In today’s sanga, Śrīla Dhanurdhara Swami shares his realizations from his Bhakti Immersion retreat at Shyama Ashram in Cali, Colombia, Janmastami, and Srila Prabhupada’s Vyasa-puja. Maharaja then turns it over to Jaya Jagannath with an in-progress class at Shyama Ashram.
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In today’s sanga, Śrīla Dhanurdhara Swami shares his realizations on the upcoming appearance day of Śrī Krishna, Śrī Krishna Janmāṣṭamī and Śrīla Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura’s Śrī Bhaktyāloka — Śrīla Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura’s commentary on Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī’s Upadeśāmṛta.
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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
Canto 10 Chapter 3 Text 12
TRANSLATION
O Mahārāja Parīkṣit, descendant of King Bharata, Vasudeva could understand that this child was the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Nārāyaṇa. Having concluded this without a doubt, he became fearless. Bowing down with folded hands and concentrating his attention, he began to offer prayers to the child, who illuminated His birthplace by His natural influence.
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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
Canto 10 Chapter 3 Text 11
TRANSLATION
When Vasudeva saw his extraordinary son, his eyes were struck with wonder. In transcendental jubilation, he mentally collected ten thousand cows and distributed them among the brāhmaṇas as a transcendental festival.
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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
Canto 10 Chapter 3 Texts 9-10
mahārha-vaidūrya-kirīṭa-kuṇḍala-
tviṣā pariṣvakta-sahasra-kuntalam
uddāma-kāñcy-aṅgada-kaṅkaṇādibhir
virocamānaṁ vasudeva aikṣata
TRANSLATION
Vasudeva then saw the newborn child, who had very wonderful lotuslike eyes and who bore in His four hands the four weapons śaṅkha, cakra, gadā and padma. On His chest was the mark of Śrīvatsa and on His neck the brilliant Kaustubha gem. Dressed in yellow, His body blackish like a dense cloud, His scattered hair fully grown, and His helmet and earrings sparkling uncommonly with the valuable gem Vaidūrya, the child, decorated with a brilliant belt, armlets, bangles and other ornaments, appeared very wonderful.
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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
Canto 10 Chapter 3 Texts 7-8
niśīthe tama-udbhūte
jāyamāne janārdane
devakyāṁ deva-rūpiṇyāṁ
viṣṇuḥ sarva-guhā-śayaḥ
āvirāsīd yathā prācyāṁ
diśīndur iva puṣkalaḥ
TRANSLATION
The demigods and great saintly persons showered flowers in a joyous mood, and clouds gathered in the sky and very mildly thundered, making sounds like those of the ocean’s waves. Then the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Viṣṇu, who is situated in the core of everyone’s heart, appeared from the heart of Devakī in the dense darkness of night, like the full moon rising on the eastern horizon, because Devakī was of the same category as Śrī Kṛṣṇa.
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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
Canto 10 Chapter 2 Text 25
TRANSLATION
Lord Brahmā and Lord Śiva, accompanied by great sages like Nārada, Devala and Vyāsa and by other demigods like Indra, Candra and Varuṇa, invisibly approached the room of Devakī, where they all joined in offering their respectful obeisances and prayers to please the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who can bestow blessings upon everyone.
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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
Canto 10 Chapter 2 Text 18
TRANSLATION
Thereafter, accompanied by plenary expansions, the fully opulent Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is all-auspicious for the entire universe, was transferred from the mind of Vasudeva to the mind of Devakī. Devakī, having thus been initiated by Vasudeva, became beautiful by carrying Lord Kṛṣṇa, the original consciousness for everyone, the cause of all causes, within the core of her heart, just as the east becomes beautiful by carrying the rising moon.
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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
Canto 10 Chapter 2 Text 13
TRANSLATION
The son of Rohiṇī will also be celebrated as Saṅkarṣaṇa because of being sent from the womb of Devakī to the womb of Rohiṇī. He will be called Rāma because of His ability to please all the inhabitants of Gokula, and He will be known as Balabhadra because of His extensive physical strength.
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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
Canto 10 Chapter 2 Texts 1-2
TRANSLATION
Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: Under the protection of Magadharāja, Jarāsandha, the powerful Kaṁsa began persecuting the kings of the Yadu dynasty. In this he had the cooperation of demons like Pralamba, Baka, Cāṇūra, Tṛṇāvarta, Aghāsura, Muṣṭika, Ariṣṭa, Dvivida, Pūtanā, Keśī, Dhenuka, Bāṇāsura, Narakāsura and many other demoniac kings on the surface of the earth.
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