100 Years
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Birth Centennial Annual of Om Vishnupad 108 Sri Srimad Bhakti Ballabh Tirtha Goswami Maharaj, Acharya of Sree Chaitanya Gaudiya Math (Regd.)
If I cannot make progress myself, if I do not get eternal benefit myself, I cannot do good for others.
Sreela Bhakti Ballabh Tirtha Goswami Maharaj
Today
Shravana, August 23, 2026
Ekadashi
Beginning of Jhulan Yatra Festival of Sri Sri Radha Govinda.
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Jhulan-yatra
Traditionally, in the Jhulan-yatra (swinging festival), conditioned souls (ordinary aspirants) are not entitled to enter. Yet, our Guruvarga has introduced this. This is a type of worship of Supreme Lord. We can do this worship for 5 days as per Archan marg. So our guruvarga said you can do it through sankirtan, by praying for grace, for entering into the transcendental realm. But as long as there is material ego there is no possibility.
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Jhulan-yatra Harikatha Day 1 (English)
Srila Gurudev speaks about Harismaran Mahotsava (the Mahotsava one-pointedly dedicated for remembering the Supreme Lord Sri Hari) introduced by Srila Paramgurudev. It is a one-month festival starting from the first day of Jhulan-yatra. Srila Gurudev speaks about the mood with which our Guruvarga have advised us to perform Jhulan-yatra. He elaborates about Raghava Goswami’s vision of Vraja-dhama and the swinging pastimes. Sad-goswami-astakam is also explained elaborately.
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Śrī Raghunandana Ṭhākura
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Glories of Srila Vamsidas Babaji
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Remembering Raghunandan Thakur
Raghunandan was just a child and in his simplicity, he said to Gopinath, “Eat! Eat! I am a small child, my father ordered me to offer to You.” Saying like this, he started crying. We do not believe. He was not an ordinary child. He is one amongst Krishna's friend in Vraja-dham who used to offer Him with various things to eat. They have very strong love for Krishna. They consider Krishna to be equal to them.
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Vamsidas Babaji Maharaj and Raghunandan Thakur's Disappearance Day
In this harikatha, Srila Gurudev narrates the glories of Vamsidas Babaji Maharaj and Raghunandan Thakur. He emphasizes on the benefits of remembering vaishnavas always and specifically on their appearance and disappearance days and explains the same giving evidences he had heard from his Gurudev and from scriptures.
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Vaisnava Viewpoint of Christianity
Srila Bhakti Rakshaka Sridhardev Goswami Maharaj answering questions of a Christian. Christianity is incomplete Vaisnavism; not full-fledged, but the basis of devotional theism. We find the principle of
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August 24, 2026
Dwadashi
Fasting for Vyanjuli Mahadvadashi.
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August 25, 2026
Dwadashi
Paran before 5:53 am. The disappearance of Srila Rupa Goswami and Srila Gauri Das Pandit Goswami.
Jhulan-yatra
In Kamyavan of Sri Vrindavan-dham, RadhaKrishna perform the swinging pastimes daily with all the confidants and get immersed in immense bliss. Conditioned souls (ordinary aspirants) are not entitled to enter into such pastimes. Mercifully, our Guruvargas have given us the permission to remember and worship the swing pastime in the month of Shravan starting from Ekadashi (11th lunar day) till the full moon day. We can do this worship for five days as per Archan-marg. They specifically advised us to worship these pastimes along with Sankirtan, by praying for the grace, for entering into the transcendental realm.
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Jhulan-yatra Harikatha Day 1 (English)
Srila Gurudev speaks about Harismaran Mahotsava (the Mahotsava one-pointedly dedicated for remembering the Supreme Lord Sri Hari) introduced by Srila Paramgurudev. It is a one-month festival starting from the first day of Jhulan-yatra. Srila Gurudev speaks about the mood with which our Guruvarga have advised us to perform Jhulan-yatra. He elaborates about Raghava Goswami’s vision of Vraja-dhama and the swinging pastimes. Sad-goswami-astakam is also explained elaborately.
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Jhulan-yatra Harikatha Day 1 (Bengali)
Those devotees who are eligible to perform worship following scriptural injunctions (Vidhi-marga) are not entitled to participate in the swinging pastimes of RadhaGovinda. This is because RadhaKrishna is the object of worship in the mode of spontaneous devotion. Though it seems that we are worshipping RadhaKrishna in an opulent manner but in actuality we are performing worship of Lakshmi Narayan. We do not have the eligibility to worship them in spontaneous mode since we commit so many offences.
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Jhulan-yatra Harikatha Day 4 (English)
In the swinging festival, only Gopis are allowed. Gopi’s love is the highest love. How Gopis are completely attached with Krishna is beyond our imagination! Even Nanda Maharaj, Yashoda Devi, other friends and servants are not allowed. But yet our Guruvarga advised us to perform the swinging festival in the mood of deity worship (archana-bhakti), at whatever stage we are. We can worship swinging pastimes for the four-five days by archana-bhakti. It is Vidhi-bhakti—devotional practice with regulated scriptural injunctions.
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Jhulan-yatra
Traditionally, in the Jhulan-yatra (swinging festival), conditioned souls (ordinary aspirants) are not entitled to enter. Yet, our Guruvarga has introduced this. This is a type of worship of Supreme Lord. We can do this worship for 5 days as per Archan marg. So our guruvarga said you can do it through sankirtan, by praying for grace, for entering into the transcendental realm. But as long as there is material ego there is no possibility.
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Curing the Fever of Material Existence
Here, with different evidences from scriptures Srila Sant Maharaj explains that only by surrendering unto the Supreme Lord one can remain aloof from maya. The living entity becomes so influenced by the modes of material nature that he considers sense gratification to be the most desirable goal, even though it brings him only distress. Our state of bondage has existed since time without beginning, and is quite impossible for human intelligence to undo. It can be unraveled only by associating with sadhus, realized souls. Even a moment’s association with a sadhu can award all perfection.
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श्रीमद्-भागवतम् [११.३.१९]
नित्यार्तिदेन वित्तेन दुर्लभेनात्ममृत्युना ।
गृहापत्याप्तपशुभि: का प्रीति: साधितैश्चलै:॥
11.3.19
gṛhāpatyāpta-paśubhiḥ kā prītiḥ sādhitaiś calaiḥ
The human beings who are covetous to get money for their happiness commit a blunder because worldly wealth is always painful. If they do not get money they are unhappy as they cannot fulfill their desires. Secondly, at the time of earning money, they undergo immense tribulation and worries. Furthermore, there is extreme tension of mind to preserve the earned money. When money is lost or taken away, they have extreme separation grief. Everything in this world is such—if we do not get we are unhappy, if we get we are unhappy, if we lose it we are unhappy. Even at the risk of life human beings are trying to earn money.
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Highest Munificent Form of Godhead
A votary, to satisfy Chaitanya Mahāprabhu and the Supreme Lord Śrī Krishna, should at least practice the first and third verses of Śikṣāṣṭaka sincerely from the core of the heart. Chaitanya Mahāprabhu has taught in the first verse, mainly seven principal attainments or more correctly all attainments while doing Śrī Rādhā-Krishna sankīrtan.
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His kīrtana is Only for Bhagavan’s Pleasure
Krishna is telling Narada Goswami ‘mad-bhaktā yatra gāyanti tatra tiṣṭhāmi nārada’ (Padma Puran). 'Wherever My devotees assemble and sing the glories of My Name, Form, Attributes, Pastimes and Personal Associates is the place that I stay.' Also, Srila Gurudev would refer to Sri Vyasa Deva’s pastime of attaining eternal bliss after he wrote Srimad Bhagavatam exclusively for the pleasure of the Lord on the advice of his Guru Narada Goswami. Here Srila Bhakti Kushala Padmanabha Maharaj is affectionately remembering the same teaching of Gurudev through his kirtans and harikatha. that all the limbs of devotion should be performed with the sole purpose of propitiating the Supreme Lord and nothing else.
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