Sound Bhakti

Cc Madhya 16.150- 290 (end of chapter) https://vedabase.io/en/library/cc/madhya/16/advanced-view/ ------------------------------------------------------------ Indeed, the humility of these two brothers could even melt stone. Because I was very pleased with their behavior, I told them, ‘Although you are both very much exalted, you consider yourselves inferior, and because of this, Kṛṣṇa will very s...

So these prayers were offered by Jayadeva Gosvami. One Vaisnava poet advented about seven hundred years before Lord Caitanya’s appearance. He was a great devotee, and his specific poetry, Gita-govinda, is very famous all over the world. Gita- govinda. Gita-govinda is the subject matter of Krsna playing on flute about Radharani. That is the subject matter of Gita-govinda. The same poet, Jayadeva Go...

This song is sung during the Month of Kartik, also known as the month of Damodara. As quoted in the Sri Hari-Bhakti-Vilasa, "In the month of Kartika one should worship Lord Damodara and daily recite the prayer known as Damodarastaka, which has been spoken by the sage Satyavrata and which attracts Lord Damodara. (Sri Hari-bhakti-vilasa 2.16.198).” ---------------------------------------------------...

1. (kṛṣṇa) deva! bhavantaḿ vande man-mānasa-madhukaram arpaya nija-pada-pańkaja-makarande (refrain) O Lord Kṛṣṇa! I offer my obeisances unto You. Please fix my bee-like mind in the nectar of Your lotus feet. 2.yadyapi samādhiṣu vidhir api paśyati na tava nakhāgra-marīcim idam icchāmi niśamya tavācyuta! tad api kṛpādbhuta-vīcim O Acyuta! Although the great Lord Brahmä, in his trance of sam...

Cc Madhya 16.65-149 https://vedabase.io/en/library/cc/madhya/16/ ------------------------------------------------------------ What I have noted is, some people are more oriented towards Vāṇī and some are more oriented towards Vapu, naturally. I have seen it in God-brothers, and others have observed it also, and partly situationally. Brahmananda, for instance, and others were so... of course, they...

"Everyone has got problem in this material world. They're trying to overcome the problem. But I have no problem." Naivodvije para duratyaya-vaitaraṇyās tvad-vīrya-gāyana-mahāmṛta-magna-cittaḥ (SB 7.9.43). "I have no problem because my mind is always absorbed in glorifying Your Lordship. Therefore, I have no problem." Kīrtana. You'll feel immediately refreshed. However burden you may feel, as soon...

Cc Madhya 16.1-64 https://vedabase.io/en/library/cc/madhya/16/advanced-view/ Śrīla Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura gives the following summary of this chapter in his Amṛta-pravāha-bhāṣya. When Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu wanted to go to Vṛndāvana, Rāmānanda Rāya and Sārvabhauma Bhaṭṭācārya indirectly presented many obstructions. In due course of time, all the devotees of Bengal visited Jagannātha Purī for the th...

Cc Madhya 15.277-302 https://vedabase.io/en/library/cc/madhya/15/ I walk into a temple, sometimes I look around and I’ll think, like, why are they doing it like this? Why are they doing like that? Why are they offering flowers with no scent? or whatever thing I can find. And I remember Puṇḍarīka Vidyānidhi. You know, the last story in the Caitanya-bhāgavata, Puṇḍarīka Vidyānidhi, who's a paramahaṁ...

Cc Madhya 15.170-277 Once you are facing Māyā, then you feel fear and you're disoriented, Budha. But if you're intelligent, ābhajet taṁ bhaktyaikayeśaṁ guru-devatātmā—you should turn back towards Kṛṣṇa through the medium of the spiritual master, who you should consider to be your worshipful deity and your very life and soul. The verse says so. The implication is that one becomes free from that sen...

Question: Could please share your reflection and instructions that you want us to take after reading whole Madhya Lila this Kartik? Thank you 🙏 Answer: One is that it's important to take time to read, and it has to be very deliberately done. And It's best done with a group, because we get much more out of it when there's discussion and devotees express their realizations. As Prabhupāda wrote in o...

Cc Madhya 15.109-169 ------------------------------------------------------------ I was just thinking this morning, when I was chanting my japa, the first time I heard of the Hare Krishna mantra. As I really relish that memory, just hearing it and thinking, "That is really some mysterious thing they're doing." Then I remember the first time I said "Hari Krishna" was to the devotees. They were walk...

Cc Madhya 15-.42 -108 https://vedabase.io/en/library/cc/madhya/15/advanced-view/ ------------------------------------------------------------ As for being freed from all sinful reactions by chanting the holy name of Kṛṣṇa only once, one must chant the holy name without committing any offenses. Then chanting one name is sufficient to rescue a living being from all sinful reactions. Such a person wh...

Cc Madhya 15.1-41 https://vedabase.io/en/library/cc/madhya/15/advanced-view/ ------------------------------------------------------------ There's the discussion that takes place when Caitanya Mahāprabhu can understand the mind of Sanātana Goswāmī. Sanātana Goswāmī was thinking of killing himself because he had sores on his body, and he was going to jump in front of the Jagannātha cart in the prese...

Cc Madhya 14.174-257 https://vedabase.io/en/library/cc/madhya/14/advanced-view/ Dressing himself as a Vaiṣṇava, Mahārāja Pratāparudra entered the garden at Balagaṇḍi alone and began reciting verses from Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam. He then took the opportunity to massage the lotus feet of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu. The Lord, in His ecstatic love for Kṛṣṇa, immediately embraced the King and thus bestowed mercy...

Cc Madhya 14.17-100 https://vedabase.io/en/library/cc/madhya/14/ ------------------------------------------------------------ The greatest achievement for a devotee is to become a servant of the servants of the Lord. Actually, no one should desire to become the direct servant of the Lord. That is not a very good idea. When Prahlāda Mahārāja was offered a benediction by Nṛsiṁhadeva, Prahlāda reject...

Cc Madhya 14.1-18 https://vedabase.io/en/library/cc/madhya/14/advanced-view/ ------------------------------------------------------------ I think it's in contention for the best purport. We should have every year the 'Best Purport Awards.' This is what I'm going to enter. (HG Vaisesika Dasa) Kṛṣṇadāsa Kavirāja Gosvāmī wants to point out that nothing could compare to the Lord’s mercy toward Mahārāj...

Cc Madhya 13.137-209 https://vedabase.io/en/library/cc/madhya/13/209/ ------------------------------------------------------------ Anyone who hears this description of the car festival will attain Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu. He will also attain the elevated state by which he will have firm conviction in devotional service and love of Godhead. Cc Madhya 13.208 -----------------------------------------...

(1) jaya rādhā-mādhava kuñja-bihārī gopī-jana-vallabha giri-vara-dhārī (2) yaśodā-nandana braja-jana-rañjana yāmuna-tīra-vana-cārī TRANSLATION 1) Krsna is the lover of Radha. He displays many amorous pastimes in the groves of Vrndavana, He is the lover of the cowherd maidens of Vraja, and the holder of the great hill named Govardhana. 2) He is the beloved son of mother Yasoda, the delighter of the...

Cc Madhya 13.66-137 https://vedabase.io/en/library/cc/madhya/13/advanced-view/ ------------------------------------------------------------ In his Anubhāṣya, Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura describes the ecstasy of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu as follows. After giving up the company of the gopīs in Vṛndāvana, Śrī Kṛṣṇa, the son of Mahārāja Nanda, engaged in His pastimes at Dvārakā. When Kṛṣṇa w...

Cc Madhya 12.213-13.65 https://vedabase.io/en/library/cc/madhya/12/advanced-view/ ------------------------------------------------------------ I'll tell you one thing, just the sound of it: 'kuṭīnāṭī' doesn't sound good. You don't want that. What do you got? Kuṭināṭī—crooked intelligence. It's just kind of a default mode in the material world: icchā-dveṣa-samutthena dvandva-mohena bhārata sarva-bh...

Cc Madhya 12.134-212 https://vedabase.io/en/library/cc/madhya/12/advanced-view/ ------------------------------------------------------------ By His practical activity, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu informed us how to cleanse our hearts. Once the heart is cleansed, we should invite Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa to sit down, and we should observe the festival by distributing prasādam and chanting the Hare Kṛṣṇa mahā-man...

Cc Madhya 12.24-134 https://vedabase.io/en/library/cc/madhya/12/advanced-view/ ------------------------------------------------------------ You really have to be self-searching to make sure what your motive is. Japa is a good time to look at your motive and just see, am I actually sincere and self-searching? Because, just like, let's say, somebody writes you something or says something to you, and...

hose who are cultivating spiritual life and executing devotional service are always engaged in activity. Such activity can be performed with the body or with the mind. Thinking, feeling and willing are all activities of the mind, and when we will to do something, the activity comes to be manifest by the gross bodily senses. Thus, in our mental activities we should always try to think of Kṛṣṇa and...

Cc Madhya 12.1-24 https://vedabase.io/en/library/cc/madhya/12/advanced-view/ ------------------------------------------------------------- We just read earlier this morning in the Bhajana Rahasya, the third verse, "tṛṇād api sunīcena," Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura says that fame is the most difficult of the anarthas to give up. "Wanting to be famous for one's acumen in devotional service," he said, "one s...

Cc Madhya 124-243 https://vedabase.io/en/library/cc/madhya/11/advanced-view/ ------------------------------------------------------------ At the present moment we see that some of the members of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness are tending to leave their preaching activities in order to sit in a solitary place. This is not a very good sign. It is a fact that Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānt...