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The boys from the Surya Summer Tour came to our house for some bhajans.
Krishna Kishor das leading the traditional Prasadam Prayers — bhajans all done.
Dallas, TX
2009-07-03
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The boys from the Surya Summer Tour came to our house for some bhajans.
Krishna Kishor das leading the bhajan “Radhe Radhe Govinda” and then many names of various deities around the world.
Dallas, TX
2009-07-03
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The boys from the Surya Summer Tour came to our house for some bhajans.
Krishna Kishor das leading the group in a Hare Krishna bhajan.
Dallas, TX
2009-07-03
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The boys from the Surya Summer Tour came to our house for some bhajans.
Sugosh das leading a Hare Krishna bhajan. Krishna Kishor (from the Mayapuris) playing flute.
Dallas, TX
2009-07-03
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Lecture on Srimad Bhagavatam, Canto 8, Chapter 11, Texts 9 and 10 by Ramai Swami.
Dallas, TX
2009-07-02
TRANSLATION – Text 9
You demigods think that your own selves are the cause of your attaining fame and victory. Because of your ignorance, saintly persons feel sorry for you. Therefore, although your words afflict the heart, we do not accept them.
TRANSLATION – Text 10
Sukadeva Gosvami said: After thus rebuking Indra, King of heaven, with sharp words, Bali Maharaja, who could subdue any other hero, drew back to his ear the arrows known as naracas and attacked Indra with these arrows. Then he again chastised Indra with strong words.
3 hours of ecstatic bhajans led by Lokanath Swami and Visvambhar das. These wonderful bhajans were held at the Dallas Temple during Tamal Krishna Goswami’s Vyas Puja Celebration in 2009.
DVD 1: Lokanath Swami
Tukaram Bhajan
Jago Mohana Pyare Tore Savare
Radhika StavaDVD 2: Visvambhar das
Hare Krishna
Gurudev Krpa Bindu Diya
Hare Krishna
Anish – Hare Krishna
Purchase this wonderful evening for only $20 plus shipping ($5 US, $15 for international).
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Lecture on Srimad Bhagavatam, Canto 8, Chapter 11, Text 8 by Ramai Swami.
Dallas, TX
2009-07-01
TRANSLATION
Seeing the movements of time, those who are cognizant of the real truth neither rejoice nor lament for different circumstances. Therefore, because you are jubilant due to your victory, you should be considered not very learned.
PURPORT
Bali Maharaja knew that Indra, King of heaven, was extremely powerful, certainly more powerful than he himself. Nonetheless, Bali Maharaja challenged Indra by saying that Indra was not a very learned person. In Bhagavad-gita (2.11) Krishna rebuked Arjuna by saying:
asocyan anvasocas tvam
prajna-vadams ca bhashase
gatasun agatasums ca
nanusocanti panditah
“While speaking learned words, you are mourning for what is not worthy of grief. Those who are wise lament neither for the living nor the dead.” Thus as Krishna challenged Arjuna by saying that he was not a pandita, or a learned person, Bali Maharaja also challenged King Indra and his associates. In this material world, everything happens under the influence of time. Consequently, for a learned person who sees how things are taking place, there is no question of being sorry or happy because of the waves of material nature. After all, since we are being carried away by these waves, what is the meaning of being jubilant or morose? One who is fully conversant with the laws of nature is never jubilant or morose because of nature’s activities. In Bhagavad-gita (2.14), Krishna advises that one be tolerant: tams titikshasva bharata. Following this advice of Krishna’s, one should not be morose or unhappy because of circumstantial changes. This is the symptom of a devotee. A devotee carries out his duty in Krishna consciousness and is never unhappy in awkward circumstances. He has full faith that in such circumstances, Krishna protects His devotee. Therefore a devotee never deviates from his prescribed duty of devotional service. The material qualities of jubilation and moroseness are present even in the demigods, who are very highly situated in the upper planetary system. Therefore, when one is undisturbed by the so-called favorable and unfavorable circumstances of this material world, he should be understood to be brahma-bhuta, or self-realized. As stated in Bhagavad-gita (18.54), brahma-bhutah prasannatma na socati na kankshati: “One who is transcendentally situated at once realizes the Supreme Brahman and becomes fully joyful.” When one is undisturbed by material circumstances, he should be understood to be on the transcendental stage, above the reactions of the three modes of material nature.
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Lecture on Srimad Bhagavatam, Canto 8, Chapter 9, Texts 16-18 by Pankajangri Prabhu.
Dallas, TX
2009-06-18
TRANSLATION Texts 16-17
O King, as the demigods and demons sat facing east in an arena fully decorated with flower garlands and lamps and fragrant with the smoke of incense, that woman, dressed in a most beautiful sari, Her ankle bells tinkling, entered the arena, walking very slowly because of Her big, low hips. Her eyes were restless due to youthful pride, Her breasts were like water jugs, Her thighs resembled the trunks of elephants, and She carried a waterpot in Her hand.
TRANSLATION Text 18
Her attractive nose and cheeks and Her ears, adorned with golden earrings, made Her face very beautiful. As She moved, Her sari’s border on Her breasts moved slightly aside. When the demigods and demons saw these beautiful features of Mohini-murti, who was glancing at them and slightly smiling, they were all completely enchanted.
PURPORT
Srila Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura remarks here that Mohini-murti is the Supreme Personality of Godhead in a feminine form and that the goddess of fortune is Her associate. This form assumed by the Personality of Godhead challenged the goddess of fortune. The goddess of fortune is beautiful, but if the Lord accepts the form of a woman, He surpasses the goddess of fortune in beauty. It is not that the goddess of fortune, being female, is the most beautiful. The Lord is so beautiful that He can excel any beautiful goddess of fortune by assuming a female form.
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Pankajangri Prabhu (one of the head pujaris in Mayapur) held an interactive question and answer session about deity worship. He then concluded the seminar with some wonderful stories about Lord Nrsimhadev in Mayapur.
Dallas, TX
2009-06-12
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Lokanath Swami singing the bhajan “Jaya Radha Madhava.”
Dallas, TX
2009-06-12
