Vraja-mandala parikrama 2020

25 Nov 2020 – Disappearance of Srila Gaura Kishora dasa Babaji Maharaja (Hindi) – India

– The internal and external meaning of the renunciation;- Raghunatha Das to Sanatana Gosvami: vairagya-yug-bhakti-rasam prayatnair (Vilapa Kusumanjali);- Srila Gaura Kishora Dasa Babaji Maharaja would defeat the arguments and cut the philosophy of even great panditas such as Prana Gopal Gosvami;- Srila Gaura Kishora dasa Babaji Maharaja didn’t want to give initiation to Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Prabhupada;- Some newly married man comes to seek Babaji Marahaja’s blessings for his...

25 Nov 2020 – Damodarastakam 4: Developing taste for vraja-raganuga-bhakti only (English translation) – India

4th sloka Damodarastakam;Children are very restless, but when we grow up, we get more serious (we see this in Krsna as well);In the Bhagavatam, Shukadeva Gosvami described the lilas of only one single day of Krsna.- Sukadeva using the word “etah” means that he is directly seeing all those lilas he’s described;This material body cannot tolerate prema (when one attains bhava, one dies);Uddhava glorifies the rudha-bhava of the gopis: what is the use of being Lord Brahma if we...

25 Nov 2020 (room class) – Damodarastakam 4: Developing taste for vraja-raganuga-bhakti only (Hindi) – India

4th sloka Damodarastakam;Children are very restless, but when we grow up, we get more serious (we see this in Krsna as well);In the Bhagavatam, Shukadeva Gosvami described the lilas of only one single day of Krsna.- Sukadeva using the word “etah” means that he is directly seeing all those lilas he’s described;This material body cannot tolerate prema (when one attains bhava, one dies);Uddhava glorifies the rudha-bhava of the gopis: what is the use of being Lord Brahma if we...

24 Nov 2020 – Seva-kunja + Bhandirvana (English translation) – India

Gopastami and Ashisheshwara MahadevaSeva kunja is the heart of Vrndavana, together with Nidhuvana;Srimati Radhika sometimes gets sulky in the nitya rasa and goes to the Mana-sarovara;Lalita kunda: Krsna quenches Lalita devi’s thirst;“Bhan” means to manifest (prakash);Srila Narayana Maharaja renovated this place;The wedding of Radha and Krishna: Baladeva Vidyabhusana went to Jaipur to protect the Gaudiya Vaisnava Siddhanta that Srimati Radhika should be worshipped with Govinda...

24 Nov 2020 – Kartik – Bhandirvana (Hindi) – India

“Bhan” means to manifest (prakash);
Srila Narayana Maharaja renovated this place;
The wedding of Radha and Krishna: Baladeva Vidyabhusana went to Jaipur to protect the Gaudiya Vaisnava Siddhanta that Srimati Radhika should be worshipped with Govinda deva;
The Deity of Krsna here is applying sindhor to Srimati Radhika;
Agnideva was lusty towards the wives of the rsis and thus was cursed by the them;
Krsna drank the forest fire and purified it.