Weekly Sanga

Japa and Prayer School – May 20, 2023

Posted on May 20, 2023 by Rathi Krishna dasa

Śrīla Dhanurdhara Swami continues his Japa and Prayer School classes.

In today’s class:

Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam Canto 12 Chapter 3 Text 51

kaler doṣa-nidhe rājann
asti hy eko mahān guṇaḥ
kīrtanād eva kṛṣṇasya
mukta-saṅgaḥ paraṁ vrajet

TRANSLATION
My dear King, although Kali-yuga is an ocean of faults, there is still one good quality about this age: Simply by chanting the Hare Kṛṣṇa mahā-mantra, one can become free from material bondage and be promoted to the transcendental kingdom.

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Bṛhad-bhāgavatāmṛta Part 1 Chapter 1 Text 28 – May 17, 2023

Posted on May 17, 2023 by Rathi Krishna dasa

Bṛhad-bhāgavatāmṛta Part 1 Chapter 1 Text 28

vicitrotkṛṣṭa-vastūni
sa niṣpādya mahā-manāḥ
āvaśyakaṁ samāpyādau
saṁskṛtya mahatīṁ sthalīm

TRANSLATION
“Having collected all sorts of valuable items for worship of the Lord, the generous brāhmaṇa then saw to the preliminaries, first by purifying a large area on the ground.”

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1) Bhauma: On the Earth/Bṛhad-bhāgavatāmṛta/Part 1: Finding the Essence of the Supreme Lord's Mercy/Sunday Sangas

Bṛhad-bhāgavatāmṛta Part 1 Chapter 1 Texts 24-25 – May 14, 2023

Posted on May 14, 2023 by Rathi Krishna dasa

Bṛhad-bhāgavatāmṛta Part 1 Chapter 1 Texts 24-25

ekadā tīrtha-mūrdhanye
prayāge muni-puṅgavāḥ
māghe prātaḥ kṛta-snānāḥ
śrī-mādhava-samīpataḥ

upaviṣṭā mudāviṣṭā
manyamānāḥ kṛtārthatām
kṛṣṇasya dayito ’sīti
ślāghante sma parasparam

TRANSLATION
“Once a group of exalted sages were at Prayāga, the best of pilgrimage sites, during the month of Māgha. The sages had taken their bath and were happily seated before the Deity of Śrī Mādhava. Feeling satisfied, as if all their goals in life had been fulfilled, they were praising one another, saying, “You are the recipient of Lord Kṛṣṇa’s mercy.”

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1) Bhauma: On the Earth/Bṛhad-bhāgavatāmṛta/Part 1: Finding the Essence of the Supreme Lord's Mercy

Bṛhad-bhāgavatāmṛta Part 1 Chapter 1 Text 19 – May 10, 2023

Posted on May 10, 2023 by Rathi Krishna dasa

Bṛhad-bhāgavatāmṛta Part 1 Chapter 1 Text 19

śrī-jaiminir uvāca
uvāca sādaraṁ rājā
parīkṣin mātṛ-vatsalaḥ
śrutāty-adbhuta-govinda-
kathākhyāna-rasotsukaḥ

TRANSLATION
“Śrī Jaimini said: King Parīkṣit, feeling affection for his mother, answered her respectfully, eager to enjoy recounting the wonderful narrations he had just heard about Lord Govinda.”

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1) Bhauma: On the Earth/Bṛhad-bhāgavatāmṛta/Part 1: Finding the Essence of the Supreme Lord's Mercy/Sunday Sangas

Bṛhad-bhāgavatāmṛta Part 1 Chapter 1 Text 11 – May 7, 2023

Posted on May 7, 2023 by Rathi Krishna dasa

Bṛhad-bhāgavatāmṛta Part 1 Chapter 1 Text 11

bhagavad-bhakti-śāstrāṇām
ayaṁ sārasya saṅgrahaḥ
anubhūtasya caitanya-
deve tat-priya-rūpataḥ

TRANSLATION
This book collects the essence of the scriptures teaching devotional service rendered to the Supreme Lord. These essential teachings I have personally realized under the shelter of Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu. I received them from His dear devotee Śrī Rūpa.

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Japa and Prayer School

Japa and Prayer School – May 6, 2023

Posted on May 6, 2023 by Rathi Krishna dasa

Śrīla Dhanurdhara Swami continues his Japa and Prayer School classes.

In today’s class:

Bṛhad-bhāgavatāmṛta Part 1 Chapter 1 Text 9

jayati jayati nāmānanda-rūpaṁ murārer
viramita-nija-dharma-dhyāna-pūjādi-yatnam
katham api sakṛd āttaṁ mukti-daṁ prāṇināṁ yat
paramam amṛtam ekaṁ jīvanaṁ bhūṣaṇaṁ me

TRANSLATION
All glories, all glories to the all-ecstatic name of Lord Murāri. It makes one put aside such tasks as meditation, ritual worship, and social duties. If a living being even once takes the Lord’s holy name, the name will grant him liberation. That holy name is the greatest source of eternal pleasure and is my very life and ornament.

Also mentioned in today’s class is Sacinandana Swami’s Meditations from the Living Name.

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1) Bhauma: On the Earth/Bṛhad-bhāgavatāmṛta/Part 1: Finding the Essence of the Supreme Lord's Mercy/Wednesday Sangas

Bṛhad-bhāgavatāmṛta Part 1 Chapter 1 Text 9 – May 3, 2023

Posted on May 3, 2023 by Rathi Krishna dasa

Bṛhad-bhāgavatāmṛta Part 1 Chapter 1 Text 9

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1) Bhauma: On the Earth/Bṛhad-bhāgavatāmṛta/Part 1: Finding the Essence of the Supreme Lord's Mercy/Sunday Sangas

Bṛhad-bhāgavatāmṛta Part 1 Chapter 1 Text 8 – April 30, 2023

Posted on April 30, 2023 by Rathi Krishna dasa

Bṛhad-bhāgavatāmṛta Part 1 Chapter 1 Text 8

jayati jayati kṛṣṇa-prema-bhaktir yad-aṅghriṁ
nikhila-nigama-tattvaṁ gūḍham ājñāya muktiḥ
bhajati śaraṇa-kāmā vaiṣṇavais tyajyamānā
japa-yajana-tapasyā-nyāsa-niṣṭhāṁ vihāya

TRANSLATION
All glories, all glories to Śrī Kṛṣṇa-prema-bhakti! Knowing that the feet of Prema-bhakti secretly comprise all the truths of the Vedas, Liberation herself has come to worship her. Indeed, Liberation, abandoned by the Vaiṣṇavas, has now given up her dependence on mantras, penance, sacrifice, and renunciation and is eager to have the shelter of Prema-bhakti.

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1) Bhauma: On the Earth/Bṛhad-bhāgavatāmṛta/Part 1: Finding the Essence of the Supreme Lord's Mercy/Wednesday Sangas

Bṛhad-bhāgavatāmṛta Part 1 Chapter 1 Text 7 – April 26, 2023

Posted on April 26, 2023 by Rathi Krishna dasa

Bṛhad-bhāgavatāmṛta Part 1 Chapter 1 Text 7

govardhano jayati śaila-kulādhirājo
yo gopikābhir udito hari-dāsa-varyaḥ
kṛṣṇena śakra-makha-bhaṅga-kṛtārcito yaḥ
saptāham asya kara-padma-tale ’py avātsīt

TRANSLATION
All glories to Govardhana, the emperor of lordly mountains! The Lord’s dear gopīs called him the best servant of Hari, Lord Kṛṣṇa. Lord Kṛṣṇa disrupted the sacrifice for worship of Indra to worship Govardhana instead, and then the hill resided for a week on the Lord’s lotus palm.

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1) Bhauma: On the Earth/Bṛhad-bhāgavatāmṛta/Part 1: Finding the Essence of the Supreme Lord's Mercy/Sunday Sangas

Bṛhad-bhāgavatāmṛta Part 1 Chapter 1 Text 5 – April 23, 2023

Posted on April 23, 2023 by Rathi Krishna dasa

Bṛhad-bhāgavatāmṛta Part 1 Chapter 1 Text 5

jayati jayati vṛndāraṇyam etan murāreḥ
priya-tamam ati-sādhu-svānta-vaikuṇṭha-vāsāt
ramayati sa sadā gāḥ pālayan yatra gopīḥ
svarita-madhura-veṇur vardhayan prema rāse

TRANSLATION
All glories, all glories to this place where we are living, Lord Murāri’s Vṛndāvana forest! He prefers residing here to residing in Vaikuṇṭha or in the hearts of elevated saints. In Vṛndāvana, while always tending His cows, He gives pleasure to the gopīs, whose love for Him in the mood of the rāsa dance He increases by sweetly playing His flute.

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