Weekly Sanga

Weekly Sanga

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Weekly Sanga episodes

  • Bṛhad-bhāgavatāmṛta Part 1 Chapter 1 Text 37 – May 21, 2023

    Bṛhad-bhāgavatāmṛta Part 1 Chapter 1 Text 37


    tato ’bhimukham āgatya
    kṛṣṇasya racitāñjaliḥ
    tasminn evārpayām āsa
    sarvaṁ tat-phala-sañcayam

     

    TRANSLATION

    After this, he again went before the Śālagrāma Deity of Lord Kṛṣṇa. And with folded hands he offered to the Lord all the pious credit he had earned by the sacrifice.

    59 min
  • Japa and Prayer School – May 20, 2023

    Śrīla Dhanurdhara Swami continues his Japa and Prayer School classes.

    In today’s class:

    Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam Canto 12 Chapter 3 Text 51


    kaler doṣa-nidhe rājann
    asti hy eko mahān guṇaḥ
    kīrtanād eva kṛṣṇasya
    mukta-saṅgaḥ paraṁ vrajet

     

    TRANSLATION

    My dear King, although Kali-yuga is an ocean of faults, there is still one good quality about this age: Simply by chanting the Hare Kṛṣṇa mahā-mantra, one can become free from material bondage and be promoted to the transcendental kingdom.

    1 hr 8 min
  • Bṛhad-bhāgavatāmṛta Part 1 Chapter 1 Text 28 – May 17, 2023

    Bṛhad-bhāgavatāmṛta Part 1 Chapter 1 Text 28


    vicitrotkṛṣṭa-vastūni
    sa niṣpādya mahā-manāḥ
    āvaśyakaṁ samāpyādau
    saṁskṛtya mahatīṁ sthalīm

     

    TRANSLATION

    “Having collected all sorts of valuable items for worship of the Lord, the generous brāhmaṇa then saw to the preliminaries, first by purifying a large area on the ground.”

    48 min
  • Bṛhad-bhāgavatāmṛta Part 1 Chapter 1 Texts 24-25 – May 14, 2023

    Bṛhad-bhāgavatāmṛta Part 1 Chapter 1 Texts 24-25


    ekadā tīrtha-mūrdhanye
    prayāge muni-puṅgavāḥ
    māghe prātaḥ kṛta-snānāḥ
    śrī-mādhava-samīpataḥ
    upaviṣṭā mudāviṣṭā
    manyamānāḥ kṛtārthatām
    kṛṣṇasya dayito ’sīti
    ślāghante sma parasparam

     

    TRANSLATION

    “Once a group of exalted sages were at Prayāga, the best of pilgrimage sites, during the month of Māgha. The sages had taken their bath and were happily seated before the Deity of Śrī Mādhava. Feeling satisfied, as if all their goals in life had been fulfilled, they were praising one another, saying, “You are the recipient of Lord Kṛṣṇa’s mercy.”

    1 hr 12 min
  • Bṛhad-bhāgavatāmṛta Part 1 Chapter 1 Text 19 – May 10, 2023

    Bṛhad-bhāgavatāmṛta Part 1 Chapter 1 Text 19


    śrī-jaiminir uvāca
    uvāca sādaraṁ rājā
    parīkṣin mātṛ-vatsalaḥ
    śrutāty-adbhuta-govinda-
    kathākhyāna-rasotsukaḥ

     

    TRANSLATION

    “Śrī Jaimini said: King Parīkṣit, feeling affection for his mother, answered her respectfully, eager to enjoy recounting the wonderful narrations he had just heard about Lord Govinda.”

    1 hr
  • Bṛhad-bhāgavatāmṛta Part 1 Chapter 1 Text 11 – May 7, 2023

    Bṛhad-bhāgavatāmṛta Part 1 Chapter 1 Text 11


    bhagavad-bhakti-śāstrāṇām
    ayaṁ sārasya saṅgrahaḥ
    anubhūtasya caitanya-
    deve tat-priya-rūpataḥ

     

    TRANSLATION

    This book collects the essence of the scriptures teaching devotional service rendered to the Supreme Lord. These essential teachings I have personally realized under the shelter of Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu. I received them from His dear devotee Śrī Rūpa.

    58 min
  • Japa and Prayer School – May 6, 2023

    Śrīla Dhanurdhara Swami continues his Japa and Prayer School classes.

    In today’s class:

    Bṛhad-bhāgavatāmṛta Part 1 Chapter 1 Text 9


    jayati jayati nāmānanda-rūpaṁ murārer
    viramita-nija-dharma-dhyāna-pūjādi-yatnam
    katham api sakṛd āttaṁ mukti-daṁ prāṇināṁ yat
    paramam amṛtam ekaṁ jīvanaṁ bhūṣaṇaṁ me

     

    TRANSLATION

    All glories, all glories to the all-ecstatic name of Lord Murāri. It makes one put aside such tasks as meditation, ritual worship, and social duties. If a living being even once takes the Lord’s holy name, the name will grant him liberation. That holy name is the greatest source of eternal pleasure and is my very life and ornament.

    Also mentioned in today’s class is Sacinandana Swami’s Meditations from the Living Name.

    1 hr 26 min
  • Bṛhad-bhāgavatāmṛta Part 1 Chapter 1 Text 9 – May 3, 2023

    Bṛhad-bhāgavatāmṛta Part 1 Chapter 1 Text 9


    jayati jayati nāmānanda-rūpaṁ murārer
    viramita-nija-dharma-dhyāna-pūjādi-yatnam
    katham api sakṛd āttaṁ mukti-daṁ prāṇināṁ yat
    paramam amṛtam ekaṁ jīvanaṁ bhūṣaṇaṁ me

     

    TRANSLATION

    All glories, all glories to the all-ecstatic name of Lord Murāri. It makes one put aside such tasks as meditation, ritual worship, and social duties. If a living being even once takes the Lord’s holy name, the name will grant him liberation. That holy name is the greatest source of eternal pleasure and is my very life and ornament.

    53 min
  • Bṛhad-bhāgavatāmṛta Part 1 Chapter 1 Text 8 – April 30, 2023

    Bṛhad-bhāgavatāmṛta Part 1 Chapter 1 Text 8


    jayati jayati kṛṣṇa-prema-bhaktir yad-aṅghriṁ
    nikhila-nigama-tattvaṁ gūḍham ājñāya muktiḥ
    bhajati śaraṇa-kāmā vaiṣṇavais tyajyamānā
    japa-yajana-tapasyā-nyāsa-niṣṭhāṁ vihāya

     

    TRANSLATION

    All glories, all glories to Śrī Kṛṣṇa-prema-bhakti! Knowing that the feet of Prema-bhakti secretly comprise all the truths of the Vedas, Liberation herself has come to worship her. Indeed, Liberation, abandoned by the Vaiṣṇavas, has now given up her dependence on mantras, penance, sacrifice, and renunciation and is eager to have the shelter of Prema-bhakti.

    1 hr 6 min
  • Bṛhad-bhāgavatāmṛta Part 1 Chapter 1 Text 7 – April 26, 2023

    Bṛhad-bhāgavatāmṛta Part 1 Chapter 1 Text 7


    govardhano jayati śaila-kulādhirājo
    yo gopikābhir udito hari-dāsa-varyaḥ
    kṛṣṇena śakra-makha-bhaṅga-kṛtārcito yaḥ
    saptāham asya kara-padma-tale ’py avātsīt

     

    TRANSLATION

    All glories to Govardhana, the emperor of lordly mountains! The Lord’s dear gopīs called him the best servant of Hari, Lord Kṛṣṇa. Lord Kṛṣṇa disrupted the sacrifice for worship of Indra to worship Govardhana instead, and then the hill resided for a week on the Lord’s lotus palm.

    57 min

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