Weekly Sanga

TRANSLATION
Having received mantra from the mouth of the Lord, they all became jubilant. After offering obeisances, they returned to their respective homes.

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Caitanya-bhāgavata/Madhya-khaṇḍa/Wednesday Sangas

Caitanya-bhāgavata Madhya-khaṇḍa Chapter 23 Text 59 – July 15, 2020

Posted on July 15, 2020 by Rathi Krishna dasa

Caitanya-bhāgavata
Madhya-khaṇḍa Chapter 23 Text 59

sei dvija-caraṇe āmāra namaskāra
caitanyera daṇḍe haila hena buddhi yāṅra

TRANSLATION
I offer my obeisances at the feet of that brāhmaṇa, whose intelligence was purified by Lord Caitanya’s chastisement.

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Program/Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam/The Killing of Dhenuka, The Ass Demon

Krishna Enters the Forest of Vrindavana: Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam Canto 10 Chapter 15 Text 14 – July 12, 2020

Posted on July 12, 2020 by Rathi Krishna dasa

Śrīla Dhanurdhara Swami continues with his series “Krishna Enters the Forest of Vrindavana — A Commentary on the 15th Chapter of the Tenth Canto”.

Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
Canto 10 Chapter 15 Text 14

kvacit krīḍā-pariśrāntaṁ
gopotsaṅgopabarhaṇam
svayaṁ viśramayaty āryaṁ
pāda-saṁvāhanādibhiḥ

TRANSLATION
When His elder brother, fatigued from playing, would lie down with His head upon the lap of a cowherd boy, Lord Kṛṣṇa would help Him relax by personally massaging His feet and offering other services.

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Caitanya-bhāgavata/Madhya-khaṇḍa/Sunday Sangas

Caitanya-bhāgavata Madhya-khaṇḍa Chapter 23 Text 1 – July 12, 2020

Posted on July 12, 2020 by Rathi Krishna dasa

Caitanya-bhāgavata
Madhya-khaṇḍa Chapter 23 Text 1

jaya jaya śri-kṛṣṇa-caitanya guṇa-nidhi
jaya viśvambhara jaya bhavādira vidhi

TRANSLATION
All glories to Śri Kṛṣṇa Caitanya, the ocean of transcendental qualities! All glories to Viśvambhara, the controller of personalities like Śiva!

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Caitanya-bhāgavata/Madhya-khaṇḍa/Wednesday Sangas

Caitanya-bhāgavata Madhya-khaṇḍa Chapter 22 Text 121 – July 8, 2020

Posted on July 8, 2020 by Rathi Krishna dasa

Caitanya-bhāgavata
Madhya-khaṇḍa Chapter 22 Text 121

e kathāra hetu kichu śuna mana diyā
ye-nimitta gauracandra balilena ihā

TRANSLATION
Now hear attentively why Gauracandra performed this pastime.

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Krishna Enters the Forest of Vrindavana: Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam Canto 10 Chapter 15 Texts 10-12 – July 5, 2020

Posted on July 5, 2020 by Rathi Krishna dasa

Śrīla Dhanurdhara Swami continues with his series “Krishna Enters the Forest of Vrindavana — A Commentary on the 15th Chapter of the Tenth Canto”.

Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
Canto 10 Chapter 15 Texts 10-12

kvacid gāyati gāyatsu
madāndhāliṣv anuvrataiḥ
upagīyamāna-caritaḥ
pathi saṅkarṣaṇānvitaḥ

anujalpati jalpantaṁ
kala-vākyaiḥ śukaṁ kvacit
kvacit sa-valgu kūjantam
anukūjati kokilam

kvacic ca kāla-haṁsānām
anukūjati kūjitam
abhinṛtyati nṛtyantaṁ
barhiṇaṁ hāsayan kvacit

megha-gambhīrayā vācā
nāmabhir dūra-gān paśūn
kvacid āhvayati prītyā
go-gopāla-manojñayā

TRANSLATION
Sometimes the honeybees in Vṛndāvana became so mad with ecstasy that they closed their eyes and began to sing. Lord Kṛṣṇa, moving along the forest path with His cowherd boyfriends and Baladeva, would then respond to the bees by imitating their singing while His friends sang about His pastimes. Sometimes Lord Kṛṣṇa would imitate the chattering of a parrot, sometimes, with a sweet voice, the call of a cuckoo, and sometimes the cooing of swans. Sometimes He vigorously imitated the dancing of a peacock, making His cowherd boyfriends laugh. Sometimes, with a voice as deep as the rumbling of clouds, He would call out with great affection the names of the animals who had wandered far from the herd, thus enchanting the cows and the cowherd boys.