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Devotional Quotient ISSUE 007 01 / / DECEMBER / / 2020 DEVOTIONAL QUOTIENT Rekindling The Spiritual Spark PAGE 0 DEVOTIONAL 01 / / DECEMBER / / 2020 QUOTIENT DEVOTIONAL QUOTIENT His Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupad What’s the goal of the magazine Devotional Quotient is a sincere effort inspired by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada, to present a cultural magazine to inspire the youth devotees to Krishna Consciousness. Our Endeavor is: 1. To help all the people discern reality from illusion spirit from matter, the eternal from the temporary 2. To expose the faults of materialism Pancha Tattva Deity Painting. 3. To offer guidance in the Vedic techniques of spiritual life 4. To preserve and spread the Vedic culture Message from the Editor 5. To celebrate the chanting of the holy names of God as taught by Lord Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu SHAURYA RAMESH KUMAR Prayers oṁ ajñāna-timirāndhasya 6. To help every living-being remember and see jñānāñjana-śalākayā Welcome to this month’s issue cakṣur unmīlitaṁ yena Sri Krishna, The Personality of Godhead. tasmai śrī-gurave namaḥ of Devotional Quotient, I was born in the darkest ignorance, and my spiritual master which is for the pleasure and opened my eyes with the torch of knowledge. I offer my respectful obeisances unto him. benefit of our young devotees nama om vishnu-padaya krishna-preshthaya bhu-tale and their parents. srimate bhaktivedanta-svamin iti namine namas te saraswate deve gaura-vani-pracarine nirvishesha-shunyavadi-pashchatya-desha-tarine A monthly magazine, full of I offer my respectful obeisances unto His Divine Grace A.C. articles from children and their Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, who is very dear to Lord Krishna, having taken shelter at His lotus feet. Our teachers. Recipes, activities, a respectful obeisances are unto you, O spiritual master, servant of Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Goswami. You are structured study of the kindly preaching the message of Lord Chaitanyadeva and delivering the Western countries, which are filled with Bhagavad Gita, to keep the impersonalism and voidism. sri-krishna-chaitanya readers engaged and prabhu-nityananda sri-advaita gadadhara stimulated srivasadi-gaura-bhakta-vrinda For monthly subscriptions, please mail us at I offer my obeisances to Sri Krishna Chaitanya, Prabhu Nityananda, Sri Advaita, Gadadhara, Srivasa and all others [email protected] in the line of devotion. PAGE 1 HARE KRISHNA HARE KRISHNA KRISHNA KRISHNA HARE HARE HARE RAMA HARE RAMA RAMA RAMA HARE HARE DEVOTIONAL 01 / / DECEMBER / / 2020 QUOTIENT By the Divine Mercy of His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada (Founder Acharya of ISKCON – International Society for Krishna Consciousness) Dedication: We humbly offer the “Devotional Quotient” to the compassionate hands of His Holiness Bhakti Bhringa Govinda Swami Maharaj. He has been instrumental in inspiring and guiding not only our young devotees but many others all over the world with his benevolent and encouraging words. Year after year he has personally spoken to them about the importance of going deep into Krishna Consciousness. We thank him and hope that he will be happy to read the various contributions from all the children. PAGE 2 HARE KRISHNA HARE KRISHNA KRISHNA KRISHNA HARE HARE HARE RAMA HARE RAMA RAMA RAMA HARE HARE DEVOTIONAL 01 / / DECEMBER / / 2020 QUOTIENT Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu Words of Wisdom From the origin SLOKA OF THE MONTH kātyāyani mahā-māye mahā-yoginy adhīśvari nanda-gopa-sutaṁ devi patiṁ me kuru te namaḥ iti mantraṁ japantyas tāḥ pūjāṁ cakruḥ kumārikāḥ Each of the young unmarried girls performed her worship while chanting the following mantra. “O goddess Kātyāyanī, O great potency of the Lord, O possessor of great mystic power and mighty controller of all, please make the son of Nanda Mahārāja my husband. I offer my obeisances unto you.” S.B 10.22.04 Artwork by: Diya and Rhea Ranganathan Age: 10 PAGE 3 HARE KRISHNA HARE KRISHNA KRISHNA KRISHNA HARE HARE HARE RAMA HARE RAMA RAMA RAMA HARE HARE DEVOTIONAL 01 / / DECEMBER / / 2020 QUOTIENT Vaishnav Acharyas Each issue of Devotional Quotient will include one of these pages. We would like to dedicate these to our previous Acharyas. We must glorify our previous Acharyas so that we can learn from them and spread Krishna Consciousness in their footsteps. Each monthly edition will include one of these pages where we slowly go up the vaishnava Parampara. This time continuing to Vishvanath Chakravarti Thakur Leadership His Best Disciple His Youth By the year 1700, the six Goswamis had all Vishvanath Chakravarti Thakur had hundreds of Vishvanath Chakravarti Thakur was born in 1638 at returned to the spiritual world. This left disciples. Of them, the most brilliant student was Nadia in West Bengal. His brahmin parents gave Vishvanath Chakravarti as the leader of the Baladev Vidyabushan, who is famous for writing him a first-class education. Vishvanath had the good Vrindavan Vaishnavas. It was only a few years Govinda Bhasya. This masterpiece was dictated to fortune of taking spiritual initiation from after Jiva Goswami left this world when serious him by the Govindaji Deity of Jaipur. Radharaman Chakravarti, who is in the line of trouble arose. There was strong disagreement Narottam Das Thakur. He became an expert at about what he had written. In most of Jiva Srila Vishvanath Chakravarti Thakur ki jai! Sanskrit, poetry and lecturing. In debate, he could Goswami’s books he followed Lord Chaitanya’s defeat anybody. While he was still a boy, teaching that Radha and Krishna were unmarried Vishvanath’s parents married him to a beautiful lovers. However, many of Jiva’s followers were young girl. However he had no interest in married not spiritually advanced enough to appreciate the life. Instead he left home and journeyed to spotless purity of Radha and Krishna’s love. For Vrindavan, where he stayed at Radha-Kund. this reason, he encouraged them to worship Radha and Krishna as a married couple. Worshipping Freed from Family Life Radha and Krishna as a married couple saves immature devotees from making offences; because only advanced devotees can properly understand After some years, Vishvanath returned home to visit this subject matter. Misunderstanding the purpose his family. His guru, Radharaman, spoke to of Jiva Goswami, his followers started publicly Vishvanath: “My dear disciple, you have been away denying that Radha and Krishna were in fact for a long time, and we all missed you very much, unmarried. especially your wife. You are fully grown now and should do your duty by sleeping tonight in the same bed as your wife.” After the sunset, Vishvanath The Murder Plot followed his guru’s order. He entered his wife’s bed. But all through the night, he lay awake and chanted As the Vaishnava leader, it was the job of Krishna’s names without stopping. The following Vishvanath Chakravarti to clear up this day, news of this reached Radharaman’s ears, and he misunderstanding. In a public meeting, he quoted was most pleased. He could understand his disciple many scriptures proving beyond a doubt that was very serious about spiritual life. Radha and Krishna were actually not married to Srila Vishvanath Chakravarti each other. In this way, his opponents were soundly defeated and the meeting was brought to a Return to Vrindavan close. This turn of events enraged the troublemakers so much that they hatched a plot to Later, on the order of his guru, Vishvanath returned kill him. One of them knew that Vishvanath would to Vrindavan. There he composed the famous daily go to a quiet clearing deep in the forest, so Guruvastaka prayer (saḿsāra-dāvānala-līḍha-loka), one day, armed with deadly weapons, they went to which glorifies the genuine guru. He wrote, “One that very same place. But instead of them finding who, with great care and attention, loudly sings this Vishvanath, a beautiful young girl appeared before beautiful prayer during the hour before sunrise them. She was picking flowers and, upon seeing certainly obtains direct service to Lord Krishna at the the scholars, announced, ‘I am a maidservant of time of death.” Devotees of the Hare Krishna Radha and am picking flowers so that She can movement sing this song in the temples every offer a beautiful garland to Krishna.” Then in a morning. moment, she mysteriously vanished and During his stay in Vrindavan, Vishvanath Vishvanath appeared in her place. worshipped the Deities of Radha Gokulnanda. He also, for some time, worshipped Giriraj, the The murderous scholars realised the young girl Govardhan shila belonging to Raghunath Das was actually the spiritual form of Vishvanath Goswami and formerly owned by Lord Chaitanya Chakravarti. Immediately their hearts changed, Mahaprabhu. realising they made a grave mistake. Casting down their weapons, and hanging their heads, they begged, “Please be merciful and forgive us.” The saintly Vishvanath kindly forgave them, and they eventually became his faithful disciples. PAGE 4 HARE KRISHNA HARE KRISHNA KRISHNA KRISHNA HARE HARE HARE RAMA HARE RAMA RAMA RAMA HARE HARE DEVOTIONAL 01 / / DECEMBER / / 2020 QUOTIENT Pearls of Wisdom A transcript of a lecture given by H.H Bhakti Bhringa Govinda Swami Maharaj The Holy Names of the Lord are His Special Mercy We realise the full potency of the name of the Lord and sarva-dharmān parityajya Then he says, always give respect to others the names of the Lord will reveal the form of the Lord and but never expect any respect for oneself so the names of the Lord will reveal all of the qualities of the mām ekaṁ śaraṇaṁ vraja always incessantly chant Hare Krishna and Lord and ultimately, the names of the Lord will reveal the then the Lord told Satyaraja, "Try to engage pastimes of Sri Krishna before our very eyes. In Shri ahaṁ tvāṁ sarva-pāpebhyo in Krishna's devotional service." We know Chaitanya Charitamrita Lord Chaitanya is speaking to that in the process of Krishna consciousness different devotees.
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