Weekly Sanga

Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam Canto 1 Chapter 7 Text 8   sa saṁhitāṁ bhāgavatīṁ kṛtvānukramya cātma-jam śukam adhyāpayām āsa nivṛtti-nirataṁ muniḥ   TRANSLATION The great sage Vyāsadeva, after compiling the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam and revising it, taught it to his own son, Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī, who was already engaged in self-realization.

In today’s sanga, Śrīla Dhanurdhara Swami shares his realizations from his recent studies about Kṛṣṇa Chastises the Serpent Kāliya pastime from the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam.

The following is a home program entitled Perfect Questions Perfect Answers with Srila Jayadvaita Swami and Srila Dhanurdhara Swami on Friday, May 31, 2019, in Brooklyn, New York.   Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfuSCgZk_fs

The following is a home program with author Simon Haas and Srila Dhanurdhara Swami on Sunday, June 23, 2019, in Brooklyn, New York.   Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wqca_-O4fuU

Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam Canto 1 Chapter 7 Text 7   yasyāṁ vai śrūyamāṇāyāṁ kṛṣṇe parama-pūruṣe bhaktir utpadyate puṁsaḥ śoka-moha-bhayāpahā   TRANSLATION Simply by giving aural reception to this Vedic literature, the feeling for loving devotional service to Lord Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, sprouts up at once to extinguish the fire of lamentation, illusion and fearfulness....

Caitanya-caritāmṛta Antya-līlā Chapter 6 text 1   kṛpā-guṇair yaḥ kugṛhāndha-kūpād uddhṛtya bhaṅgyā raghunātha-dāsam nyasya svarūpe vidadhe ’ntar-aṅgaṁ śrī-kṛṣṇa-caitanyam amuṁ prapadye   TRANSLATION With the ropes of His causeless mercy, Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya Mahāprabhu employed a trick to deliver Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī from the blind well of contemptible family life. He made Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī one...

Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam Canto 1 Chapter 7 Text 6   anarthopaśamaṁ sākṣād bhakti-yogam adhokṣaje lokasyājānato vidvāṁś cakre sātvata-saṁhitām   TRANSLATION The material miseries of the living entity, which are superfluous to him, can be directly mitigated by the linking process of devotional service. But the mass of people do not know this, and therefore the learned Vyāsadeva...

Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam Canto 1 Chapter 7 Text 4   bhakti-yogena manasi samyak praṇihite ’male apaśyat puruṣaṁ pūrṇaṁ māyāṁ ca tad-apāśrayām   TRANSLATION Thus he fixed his mind, perfectly engaging it by linking it in devotional service [bhakti-yoga] without any tinge of materialism, and thus he saw the Absolute Personality of Godhead along with His external energy,...

Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam Canto 1 Chapter 7 Text 1   śaunaka uvāca nirgate nārade sūta bhagavān bādarāyaṇaḥ śrutavāṁs tad-abhipretaṁ tataḥ kim akarod vibhuḥ   TRANSLATION Ṛṣi Śaunaka asked: O Sūta, the great and transcendentally powerful Vyāsadeva heard everything from Śrī Nārada Muni. So after Nārada’s departure, what did Vyāsadeva do?

Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam Canto 7 Chapter 1 Texts 4-5   śrī-ṛṣir uvāca sādhu pṛṣṭaṁ mahārāja hareś caritam adbhutam yad bhāgavata-māhātmyaṁ bhagavad-bhakti-vardhanam gīyate paramaṁ puṇyam ṛṣibhir nāradādibhiḥ natvā kṛṣṇāya munaye kathayiṣye hareḥ kathām   TRANSLATION The great sage Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: My dear King, you have put before me an excellent question. Discourses concerning the activities of the...