Weekly Sanga

Purī Kirtan-Kathā Retreat 2015 – Brahma-vimohana-līlā – January 27, 2015 Śrīmad Bhāgavatam Canto 10 Chapter 13 Text 64   śanair athotthāya vimṛjya locane mukundam udvīkṣya vinamra-kandharaḥ kṛtāñjaliḥ praśrayavān samāhitaḥ sa-vepathur gadgadayailatelayā  TRANSLATION Then, rising very gradually and wiping his two eyes, Lord Brahmā looked up at Mukunda. Lord Brahmā, his head bent low, his mind...

Purī Kirtan-Kathā Retreat 2015 – Brahma-vimohana-līlā – January 26, 2015 Śrīmad Bhāgavatam Canto 10 Chapter 13 Text 50   candrikā-viśada-smeraiḥ sāruṇāpāṅga-vīkṣitaiḥ svakārthānām iva rajaḥ- sattvābhyāṁ sraṣṭṛ-pālakāḥ  TRANSLATION Those Viṣṇu forms, by Their pure smiling, which resembled the increasing light of the moon, and by the sidelong glances of Their reddish eyes, created and protected the...

Purī Kirtan-Kathā Retreat 2015 – Brahma-vimohana-līlā – January 25, 2015 Śrīmad Bhāgavatam Canto 10 Chapter 13 Text 49   āṅghri-mastakam āpūrṇās tulasī-nava-dāmabhiḥ komalaiḥ sarva-gātreṣu bhūri-puṇyavad-arpitaiḥ  TRANSLATION Every part of Their bodies, from Their feet to the top of Their heads, was fully decorated with fresh, tender garlands of tulasī leaves offered by devotees engaged in...

Purī Kirtan-Kathā Retreat 2015 – Brahma-vimohana-līlā – January 24, 2015 Śrīmad Bhāgavatam Canto 10 Chapter 13 Text 45   tamyāṁ tamovan naihāraṁ khadyotārcir ivāhani mahatītara-māyaiśyaṁ nihanty ātmani yuñjataḥ  TRANSLATION As the darkness of snow on a dark night and the light of a glowworm in the light of day have no value, the mystic power...

On January 23, 2015, as part of the Purī Kirtan-Kathā Retreat, Śrīla Dhanurdhara Swami gave a japa seminar at Siddha-bakula, the bhajana kutir of Nāmācārya Haridāsa Ṭhākura.

Purī Kirtan-Kathā Retreat 2015 – Brahma-vimohana-līlā – January 23, 2015 Śrīmad Bhāgavatam Canto 10 Chapter 13 Text 44   evaṁ sammohayan viṣṇuṁ vimohaṁ viśva-mohanam svayaiva māyayājo ’pi svayam eva vimohitaḥ  TRANSLATION Thus because Lord Brahmā wanted to mystify the all-pervading Lord Kṛṣṇa, who can never be mystified, but who, on the contrary, mystifies the entire...

In this year’s inaugural talk, Śrīla Dhanurdhara Swami welcomes everyone to the Purī Kirtan-Kathā Retreat.

In today’s sanga, Śrīla Dhanurdhara Swami continues with Śrīla Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura’s 1896 novel, Jaiva-Dharma.

Śrīmad Bhāgavatam Canto 1 Chapter 7 Text 5   yayā sammohito jīva ātmānaṁ tri-guṇātmakam paro ’pi manute ’narthaṁ tat-kṛtaṁ cābhipadyate  TRANSLATION Due to this external energy, the living entity, although transcendental to the three modes of material nature, thinks of himself as a material product and thus undergoes the reactions of material miseries.

In today’s sanga, Śrīla Dhanurdhara Swami continues with Śrīla Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura’s 1896 novel, Jaiva-Dharma.