Jaiva-Dharma – Wednesday, July 13, 2016


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

 

Srimad Bhagavatam Canto 1 Chapter 9 Text 36


Śrīmad Bhāgavatam
Canto 1 Chapter 9 Text 36

 


vyavahita-pṛtanā-mukhaṁ nirīkṣya
sva-jana-vadhād vimukhasya doṣa-buddhyā
kumatim aharad ātma-vidyayā yaś
caraṇa-ratiḥ paramasya tasya me ’stu
 

TRANSLATION
When Arjuna was seemingly polluted by ignorance upon observing the soldiers and commanders before him on the battlefield, the Lord eradicated his ignorance by delivering transcendental knowledge. May His lotus feet always remain the object of my attraction.
 

Jaiva-Dharma – Wednesday, July 6, 2016


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

 

Srimad Bhagavatam Canto 1 Chapter 9 Text 32


Śrīmad Bhāgavatam
Canto 1 Chapter 9 Text 32

 


śrī-bhīṣma uvāca
iti matir upakalpitā vitṛṣṇā
bhagavati sātvata-puṅgave vibhūmni
sva-sukham upagate kvacid vihartuṁ
prakṛtim upeyuṣi yad-bhava-pravāhaḥ
 

TRANSLATION
Bhīṣmadeva said: Let me now invest my thinking, feeling and willing, which were so long engaged in different subjects and occupational duties, in the all-powerful Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa. He is always self-satisfied, but sometimes, being the leader of the devotees, He enjoys transcendental pleasure by descending to the material world, although from Him only the material world is created.
 

Jaiva-Dharma – Wednesday, June 29, 2016


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

 

Srimad Bhagavatam Canto 1 Chapter 9 Text 30


Śrīmad Bhāgavatam
Canto 1 Chapter 9 Text 30

 


tadopasaṁhṛtya giraḥ sahasraṇīr
 vimukta-saṅgaṁ mana ādi-pūruṣe
kṛṣṇe lasat-pīta-paṭe catur-bhuje
 puraḥ sthite ’mīlita-dṛg vyadhārayat
 

TRANSLATION
Thereupon that man who spoke on different subjects with thousands of meanings, and who fought on thousands of battlefields and protected thousands of men, stopped speaking and, being completely freed from all bondage, withdrew his mind from everything else and fixed his wide-open eyes upon the original Personality of Godhead, Śrī Kṛṣṇa, who stood before him, four-handed, dressed in yellow garments that glittered and shined.
 

Jaiva-Dharma – Wednesday, June 22, 2016


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

 

The Initiation of Sena-pati Bhakta Dasa and Ati Sundari Radha Devi Dasi



The initiation of Senā-pati Bhakta dāsa and Ati Sundarī Rādhā devī dāsī at Jagannath Mandir in Sayreville, New Jersey on Sunday, June 19, 2016.

 

Weekly Sanga – Sunday, June 19, 2016


In today’s sanga, Śrīla Dhanurdhara Swami shares his realizations from his recent seminar on Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī’s Upadeśāmṛta (The Nectar of Instruction) and his studies of Śrīla Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī’s Manaḥ-śikṣā.

 

Jaiva-Dharma – Wednesday, June 15, 2016


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