20080318 || Śrī Śrī Mādhava Tithi Mahotsava (Śāntipura Festival) || Śāntipura, India

Everybody had so much desire to preach.

So anyway, that red big temple is where they were sitting. Here behind us was where the Ganges was flowing. Lord Chaitanya crossed the Ganges here in Cain. This is also where Mother Sachi came to see her son for the first time. After he was with Sannyasi. Then from here she got the order to go to Jagannath Puri. Many leave outs happened here. Then Lord Chaitanya many years later.

Ten.

Years later he came back to Bengal. At that time.

He came here and.

It happened to be on this anniversary go in the dal sea. So he was happy to observe how the devotees were getting ready to prepare for the festival of Maharavendra Bodhi. And then he started to walk around and see what were the arrangements. And then he saw that there was that Advaita Gol Tsai he would make. He had many little huts for holding the different ingredients. Two to four huts for holding the betel nut. Little roof created just for the den. Maybe four to six huts were for holding pots of yogurt. Then there were huts for holding the different grains. Sabjis, all kinds of vegetables. Pork stove. All kinds of different vegetables. Rice, dal, sweet sugar cane. There was some warehouses of mung sprouts for those who are into healthy food. Advaita Acharya was also having mung sprouts. So many different things. Then he saw that everybody was in a serving mood. Nithyananda offered that I will receive all the devotees. Nithyananda, Samasta, Bhakto, Abhinandan. Then some devotee offered that he wants to wash the feet of the deity of the devotee who wants to wash the feet of the devotees. Then there are some who offer that I'll cut vegetable. Then somebody said I like to bring the water for the cookie. Mother Sachi offered, I'll do the cookie. This feast was cooked by Mother Sachi and all the wives of the Vaishnavas. They offered to help her. Who wants to help Mother Sachi cook? Especially the ladies. Amra Sachi, Gorbina Masa C. London Corbet. We want to get everyone in the mood. Now you have to be thinking you're a part of this Leela. You're descending so like that. Then of course there was some devotees for doing putting Senayl make Chandan sandalwood paste. Someone said, I'll put it on the devotee's forehead. Someone said, I'll make flower garlands. I mean full God boats.

Like this.

They're all offering to do different services. Someone said I'll string like they strung here garlands and plagues. And the word used by Chaitanya Bhagavad is Patakas which my name is also plague. Victory Plague. So they are putting up plagues. And someone offered Allah, we'll do kirtan. So there was a non stop kirtan party going on. Someone was dancing in the kirtan Kyotje Kil Kirtan Khushei kya. They're all doing different kinds of save us. Someone is helping with a group of devotees Bhagwat class. So everyone has a mood. I want to serve. So how many here are in service mode. So like that. But we don't have so many services to offer. Mahavishtu Swami will be doing Kirtan while Prashad is being distributed. So some can help him. Probably Shastra Das and others will be there. Then some will be handing out the. It should be nice. We should have had some Chandan Mei to give to the visiting people when they come in the doorway. But some will give out leaf plates, some will give out water, some will give out kitchari. Some will give out chutney. Although normally they give a little chutney.

They had.

Two tons of chutney and the ISKCON devotees ate one ton. Half gone. 20,000 people. Chutney was eaten by the ISKCON devotee. And there are only a thousand besides service. You know Italy a little bit. One scoop of kitchri and two scoops of chutney. You missed it. So we only got one big pot of kitchen of chutney left for 40,000 people. So like this, the Lord Chaitanya Singh all the arrangements he said this Algoita Acharya is no other than Mahesh. No human being can make such an arrangement for such a big feast, such a big festival. He's an incarnate. I told you all. He's not a human being. He's an incarnation of someone from above. Must be Mahesh. Because we know that he's Mahavishtu avatar. Sometimes it also says he is a Sadashiva avatar. So like this. Then Nithyananda joined the Kirta. There was devotees chanting and dancing. Then Nithyananda joined the Kirtan. Lord Shaijanya went to watch him. Dancing is so beautiful. Nithyananda Mithra Atasunna. So everyone that people watch the Nithyananda dancing, everyone was feeling so much ecstasy that he got one after another different devotees to that.

Then.

Lord Chaitanya and serve them. We have devotees here from 63 different countries. We're going to ask the Bengali devotees to receive them with Haribol and this fululation. Now I request the Russians and all the other devotees from Bombay, Delhi and outside that you reciprocate by giving them a Haribo in return. I don't think you can. So like this Lord Chaitanya after dancing then he sat down with all the devotees and they were took Prasadam feast. Prasad took by Mother Satchi, Sochi, Ramnar, Apurva Maha Prasad. Everybody was in Paramananda. Transcendental bliss. Lord Caitanya said, this place, this titi, this day, whoever takes prasadam here, they will get killed. So this is a short version of what was happening here 500 years ago. Vrindavan Naz Tagra said there was so much going on that no human being can describe it. I just told whatever I could think of. Whatever. But it's like a bird flying in the sky. How high he can fly. He flies but no bird can fly up to the end of the sky like that. I told whatever I could tell. But there's so much more that I just have no ability to tell. How great a goethachary is. How great. Nithyananda Prabhu, how great. Lord Chaitanya, they're all so great. This was such an amazing festival.

So.

The previous sevite of this place and he invited iskcon that this festival was previously performed by some other sadhus. Nitai Prasad Prasad. How much time for starting service that I want to make my world headquarters in Shantipur. If I don't get a place in Mayapur then I want to do it here. So he said, you're welcome to come. So they had this corresponding. And then he said Prabhupada used to come here and chant Jaba before the Dwighta Bili. Sometime he'd come here. So then he said that there's a connection between us. He said please develop this festival for going to Acharya.

And we will be.

Very happy for this day. This temple is its fun. He said, you come here, you do the puja. But we don't come and do the puja. I don't know our Pujaris. I don't know why we don't come anymore.

He used to come for a while.

He was. So we cook and we offer the boga and we distribute the prasada. But we have this program here so that the son of Sandhi Sagotswami, the present sevite is also welcoming us and.

He'Ll come here on the stage a little later.

They call him Koka is a very wonderful Vaishnava. So here I have Kavitanda Maharaj.

Sa.

So the mercy comes down. By the mercy of Advaita, who's the husband of Sita, Sita Thakarani, we can get the mercy of Gornichai. Because he brought Lord Caitanya. Lord Chaitanya said that over and over again. Where is that Advaita who brought me here? By his loud calls, he was worshipping Shalagam Sila right back here with this Tulsi and Ganges water. And he was shouting so loud for Krishna to come that it was the heavenly planets. The demigods thought it was the end of the universe with so much noise. And it pierced through the covering of the universe to the Vaikuntha. So the Lord could hear. He challenged. He said that the people of Navadip were very sinful and materialistic. And there was no bhakti anywhere. And he said if Ka himself does not come and teach them, then Advaita said he would manifest his forearm form and kill everyone. So Ka had to come. So by the mercy of Advaita, Lord Caitanya came. And by his mercy, we're here and we're able to chant Hare Ka. Hare Krishna Krishna Ka, Hare Hare Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama Hare Hare. Where is everybody going, huh? Everybody's leaving, but there's no place to go. So many leelas happened here. Advaita was senior by birth, and Lord Chaitanya always treated him very respectfully. And Advaita did not like that. He was envious of the other devotees who would sometimes get chastised by the Lord. So he made a scheme. And he started preaching that Guyana was supreme more than bhakti. So Lord Caitanya then could not tolerate that. And he came here to the house of Advaita, shouting. He went in the house, he threw Advaita out the door. And he fell down the steps and on the ground. And then Gauranga started kicking him and chastising him. What do you think you're doing? Preaching that Jnana is superior. And Advaita's wife was crying, no, stop. He's an old man. You're going to kill him. And Advaita was an ecstasy. He was so happy to be chastised by the Lord. He thought that was the perfection of his life. He had plotted like that. But we have here at this place, of course, this peace. The first time that Gauranga came back after taking sannyas they also was here with Sachimata cook and they had a huge feast. And that was when Advaita and Nityananda had the mysterious conversations. Apparently insulting each other. No one could understand them except Kauranga Mahaprabhu. He could understand what they were saying. They were actually glorifying each other. Lord Caitanya was complaining that there was too much food and that he's a Sannyasi. And all he wanted was one small boiled vegetable. Lapra Lapra Vanjan. Just one simple boiled vegetable.

But Advaita was serving him hundreds of vegetables and on a huge banana leaves covered with rice soaked in wheat. And Nityananda was complaining that he'd been fasting for three days and this was nothing. And why did he give him more? His stomach had a hole in it. And he threw the rice at itve. And when that rice stuck on the feet the legs of the Dweta. He was dancing in ecstasy. So happy to be serving the Lord. Two words. His example is Sadha. Sadashiva is from whom Nathiva we know in the material manifest Sadashivas and Goloka for endowment. And in Shaitanya Padma we usually find Veta refers to as Sadashiva in the Chaitanya Chakra. Me that usually is Mahabishu. But there's very little difference. He's both. And we want to be like this. To be calling Lord Caitanya here, calling out Ra Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare Hare Rama, Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare. And the Lord will appear wherever there is a sincerely empathetic Hari Noam sanctify. When devotees are chanting the holy name Lord Shaitanya appears. We're installing the deities of Sri Sri Kornikaya all over the world. Causing him to appear. So that everybody can get the Darshan. Everyone can get the association of the holy name Hare Ka Hare Ka Ka Krishna Hare Hare Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare and Prakshanadha level at this place. Lord Chaitanya declare it that anyone who takes the Mahaprasad here on this day will get Gonda Prema. So how many Mahaprasadhara? So we have a lot of very advanced devotees here. Now take advantage of their association and try to get some premise from from everybody. Steal it or purchase it or beg it or however. But get the frame of love of Krishna Krishna Prema Kriday Krishnaya Krishna Chaitanya Namani, Gora Krishnam. He's the most magnanimous because he's freely giving Ka Prema Hare Krishna. Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hari Rama, Hari Rama, Rama Rama. That is a natural condition to have pure love for Ka. Everybody's feeling love for something. Separation from something. Like last week my computer was in the repair shop. So I kept thinking of it all the time. How is it now? When is it coming? Is it working? You don't want to feel, Will I ever see it again? We feel separation, but it's generally misdirected. But that is the way the gotis, the devotees feel for Krishna. Where is Ka? Where will we find Krishna? When is he coming back? When will I chant the holy name with really feeling and all the time, all the time chanting Satatam Kyotayantra Krishna says the devotees all chanting we have to pray for that. So here we can pray for the mercy of the great Dha at this place and that we get the mercy of Gornathai to join our Sankirtam party and chant briefly all over the world and give the holy name to everybody. The more we give it, the more we will get it. The whole world is waiting. There's more than 6 billion people. Very few of them have ever heard of Krishna. Even in many countries they've never even heard of God in any religion. But devotees are going everywhere by the mercy of Advaita and crying out loudly chanting the holy name so that everyone can see the ecstasy and join in. And gradually we'll bring more and more people here. This festival when we started was very small, but 10,000 people dip for Saddam. Now it's over 40,000 people. If we pray properly so we don't run out. And it's become a major festival for the whole area. You see outside all the shops, everybody comes here and everybody wants to get the mercy of Sri Sri Advaita. The mercy of Iskcon devotees to get a little kitchen and get that spiritual bliss. And we get the special mercy of serving the Dan basis that is not of ordinary activity. These people are residents of the holy Dham and they're very, very receptive to our service. And the more we render that service, the more we'll be empowered to give Ka to all kinds of people and every nook and cranny of this material world. By his mercy we get the mercy of Shishi.

Sam Mad Ra Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna Rama Krishna Krishna Sam Sa Sam Ram Har.

Sam anybody may welcome you. He's also the member of Legislative Assembly. And this is Sedaim Here her sons.

Are doing Swami and they just appreciate it very much.

All this time to donate another ceremony from the festival. So sorry that you didn't understand the Bengali Bhagwat. I accept that. Very appreciative and very moving into all the history. Later we know what they said in more detail. But this is the Alia, Shantu, Nora, Kandala, Boni, Deva, Maya, Dracula the chanting and regulate our satisfaction. Jpal it people I can only give and those number five Sanjay J Guruga, Istanho, Shanti, Guruba Kumar, Sharad, Shanti Buddha, Hashtavade, Jantabade, J Star Kurich and Lila Puri Palavisha.

Ram Hari Sam.

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