Classes and Bhajans

The students, teachers, and parents at TKG Academy celebrated Govardhan Puja by building a hill, singing songs about Govardhan Puja, and telling stories about various places on Govardhan Hill.  There are also short speeches by Chaitanya Chandra Prahbu, Urjesvat Prabhu, Rtadhvaja Swami and Nityananda Prabhu.

Dallas, TX
2010-11-04 

We were honored to have a double initiation ceremony by HH Giriraj Swami and HH Rtadhvaja Swami at the Dallas Rathayatra.

Dallas, TX
2010-05-22 

2 DVDs of ecstatic Kirtan, a combined Initiation by His Holiness Giriraj Swami and His Holiness Rtadhvaja Swami, Bhajans, and Dance Performances.  This is a wonderful way to experience Rathayatra as held in Dallas in May 2010.

DVD 1:
Parade
Initiation by Giriraj Swami & Rtadhvaja Swami
Bhajans by Amala Kirtan & Advaita Acharya

DVD 2:
Odissi Dance
Bhakti-vriksa Children
Bharatnatyam  - Sanskriti Trivedi
Khatak - Chinmayi
Chaitanya Bhajan - Gopi Gita & Kalindi
Bharatnatyam - Gopi Krishna & Surata
Bhajans - Kalindi & Kalchandji's Kirtan Group 

Purchase this wonderful festival for only $20 plus shipping ($5 US, $15 for international).   

Offerings made by devotees to His Holiness Rtadhvaja Swami on his Vyas Puja Celebration in Houston.  There are quite a few humorous stories as retold by his former Gurukula students and Rtadhvaja Swami. (audio only)

Houston, TX
2009-09-19 

Dallas, TX
2008-10-11

Many offerings from the devotees given on Rtadhvaja Swami's Vyas Puja celebration.

Dallas, TX
2008-10-11

Rtadhvaja Swami's lecture on Srimad Bhagavatam Canto 7, Chapter 14, Text 37.  Given on his Vyas Puja.

Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Srimad Bhagavatam 7.14.37

purany anena srishtani
nri-tiryag-rishi-devatah
sete jivena rupena
pureshu purusho hy asau
TRANSLATION

The Supreme Personality of Godhead has created many residential places like the bodies of human beings, animals, birds, saints and demigods. In all of these innumerable bodily forms, the Lord resides with the living being as Paramatma. Thus He is known as the purushavatara.

PURPORT

In Bhagavad-gita (18.61) it is said:

isvarah sarva-bhutanam
hrid-dese 'rjuna tishthati
bhramayan sarva-bhutani
yantrarudhani mayaya
"The Supreme Lord is situated in everyone's heart, O Arjuna, and is directing the wanderings of all living entities, who are seated as on a machine, made of the material energy." The living entity, who is part and parcel of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, exists on the mercy of the Lord, who is always with him in any form of body. The living entity desires a particular type of material enjoyment, and thus the Lord supplies him with a body, which is like a machine. Just to keep him alive in that body, the Lord remains with him as the purusha (Kshirodakasayi Vishnu). This is also confirmed in Brahma-samhita (5.35):

eko 'py asau racayitum jagad-anda-kotim
yac-chaktir asti jagad-anda-caya yad-antah
andantara-stha-paramanu-cayantara-stham
govindam adi-purusham tam aham bhajami
"I worship the Personality of Godhead, Govinda, who enters the existence of every universe and every atom by one of His plenary portions and thus manifests His infinite energy throughout the material creation." The living entity, being part and parcel of the Lord, is known as jiva. The Supreme Lord purusha remains with the jiva to enable him to enjoy material facilities.

Dallas, TX
2008-10-11