Gaura Vani

Join our Meta Verified WhatsApp Channel: https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029Var5TSW6RGJMUXDTYb1b Lord Caitanya appeared in order to fulfill these confidential desires, and also to preach the special significance of chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa, Hare Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa, Hare Hare/ Hare Rāma, Hare Rāma, Rāma Rāma, Hare Hare and to answer the call of Advaita Prabhu. These were secondary reasons. Śrī Svarūpa Dām...

Join our Meta Verified WhatsApp Channel: https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029Var5TSW6RGJMUXDTYb1b The third reason that Lord Caitanya appeared was to enjoy the bliss tasted by Rādhārāṇī. The Lord thought that undoubtedly Rādhārāṇī enjoyed His company and He enjoyed the company of Rādhārāṇī, but the exchange of transcendental mellow between the spiritual couple was more pleasing to Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī t...

Join our Meta Verified WhatsApp Channel: https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029Var5TSW6RGJMUXDTYb1b The third reason that Lord Caitanya appeared was to enjoy the bliss tasted by Rādhārāṇī. The Lord thought that undoubtedly Rādhārāṇī enjoyed His company and He enjoyed the company of Rādhārāṇī, but the exchange of transcendental mellow between the spiritual couple was more pleasing to Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī t...

Join our Meta Verified WhatsApp Channel: https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029Var5TSW6RGJMUXDTYb1b Lord Caitanya is Śrī Kṛṣṇa Himself, the absolute enjoyer of the love of the gopīs. He Himself assumes the role of the gopīs to taste the predominated happiness of transcendental mellows. He appeared in that mode, but simultaneously He propagated the religious process for this age in a most fascinating wa...

Join our Meta Verified WhatsApp Channel: https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029Var5TSW6RGJMUXDTYb1b I shall personally inaugurate the religion of the age — nāma-saṅkīrtana, the congregational chanting of the holy name. I shall make the world dance in ecstasy, realizing the four mellows of loving devotional service. Kṛṣṇadāsa Kavirāja has herein presented much authentic evidence from Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam a...

Join our Meta Verified WhatsApp Channel: https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029Var5TSW6RGJMUXDTYb1b A learned brāhmaṇa named Upendra Miśra, who resided in the district of Śrīhaṭṭa, was the father of Jagannātha Miśra, who came to Navadvīpa to study under the direction of Nīlāmbara Cakravartī and then settled there after marrying Nīlāmbara Cakravartī’s daughter, Śacīdevī. Śrī Śacīdevī gave birth to eight...

Join our Meta Verified WhatsApp Channel: https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029Var5TSW6RGJMUXDTYb1b Śrīmān Paṇḍita was among the companions of Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu when the Lord performed saṅkīrtana. When Lord Caitanya dressed Himself in the form of the goddess Lakṣmī and danced in the streets of Navadvīpa, Śrīmān Paṇḍita carried a torch to light the way. It is stated that Śuklāmbara Brahmacārī, an...

Join our Meta Verified WhatsApp Channel: https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029Var5TSW6RGJMUXDTYb1b On the mahā-prakāśa day, Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu embraced Haridāsa Ṭhākura and informed him that he was none other than an incarnation of Prahlāda Mahārāja. When Viśvarūpa took sannyāsa, Śacīmātā thought that Advaita Ācārya had persuaded Him to do so. Therefore she accused Advaita Ācārya of this, which...

Join our Meta Verified WhatsApp Channel: https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029Var5TSW6RGJMUXDTYb1b On the mahā-prakāśa day, Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu embraced Haridāsa Ṭhākura and informed him that he was none other than an incarnation of Prahlāda Mahārāja. When Viśvarūpa took sannyāsa, Śacīmātā thought that Advaita Ācārya had persuaded Him to do so. Therefore she accused Advaita Ācārya of this, which...

Join our Meta Verified WhatsApp Channel: https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029Var5TSW6RGJMUXDTYb1b When Lord Caitanya declares tṛṇād api su-nīcena taror iva sahiṣṇunā, He indicates that one must be above the material conception of life. When one thoroughly understands that he is not the material body but a spiritual soul, he is even humbler than a man of the lower castes, for he is spiritually elevate...

Join our Meta Verified WhatsApp Channel: https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029Var5TSW6RGJMUXDTYb1b Kṛṣṇa’s devotees relate to Kṛṣṇa in various relationships; one might treat Kṛṣṇa as a son, or one might treat Kṛṣṇa as a husband, as a friend, or as a master. Kṛṣṇa and Arjuna are related in friendship. As the father tolerates, or the husband or a master tolerates, so Kṛṣṇa tolerates.

Join our Meta Verified WhatsApp Channel: https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029Var5TSW6RGJMUXDTYb1b Kṛṣṇa’s devotees relate to Kṛṣṇa in various relationships; one might treat Kṛṣṇa as a son, or one might treat Kṛṣṇa as a husband, as a friend, or as a master. Kṛṣṇa and Arjuna are related in friendship. As the father tolerates, or the husband or a master tolerates, so Kṛṣṇa tolerates.

Join our Meta Verified WhatsApp Channel: https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029Var5TSW6RGJMUXDTYb1b Although Kṛṣṇa is manifested before Arjuna in His universal form, Arjuna remembers his friendly relationship with Kṛṣṇa and is therefore asking pardon and requesting Kṛṣṇa to excuse him for the many informal gestures which arise out of friendship. He is admitting that formerly he did not know that Kṛṣṇa...

Join our Meta Verified WhatsApp Channel: https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029Var5TSW6RGJMUXDTYb1b Out of loving ecstasy for Kṛṣṇa, his friend, Arjuna is offering his respects from all sides. He is accepting that He is the master of all potencies and all prowess and far superior to all the great warriors assembled on the battlefield. It is said in the Viṣṇu Purāṇa (1.9.69): yo ’yaṁ tavāgato deva samīp...

Join our Meta Verified WhatsApp Channel: https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029Var5TSW6RGJMUXDTYb1b The Lord is addressed here as air because the air is the most important representation of all the demigods, being all-pervasive. Arjuna also addresses Kṛṣṇa as the great-grandfather because He is the father of Brahmā, the first living creature in the universe.

Join our Meta Verified WhatsApp Channel: https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029Var5TSW6RGJMUXDTYb1b Everything is resting on the Supreme Personality of Godhead; therefore He is the ultimate rest. Nidhānam means that everything, even the Brahman effulgence, rests on the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Kṛṣṇa. He is the knower of everything that is happening in this world, and if knowledge has any end, He...

Join our Meta Verified WhatsApp Channel: https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029Var5TSW6RGJMUXDTYb1b Arjuna, after hearing from Kṛṣṇa about the outcome of the Battle of Kurukṣetra, became enlightened, and as a great devotee and friend of the Supreme Personality of Godhead he said that everything done by Kṛṣṇa is quite fit. Arjuna confirmed that Kṛṣṇa is the maintainer and the object of worship for the d...

Join our Meta Verified WhatsApp Channel: https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029Var5TSW6RGJMUXDTYb1b Savya-sācin refers to one who can shoot arrows very expertly in the field; thus Arjuna is addressed as an expert warrior capable of delivering arrows to kill his enemies. “Just become an instrument”: nimitta-mātram. This word is also very significant. The whole world is moving according to the plan of th...

Join our Meta Verified WhatsApp Channel: https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029Var5TSW6RGJMUXDTYb1b Savya-sācin refers to one who can shoot arrows very expertly in the field; thus Arjuna is addressed as an expert warrior capable of delivering arrows to kill his enemies. “Just become an instrument”: nimitta-mātram. This word is also very significant. The whole world is moving according to the plan of th...

Join our Meta Verified WhatsApp Channel: https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029Var5TSW6RGJMUXDTYb1b Devotees who are correctly situated in a transcendental relationship with Kṛṣṇa are attracted by loving features, not by a godless display of opulences. The playmates of Kṛṣṇa, the friends of Kṛṣṇa and the parents of Kṛṣṇa never want Kṛṣṇa to show His opulences. They are so immersed in pure love that the...

Join our Meta Verified WhatsApp Channel: https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029Var5TSW6RGJMUXDTYb1b The living entity, while executing devotional service or transcendental rituals after many, many births, may actually become situated in transcendental pure knowledge that the Supreme Personality of Godhead is the ultimate goal of spiritual realization. In the beginning of spiritual realization, while on...

Join our Meta Verified WhatsApp Channel: https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029Var5TSW6RGJMUXDTYb1b The Supreme Lord is situated as Paramātmā in everyone’s heart, and it is from Him that all activities are initiated. The living entity forgets everything of his past life, but he has to act according to the direction of the Supreme Lord, who is witness to all his work. Therefore he begins his work accord...

Join our Meta Verified WhatsApp Channel: https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029Var5TSW6RGJMUXDTYb1b One in goodness attains higher planetary systems, like Brahmaloka or Janaloka, and there enjoys godly happiness. The word amalān is significant; it means “free from the modes of passion and ignorance.” There are impurities in the material world, but the mode of goodness is the purest form of existence in...

Join our Meta Verified WhatsApp Channel: https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029Var5TSW6RGJMUXDTYb1b In this verse the word buddhi-yogam is very significant. We may remember that in the Second Chapter the Lord, instructing Arjuna, said that He had spoken to him of many things and that He would instruct him in the way of buddhi-yoga. Now buddhi-yoga is explained. Buddhi-yoga itself is action in Kṛṣṇa con...

Join our Meta Verified WhatsApp Channel: https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029Var5TSW6RGJMUXDTYb1b In this verse Lord Kṛṣṇa stresses the importance of remembering Him. One’s memory of Kṛṣṇa is revived by chanting the mahā-mantra, Hare Kṛṣṇa. By this practice of chanting and hearing the sound vibration of the Supreme Lord, one’s ear, tongue and mind are engaged. This mystic meditation is very easy to p...