2019 Jun I - Vol 38
June 11, 2019
Snana Yatra
The Supreme Lord is most affectionate to His devotees and is conquered by their love. How many different stratagems He engages in just to accept the service of His devotee! Though served in Goloka by hundreds of thousands of goddesses of fortune, Govinda still seems not to have enough people to serve Him. How many tricks He plays in order to engage the devotee He wants in His service. Astonishingly, the Lord Himself instructed Indradhyumna maharaj on what are the special services He would like to accept from him. One amongst those services is the transcendental bathing of Jagannath, Baladev and Shubhadra which is performed on the appearance day of the deities.
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Harikatha Delivered on the Day of Snana Yatra
Srila Bhakti Ballabh Tirtha Goswami Maharaj
In this harikatha, Srila Gurudev has elaborately narrated the Holy appearance of Lord Jagannath, Baladev and Shubhadra in Nilachal Dham. While mother Rohini was narrating the glories of the love, the braja-gopis have for Krishna, Krishna and Balaram came there and listening to those glories, a great change of feeling... Play
The Holy Arrival of Jagannathdev in Chakdaha
Srila Bhakti Ballabh Tirtha Goswami Maharaj
Lord Jagannath saw Jagadish Pandit crying and so mercifully appeared to him in a dream and told him to take His vigraha and serve. Simultaneously, He appeared to the king of Orissa and ordered him that at the time of the nava-kalevara, when the wooden deity of Lord Jagannath is... Read
Wonderful Pastime of Voluntarily Offering His Service
Srila Bhakti Ballabh Tirtha Goswami Maharaj
The Lord Jagannath and Gaura-Gopal deities, at Jashora dham, who were worshiped by Nityananda Prabhu’s dear associate, Jagadish Pandit, have displayed the wonderful pastime of voluntarily offering Themselves to the great devotee, Tridandi Swami Srimad Bhakti Dayita Madhava Mahārāja, in order to accept his service.... Read
Snana Yatra and the Illness Pastimes of Lord Jagannath Dev
Srila Bhakti Vedant Swami Maharaj
This article narrates about the snana yatra and sequence of various sweet pastimes of Lord Jagannath take place after Snana yatra. During 14 days after Snana yatra temple remains closed for darshana on the plea that jagannath swami has caught a cold. The illness pastimes of Lord is known as... Read
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Srila Gurudev at Snana Yatra Festival, Chakdaha, 2010
Srila Bhakti Ballabh Tirtha Goswami Maharaj
Lord Jagannath and Gaura-Gopal deities who were worshiped by Nityananda Prabhu’s dear associate, Jagadish Pandit, have displayed wonderful pastime of voluntarily offering Themselves to Srila Paramgurudev in order to accept his service at Chakadah. No Rathayatra festival is held here, though His Snana-yatra is celebrated with great pomp. On... Play Video
Glories of Jagannathdev’s Maha-prasada
Srila Lochan Dasa Thakura
In Puri there is no distinction between low and high-casts for taking Jagannath maha-prasada. Jagannath maha-prasada is source where the shastras say that even if a brahmana takes maha-prasada from the mouth of a dog. It can never be contaminated.... Read
Jagannath-ashtakam
Srila Bhakti Ballabh Tirtha Goswami Maharaj
The Lord of the Universe—Sri Jagannath Dev is also known as Purushottam. Puri is known as Purushottam Dhama. Sree Chaitanya Mahaprabhu used to sing Sri Jagannath-ashtakam, eight verses of the glory of Jagannatha in Puri. It is written by Sri Adi Sankaracharya, and is still being sung daily before... Play
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Highest Teachings of Śrīla Bhaktivinode Ṭhākur
Srila Bhakti Ballabh Tirtha Goswami Maharaj
Śrīla Most Revered Gurudev, by seeing my non-belief of the transcendental poems by Śrīla Bhaktivinode Ṭhākur – Śaraṇāgati, Kalyāṇa-kalpataru Gītāvalī, Gīta-mālā, ordered me to go through the teachings of Kalyāṇa-kalpataru. I went through that. After half an hour, my heart had been choked. After that my mind had changed.... Read
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Worship
Srila Bhakti Vinod Thakur
With the wisdom that Sri Krishna resides in the heart of all jivas, one should honour every living being. A deeper respect should naturally be shown to the religious jiva, and, beyond this, it is imperative to feel even deeper honour for the brahmana-jiva and the vaishnava-praya jiva. But above all, it is enjoined that one must worship and serve the lotus feet of a vaishnava-jiva.
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He Reveals Presence in Unlimited Ways
Urmila dasi, Germany
In 2004, I was very sick for months. Very sick. I was in Udupi with an Ayurvedic doctor. There were 2 didis from another sangha there. We sat in the waiting room together sometimes. One of those didis was a secretary of an ISKCON guru and she read Srimad... Read
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This small book is the second volume of articles taken from a series of emails originally sent out from the sreecgmath yahoo group. They are short articles written or spoken by Srila Bhakti Ballabha Tirtha Maharaj, the President-Acharya of the Sri Chaitanya Gaudiya Math and founder of GOKUL (the Global... Download