Aradhana 28th March 2025

Japa Talk
Date- 28th March 2025
Speaker- Guru Maharaj
Theme- Aradhana

Sub-theme: Aradhana retreat of Sachidananda Prabhu

Gaur Nityananda Ki Jai! This address is for everyone. As I am in Pandharpur, so Pandharpur’s devotees are sitting here in front of me and zoom temple is houseful. They are always the audience of Japa talk. But today’s Japa talk is specially focused on those devotees who have reached Mayapur Dham. Mayapur Dham ki jai! They are now going to Ekachakra gram. Around 300 to 350 devotees have reached Mayapur and from there they are going to Ekachakra gram. And I am seeing not all but some of those devotees. So, all these devotees have reached there for retreat. Sachidanand Prabhu takes retreat to somewhere once or twice a year. And this time they have reached Mayapur. I do not have full information, but I came to know that the main topics of this retreat are Aradhana, meditation, forgiveness and like that. So, this Japa talk is for retreat devotees. And everyone is welcome. Everyone can hear this. Special welcome and congratulations for those devotees who have reached for retreat. And many thanks to Sachidanand Prabhu for organizing such retreats and for giving more and more education to the devotees. Educated devotees become initiated. Time to time keep giving such education by retreat. So only few thoughts I can present.

Sub-theme: Radha, who does Aradhana

Aradhana! If meditation is the topic, then meditation is also Aradhana. Aradhana, worship is not complete without meditation.

anayārādhito nūnaṁ
bhagavān harir īśvaraḥ
yan no vihāya govindaḥ
prīto yām anayad rahaḥ

Translation-

Certainly this particular gopī has perfectly worshiped the all-powerful Personality of Godhead, Govinda, since He was so pleased with Her that He abandoned the rest of us and brought Her to a secluded place. (ŚB 10.30.28)

This is Radha. There is pastime. ‘Hey! Whose lotus feet are these?’ When Gopis were searching for Krsna, first they saw symbols of Krsna’s lotus feet or they saw Braj marked with Krsna’s lotus feet prints. Then after going little further, they saw someone’s foot prints beside Krsna’s foot prints. That means someone was going with Him. Some Gopis inquired, “Whose lotus feet could these be?” So, one gopi said, “you fool, don’t you understand? Otherwise, whose lotus feet could these be?” anayārādhito nūnaṁ, definitely, these must be Radha’s lotus feet. How is Radha? The one who does aradhana. Radha’s name is Radha because She does Aradhana. The topmost worshiper is Radha. Jai Sri Radhe! And then the whole world does worship.

Sub-theme: Worship of the devotees is superior than the worship of the Lord

ārādhanānāṁ sarveṣāṁ
viṣṇor ārādhanaṁ param
tasmāt parataraṁ devi
tadīyānāṁ ārādhanānāṁ

Translation-

“[Lord Śiva told the goddess Durgā:] ‘My dear Devī, although the Vedas recommend worship of demigods, the worship of Lord Viṣṇu is topmost. However, above the worship of Lord Viṣṇu is the rendering of service to Vaiṣṇavas, who are related to Lord Viṣṇu.’ (CC Madhya 11.31)
Lord Siva has said this. ‘Among all worshipable lords Lord Visnu’s worship is topmost.’ Don’t worry. Krsna is Supreme, but here ‘Visnu’ is mentioned. Yeah, such things happen in the scriptures. Visnu means Krsna or when Vaikunth is mentioned, but it indicates Vrindavan only. Or sometimes love is called as lust. Lord is sometimes called as Brahma, so Brahma means the Supreme Lord. Or lust means love. Visnu means Krsna. Vaikunth means Vrindavan. So, Sivaji told Parvati, ‘Worship of Lord Visnu is topmost. He should be worshipped.’ But Sivaji doesn’t stop by saying this. Further he said tadiyanam samarcanam. Tasmat parataram devi, wait, wait, superior to the worship of Lord Visnu is worship of tadiyanam. Tulasi krsna preyasi namo namah, tulasi is also tadiya or cow is also tadiya. Tadiya means his; madiya means mine. Ganges in tadiya. What about Lord’s devotees? Lord’s devotees too are tadiya. For the Lord they are madiya; for us they are tadiya. Worshipping them is superior to worshipping the Lord.

ādaraḥ paricaryāyāṁ
sarvāṅgair abhivandanam
mad-bhakta-pūjābhyadhikā
sarva-bhūteṣu man-matiḥ- (ŚB 11.19.21)

mad-bhakta-pūja abhyadhikā- Lord Himself has said, My devotees are more worshipable than Me.

Sub-theme: Lord’s worship is incomplete without worshipping the devotees. Recently I was in Mayapur and there

bhaja gaurāṅga kaha gaurāṅga laha gaurāṅgera nāma re
ye jana gaurāṅga bhaje sei amāra prāṇa re

Translation-

Worship Gauranga, chant Gauranga, speak about Gauranga day and night. Whoever serves Gauranga is as dear to me as my very own life.
Chant Gauranga’s names, at least do this much worship; but those who worship Gauranga, sei amāra prāṇa re, they are my life. Devotees keep saying- radha krsna prana mora jugala kishor. Radha and Krsna are the life of devotees, but along with that, other devotees are also the life of devotees. When the priest offers arati to the Lord, at the end of offering every item he turns and offers arati to all the devotees present there. Maybe you do not understand ‘what’s going on? Lord’s arati is going on and at the end, every item is offered to the devotees as well.’ Sri krsna caitanya prabhu nityananda sri advaita gadadhara sri vasadi gaura bhakta vrnda. Gaura bhakta vrnda, all devotees of Lord Gauranga. Gaura bhakta vrnda, the devotees of Lord Gauranga cannot be separated from Gauranga. They are inseparable. Meditation or worship of Panchatatva is complete when we worship Gaura bhakta vrnda. If we worship the Lord, but commit offenses at the lotus feet of His devotees, then we remain third class. Lord considers them third class. He worships, glorifies the Lord with full heart, but blasphemes the devotees.

Yasya deve para bhakti yatha deve tatha gurau
Yasya ete kathotha hi artha prakasyanta mahatmanah

Translation-

Anyone who has developed unflinching faith in the Lord and the Spiritual Master can understand the revealed scripture unfold before him. (ŚU 6.23)
This is very special statement. Among the devotees there are spiritual masters; they perform the role of gurus. So here it is said yasya deve para bhakti, Your para bhakti, supreme devotion; deve, means ‘the object of meditation’ in Saptami vibhakti (sanskit). Deva becomes deve. Yasya deve para bhakti, who have para bhakti in the Lord, yatha deve tatha gurau, gurau is Saptami, means ‘in the guru’. Deve and gurau, the Lord and the spiritual masters, both of them should be worshipped. Then that worship is complete.

Sub-theme: We do Aradhana in Mangalacaran

Vande aham, in the first line of mangalacaran we are doing Aradhana, Vandana, worship, śrī-yuta-padakamalaṁ, yuta means two, ‘of both feet’. If they are having only one foot, first thing is we should not see like that. To see faults in the body of the devotees, ‘he is black, he is lame’, to see or think like this is an offense. So be cautious. So,

vande ahaṁ śrī-guru śrī-yuta-padakamalaṁ śrī-gurūn vaiṣṇavāṁś ca
śrī-rūpaṁ sāgrajātaṁ saha-gaṇa-raghunāthānvitaṁ taṁ sa-jīvam
sa advaitaṁ sāvadhūtaṁ parijana-sahitaṁ kṛṣṇa-caitanya-devaṁ
śrī-rādhā-kṛṣṇa-pādān saha-gaṇa-lalitā-śrī-viśākhānvitāṁś ca
Svāhā. Svāhā. Svāhā.

Gurun, siksha gurus and vaisnavan, everyone is included in this mangala caran. The Aradhana, worship of Sad-goswamis, and then Panchatattva; do you remember the mangala carana? First Guru then Vaisnava, then come down, next sloka is for Sad-goswamis and then Panchatattva, then finally Radha Krsna, and not only Radha Krsna, but with Them, Lalita Vishakha and anvitāṁś, other Asta-sakhis and Gopis and Manjaris.
Sub-theme: Sankirtan yajna covers all processes of worship in all Yugas
These are few thoughts regarding Aradhana. In fact, the method of Aradhana

krsna-varnam tvisakrsnam
sangopangastra-parsadam
yajnaih sankirtana-prayair
yajanti hi sumedhasah

Translation-

In the Age of Kali, intelligent persons perform congregational chanting to worship the incarnation of Godhead who constantly sings the names of Kṛṣṇa. Although His complexion is not blackish, He is Kṛṣṇa Himself. He is accompanied by His associates, servants, weapons and confidential companions. (ŚB 11.5.32)

yajnaih sankirtana-prayair yajanti, call it Aradhana or yajanti, worship which comes from ‘yaj’ dhatu; so, in Kaliyuga we worship by performing yajnas. But in SB 11.5.32 it is mentioned that which yajna should be performed in Kaliyuga? Sankirtan yajna! By this yajna devotees will yajanti, worship the Lord. It is strong recommendation of Jiva Goswami that when we worship the Lord, Sri vigraha Aradhana nitya nana, we do sringar, offer arati, do abhishek and all, then there must be Harinama with that. Hare Krsna Hare Krsna Krsna Krsna Hare Hare, Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare! Or we can sing the glories, bhajan or Sandhya arati, mangal arati. Aradhana is complete when it is done with such singing.

In Satya Yuga Lord is worshipped by doing meditation. You have reached there in Mayapur for retreat and now going to Ekachakra gram, so you were taught by Sachidananda Prabhu, how to meditate, how to do meditative chanting, how to meditate on the Lord’s form, first fixing the object of meditation. So, in Satya yuga meditation was the process of worshipping the Lord. But when we perform sankirtan or kirtan, then it is complete in itself.

nāma cintāmaṇiḥ kṛṣṇaś
caitanya-rasa-vigrahaḥ
pūrṇaḥ śuddho nitya-mukto
’bhinnatvān nāma-nāminoḥ

Translation-

The holy name of Kṛṣṇa is transcendentally blissful. It bestows all spiritual benedictions, for it is Kṛṣṇa Himself, the reservoir of all pleasure. Kṛṣṇa’s name is complete, and it is the form of all transcendental mellows. It is not a material name under any condition, and it is no less powerful than Kṛṣṇa Himself. Since Kṛṣṇa’s name is not contaminated by the material qualities, there is no question of its being involved with māyā. Kṛṣṇa’s name is always liberated and spiritual; it is never conditioned by the laws of material nature. This is because the name of Kṛṣṇa and Kṛṣṇa Himself are identical. (CC Madhya 17.133)

When we do chanting we do meditation, which is the process of worship of Satya Yuga. ‘Mantra Meditation’. In Hari bhakti vilas the process of chanting is given. Mantrartha cintanam, we should meditate on the meaning of the mantra. If we have not done this meditation then this is one of the biggest offenses. Vaisnava aparadha is the topmost offense. Topmost is very bad. Don’t think that ‘Vaisnava aparadha is supreme, so let’s do this supreme work.’ Be careful. This is most degradable, not supreme. So, there are ten offenses against the Holy name, but ‘not to chant with attention’, no other offense can match with this offense. So, chanting without attention is one great offense. When we meditate while chanting and doing kirtan, then we are doing Aradhana like Satya Yuga. What is the process of worship in Treta yuga? Tretayam yajatau makhai.

ye yad dhyāyato viṣṇuṁ
tretāyāṁ yajato makhaiḥ
dvāpare paricaryāyāṁ
kalau tad dhari-kīrtanāt

Translation

Whatever result was obtained in Satya-yuga by meditating on Viṣṇu, in Tretā-yuga by performing sacrifices, and in Dvāpara-yuga by serving the Lord’s lotus feet can be obtained in Kali-yuga simply by chanting the Hare Kṛṣṇa mahā-mantra. (ŚB 12.3.52)

Svaha, svaha, perform yajna. This Hare Krsna Mahamantra is Sankirtan yajna. We do sankirtan yajna means the process of worship of Treta Yuga is covered. Dvapare paricaryayam, in Dvapara the process is Aradhana, worship. Doing chanting in itself is Aradhana, worship. This Harinama is complete, nitya mukto and purna suddho, purna, complete. So, you did chanting, kirtan, then everything is complete. You did meditation also and you did yajna also and you did Aradhana, arcana too. That’s why it is said

harer nāma harer nāma
harer nāmaiva kevalam
kalau nāsty eva nāsty eva
nāsty eva gatir anyathā

Translation-

In this Age of Kali there is no other means, no other means, no other means for self-realization than chanting the holy name, chanting the holy name, chanting the holy name of Lord Hari. (CC Ādi 17.21)

When we do Harinama, then everything is covered. It is complete. This is the beauty of this sankirtan or chanting of Mahamantra.

Sub-theme: Avoid Dham Aparadha

So, these are few thoughts regarding Aradhana. As there are ten nama aparadha, there are ten dhama aparadha also. You devotees who have reached Mayapur for retreat and doing parikrama also, I think you were doing 64 rounds chanting as well, for few days everyday 64 rounds. So, you were doing Aradhana and parikrama. When we do dham parikrama, we serve the dham. It is considered as Pada-sevanam.

śravaṇaṁ kīrtanaṁ viṣṇoḥsmaraṇaṁ pāda-sevanam
arcanaṁ vandanaṁ dāsyaṁsakhyam ātma-nivedanam

Translation-

Prahlāda Mahārāja said: Hearing and chanting about the transcendental holy name, form, qualities, paraphernalia and pastimes of Lord Viṣṇu, remembering them, serving the lotus feet of the Lord, offering the Lord respectful worship with sixteen types of paraphernalia, offering prayers to the Lord, becoming His servant, considering the Lord one’s best friend, and surrendering everything unto Him (in other words, serving Him with the body, mind and words)—these nine processes are accepted as pure devotional service. One who has dedicated his life to the service of Kṛṣṇa through these nine methods should be understood to be the most learned person, for he has acquired complete knowledge. (SB 7.5.23)

When we do pāda-sevanam, as you have done Mayapur parikrama, not complete parikrama, but you have visited some places and you are going to Ekachakra gram, there also you will do parikrama. So, remember dham aparadhana and make sure that you avoid them. Do not commit offenses at the feet of Dham. Among Dham aparadha, the biggest aparadha is to commit offense at the lotus feet of those who reveal dham unto us. As in Nama aparadh topmost is Vaisnava aparadh, here in Dham aparadh, first offense is those who narrate the pastimes of the dham,

adyapiha sei lila kare gaura-raya
kona kona bhagyavan dekhibare paya

Translation-

Śrī Caitanya eternally enacts His transcendental pastimes in the holy dhāma of Māyāpura, but only those who—by dint of their innumerable pious deeds—have a pure heart are able to see them. (Navadvip Mandal Mahatmya)

They will tell you, ‘even today Lord is performing His pastimes here.’ Like that they will introduce, reveal dham to you. To commit offense at the lotus feet of such devotees is dham aparadha. Those who narrate katha in dham, those who are engaged in dham seva, why to commit offense against them? What we should do? We should serve them, we should worship them, as we were hearing few minutes before. In our Gaudiya Vaisnava there is famous statement ‘Guru gaurango jayatah’, all glories to guru and Gauranga. All glories to the assembled devotees. So, those who have assembled in dham, serve them.

yasyātma-buddhi-kuṇape tri-dhātuke
sva-dhiḥ kalatrādiṣu bhauma ijya-dhīḥ
yat-tīrtha-buddhiḥ salile na karhicij
janeśv abhijñeṣu sa eva go-kharaḥ

Translation-

One who identifies his self as the inert body composed of mucus, bile and air, who assumes his wife and family are permanently his own, who thinks an earthen image or the land of his birth is worshipable, or who sees a place of pilgrimage as merely the water there, but who never identifies himself with, feels kinship with, worships or even visits those who are wise in spiritual truth — such a person is no better than a cow or an ass. (ŚB 10.84.13)

We went there and considered the dham, tirtha as the place of bathing. Let’s bathe in some pond or Ganges. When bathing is done, then yatra is complete, it’s finished; now let’s run towards airport or station. Such offenders, ignorant are compared to go-kharaḥ. What should be done? na janeśv abhijñeṣu sa eva go-kharaḥ, jña means the knower and abhijña means one who knows everything. So, the priest of the dham, the guru, we should reach at their lotus feet and should hear from them.

Sub-theme: How to purify the mind?

You were not performing such offense as you were engaged most of the time in sravanam and kirtanam. You were hearing from Sachidananda Prabhu. You must have taken bath also. You should. Ganga Maiya ki Jai! We are not against bathing, but only bathing will not work. Sarvatma snapanam, your soul’s, sarvatma, body, mind and soul; body is also called as atma. Only body should not be cleaned in dham, but mind should also get purified and that is possible when we will spend time with abhijña, the knowers.

Bhakti Siddhant Saraswati Thakur once asked to one disciple when he left in between the class, ‘where had you gone?’ ‘Oh, I went to have darshan. Arati was going on.’ He thought after hearing this, Bhakti Siddhant Saraswati Thakur will be happy and will say, ‘well done!’ and to the other devotees he will say, ‘You fools, why didn’t you do that? He left in between to attend the arati. He is saying he took darshan. You fools, you haven’t taken darshan.’ He must have thought like that. Okay, time is up. We had more topics.

Sub-theme: Contemplate on what you heard

This Sravan kirtan is Aradhana. When we hear such seminars, we do mediate with knowledge, if you listen carefully and with faith. ‘Hey what happened? You are taking only one person to Vaikuntha.’, Gokarna said,’ You have brought only one plain and taking only one person, but katha was heard by thousands of devotees.’ So, in the answer the Visnudutas, the airhosts said, ‘Yeah, they may have heard, but in between they were sleeping. Their bodies were here, they were sitting here, but their minds were somewhere else. Or even if they heard the katha, when they went back to their work, they forgot everything.’ So, what should be done? Whatever is heard in the katha, seminars should be contemplated on. After Sravanam kirtanam first comes smaranam. Smaran should be the result of Sravan kirtan. And this smaran should be kept nicely in the heart. That’s why one should contemplate on it, manan, place it nicely in the heart. Just like cows or animals eat two times. First, they just swallow and then they sit down and bring back that food to their mouth and then chew it. This nicely chewed food becomes juice and then blood and all. The contemplation is called as nidhi-dhyasan. Then comes dhyan. When should one do dhyan? All the times. What gopis used to do?

smartavyaḥ satataṁ viṣṇur
vismartavyo na jātucit
sarve vidhi-niṣedhāḥ syur
etayor eva kiṅkarāḥ

Translation

‘Kṛṣṇa is the origin of Lord Viṣṇu. He should always be remembered and never forgotten at any time. All the rules and prohibitions mentioned in the śāstras should be the servants of these two principles.’ (CC Madhya 22.113)

Smartavyah, one must remember. Gopis and Radharani used to remember Krsna all the time. See, here Gopis are remembering, but it is said smartavyah satatam visnuh. Here Visnu means Krsna. And vismartavyo na jatucit. Caitanya Mahaprabhu said, you want to worship the Lord, do Aradhana, then how should be that Aradhana?

ārādhyo bhagavān vrajeśa-tanayas tad-dhāma vṛṇdāvanaṁ
ramya kaścid upāsanā vraja-vadhu-varga-vīrya kalpita
śrīmad-bhāgavatam amalaṁ purāṇaṁ premā pum-artho mahān
śrī-caitanya mahāprabhor matam idaṁ tatradaraḥ na paraḥ

Translation-

The Supreme Personality of Godhead, the son of Nanda Mahārāja, is to be worshiped along with His transcendental abode, Vṛndāvana. The most pleasing form of worship for the Lord is that which was performed by the gopīs of Vṛndāvaṇa. Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam is the spotless authority on everything, and pure love of God is the ultimate goal of life for all men. These statements, for which we have the highest regard, are the opinion of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu. (Caitanya-mañjusā)

Aradhana, Upasana, the way vraja-vadhu-varga did, do such Aradhana. There must be meditation and remembrance. By Sravan kirtan we can remember, ‘Ahh, we remember Krsna’. Soul gets reminder. ‘Yeah, Krsna is like this.’ So, we should remember things related to Krsna or related to the devotees of Krsna. Visnu and Vaisnava, this is the pair; and then Vaikuntha. And Aradhana should be performed for both of them.

We were in Melkote. There also we did smaran. Caitanya Mahaprabhu accepted two specialties from each Vaisnava Sampradaya. One of the two specialties of Sri Sampraday is Vaisnava sevan, serving the devotees. We should learn this and do Aradhana and service to Lord Visnu and Vaisnavas. We offer bhoga to the Lord and prasad to the Vaisnavas. This is Aradhana, seva, love for them. We should love not only the Lord, but also the devotees.
Okay, thank you. Happy journey to all those who have reached for retreat. Have a good time and you can share your realizations with those who could not come for retreat. Share with others whatever you have learned in retreat. By doing this you will serve those devotees. Now it is your turn of guhyam akhyati prscati. Hare Krsna!

Service of the Manjaris and Contemplation on Divine Mellow (Rasa) 10th April 2024

Speaker H.H Lokanath Goswami Maharaj
Date: 10-04-2025
Main Theme: “Service of the Manjaris and Contemplation on Divine Mellow (Rasa).”
Sub-Theme: Process of Chanting with intensity

When we hear and then we follow whatever we have heard it gives knowledge and then when we apply it it is scientifically called “Vigyan”.
Or one can say While chanting you go deep in meditation as it is said “sravanam kirtanam visnoh smaranam” while chanting we meditate on lord Vishnu that is krsna for us Gaudiya Vaishnavas. Srila Vishvanatha Charavarthi thakur in his commentary on the Vishnu Saharatranam, has written and proved that how each name of Vishnu is krsna’s name, we have to meditate and from that we develop love.
When we meditate or Chant, we remember, incase there is any person on place, you say now I remember, “re” – it means we knew him once or return where we have been before so remembering what we have forgotten by remembering we develop love he is wonderful. In case we remember Krsna we start thinking about Him.

shri-radhika-madhavayor apara- madhurya-lila-guna-rupa-namnam
prati-kshanasvadana-lolupasya vande guroh shri-charanaravindam

Translation

The spiritual master is always eager to hear and chant about the unlimited conjugal pastimes of Radhika and Madhava, and Their qualities, names, and forms. The spiritual master aspires to relish these at every moment. I offer my respectful obeisances unto the lotus feet of such a spiritual master.[Guru Ashtakam Text 5 by Srila Vishvanatha Chakravarti Thakura

krsna is famous or distinguished for his conjugal pastimes prem Madhuri, lila Madhuri, venu Madhuri and rupa madhuri
This makes him stand apart from all other incarnations for example Lord Sri Ram and due to this he becomes more loveable. Then we feel we should love him this person is more lovely or sweet etc. Vallabhacharya mentions everything that is loveable about the lord eyes, heart, smile, form, walk etc

Sub-Theme: Remembering Sweetness of the Lord Sri Krsna

adharaṃ madhuraṃ vadanaṃ madhuraṃ nayanaṃ madhuraṃ hasitaṃ madhuram |
hṛdayaṃ madhuraṃ gamanaṃ madhuraṃ madhurādhipaterakhilaṃ madhuram

Translation

His lips are sweet, His face is sweet, His eyes are sweet, His smile is sweet, His loving heart is sweet, His gait (walk) is sweet, Everything is completely sweet about the Lord of Sweetness.[ Madhurashtakam Text 1 by Vallabhacharya]

vacanaṃ madhuraṃ caritaṃ madhuraṃ vasanaṃ madhuraṃ valitaṃ madhuram
calitaṃ madhuraṃ bhramitaṃ madhuraṃ madhurādhipaterakhilaṃ madhuram

Translation

His words are sweet, His character is sweet, His dress (garment) is sweet, His posture is sweet, His movements are sweet, His wandering (roaming) is sweet, Everything is completely sweet about the Lord of Sweetness. [ Madhurashtakam Text 2 by Vallabhacharya]
When we remember this all the soul wants to love Krsna is the object of love, he does not care for the beauty love of the world renunciation appears and he develops krsna focused love love for everything related to krsna, like his abode, devotees, associated etc. One becomes Krsna focused with His name, form, pastimes, abode and not only krshna but also His related associates or devotees. He starts loving each one of them When Lord Chaitanya mahaprabhu appeared.

rupa goswami said
namo mahā-vadānyāya
kṛṣṇa-prema-pradāya te
kṛṣṇāya kṛṣṇa-caitanya-
nāmne gaura-tviṣe namaḥ

Translation

“O most munificent incarnation! You are Kṛṣṇa Himself appearing as Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya Mahāprabhu. You have assumed the golden color of Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī, and You are widely distributing pure love of Kṛṣṇa. We offer our respectful obeisances unto You.
This love was not given by Chaitanya mahaprabhu alone the entire goloka Vrindavan appeared. Nawadwipa is hidden Vrindavan all the associates also appeared and together they made a joint effort to give this love of godhead to everyone. You can call it a team to deliver love of Godhead.

Srimati Radharani came also Nandababa who is jaganath Mishra, Yashoda as Sachi mata and 12 cowherd boys (Dwadhash Gopal) came too.

kṛṣṇa-varṇaṁ tviṣākṛṣṇaṁ
sāṅgopāṅgāstra-pārṣadam
yajñaiḥ saṅkīrtana-prāyair
yajanti hi su-medhasaḥ

Translation

All the associates who were practioners parental love, friendly mellow, Lalita appeared along with vishaka and the 8 sakhis (Ashta Sakhi’s), many gopis appeared to like group leaders.

Sub-Theme: Service and Mellows of Manjaris

Left winged right winged like this there are 5 types of gopis, manjaris have also appeared.

rādhā kṛṣṇa-praṇaya-vikṛtir hlādinī śaktir asmād
ekātmānāv api bhuvi purā deha-bhedaṁ gatau tau
caitanyākhyaṁ prakaṭam adhunā tad-dvayaṁ caikyam āptaṁ
rādhā-bhāva-dyuti-suvalitaṁ naumi kṛṣṇa-svarūpam

Translation

“The loving affairs of Śrī Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa are transcendental manifestations of the Lord’s internal pleasure-giving potency. Although Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa are one in Their identity, They separated Themselves eternally. Now these two transcendental identities have again united, in the form of Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya. I bow down to Him, who has manifested Himself with the sentiment and complexion of Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī although He is Kṛṣṇa Himself.” [CC Adi 4.55]

The dealings of love between Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa are displayed as the pleasure potency of the Lord.
The six goswamis- plus two i.e The eight Goswamis The eight famous goswamis of Vrindavan are: Rupa Goswami, Sanatana Goswami, Raghunatha Das Goswami, Raghunatha Bhatta Goswami, Gopala Bhatta Goswami, Jiva Goswami, Lokanatha Goswami, Krishnadas Kaviraja Goswami They are none other than the Asta Manjaris in Krishna lila

kṛṣṇotkīrtana-gāna-nartana-parau premāmṛtāmbho-nidhī
dhīrādhīra-jana-priyau priya-karau nirmatsarau pūjitau
śrī-caitanya-kṛpā-bharau bhuvi bhuvo bhārāvahantārakau
vande rūpa-sanātanau raghu-yugau śrī-jīva-gopālakau

Translation

I offer my respectful obeisances unto the six Gosvamis, namely Sri Rupa Gosvami, Sri Sanatana Gosvami, Sri Raghunatha Bhatta Gosvami, Sri Raghunatha Dasa Gosvami, Sri Jiva Gosvami, and Sri Gopala Bhatta Gosvami, who are always engaged in chanting the holy name of Krishna and dancing. They are just like the ocean of love of God, and they are popular both with the gentle and with the ruffians, because they are not envious of anyone. Whatever they do, they are all-pleasing to everyone, and they are fully blessed by Lord Caitanya. Thus they are engaged in missionary activities meant to deliver all the conditioned souls in the material universe.[ “Prayers to the Six Gosvamis” by Srinivasa Acarya]

8 gopis and 8 manjaris appeared they are male in their external form, cowherd boys also appeared they disclose the lord Krsna, who is personification of love

akhila-rasa-amṛta-mūrtiḥ — the reservoir of all pleasure, in which exist all the mellows of devotional service, namely śānta, dāsya, sakhya, vātsalya and mādhurya;

Kavi karnapura wrote Gaura Gannodadesha dipika where he explains a list of who played what character from the krsna lila to gaura lila
they all have distributed the love of godhead, by displaying it, relishing it, writing about it these were all confidential words and knowledge unknown to even brahma and shiva, what to speak of quran readers what to speak about them others out side gaudiyas also do not know this treasure.

śrī-caitanya-mano-‘bhīṣṭaṁsthāpitaṁ yena bhū-talesvayaṁ rūpaḥ kadā mahyaṁdadāti sva-padāntikam

Translation

When will Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī Prabhupāda, who has established within this material world the mission to fulfill the desire of Lord Caitanya, give me shelter under his lotus feet.

The leader of millions of manjaris is rupa manjari who appeared as rupa goswami and he was advised by lord Chaitanya to write about the mellows there are mostly books in 2 categories based on tattva or Philosophy or rasa – mellows
Most sampradayas writings are on philosophy but gaudiayas books are on different mellows. You see 5 rasa there and various more rasas as we go deeper where even the gopis are not allowed in the deepest of mellows the manjaris enter those groves and know those pastimes, so mahaprabhu brought it

dharma-sthāpana-hetu sādhura vyavahāra
purī-gosāñira ye ācaraṇa, sei dharma sāra

Translation

“A devotee’s behavior establishes the true purpose of religious principles. The behavior of Mādhavendra Purī Gosvāmī is the essence of such religious principles.” [CC Madhya 17.185]

Learn this verse you are all trying to be preacher, so you must make it a goal that your behavior should establish the true purpose of religious principles.

yāre dekha, tāre kaha ‘kṛṣṇa’-upadeśa
āmāra ājñāya guru hañā tāra’ ei deśa

Translation

“Instruct everyone to follow the orders of Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa as they are given in the Bhagavad-gītā and Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam. In this way become a spiritual master and try to liberate everyone in this land.” [CC Madhya 7.128 ]

Initially not much was happening then Srila prabhupada the Senapati bhakta prepared us as the army who follow mahaprabhu by
1 relishing this
2 distributing this

We as members of ISKCON we must continue what lord Chaitanya started as the Sankirtan movement. He said this sankirtan movement will be victorious, so we must do something and if we do we have the advance blessing of gaurang to be victorious.

cheto-darpana-marjanam bhava-maha-davagni-nirvapanam
shreyah-kairava-chandrika-vitaranam vidya-vadhu-jivanam
anandambhdhi-vardhanam prati-padam purnamritasvadanam
sarvatma-snapanam param vijayate shri-krishna-sankirtanam

Translation

Glory to the Shri Krishna sankirtana (congregational chanting of the Lord’s holy names), which cleanses the heart of all the dust accumulated for years and extinguishes the fire of conditional life, of repeated birth and death. That sankirtana movement is the prime benediction for humanity at large because it spreads the rays of the benediction moon. It is the life of all transcendental knowledge. It increases the ocean of transcendental bliss, and it enables us to fully taste the nectar for which we are always anxious. [Sri Sri Shikshashtaka by Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu Text 1]

anarpita-carīṁ cirāt karuṇayāvatīrṇaḥ kalau
samarpayitum unnatojjvala-rasāṁ sva-bhakti-śriyam
hariḥ puraṭa-sundara-dyuti-kadamba-sandīpitaḥ
sadā hṛdaya-kandare sphuratu vaḥ śacī-nandanaḥ

Translation

May the Supreme Lord who is known as the son of Śrīmatī Śacī-devī be transcendentally situated in the innermost chambers of your heart. Resplendent with the radiance of molten gold, He has appeared in the Age of Kali by His causeless mercy to bestow what no incarnation has ever offered before: the most sublime and radiant mellow of devotional service, the mellow of conjugal love. [CC Ādi 1.4]
hari hari! bifale janama gonainu

manushya-janama paiya, radha-krishna na bhajiya,
janiya suniya visha khainu

Translation

O Lord Hari I have spent my life uselessly. Having obtained a human birth and having net worshiped Radha and Krsna, I have knowingly drunk poison. [Hari Hari Bifale 1]

He came to this dead material desert, he saw not a drop of rasa, but people here are drinking poison everyday. Knowingly another point is there is no rules

nāmnām akāri bahudhā nija-sarva-śaktis
tatrārpitā niyamitaḥ smaraṇe na kālaḥ
etādṛśī tava kṛpā bhagavan mamāpi
durdaivam īdṛśam ihājani nānurāgaḥ

Translation

“ ‘My Lord, O Supreme Personality of Godhead, in Your holy name there is all good fortune for the living entity, and therefore You have many names, such as “Kṛṣṇa” and “Govinda,” by which You expand Yourself. You have invested all Your potencies in those names, and there are no hard and fast rules for remembering them. My dear Lord, although You bestow such mercy upon the fallen, conditioned souls by liberally teaching Your holy names, I am so unfortunate that I commit offenses while chanting the holy name, and therefore I do not achieve attachment for chanting.’ [CC Antya 20.16]

For yagyas or dhan, and other rituals in karma Kand followers there is specified time and place, if you do not do it accordingly then it might have an opposite effect as well. They are bound by rules and regulations, but we are lovers, there is no specified time to love, no one looks at the watch and loves or when should we love?

smartavyaḥ satataṁ viṣṇur
vismartavyo na jātucit
sarve vidhi-niṣedhāḥ syur
etayor eva kiṅkarāḥ

Translation

“ ‘Kṛṣṇa is the origin of Lord Viṣṇu. He should always be remembered and never forgotten at any time. All the rules and prohibitions mentioned in the śāstras should be the servants of these two principles.’ [CC Madhya 22.113]

Always love and never forget love there is only 2 conditions always love all the time. Never stop loving at anytime, this means, always be remembered and never forgotten at any time

teṣāṁ satata-yuktānāṁ
bhajatāṁ prīti-pūrvakam
dadāmi buddhi-yogaṁ taṁ
yena mām upayānti te

Translation

To those who are constantly devoted to serving Me with love, I give the understanding by which they can come to Me.. [Bg. 10.10

Devotional service must be unmotivated and uninterrupted to completely satisfy the self.

sa vai puṁsāṁ paro dharmo
yato bhaktir adhokṣaje
ahaituky apratihatā
yayātmā suprasīdati

Translation

The supreme occupation [dharma] for all humanity is that by which men can attain to loving devotional service unto the transcendent Lord. Such devotional service must be unmotivated and uninterrupted to completely satisfy the self. [SB 1.2.6]

The ritualistic practices (karma-kanda) and intellectual pursuits (jnana-kanda), without devotion or spiritual realization, can bind one to the material world rather than liberating them.

Karma Kand Jnana-Kanda Keval Vishera Bhand

Translation

“”All rituals and knowledge are like poisonous bonds or pots.”

Hence it is recommended
satataṁ kīrtayanto māṁ
yatantaś ca dṛḍha-vratāḥ
namasyantaś ca māṁ bhaktyā
nitya-yuktā upāsate

Translation

Always chanting My glories, endeavoring with great determination, bowing down before Me, these great souls perpetually worship Me with devotion.[BG 9.14]

nāmnām akāri bahudhā nija-sarva-śaktis
tatrārpitā niyamitaḥ smaraṇe na kālaḥ
etādṛśī tava kṛpā bhagavan mamāpi
durdaivam īdṛśam ihājani nānurāgaḥ

Translation

The book by rupa goswami called BHakti Rasamrita sindhu, Srila prabhupada said it is science of Bhakti Yoga, or it is syllabus for Bhakti Shastri in VIHE or other institutes, it also includes Nectart of Instruction, Bhagavad Gita, Isoupanisad etc courses. BHakti Rasamrita sindhu gives details on dasiya rasa, Shakya rasa, vatsalya rasa and conjugal love. All these mellows are discussed here, then Rupa goswami. said I just hinted loving mellows, so he wrote one specific on conjugal mellows. The name of that book is Ujvala Nila mani. It gives details about loving mellows.

Rupa manjari has daily dealings with krsna so she is the most qualified to write this and you all have to become qualified to become student of this.

Srila prabhupada said bhagavad Gita is Graduation, Srimad Bhagavatam is Post Graduation then there are other books also.by Jiva Goswami and some other Gaudiya books by Narotam das thakura Like Prem Bhakti Chandrika , etc are all an ocean of love

avatirne gaurachandre
vistirne prema-sagare su-prakasita-ratnaughe
yo dino dina eva sah

Translation

“The advent of Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu is like an expanding ocean of nectar. One who does not collect the valuable jewels within that ocean is certainly the poorest of the poor.” [Sri Caitanya-candramrta]

It refers to divine pastimes of Chaitnaya Mahaprabhu and His ocean of love (prem sagar).

Mahaprabhu wrote on Sikastakam this is to His credit; he has also written Shivashtakam, when he was going to Jaganath puri on the way is a Nataraj Temple. It is all taugh in VIHE which is Vrindavan Institute for Higher Education. So reading all these gaudiya books higher studies post graduate is attained. Is it higher than your Biology, Chemistry etc. You go abroad for higher studies. But this is higher studies. Read Srila Prabhupada’s books and other Gaudiya Vaishnav Literature.

Bol Premanande

Lets Chant Together 16th April 2025

Date: 16 April 2025
Speaker: HH Lokanath Swami Maharaj
Topic: Iskcon Nagpur (IVCC)
HH Lokanath Swami Maharaj:

Hare Krishna!
Keep chanting.
Jnyaneshwar said, “say Hari Hari”.

There is so much peace. We are in Nagpur in IVCC (Iskcon/ International Vedic Cultural Centre). We are here seeing the construction work. It’s a houseful here. There will prasadam also after this Japa Talk. But the zoom attendees could not honour prasadam. This is the only drawback of zoom.

Nectar Of Instruction, 4:
dadāti pratigṛhṇāti
guhyam ākhyāti pṛcchati
bhuṅkte bhojayate caiva
ṣaḍ-vidhaṁ prīti-lakṣaṇam

Translation:
Offering gifts in charity, accepting charitable gifts, revealing one’s mind in confidence, inquiring confidentially, accepting prasāda and offering prasāda are the six symptoms of love shared by one devotee and another.

Ekant or being alone is being with Krishna only. His phone number is of 16 words, this mahamantra. No one has such the largest contact number. By this we can assume that only God can have such a number. when we call, we address someone and then we get response. Addressing means calling out ‘Oh Radhe!’. This language is a very big benefit to us. All our thoughts, culture is in this language.
Do you want be cultured and civilized?

But now a days we find highly educated least cultured people. In the mahamantra, there are 16 names and how many letters? “32”.
You should say that quickly. That is the effect of Kaliyuga. Everyone is slower, Mandah.
Now a days, mobile phones are starts but people are not. Devotees must be smart one.

kṛṣṇa yei bhajei sei hayata catur
māyā jei bhaje sei hayata phatur

Translation:
Those who worship Krsna are indeed the wise. Those who worship māyā are indeed poverty-stricken.
Who worships Krishna is very intelligent. When we chant, we call the lord. We talk to him and another understanding is that lord answers, not that some one else answers. He takes it very seriously. He responds in different ways. Whatever we pray when we chant or do kirtan.
If our chanting is full of offenses the lord is pleased that you are chanting. But how much he is pleased depends upon how we chant. When we chant lord is pleased, if we do kirtan, He is more pleases, and if its Nagar kirtan, it’s even more.
When we chant, we chant for our self. Some benefitted and it is also in a way selfish.

ŚB 7.5.31:
na te viduḥ svārtha-gatiṁ hi viṣṇuṁ
durāśayā ye bahir-artha-māninaḥ
andhā yathāndhair upanīyamānās
te ’pīśa-tantryām uru-dāmni baddhāḥ

Translation:
Persons who are strongly entrapped by the consciousness of enjoying material life, and who have therefore accepted as their leader or guru a similar blind man attached to external sense objects, cannot understand that the goal of life is to return home, back to Godhead, and engage in the service of Lord Viṣṇu. As blind men guided by another blind man miss the right path and fall into a ditch, materially attached men led by another materially attached man are bound by the ropes of fruitive labor, which are made of very strong cords, and they continue again and again in materialistic life, suffering the threefold miseries.
Prahlad Maharaj said, people don’t know how to be really selfish. We think our body as self, our mind as self. Ātmavat manyate jagat. “Everyone thinks others like himself.”

Bg. 3.27:
prakṛteḥ kriyamāṇāni
guṇaiḥ karmāṇi sarvaśaḥ
ahaṅkāra-vimūḍhātmā
kartāham iti manyate

Translation:
The spirit soul bewildered by the influence of false ego thinks himself the doer of activities that are in actuality carried out by the three modes of material nature.
A survey was raised that which word is repeated by people. The word was: Me and mine.
Those who are intelligent they know that the self is the soul. For it we don’t do anything. We do for others. This body is others. So, when we chant, we desire the lord.

ŚB 11.5.32:
kṛṣṇa-varṇaṁ tviṣākṛṣṇaṁ
sāṅgopāṅgāstra-pārṣadam
yajñaiḥ saṅkīrtana-prāyair
yajanti hi su-medhasaḥ

Translation:
In the Age of Kali, intelligent persons perform congregational chanting to worship the incarnation of Godhead who constantly sings the names of Kṛṣṇa. Although His complexion is not blackish, He is Kṛṣṇa Himself. He is accompanied by His associates, servants, weapons and confidential companions.

Lord is more pleased with our kirtan than our japa. Who wants us to get the Lord back? The lord wants us more than we want Him. He is sitting in our heart and waiting for us with this desire. When the child is sad the parents are first to be sad. The parent of the soul is God. If the child is lost of in a foreign land, they may forget, but the parents never forget. So, we can understand God, and His feeling by our own experiences. We are revolving in this cycle of birth, death, old age, and disease. Does he not know this? He knows, we are in this world of misery. He has made it. So, he knows it.

Vithu maza lekurwala sange gopalancha mela

My Vithala is a family man and he has many relations. We see the painting where the lord is seen, holding his devotees like kids. We all are children of the Lord. Modern science says that we evolved from amoeba that evolved into apes and then humans.
There was no amoeba, the very first one is Vithoba. Then Swayam bhu came from Vithoba. But Vedas says that from God came brahma and from him, he created 8400000 species all together. So, we are not coming from apes, but from Krishna. So much misinformation is spread in the world!
if Gaura had not come what would have happened? How would we live this life?

(yadi) gaura nā hoito, tabe ki hoito,
kemane dharita de?
rādhāra mahimā, prema-rasa-sīmā,
jagate jānāta ke

Translation:
If Lord Gaura had not appeared as the yuga-avatara in this age of Kali, then what would have become of us? How could we have tolerated living? Who in this universe would have ever learned about the topmost limits of loving mellows that comprise the glory of Sri Radha?
Her love is limitless, shore less ocean.

CC Antya 20.12:
ceto-darpaṇa-mārjanaṁ bhava-mahā-dāvāgni-nirvāpaṇaṁ
śreyaḥ-kairava-candrikā-vitaraṇaṁ vidyā-vadhū-jīvanam
ānandāmbudhi-vardhanaṁ prati-padaṁ pūrṇāmṛtāsvādanaṁ
sarvātma-snapanaṁ paraṁ vijayate śrī-kṛṣṇa-saṅkīrtanam

Translation:
Let there be all victory for the chanting of the holy name of Lord Kṛṣṇa, which can cleanse the mirror of the heart and stop the miseries of the blazing fire of material existence. That chanting is the waxing moon that spreads the white lotus of good fortune for all living entities. It is the life and soul of all education. The chanting of the holy name of Kṛṣṇa expands the blissful ocean of transcendental life. It gives a cooling effect to everyone and enables one to taste full nectar at every step.
Gaura got that ocean of love and spread it all over the world starting from Mayapur.

avatīrṇe gaura-candre vistīrṇe prema-sāgare
suprakāśita-ratnaughe yo dīno dīna eva saḥ

Translation:
The advent of Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu is just like an expanding ocean of nectar. One who does not collect the valuable jewels within this ocean is certainly the poorest of the poor.

Then many preachers took it out from Mayapur, like channels or canals taking the ocean of love, like it has reached Nagpur today. The goal is to take it to every town and village. Srila Prabhupada said to padayatra so. Not just town and village, but even in between. This is Srila Prabhupada’s mercy on his centennial, we did Padayatra in 100 countries in 1984. We celebrated 40 years of padayatra, 300000 kilometres, 8 circumambulations of the entire earth.

I went to the US in 1978, and I saw for the first time, an ambulance. I thought we are 100 years behind, when Prabhupada had gone there. He saw hippies now all that has come here. When I saw the disease stats I understood where there is enjoyment, disease will come.
Stop being Indians be Bharatiya. Bha means light. One name of sun is Bhaskar means one who gives light. One who is immersed in light is Bha -rat. Our Vedas say go from darkness to light, what going to light? Going to the source of all knowledge and light, that is God.
Srila Prabhupada preached this Krsna Consciousness. He recognized true Bharat and put it on the world map.

India was seen as a beggar’s country. Because every time an Indian came to the west, it was always to take something higher education. They don’t even know that the highest knowledge is spiritual knowledge.

When Prabhupada was asked by a UK reporter, why have you come to our country? He replied: you all came to my country, and looted all the valuables, not just diamonds but even coals, silk, cotton etc. I have not come to take but to give the wealth of my country: The Bhagavad Gita as it is, my culture and the Holy Name.

Hare Krishna Hafe Krishgna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare
Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare

Today the whole world is benefiting from his contribution, his culture, books, mahamantra, prasad. What is he give to us?
He gave Krishna in our life. Srila Prabhupada gave us Krishna in pour lives. There is a lack of Krishna. We should understand that. So, we should get Krishna and share it to others. You are all capable to give Krishna. So, realise Krishna every day and distribute him. Take it yourself and give it to others.

Srila Prabhupada said, “I could have preached from under a tree, but who would come there? So, I should make a place where people will be attracted,” and so, he made temples.

Srila Prabhupada was asked in 1977, Kumbhamela, “Why are you building more temples, there are so many temples already?”
Prabhupada asked, “who is this with you?”, “my wife and my son” he replied.

Prabhupada said there are many children in the world why you need one more child. He said this is my child. So, there are many temples but this is my temple.

So, you all are helping in building this new temple. The progress is very good. Add more people to this project.

ŚB 10.22.35:
etāvaj janma-sāphalyaṁ
dehinām iha dehiṣu
prāṇair arthair dhiyā vācā
śreya-ācaraṇaṁ sadā

Translation:
It is the duty of every living being to perform welfare activities for the benefit of others with his life, wealth, intelligence and words.
Vaishnava Song by Bhakti Vinod Thakur:

mānasa, deho, geho, jo kichu mor
arpilū tuwā pade, nanda-kiśor!

Translation:
Mind, body, and family, whatever may be mine, I have surrendered at Your lotus feet, O youthful son of Nanda!
We can help with our life, our money, our intelligence, and our words. This is Prabhupada’s desire. Are you all ready to fulfil it?
Hari Bol!
Hare Krishna!

Appearance of Dwarkadhish in Pandharpur 30th May 2025

Japa talk
Date: 30th May 2025
Speaker: Guru Maharaj
Theme: Appearance of Dwarkadhish in Pandharpur

Hare Krishna. Radha Pandharinath ki Jai! Vitthal Rukmini ki Jai! Construction of Bhuvaikuntha project is going on. Along with that we are also doing some re-editing and corrections in our book ‘Bhuvaikuntha’ and that is why I am staying here.

Earlier also it was mentioned in this book that Lord Vitthal is a special Vigraha, Deity. Sachidanand Vigraha! There is some bheda and abheda between Him and other Vigrahas. I am giving more emphasis on this topic in my writing.

Sub-theme: Pronology of Lord’s pastimes

When Lord appeared, Lord’s Prakat Lila, manifested pastime, He appeared in Mathura, and then He goes to Gokul and Gokul becomes His abode. ‘Krishna jinaka nam hai, Gokul jinaka dham hai!’ He resides in Gokul for three years and eight months. On ‘Damodar Lila day’ from Gokul He goes to Vrindavan Dham. On the way to Vrindavan from Gokul, first He goes to Chatikara. Have you heard this name before? In scriptures it is called ‘Shaktavart’. There, Krishna lives for the next three years and eight months. From there He moves ahead and stays in Nandagram. According to Visvanath Chakravarti Thakur there also He stays for three years and eight months. Then from there He goes to Mathura. Akrura comes and takes Krishna Balaram to Mathura as per Kamsa’s plans. Then for eighteen years the Lord stays in Mathura. Most of the time He was playing war with Jarasandha. On the eighteenth time He did not show any interest in the war as He has to get married and almost everyone was shifted to Dwarka. Hardly anyone remained in Mathura. For safety the Lord sent them to Dwarka.

Lord departs for Dwarka. ‘Ranchod Ranchod!’ That time Jarasandha had said ‘coward’. He was forgotten for how many times he himself ran away in fear. Seventeen times he narrowly escaped or the Lord left him alive. And now he was saying, ‘coward, Ranchod’. Lord Krishna Balaram ki Jai!

When They arrived in Dwarka They had a grand welcome by Dwarkavasis. “Ranchod Ray ki Jai! Good that You left the battlefield; otherwise You would have stayed there and we would have missed Your association and Your darshan. Good that You left the battlefield and came to Dwarka.”

Then the Lord gets married in Dwarka. It starts with Rukmini. Rukmini was kidnapped from Kaundinyapur. There also we have ISKCON project; we have to build a temple there too. So Lord had 16108 marriages and Lord used to live with each one of those queens.

Sub-theme: Gopi Talav pastime

Once Radharani and Gopis came to Dwarka from Vrindavan to meet Krishna or to play with Him. Lila means play. There is ‘Gopi Talav’ near Dwarka. All of you or Gaudiya Vaisnavas use Gopi Chandan for tilak which comes from this talav, pond, where Krishna played Rasalila with Radha and Gopis. This is a very confidential pastime. When queens of Dwarka were watching this Parakiya bhava pastime, paramour rasa pastime, and the deep love and special reciprocation between Krishna and Radha and Gopis,

rādhā kṛṣṇa-praṇaya-vikṛtir hlādinī śaktir asmād
ekātmānāv api bhuvi purā deha-bhedaṁ gatau tau
caitanyākhyaṁ prakaṭam adhunā tad-dvayaṁ caikyam āptaṁ
rādhā-bhāva-dyuti-suvalitaṁ naumi kṛṣṇa-svarūpam

Translation: The loving affairs of Śrī Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa are transcendental manifestations of the Lord’s internal pleasure-giving potency. Although Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa are one in Their identity, previously They separated Themselves. Now these two transcendental identities have again united, in the form of Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya. I bow down to Him, who has manifested Himself with the sentiment and complexion of Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī although He is Kṛṣṇa Himself. (CC Ādi 1.5)

Pranaya is superior to prema, love. praṇaya-vikṛtir hlādinī śaktir asmād, seeing this pranaya, most of all the queens, Rukmini was upset. She got angry and she even left her home, left Dwarka, left all pleasure giving things and then Pandharpur Dham ki Jai! She left for Dindirvan.

Sub-theme: Lord’s meeting with Bhakta Pundalik

And then Dwarkadhish had to come in search of Rukmini. Lord came and He did convince Rukmini, and along with that He met Bhakta Pundalik. When Pundalik was Muchukunda in his previous birth, at that time Krishna had promised him that He would give him Darshan when he, Muchukunda would take birth again. So when Lord met Pundalik, Pundalik requested Him, ‘You stay here’. And the Lord agreed. What else could He do? He says

śrī-bhagavān uvāca
ahaṁ bhakta-parādhīno
hy asvatantra iva dvija
sādhubhir grasta-hṛdayo
bhaktair bhakta-jana-priyaḥ

Translation: The Supreme Personality of Godhead said to the brāhmaṇa: I am completely under the control of My devotees. Indeed, I am not at all independent. Because My devotees are completely devoid of material desires, I sit only within the cores of their hearts. What to speak of My devotee, even those who are devotees of My devotee are very dear to Me. (ŚB 9.4.63)

So, Lord stays here as well. He spent many years in Dwarka. As Dwarkadhish, for eighty to ninety years Lord was in Dwarka. That is why, what Gujarati people say? ‘Krishna is Gujarati’. But where is He spending most of His time? Ten eleven years in Vrindavan, eighteen years in Mathura, eighty ninety years in Dwarka and in Pandharpur? From that time until now and forever!

Sub-theme: Lord eternally resides in Pandharpur

Lord Vitthal is not installed as a Deity. It is Lord’s prakat lila. Lord has prakat lila and aprakat lila, manifested pastime and unmanifested pastime. Lord appeared in Mathura and then He went to Vrindavan, then Mathura and then Dwarka. From Dwarka He went to many places like Kurukshetra, Indraprastha etc. When He was going to other places, He was returning back to Dwarka, but when He came here, He never returned back. In one sense He did not return and in another sense He returned and kept on performing His pastimes and from there Lord returned back to His abode. But when Lord came here from Dwarka, that form stayed here forever.

Mahaa-Yoga-Piitthe Tatte Bhiimarathyaam
Varam Punnddariikaaya Daatum Muni-[I]indraih |
Samaagatya Tisstthantam-Aananda-Kandam
Parabrahma-Linggam Bhaje Paanndduranggam ||1||

Meaning:

(Salutations to Sri Panduranga) In the Seat of Great Yoga (Maha Yoga Peetha) (i.e. at Pandharpur) by the bank of river Bheemarathi (has come Panduranga),(He has come) to give Boons to Pundarika; (He has come) along with the great Munis, Having arrived He is standing like a Source of Great Bliss (of Parabrahman), I Worship that Panduranga, Who is the veritable Image (Lingam) of Parabrahman. [Pandurangashtakam- composed by Sri Adi Shankaracharya ]

There is a possibility that such vigraha is not present in the whole universe. Panduranga! Panduranga Vitthal Bhagavan ki Jai! Vitthal Rukmini ki Jai! As far as I understand, there is no other place like this, advitiya, one and only. Just like

harer nāma harer nāma
harer nāmaiva kevalam
kalau nāsty eva nāsty eva
nāsty eva gatir anyathā

Translation: In this Age of Kali there is no other means, no other means, no other means for self-realization than chanting the holy name, chanting the holy name, chanting the holy name of Lord Hari. (CC Ādi 17.21)

Vitthal Vitthal hi kevalam! And that same Vitthal, Radha Pandharinath ki Jai! He is giving darshan in the form of Radha Pandharinath. When Radha Pandharinath’s installation took place, Lord Vitthal Rukmini or Radha Krishna were installed in Them. So for us Radha Pandharinath is none other than Vitthal Rukmini. Gaur Premanande Hari Hari bol!

Art Of Chanting 13th May 2025

Date: 13 May 2025
Speaker: HH Lokanath Swami Maharaj
Topic: Art Of Chanting

HH Lokanath Swami Maharaj:

You have to hear yourself while chanting. You don’t need to hear me while doing chanting. There is a difference in kirtan and chanting. You have to chant and hear the Mahamantra. This is Sravanam and kirtanam and then you can remember (smaranam).

We should chant in solitude place or at the place where you are alone with the Lord.

BG 10.25:

maharṣīṇāṁ bhṛgur ahaṁ
girām asmy ekam akṣaram
yajñānāṁ japa-yajño ’smi
sthāvarāṇāṁ himālayaḥ

Translation:

Of the great sages I am Bhṛgu; of vibrations I am the transcendental oṁ. Of sacrifices I am the chanting of the holy names [japa], and of immovable things I am the Himālayas.

What we were doing was the Japa Yoga. Yoga means link. There is a root stem in Sanskrit “Yuj”, that means to connect.

Chaitanya Maharprabhu used to say, “Kirtaniya sada Hari”.

Sri Shikshashtakam, Shloka 3:

trinad api sunicena
taror api sahishnuna
amanina manadena
kirtaniyah sada harihi

Translation:

One should chant the holy name of the Lord in a humble state of mind, thinking oneself lower than the straw in the street; one should be more tolerant than a tree, devoid of all sense of false prestige, and should be ready to offer all respect to others. In such a state of mind one can chant the holy name of the Lord constantly.

There are two types of kirtan. One is with mridanga.

Udilo Aruna Puraba Bhage By Srila bhakti Vinode Thakur:

udilo aruṇa pūraba-bhāge,
dwija-maṇi gorā amani jāge,
bhakata-samūha loiyā sāthe,
gelā nagara-brāje

‘tāthaī tāthaī bājalo khol,
ghana ghana tāhe jhājera rol,
preme ḍhala ḍhala soṇāra ańga,
caraṇe nūpura bāje

Translation:

When the rising sun appeared in the East, the jewel of the twice-born, Lord Gaurasundara, awakened, and, taking His devotees with Him, He went all over the countryside towns and villages. The mrdangas (khol) resounded “tathai, tathai,” and the jhanjha [large metal karatalas that look like small cymbals] in that kirtana played in time. Lord Gauranga’s golden form slightly trembled in ecstatic love of Godhead, and His footbells jingled.

When there used to be the sight of the sun in the morning, even today, we are seeing the sun in this world or should we say we have a vision of Sun. Are you doing this or is the sun watching us?

Prabhupada also used to say that We should act in a way that God comes to see you.

You are doing this Japa Yagya, that was also seen by the Sun. Sun is also the potency of the Lord, the eyes of the Lord.

BG 7.8:

raso ’ham apsu kaunteya
prabhāsmi śaśi-sūryayoḥ
praṇavaḥ sarva-vedeṣu
śabdaḥ khe pauruṣaṁ nṛṣu

Translation:

O son of Kuntī, I am the taste of water, the light of the sun and the moon, the syllable oṁ in the Vedic mantras; I am the sound in ether and ability in man.

You are very fortunate that you don’t have to go anywhere to chant. Everyday, you chant your japa in the same location and same time. This helps to chant attentively.

A week ago, I was in Vrindavan. I was chanting on the Jahnava Baithak at Radha Kunda on the auspicious day of appearance day of mother Jahnava.

Then we moved forward and reached Nagpur. There we chanted with the devotees of Nagpur. After sitting there we were waiting and then we moved forward, we have to move forward, so we reached Nakpur.

But one morning in Nakpur Then we moved forward, we went to Kondinipur and met Mother Rakmini on the auspicious appearance day of Mother Rukmini, Rukmini Dwadashi. We chanted with the devotees there. Thgen moving forward, we reached Amrawati and chanted there with devotees. Moving Forward, we reached Avantipur. Iskcon temples are equivalent to Dham. There is a very big profit to chant in the temples or Dham.

This chanting is like to call means to talk. When we call in Dham, chanting is a calling.

Saying Hare Krishna is calling or addressing Lord.

Tulsi Aarti:

ei nivedana dhara, sakhira anugata koro
seva-adhikara diye koro nija dasi

Translation:

I beg you to make me a follower of the cowherd damsels of Vraja. Please give me the privilege of devotional service and make me your own maidservant.

If we chant in the association of Tulsi Devi, it will be more benefitted. Srila Haridas Thakur was also did like that.

It is said that we say it, we also hear it, which We say that we pray for it also, there is a state called hearing also and there is a state even bigger than this, Manan.

Manan is done by the mind. The deep remembrance of what we hear and what we say is called manan.

When should do mantra Arth Chintan while Chanting. Everything is in this Mahamantra.

We can remember the Tulsi Maharani’ Aarti while chanting. Tulsi is like a desire tree. Every desire will be fructified.

The vision and the thoughts of Gaudiya vaishnavas are involved in the prayers of Tulsi Maharani. We can do the same prayers while chanting.

mora ei abhilasha, vilasa kunje dio vasa
nayana heribo sada yugala-rupa-rasi

Translation:

My desire is that you will also give me a residence in the pleasure groves of Sri Vrindavana-dhama. Thus, within my vision I will always behold the beautiful pastimes of Radha and Krishna.

ei nivedana dhara, sakhira anugata koro
seva-adhikara diye koro nija dasi

Translation:

I beg you to make me a follower of the cowherd damsels of Vraja. Please give me the privilege of devotional service and make me your own maidservant.

This is the aim of Gaudiya vaishnavas.

Caitanya-matta-manjusa commentary on Srimad-Bhagavatam by Srinath Chakravarti:

aradhyo bhagavan vrajesa-tanayas tad-dhama vrndavanam
ramya kacid-upasana vrajavadhu-vargena ya kalpita
srimad-bhagavatam pramanam-amalam prema pumartho mahan
sri caitanya mahaprabhur-matam-idam tatradaro nah parah

It is the conclusive opinion of Lord Chaitanya that the most worshipable form of the Lord is that of Sri Krishna, the son of Nanda Maharaja. Vrindavan-dhäma is the topmost worshipable abode. The highest and most pleasing type of worship of Krishna is done by the Vraja gopis. Srimad-bhagavatam is the spotless authority on everything. And krsna-prema is the fifth and highest goal of life.

We can accept the damsel of Gopis, sakhas, Nand baba, Mother Yashoda according to our Bhava.

This is necessary to meditate on such prayers. Chanting should not be mindless. Mantra can deliver us from suffering. And we are chanting the Mahamantra. We even can’t imagine what can it do!

Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare – Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare

It is recommended that we should recite Sri Shiksha Ashatakam And ten offences towards holy name before chanting. We can meditate on that also for attentive chanting.

Chaitanya Mahaprabhu has explained his feelings in Sri Shiksha Ashtakam. He is Lord himself and appeared as a devotee to teach us.

Seven advantages and glories of chanting Holy Name is explained in the first verse.

Sri Shiksha Ashtakam, Verse 1:

cheto-darpana-marjanam bhava-maha-davagni-nirvapanam
shreyah-kairava-chandrika-vitaranam vidya-vadhu-jivanam
anandambhdhi-vardhanam prati-padam purnamritasvadanam
sarvatma-snapanam param vijayate shri-krishna-sankirtanam

Translation:

We should know these glories and deep rooted it in our heart.

Sri Shiksha Ashtakam, Verse 2:

namnam akari bahudha nija-sarva-shaktis
tatrarpita niyamitah smarane na kalaha
etadrishi tava kripa bhagavan mamapi
durdaivam idrisham ihajani nanuragahah

Translation:

O my Lord, Your holy name alone can render all benediction to living beings, and thus You have hundreds and millions of names, like Krishna and Govinda. In these transcendental names, you have invested all Your transcendental energies. There are not even hard and fast rules for chanting these names. O my Lord, out of kindness You enable us to easily approach you by Your holy names, but I am so unfortunate that I have no attraction for them.

Lord has inherited himself in this holy name. Hare, Radha Rani is the potency of the Krishna.

There are no hard and fast rule for chanting. There are so many advantages of chanting, but this is my unfortune I have no attraction for them.

CC, Adi Lila, 7.81:

kibā mantra dilā, gosāñi, kibā tāra bala
japite japite mantra karila pāgala

Translation:

‘My dear lord, what kind of mantra have you given Me? I have become mad simply by chanting this mahā-mantra!

Chaitanya Mahaprabhu is saying in the Shiksha Ashatak that we have no attraction for Chanting. He has all the attraction but he is saying that on our behalf. Because we don’t accept our reality.

How to achieve that attraction?

Sri Shiksha Ashtakam, Verse 3:

trinad api sunicena
taror api sahishnuna
amanina manadena
kirtaniyah sada harihi

Translation:

In such a state of mind one can chant the holy name of the Lord constantly.

Today there are clouds in the sky. I was remembering that Gopis reminds Krishna when they see clouds. There are many indications of remember Krishna; Sun, Wind, clouds, water, and so many things.

BG 7.9:

puṇyo gandhaḥ pṛthivyāṁ ca
tejaś cāsmi vibhāvasau
jīvanaṁ sarva-bhūteṣu
tapaś cāsmi tapasviṣu

Translation:

I am the original fragrance of the earth, and I am the heat in fire. I am the life of all that lives, and I am the penances of all ascetics.

What should be our state of mind?

trinad api sunicena

We should understand and follow the instruction of Sri Shiksha Ashtakam. In the last chapter of Chaitanya Charitamrita, Chaitanya Mahaprabhu gives commentary to Sri Ramanand Ray and Swarupa Damodar on each and every verse.

If we can control our flicker mind, we should read that chapter also.

Humility, tolerance, respect others and don’t have urge to take respect, in such a way we can chant constantly. We should practice that for our whole life. We should start this practice assoon as possible.

Sri Shiksha Ashtakam, Verse 4:

na dhanam na janam na sundarim
kavitam va jagad-isha kamaye
mama janmani janmanishvare
bhavatad bhaktir ahaituki tvayi

Translation:

O almighty Lord, I have no desire to accumulate wealth, nor do I desire beautiful women, nor do I want any number of followers. I only want your causeless devotional service, birth after birth.

We should have desire to serve the lord.

Sri Shiksha Ashtakam, Verse 5:

ayi nanda-tanuja kinkaram
patitam mam vishame bhavambudhau
kripaya tava pada-pankaja-
sthita-dhuli-sadrisham vichintaya

Translation:

O son of Maharaja Nanda [Krishna], I am Your eternal servitor, yet somehow or other I have fallen into the ocean of birth and death. Please pick me up from this ocean of death and place me as one of the atoms at Your lotus feet.

Keep the mind busy to meditate on such verses. Then it will never flicker.

These five verses are for sadhana Bhakti. Next Verses are for Bhava Bhakti.

Sri Shiksha Ashtakam, Verse 6:

nayanam galad-ashru-dharaya
vadanam gadgada-ruddhaya gira
pulakair nichitam vapuh kada
tava nama-grahane bhavishyati

Translation:

O my Lord, when will my eyes be decorated with tears of love flowing constantly when I chant Your holy name? When will my voice choke up, and when will the hairs of my body stand on end at the recitation of Your name?

Udilo Aruna Puraba Bhage By Srila bhakti Vinode Thakur:

kabe ha’be bolo se-dina amar
(amar) aparadha ghuci’, suddha name ruci,
kripa-bale ha’be hridoye sancar

Translation:

When, oh when will that day be mine? When my offenses ceasing, taste for the name increasing, when in
my heart will your mercy shine, when, oh when will that day be mine?

Sri Shiksha Ashtakam, Verse 7:

yugayitam nimeshena
chakshusha pravrishayitam
shunyayitam jagat sarvam
govinda-virahena me

Translation:

O Govinda! Feeling Your separation, I am considering a moment to be like twelve years or more. Tears are flowing from my eyes like torrents of rain, and I am feeling all vacant in the world in Your absence.

Missing Krishna in life. Are we missing Krishna? We miss money, our wife, our children. Are we ever miss Krishna?

When will the day come when we will miss Krishna.

kṛṣṇa-nāma-sudhā koriyā pān,
jurāo bhakativinoda-prāṇ,
nāma binā kichu nāhiko āro,
caudda-bhuvana-mājhe

Translation:

Drink the pure nectar of the holy name of Krsna. There is nothing but the name to be had in the fourteen worlds. It has filled the soul of Sri Bhaktivinoda Thakura.

We should miss Krishna. We should feel grief on the lack of Krishna in our life.

Sri Shiksha Ashtakam, Verse 8:

ashlishya va pada-ratam pinashtu mam
adarshanan marma-hatam karotu va
yatha tatha va vidadhatu lampato
mat-prana-nathas tu sa eva naparaha

Translation:

I know no one but Krishna as my Lord, and He shall remain so even if He handles me roughly by His embrace or makes me broken hearted by not being present before me. He is completely free to do anything and everything, for He is always my worshipful Lord, unconditionally.

This verse is saying by the Radha Rani in the form of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu.

CC, Adi Lila, 1.5:

Translation:

The loving affairs of Śrī Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa are transcendental manifestations of the Lord’s internal pleasure-giving potency. Although Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa are one in Their identity, previously They separated Themselves. Now these two transcendental identities have again united, in the form of Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya. I bow down to Him, who has manifested Himself with the sentiment and complexion of Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī although He is Kṛṣṇa Himself.

Radha Rani is saying that you are free to do anything, but you are the only shelter of mine.

Vaishnava Song, Radha krishna prana Mora by Narottama Das Thakur:

radha-krishna prana mora jugala-kisora
jivane marane gati aro nahi mora

Translation:

The divine couple, Sri Sri Radha and Krishna, are my life and soul. In life or death I have no other refuge but Them.

These types of thoughts are compulsory not only necessary.

We are Gaudiya Vaishnavas and Rupa nuga. They have given us everything. Chanting is the primary and central activity. All the progress in krishna consciousness is depend upon how we chant. We should practive to chant and to practice to improve chanting. Take chanting seriously. Don’t take it lightly. This is the mecry of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu. What transaction happen at the time of initiation?

Spiritual master gave you Harinam and you take an ought to chant offense less minimum 16 rounds chanting and to serve the lord and spiritual master.

Srila Prabhuapada used to say that the meaning of the chanting is to ask for some service. Now, if you are chating, then some service will be given to you.

Become free and chant.

Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare hare krishna Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare

CC, Madhya Lila, 17.133:

nāma cintāmaṇiḥ kṛṣṇaś
caitanya-rasa-vigrahaḥ
pūrṇaḥ śuddho nitya-mukto
’bhinnatvān nāma-nāminoḥ

Translation:

‘The holy name of Kṛṣṇa is transcendentally blissful. It bestows all spiritual benedictions, for it is Kṛṣṇa Himself, the reservoir of all pleasure. Kṛṣṇa’s name is complete, and it is the form of all transcendental mellows. It is not a material name under any condition, and it is no less powerful than Kṛṣṇa Himself. Since Kṛṣṇa’s name is not contaminated by the material qualities, there is no question of its being involved with māyā. Kṛṣṇa’s name is always liberated and spiritual; it is never conditioned by the laws of material nature. This is because the name of Kṛṣṇa and Kṛṣṇa Himself are identical.’

BG 4.34:

tad viddhi praṇipātena
paripraśnena sevayā
upadekṣyanti te jñānaṁ
jñāninas tattva-darśinaḥ

Translation:

Just try to learn the truth by approaching a spiritual master. Inquire from him submissively and render service unto him. The self-realized souls can impart knowledge unto you because they have seen the truth.

You should not follow blindly. You can ask questions for your doubts.

Hare Krishna!

Lets Chant Together 9th May 2025

Japa Talk
Date- 9th May 2025
Speaker- Guru Maharaj
Theme- Appearance Day of Rukmini Maiya

Sub-theme: Lord’s Hladini potency
You are all very loving devotees. You reside in Kaundinyapur. Do not know this is the result of which of our good deeds that we are associated with Kaundinyapur Dham. This is the birth place of Queen Rukmini. Rukmini Maiya ki Jai! She eternally resides here. We should not think that because Lord Dwarkadhish kidnapped Rukmini and took Her with Him, so now Rukmini does not reside in Kaundinyapur and now this Dham is ‘Rukimini-less’. We might think like that, ‘once upon a time Rukmini used to reside here, but now this Dham is devoid of Rukmini’. But this thinking is not correct. Rukmini is Lord’s potency and is equivalent to the Lord. She is not any ordinary woman. She is eternal consort, eternal wife of the Lord. She is Hladini potency, pleasure potency. She is not ordinary soul. We, souls are also Lord’s potency but we are Tatastha Sakti, marginal potency. Rukmini is Lord’s internal potency. The potency becomes a person. Rukmini Maiya ki Jai!

Sub-theme: Eternal pastime of Rukmini Maiya

Tomorrow we will celebrate the appearance day of Rukmini Maiya. The pastime of Rukmini’s birth is also eternal. This is difficult to understand. Rukmini takes birth all the time, just as sun rises all the time. Sun rises in one country after another, then the next, then the next, like that. Similarly, Rukmini Maiya’s birth pastime is eternal. Here on this planet, She took birth around five thousand and two hundred years ago. So, Her appearance pastime is eternal. Even in the present time She is appearing somewhere.

In this material world, we are all trapped in dualities. One duality is day and night, or past and present is a duality, but in the spiritual world, there is no past and future. There is only present. So, Rukmini took birth here and in present She is taking birth somewhere. So as the birth pastime is eternal, Rukmini Haran (kidnapping) pastime is also eternal. Therefore, this Kaundinyapur which is related to these eternal pastimes is also eternal.

Sub-theme: Transcendental appearance

A few days back we celebrated Sita Navami. Day after tomorrow we will celebrate Narasimha Caturdashi. These days are named after the appearance of the Lord’s incarnation or His potencies. Just like tomorrow is Rukmini Dvadasi. Which Purnima? Gaur Purnima. Gaur Purnima ki Jai! Krsna Astami ki Jai! Rukmini Dwadasi ki Jai! So, Rukmini appeared here. This appearance or birth is not like our birth. Krsna’s birth or Radha’s birth or Rukmini’s birth is transcendental.

janma karma ca me divyam
evaṁ yo vetti tattvataḥ
tyaktvā dehaṁ punar janma
naiti mām eti so ’rjuna

Translation-

One who knows the transcendental nature of My appearance and activities does not, upon leaving the body, take his birth again in this material world, but attains My eternal abode, O Arjuna. [Bg. 4.9]

Rukmini’s birth is also transcendental and not material. If it was a material birth then there would be death as well. Rukmini took birth here; so, ‘did She die as well?’ Rukmini neither takes birth nor dies. Rukmini Maiya ki Jai!
I have not read it anywhere, but when She was born, demigods must have appeared in the sky.

sūta uvāca
yaṁ brahmā varuṇendra-rudra-marutaḥ stunvanti divyaiḥ stavair
vedaiḥ sāṅga-pada-kramopaniṣadair gāyanti yaṁ sāma-gāḥ
dhyānāvasthita-tad-gatena manasā paśyanti yaṁ yogino
yasyāntaṁ na viduḥ surāsura-gaṇā devāya tasmai namaḥ

Translation-
Sūta Gosvāmī said: Unto that personality whom Brahmā, Varuṇa, Indra, Rudra and the Maruts praise by chanting transcendental hymns and reciting the Vedas with all their corollaries, pada-kramas and Upaniṣads, to whom the chanters of the Sāma Veda always sing, whom the perfected yogīs see within their minds after fixing themselves in trance and absorbing themselves within Him, and whose limit can never be found by any demigod or demon — unto that Supreme Personality of Godhead I offer my humble obeisances. [ŚB 12.13.1]
Demigods must have sung the glories of Rukmini and must have showered flowers. Heavenly damsels must have danced; many musical instruments must have been played.

Sub-theme: Gopis’ reappearance as Queens of Dwarka

In Rukmini’s pastime we see that Rukmini also got the chance to listen Krishna-katha or pastimes of Dwarkadhish. And after hearing again and again the pastimes of Dwarkadhish, She made up Her mind that ‘if I get married, I will marry only Dwarkadhish’. Sukadeva Goswami says ‘mano dadhe’

tāṁ buddhi-lakṣaṇaudārya-
rūpa-śīla-guṇāśrayām
kṛṣṇaś ca sadṛśīṁ bhāryāṁ
samudvoḍhuṁ mano dadhe

Translation-
Lord Kṛṣṇa knew that Rukmiṇī possessed intelligence, auspicious bodily markings, magnanimity, beauty, proper behavior and all other good qualities. Concluding that she would be an ideal wife for Him, He made up His mind to marry her. [ŚB 10.52.24]
‘Mano dadhe’, Rukmini made up Her mind. She made up Her mind because in Vrindavan at the bank of Yamuna there is one ghat called Chirghat. All the gopis of Vrindavan, including Radharani, Chandravali were worshipping Katyayani Devi and praying

kātyāyani mahā-māye
mahā-yoginy adhīśvari
nanda-gopa-sutaṁ devi
patiṁ me kuru te namaḥ
iti mantraṁ japantyas tāḥ
pūjāṁ cakruḥ kumārikāḥ

Translation-
Each of the young unmarried girls performed her worship while chanting the following mantra. “O goddess Kātyāyanī, O great potency of the Lord, O possessor of great mystic power and mighty controller of all, please make the son of Nanda Mahārāja my husband. I offer my obeisances unto you.” [ŚB 10.22.4]

They prayed ‘O Katyayani Devi, we want the son of Nanda Maharaj, as our husband, patim me kuru te namah; we offer you obeisances again and again, nanda gopa sutam devi patim me kuru te namah.’ They worshiped Katyayani Devi for thirty consecutive days. They used to take bath in Yamuna and worship Katyayani Devi. Katyayani listened their prayers and as a result all the Gopis, including Radharani and Chandravali got Krsna as their husband. Katyayani was pleased and it was certain that Radharani, Chandravali and Gopis will be married with Krsna. There were millions of Gopis and out of them 16108 gopis were selected and it was certain that these 16108 Gopis will become the queens of Krsna. So, they take birth again at different places across Bharat-varsh. Lord’s marriage did not take place in Vrindavan.

jaya jayojjwala-rasa sarva-rasa-sar
parakiya-bhave jaha brajete pracar

Translation-
All glories, all glories to the mellow of conjugal love, which is the most excellent of all rasas and is propagated in Vraja by Sri Krishna in the form of the divine parakiya-bhava [paramour love]. [Sri Vraja-dhama-mahimamrita Text 10, by Krishnadas Kaviraj Goswami]
There is Parakiya bhava, paramour love in Vrindavan and Svakiya bhava is in Dwarka, Lord’s pastimes with His own wives! In Vrindavan His consorts were wives of other men. There Lord was Upapati. In Dwarka He makes 16108 Gopis as His wives. He lives with them in 16108 palaces. So, among these 16108 queens Rukmini was the special queen. Therefore, She is called as ‘Patarani’, the chief queen.

Sub-theme: Chandravali becomes Rukmini

In Vrindavan Chandravali Gopi is a very prominent Gopi. Have you heard her name? She is equivalent to Radharani. There are two wings having two different bhava, moods- Vamangi, the left wing Gopis and the right wing Gopis. Srimati Radharani is Vamangi, left wing Gopi. Chandravali is a very simple and calm Gopi and is right wing Gopi. As her name suggests Chandra-avali, she is very soft. There is difference between hot sunrays and cool moon rays (chandra). Similarly, Chandravali is always cool like moon. But Radharani and the gopis of Her group sometimes have fierce mood. Premna gati ahir iva, ahi means snake. Vamangi Gopis have walk like a serpent, not simple straight forward. So, this Chandravali Gopi appears as Rukmini and Radharani appears as Queen Satyabhama. There is full description of who from Vrindavan Lila appears as who in Dwarka Lila.

Sub-theme: Importance of sravanam

Such Chandravali appears here as Rukmini and She gets chance to listen Lord’s pastimes. Her father King Bhismak was the king of Vidarbha and his capital was Kaundinyapur. In his court many rajarsis and maharsis used to come. First, they would visit Dwarka and then come here and narrate all the pastimes of Dwarkadhish. Narada Muni also used to come. When he used to narrate Dwarkadhish katha, Rukmini also used to listen it.

Every soul loves the Lord. All of you also love the Lord. Every soul has love for the Lord, but it is dormant. It just needs to be awakened and revealed. And how will it happen?

nitya-siddha kṛṣṇa-prema ‘sādhya’ kabhu naya
śravaṇādi-śuddha-citte karaye udaya

Translation-
Pure love for Kṛṣṇa is eternally established in the hearts of the living entities. It is not something to be gained from another source. When the heart is purified by hearing and chanting, this love naturally awakens. [CC Madhya 22.107]

Soul’s love for the Lord awakes just by hearing about His name, form, qualities, pastimes, etc. It is shown in this pastime that Rukmini also listened Lord’s pastimes and with that She developed love for the Lord and She made up Her mind ‘I want Dwarkadhish as my husband ‘. While listening this we should be careful that Rukmini is not an ordinary being and it is not that She had no love for Krsna and when She listened His pastimes, She developed love for Hiim. But from this pastime we must understand that yes this is possible. This pastime shows that you must listen to the pastimes of the Lord, and you will develop the love for Krsna.

Sub-theme: ISCKON Kaundinyapur

This Dham where we are building and establishing this temple ISKCON Kaundinyapur, with that we are establishing Bhagavat Dharma. World do not know where and when Rukmini appeared. It is possible that even the people here may not be aware of this. We need to begin from here. We have to remind the world about this Dham and even when Rukmini appeared. Therefore, we are establishing this temple. There must be lot of katha-kirtan in this Dham, so that whoever will come here, will develop his love for the Lord. They will give up the false love of the world and will start to have the true love for Dwarkadhish.

Rukmini is Hladini sakti, Lord’s internal potency. We living entities are also the potency of the Lord. Potency is feminine. We souls are prakriti and therefore we are feminine. In the material world there is only one purusa and that is govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi [Brahma Samhita]. So as in this Dham Rukmini listened Lord’s pastimes and made up Her mind that ‘if I get married, it will be none other than Lord Dwarkadhish’. Similarly, all of us, the living entities, who are females, for us also by hearing lila-katha, Hare Krsna Hare Krsna Krsna Krsna Hare Hare, Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare, we should made up our mind, who is our husband? Krsna! And if we have to marry then it should be with Krsna. Are you ready to take such Sankalpa? So, pray to the Lord that just like He kidnapped Rukmini He may kidnap you also and take you back to His abode. From here Lord took Rukmini to Dwarka and marriage ceremony took place there in Dwarka. In fact, no need to wait. Wherever you are, there also marriage can take place.

Hare Krsna Hare Krsna Krsna Krsna Hare Hare, Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare!

Lord is Ajanma 9th March 2020

9th March 2020

Lord is Ajanma

Gaura Purnima Mahotsava ki jai

Happy New Year will begin from tomorrow.

Today is the happy birthday of Gauranga Mahaprabhu. There is a lot of difference be-tween our birthday and the birthday of the Lord. In fact Mahaprabhu does have a birth-day.

Our birthday means our body is born. When we take birth our body takes birth. Our soul never takes birth. When we ask how old are you? That means how old is your body? That’s related to our body. I am 5 years old. I am 20 years old. I am 50 years and I am a 70 year old man.

It’s said sri krsna caitanya sarira dhari

He does have a body. His soul is His body. There is no difference between His body and His soul. He is ajanma. He does not take birth like we take birth and our body is born. Before taking birth Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu was also there. Caitanya Mahaprabhu ap-pears on this day in His manifest or prakat lila.

There are many forms (svarupa) of Caitanya Mahaprabhu.

His rupa is one of His form or svarupa. He appeared in the evening at moon rise. I was saying in Gaura katha that’s going on that before the Lord’s appearance, during the day He appeared in the form of His name. That’s also one form of the appearance of the Lord. This is a mystery. When the Lord appears as His own form it’s very easy to un-derstand that the Lord has taken birth. But when Lord appears in the form of the maha-mantra,

Hare Krishna Hare Krishna
Krishna Krishna Hare Hare
Hare Rama Hare Rama
Rama Rama Hare Hare

kali kale nama rupe krsna avatar

This is the nama-rupa of the Lord and the other form we can see with our eyes. We can only have a realization of the holy name when we chant the holy name. That time we can meet the Lord. It’s the understanding that from the name comes form. Before the form is the name of the Lord.

Hare Krishna Hare Krishna
Krishna Krishna Hare Hare
Hare Rama Hare Rama
Rama Rama Hare Hare

When we chant the Hare Krishna maha-mantra and hear, listen and meditate (mananam) on the holy name, then we can realize the presence of Sri Krsna Caitanya. I was think-ing we can’t take the Deity of the temple and move all over, we can just have darsana and move ahead. But we can take the Lord’s name with us and walk and lie down. Dur-ing old age it’s very difficult to climb the steps of the temple like we have in Noida and then there is darsana. Who will climb? Nowadays people have knee problems. We can carry the holy name anywhere and it will always be with us wherever we are. As I said, it’s the form of the Lord. The Lord’s Deity form is not only His form, but His holy name is also His form.

jiv jago, jiv jago, gauracanda bole
kota nidra jao maya-pisacira kole

Lord Gauranga is calling, “Wake up, sleeping souls! Wake up, sleeping souls! How long will you sleep in the lap of the witch called Maya?

bhajibo boliya ese samsara-bhitare
bhuliya rohile tumi avidyara bhare

When you were in your mother’s womb and were distressed that time you had prayed to Me, ‘Oh Lord, please help me, please remove me from here. I will worship You I promise.’ So the Lord helped you to come out from the sufferings of the womb. But your mother, father and your friends brain washed you that you forgot your promise.

tomare loite ami hoinu avatara
ami bina bandhu ara ke ache tomara

For you I have taken avatar but you have forgotten so to remind you I am taking birth on Gaura Purnima.
Other than Myself you have no friend in this world. Do you have any friend like Gau-ranga Mahaprabhu? We shake our heads and say yes, but we do not realize this fact. We have made many friends.

dehapatya-kalatradisv
atma-sainyesv asatsv api [SB 2.1.4]

We have so much faith in our body, children and wife. We feel they will help us in need, but Sukadeva Goswami says it’s asatsena. Caitanya Mahaprabhu is saying, “I have tak-en this avatar for you. I have brought harinama medicine for you.” Caitanya Mahaprab-hu has prescribed this medicine for us. “You are not well so take this medicine. Which is that medicine?

Hare Krishna Hare Krishna
Krishna Krishna Hare Hare
Hare Rama Hare Rama
Rama Rama Hare Hare

Even if you understand this much it’s enough to move out of this material world. I have filled this sagar in gagar for you meaning I have filled an ocean in a pot for you.

Today is day of chanting and praying to the Lord. It’s also a fast so you can have the feast of harinama. Our aim to meet the Lord. I wish you all a happy Gaura Purnima.

Gauranga Gauranga.

The Real Meaning of a Blessing 8th March 2020

8th March 2020

The Real Meaning of a Blessing

Hare Krishna.

We are preparing for Gaura Purnima which we are going to celebrate tomorrow. ISKCON Thane is celebrating Gaura Purnima Festival today as it is Sunday. Bhakti Caru Swami Maharaj is in Dubai. Every member of ISKCON is getting ready for Gaura Purnima. Parikrama has also ended and devotees are returning to their places and temples. Few are saying that we have taken our bodies to Greater Noida, but as we are getting to hear Gaura Katha we are feeling that we are in Mayapur. Devotees are saying that they like the Katha. You like Katha means you like Gauranga. Katha and Lila itself represent Gauranga. If you like the holy name then you like Gauranga. Loving is better than liking. May you all love Katha! Some devotees keep on writing in chat. Maharaja, please bless me!

Subalaxmi Mataji from Ahmedabad is asking a blessing on the occasion of her 28th Marriage Anniversary. I was thinking that if we are chanting with you and making you hear Katha of Gauranga Mahaprabhu then isn’t it a blessing. Caitanya Mahaprabhu is also asking for a blessing in Śikṣāṣṭaka.

na dhanaṁ na janaṁ na sundarīṁ
kavitāṁ vā jagad-īśa kāmaye
mama janmani janmanīśvare
bhavatād bhaktir ahaitukī tvayi

“O Almighty Lord, I have no desire to accumulate wealth, nor to enjoy beautiful women. Nor do I want any number of followers. What I want only is the causeless mercy of Your devotional service in my life, birth after birth.” [Cc. Antya 20.29, Śikṣāṣṭaka 4]

Caitanya Mahaprabhu is teaching us that we don’t ask for the blessing of happiness, wealth in-home and comfort. All of these are Bhukti items. He says that I’m ready to take birth again. He just wants to remain the servant of the Lord.This is a blessing. Learn to ask for blessings. We are new in this field of religion and Caitanya Mahaprabhu is teaching us what kind of blessings we should ask for.

anarpita-charim chirat karunayavatirnah kalau
samarpayitum unnatojjvala-rasam sva-bhakti-shriyam
harih purata-sundara-dyuti-kadamba-sandipitaha
sada hridaya-kandare sphuratu vah shacinandanaha

Translation:
“May that Lord, who is known as the son of Srimati Sacidevi, be transcendentally situated in the innermost chambers of your heart. Resplendent with the radiance of molten gold. He has appeared in the age of Kali by His causeless mercy to bestow what no incarnation ever offered before: the most sublime and radiant spiritual knowledge of the mellow taste of His service.” [Cc. Adi, 1.4.]

Krsna Das Kaviraj writes in his mangalacarana at the start of Caitanya-caritamrita that may you get darsana of Sacinandan where the soul lives in a cave of the heart. May all of us get blessed by the Lord!

All this is possible by the prayers of Srila Advaita Acarya. He asked the Lord to appear on earth and the Lord responded. On behalf of all Advaita Acarya called the Lord. His appearance is a grand blessing for the whole creation and He is manifesting His mercy by making this forest-like world an auspicious place.

ceto-darpaṇa-mārjanaḿ bhava-mahā-dāvāgni-nirvāpaṇaḿ

Translation:
Glory to the sri-krsna-sankirtana, which cleanses the heart of all the dust accumulated for years and extinguishes the fire of conditional life, of repeated birth and death. [ Ceto Darpana Marjanam verse 1]

He is extinguishing a forest fire with the holy names. Go for real gold! Gauranga!
I am breaking the news from Amravati. Every dog has its day. Today is woman’s day. There is also father’s day, mother’s day and so on. Today ISKCON Amravati is celebrating Women’s Padayatra. We will get reports from them. Prasanta Mataji from Vrindavan is also about to reach Amravati to celebrate the Padayatra.

Hari Hari

Goloka is our final destination 7th March 2020

7th March 2020

Goloka is our final destination

Hare Krishna.

gaurangera sangi-gane nitya-siddha kari mane
se yaya vrajendra-suta-pasa
sri-gauda-mandala-bhumi yeba jane chintamani
tara haya vraja-bhume vasa

Translation:
One who considers Sri Gauranga’s associates to be eternally liberated reaches Krsna. One who always thinks about the holy land of Gauda resides in the land of Vraja. [ Song by Narottam Das Thakur, Verse 3]

Those who have this realization that the associates of Caitanya Mahaprabhu are Nitya Siddha and they take inspiration from their lives and teachings, such people will reach Krsna. This is the Sruti phala. Yesterday’s discussion was presented from Gaura Ganodesa Dipika by Kavi Karnapura who is the son of Sivananda Sena. He reveals the identity of Gaur Parsadas (associates of the Lord). There is also talk of associates of the Lord in Christianity.

Just like one is Jesus Christ, the son of the Lord. Unfortunately, people believe him be the Lord. In Hinduism, such gods wander in the streets. Today’s swami is becoming to-morrow’s Narayana. There were such roaming in Pune and other cities. Jesus Christ is recognised as the son of the Lord. He was the true devotee of the Lord. Jesus Christ was just one son of Lord.

But look at Gaudiya Vaisnavism. There are so many sons and daughters of the Lord. It’s not a question of ours and theirs. Jesus Christ is also ours. He is the son of the Lord. We can take inspiration from him. The whole world can take inspiration from the associates of the Lord. In terms of numbers, Christianity has very few Saints from which they can learn the teachings and take inspiration to do Bhakti. But our parampara has so many associates of the Lord. We can understand a lot regarding devotional service from Gaura Parsadas. Even if you say in terms of quality, they are the topmost devo-tees. They can’t be compared to Jesus Christ or others. They were devotees of Caitanya Mahaprabhu’s Raga Marga. They were given Madhurya or Srinagar Rasa by Caitanya Mahaprabhu. In Hinduism, Christianism, Islam or Buddhism, the problem is that they don’t understand that they are nitya -siddha.

kṛṣṇa-bhakta–niṣkāma, ataeva ‘śānta’
bhukti-mukti-siddhi-kāmī–sakali ‘aśānta’

Translation:
Because a devotee of Lord Kṛṣṇa is desireless, he is peaceful. Fruitive workers desire material enjoyment, jñānīs desire liberation, and yogīs desire material opulence; there-fore they are all lusty and cannot be peaceful.[ CC Madhya 19.149]

Three kinds of people are found in this world – bhukti-kami, mukti-kami and siddhi-kami. They are found to be restless. But the devotees of Krsna are always peaceful.

Bhukti-kami worship demigods and keep on doing sacrifices. They are very large in number. Some of them might go to Heaven. Many people would be going to hell be-cause Kama, Krodha , lobha have been said to be the gates to hell. Amongst those who are in the mode of goodness will go to the planets of demigods. I’m telling you that the number of people going to Vaikuntha is very less. When a person dies people write on his photo frame that he is a swarga vasi.

But heaven also is itself a first-class prison. Mukti-kami means Advaita vada. They be-lieve that the Lord doesn’t have any form. They are not only Hindus, but also Muslims and Christians who are Mayavadis. In truth, they want to become Supreme. They want to merge in the Lord. They don’t want to do anything after liberation.

mayavadi-bhasya sunile haya sarva-nasa

Translation:
Anyone who follows the principles of Mayavada philosophy is certainly doomed. Such a fool needs to be reformed by punishment. [CC Madhya 6.169]

They don’t go to Vaikuntha or Goloka. There is no question of nityalila pravishtha. When we become sadhana siddha, nitya siddha then we can enter in eternal pastimes of Lord. This is a very high level thought. There are very few who try this.

manuṣyāṇāṁ sahasreṣu
kaścid yatati siddhaye
yatatām api siddhānāṁ
kaścin māṁ vetti tattvataḥ

Translation:
Out of many thousands among men, one may endeavor for perfection, and of those who have achieved perfection, hardly one knows Me in truth.[ BG 7.3]

We need to understand the Lord as He is. There are many things to know. Bhukti kami are known as dharmic. They also follow dharma. But they don’t have any relationship with Vaikuntha. They don’t even know about Vaikuntha. Heaven is the final destination for such people. Few want to go to heaven and few want to become Supreme or some keep on hanging in between. Such who enter spiritual planets don’t meet the Lord. They don’t do bhakti. They want to merge their existence in the Lord.

bahūnāṁ janmanām ante
jñānavān māṁ prapadyate
vāsudevaḥ sarvam iti
sa mahātmā su-durlabhaḥ

Translation:
After many births and deaths, he who is actually in knowledge surrenders unto Me, knowing Me to be the cause of all causes and all that is. Such a great soul is very rare. [BG 7.19]

He did this and that and after many births, he got to realize that Vasudeva is all in all. Others don’t understand Vasudeva. Vaisnavas understand Vasudeva or Visnu and they take His shelter, worship Him and go to Vaikuntha.

Such sadhakas keep themselves engaged in sadhana. Those who worship Visnu are called Vaisnavas and those who worship Krsna are called Karsnas and worshippers of Radha are called Gaudiya Vaisnavas. The specialty of Gaudiya Vaisnavas is that they worship Radha.

aradhyo bhagavan vrajesa-tanayas tad-dhama vrndavanam
ramya kacid upasana vraja-vadhu-vargena va kalpita
srimad bhagavatam pramanam amalam prema pum-artho mahan
sri-caitanya mahaprabhor matam idam tatradarah na parah

Translation:
The Supreme Personality of Godhead, Lord Krishna, the son of Nanda Maharaja, is wor-shipped along with His transcendental abode Vrndavana. The most pleasing form of worship for the Lord is that which was performed by the gopis of Vrndavana. Srimad Bhagavatam is the spotless authority on everything and pure love of Godhead is the ul-timate goal of life for all men. These statements, for which we have the highest regard, are the opinion of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu. [Caitanya-matta-manjusa by Srila Viswa-natha Cakravarti Thakura]

A Gaudiya Vaisnava doesn’t go to heaven, or merge in brahmajyoti or go to Vaikuntha. They go to Goloka.

Before Gaudiya Vaisnavas, there was first Acarya Madhavendra Puri. That’s why devo-tees go to Santipur in 30-40 buses. Madhavendra Puri went to Santipur and gave initia-tion to Advait Acarya. Today is the disappearance day of Madhavendra puri. Those who go to Santipur and honour prasada there get Krsna Prema. Those who are in Mayapur are surely requested to go to Santipur. Today is his disappearance day and he entered the eternal pastimes of the Lord. If he wouldn’t have been there then there wouldn’t have been Isvara Puri.

Discuss the glories of Madhavendra Puri and pray that we also may become eternal as-sociates of the Lord at the end of this life.

Thank you
Madhavendra Puri ki Jai!

Time is Krsna 6th March 2020

6th March 2020

Time is Krsna

Hare Krishna

We are beginning the japa talk early and ending early.

I don’t know how many of you are listening to Gaura Bhagavat katha from 8 am to 9.30am. In the evening, it takes place between 6 to 9pm.

I am very busy. Telecast is happening on Youtube and Facebook. This japa talk and then morning and evening sessions are keeping me engaged. Preparing a presentation of what to say and then to present it. This way I am engaged 24 hours. I also have my sadhana besides the japa talk. I chant my extra rounds too. Also, communication, correspondence, meeting devotees, answering their questions and giving comment is also there. In this way, by the Lord’s mercy time is going on. Srila Haridas Thakur has said, ‘Either you do anything or not, Time will go on.’ Time and tide waits for none. Time keeps on progressing. Whether you are sleeping or chanting the holy name, time is going on. It’s good that we remain with time. Stay on time and with time. Also, we should make the right use of time as time is also the Lord. The Lord has said, ‘Kalosmi’. Kala means time. If we abuse time, then the Lord will appear as kala or death.

akala mrityu haranam
sarva vyadhi vinashanam
vishnu paadodakam pitva
Shirsha dhaara-yaamyaham

Lord can appear in two forms. As the form of death since He is the superintendent of death. On behalf of the Lord, Yamaraja does the duty or Lord Himself comes. It depends on how we utilise the time. (Charan’amrit Mantra)

vinash kale vipreet buddhi

Translation:
When faced with destruction, our minds often become abnormal.

Srila Prabhupada would say, ‘Stay busy 24 hours a day in devotional service of the Lord.’ We need to plan out our day. We call it time management. Isn’t time valuable? Few people say time is money. They say that if you don’t utilise your time in earning money, then you are wasting your life. For some people time is money. They relate time with money. But those who are Krishna Conscious or want to be Krishna Conscious, they understand time is Krsna. Some think that time is money and Hare Krishna devotees or sadacaris think that time is Krsna and It should be engaged in earning Krsna or the wealth of Krsna. Like when we chant, we earn Krsna.

golokera prema-dhana, hari-nama-sankirtana

Translation
The treasure of divine love in Goloka Vrindavana has descended as the congregational chanting of Lord Hari’s holy names. (Verse 2, Hari Hari Bifale)

We start depositing this treasure early in the morning compared to those money makers, who start earning from 10 or 11 am. Hare Krishna people are very smart. Their earnings begin early in the morning like at 4 o’clock.

Hare Krishna Hare Krishna
Krishna Krishna Hare Hare
Hare Rama Hare Rama
Rama Rama Hare Hare

This way, They start earning immediately. One’s time is money and another’s time is Krsna. Understand this. When we go away from home and develop renunciation, then we get knowledge or wisdom.

Utilise time in the right way. It’s fine to earn money But it can be purusārtha only if it is used for dharma. There are 4 purusārthas:
1. Dharma (righteousness)
2. Artha (prosperity)
3. Kama (pleasure)
4. Moksha (liberation).
If one utilises earned wealth for dharma, it is purusārtha then it’s fine. Then you have not wasted your time. But if someone utilises earned wealth for sense gratification or pleasure, then it is a waste of time.

hari hari! bifale janama gonainu
manushya-janama paiya, radha-krishna na bhajiya,
janiya suniya visha khainu

Translation
O Lord Hari, I have spent my life uselessly. Having obtained a human birth and having not worshiped Radha and Krishna, I have knowingly drunk poison. (Verse 1, Hari Hari Bifale)

If one gets the human form of life and do not become devotees of Radha Krsna and misuse the wealth for shopping and fulfilling lusty desires, then it’s wrong.

Think about this. This is food for thought. Keep chanting and make others chant. Hear Gaura Bhagavat Katha and distribute books.

Earn wealth. We are distributing Caitanya-caritamrta sets these days. Utilise earned wealth to purchase Bhagavad-Gita, Bhagavatam, Caitanya-caritamrta. Rightly use your wealth and go on yatra or a spiritual retreat. Use it to purchase vegetables and offer that to the Lord and honour prasada. If we utilise earned wealth for seeing movies, eating meat, then we are wasting our life, time and money. This is going on everywhere. They are not just wasting some time or a few minutes or a few hours or a few days but their whole lifetime from beginning to finish. Come to the senses.

jiva jago, jiva jago, gauracanda bole
kota nidra jao maya-pisacira kole

Translation
Lord Gauranga is calling, “Wake up, sleeping souls! Wake up, sleeping souls! How long will you sleep in the lap of the witch called maya? (Verse1, Jiva Jago, Jiva Jago)

Gauracandra is calling us as Gaura Purnima is approaching. How long are you going to sit in the lap of a witch named Maya? Wake up! This human form of life is a blessing and it’s very rare. Understand and realize this and use every moment of your life in devotional service of the Lord and also making others devotees which include family members also. Charity begins at home. It can be neighbours, friends, bosses or servants.

yāre dekho tare kaho, ‘krsna’ upadesa

Translation
Instruct Everyone to follow the orders of the Lord Srī Krsna. (CC Madhya-lila 7.128)

āmāra ājñāya guru haña tāra’ ei deśa

Translation
One should become a guru and spread Krishna Consciousness all over the world, simply by preaching the teachings of Bhagavad-gītā. (CC Madhya 7.128)

Ok… I will leave you alone. I have to get ready.

Gaura prema nande hari haribol!