Chandan Yatra Glories Spoken on Akshay Tritiya

Chandan Yatra of Jagannath Dev starts from the day of Akshay Tritiya and is celebrated for twenty-one days. This particular harikatha was spoken on the day of Akshay Tritiya and here Guru Maharaj describes about Chandan Yatra and explains the spiritual identities of the five Shiva who take part in the yatra along with Sri Madanmohan, the representative of Jagannath Dev. He also describes the advent of Jagannath Dev in brief.

Glories of Sri Madhavendra Puri

Supreme Lord is subdued by the pure love of His devotees and He delights in accepting their loving services. Bound by the pure love of Sri Madhavendra Puri, Gopal ordered him to get Malayaja sandalwood from Jagannath Puri and smear upon His transcendental spiritual body. Overjoyed to receive the Lord’s direct order, Madhavendra Puri, after engaging a qualified person to serve Gopal, started off on a journey to the east to find Malayan sandalwood. Who can comprehend the transcendental loving relations between the Lord and His devotees!

Festival of Chandan Yatra

This article provides a detailed history of the Sri Candana-Yatra festival as celebrated in Sri Jagannatha Dhama, Puri, which is to be meditated upon with devotion. It is impossible for an ordinary individual to comprehend those pastimes. Similarly, understanding the glories of Sri Purusottama Dhama, where Lord Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu concluded His earthly pastimes, can never be understood by common people. But there is no reason to get disappointed. One gets the actual benefit in all circumstances only by the power of transcendental remembrance.

Śrī Mādhavendra Purī

Mādhavendra Purī was a well-known sannyāsī of the Madhva sampradāya. His grand-disciple is Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu. Prior to his appearance, there was no evidence of prema-bhakti in the Madhva line.

Jagannath Deva [Braja-rasa in Dwarka]

As Rohini described the Vrndavan-lila, Krsna and Balaram became aware of what was happening. Coming to the door where Subhadra was standing guard, They could hear the talk of Rohini, and remembering Vrndavan, the Gopis, and all these things, a great intensity of feeling came over Them. A great change of feeling came over Krsna and Balaram, so great that Their bodies also began to change; just as Mahaprabhu had shown when He fell at the gate of the Jagannath Mandir and His arms and legs entered into His body.

Sri Jagannathastakam

The Lord of the Universe—Sri Jagannath Deva 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 the Deity of Lord Jagannatha for His pleasure. It is respected everywhere in India.