sestdiena, 2014. gada 18. janvāris

Daytime & Evening - Vrindavan 2012


Ksira-Chora Gopinatha in Remuna, Orissa




As many of you know, our beloved deities, Sri Sri Radha Ksira-Chora Gopinatha are named after the famous deity found in Orissa. When the deities arrived in Toronto, devotees wrote to Srila Prabhupada that Krishna was a bit chubby. Srila Prabhupada then named them Sri Sri Radha Krisa-Chora Gopinatha after the deity in the Orissan village of Remuna, our Temple also became known as "New Remuna Dhama." "Ksira-Chora" means "one who stole sweet condensed milk" and there's a special pastime (see below) about how He received this name. Recently we came across some rare photos of Ksira-Chora Gopinatha in Remuna, normally photography is not permitted so these amazing photos are a rare treat! (Photos courtesy of Arjun Bhattacharyya Photography).
 More information about Remuna and Ksira Chora Gopinatha can be found inf the Back to Godhead Magazine Article "Remuna – The Place of Pleasure" by Bhakti Vikasa Swami. Below is an excerpt from the article on how Gopinatha got the Name Ksira-Chora:

The Name "Ksira-chora" means "one who stole condensed milk." When Lord Caitanya visited the Gopinatha temple in Remuna, He told the devotees traveling with Him how the Deity had come to receive that name. Lord Caitanya had heard the story from His spiritual master, Isvara Puri, a disciple of Madhavendra Puri. As related in Caitanya-caritamrta, it is Madhavendra Puri for whom the condensed milk was stolen.

Madhavendra Puri was a highly advanced devotee of Lord Krsna. While living in Vrndavana absorbed in remembering the pastimes of the Lord, he saw Krsna appear in a dream and tell him He had been buried for a long time in a jungle nearby. Krsna wanted Madhavendra Puri to dig Him up. Following the Lord's instruction, with the help of the local people Madhavendra Puri discovered a Deity of Krsna named Gopala.

Madhavendra Puri built a temple for Gopala and served Him for two years. Then again one night Gopala appeared to him in a dream and asked him to go to Orissa to get sandalwood to smear on His body.

On the way to Orissa, Madhavendra Puri stopped at the Gopinatha temple in Remuna. He asked the priest what kind of food was offered to Gopinatha, thinking he could offer the same preparations to his own Deity, Gopala. The priest mentioned the condensed milk (ksira) known as amrta-keli, which was famous because its taste was nectarean.

That evening, while the priest made an offering to the Lord, Madhavendra Puri thought that if the priest were to offer him some of the condensed milk he could taste it and then be able to prepare it for Gopala. He then at once became ashamed for thinking of tasting the Lord's food during the offering. Feeling he had committed a great offense, he left the temple and went to a vacant marketplace to chant the names of the Lord.

Later that night, the Gopinatha Deity appeared in a dream to the priest and told him He had hidden a pot of condensed milk behind His cloth. Gopinatha told the priest to deliver the condensed milk to a saintly person named Madhavendra Puri. The priest did as told.

Madhavendra Puri felt ecstasy to learn that the Lord had stolen condensed milk for him. After drinking the milk, Madhavendra Puri kept the pot, and every day he would eat a little piece of it.
http://iskcontoronto.blogspot.it/2014/01/ksira-chora-gopinatha-in-remuna-orissa.html

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Haridas Shastri enters the nitya lila

The sad news has come that His Holiness Sri Sri Haridas Shastri Maharaj ji, a saint venerated all over India, passed into the nitya-lila this morning at approximately 9 a.m. Although Shastriji was 95 years old and in frail health, he was still clear of mind and speaking with visiting devotees and even feeding and caring for his beloved cows.Shastriji Maharaj was a dedicated servant of Gaudiya Vaishnava literature. He translated and published great numbers of books and taught many hundreds of students in his long career as a scholar, bhajana-nishtha Vaishnava and educator. One of the last representatives of a bygone era, his disappearance is a major loss for Vrindavan and the Vaishnava world in general.
The following biography of Maharaj is taken from the Shri Haridas Niwas Ashram website

Haridas Shastri appeared in this world in an affluent and pious Brahmana family of the Kashyap Gotra in the erstwhile Manbhum (now Purulia) district of West Bengal. His longing for Sri Krishna brought him to the holy land of Vrindavan in 1933 when he was still in his teens. At that time, Vrindavan was quite different from what we see today. There were no roads, no concrete buildings and no electricity. The temples were the only solid structures. Everyone else lived in huts. The population was very low and most of the land was covered by jungle, through which people walked on winding trails.
In those days the spiritual aspirants of the entire Vraja-mandal used to visit a famous saint, Sri Ramakrishna Das Babaji in Dauji ki Bagicha. He hailed from the family of the chief royal priest of Jaipur and was fondly called Pandit Baba by the local residents of Vraja-mandal. Practitioners of different faiths used to go to him to have their queries answered. He would answer them in accordance with the teachings of their individual faiths.
After his arrival in Vrindavan, Maharaj ji started staying under Pandit Baba’s care. Pandit Baba had never given diksha (initiation) to anybody. But he had given vesh-diksha (diksha for adopting the renounced order of life in the tradition of Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu) to one great personality, Sri Vinod Bihari Goswami Maharaj.
Goswami Maharaj hailed from a pious family of Bengal where the devotional and scholarly traditions of Sri Chaitanya were maintained in their pristine form through the guru-disciple relationship. The family was initiated in Gadadhar parivar. From the time of Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, Sri Gadadhar Pandit had established the tradition of high scriptural erudition combined with sincere devotional practice within the followers of Sri Chaitanya. Continuing the traditions, Goswami Maharaj became highly learned and devotionally oriented. He went to the holy town of Nabadwip to study the scriptures in the traditional system. Nabadwip was then a centre of academic excellence in the Eastern part of India. His extraordinary capability was evident when he mastered various different shastras and was awarded the titles of vyakarana tirtha, kavya tirtha, purana tirtha, sankhya tirtha, sankhya ratna, bhagavat ratna and vedanta ratna. These are traditional degrees conferred upon individuals who achieve expertise in different branches of scriptural studies. Normally a scholar would be considered to be of exceptional callibre if he were to be awarded two or three degrees. Goswami Maharaj, however, earned several. After completing his family responsibilities, in the year 1932, Goswami Maharaj renounced home and went to Vrindavan to spend the rest of his life in the Holy Dham. By then, for various reasons, the tradition of scriptural studies and scholarly orientation that had been established by Sri Rup Goswami amongst the community of devotees in Vrindavan had become almost non-existent. Goswami Maharaj arrived in Vrindavan and worked hard to re-establish centres of scholarly excellence combined with devotional practice. He was famous in Vraja-mandal as “Sri Vedanta-Ratna Mahashay”. He established an ashram “Sri Giridhari Bhajanashram” at the ancient site of Kaliyadaha. He received vesh-diksha (renounced order of life in the tradition of Sri Chaitanya) from Sri Pandit Baba.
After taking the young Maharaj ji under his care, Sri Pandit Baba advised him to take diksha from his only vesh-disciple, Sri Vinod Bihari Goswami Vedanta-Ratna Mahashay. Maharaj ji became totally dedicated to the seva of his Gurudev.Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu had sent Sri Rup Goswami, Sri Sanatan Goswami and others to Vrindavan for reviving the holy Dham. They had worked hard to clear the forests of Vrindavan, establish temples, libraries and educational institutions where students would study and get trained in devotional practices as taught by Mahaprabhu. This would benefit mankind. However, history tells us that those wonderful academic centers were destroyed. When Sri Vinod Bihari Goswami Maharaj had come to Vrindavan he had found that there was a general lack of proper scriptural knowledge amongst the sadhus there. Being exceptionally learned, he wanted to revive the academic and spiritual culture of Vrindavan that the Goswamis had established. As per this desire of his Gurudev, Maharaj ji also started working for achieving this goal. Maharaj ji went to Varanasi to study the shastras in the traditional educational system. He achieved a rare distinction of having mastered several different branches of scriptural studies. During a period of twelve years he was conferred with nine “Tirtha” degrees (vyakarana tirtha, kavya tirtha, sankhya tirtha, mimamsa tirtha, tarka tirtha (anuman), tarka tirtha (shabda), nyaya tirtha, vedanta tirtha, vaisnava-darshan tirtha), a “Shastri” degree (nyaya-vaiseshika shastri), and an “acharya” degree (nyaya-acharya). Having achieved such rare academic feats, Maharaj ji came back to the hermitage of his Guru ji in Vrindavan only to continue what he liked best – humble seva of the Lord. He stayed away from worldly honour and fame.Maharaj ji observed that due to a lack of proper scriptural understanding in Vrindavan, the spiritual practices in Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu’s traditions were being guided by the fancies of individuals and had become distorted and degenerated. There was hardly any scriptural text of Sri Chaitanya’s tradition available in the whole of Vrindavan save a few belonging to his Gurudev! He felt that the knowledge of the holy texts written by stalwarts like Sri Rup Goswami, Sri Jiva Goswami and other acharyas should be made available to the people so that it could be of benefit to them. But then, very few people knew Sanskrit and the texts of the Goswamis were not available in the local languages. This ignorance further precipitated in the people an indifferent attitude towards the manuscripts and old publications. As a result many texts written by the saints of Sri Chaitanya’s tradition were getting lost forever on account of neglect and ignorance. Maharaj ji took upon himself the task of saving the scriptural texts, for the shastras are extremely dear to the Lord. He toiled relentlessly, collected old books and manuscripts that were on the verge of becoming extinct, edited them, translated them into Hindi or Bengali and published them.
In the year 1965 he established Sri Haridas Niwas Ashram at the ancient Kaliyadaha Ghat of Vrindavan. The main temple of the ashram was dedicated to the worship of Sri Gauranga Mahaprabhu, Sri Gadadhar Pandit Goswami, Sri Radha and Sri Govindadev. It was the first major temple in Vrindavan in which the form of Sri Gaura with his close associate, Sri Gadadhar was established. Within the premises of the ashram also lies the bhajan kutir (“Sri Giridhari Bhajanashram”) as well as the samadhi temple of Sri Vinod Bihari Goswami Maharaj. Maharaj ji struggled against many odds to give further impetus to the academic culture in Vrindavan. He established a library (Sri Gaura-Gadadhara Granthagaram), which is today one of the largest in the entire Vraja-mandal. He also set up a publication centre (Sri Gadadhara-Gaurahari Press) for publishing the scriptural texts that he was saving from extinction. So far about 90 books have been published from the press. Recently books in English, Spanish, Italian and Tamil have also been published. Through the press, Maharaj ji aims at sending out to the entire world the knowledge that the supreme Lord in the form of Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu revealed to humanity, for this would benefit the entire human race irrespective of cast creed or nationality. A major contribution of Maharaj ji is his commentary on the Brahma Sutras (or Vedanta-sutras) of Sri Veda Vyas.
Traditionally, when an acharya claims to be talking about Vedanta, the gist of all spiritual knowledge available to mankind, he writes a commentary on the Brahma Sutras to establish his view point. Sri Shankaracharya wrote Shariraka Bhashya, Sri Ramanujacharya wrote Sri Bhashya, Sri Madhvacharya wrote Madhva Bhashya, Sri Nimbarkacharya wrote Vedanta Parijata Saurabh, and so on. However, when Mahaprabhu taught the supreme knowledge to mankind, He did not write any commentary on the Brahma Sutras. He said that the author of the Sutras, Sri Vyasa-dev had himself written a vast commentary explaining the meaning of the Sutras in depth, and hence no other commentary was required to understand the Supreme Truth of the Brahma Sutras. The natural commentary on the Brahma Sutras was Srimad-Bhagavatam. Followers of Sri Chaitanya therefore studied Srimad-Bhagavatam to understand the highest knowledge available to mankind. Later, during the time of Sri Baladev Vidyabhushan, scholars from different traditions started claiming that Sri Chaitanya’s tradition was an apa-sampradaya (non-authentic tradition) since they did not have a commentary on the Brahma Sutras. They did not accept the fact that Srimad Bhagavatam was the commentary on the Brahma Sutras by Vyasadeva himself. Hence Sri Baladev had to write a sutra-by-sutra commentary on the Brahma Sutras in the same style as those written by the other acharyas. He named it Sri Govinda Bhashya. Since then the Govinda-Bhashya has been recognized as the commentary of the Gaudiya Vaishnavas (the tradition of Sri Chaitanya).Maharaj ji, however, felt that the original question asked to Sri Baladev Vidyabhushan needed to be answered. How was Srimad Bhagavatam a commentary on the Brahma Sutras? Out of his mercy on mankind Maharaj ji brought to light the mind of Mahaprabhu by showing how Srimad-Bhagavatam explains the knowledge of Vedanta contained in each and every sutra of the Brahma-Sutras. He wrote a book, “Vedanta Darshanam Bhagavata-Bhashyopetam”. In this book he has listed sequentially all the sutras of Vedanta and for every sutra he has given the corresponding verse of Srimad Bhagavatam in which Sri Vyasa Dev has expounded the meaning of the sutra. He has then explained the meaning further in Hindi for the common man. Thus, in the series of commentaries by different acharyas lies this latest commentary on Brahma Sutras, the “Bhagavat Bhashya” of Sri Haridas Shastri Maharaj. One who understands the teachings of Sri Chaitanya, will easily be able to appreciate that this great work nullifies the need of mankind to produce any other commentary on the Brahma Sutras in the future. After the publication of this work, Maharaj ji was awarded the title, “Vidya-ratna” by the Vidvan Pracharini Sabha of Varanasi.
Another desire of Sri Chaitanya, which Maharaj ji has been keen to establish in Vrindavan was the original culture of Vraja that was prevailing at the time of Sri Krishna. The culture of Vraja revolved around the seva of Go, a special creation of the Supreme Lord Sri Krishna. Go, in Sanskrit means the varieties of cows, bulls and calves that are native to India. (The imported varieties of cows and bulls and the hybrid varieties are called “gavay” and not Go. The glories of Go-seva are not associated with gavay). The Vedas, the Puranas, the itihasas and all other scriptures eulogize the Go. However, by the influence of modern education system, the importance that the human society attached to Go was fast diminishing. The dreadful sin of killing Go was catching up even in the holy land of India. The concept of Go-seva was getting distorted. Maharaj ji felt that if the ideal practice of Go-seva is not preserved in the society, true seva of God cannot come about. God can never be pleased by merely performing some rituals while supporting the acts of destroying the creature that He loves most. Maharaj ji began ideal Go-seva in Sri Haridas Niwas. For details on Go-seva at Sri Haridas Niwas, please click here. Maharaj ji is also a pioneer in establishing a system of organic farming for growing fodder for Go. In order to establish and spread the message of Go-seva in the society Maharaj ji has established “Sri Haridas Shastri Go-seva Sansthan”. This organisation is a Society registered with the Government of India. The management board of the Society is headed by Maharaj ji himself. For more information on the Society and its work, please contact us here.Maharaj ji, in spite of his advanced age, continues to work prolifically for the welfare of the human race. He is keen to establish the right education in the society for which he gives guidance to people who assemble at his lotus feet from the world over. A sincere seeker of the absolute Truth can take inspiration from the words of Sri Krishna in the Bhagavad-gita (4.34); tad viddhi pranipatena pariprashnena sevaya
upadekshyanti te jnanam jnaninah tattva-darshinah
“Know that (the Truth) by surrender, seva and sincere enquiry. One who has knowledge of the Truth and has seen the Truth will instruct you.”
by Jagat on October 6, 2013
 

piektdiena, 2014. gada 10. janvāris

Rakhe Krishna Bakrid ke

BY: VARADA KRSNA DASA 

Oct 24, 2013 — BANGALORE, KARNATAKA (SUN) — A few days back, one devotee came up to me and told me how inspired she was to put more faith in the Lord since the time she had heard me mention the phrase – Rakhe Krsna, mare khe in one of my earlier classes in Raichur. I was reflecting on the miraculous incident that occurred just the day before and how when the Lord decides to protect, the fortunate living entity beats the odds and survives.
The miraculous sequence of events unfolded before our eyes on the Tuesday, the day before the Bakrid. Bakrid is a painful day for the devotees of Lord Krsna as they helplessly and tearfully watch the cruel butcher of the several cows in the lanes and bylanes of area surrounding the Narasimha Giridhari temple. But this Bakrid was different as the Lord had a plan to involve us in a heroic rescue act.
As I entered the temple in the morning, Suvigraha Das, the devotee incharge of the Goshala came running towards me and told me about an incredible event. One young cow, being taken for slaughter somewhere in one of the lanes near the temple, had apparently escaped from the clutches of the slaughterers and ran for its life and came running into the Narasimha Giridhari temple complex and headed straight for the Goshala at the rear end of the temple and joined the rest of the cows there and hid herself. For those who don't know about our Goshala, it is important to note that to reach the goshala, the cow had to cross the bridge, enter the compound and take a right, then turn left and then take a right and then a left and go straight a few hundred feet. In other words, unless someone knows where the Goshala is, it is impossible to stumble into it by chance. And the cow, as if lead by the hidden hands of the Lord, came into the temple compound by crossing the road and seemed to have headed straight into the goshala.
A bunch of people came right behind the cow and demanded that the cow be made over to them. They even entered the temple complex and the goshala. Suvigraha prabhu sent them out and told them not to enter the temple without permission. They stayed near the gate and their strength was slowly increasing As a precautionary measure, Suvigraha called the police to inform them about the developments and the presence of some intruders in the compound. Within minutes, a couple of cops arrived on the scene. They enquired about the cow that has strayed into our compound. They informed us that the slaughterers of the cow, had lodged a complaint against us in the police station minutes before our call.
There is a law in the country and the state that prevents the slaughter of the cows especially young ones, but who cares for the law, there is numerous extraneous considerations in play and with a pliable government in the state and the centre, the slaughters get away. So, it was not surprising when we heard the police asking us to release the cow and let the slaughterers have her again. The people who are to ensure that such illegal slaughter of cows does not happen, were asking us to release the cow. They pleaded helplessness. They cited political compulsions and were rather straight forward in telling me that they feared that this issue could be easily escalated and could lead to tensions between two communities.
In the meanwhile, I was getting calls from the chief trustee initially telling me to hold on to the cow and he would settle the matter by talking to the Police. But within minutes the gentleman was forced to change his stance in view of the intense pressure from the Police. The matter very soon escalated and several teams of police were coming and going trying to persuade us to give the cow. We were having very anxious moments not knowing what to do, our normally very resourceful Chief Trustee too indicated that if we hold on any longer to the cow, the police may send a search party to the temple premises. This could force the Police to take action and this would probably spoil the relationships between the Police and the leaders of the area.
We were torn between these different pushes and pulls. While there is law prohibiting the slaughter of young cows, nobody seemed to be talking about it. The Police warned us that the slaughterers would get aggressive and stage protest demonstrations (dharnas) as they have done a few times in the last week whenever they have been obstructed from transporting the cows or killing the cows. Here was the cow, so shell shocked and scared, innocently looking into our eyes as if asking us the question. The cow was badly bruised and had cuts all over the body. The cow had very mysteriously and miraculously escaped and had reached the temple Goshala. So, were we not obliged to at least try to save the cow from what would have been a certain slaughter the next day. The Chief Trustee called me again to say that he had offered the claimants of the cow, money so they would give up their claim on the cow.
The Inspector of Police called me and pleaded with me to release the cow. I offered to pay for the cow several times but the Police were unmoved. The Cops then moved to the room where the cow was lying down and they too were moved to see the cow in such a state.
The A.S.I then remarked , that the cow seemed to be lucky and it would have a long life. I clung on this statement that he made and begged him to help us to make this statement true. I begged him to somehow grant us time till the evening when I could safely shift the cow and claim the cow ran away.
After a few more exchanges , the Police came up with a formula and told us the we should surrender the cow to the Police and that they would shift the cow to the Jain Goshala, nearby. It seemed hard to believe the sudden change of stance of the Police, who trusts them anyway? In the meanwhile, the chief Trustee too called us saying that the Police did not want to hurt our religious sentiments and they had agreed to shift the cow to the Jain Goshala. My team here suspected something fishy but I latched on to the offer and told the Police that it was good that they were willing to let the cow be shifted to the Jain Goshala. All I was proposing to them was to shift the cow instead to another goshala, we were more familiar with. The Police were caught and could not respond immediately. If they refused to let us shift the cow to the goshala we were proposing, their game would be revealed. And if they genuinely intended that the cow be shifted to a goshala what was the problem in shifting her to a goshala we knew. They took some time to discuss this with the A.C.P.
In the meantime, the devotees were frantically making calls to everybody they knew and requesting them to speak to the D.C.P or the A.C.P and convince the police to let go off the cow. I honestly don't know how it worked, but one thing I know is that when Krsna decides to protect, a way would have been worked out and the cow would be saved. All of us were trying everything we could.
We were waiting to know if Krsna had some plan. The Assistant Sub Inspector of Police came back and informed us that they had managed to convince the higher ups in the department and also the set of people who sought the custody of the cow. In a rare gesture of solidarity with the temple, the Police team refused my offer to pay for the cow and instead they pooled the money by collecting it among themselves and paid off the people who sought the cow and the A.S.I had obtained permission to have the cow shifted to the goshala we knew.
But the Police apprehending that there could be some change of mind among the higherups in the department, wanted the cow to be shifted immediately. The Goshala team arranged a closed tempo and the cow was shifted to a friendly goshala we were familiar with.
The Police team accompanied the tempo just in case there was some trouble on the way. The cow was safely shifted and it returned to the shelter of Sri Narasimha Giridhari mandir, this Sunday, 20th of October. She received a hero's welcome and the entire team of devotees greeted her with a Go Puja and she was taken up for a darshan of the deities.
The cow is now named – Bahula.
You too can do something to make this world a safer place for the cows. Please chant Hare Krsna mahamantra and support Srila Prabhupada's mission of taking Krsna consciousness to all the lanes and bylanes of the world.
Varada Krsna dasa
Temple President
ISKCON Bangalore, Sri Narsimha Giridhari Mandir 
 http://www.harekrsna.com/sun/news/10-13/news5096.htm
 

ceturtdiena, 2014. gada 9. janvāris

Beautification of Puri Temple Surroundings in the Offing

Jan 07, 2014 — JAGANNATHA PURI, ORISSA The Jagannath Temple Administration in Puri has decided to beautify the surroundings of the shrine by developing landscape lighting along the boundary wall (meghanad pacheri). Though the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) recently planted saplings along the boundary wall, lack of maintenance has damaged its beauty.
"ASI authorities expressed their difficulty to develop and preserve the park around the temple due to funds crunch. The temple administration is ready to create landscapes and install lighting facility," temple's Chief Administrator Arvind Padhee said after holding discussions with ASI authorities at Puri on Tuesday.

"In nighttime, landscape lighting would provide visual delight to pilgrims," Padhee said. The temple body is planning to develop the landscape lighting in public-private-partnership (PPP) mode. The proposed landscaping is also aimed at preventing vendors from encroaching on the periphery of the temple.
Though the 12th century shrine is one of the most famous temples in the country and attracts more than 50,000 pilgrims on a given day, the dirty surroundings of the temple have of late spoiled the spiritual ambience. Not only vendors have encroached around the boundary wall -- the temple dumps truck-loads of garbage, generated from the shrine's kitchen, almost every day. The scene is equally an eyesore inside the temple, where beautiful architecture on the walls has been defaced by red stains of betel and gutka spittoons. 

Towards the end of 2006, the Jagannath Temple administration decided to slap a fine of Rs 100 on anyone spitting inside the temple, but it was hardly ever enforced, as temple officials admit. They could not even figure out how many offenders (both priests and pilgrims) had been fined so far for spitting inside the temple.
"The rule has not been implemented in a proper way due to lack of consciousness among people. Civic sense is a vital ingredient to implement such rules. Fine alone cannot curb such a habit. Everyone visiting the temple should take it as a moral responsibility to not deface a holy premise through spitting," said a temple officer. 
 BY: SUN STAFF CORESPONDENT 
 http://www.harekrsna.com/sun/news/01-14/news5201.htm



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