18 Dec 2020 morning – Glories of Madhavendra Puripada (Hindi)

– Chaitanya Charitamrta, Madhya-lila, chapter 4; – Chaitanya Mahaprabhu told this harikatha when He was at Ksira Chora Gopinatha’s temple; – Krishna comes in disguise to Madhavaendra Puri pada at Govinda kunda and gives him milk; – Gopal appears in his dream and instructs to be rediscovered; – Establishment of Gopal on the top of Giriraj and Annakut mahotsava for the Deity; – Eating after bathing; – How did Gopinath kept the kheer for Madhavendra Puri; – Madhavendra Puri runs away from fame; – Mathura’s Keshavaji Gaudiya Math remembrances: Bimala pujari and His perfect service to Thakuraji; – Kunja Bihari prabhu and his service to Mathura temple; – Padmanabha Maharaja when he used to live in Mathura Math; – Srila Narayana Maharaja cooked himself for all on Makara sankranti, and all the brahmacharis would collect so many donations; – The kitchen is as sacred as the altar: strict rule of not entering the kitchen/distributing prasada without dhoti (no pants, no gamcha) and without initiation; – Glories of the food cooked by a maha bhagavata; – Madhavendra Puri pada goes to south India to get malaya chandana for Gopal, but, in the end, Gopal orders him to apply the chandana in Gopinath.