20240309 - Source book for Śrī Caitanya Śikṣāmṛta

Second stream, the teaching method of Sri Chaitanya from Sri Chaitanya Shiksha Murita. Even why Shri Mahaprabhu was in the householder life for 24 years he preached in Shivas Angana on the banks of the Ganges, in the school Chatush party and on the streets about the glories of Harinam and the necessity to perform Hari Kirtana to all living entities. Later, after accepting Sannyas, he instructed various persons such as Sri Sarovam Bhattacharya and so on in Jagannath Puri Purushottamakshetra, Sri Ramananda Rai, in Vidyanavira, Venkatabhata, etc. In South India and Sri Rupa Goswami in Prayal, Sri Sanatan Goswami and Sri Pakal Sananda Saraswatis etc. In the village of Varanasi and out of fun he also instructed Sri Raghupati Upadhyaya and Sri Vallabh Bhatta. By all these instructions we can obtain all of Shri Mahaprabhu's teachings. As it is, after considering all those teachings we have collected the systematic teaching method of the Lord. So in the Chaitanya Charitamrita, the method that Lord Chaitanya used to preach to the Mayabadi Sanyasis in Banaras, his way of promoting Harinam Sankirtan in Navadvi demonstrated his way of liberating the people, delivering the people.

Krishna.

He wanted to see that the whole world becomes Krishna conscious, that everybody becomes happy in spiritual sense. He also taught that material happiness is considered to be insignificant and devotees by serving Krishna they experience this spiritual happiness and Lord Chaitanya gave his instructions to various people and those are recorded in the Chaitanya Charitamata and other books. Preaching of the Holy Name Expressing immense kindness towards the living entities of the material world, Shri Mahaprabhu propagated all over India pure Vaishnava Dharma or Jaiva Dharma, the occupational duty of the living entities. He went to some country himself to preach and in some other country he sent a preacher and completed that work. Empowering the preachers with infinite power. He sent them from country to country. The preachers of Mahaprabhu used to work in the principle of love. They do not expect any salary or reward. Propagation of pure religion is not possible without preachers of pure character. That is why in other religions these days paid people continue to preach without sufficient results. As Chaitanya Charitamrita has written in the seventh chapter of Adi Lela Panchata Rupe Sri Krishna Chaitanya Krishna Premadiya Vishwak Maturate Pataila Rupasanathana Dui Senapati Kaila Bhakti Pracharana Nithyananda Gosane Pataila Gaudadeshe Teno Bhakti Prachadila Ashesha Visheshe Apane Dakshina Desha Karila Gamana Grame Grame Kaila Krishna Nama Pracharam Setu Banda Paryanta Kara Kaila Bhaktira Prachara Krishna Preva Diya Kaila Sabhara Nishtara Sri Krishna Chaitanya Mahaprabhu and his associates of the Panchitatva distributed the holy name of the Lord to invoke love of God throughout the universe. And thus the entire universe was thankful. Lord Chaitanya dispatched the two generals Rupa Goswami and Sanatana Goswami to Vrindavan to preach the Bhakti cult. As Rupa Goswami and Sanatana Goswami were sent toward Mathura, so Nithyananda Prabhu was sent to Bengal to preach extensively the cult of Caitanya Mahaprabhu. Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu personally went to South India and he broadcast the holy name of Lord Krishna in every village and town. Thus the Lord went to the southernmost tip of the Indian peninsula known as Setubanda Cape Comoran. Everywhere he distributed the Bhakti cult and love of Krishna. And in this way he delivered everyone. Sri Chaitani sarita, murata, adi leela 7163 to 167. So here it is indicated.

Preachers should be pure.

Pure that preachers should be pure. They should practice what they preach. They should read Prabhupada's books used by.

Here's the example.

Just like Prabhupada used the example. So someone says, are you reading the book? How is it.

Good?

He didn't want his book distributors to say, I don't know, I don't read it, I just sell it.

Far.

He wanted people to read the books and be inspired and give out the books, to distribute the books. For that reason, Srila Prabhupada established various degrees. Bhakti Shastri, Bhakti Sarabhar, Bhakti Vedanta, Bhakti.

Yeah.

Bhakti Shastri, Bhakti Baiba. Here Rupa and Sanatan are described as great generals. So. So it was like a transcendental army. And all these great Acharyas were.

And.

Were serving in the army it.

So.

Ashla Prabhupada sent different devotees to preach. So where Lord Chaitanya had sent different devotees.

Follow the same system.

Sri Prabhupada followed the same system.

To.

Have some members as GBC members for different parts of the world. And they. They. He appointed them as service. They didn't receive any payment. They did it by spontaneous dedication and love. Essence of the teachings of Lord Chaitanya. Shri Mahaprabhu's teaching is that love of Krishna is the eternal wealthy occupational duty of the living entities. The living entity can never be separated from that wealthy occupational duty. But because of the forgetfulness of Krishna, being captivated by the illusory energy and being fond of other things, gradually that occupational duty has become almost secret and hidden in the innermost chambers of the spirit soul. Due to that, the living entity suffers in the material existence again. If the living entity by chance remembers this saying, I am an eternal servant of Krishna, then the said occupational duty love of God will revive, will revive again and will surely restore the health of the living entity. So living entities in this conditional life in the material world, they have forgotten their occupational duty of serving Krishna.

The love of Krishna is dormant and.

Their love of Krishna is dormant. But by chanting the Holy name, the dormant love of Krishna is awakened. Gradually they become very awakened in service of Krishna. Everyone has this natural propensity of love for Krishna. There's no volume.

He's coming. Something happened.

How are you?

Everybody's watching you. Hare Krishna. Yes.

You don't understand. It is not suitable. You have to upgrade yourself.

It's not Krishna.

Krishna Prema Sadhya Kubunai.

The Mind Practices.

Of Devotional Service so by offering the nine practices of devotional service starting from.

Shravana.

Starting from Shravan and Kirtan, we can awaken our dormant love for Krishna.

Material life People love their country. Love some material sun charges in the in material life.

People love their country. They love some material sense, objects.

They.

Like, they love some ism.

But there is this last pleasure.

But these things don't last. They are flickering.

They only last a short time.

They only last for a very short time.

When Lord said the origin is.

Just.

The consciousness, he understood that.

When Lord Chaitanya awakened his Krishna consciousness, he wanted to spread that everywhere.

Because Krishna sent people Kha Yoga to also taste the immense happiness I have.

So Krishna said that people in Kalyuga should also taste the immense happiness that I had. So Lord Chaitanya, he spread the Sankirtan movement.

Accounts of different people.

Here in this verse it says that different people were sent to different places. Truthful faith is the cause. Faith in this truth is the cause of all auspiciousness. Faith arises in two ways. When a person is relieved from the bondage of material existence by the result of piety in many lives, Sukriti perfection of natural faith arises as stated in chaitanya charitamrita mandyalila 23.9 kono bagya kona Jeevera Straddha Yedi haya tabe se Jiva sadhusanga e karaya if by good fortune a living entity develops faith in Krishna, he begins to associate with devotees. Another name of Shraddha is Vishwasa as stated in Chaitanya Charitamrita Madhya Leela 22.62 Shraddha Shabde Vishwasakahe Sudra Dhishaya Krishna Bhakti Kaile Sarva Karma Krita haya Shraddha is confident firm faith that by rendering transcendental loving service to Krishna one automatically performs all subsidiary activities. Such faith is favorable to the discharge of devotional service.

Explains how faith is sacrifice.

Here Bhakti Vinod Thakur explains how faith is so crucial.

Run starts to run devotional service have some faith.

If one has to perform devotional service, one has to have some faith.

Having done some pious activity.

Then through that faith by association of from from performance of devotional service 1 and by following the pure devotees one awakens his own devotion in this way.

Eight Levels of the Baba.

We know.

That there are eight levels of Bhava.

Up to Bhava.

Baba being ecstatic love of Krishna. From Bhava one comes to Prema which is pure love for Krishna and there are eight levels of Prema.

So devotional service is a very scientific system.

Devotional service is a very scientific and systematic program.

So by the stats recall the mercy of Panchatapta, Lord Chaitanya and his associates.

But it starts with the costless mercy of Panchatava, Lord Chaitanya and his associates. The sequence of Bhajana by performing Krishna Bhakti all the subsidiary activities of the living entity are automatically done. This confident firm faith is called Shraddha Yatha Tharoor Mula nishe Chanena Tripyanti tat as pouring water on the root of a tree energizes the trunk, branches, twigs and everything else and as supplying food to the stomach enlivens the senses and the limbs of the body. Simply worshiping the supreme personality of God through devotional service automatically satisfies the Demigods who are parts of the supreme personal of that supreme personality. Srivad Bhagavatam 43114 due to piety Sukriti resulting in self satisfaction from the soul's eternal occupational duty arises the perfection of natural faith. If people chant Hare Krishna, if they engage in devotional service, they are watering.

The root of the tree, are eating the further away Ka.

Then what? Then if they hear or chant then their awakening their love for Krishna.

Just like you are on the root of a tree.

Just like if you water the root of a tree or feeding the stomach which nourishes the whole body.

Start to drill.

So if you. If we start to do devotional service.

Naturally we'd be rather prayed.

Then naturally we develop faith. We heard how Prabhupada went and preached.

And so he said that yes, Krishna and the Guru.

And he said how you should bow down to Krishna and the Guru.

Kashan.

Or some of the devotees question why I don't feel like bowing down. Why should I bow down? Prabhupada said if you do it, you will feel it. They did it and they felt better.

Some things doing devotional service how as we start to feel our faith is right.

Some things by doing devotional service naturally we'll see that our faith is growing.

Practices of personal service so these are.

The nine practices of devotional service.

And right around town each island represents one of these nine practices.

If you walk around Mayapur Dham, each of the nine islands represents one of these processes.

Is a very good way to recon our faith.

So Navadi Parikrama is a good way to reawaken our faith in Ka consciousness. Thank you.

I called.

Two shelters.

The other is drama. Hello.

Satish, Chandan and Jitatha, can you please stand up? Come forward. You have the boga flower in hand.

Give him one.

Hari, are you here? Hari? Haridas from Oman. Okay, Come forward for shelter. Okay. Please chant this mantra. Follow me. You know Guru Prana mantra.

Okay.

Namawam Vishnu Padaya, Krishna Prashai Bhutali Bhakti Vedanta Swami Nithi Nominee Namaste Sarasota Devi Gauravani Pracharine. Offer flower to the lotus feet of Guru Maharaj and then offer obeisances your shelter. Give your details to JP's office or BADRA Balram Prabhu.

Hey.

Somebody coming.

Give to him.

Some Somebody is coming there. Give to them. Flower.

Yes.

They chanted the mantra. These two persons.

Two. Two.

Satish, Chandan and Jit took shelter just now.

Yes.

Guru Maharaj is blessing all the assembled devotees and those who are translator leaders and other devotees who are online.

Who is the Canada.

Canada GB from Dubai. She is here for one day. She's need blessings. Yeah, she's here.

Who else?

Jalang is here. Other person is in Dubai. You touched already these certificates?

Yes. Yes.

Blessed the four Bhakti Vedantas.

Thank you all for studying Prabhupada books.

Thank you all for studying Srila Prabhupada books.

For getting the Bhaktivedanta.

For getting the Bhaktivedanta.

And this knowledge spread the message of our child.

This. This knowledge to be spread of Srimad Bhagavatam. Bhaktivedanta means they have completed their study of 12 cantos of Srimad Bhagavatam. Nectar of instruction and nectar of devotion.

So I was I told that I attend Ada drama.

I have told I will attend. The drama.

Is from 6:30 to 7:30 or so.

I think the drama is tomorrow from 6:30 to 7: 30 or so.

I don't know at all how time for class.

I don't know if I go, I'll have time for class.

Drop them for the.

I should stop him for the Kirtan Mela. I won't be here before 8. That's too late. Is that?

No.

Guru Maharaj is here. Narayani Radha Mataji has also come from Moscow. What degree you got? So this is Bhakti degree of our dear Guru Maharaj. So he has taken this by studying every day. Every day he reads Bhagavatam at least one hour before going to sleep. Though he read it many times. And he has been told by Mayapur institute this mic is not okay. Can you hear me? Can you all hear from here?

Okay.

So despite all his tight schedules of meetings, in fact meeting Mela he calls it and so many other male correspondence and his therapies, medical, health, doctoral settlements. All these things he studies every day. Srimad Bhagavatam. When Mayapur institute has told him that we will give you Honduri degree because you are Bhaktivedanta, he says no, I will study and I will write the test. Then I will take the certificate so that it will inspire my disciples. So that they all will do that. So for all of us he has done this. And now he's very eager to start his Bhakti Sarobhamma. So he already told that let's prepare for Bhakti Sarvobhma is there Message told me to tell him. Okay. No whoever wants there. So the Dhanvantari Puja has happened, has happened successfully. And that Yajna Prasadam is available on the other side. I mean Tilak that Yajna Telak is available on the other side. They are telling that you can sponsor five Bhagavad Gita. And who want to grasp the opportunity to have own yourself a brick from the Egyakunda. If somebody wants that brick, you have to sponsor five Bhagavad Gitas for each break. Who is the luckiest one? I hope you all got. Okay, so it's a sponsorship for the brick which is used in the Yajna. So dear devotees, there is onto my right corner. Right behind you is the Guru Maharaj's personal physical book table. And from Sridha Mayapur when you do the devotion service, you know how many times it multiplies. So you can attend the table before you leave and see what services that you can avail. You can sell by sponsor Srila Prabhupada Books and Chaitani Charitamruta marathon is also begun. And so please do visit the physical book table before you leave and see what is there for you. And the following fortunate devotees have participated in the pastime of Guru Mahraj. Let us hear from His Holiness Bhakti Vijay Bhagav Sai Maharaj who is the right person to tell how much Bhagavad Gita you are supposed to sponsor. Because we are all in illusion.

Thank you. So Guru Maharaj announced about the Parikram. So I think everybody going to take part this Parikram Gauravar Navati Mandal, Parikram and another announcement. Few days before we had a special Jagya ceremony.

Right?

So servant group, they are announced so distribute their bricks. So 11 Gita Pansatana. You can get one brick that auspicious bricks. You can take it and keep it in your home. Don't become auspicious. So please sponsor 11 Gitas only there only 11 Gitas. Anybody here to receive that? Okay, you are also here. So which side? Somebody is there? Oh, is there?

Okay, okay.

When.

So please those who you can take that note. Who was going to desire to take part that breaks distribution ceremony. Please please follow Bandhari Prabhu. This is also.

So today's book distribution Tapan Rai from Howra 1 Bhagavad Gita Deepankar Sahana from Hoogly to Bhagavad Gita Tarima Chakrabarti from Mumbai 4 Bhagavad Gita Govinda Mandal from Kol 1 Bhagat Gita Gan from Haldia 2 Bhagavad Gita Raj Kumar Khan from Midnapur 1 Bhagat Gita Polygoster from Nadia 1 Bhag Gopi from USA 10 Bhagavad Gita Bindu goes from Bankura 11 Bhagat Gita Vishwajit goes from Mnapur 11 Bhagat Gita Taruna Madhusudan Das from Assam 1 Bhagavad Gita A. G. Parandaman from Chennai to Bhagavad Gita Manohar G Chandradas from Oman 11 Bhagavad Gita Nantu Bag from Hugli Namash from Assam to Bhagavad gita Bhattacharya from Kolata 1 from Andhra Pradesh 10 Bhag Raji Pole from Utar Dinapur 1 Bhagavad Gita Manor Nithyanandas from Bangalore 108 Bhagavad Gita from Krishna from 24 Par from from Bangalore from Uknapur Nasi from Mumbai to Bhagat Gita Raj Kumar Khan from Mitnapur 1 Bhag from USA 1 Chan set and 30 small books from Canada to Chan from USA set Samir from US and 17 small books Krishna Ishan 1 set of Chaitanyata 5 Bhagavad Gita and 17 small book from USA we have our Nitechandra 4 small books from Guru Maharaj physical book table we have Anandamayogapinat Das, four Bhagavad Gita and Dhananananda. And as we are announcing every day the discounted price for Chaitanya that Chaitanyata marathon ends by 31st March and the rates are Bengali you will get it for just 2600 against the actual rate 3000 Hindi actually 5000 but you can get it at 4500 only. English the actual rate is 3800 but you can get it as just 3500 or you can get regular selling is 2200 but you can get it just in 1900 rupees during the marathon up to 31 March only Srila Prabhupada times under book distribution all these devotees get special blessings from Narasimha Devin few from now in Sidan Mayapur Mayapur and all of you devotees also please bless them by calling out Nitai Goranga with me and please pause on this wonderful opportunity of participating in Guru Mahraj virtual book table. It is his pastime in distributing Sila Prabhupada books even if It's a Single Bhagavad Gitar 10 small books. Yes it is 1 is to 10 ratio. And anytime you can WhatsApp to Gurumora's virtual book table at +919434760402. Stay tuned for tomorrow's life Chaitanya class. As Guru Maharaj announced, maybe after 8 o'.

Clock.

And now let's pray. We have Kavichandra Swami Maharaj has fever and coughing and his blocked nose. And let's pray for Kavichandra Swami Maharaj Speedy recovery and also speedy recovery of our Guru Maharaj. Please join me in the prayers. And of course our prayers include for all those who are celebrating their anniversary today for their well being and blissful Krishna consciousness. Please join me in the prayers. Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hari Hari Hari Rama Hari Rama Rama Rama Hari Hari. Thank you very much. Vaishnaparanam Wanchakal Pataro Biasnavarajkij.