi-puruṣānupathaṁ bhajante
prāyo amī muni-gaṇā bhavadīya-mukhyā
gūḍhaṁ vane ’pi na jahaty anaghātma-daivam

TRANSLATION
O Original Personality, these bees must all be great sages and most elevated devotees of Yours, for they are worshiping You by following You along the path and chanting Your glories, which are themselves a holy place for the entire world. Though You have disguised Yourself within this forest, O sinless one, they refuse to abandon You, their worshipable Lord.

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