My offering to Srila Prabhupada - Vyasapuja 2009
Hare Krishna, Srila Prabhupada, 
Please accept my humble obeisance, all glories to you.
My first contact with you was in the temple while dancing in the kirtan. Devotees would
chant “Jaya Prabhupada, Jaya Prabhupada” and jump in the air. I was a small child; I
could not understand “who is Prabhupada.” As years passed, I started preaching to
people about Krishna. I would often start with introducing you. I would tell people how you
struggled to establish ISKCON, about the books you had written, about your traveling
and preaching to the western world, about your
determination to follow the instruction of your
spiritual master, and so on. I like to read your
pastimes and hear from different devotees about
you. Day after day, I am becoming more aware of
your exceptional contribution to Lord Chaitanya
Mahaprabhu's movement and I appreciate your
genuine concern for the lost living entities of this
world. I was living in Pune ISKCON temple for a
few years. There I was given a service to take care of your murti. Sometimes in my mind, I
would simply talk with you about philosophy and some important principles in Krishna
consciousness. In that way, I would feel you as person. If I understand properly, in your
mission you gave special emphasis to preaching the message of Lord Chaitanya, hearing
about Krishna and chanting His holy name, thus I have been trying to engage myself to
contribute to this noble work. I feel your presence in my day-to-day life. I remember and
think about you, when I hear Srimad-Bhagavatam, when I read your books, when I prepare
for my classes. Apparent reversals in my spiritual life do not discourage me when I think
about your sacrifices for Lord Chaitanya's movement. Srila Prabhupada, you kept Krishna
in the centre above personal pleasures. I would like to follow your example and learn some
lessons from your life, for myself and to teach others. The one thing which I would like to
do to please you is to preach in the West. For the next few years my vision is to be true to
your expectations with honesty and humility. My mission is to systematically train myself
in knowledge, skills, and values; I will do my best to sincerely work hard under the
guidance of qualified devotees.
Thank you Srila Prabhupada. All glories to you!
Your servant,
Gaurahari
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The awakened soul says......
The awakened soul says in effect to the mind and body: "I am not identical with you. I do not want what you require. I have so long believed that I was identical with yourselves and that our interests were the same, but I now find that I am really and categorically different from you. I am made wholly of the principle of self consciousness, while both of you are made of dead matter. Being matter you can act and be acted upon by matter, under the laws of nature. Nature makes and unmakes you, but she has no power over me. I am not benefited by your growth or harmed by your decay. You grow and decay by the laws that govern your relationships with this physical universe. Falsely identifying myself with you, I find myself compelled to suffer pain and pleasure due to the physical vicissitudes and problems that overtake you. I find myself unnaturally yoked to your functions such as eating, drinking, producing thought etc etc and am forced to believe them to be my own functions by which I am benefited. I shall have, of course, to stay with you as long as it is intended by providence that I should suffer the consequence of this unnatural alliance with you. But I shall, from this time, do nothing to please you. I shall permit you to do only what I consider to be necessary for my well-being; that is getting back into my natural position of free conscious existence, unhampered by the unnatural domination by longing for material enjoyment. I refuse to be anymore a slave to the sensuous inclinations of the mind and body." by Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakur Gosvami Maharajaहरे कृष्ण हरे कृष्ण कृष्ण कृष्ण हरे हरे |
हरे राम हरे राम राम राम हरे हरे ||
Some understanding of method, mood and mellow of chanting Holy Name.
Vaishnava Calender: http://calender.iskcondesiretree.info/ |
posted Sep 3, 2009 10:37 AM by gaurahari -
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Take away my will krsna
Prayers by bhakti tirth maharaj
Take away my
will krsna, I am yours.Force me to do what is right and best.
Use me as
you like. You be my intelligence .You be my mind. You act as my will.
I don't know
what is best for me .In this case I am trying so hard and nothing is working.
I ask you to
put me in right place, at the right time, for the right thing.Whatever is best,
whether it is auspicious or inauspicious,Bring upon me what I need.
My desires,
my intelligence, even my will, they all are contaminated.I offer them all to
you, my dear Lord Shyamsunder. I am yours.
You do with
me what is best. Help me to be eager to accept not in a grudging mood, but with
real zeal and enthusiasm, as I submit myself and ask what can I do? [2]
My dear Lord Syama, please kindly hear my cry. Grant my devotional desires and eliminate my undevotional desires. I am your instrument; please make me worthy enough to serve You in all circumstances.
May the Lord, who is known as Maniman, protect my thighs. Protect them from evil, from Maya, and give them protection so that the mind does not allow them to be a source of captivating the opposite sex.
May Lord Visnu, who is known as Yajna, protect my legs. Let my legs do only duties that are meant for Your glorification and for the glorification of my gurudeva. Dear Sweet Lord, please direct them in auspicious directions.
May Lord Acyuta protect my arms. Use them only for Your divine service and nothing more. Dear Lord, please protect them from all unnecessary and inauspicious activities.
May Lord Hayagriva protect my abdomen. Dear Lord let it be used for eating only things offered at Your Lotus Feet and please protect whatever I take into it. Allow me to eat only things that can sustain me to serve You more and serve You better.
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May Lord Kesava protect my heart. Please Lord, make my heart an
eternal dwelling place of the Sweet Love of the Divine Couple. Please
make my heart an abode of surrender, humility, dedication, and
selflessness. Make my heart grow only in love of Your Supreme Majesty
and allow Your pastimes to eternally remain blissful in my heart.
May Lord Isvara protect my head. May He only allow me to use my head in working for His glorification. Bless this lowborn head of mine and give me knowledge of how to serve and please You better.
May Lord Cakradhara protect my front and may Lord Gadadhara protect my back. More at this time of chaos and problems in the movement. Please dear Lord, kindly protect me from all material influences from any direction. Protect me with Your love and Divine Strength.
May Lord Visnu, with His conchshell, protect my left side. May the Supreme Godhead Upendra protect me from above and may Lord Tarksya protect me from below the Earth. May Lord Haladhara protect me from all sides.
May Lord Madhusudana, who carries a bow in His hand, protect my eyesight. The eyes are the major object of false gratification—a quick route to hell. Please dear Lord, kindly guide my vision. Protect my eyes from Maya, and please protect them from the scenes that can pollute my mind and make it go crazy. Please put them under Your full protection and divine control.
May the Supreme Lord, in His Hrsikesa form, protect all my senses. May He engage all my senses only in service. Protect them from all contamination and entangling pleasures. Let them be used only to please You. Tie them against any material nonsense and release them only when they are to serve You.
May Lord Narayana protect my breath. May He encourage me to only use my breath for appreciating things offered at Your Divine Feet.
May Lord Yogesvara, in His divine mystic potentiality, protect my mind and intelligence. This is the greatest of all senses. Please dear Lord, control this rascal entity and make it a place where only Your pastimes are being relished and appreciated. Dear Lord, close up all false entrances of my mind. Cleanse it of all inauspicious thoughts and always check any such thoughts, as I am a fool who does not know how auspicious and purifying it is to meditate on Your Divine Form.
Dear Lord Krishna, please protect my soul. While sleeping, may Lord Madhava protect me from all dangers and may the Supreme Personality of Godhead, in His Nrshma form, protect me from all evils, all danger, all inauspiciousness, and all illusions.
Dear Lord, I humbly beg that You daily and eternally hear these my prayers and ultimately make me Your useful, dedicated eternal servant and a devoted son of my beloved Spiritual Master, Om Visnupada Paramahamsa His Divine Grace Srila Prabhupada. May His love be my source of inspiration and may I learn to eternally be a humble servant of my beloved spiritual master.
All glories to Srila Prabhupada!
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posted Aug 30, 2009 2:11 AM by gaurahari -
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updated Sep 11, 2009 12:58 AM
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I do not know, what can I write
Simply trying to think, what I know
I know that others do not know
They know not, what my lord knows
My lord knows everything
Past, present and future
noticing the wondering
of every living creature
He is the truth of truth
and cause of causes
He deserves his devotees glorification
and lot of applause's
I know not what more to say Krsna !
On this auspicius day, please accept
Humbly submitted by gaurahari
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Birthday Poem to Radharani
Radhe, If I get one dust (your dear servant) of your lotus
feet, that will make my life
My mind is restless, how can I worship you
As much I try to make it understand
That much it rebels
Brahma is understood after a lot of austirity
Paramatma is realized, after a lot of contemplation
Bhagavana is the culmination of yoga
He is hidden in Vedas. He is the secrete,
you are secrete of the secrete
Your realization is far beyond, exceeding all others
You are the internal potency of Krsna
Krsna is Madanmohan, you are madanmohan mohini
He attracts cupid, you attract Krsna
I know not what more to say Radhe !
On this auspicious day, please acceptHappy Birthday
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posted Aug 29, 2009 6:34 AM by gaurahari -
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updated Aug 30, 2009 3:39 AM
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 Nammalvar
[1]
We here and that man, this man
And that other in between,
And that women, this woman,
And that other, whoever,
Those people, and these,
And these others in between,
This thing, that thing,
And this other in between,
whichever,
All things dying, these things,
Those things, those others in
between,
Good things, bad things,
Things that were, that will be,
Being all of them,
He stands there
( 1.1.4)
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Shedding pleasure
displeasure
birth illness
age and death
when will I join
lit like a flame
Those congregations
of my lord of illusions
my lord
who shelters the raining sky
and this earth
with his conch shell and wheel of fire
(2.3.10)
[3] Master of illusion With no one equal or above Form and breath of all things becoming mother and father you made me know what I couldn't know I do not even know the things you've done for me [4] Would I, sinner that I am, rather enter the fragrance, the lotus feet of our lord divine dwarf making great his little body till it overwhelms all three worlds, when my masters, his great servants who have taken on small human lives, are content to roam this world? (8.10.3) -------- {Ramanuja, 1981,
122}
Note:
Nammalvar is considered the foremost of the Alvars,
(the term alvar, “[one] immersed in god”; the root verb al means “to immerse, to dive; to sink, to be lovered, to be deep.” In other words alvar means one who loves God) well-known for his many hymns on devotion to Krishna.
His name can translate as "our own Alvar," The word ‘Nam’ means ‘our own.’ It is a mark of the love and regard people felt for Him.
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