28/12/21pm – Glories of Srila Vamana Gosvami Maharaja (English translation) – Delhi

-Srila Vamana Gosvami Maharaja coming to Navadvipa with mother & surrendering to Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvatipada.
-Similarities between life history of Naradaji & Srila Vamana Gosvami Maharaja.
-Self realisation is best realisation & dehatma-buddhi is main cause of anarthas.
-Narada Rishi’s previous life story of son of a widow serving santa-mahatma.
-Narahari Prabhu used to take care of matha & Srila Vamana Gosvami Maharaja used to cut vegetables with him.
-Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvatipada enrolling Srila Vamana Gosvami Maharaja in Bhaktivinoda school.
-Lila of Srila Vamana Gosvami Maharaja as a child drying up wet clothes by chanting Nrisimha mantra & going to school following guru’s orders.
-Lila of Srila Vamana Gosvami Maharaja as an acharya chanted Nrisimha mantra when one of his disciples didn’t take ticket & travelled in train.
-Srila Vamana Gosvami Maharaja is siddha-mahatma.
-Lila of heavy rain being stopped during Navadvipa parikrama by Srila Vamana Gosvami Maharaja mercy.
-Lila of Srila Vamana Gosvami Maharaja chanting in one hand & wiping tears coming out of prema with another hand.
-Srila Gurudeva serving Srila Vamana Gosvami Maharaja & devotees with pomegranate seeds & Srila Parama-Gurudeva calling Srila Gurudeva as Shivananda Sena.
-Srila Vamana Gosvami Maharaja used to go alone for preaching.
-patram puspam phalam toyam sloka discussion & offer at least tulasi, ganga-jala to Bhagavan.
-Joke about a Russian translator saying any grass for Tulasi & devotees making flowers with grass & offering to Srila Narayana Maharaja.
-Story of a conjuse person doing manasika-seva on advice of a sadhu
& Thakuraji gave him the name Makhana chora.
-Thakuraji in Alarnatha still has burnt signs on Him.
-ananyas cintayanto mam sloka in the lilas of Srila Narayana Gosvami Maharaja & Srila Vamana Gosvami Maharaja.
-We get enthusiam by hearing shuddha bhakta katha as they show us how to practice.