Vol. 3 March Issue Glories of Gaura Purnima HH Jayaptaka Swami Paramananda madhavam sri caitanya he saw a radiant light come on his head to his isvaram. The situation in Navadvip and the heart and cross over to the heart of Saci-mata whole of India that time was that people were and go into her womb. So he told her about religious but they were not spiritual. They his dream. He thought, “A great soul will be were religious just to show on the outside but born to us.” And then she became pregnant. actually they did not know the purpose of Everybody changed. They started treating religion. People spent a lot to marry off their Jagannath Misra with so much respect and daughter, to put on a big show to show that they they gave him donations. He was a poor were very religious. One such wealthy had no brahmana and so doing his duties he barely more daughters to marry off then he married made ends meet. But now he was getting things a female cat or a female dog or some demigod. were made of gold and silver. He was amazed So this was not even in scripture. Marriage is at what happened. “It was like the goddess of for human beings. Like that they were doing fortune was living in my house.” all sorts of bogus religious activities just to Meanwhile the devas knew the Supreme show off. Lord was going to make His appearance and Srila Prabhupada’s The Vaisnavas were seeing how the people so they came and offered their prayers to Lord were wasting their valuable human life and Caitanya in the womb of Mother Saci. They Bhajan Kutir Chandan Batia nobody was taking up the process of bhagavat- prayed that, “You are going to give out love of dharma. At that time Sitanath Advaita Gosai Krishna freely to all the conditioned souls. So On the left, just inside the main gate of Sri Mayapur was feeling very concerned about how to we are Your devotees in the heavenly planets, the Chandrodaya Mandir (ISKCON Mayapur), is the straw hut deliver the fallen souls. So He decided to devas and we need Your mercy more. We don’t where Srila Prabhupada stayed in from 1972 to 1976 while the Contents do a special fast and yajna to bring the Lord have material problems because in heavenly first main buildings were being built. Srila Prabhupada first down. Since He was an avatara of Maha Visnu planets there is a very comfortable lifestyle but lived in a small hut near the campus’s main gate. That was the Glories of Gaura therefore His name was Advaita. So He is non- we have two problems. One problem is that first structure built in ISKCON Sri Mayapur. It is still being different from Krishna. So He said, “Since I sometimes the daityas, the asuras attack us and Purnima maintained today according to Srila Prabhupada’s desire. He am non-different I will bring Him down. He we have to fight against them risking our lives. instructed devotees to perform Harinama Kirtan 24-hours a Pages 1,2,3 must come also.” Secondly we are so comfortable that we forget day throughout the year in Sri Mayapur. Srila Prabhupada’s hut So He began fasting and He was worshipping to worship You. Therefore we live in a kind of became the place of nonstop Harinama Kirtan in 1990 during Srila Prabhupada’s His saligram sila. By the way they say that sense gratification and as a result we don’t get Gaura Purnima. saligrama is still in Santipura if you want to see. love of Krishna. So we need Your mercy more. Bhajan Kutir Since then the singing of: So He worshipped the saligram with Ganges We need Your mercy so that we can get love of HARE KRISHNA HARE KRISHNA Pages 1,2 water and Tulasi leaves and manjaris and loud Krishna. So please have mercy on us.” KRISHNA KRISHNA HARE HARE | crying - Govinda, Govinda, Hare Krishna - to Normally the devas would be invisible but HARE RAMA HARE RAMA Vaishnava Events bring the Lord down. His loud cries went all somehow Saci-mata saw their shadows. By RAMA RAMA HARE HARE || Page 2 over the universe. His worship, his fasting! So the will of the Lord they cast some shadows so has continued Non-stop 24-hour despite huge floods during this also reached Lord Caitanya and He agreed she thought a spirit has come so she started to the years 1999, 2000 and 2006. Song of Separation to come down. chant Nrsimha mantras - 16 devotees takes part in this service. There are 8 shifts of 3 At the same time or a similar time Jagannath namas te narasimhaya prahladahlada-dayine Page 3 hrs each. 4 groups of 3 devotees each take part in each shift, Misra and Saci-mata had eight daughters hiranyakasipor vaksah-sila-tanka-nakhalaye once during the day and once at night. The Harinama Sankirtan Prabhupada Speaks but mysteriously each daughter died after [Sri Nrsimha Pranama] department in ISKCON Mayapur is determined to continue this childbirth. Jagannath Misra was very frustrated So the devas thought, “How can she see us? Page 3 24 hour Harinama Kirtan eternally and please Srila Prabhupada so he did a Visnu yajna for a son. Thus he was How does she know we are here? This is all by this service. blessed with a son whom he named Visvarupa. because of the Lord.” So they had to suddenly Kids Word Search On the left side are Sri Sri Nitai-Gaurasundara, the beautiful Visvarupa was an expansion of Lord Baladeva. leave. So they thought so many things are Page 3 large neem Deities who travelled throughout India on pada- So he was Sankarsana. He was very powerful. happening. The thirteenth month of her yatra from 1984 to 1986. These Deities also come out in He had prepared the womb to receive Lord pregnancy had come up so Saci-mata went to Festivals at a glance procession on a chariot every Saturday after Sandhya-arati Caitanya. see her father who was Nilambara Cakravati. Page 4 during winter from the beginning of the Kartika (Damodara) Then Jagannath Misra had a dream where Continued on page 2 month till Gaura Purnima. The small neem Deities are Sri Mayapur Sankirtan Sri Nitai-Pada-Kamala. They are the Deities who go out on Page 4 the Ganga for preaching programs in Their boat, also named Pada-kamala. Deity darsana and arati timings are similar to the timings of Sri Sri Radha Madhava and Sri Pancha-Tattva in the Produced and compiled by: main Temple. Mayapur Tourism Department Srila Prabhupada was sent by the Lord to fulfil Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu’s prediction ‘Prtvithe ache yata nagaradi grama, sarvatra pracara haibe more nama’ - In every town and village of Published by: the world, My name will be heard. Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura wrote in his Sajjona-tosani, “Soon there will be a time when the ISKCON Chandrodaya Mandir chanting of Krishna’s name will be heard in England, France, Sri Dham Mayapur Nadia, West Bengal 741313 Russia, Germany and America.” Ph: +91(3472)245-219 His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Founder-Acarya of International Society for Krishna www.mayapur.com Consciousness (ISKCON), appeared as Abhay Charan De, www.visitmayapur.com in 1896, in Calcutta. He first met his spiritual master, Srila [email protected] Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Gosvami, in Calcutta in 1922. Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati, a prominent religious scholar and the founder of sixty-four Gaudiya Maths (Vedic institutes), liked “To wander through the nine islands of this educated young man and convinced him to dedicate his life Sri Navadwipa-dhama is the essence of all Continued on page 2 opulence, the essence of all religious principles, the essence of all bhajana, the essence of all perfections, the essence of all glories and the essence of all kinds of oceans of sweetness” Mayapur Sanga - March Issue Page 1 Srila Prabhupada’s Bhajan Kutir Continued from Page 1 Events to teaching Vedic knowledge. At their first meeting, Srila Bhaktisiddhanta of Lord Sri Krishna with a dormant natural propensity to experience the eternal Sarasvati Thakura requested Srila Prabhupada to broadcast Vedic knowledge bliss of pure love of God. through the English medium. In 1968, Srila Prabhupada created New Vrindavan, an experimental Vedic In 1933, at Allahabad, Srila Prabhupada was formally initiated and made community in the hills of West Virginia. Inspired by the success of New Vrindavan, 1.4.2012 - Sunday it his life ambition to expound the Vedic conclusion that real freedom now a thriving farm community of more than two thousand acres, his students Rama Navami: Appearance of Lord Sri means liberation from the miseries of material life: birth, death, old age and have since founded several similar communities in the United States and abroad. disease, a state that can be permanently attained by awakening one’s pure In 1972, His Divine Grace introduced the Vedic system of primary and secondary Ramacandra (Fasting till sunset) love for God, Krishna-prema or Krishna-bhakti. education in the West by founding the Gurukula school in Dallas, Texas. Since In the years that followed, Srila Prabhupada wrote a commentary on then, under his supervision, his disciples have established children’s schools 3.4.2012 - Tuesday the Bhagavad-gita, assisted the Gaudiya Math in its work and, in 1944, throughout the United States and the rest of the world, with principal educational started Back to Godhead, an English fortnightly magazine.