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Damodar Vrata
Kartik also known as Damodar, is the best, the purest of purifiers, and most glorious of all months. Sree Chaitanya Gaudiya Math devotees observe the intense sadhana of eight period of devotional service as mentioned in Bhajan Rahasya. Eight verses ofSikshastak of Sri Gauranga Mahaprabhu are in conformity with the pastimes of SriKrishna of the eight periods (Astayama). Pastimes of Radha-Krishna will be gradually manifested by incessantly thinking, remembering and singing of the eight verses ofSikshastak. This collection features the videos of all the sikshastak shloka explanation by Srila Gurudev followed by narration of Radha-Krishna’s divine pastimes for all the eight periods.
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First Yam - Shraddha Bhajan
Srila Bhakti Ballabh Tirtha Goswami Maharaj
3:22am to 5:46am. Chanting of the Holy Name Śrī Kṛṣṇa, completely, loudly in the company of devotees and without tenfold offences, which can bestow seven attainments— viz. cleansing of the mind-mirror, extinguishing of the forest fire of birth, death and threefold afflictions, bestowing eternal soothing benefit like moonlight, life... Play
Second Yam - Anartha Nivrutti
Srila Bhakti Ballabh Tirtha Goswami Maharaj
5:46am to 8:10am. O Supreme Lord! Your Holy Name bestows all kinds of eternal welfare to the conditioned souls. For that reason, your Holy Names have no direct or indirect connection with the non-eternal material world. These Holy Names have descended in this world. Supreme Lord has bestowed all powers... Play
Third Yam - Nistha Bhajan
Srila Bhakti Ballabh Tirtha Goswami Maharaj
8:10am to 10:34am. The aspirant who is more humbler than a blade of grass, more forbearing than tree and who is completely devoid of desire for getting respect from others but giving due respect to all is eligible for doing Hari-kīrtan always.... Play
Fourth Yam - Bhajan Ruchi
Srila Bhakti Ballabh Tirtha Goswami Maharaj
10:34am to 3:22pm. O Supreme Lord! I have got no desire for wealth, manpower or erudition (desire for deceitful Trivarga— worldly piety, money and lust or even to merge myself with the Impersonal Formless Brahma, i.e. ‘Mukti’— salvation, which is more deceitful). My only prayer is to get causeless one-pointed... Play
Fifth Yam - Krishna Asakthi
Srila Bhakti Ballabh Tirtha Goswami Maharaj
3:22pm to 5:46pm. O Nandanandan, in spite of my being your eternal servant, due to predicament of my own deeds, I am drowned in the terrible ocean of births and deaths. Out of compassion kindly think me as dust particle of your Lotus Feet.... Play
Sixth Yam - Bhava
Srila Bhakti Ballabh Tirtha Goswami Maharaj
5:46pm to 8:10pm. Due to offences, our heart has become hard as a thunderbolt. There is no ecstatic transformations when I chant Your Name. O most merciful treasure house of compassion, give me a few drops of feeling for You and save my life.... Play
Seventh Yam - Prem Vipralambh
Srila Bhakti Ballabh Tirtha Goswami Maharaj
5:46pm to 8:10pm. Symptoms of separation grief— even a moment’s separation from Govinda will be considered as an epoch, tears will roll down from the eyes like rainfall, realization of the voidness of the whole world.... Play
Eighth Yam - Prem Bhajan
Srila Bhakti Ballabh Tirtha Goswami Maharaj
10:34pm to 3:22am. Jewel amongst all beloved gopīs Srīmati Rādhikā’s apophthegm—Śrī Krishna can crush this maid servant, devoted to His Lotus Feet, by firmly embracing me or mortifying me anywhere and everywhere by His profligate behavior with any of His beloved gopīs, yet He is my dearest beloved and nobody... Play
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Introduction to Śri Bhajan Rahasya
Srimad Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura Prabhupad
It is possible only for a Vaiṣṇava to worship Śrī Krishna all the time in all respects with profound devoutness. With wrong conception of self, other than the real self eternally related to Śrī Krishna, it is not possible to worship Krishna all the time. A conditioned soul cannot release... Read
Recitation of Gajendra's Prayers by Srila Gurudev
Srila Bhakti Ballabh Tirtha Goswami Maharaj
This is the recitation of all the verses of Gajendra's Prayers by Srila Gurudev. This was recorded during the Kartik month at Sri Vraja-mandal in 2002. ... Play
Śrī Dāmodarāṣtakam
Sree Chaitanya Gaudiya Math
Satyavrata Muni has written the glories of Lord Damodar (Krishna with corded belly) in eight verses which we recite daily during the Kartik-vrata while offering the ghee lamps.... Play
Shiksastaka
Srila Bhakti Ballabh Tirtha Goswami Maharaj
Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu in his own writing has thought all the human beings acting as the Guru. Actually, He is Supreme Lord. He is Sri Krishna. But highest guru is Srimati Radharani. He has taken the mood of Srimati Radharani and has become Gauranga Mahaprabhu . He has given instructions... Play
Letter
Trading Devotion
Srila Bhakti Ballabh Tirtha Goswami Maharaj
His Divine Grace, Most Revered Śrīla Gurudev Śrī Śrīmad Bhakti Dayita Mādhav Goswāmī Mahārāj, (Founder-President of Śrī Chaitanya Gauḍīya Maṭh, Registered Institution), on the auspicious day of the holy advent of Śrī Nityānanda Prabhu, 13th February, 1965, while He was on a preaching tour in North-East Assam, from Hailakandi, Kachhar,... Read
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Sadhu-sanga
Srila Bhakti Pragyana Keshava Goswami Maharaj
There will be no path to attain auspiciousness and bhagavat-priti, if one becomes indifferent towards sadhu-sanga and sadhu-seva. Although sadhu-sanga is extremely rare, it is not completely unattainable for one who prays for it without duplicity, with sincerity, and with the knowledge that it is very difficult to receive the association of a sadhu in this world of asadhus (non-devotees). Bhagavan mercifully appears in this world to give His sanga, and sometimes He sends His dear associates.
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Sharing His Darshan of Sri Vraja Dham
Rasavihari Das, India
t was my greatest fortune that Most Revered Gurudev gave me the golden opportunity of being in His company during Kartik from the year 1983 onwards. In 2002, Brajamandal Parikrama, I had published few pastimes in www.vnn.org and other websites. I am quoting here as follows:
His Divine Grace Srila Bhakti... Read
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Suddha-Bhakti: The Path of Pure Devotion
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śuddha-bhakata-caraṇa-reṇu bhajana-anukūla
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The dust from the lotus feet of pure devotees is conducive to devotional service, and service to the Vaiṣṇavas is itself the supreme perfection and the root of the tender creeper of divine love.
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