Tag: 2011

(transcribed by HG Jayaraseswari mataji)

GURU MAHARAJ LECTURE ON CAITANYA LILA DAY2-  16 MARCH 2011 IN SRI DHAM
MAYAPUR

Kirtan…
Yesterday we discussed about Srivas. Today we are going to discuss about
Gadadhara Pandit and tomorrow Advaita. Tomorrow we are going to Shantipur.
..
….I am studying poetry. Lord Caitanya said, oh you are reading poetry, let
us
hear some poetry. Ha! Ha! Then Gadadhara composed some poetry and Nimai
Pandit
said , well what are the characters of liberations? Or tell us something
about
liberation. So he said, well you have to suffer first and then only you can
get
liberation and he quoted some verse and Lord Caitanya He said that is not
real
liberation and told him like you go should go back home study again and I
will
see you tomorrow. And like this every day He was defeating him. He is the
Lord
of Saraswati the goddess of learning, so naturally He would defeat everyone.
Later when He took initiation in Gaya, He came back and He was a devotee and
from that time this Gadadhara joined His sankirtan party and  Pundarik
Vidhyanidhi was there. So Lord Caitanya, He would call out: Pundarik!
Pundarik!
Pundarik! And devotees thought that well, He is just calling the name of
Lord
Vishnu.

Navadvip Mandala Parikrama-day 6(13th March 2011)  Today is the 6th day of
our parikrama.Since the last 5 days many devotees in Mayapur have been
hearing how ecstatic it is visiting all the 4 parikrama parties everyday.
This morning we had about forty devotees following Guru Maharaja on his car
parikrama. We had devotees from Sweden, Ecuador, Russia, Switzerland and
Spain following Guru Maharaja in six vehicles. Looks like Guru Maharaja’s
party had become the fifth parikrama party! Though ours was the smallest,
yet it was the fastest Parikrama party!  Our first party to be visited for
this morning was the International party at Simantini. This was the same
place where we met the Russian party yesterday morning.

Today is the 5th day of the Navadwip Mandala Parikrama. It is so ecstatic to
be in the Parikrama, to immerse in hearing the transcendental pastimes of
Sri Mahaprabhu, sitting in the very same place where these pastimes took
place,chanting and singing the holy names, walking in the dust of dhama, to
take bath in the holy Ganga and be in the association of devotees. We really
look forward to go on this special parikrama every morning. For us (the
servants) it is special because we get to go along with Guru Maharaja and
get to visit all the four parikrama groups everyday. Guru Maharaja had the
darshan of Their Lordships and departed from Iskcon Mayapur at 7.30am. It
was a breezy and sober morning after the stormy night. We headed towards
Simantini to meet the Russian Party but they had not reached yet.

While driving back to Mayapur Guru Maharaja shared couple of very
interesting informations with us. He said today he traveled through all the
nine islands by car. Then he was describing how he traveled all the nine
islands simply by visiting all the four parikrama parties. He has got the
whole map of Navadwip in his mind. Our discussion led to the mahasanga of
all the parikrama parties which will take place on the 14th March especially
the place where they are all going to meet. At that point Guru Maharaja said
that we could have even organised all the parikrama parties to get together
at the land next to our Panca Tattva Hall. He said Srila Bhaktivinode Thakur
has described in Bhakti Bhavataranga, how he saw the lila of Lord Caitanya
and his entire sankirtan party transformed into Krsna and gopis performing
rasa lila right here at Antardwipa. He continued that actually Srila
Prabhupada has said that our Iskcon Mayapur Radha Madhava temple hall is
located in Rudradwip, Pancatattva Temple Hall is located in Antardwip and
Nrshingadev altar is in the border of both the islands. As we were listening
to this wonderful discussion we saw a big gust of wind blowing all over. We
were passing Mayapur Nama Hatta Building when this happened. Some small
trees got uprooted,branches and twigs fell all over the road leading to
Iskcon Mayapur.Our car was in the middle of whirlpool of sands, dirts and
plastic bags. After seeing this violent storm, GM requested us to call
Sankarshan Nitai Prabhu and find out how are the parikrama devotees are
doing at the camp site? After 10 mins Sankarshan Nitai Prabhu called us and
said that some of tents at the camp site were destroyed by the strong wind
and some parikrama devotees been ferried back to Iskcon Mayapur.

Your Servant,
Maha Varaha D

Today is the 3rd day of the Navadvip Mandala Parikrama. Our first group to
be visited today was the International party in Naimisharanya. When we were
about to go out from the Lotus Building through the exit of Caitanya
exhibition Hall,we heard the beautiful greeting kirtan for Their Lordship
Sri Panca Tattva’Sri Krsna Caitanya Prabhu doya kore moreeee….’ was going
on in the temple hall. Guru Maharaja told us to wheel him down towards the
temple hall for taking darshan of the deities. We left Iskcon Mayapur at
7.30am and drove towards Naimisharanya. While driving down we were told by
the manager of the party that Naimisharanya cannot be accessed by car and we
should meet them at Pushkar Tirtha. So we changed our plan and drove to
Pushkar Tirtha which is just a kilometre by walk before Naimisharanya. We
reached Pushkar Tirtha but the International party was yet to reach.

Last night we managed to put Guru Maharaja to sleep by 10pm, for sufficient
rest. He woke up at 4.30am and as soon as he woke up, he revealed his
parikrama plan for today. His schedule was to first meet the International
and Bengali party at Suvarna Vihar. We planned to leave by 6.30am but we got
delayed and left Iskcon Mayapur only at 7.25am.

We reached Suvarna Vihar at 8am and met the International party who were
listening to the nectarine pastimes from different maharajas. As
the last speaker Guru Maharaja shared the pastimes of Suvarna Vihar and
mentioned that, “we need to have ghee like heart and as soon as we hear the
name of Gauranga, it should melt instantly.” Then everyone chanted
Gaurangaaaaaaaa!!!!”.”He continued,”We should cry for Krsna and
Gauranga!!!!…. Mahaprabhu’s mercy is flowing freely in Navadvip Dham and
one should take this mercy from here and distribute it to the other part of
the world. Every step that one takes here, should chant the name of Nitai!
Nitai! ” Crowd chanted Nitaaaaaai! Nitaaaaaai!!

Guru Maharaja woke up at 5am today. As usual the first thing we do as soon
as he gets up is cleaning of his eyes. while I was cleaning his eyes the
first thing he talked today was about his parikrama plan for today. He was
piling up all the places he is desiring to visit. I wasn’t able to keep up
with him so I told Him “Guru Maharaja you have all this in your mind but I
need to write it down.” At that time we heard over the radio, HH Lokanath
Maharaj was making an announcement for all the devotees in the temple hall
after the mangala arati, “We have so many walkers for the parikrama but less
talkers. We need more of my godbrothers and godsisters to come with us to
share the pastimes of Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu”. He continued saying that
Jayapataka Swami is going to go on parikrama visiting all the 4 parties
everyday. Immediately there was a loud chanting of hariiiii bol!!!!!!
Maharaj said if Jayapataka Swami can go then none of us should have any
excuse. We have minimum 5000 devotees joining the parikrama this year. After
HH Lokanath Swami, His Holiness Bhakti Purusottama Swami spoke and he said
that Bhaktivinode Thakur has said there are 3 ways to serve Mayapur dham.
1)Developing nama hatta, 2)Doing book distribution 3) Developing Nawadhip
Mandala Parikrama. By 6.30 am all the 4 groups of parikrama
devotees started walking out of mayapur compound with kirtan parties leading
them all. All 4 groups started from different locations. The whole of Iskcon
Mayapur air was filled with rocking kirtan. It was very ecstatic and we felt
the inspiration of just leave everything behind and go for parikrama right
away.

GM woke up in the morning around 5.15am.I did my morning seva for
GuruMaharaj and then took shower by 6.30am.Today is the parikrama Adivasa
day. Around 5000 devotees are taking part in parikrama this year.
The 7-day pilgrimage to the Navadvipa Mandala and the pastime places of Sri
Caitanya Mahaprabhu by walk, in the association of Vaisnavas is a
spiritually enriching experience. Srila Bhakti Vinod Thakur initiated the
Parikrama, Srila Bhakti Siddhanta Sarawati Thakur developed it and Srila
Prabhupad made this vision of acharyas into a reality. The devotees
participating in the parikrama are constantly increasing every year. Four
parikrama parties, an international group, a Bengali group, Russian Group
and Hindi group of devotees go in Parikrama and on the last day of the
parikrama, there will be a Mahamilan of all the four parties at the Yogapith
with ecstatic kirtan .All the four groups walked to Yoga Pitha in a kirtan
procession led by HH Lokanath Swami, Maha Vishnu Swami and others around 6am
and GuruMaharaj reached there at 8 am. As soon as Guru Maharaj made his
appearance on the stage, HH Lokanath Swami said “Here comes the
spirit of the parikrama. If He (Jayapataka Swami) can go on parikrama, then
we all should go and no excuse should be given. Maharaj, you are an
inspiration and your presence alone is enough.” GuruMaharaj took darshan of
all deities.