Dear Devotees and dear Friends,
please accept our dandavats pranams and receive heartly blessings from Srila Gurudeva. All glories to Sri Guru and Sri Gauranga and all glories to Sri Sri Radha Vinode Bihariji.
Today, Sri Krsna Navami Tithi, the 29th of December, on the most auspicious day of the appearance of nitylila pravista om vishnupada Sri Srimad Bhaktivedanta Vaman Gosvami Maharaja, our most beloved Gurudeva, Sri Srimad Bhaktivedanta Narayan Gosvami Maharaja has entered the eternal pastimes of Sri Sri Radha and Krsna at 03.00 AM in Sri Jagannath Ksetra Dham, the transcendental residence of Sri Jagannath Deva, Sri Baladeva and Srimati Subhadra.
We are making arrangements to bring Srila Gurudeva’s transcendental body to Sri Navadvip Dham and place it in Samadhi.
More news will follow.
Vaisnavadasanudasa & aspirant for the service of Sri Guru and Vaisnavas
Swami B.V. Madhava & Brajanath das
One should understand Krishna in truth, and this one can do only by serving a pure devotee.
First of all I would like to give my deep heartfelt thanks to Srila Gurudeva for always giving us the nectar of his amazing harikatah and for his allowing us to render service to his lotus feet. He loved us so much that although we were all immersed in sinful activities and their resultant reactions, still he gave us the holy name, initiated us and removed anarthas that we had for countless years and lifetimes. Daily he taught us sambandha-jnana, that we have an intimate relationship with Srimati Radhika and Sri Krishna and how we enter that transcendental relationship.
“You are part and parcel of the Supreme Lord Krsna. Your place is not here in the material world; you came here by mistake. By your good fortune you now have sadhu-sanga, and therefore you will gradually realize, ‘Who am I.’ After many years you will have bhakti, and by the process of bhakti you will go to Goloka Vrndavana (the spiritual world).”
If Srila Gurudeva hadn’t come to us, I shudder to think where we would be? Without receiving his blessings which he profusely gave throughout his life, we would certainly be lost in the material cesspool. Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakur Prabhupada wrote in his Caitanya-Bhagavata commentary that one’s chanting of the Holy Name is vain without developing a spirit of service. He revealed, “Real devotion can only be cultivated when one receives the blessings of an unalloyed devotee.”
Sri Krishna said, “For a long time I have not awarded unalloyed loving devotional service unto Me to the inhabitants of the material world. Without such loving attachment for Me, the existence of the material world is of no use. (CC Adi-lila 3.14)
If there is no pure devotee to give us bhakti, there is no reason for the material world to exist. Lord Caitanya showed that the purpose of the material creation is to awaken the living entities and bring them to the spiritual world to join Sri Sri Radha Krsna and everyone else there in the devotional pleasure of their natural loving relationships. As Sri Krsna says in the verse above, without this end, the material world is of no use. Therefore Srila Gurudeva, the bona fide representative of the Lord, came to give us this gift of unalloyed devotional service. He has come from there to give us the fruit of love of God but we must do our part by hearing carefully from him, chanting, serving the vaisnavas and remembering him and his teachings.
Srila Gurudeva: “Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura gave us two jewels, the first one being the holy birthplace of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu. He manifested Gaura-dhama. Before him, no one knew where Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu had taken birth. No one knew where Sridhama Mayapura was actually located. Secondly, he gave the jewel of Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura, who preached throughout the world and universe the glories of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, Sri Nityananda Prabhu, the rupanuga vicara-dhara (the conceptions of the disciplic line of Srila Rupa Gosvami), and the glories of Sri Sri Radha and Krsna. Before the birth of Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Gosvami and Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura, and after the disappearance of Srila Narottama Thakura, Sri Syamananda Prabhu, Srinivas Acarya, and especially Srila Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura and Srila Baladeva Vidyubusana, pure bhakti was covered. The sahajiyas’ ideas were spread throughout Sri Vraja-dhama and Sri Navadvipa dhama. Their influence prevailed and there were hardly any real Vaisnavas.” [BVNM]
Aspiring to serve Sri Hari, Sri Guru and the Vaisnavas,
Rupa Raghunath das
Dear Gurudeva please accept my unlimited dandavat pranams at your divine lotus feet!!!
The sadhaka should always feel separation as Raghunatha dasa Gosvami has shown here—separation from Krsna and especially from Srimati Radhika.
“In many slokas Dasa Gosvami has also lamented in separation from Srila Rupa Gosvami. At the time of Rupa Gosvami’s entrance into aprakata-lila, he composed this sloka:
sunyayate maha-gostham girindro ‘jagarayate
vyaghra-tundayate kundam jivatu-rahitasya me
["Now that I no longer have the sustainer of my life, the land of Vraja has become empty and desolate, Govardhana Hill has become like a great python, and Radha Kunda has become like the gaping mouth of a ferocious tigress."]
“He has also lamented in separation for his siksa-gurus: “I’m so unlucky. First Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu departed from this world and left me behind.
Afterwards I lived constantly with Sri Svarupa Damodara, and he also left. Next I caught hold of the feet of Sri Gadadhara Pandita, but he also departed. Then, experiencing that every place and every dust particle of Jagannatha Puri reminded me of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, Svarupa Damodara, Gadadhara Pandita, and all their parikaras, I fled to Vrndavana.”
Dear Gurudeva please accept my unlimited dandavat pranams at your divine lotus feet !!
I can never thank you enough for accepting me & now I don’t understand to how to express my feelings.
I take a calender from janakpuri gaudiya math and when it opens, I cann’t saw the smile on vigrah of Mahaprabhu,Radha Ramanvihari ji, I don’t understand what its meaning.
Nextday I heard about the Srila Gurudev Enters Smadhi.
I know gurudev still is in every devotee’ heart & make feel his presence to me. I will be tried hard to follow what you say or what you want to say.
May you remain in my heart and mind forever !!
Please exept my heartiest feelings & forgive me for my
every mistake.
I’m also very happy for Srila Gurudev that he enters into Nikunj Lila & see the Lila of Shri Krishan & Radhaji directly and make the comfort for them.
though You have chosen to disappear from our eyes but please please donot disappear from our hearts.Please let us not forget you for a moment. Please forgive me for all offences at your Lotus feet.
Neelam
I offer my heartfelt condolences to my many friends who have found shelter in his company and instruction. I have met with him on a number of occasions in Vrindavan, California, and Hawai over the last 28 years or so, and he was always very… kind to me. I have often expressed my appreciation and gratitude for all he has done to shed light on Mahaprabhu’s movement, and for all the help he has given to so many of my dear friends, and to their children. On the other hand, we always remember Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura’s profound poem on the passing of Haridas Thakura:
He reasons ill who tells that Vaishnavas die,
When thou art living still in sound!
The Vaishnavas die to live, and living try
To spread the holy name around!
Jaya Jaya Srila Gurudeva!
His Name lives on, are deeply sadden by this news tears can’t stop flowing from our eyes. Oh Gurudeva please continue to shower your blessings please please…. We love you Gurudeva!
Haribol, all,
Please forgive my offenses. I’m writing this for historians. Please forgive the length. I won’t write anymore after this, so everyone has a chance. Just wanted to clarify a change from my earlier post of renouncing guru and moving on to another guru to attachment to guru. Still, you can get another guru, while being attached to your diksha guru. I never understood this in the Prabhupada disciples before, until it just happened to me. I want historians and scientists to know that this is not just an emotional or mental phenomena, but some psychic or spiritual force or event that’s happening to the devotee’s heart.
If in future, people think that this is some brainwashed cult of emotional people, ever remembering and serving their guru, I’d like to point to my own scientific, objective experience to disprove that. I’m a cold hearted, logical, rational person. I do not give way to love or emotion. I never married. Never had a girlfriend. Never had any relationship of lust or love. Never wanted to feel any emotional pain. Always kept myself aloof from others with my impersonal philosophy. Took the road less traveled. Never wanted to do what others had done before, such as marrying and having children, and ending in the same age old rut that ends in death.
When my father died, I felt no emotion.
When my Harinama guru, Srila Bhakti Sundar Govinda Maharaja left the planet, I felt no emotion.
When Tarun Krsna das (ACBSP) recently told me that Mangala Maharaja left the planet two years ago, I felt no emotion. And, Mangala Maharaja gave me a lot more association than Srila Narayana Maharaja. Me and Damodar Prabhu (BVNM disciple in NYC) met Mangala Maharaja in 1986 and later years in NYC and Philadelphia ISKCON centers. He was the first Gaudiya math sannyasi to come to America after Srila Prabhupada. The temple authorities were angry at him because they thought he would usurp the position of Srila Prabhupada and take their disciples. Anyway, I felt no emotion, no pain of separation.
But, when Srila Narayana Maharaja (Srila Gurudeva, BVNM)left the planet, after a few hours of trying very hard to be detached and unemotional, I cried out. I had missed his glorification meeting and samadhi observance, the entire thing, in Alachua, due to unforeseen circumstances. So, it cannot be said that I was influenced in any way by their emotions. I also did not converse with any of them. No, this overwhelming emotion came about all of a sudden, despite my best attempts to extinguish it and move on with my life, to another guru. That was my plan before this crippling emotion of loss or separation grabbed hold of me.
I don’t know whether it is the cumulative emotions worldwide of Srila Gurudeva’s disciples permeating the psychic realm and affecting me or if it is Srila Gurudeva himself manifesting in my heart. Perhaps he sensed my regrets at never being able to see him again, to have a chance of developing a relationship with him even though I’m a face in the crowd amongst thousands of disciples. The regrets of never going on the parikramas with him, or going to any more festivals. The regrets of never seeing the smiling faces of his devotees again at the festivals.
The regrets of no more morning walks.
I would give anything in the world to see his lotus feet walking in his orange sandals again, always accompanied by Madhava Maharaja, who was similarly attired. I regret never being able to see Mother Syamarani, Vasanti, and Anita again at the festivals and fixing their computers. I met them at Jai Ram’s house in New Jersey in 1996, when Srila Gurudeva came on his first world tour. Mother Syamarani, whom I knew since 1985 in Brooklyn ISKCON, had requested me to travel with them, to become a manjari, eventually. But, I was a Harinama disciple of Srila Bhakti Sundar Govinda Maharaja at the time and money was short, so I declined. Actually, it’s always the money. Had I the money, I would’ve gone. Regret does not equal emotion, though. I regret so many things, but I have no emotion attached to them.
I took my elderly mom and disabled brother to see Srila Gurudeva in Miami. He gave them prasada and talked to them. So, I did my Vedic duty as a responsible child to liberate his family members.
So, I should not be hampered by human emotions. Should be able to just let go. But, I can’t sleep, I toss and turn, I shake. I miss Srila Gurudeva and don’t want him to go. I want to leave the planet, too, and go with him. But, I can’t. So, I’ll hold onto this pain and never let it go. That way, I’ll remember him and that way I’ll be with him.
So, if historians in the future think that this is a movement of emotional people, I’d like to point out that I’m unemotional, but in this one case, Srila Gurudeva has touched my heart.
If it’s not a miracle to make a hard hearted, impersonal man cry, feel intense emotion of separation and love for someone, then I don’t know what is.
Dandabats prabhuji Well, your words have stirred emotions in this old hardhearted ex maha redneck, u got me to tears this a m thank you. I have had many tears of happiness for Gurudeva over the last few days but I didn’t quite understand why ‘the Fonz’, Hari dasa, hip, slick and cool, couldn’t sleep seemed to be in anxiety, ached and pained all day. Well in the words of Burl Ives, ‘A liti biti tear let us down, spoiled our act as a clown’. It is truly a miracle what these Greats do, with any move they make. I was hit with the Krsna stick by Bimbasya dasa, who didn’t spend much time in a temple, Dyutidhara Maharaja, who is a temple, to Gurudeva who builds temples out us, to guys like u that keep me there. Real Vaisnava sanga. Each and every one of you Vaisnava devotees of the Lord, that are, ever were and ever will be, are my gurus. Plse contact me if u will. Thanks
Thank you, Prabhu. Will contact you on Facebook.
Srila Narayana Maharaja Gurudeva was and is the best guru ever and his devotees were and are the best ever, also. He’s the best because he’s made the most hard hearted person on Earth weep for him. Only a pure devotee mahabhagavat can do that. Materialists might dismiss the books as theory, but they cannot deny the realty of the transforming effect on the hardened heart.
I’ll eternally miss seeing the happy faces of the devotees at the festivals and cherish the memories of their association forever. I don’t remember anything else about my life, neither work, school, or whatever material. I only remember the festivals. I live in the festivals.
‘Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding’ Kahlil Gibrain, The Prophet.
Prabhu Haribol and please excuse my lack of introduction.
Bhaktivedanta Narayana Maharaj ki jaya!
Dear Maharajas and Prabhus. Please accept my humble obeisances all glories to Srila Gurudeva and Gaudiya Vaishnava Parampara. Yesterday I visited the Bhaktivedanta Manor to take Darshan of Srila Prabhupada and their Lordships Sri Sri Radha-Gokulananda, Sri Sri Gaura Nitai and Sri Sri Sita-Rama, Laksmana and Hanuman. I was shocked to see a photo of Srila Gurudeva on Srila Prabhupada’s vyasasana.
So now we have the final lesson, the final failed attempt to insult a pure devotee. They did it to Srila Sridhara Maharaja, Srila Gour Govinda Maharaja (whose books were on sale in Trafalgar square at ISKCON Rathayatra 2010), and now Srila Narayana Goswami Maharaja, their ever well wisher. This begs the “obvious” question, is ISKCON even remotely aware that were it not for Srila Narayana Maharaja, Srila AC Bhaktivedanta Swami’s son would have had ISKCON in liquidation litigation? Yes, Srila Narayana Maharaja was the prime mover in rescuing ISKCON, and their ingratitude is appalling but not surprising.
To place a photo of Srila Gurudeva on Srila Prabhupada’s vyasasana at the Bhaktivedanta Manor after so many years of vilification through totally false propaganda is, to us, the height of small town paranoia and sickeningly blatant hypocrisy. One can only wonder what kind of political spin they hope to achieve. This is not a change of heart but a change of tactics. The final slap in the face to Krsna’s pure devotee. Of course Srila Gurudeva is no longer a threat to them. is He?
Are we surprised? No. Are we impressed? No. Are we annoyed on behalf of our beloved spiritual master? Yes! and sastrically so.
ISKCON, typically bites the hand that feeds. Since the departure of his Divine Grace Srila AC Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, we have observed many devotess, from the newest to the most senior, including Srila Gurudeva, being sacrificed on the altar of political greed for man power, property, and, most of all, money and prestige.
Somebody once said, “Beware the beast, man, for he is the devil’s pawn. Alone among God’s primates he kills for sport or lust or greed. Ye, he will murder his brothers and possess his brothers’ lands. Let him not breed in great numbers, or he will make a desert of his home and yours.”
Edmund Burke, Irish philosopher and statesman once said, “the only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
Mark Twain once said, ” A lie gets half way around the world before the truth can get its boots on.”
“In the size of the lie there is always contained a certain factor of credibility since the great mass of people will more easily fall victims to a great lie than to a small one.” Adolf Hitler, “Mein Kampf” (My struggle)
“The one who does not remember history is bound to live through it again.” George Santavana
“A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.” Alexander Sholnitsyn
Historically, ISKCON controls its members by creating false enemies like Srila Sridhara Maharaja, Srila Gour Govinda Maharaja and Srila Narayana Maharaja. These great souls are everyones well wishers. Their only fault is their pure love for Radha and Krsna for which they were mercilessly persecuted.
We may scoff at so called materialists, but a throne is only a bench covered in velvet.
Yours respectfully, Krsna das
Dandabats all
What do you get when u sober up a ‘Drunk Horse Thief’? A Horse Thief. However, let us give them the benifit of the doubt. Remember what Gurudeva said about not even criticizing the critizer or u will be the loser. And prabhuji, we don’t have to go to Iskcon or any where else, to see the envy for such an entity as Gurudeva. Look at the slap, nay kick in the face, they gave Gurudeva from Devonanda Math self appointed acarya, before and when Shila Vamana deb, passed on. This was from ones whom Gurudeva nursed as babies that were “barely cutting their teeth”. No difference with Iskcon. Same stool, different pile. However Shastric evidence is also Gurudevas words. “Don’t even criticize the criticizer.”
Ambirish Maharaja and Durvasa Muni pastime clearly illustrates this further. If Ambirish hadn’t been praying for Durvasa, let alone critized him, Sudarsana would have burned his butt to ashes.
They are both pure devotees. But Gurudeva tells who is teaching higher taste. ( I kinda like Durvasa Prabhu, somebody has to be the fall guy, a caustic catalyst, somewhat like myself.)
an aspiring, Hari dasa
Dear Hari dasa prabhu,
Please accept my humble obeisances all glories to Srila Gurudeva and Gaudiya Vaishnava Parampara. Thank you for your reply. However, Maharaja Ambirish was praying for Durvasa Muni because he himself (Ambirish) was the one offended. He was acting on his own behalf and not defending the honour of another Vaishnava. The correct Shastric understanding as taught to us by His Divine Grace AC Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada is that if a devotee feels that he himself has been offended he should not retaliate but rather follow in the footsteps of Ambirish Maharaja and pray for the offender. However, His Divine Grace also taught us that if another Vaishnava is offended apart from ourselves, especially a pure devotee, then it is our duty to become angry like fire. We should then try to defeat the offender with logic and arguement as I have attempted in my previous letter. If the offender does not accept logic and arguement then and only then should we desist and avoid such offenders completely. If after hearing blasphemy of a pure devotee we do not become angry like fire and make some attempt to defeat the vilifier then we ourselves become guilty of a serious offence. I have put forward my response to the offenders as I know them to be. Two wrongs do not make a right regardless of what happens in a Devananda Gaudiya Math to which I am nor privy by dint of geographical distance. What happens in my own vicinity becomes my duty to pursue. If the offenders in my locality do not respond to my letter and/or blindly disagree I shall then drop the entire issue. But at least in my attempt to defend Krsna’s pure devotee I feel I have done my Vaishnava duty. Hoping this finds you well.
Your servant, Krsna das
Dear Hari dasa prabhu,
Please be careful. The present acharya of Sri Devananda Gaudiya Math, Srila Bhaktivedanta Parajataka Maharaja was appointed personally by our parama Gurudeva. He was not self appointed!
Dandabats Maharaja Your advice is noted and well taken. And this is not the forum for a discussion of a completely different ball game. My attempt was only to illustrate a little of what Gurudeva has shown us by his example of tolerance. However, at this time, I would like to make note of the following. I find it kinda strange that this so called appointment letter is surfacing only now. And how real is it? In any event I have never heard of it until this last week when I heard some devotee mention it and that we should take shelter there. How ridiculous is that? My recollection of Gurudeva’s words, in addition to ‘them being babies cutting teeth back when and they still are’, is “they pushed their way in”.[Govardan Nov 15, 2004] Trying to be servant of real Vaisnavas, an aspiring Hari dasa.
Dandavats,
This is just a side issue, I agree. But parama Gurudeva appointed him in his will in 1968. It is not a new thing. This can be the end of the discusion! Nice glorification by all the devotees.
Oh Gurudeva, tears and words could not fully express my sadness, joy, and gratitude…
FROM WITHIN MY HEART
From within my heart,I search for you,calling, Krsna! Radhe!
Your words, I live on, Your Truth, I breathe from
My mind, my body, my soul, and my senses thirst for bliss
From within my hari-bhajans,I hear Your transcendental voice
When the wind whispers conjugal secrets
As it follows Your footsteps to Radha-Kund.
When the music of Your heart flows through Your flute,
Peacocks cry; and every creature stood dumbfounded
And amongst the fragrant groves of Vrindavan,
Gopis cried sweet songs of lamentation.
Within my heart, you have always been present
oh, how foolish of me, not knowing before!
From sadhu-sanga and association of devotees,
I listen, rapt in delight to Hari-katha
Of Your glorious Name, Form, Opulence and Pastimes
And now in separation from Gurudeva, I can hear You speak from within
Clearly as the blue skies during autumnal twilights
There’s only one path left ahead to follow
That leads me to You, Krsna, my Beloved
Oh what priceless fortune You have given me in Srila Gurudeva,
ALL GLORIES TO NITYA-LILA-PRAVISTA OM VISNUPAD SRI SRIMAD
BHAKTIVEDANTA NARAYANA MAHARAJA!!!
He gave me everything to lead me on the path of raganuga-bhakti
Out of the dense forest of samsara to be eternally with You…Chandrika Christen Amadea
Hare Krishna with due respects, and without any offences intended, I share your feelings of separation from Srila Narayana Maharaj, but I am trying to understand the statements of some of the devotees who have stated that they are Srila Prabhupada disciple but have to take initiation Srila Narayana Maharaj.
Can someone elaborate on this point?
I understand from the teachings of Srila Prabhuapda that there should be only one diksha guru but can be many siksha gurus.
Did Narayana Maharaja reinitiate them, if so with what kind of agreement and understanding?
Hare Krishna.
Yours in the service of Lord Sri Krishna,
Jayaradhe devi dasi
Hare Krishna Jayaradhe devi dasi. please accept my humble obeisances. Jaya Sri Guru and Sri Gauranga. I will try to answer your question from my own experience. I have been guided and inspired by Shrila Narayana Maharaj for several years although he was not my harinam guru but he is my shiksha guru. Different devotees have taken shelter of Shrila Narasyana Maharaj in different ways but I have never heard that it was necessary to be “re-initiated ” although many have taken either first or second initiation ( or both ) from him. Shrila Narayana Maharaj spent the last 14 years touring the world giving shelter to thousands of devotees at Shrila Prabhupada s request. Many of those devotees had become discouraged by the situation in Iskcon and sought shelter at the feet of Shrila Narayana Maharaj although they remain disciples of Shrila Prabhupada. I hope this helps. Radhe Radhe your servant Ananda Vardhana dasa
Hare Krsna, Jayaradhe devi dasi,
All glories to Srila Prabhpada, my diksha Guru and all glories to Srila Sridhara Maharaja, Srila Gaura Govinda Maharaja, and Srila Gurudeva my siksha guru’s.
As you may or may not know, I joined Iskcon because of the purity of Srila Prabhupada’s mission, mood and teachings. I gave myself to his mission because I felt the love Srila Prabhupada was emanating.
You may or may not know that his mission of Iskcon went through dark times, because after his disappearance from our external vision, the self appointed guru’s took positions they were not qualified for, thus creating havoc in the movement. The fall downs are evidence of this.
You may or may not know also that Srila Sridhara, Maharaja, Gaura Govinda Maharaja, and Srila Narayana Maharaja tried to help Iskcon, out of their love for Srila Prabhupada, but were misunderstood by the GBC, and self appointed acharayas. Due to fear, of losing their positions and popularity the management and leaders of Iskcon banned devotees from hearing or associating with the bonafide siksha guru’s.
Due to abuse, and other offences committed towards them, many Prabhupada disciples left Iskcon, or were forced to leave and banned from their masters mission.
What to do? Many became Ritviks, seeing that an unqualified guru, falls from his elevated seat, when tempted by material sense gratification. They saw that only Srila Prabhupada was worthy of taking shelter of.
I was fortunate to meet other bonafide qualified, pure devotees of the Lord, and understood the siksha relationship process as described by Srila Prabhupada in the Caitanya Caritamrta.
If you want to become an expert pianist, and you study under a master for many years, and then that master leaves this world, and you have not finished your training,,,,,what will you do?
You can stop at that point, and become satisfied with that level of expertise, or you can search for another teacher because you feel deep down in your heart a hunger and thirst to know more.
It does not mean you in any way disrespect your first master, or forget him or what he gave to you, and taught you. That relationship is forever stamped in your heart. But hearing from other pure devotees is the method and system to achieve perfection.
But they are rare and hard to find. Sometimes there is a span of many years, or decades before finding one.
It is all arranged by the Supreme Lord, according to His desire, and our desire to want it. What do we want,???…….we want pure love of God.
If someone has it………..Srila Prabhupada would be most happy for you to receive from them…………
Don’t be deceived or misled, by external position. Saint Francis of Assisi, dressed in rags stood before the opulent assembly of robed priests who had lost the inner meaning of what they were all about.
Find the essence, find the purity, and you will feel the love. That is what many Prabhupada disciples such as myself have done. Does this please Srila Prabhupada? Yes it does ! No one can replace Srila Prabhupada, but another pure soul, can remind us of his love for us.
No, gurudeva doesn’t reinitiate any Srila Prabhupada’s
disciples, but yes the can be the siksa guru, and after him they can be another siksa guru. If a Srila Prabhupada’s disciple stops chanting his Gayatri mantra,
after three days or more, you should heard that mantra again from a Uttama adhikary guru, that happened also, and he will call you a nickname that will remaind you more of Radha and Krishna, but your name always remains the same…. Jay, Jayaradhe……………..ki jay…..
In the material world everything has a beginning, a middle and an end including relationships. So it is difficult for me my dear Shrila Gurudeva to understand , what to speak of realize what is an eternal spiritual relationship. Also in the relative world being with someone is a physical thing. So it also difficult for me to feel your association on the spiritual platform , especially since you have disappeared from my mortal vision . But I cannot bear the thought that you are no longer with me, so you please kindly free me of that illusion and help me realize the truth of our eternal relationship and your constant loving presence. Jaya Shrila Gurudeva
Om Agnana Timirandhasya Jnanajana Salakya
Chaksur Unmilitam Yena Tasmai Sri Guruvai Namah
Namah Om Visnupadaya Radhikaya Priyatmane
Sri Sri Mad Bhaktivedanta Narayana iti Namine
Srila Gurudeva is my Diksha Guru, Shiksha Guru, spiritual father, my heart, my soul, and He is everything good and auspicious that i’ve come to known. i sometimes wonder what have i ever done to deserve this most rare mercy in the shelter of Srila Gurudeva !
Then quickly i realize that He is patita-pavana; He lifts the most fallen and wretched of us and give us Krishna Prema; He gives us Radha Dasyam; He gives us the most sublime transcendental bhakti creeper; He shows us the Rupanuga Marga, the link to Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu’s Sankirtana pass time; He is represetative of Svayam Bhagwan Krishna who is constantly meditating on the the sweet mellows of Sri Sri Radha Krishna yugal kishore; for us He is Saksad Hari ~
säksäd-dharitvena samasta-sästrair
uktas tathä bhävyata eva sadbhi
kintu prabhor ya priya eva tasya
vande guro sri caranäravindam
Oh my dear Gurudeva, i am a very significant fallen person who does not have anyone in this world but only You, and this is my offering to your lotus feet :
tum sukh ke sägara ho, bhakti ke sahäre ho
mere man mê samäe ho, mujhe pränõ se pyäre ho
nita mälä japü teri, mere dosa bhulä denä
Gurudeva kripa kar ke, mujhko apna lena
O Srila Gurudeva ! You are the ocean of happiness and shelter for bhakti. You are dearer to me than my life and are always on my mind. I chant your name every day. Please ignore my faults, and Kindly accept me as one of your own.
You took my heart Gurudeva, and it will only be yours!
your wretched unfortunate son petition at your lotus feet,
anand mohan das
todas las glorias a los devotos reunidos
todas las glorias alos devotos de todo el mundo
gracias por tu mirada de amor,
gracias por darnos tu misericordia
gracias por tus enseñanzas
gracias por tu ejemplo
GRACIAS A TI NARAYANA MAHARAJA
My dear Shrila Gurudeva , although you have left this world , I know you have never left Sri Vrindavana -dham. You are an eternal resident there. But I remain here in the material world , still shackled by a material mind and senses and a resident of Kali-yuga. This is not my home. So how will I be with you ? How will I always remain in your sweet company ? I have no good qualities and I do not know what devotion is so please Gurudeva , you personify the unlimited mercy and compassion of Sri Sacinandana Gaurahari so you please take me home to the Land of Love , please bless me that I may be engaged in the loving service of your most beloved Srimati Radhika. Jaya Radhe
Ó querido Gurudeva Srila Narayana Maharaja ,Vós que ao longo de sua elevada missão pessoal neste plano de existencia da vida material, nos transmitiu com seu exemplo para todos e em especial aos seus associados e discipulos mais intimos as instruções mais confidenciais do mundo espiritual, de modo para nos tirar desta terrivel ilusão de maya, gostariamos de apresentar-lhe as mais sinceras reverências e profunda gratidão.
Assim, para todos nós que ainda continuamos neste mundo material, rogamos pela misericórdia e sempre presente beneficio destas auspiciosas personalidades de mestres espirituaais e acharyas tão elevados e servidores fiéis do Senhor de Todo os Universos, e que sempre serão lembrado e reverenciados e seguidos com os mais puros sentimentos de devoção.
seu servo,
Bhakta Haridas(HDG)
Oh dear Gurudeva Srila Narayana Maharaja, who moved over from their high personal mission on this plane of existence of material life, given us by his example to all and especially to its members and closest disciples instructions more sensitive to the spiritual world of way to get us out of this terrible delusion of maya, we would like to present you the most sincere reverence and deep gratitude.
So for all of us who still continue in this material world, we pray for mercy and ever present benefit of this auspicious and personalities of masters espirituaais acharyas so high and faithful servants of the Lord of All the Universes, and will always be remembered and revered and followed with purest feelings of devotion.
his servant,
Bhakta Haridas (HDG)
How can I still be eating, sleeping, breathing and living? Surely my heart is made of the hardest stone. Gurudeva, please melt it!
all glories to sri guru and gauranga
dandavat pranams to all prabhujis and sanyasis
my srila maharajji all the time remains with me
no separation it is just a viraha
beti radhapriya
Querido Gurudeva,
obrigado pela sua compaixão e ensinamentos, por mandar Vana Maharaj ao nosso encontro, mostrando o caminho de Bakti Yoga, eternas saudades, Srila Gurudeva ki jay!
Shrila Gurudeva my sweet friend and spiritual master although I hardly know you and unfortunately have no real love for you, still I am feeling numb, bereft , alone now that you have left this world. I am heartsick because of your leaving yet still hearing your sweet voice is my only comfort and chanting the holy names. Still I am your eternal servant so I ask myself what will please you now at this difficult time. I know the answer. You want me to continue to bring others into this line. So I pray Shrila Gurudeva that by your grace I follow your superexcellent example of making the orders of my spiritual masters my life and soul. May I not feel self-pity.I have heard that you are always with me, always in my heart. Please by your grace may I realize that. Your eternal servant Ananda Vardhana dasa.Radhe Radhe
On this your disappearance day dear Shrila Gurudeva I am feeling so much separation from you . Without you this world is now vacant , empty. I am taking shelter of your sweet kirtan and your beautiful Gopi gita. I know there are so many of your loving disciples with a heavy heart today.Please comfort us all Shrila Gurudeva, please keep us safe always under the shade of your lotus feet.Please may we love one another the way you love us. Radhe Radhe.Your eternal servant Ananda Vardhana dasa
actually now i am mentally disturbed due to the sudden departure of sril gurudev back to golok. i am upset . i cant understand what to say and what to type. as soon as i recover from this stage i will comment something to know from senior vaishnava how to serve better sril gurudev
GURUDEVA is putting flowers in RADHARANI’S hair!!!
Eternamente viviras en nuestros corazones.
Siempre vives en el eterno mundo de Sri Radha y Krsna. Pero al mismo tiempo viniste a este mundo temporal, movido por la compasión.
Ahora te has ido de nuestra vista y no consigo todavia entender tu ausencia. No pude verte poco tiempo antes de irte y lo deseaba tanto y no pude llegar fisicamente. Ojala me dejes verte otra vez, no se cuando, pero que pueda volver a verte es mi unico deseo intimo, ya que mi mente ocupo todo el otro espacio con toda esta suciedad que arrastro.
Por favor protegenos para poder acumular algún merito y llamar asi tu atención.
Te extraño tanto, por favor protegenos Srila Gurudeva. Las luces se han apagado y tengo miedo de perderte.
Mi corazón se enamoro de su amor tan grande y atractivo.
Srila Gurudeva Ki Yai!!!
You said that you treat us not as disciples, but as your friends… I will miss you so much, very much Gurudev because you are very dear in my heart… Thank you so much for allowing me the opportunity to do some personal service that I will treasure in my heart forever…
Hare Krsna
Dearmost Srila Gurudeva,
My dandavat pranams at your lotus feet thousands of times and then again and again thousands of times more. My Srila Prabhupada sent you to help me and that you most certainly did. Even though I put up so much resistance, still you created a change in my heart and helped me in so many ways that I’m sure I will not understand for many more years to come or lifetimes even. I am ever grateful for every drop of your kindness and association and especially your embraces that caused all my troubles to melt away. Sometimes revealing yourself as a brother, sometimes as a friend, and sometimes as the full-fledged manifestation of Guru-tattva. You came to me and collected me long before we physically met and I am still astonished over this fact and I know that I can never repay the kindness. I am ever yours, and you are mine. Always teaching us through every means possible. I knew you would teach us the proper mood of separation but I never expected the lesson to come in the intense manner you just showed. But I know also that you will teach the proper mood of meeting and I am so much looking forward to this as I have faith that you are not in any way bound by mundane limitations. You are somewhere in my heart always and I know I will see you again and again. I hope and pray that it will be often.
Nitya-Lila Pravistha Om Visnupada astottara-sata Sri Srimad Bhaktivedanta Narayana Maharaja Ki Jaya!!!!!
with all the affection and humility I can muster,
Mithiladhisa dasa
My Most Beloved father, My best friend, My Gurudeve. It is with heavy heart that I write these words. But having a heavy painful heart is one thing, yet, I feel joy, that you have joined Radha Krsna in Nitya-lila in your most beutiful form. You have lovingly prepared me for this day, some things you said to me in the past never really made sense to me, that was until recently and I understood what I had to do and what was about to happen. You told me you will see me again, and that you are always with me in my heart, no matter where I am in this material world. I believe that, I feel you closer to me now and like you said to me you will come and take me accross that insurmountable river but I have to want and endevour to cross that river, and you will be there for me and will take me home.
Gurudeve! Krpa-bindu diya, koro ei dase, trnapekha ati hina
sakala-sahane, bolo diyo koro nija mane sprha-hina
Sakale samaman, korite sakati, deho natha! jathajatha
tabe to’ gaibo, harinamaa-sukhe, aparadha ha’be hata
kabe heno krpa, lobhiya e jane, krtartha hoibe natha!
sakti-buddhi-hin, ami ati din, koro’ more atma-satha
jogyata-vicare, kichu nahi pai, tomara karuna sara
karuna na hoile, kandiya kandiya, prana na rakhibo ara
H.D.G Srila Goura Govinda Swami Maharaja commented on the above verse stating very beutifully…. “This is our prayer. This weeping or crying is required. Unless the child cries the mother will not run and the child cannot get the mothers breast. Similarly, unless you cry how can you get the darsana or Sri Guru? When the child cries the mother runs to him. Similarly, although the guru may be in some other part of the world, when the disciple cries the guru runs there. Sri Guru is Karuna-maya, he is causlessly merciful. Thus whether he is manifest or unmanifest he gives darsana to his disciple. He may come in a dream to give his darsana. This guru-tattva is nitya-tattva – an eternal transcendental tattva. It is eternally prakata, manifest. It is not aprakata, unmanifest. There is no question of guru-tattva becoming unmanifest. This sri-guru-carana is inconceivable. It cannot be understood through one’s material knowledge, intelligence or merit.
I trust and have full unwavering faith that this Sri Guru Tattvah is my guiding light, and if I follow with strong faith then I have your mercy always. This you have always imparted to me. I am your loving daughter and my relationship with you has not ended, far from it…it’s a journey that lasts eternally. Jai Srila Gurudeve.
From your loving Son & Daughter. Radha raman das vanacari & Ananga manjari devi dasi
Dear Prabhus,,,,I am greatly touched by your post, which is heart melting. I feel a great relief reading it, hoping I too can one day have such a strong faith and intimate connection, with my Gurudeva.
All glories to the Divine Loving Exchange between Guru and Disciple……..which is individual and personal, yet expands to all jiva’s who desire this connection.
How merciful are our Guru’s who can appear in everyone’s heart with the greatest of intimacy.
Jaya Gurudeva, Jaya Srila Prabhupada
Very beautiful words, full of deep meaning, extremely helpful.
Thank you.
Jai Srila Gurudeva!!!!!! Jai Srila Bhaktivedanta Narayana Maharaja!!!!
I am remembering sooo many moments together from 1986 on parikrama to Orlando this may.Today watching videos Ive taken with you in India,New Braja,Houston,Alachua,Miami over the last ten years I can only weep in separation. Srila Gurudeva please let me join you and Srila Prabhupada along with all your associates in Braja in the coming thousands of births
your fallen servant
vedanta sutra das
Dear Srila gurudeva,
you told me you were in my heart waiting for me to come forward and be with you. But I blew it never taking advantage of the great opportunity that somehow came my way. You told me not to worry and that you were with me for a long time, now I feel very much alone. When I tried to resign as your disciple due to hopelessness you turned all my negative reasons for leaving into positive reasons to carry on then you said “You can leave me but I can never leave you, so much affection I have for you, even if you go to hell I will come there for you”.
Now I am confused were these just words of hope meant to help this ignorant child come forward or are they real?
No one ever showed me the loving kindness that you showed me and the only thing that made this crazy world make any sense was the fact that you were in it.
Now you are with Radha & Krsna and I am all alone with no tangible connection and I don’t know what to do. Is our relationship carrying on? As I am such a neophyte I can only hope, beg & pray.
I feel like I have lost my only real well wishing father & friend.
If you still have some involvement in my life please help steer me close to one like you as I feel that you are irreplaceable.
Your ignorant child
Syamasundara Dasa
What an amazing and inspiring lifetime of devotion to the Divine Couple! Well done, my dear master. Sadhu! Sadhu! We will miss you dearly for the rest of our lives…
My dear beloved, Gurudeva, you said “there is no hapiness in this world”. The unhappiness caused by you leaving this mrityu samsara surpasses all other kind of distress. It is indescribable. One’s life and soul is gone, only an empty body remains, lamenting and hoping, to meet you again ?
Gurudeva…. i will always remember your sweet blue eyes and you.
GuruDev
Thank you for your unlimited kindness to us. Please kindly continue to place a good word for us to our Swamini or what hope do we have.
dayanidhi das
Dragi moj Gurudeva!
Iako znam da Ti je sada lijepo u tvome nebeskom drustvu, lijepi moj Guru, jako sam tuzna, i ronim suze za tobom.
Guruji moj, dragi,veoma postovani Oce Sri Srimad BV Narayana Gosvami maharaj Tebi neka je vjecna Slava i da se Tvoje Ime spominje za vavijek! Tvoja kci, Liladevi dasi
GURUDEV KI!!!
GURUDEV KI!!!
GURUDEV KI!!!
TODAS AS GLÓRIAS À SRILA GURUDEV.
MUITO OBRIGADO, MEU MESTRE, MEU PAI, MEU AMIGO.
MUITO OBRIGADO POR TUDO, POR VANA MAHARJ, PELO MAHA MANTRA, PELO CORDÃO SAGRADO E SEUS MANTRAS.
MUITO OBRIGADO PELOS AMIGOS E IRMÃO QUE CONHECI AO ESTAR PROXIMO A VOCÊ.
MEU CORAÇÃO CHORA PELA SEPARAÇÃO…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7y_ffkN0UE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhk4FMV2hCE
Jay Srila Gurudeva!!!!!
Srila Gurudeva está presente em tudo porque ele é transcendental, mais minha pouca fé sente medo e a dor da separação. Nós fomos honrados com a mais divina misericórdia de Srimam Mahaprabhu, que enviou seu associado eterno Nityananda Prabhu a esta era para discipar nossas dúvidas, para distribuir tanto amor que não conseguimos acomodar em nossos pequenos vasos que as vezes preferimos encher de areia. Nos ensinou a cantar Hare Krsna Hare Krsna Krsna Krsna Hare Hare Hare Rama Hare Rama, para limpar o pote e receber tanta misericórdia. Eu ainda estou com meu pote cheio, e por isso agora sinto uma forte dor começar no estômago e subir até a garganta, sou um tolo e sem qualidades para adorar tal personalidade como nosso querido Srila Gurudeva Narayana G. Maharaj mas mesmo assim sinto-me feliz por ter estado dinte Dele uma vez na minha vida e poder oferecê-Lo serviço diretamente em seu Vyasapuja no Brasil, e aqueles minutos eternos ficaram sempre na minha mente, sentindo a refulgência do Acharya, sentindo seu olhar penetrar minha alma e me impulsionar para servir os Vaisnavas, Goura-Nitai e Sri Sri Radha-Krsna-Giriraj.
Óh grande mestre do amor, salvador dos caidos, obrigado por tudo que nos deu, o maior tesouro por associar com um Uttama-bhagavatha e oferecer preces de todo coração e expor toda a filosofia de forma pura e direta.
Srila Gurudeva, o senhor agora está desfrutando de doces lilas junto as sakis de Vraja, proteja-nos sempre e nos dê fé para proceguirmos com sua missão, para conseguir continuar servindo-O com toda a dedicação e amor. Por favor, Srila Gurudev manifeste em nossos corações todos os dias no mangala arati, e todo o tempo em nossa mente, só assim seremos capazes de horar seu nome e cumprir nosso bhajana de maneira sincera.
Jay Srila Gurudeva Narayana Maharaj! Jay Srila Gurudeva! Jay Srila Gurudeva!
Patitapavana Srila Gurudeva!Hare Krsna!
Gurudeva you lived so long time amongst us you performed so many transcendental pastimes blessing this entire world,how many times my eyes shone upon seeing your pure smile, how many times I saw my spiritual brothers rushing to welcome you and how many times I saw this lila of love betwen you and your disciples.These visions will stay forever in my life.Now you have gone to krishna and left us the memory of your divine presence, now my heart is with no direction but somehow happy for everything you did for us wandering souls and is still doing and I am glad that you departed in old age surrounded by your disciples that have always loved you from the core of their hearts, been sure you have fulfilled your mission on this earth with the blessings of your Guruji and Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu.Thank you and please blessing me to be always under the guidance of your service and under the service of your beloved disciples.
Guruji, embora eu entenda que você apenas deixou o corpo físico e tenha a certeza de que estarás mais presente do que nunca no meu coração e mente, no momento o sentimento presente é a tristeza e a sensação de um enorme vazio, tão forte que me faz suspirar…
Meus mais sinceros agradecimentos a Radha e Krsna por ter me concedido a benção de tê-lo encontrado. Que a lembrança diária em ti Gurudeva, desperte em mim sentimentos sinceros de amor, afeição e devoção. Que eu consiga compreender e praticar com humildade tudo o que você nos contou e ensinou.
Nama om Visnu padaya Radhikayah priyatmane Sri Srimad Bhaktivedanta Narayana iti namine
A great loss.
As for me, without any doubt, Srila Gurudeva has been an example for all descendants of Srila Prabhupada Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati.
What I very much appreciate about him was his being a stalward preacher, spiritual guide, writer and translator while keeping a very high standard of bhajan based on chanting minimum 64 rounds of japa daily.
His life is to be admired and aspired for.
Dear Gurudeva please accept my unlimited dandavat pranams at your divine lotus feet !!
I can never thank you enough for accepting me as your disciple even though I am most unworthy.
I still have the letter you sent me via email from 2001 stating you had accepted me as your very dear son.
May you remain in my heart and mind forever !!
You will always be me saviour and guiding light in this world of darkness & nescience.
I am praying to you to help me become the servant of the servant of the servant.
Your aspiring servant&disciple,
Cinmaya dasa
Srila Gurudeva! You will remain in our hearts! This is my only hope.
Ofereço minhas mais humildes e respeitosas reverências aos pés-de-lotus de Sri Srimad Bhaktivedanta Narayana Gosvami Maharaja.
Obrigado, Gurudeva, por aceitar ser meu guru. Espero conseguir honrar essa dádiva, pela qual sou eternamente grato.
HARE KRSNA HARE KRSNA KRSNA KRSNA HARE HARE HARE RAMA HARE RAMA RAMA RAMA HARE HARE
Dear Srila Gurudeva!
I was almost completely lost, but you found me and gave me the shelter under your lotus feet!
Svayam Bhagavan Sri Krisna has come to my live as my Gurudev!
You are so merciful to all fallen souls!
Jay Srila Narayana Gosvami Maharaja!
Thank you Gurudev!!!You have saved me.You are my best and one friend!
Ofereço minhas mais humildes e respeitosas reverências aos pés-de-lotus de Sri Srimad Bhaktivedanta Vaman Gosvami Maharaja.
Obrigado, Gurudeva, por aceitar ser meu guru. Espero conseguir honrar essa dádiva, pela qual sou eternamente grato.
HARE KRSNA HARE KRSNA KRSNA KRSNA HARE HARE HARE RAMA HARE RAMA RAMA RAMA HARE HARE
Todas as glórias a Srila Gurudeva!
Como eu poderia suficientemente falar das glórias de Srila Gurudeva? Ele que dedicou cada instante de sua vida em nosso benefício, aceitou esta lila humana de nascimento, velhice, doença, morte, tudo para poder estar conosco e nos dar uma chance de saber o que acontece na mais elevada esfera espiritual dos passatempos de Sri-Sri Radha e Krsna, e o sadhana para chegarmos lá. Que possamos por sua misericórdia chegar a entender suas instruções e seu exemplo de Acarya.
Srila Gurudeva, meu verdadeiro amigo neste mundo, salvador dos caídos, infelizmente nao poderemos ter seu darshan direto novamente, me sinto muito triste por isto, mas oro para que viva eternamente nos nossos corações e que nos leve com você, que nos guie para onde está agora. Por favor seja meu Senhor nascimento após nascimento, e que um dia eu seja qualificado para lhe servir como deve ser.
Hoje me alegro por saber que está em sua glória máxima, nitya-lila, porém me entristeço por saber que não verei mais seus profundos olhos azuis a olhar minha alma, mas sou imensamente grato por ter tido seu darshan, desejo que este samskara fique impresso em mim eternamente, pois caído que sou, só tenho isto, a esperança pela sua misericórdia.
Não tenho como agradecer o suficiente, mas mesmo assim, lhe agradeço por tanta misericórdia, por ter aceito este baixo ser como seu discípulo, por tudo o que fez por mim, pela minha família e por tantas entidades vivas…
Srila Gurudeva, por favor viva sempre em meu coração, seja meu senhor nascimento após nascimento!
Todas as glórias a Ti!
aspirante a seu servo
Yasodanandana Das
Dear Gurudeva, I had a dream a few weeks ago, and wakıng from it the same tears I cried then I cry today.
You were lying sick on a bed with devotees around. I ran through door and to your side amongst protest from devotees and to your side to offer you reiki. You accepted me and told other devotees that it was ok I was there. I put my hands on your body and soothed your pain, and then, ın realization you were going home I cried and asked pathetically… what did I do wrong? And you told me… nothing. You did nothing wrong. Forgive my offences I cried, and then a boy with a peacock feather in his hair came to the other side of the bed and he was okeyed by you too.
It was krıshna. The three of us were together in a moment ı wıll never forget. Our hands on your body. Krıshna was smiling at you…. saying come.. your tıme is over here. I knew what was happening.. the invite. Dont forget to pull me to you… ı saıd to you and Krıshna.
Only if you change the world, Gurudeva joked, and then Krıshna left and ı woke up.
Gurudeva.. you were always joking with me. You filled my heart time after time you kicked me out of your room and I would run to my Prabhuji… and say Gurudeva has told me to stay outside.. and Prabhujı in the out door kitchen ın Gopinath Bhavan would say … I am outside, was the pots… and engage me in your servıce.
I apologıze for devotees for never leaving but I know you never really wanted me to leave. Your humour is so sweet and deep and crooked.
It is true I am not a good devotee… as per my reputation… but you made that reputatıon and you gave me a taste ın bhajan that has never died no matter what dark corner of the earth I wander.
These days I am married and followıng grhastha ashram… my wild days.. my babaji days are over and I am back to 16 rounds. I know you are pleased wıth me… and yes… I wıll endeavour to change the world… and brıng bhaktı yoga to the
attention of all wıse souls.. This world needs vaısnavas to take hold of ıt rıght now… and we wıll manage ıt so Chaıtanyas movement can be the domınating.. or should I say.. denominating force.
I will never tıre in this mission to bring about prema bhakti.. you have made me tıreless…. you have left behind you a wake of great devotees who will do you proud.
so rest in peace and play in love with your pranavallabha.
You deserve it.
We will all see you soon.. by your own grace.
Gurudeva Kı Jaya…………..
Thank you prabhu, Beautiful story,extremely well said to an extremely fallen person like me. Hari dasa, from Canada and Dyutidhara dham, Nabadwipa. trying to place name to face, sorry 68 and counting. If I already haven’t made your acquaintance, I sure would like to after reading your post herein. I want more, before, I go out the door, for, I have some dreams to share about Gurudeva. But Shastric advice is, be careful who you share them with.
Hare Krishna
Yes/// Prabhu.. we know each other.. i was staying around the corner from you for a while… I am Prabhuji’s servant…. and a friend of Sudhamukhi..
…I understand your concern about sharing but I am lucky.. I am on the bottom of the pile.. my reputation is the worst… I can do know worse in some people’s eyes…. but Krishna is writing… and Gurudeva is inspiring…. so he writes words to himself and I observe… I am very happy to see so much love flowing to him… and I am concerned for my godbrothers and sisters who are feeling lost now…
The contradictory feeling of awareness of gurudeva’s well being and our human sadness brings that inconceivalbe truth home of knowing one thing and feeling another… what Krishna himself continually tastes….
.. prabhu… if you are in navadvipa… remember me in front of gurudeva and beg I be his servent forever and to the best of my ability do his will..xxx
with love// pitambara das
contact me on revolutionsinlove at gmail.com if you would like to share something personal… x
Hare Krishna, please accept my humble obeisances, all glories to Srila Prabhupada, all glories to Srila Narayana Maharaj!
We are all very sad to hear about your passing away. The last one of a glory generation is gone. May your light shines brighter than ever before and guides the whole world to the highest abode of transcendence.
Thank you for all……..
y.s. Nama Hatta Pforzheim
Germany
All Glories to Sri Sri Guru & Gauranga!!!
Dandavats!!!
Haribole!
My soul is ethernaly with your´s Srila Gurudeva! Wherever you go!!!
That Sri Sri Radha Raman Ji take´s good care of your ethernal past times!
All your sanga is ethernal and most auspicious!
We miss you much!
Thank you once more!
Prema
Dear Gurudev,
You gave me your association this year and gave me both dikshas. I thank to Srila Prabhupada und my spiritual masters for showing me the path to you. And I thank you million times for giving me place under your lotus feet. I hope i can be a disciple which you desire to have.
Dandavats
Your servant
Pirathib Dasa
All glories to the wonderful shelter, father, master and friend of all Sri Srimad Bhaktivedanta Narayan Gosvami Maharaja.
He has entered the eternal pastimes of Sri Sri Radha and Krsna to day. Therefore to day is an extraordanairy auspicious day. One who even with out knowing serve Krishna our his dear devotee on this day, will be sure to get their mercy.
Please lets make kirtan and prasadam and go out to glorify our master his glories to all.
Jai, mi querido , amado SRILA GURUDEVA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
‘TODAS LAS GLORIAS A RADHA VINODE BIHARI!!!!!!!
¡T0DAS LAS GLORIAS A TI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Soy tan estúpida , amado SRILA GURUDEVA, recibí tu gran misericordia siksa, y me arrepiento tanto de no pedir una instrucción tuya, dejaba festival en festival para encontrar el momento de estar con la jubilación en India y pedirtelo, este año había determinado hacer esto. Cuando te ví este Kartik, había momentos que sentía que te ibas, quería pedírtelo a través de MADHAVA MAHARAJA, pero otra vez me cogió, el no se qué(verguenza, no voy a perturbarte…….. mil excusas), escuché que vendrías por GAURA PURNIMA y decidí que ahora me entregaría hacia tí. ¡Qué tonta!!!111. Sólo excusas, más excusas, orgullo……. no he podido!!!!! Tenía esperanza de verte otra vez, pero sigo internet y llevabamos días que no salían comentarios tuyos y el último video ha sido impresionante, tus brazos apoyándolos con Brajanath prebho, ¡Qué afortunados los devotos que han estado tan cerca, deseo que me bendigan para que SRILA GURUDEVA? lo tenga tan cerca como han estado ellos, por favor vaisnavas dadme vuestras bendiciones, que Srila Gurudeva lo sienta presente día y noche.
Querido SRILA GURUDEVA, mil gracias por tu misericordiosa mirada, por acoger y darle dádivas a mi hijo Nimai , tantas veces, estando enfermo nos levantabas la mano, una y otra vez, este Kartik, GRACIAS!!!!!!!!!!, mil GRACIAS!!!!!!!!!!!!. Nos cuides a mi familia y poder encontrarnos contigo cuando llegue nuestro momento.
Mi querido , amado SRILA GURUDEVA!!!!!!!!!!!!! GRACIAS, mil , mil GRACIAS!!!!!!!!! por TODO!!!!!!!!!!!
Unprecedented love, as you have so generously shown us, bears with it the burden of painful separation. Your absence from our vision is like a slow-acting poison, sapping our very life and consciousness, and we are feeling the world as dull and void. Bereft of your beautiful transcendental form and personal association, we can only resort to tears. Please accept these sorrowful tears as our everlasting puspanjali at your lotus feet in the great hope (asa-bandha) that you may dwell in our hearts forever.
Sri Gurupada-ashraya-abhilasi,
Srila dasa
Jai gurudeva
please accept my dandvat pranam. you are always in hearts. I never forget the association of Gurudev during vrajmandala parikarma.please give me blessing So that i can make little advancement in bhakti path.
I lost my only two gurus this year: my Harinama guru, Srila Bhakti Sundar Govinda Maharaj,had departed from our vision on March 27, 2010, and now my diksha guru, Srila Bhaktivedanta Narayana Maharaja, has just departed from our mundane eyes on Dec 29, 2010, India time. A guru is a teacher. If you lose one or graduate from a particular class or school, you should take another and another and another, ad infinitum, to continue your studies in the infinite ocean of knowledge or bhakti, or whatever field or fields you are pursuing.
I already have my next guru lined up, and, hopefully, this one will give me sannyasa, eventually.
Ys,
Nitai Chaitanya das, Alachua, FL, USA
Who is your guru if i may ask? Is there another uttama-adhikari, a maha bhagavat in this world? And did gurudev anounce a new spiritual master in his line?
I’ve been a face in the crowd too long. Srila Narayana Maharaja hardly knew me, so much was the competition to get his darshan. I don’t want anyone to compete with me, anymore. I want to keep my guru to myself, so I can get good instruction and that he remembers me when he returns to the spiritual world. I’m really dissatisfied that in all the religions and spiritual paths, that it’s only the people at the top that get all the association and reap all the benefits. What irks me the most is that they never entertain the notion that they have enough association, to give someone else a chance. So much is their greed.
Dear Srial Gurudeva
I was almost completely lost, but you found me and put on the correct spiritual path,Thank You Srila Gurudeva
People say that today is the disappearance day of my Guru-pada-padma. However, I regard today as his appearance day. Today I worship him for eternity by singing his teachings with a thousand mouths and propagating them by a thousand mediums of the senses. – Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura.
Thank you! It’s so deep!!!
People say that today is the disappearance day of my Guru-pada-padma. However, I regard today as his appearance day. Today I worship him for eternity by singing his teachings with a thousand mouths and propagating them by a thousand mediums of the senses. – Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakur
Dear Gurudeva,
you have given more then everything one can desire for, but I have not taken it, foolish as I am. My heart is heavy and sad
for not seeing you again in this lifetime. Please have an eye on me from your eternal place.
for ever indebted
Gurudeva are always with us !!!
Hare Krisna !!
My Dearest Beloved Srila Gurudeva,
My limitless dandavat pranams at your sheltering lotus feet.
I heard this news, this morning and ever since then, I am lost as to what to do and what not. I have been hoping to have your auspicious darshan, atleast once more, in this life, but it seems that this hope would never materialize now.
I am presently in western part of India and would like to attend the Samadhi Ceremony, but I am not sure, how.
I will always remain indebted to your kindness, with which you have accepted me and everyone who came to your shelter, notwithstanding their sin-full status.
I wish, I could get some more association of yours.. Though, I am sure, you will always guide us, through your blessings, books & preachings.
Radhe Radhe – Hare Krishna !!
Dandvat Pranams…
My most dearest and most precious Guru Maharaja,
I never fully understood what Ramananda Raya said when asked by Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu , “What is the greatest sorrow ?”. Now, I can fully understand the answer, upon losing you, my most beloved Guru Maharaja ! The pain and overwhelming sorrow, the numbness and tragedy of separation, from you, Guru Maharaja is unbearable ! The world has lost it’s greatest Rasik Vaisnava and we have lost our Spiritual Father ! JAYA SRILA GURUDEVA !!! JAYA SRILA PRABHUPADA !!! JAYA, JAYA SRI RADHE !!!
Your loving and very distraught son,
Jayanta das
Dandavats, my dear Gurudeva! You are forever in my heart. Thank you for the bhakti path.
the company of saint even for a moment is the greatest benediction
i will be for ever in your debt ..jai srila gurudeva …..
nama-srestham manum api saci-putram atra svarupam
rupam tasyagrajam uru-purim mathurim gostavatim
radha-kundam giri-varam aho radhika-madhavasam
prapto yasya prathita-krpaya sri gurum tam nato ‘smi
Thankyou for every thing you have brought to us as said in the verse above ……radhe radhe
your wretched servant prana vallabha
Jia srila gurudev!!!!!!!!
Jia srila gurudev!!!!!!!!!
This feeling i have never felt before in this life but i know ive been here before.
Please accept my dandavat pranames, i an eternally gratful and indepted to you for coming to save me from drowning here in maya, now with you in my heart and mind i can swim.
ive wasted so many moments and still i find myself praying to you. you came to my call, rebirthed me said i must always serve the vaisnava’s and stay in their association.
i know its more for my own satifaction and expression that i write this here but truly i want to thank you from the depth of my soul.
there is nothing i can say to you that you dont already know, but i pray that you allow me to cling onto your lotus feet always. as you keep manifesting before my eyes i pranam to you again and again
your fallen jiva madan mohan
My dearest beloved Srila Gurudeva,
My limitless dandavats at your sheltering lotus feet. All glories to your Beloved Ones who kindly sent you to me.
When my Guru Maharaja left, I never thought that I would meet his like again. But you came. You explained what my Guru Maharaja wanted me to understand: what is bhakti, what is the goal, and what is the process. You gave me a hope for the real goal of life, radha-palya-dasyam. You loved me, guided me, chastised me, trained me. You put my feet on the path and helped me to take my first faltering steps. In this lifetime I will never have a shadow of understanding of what you have given me.
When you left Govardhan on the stretcher, you looked so peaceful and noble. I thought at that time that I would not see you again. Then I began hoping, but now those hopes have been finally dashed forever. You have given me the precious gift of separation. So much grief. When will I see you again? Childishly, I thought I could demand that I be with you and my Guru Maharaja in my next lifetime, but you let me know this was not so realistic. But we will meet each other in the spiritual world, and we will know each other.
I do not understand guru-tattva at all. But I know you have loved me and accepted me completely, knowing completely my weakness and imperfection. Your love for me is the reality of my life. You know how weak and whimsical I am. Please take my heart as yours and keep it at your lotus feet always. Please let me serve you and my Guru Maharaja and your mission boldly and lovingly.
Your aspiring servant BV Nemi
Jay Srila BH Narayana Gosvami Maharaja!
And all His followers!
All Praise to you Gurudeva!
That we execute your will with the least hesitation!
All trust in you, Hari Hari Bol!!!!
With a heavy heart,
TL.
Srila Gurudev Ki Jai. I can’t stop my tears from rolling. Me and my family are indebted to You. We will never forget your instructions to us and definitely we will remember You life after life. But for us to attain that, we must continue this battle between material and eternal. Eventhough, Gurudev, You are not with us anymore, I know You will still guide us.
I, personally, must be grateful that I met You. If not I would have been a lost soul, for good. You saw me and decided to not only initiate Harinam but also gave Diksha right away. What a memorable momentthat was for me. You knew, I guess, that I will never get to see You again. What a fool I am! I should have made that effort to come and see You one more time in Vrndavan during Kartik.
Now my only prayer is to be able to remember You, my beloved Gurudev, Hari, Srimati Radhika and Gauranga life after life. Please forgive me, your lost daughter, for not pursuing harder in this road to bhakthi. Please guide us all from Your abode (where You are serving Krishna and Srimati Radhika directly). Gurudev, Gurudev…. I just want to run away but to where? I hope we all can be with You forever and ever……Haribol
Your lost daughter
Geethanjali dasi
oh Srila Gurudev ,I am so heartbroken ………I wanted to come to you years ago but I was so scared of getting kicked out of ISKCON. You deeply inspired me with your books and your sweet kirtans, I finally came to you this past summer at Badger and was one of the last groups of American devotees to get initiated by you………thank you and unlimited Dandavat Pranams at your lotus feet for giving me your mercy and shelter………….my life is dedicated to trying to serve you distribute your books and preach all I have learned from your books and lectures which are filled with siddhanta and the highest purest message of Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu
KamalaPrabhu-your sentiments i too share -we were most fortunate to take initiation this past Badger festival from Our Beloved Gurudev-i may be the last Srila Prabhupada disciple to take initiation and I feel so blessed to have His Vapu but i feel so lost because I waited so long -but better late than never -we’re in baba
so now we get to take up His mission and help the Kali-yuga renegades get their shot @ getting outta here
may our paths cross again soon -Padmaji
See you in Houston Padmaji Baba!
Srila Gurudev Ki Jay,
I am very sad Gurudev, Pl.forgive me, Pl.forgive my offences, pl.do not disappear from my heart .
SADA ANG SANG SAHAI HONA GURUDEV.
VEENA DASI & FAMILY
Dear Srila Gurudeva
“I was as good as lost,
and then you came my way.
I had been hurt so many times,
my heart filled with so much pain.
But you took that pain away and since then
I have found a place where I want to be.
Since I came under your shelter I have felt a
wonderful feeling,that is beyond any description
and now Srila Gurudeva, more then ever,
I want to be with You, but I have to
wait and be patient.
I gave my heart to You Srila Gurudeva
For my heart belongs to you and I will
always remember that…..
Dear Srila Gurudeva, Thankyou for your kindness in being there for us all and helping inspire so many devotees who were feeling lost and abandoned. You gave us hope, love and mercy. With a heavy heart I say “I love you and Thankyou”…From Lalasamayi & family ♥
I was born in depest ignorance and where he took me. inconcieveable. Cant say any more Jai Srila Gurudev
my deepest gratitiude
your fallen servant
Vasudev
My beloved Srila Gurudev Goswami Maharaj, i was happily living in hope of seeing you again. I feel saddened that you have left, was praying for more blessed association. Please help me develop an internal relationship of the heart, you are your instructions. thank-you for the good fortune you have given. you have been so kind and merciful. I am indebted to you.
Aspiring to be of service in your mission.
Jay srila Gurudev ki jay.
Your loving Son
Sundarananda Das UK
Shri Guru Charana Padma……
Dear Srila Gurudeva, out of the kindness of your heart, you have honored your promise to A.C.Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, and have helped his disciples through your Siksha, instructions, guidance,and inspiration . Among them, I also feel the love you have freely given, which has brought me closer to the heart of my Gurudeva, Srila Prabhupada.
“He reasons ill, who thinks that Vaisnava’s die,……..” …….Srila Gurudeva, you are present in your books, in your instructions, in the many video’s, and recordings you have left us with. We pray that we may always drink from the pure Ganges of spiritual inspiration, wherever it may be flowing. And we hope you are happy in your eternal blissful service.
with my head, at your lotus feet in great admiration……..most wretched Pracetana dasi
My heart is broken beloved Gurudeva! We are lost without You!
I remember with such fondness of the love and affection you showered upon my brother and I at Kartika 1995 and 6. May your unlimited glories and mercy shower upon all of us fallen souls. Please forgive any offenses I may have committed at your lotus feet.
My dear Gurudeva,
Now, you offer your last matchless gift, just after Srila Bhaktisiddhanta’s viraha festival, reminding us his last teachings, you are showing us how to serve you really in separation, that is the jewel you always tried to offer us, in whatever circumstance we are in…………..
Be always in Vrindavan, under guidance, and constantly chant the holy name… and serve your mission, the mission of Svami Maharaja and all our parampara… only desiring to become a dust under Sri Rupa Gosvami’s lotus feet… there is no other way, no other way, there is no other way…. Only by your mercy….
May Sri Sri Gandharvika and Giridhari always shower you with their love…
Your aspiring servant
Jaya Srila Gurudeva!
Please accept my unlimited dandavat pranams.
Though I only got to spend such a short time with you in this world, still you accepted me as your deciple. You are so merciful to accept me so completely. I pray that our relationship will flourish from within and that you will send me the opportunity for service that so far has eluded me. Though I am sad that I will miss the chance to spend time with you in this lifetime, I have faith that we will meet again. Thank you so much for all that you have given and continue to give to this world full of fallen personalities, and specifically to me.
Hare Krishna!
Your servant,
Jaya Gopala das
Jay Srila Bhaktivedanta Narayan Maharaj, ki jay!
jai gurude.
my dear gurudev thanqu so much for sharing your love and efection.pls keep your mercy to us and your blessing
we miss u always
yours
son
jitoo sagar
a brijwasi boy
Todas ás Glórias ao Filho do Leão Kesava !
O divine master, though You have chosen to disappear from our eyes but please please donot disappear from our hearts.Please let us not forget you for a moment. Please forgive me for all offences at your Lotus feet.
My everdearest Srila Narayan Gurudeva,
Please accept my heartfelt dandavat pranams! All glories to You!
As we made to understand that everything that happens is Your Divine Will because You are the Master, we therefore could not help but resigned to this painful fact…. You choose to be with Your Swamini Srimati Radhika in this most auspicious time.So we can only cry to our hearts content and be blessed in remembering Your most merciful touch and sidelong glance towards us and the sweet instructions You warmly implanted to our hearts praying that we will continue holding on regardless…. because we are assured that You will be there as always to guide us, lovingly watching us as we continue our traverse in this world of uncertainties until such our time also is over!
Again and again we thank You for everything… without Your mercy and blessings we will remain useless and eternally suffering due to ignorance!
Lovingly praying that You may please allow us to be always absorb in remembering Your glories and kindness and may Your qualities we could ever imbibed until our last breath!
we will miss U Gurudeva! We love You so much!
continually aspiring to be of service to Guru and vaisnavas,
Isvara Puri Das
Mitravinda dasi
Narottama das
Janavi dasi
(Mla., Phils)
My dearest Gurudev, your mercy knew no bounds! You showed me over and over that you were everywhere! That, you are everywhere! Indeed, there is no separation! You showed me that our relationship is eternal! With my deepest, deepest, love, affection and gratitude, your daughter, Dhanistha
Oh Srila Gurudeva.
You who saved the many, who were drowning in the salt ocean. By your love you made us swim, and by your words we made it the shore, by your grace we became worthy, by your exemplary behaviour we conquered matter,and by the moonrays of your bhavas we tasted nectar.
Now you have left us here, to save the many, and bring them to the shore, and make them worthy to conquere matter and taste the nectar.
A parent nurtures a child then gives them the world to persue their desires,and you have certainly nurtured We the many and given us something most desirable to aspire for. Now it is up to us.
The world is practically running in the wrong direction and so few wave the flags to stop the stampede. But brave we are, only by knowing you, to stand and stop our brothers and sisters from spoiling their lives in the persuit of happiness not.
A prayer to you will be to stand united with my Godbrothers and Sisters and sing the sweet message that you, the Acharya of this Yuga, have so sweetly presented.
Paramaradhya Uttama Guru Pada Padma Yugacharyavarya Sri Srimad Bhaktivedant Narayana Maharaja, Ki Jai, Ki Jai, Ki Jai.
Your fallen servant
Tamal Krsna das
Million Dandavat pranams my dear Gurudeva! I am so sad to hear this new but I really know you are always in my heart and in my side
Radhe Radhe
Nandimukhi dasi
My dear Srila Gurudeva,
My heart is heavy, and I’m speachless, I never thought that seeing you in Goverdhan would be the last time! You seemed so frail laying in your bed there, but I knew this was all a transcedental pasttime of yours, and in my mind I thought you’d be up and healthy again for at least a few more years! I cannot ever thank you enough for accepting me as your disciple, you saved my life, literally! I saw sitting before me a stern father chastising his children, and then I witnessed the miracle of your purity and love, and your urgency of getting your message out! I will never forget how my life was transformed after that night! I beg you to forgive my offenses! Please guide me to a pure soul like yourself to take shelter of, otherwise I will be lost! We all love you so much Srila Gurudeva!
je anilo prema dhana koruna pracura
heno prabhu kotha gela acarya thakura
Katha mora svaruprupa katha sanatana
kaha dasa ragunatha patita pavana
kaha mora bhatta yuga kaha kaviraja
eka-kale koth gela gora nataraja
pasane kutibo matha anale pasibo
gauranga gunera nishi kotha gele pabo
se saba sangira sange je koilo vilas
se sanga na paiya kande narottama das
kaha mora Srila Gurudev ?
Gurudev deme la inteligencia para seguir su mano-bhistha,de verlo alli en sus instrucciones.
Ud dijo una vez,que el oxigeno es omnipresente y es un elemento material,que decir de Ud mi Senor que es completamente espiritual ?
Ud es el aire de nuestras vidas,no podemos vivir sin ud.
Ud siempre nos dio el ejemplo de seguir a sus Gurudevas Srila Bhakti Prajnan Kesava maharaj y a Bhaktivedanta Swami,y a los venerables vaisnavas.De la misma manera imploro a el polvo de sus pies de loto para que me den inspiracion y hacer lo mismo,de ayudar a mantener a los devotos unidos,ser uno de sus brazos afectuosos para con los devotos.
Me siento como un perro en la playa, al cual su amo se fue,esperare dia y noche por su regreso en la forma de Hari Katha que aparecera en la boca de loto de los vaisnavas……….
vanca-kalpatarubhyas ca krpa-sindhubhya eva ca
patitanam pavanebhyo vaisnavebhyo namo namah
“Respeitosas reverências aos Vaisnavas, devotos do Senhor, que são como árvores de desejos que satisfazem todos e completamente compassivos com as almas caídas condicionadas”.
Ó QUERIDO E AMADO SRILA GURUDEVA MEUS MILHOES DANDAVATS PRANAMS!
O SENHOR É A VIDA É ALMA DOS CAIDOS E SEM ESPERANÇA,ESSE DIA QUANDO OUVI ESSA TRISTE NOTICIA DE SEU DESAPARECIMENTO SENTI QUE A VIDA NÃO TINHA MAIS SENTIDO DE VIVER E MEU CORACÃO ENCHEU DE PESAR E MUITA TRISTEZA, SENTI UM GRANDE VAZIO, POIS O SENHOR ERA O QUE DAVA SENTIDO A MINHA EXISTENCIA.
pOR FAVOR , SEMPRE ME ILUMINE PARA QUE JAMAIS ESQUEÇA DE TANTA BOA ASSOCIÇÃO QUE O SENHOR ME DEU NESSA VIDA.
ME CONCEDA SUA MISERICORDIA PARA QUE EM ALGUMA VIDA POSSA SERVIR-LHE ADEQUADAMENTE COMO UM VERDADEIRO SERVO.
Jaya-Dhvani
Sri Sri Guru-Gauranga-Gandharvika-Giridhari-Radha-Vinoda-bihariji ki jaya!
Om visnupada paramahamsa parivrajakacarya astottara-sata Sri Srimad Bhaktivedanta Narayana Maharaja ki jaya!
Om visnupada paramahamsa parivrajakacarya astottara-sata Sri Srimad Bhaktivedanta Vamana Maharaja ki jaya!
Nitya-lila-pravista om visnupada astottara-sata Sri Srimad Bhaktivedanta Svami Maharaja ki jaya!
Nitya-lila-pravista om visnupada astottara-sata Sri Srimad Bhakti Prajnana Kesava Gosvami Maharaja ki jaya!
Nitya-lila-pravista om visnupada astottara-sata Sri Srimad Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Gosvami Prabhupada ki jaya!
Nitya-lila-pravista paramahamsa Srila Gaura kisora dasa Babaji Maharaja ki jaya!
Nitya-lila-pravista saccidananda Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura ki jaya!
Nitya-lila-pravista vaisnava-sarvabhauma Srila Jagannatha dasa Babaji Maharaja ki jaya!
Sri Gaudiya Vedantacarya Srila Baladeva Vidyabhusana Prabhu ki jaya!
Srila Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura ki jaya!
Srila Narottama-Srinivasa-Syamananda Prabhu-traya ki jaya!
Srila Krsnadasa Kaviraja Gosvami Prabhu ki jaya!
Sri Rupa, Sanatana, Bhatta Raghunatha, Sri Jiva, Gopala-bhatta, dasa Raghunatha, Sad-Gosvami Prabhu ki jaya!
Sri Svarupa Damodara, Raya Ramanandadi, Sri Gaura-parsada-vrnda ki jaya! Namacarya Srila Haridasa Thakura ki jaya!
Prema-se kaho Sri Krsna-Caitanya, Prabhu Nityananda, Sri Advaita, Gadadhara, Srivasadi, Sri Gaura-bhakta-vrnda ki jaya!
Sri Antardvipa-Mayapura, Simantadvipa, Godrumadvipa, Madhyadvipa, Koladvipa, Rtudvipa, Jahnudvipa, Modadrumadvipa, Rudradvipatmaka Sri Navadvipa-dhama ki jaya!
Sri Sri Radha-Krsna gopa-gopi-go-govardhana-dvadasa-vanatmaka Sri Vrajamandala ki jaya!
Sri Syama-kunda, Radha-kunda, Yamuna, Ganga, Tulasi, Bhakti-devi ki jaya!
Sri Jagannatha, Baladeva, Subhadraji ki jaya!
Nrsimha Bhagavan ki jaya! Bhakta-pravara Sri Prahlada Maharaja ki jaya!
Caro sampradaya ki jaya!
škara matha-raja Sri Caitanya Matha ki jaya!
Sri Gaudiya Vedanta Samiti ki jaya!
Sri Devananda Gaudiya Matha aura anyanya sakha matha samuha ki jaya!
Sri Harinama-sankirtana ki jaya!
Ananta-koti vaisnava-vrnda ki jaya!
Samagata bhakta-vrnda ki jaya!
Sri Gaura-premanande! Hari hari bol!
Hare Krsna Hare Krsna, Krsna Krsna Hare Hare Hare Rama Hare Rama, Rama Rama Hare Hare
Jay!!!
Dearest Srila Gurudeva, Please accept my billions of Dandavats as many stars as there are in the night time sky…Your mercy knew no bounds…You have given us everything we need to know now through all your instructions. You truly opened the flood gates of Bhakti. You didnt hold back on any Tattva and we will forever be so grateful for what you have given to us all…Please keep an eternal vigil sending your sidelong glance my way. The only way to rid ourselves of this most grievous separation is to become very very serious with our Bhajan so we can very soon attain once again your Beautiful sweet sweet lotus feet and serve there eternally… your darling daughter, Lalita Sakhi dd
Jai Nitya Lila Pravishta Om Vsihnu pada Paramahansa Parivrajakacarya Ashttotara sata Sri Srimad Bhaktivedanta Narayan Goswami Thakur Ki Jai !!!!!!!!!!!
Standing back in the summer sun,
never heard or knew of any special merciful one,
you came out of the door and walked across the mowned land,
never did i see before so much power,
never did i see before so much beauty shower,
then i said to myself he’s the one,
since this moment has begun i must take this association.
Oh my friend oh my friend, you help me rise when im falling,
when im stuck its you im calling,
you give me words that i should keep within me,
to get back to the land to eternity,
it’s because of you im getting through all this endless pain,cuz most of all…
Most of all you help me to look up to the blue cloud in the rain…
Oh my friend when will i see you again,
when ur not here infront of me i feel you in my heart,
your pictures and words are everywhere thats how i know we’ll never part,
I bow down to your lotus feet,
you’re one i’ll always greet,
always and forever
nalini
Between Two Points
Lyrics by S. Palermo
we’ve got forever
slippin through our hands
we’ve got more time
to never understand
falling footsteps
weighing heavy on me
behind darkness
beneath candles
whispers waltz
around our dreams
the shortest distance
between two points
is the line
from me to you
feet turning black
is this the path we must walk
no turning back
wish i could just hear you talk
can something like this be pulled
from under our feet
leaving our skin
and burning coals to meet
tell me now
the shortest distance
between two points
is the line
from me to you
Dearest Srila Gurudev,
My unlimited obeisances unto your lotus feet. My most heartfelt dandavat pranams to you again and again.
It is said that even a moments association with a pure devotee can lift a fallen soul and make them liberated and full of bhakti. That has not been my case but I was fortunate enough to receive so much of your direct association that you certainly transformed my life.
There are two ways to associate with one’s Guru Maharaj. Directly via personal presence and internally while chanting japa, anik and general thinking and feeling.
Now we will have to focus on remembering, thinking and feeling your presence internally. I pray that I can do this with enough heart that you will be pleased with me.
Thank you for saving us and thank you for the love you gave freely and without expecting anything in return. Srila Gurudev, you truly gave unconditional love but our dilemma is that we could not appreciate that you loved us infinitely more than we could understand. I pray that a glimpse of your love will manifest in our hearts and never leave.
Aspiring for your eternal service,
Jadubar das, Kalindi dasi, Braja-Lila dasi, Jadava das and Nadiarani dasi.
Melbourne, Australia
SBVNM Rupanuga Acharya Ki Jay !Para Sempre Srila Gurudeva meu Amor
Ohe! Vaisnava Thakura
Ohe! Vaisnava Thakura
Vaisnava Thakura
Ohe! VaisnavaJaya Gurudeva Jaya Gurudeva
Gurudeva Jaya Gurudeva !
Nem em mil nascimento poderia pagar tudo que srila gurudeva fez por mim em me aceitar de sua filha , srila gurudeva meu amor mais intenso , nunca vai embora, ele é eterno , de toda bondade e amor , perdão, toda riqueza transcendental de Krsna , toda piedade , misericordia sem causa , ele tomou para si todos os nossos karmas ruins , meu protetor meu pai querido srila gurudeva e pra sempre comigo no meu coração,ele não vai embora nunca porque ele esta aqui e pode estar com todos porque ele nos ensinou a estar com ele cantando os mantras e sentindo srila gurudeva presente com nos em cada dia em cada coisa , ele sempre vai estar e vai nos fortalecer muito muito , ele já nos abençoou por nos aceitar , nosso gurudeva e maravilhoso , santo vaishanva do Senhor Krsna o Servo o Servo de Srimati Radhika , nosso querido e eterno guruji nosso amor e nosso riqueza toda radhe radhe jai jai jai sri radhe .
sua serva insignificante vidas apos vidas quero sempre estar com srila gurudeva , dandavat pranamas , todos ás glorias a ti meu mestre querido , que tudo fez pela humanidade pelas almas distribuindo todo o nectar espiritual de Sri Radha e Krsna
a puraza o doce coração a felicidade eterna hari nama sankirtana cante os Santos Nomes de Sri Radha e Krsna Jaya Radhe Jay Krsna Jay Vrindavana , Radhe Radhe Radhe Jai Jai Jai Sri Radhe Jaya Goura Nitai Jaya Goura Nitai Jaya Goura Nitai
Hare Krsna Hare Krsna Krsna Krsna Hare Hare Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare !!! Gurudeva Tumare Jai Jai Ho Gurudeva Tumare Jai Jai Ho Gurudeva Tumare Jai Jai Ho !!!!Jai Jai Radha Ramada Haribol Jai Jai Radha Ramana Haribol
Para Sempre Srila Gurudeva minha Vida Alma !Dandavat e Pranamas , Vancã Kalpa !
SBVNM Rupanuga Acharya Ki Jay
Om ajnana timirandhasya jnananjana salakaya Caksur-unmilitam yena tasmai sri-guruve namah
nama om visnu-padaya radhikayah priyatmane sri-srimad-bhaktivedanta narayana iti namine
Radhe Radhe Radhe Jai Jai Sri Radhe !
Radhe Radhe Radhe Jai Jai Sri Radhe !
humare prano se bhi pyare gurudevji,
aap hume chodkar chale gaye ab humara kaun sahara?
our dearest shrila gurudev,
aap hume chodkar kyo ja rahe ho ab humara kaun sahara
Dear Srila Gurudev, saviour of the fallen, all glories to you.
I am confused and can’t quite grasp these news,
I can’t sleep and my mind is racing.
I felt so happy when you said you’ll be present at the Navadvip Mandala Parikrama, where I was hoping to see you again. Indeed you will be there in your glorious Samadhi,
But I’m crushed by the thought of not having your personal presence again in this life.
You’ve been so causelessly merciful to this fallen and stubborn soul, I can never repay you.
With deepest regret I think back to the wasted opportunities to associate with you, instead spending my time and money on temporary things of this world. So many times I’ve been forgetful of you and tried to turn away, but like a loving father guiding his wayward son, you’ve picked me up and brought me back to your lotus feet. I’m praying, please don’t give up on me.
You are my master life after life.
aspiring to serve you and the Vaisnavas,
the most unqualified Mohan das
Trillion of Trillion of Trillion Dandavats to the lotus feet of my Dearest Father Mother (Gurudev) who shower me with his love and bhakti and safe me from this material kali yuga world. He is always with me in my heart and instruction.
I LOVE YOU! :`( I can’t stop my tears even though I know Gurudev permanent Maha bhagavath / RadhaKrsna.
The separation!!!!!!!
Malaysia
(KL)
O my dear beloved Gurudeva, even though this is the best thing for you, still I would like you to have stayed longer and longer, now my life is broken, empty, seems useless, tears are flowing from my heart,I can only cry and regret I could not serve you really with all my heart and soul,please forgive me and stay always in this weak heart, I want to serve you forever Gurudeva, you gave us everything we need, please let me be always close to your lotus feet…
Your daughter
Meu querido Gurudeva,
Se conseguir ser qualificada para realizar uma partícula de toda a misericórdia que nos deu, minha vida já terá sido bem sucedida. Mantenha-me junto dos seus pés de lótus, permaneça dentro do meu coração e não deixe que eu me perca do caminho. Você é a essência da minha vida! Que eu possa lhe servir vida após vida.
JAYA SRILA GURUDEVA!
Basanti dasi
Jay Srila Gurudeva!!! my heartly totaly lose……..we love you so much!!:(
todas las glorias a gurudeva
gracias por darnos tu asociacion
gracias por tu mirada decompasion de estas almas caidas
gracias por darnos tu bondad
gracias portu amor para con estas almas caidas
gracias por todo y que estos Lazos eternos esten con nosotros
This is the stone which was set at nought of you builders, which is become the head of the corner.
Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved. Hechos 4:11-12
My humble obeisances to this Maha-Bhagavata!!!
Srila Narayana Maharaj actually enters the spiritual realm after fulfilling the desire of the acaryas.
What a great personality! And He did that mission so well that He could save so many souls and create a feeling of hope amongst the Vaisnava Community all over the world.
My dandavats to this great Vaisnava!
Oh, Srila Gurudeva, please forgive me. What now? Where will I ever find someone like you, whose heart overflows with compassion? I am eternally indebted to you.
Srila Gurudeva saved all of us… May we remember always within our hearts. I offer my humble obeisicances again and again to you oh my spiritual master..
HARIBOL , Dear GURUDEVA please forgive me i a useless soul an very lazy you brought joy and reignighted my taste for the lord Haris mercy , you gave me hope that even such a low born ignorant soul as myself could serve your lotus feet , be at peace my sweet gurudeva you only brought me joy i shall miss your physical presence but i know your safe with Radha and krishna , your servant tarunkrishna (uk)
Haribol, Dear Gurudev…
Your shining eyes are forever pointed in my heart…
Now I almost cry by hearing of your still sudden depart!
I know that you are in a place more beautiful that I can imagine on earth…
You are liberated not only from the senses but now also from the material world.
Love, love, love and bhakti the message of Krishna Radha is like a shining star…
Now when I loke above in a dark night I know that amongst them you still be and altough it seems far.
Light from the other heavenly abodes shining always through memories written in golden letters in my soul so deep.
Dearest Guruji, I never forget what you showed me and did for me; you awakened me from my sleep.
Rest in Peace let’s spread your messages, books and stories en above all your energie field to divide our holy family of bhakti…
Thank you thousand times My Gurudev…giving you my respect and pranam…for being also a friend to my dear Friend Govinda and a Dear Friend to me.
Veneta Devi Dasi 3.03. woensdag 29 Nederlandse tijd.
We are very fortunate to have such a pure devotee guru as our beloved Srila Gurudeva! You will always be in our hearts and please always guide us in everything we do though you are not physically present here anymore. We understand that our relationship with you is eternal. Please guide us to whom we shall seek inspiration from on your behalf.
We thank you so much for all the love and care. We are only very unfortunate we were not able to come last kartik to be with you physically.
Jai Sri Sri Radhe Shyam! Jai Srila Gurudeva!!!
Our life and soul! Giving so much of your heart, Sri Gauranga- Radha Binoda-Bihariju to so many fortunate souls. You have left this mortal world and re-entered the nitya-lila seva of your Istadevas(is). … But you have not left our hearts,… forever!
…”He lives forever in his instructions and his followers live with him!”
Jaya Srila Gurudeva! …begging for the service of your servants, servant!
My Beloved Gurudeva, my heart is in pieces…this planet will never be the same without You here!! I will always carry You with me for the rest of my life and throughout all eternity. Thank You for accepting me one day as your disciple, despite my unworthness and constant offenses. Please keep showering me with your divine Mercy so that one day I will be able to sit again at Your Lotus Feet! I love You always and in the middle of my tears, I celebrate Your being with Radha and Krishna!!! Please keep me always at Your glance, close to you, and always guide me to become like You…don’t give up on me… I Glorify You Over and over again! Eternally thanking You for the Gift You have given to all of us!!!
Lost in this sorrow,
Your daughter,
Latika devi dasi
I’m now in a totally different path, but I’ll never forget Gurudeva’s mercy since the moment I met Him. He reinitiated me after Harikesh, gave me diksha, and later as to a fallen soul repeated to me Gayatri second time. As far as I know, he never rejected me, neither did I after having changed a vaisnava practice for the practice of my inborn religion. May beloved Gurudev bestow mercy upon whole world, devotees and other practicioners.
Srila Gurudeva thank you so much for all your mercy. I feel so fortunate to have had your association for the time I got it. Missing you so much but I know you are always with us.
govinda damodara madhaveti hey krishna hey yadava hey sakheti govinda damodara madhaveti dari mathani dadhi me kisine, tabe dhyana ayo dadhi cora ka hi gada gada kantha pukarati hai, govinda damodara madhaveti mata yasoda hari ko jagave jago utho mohana naina kholo dvare khare gvala bula rahe hai govinda damodara madhaveti
Tears, tears a flood of tears….O Gurudeva….so many emotions converging….the realization of not seeing you again…..so many memories that I am grateful for….I am connected to you eternally that I know, but how to go forward…..please forgive all of my offenses….my head is at your lotus feet and at the feet of your devotees….I pray that I can remember your words and mood….
I hope to someday have a speck of realization about how fortunate we have been to have had the good fortune of coming across the causeless mercy of our dear Srila Gurudeva… forever indebted.
Srila Gurudeva, Your Srimati Radhika has taken You back and even though I know that You are where You belong I will miss you dearly. Gurudeva even though You are physically absent I know that You are always with me. Gurudeva please forgive any offences I have made at your lotus feet and shower your mercy on this most undeserving and fallen servant of Yours.
Nitya Lila pravishta Om parivrajakacharya ashthothara sata Sri Srimad Bhaktivedanta Narayana Goswami Maharaja Ki JAYA!!!! Yuga Acharya Srila Gurudeva ki JAYA!!!
Your most fallen servant.
Raman Bihari Das
I don’t know how to react hearing this news about our most dear Srila Gurudeva entering into samadhi. I just can remember the words of Syamarani didi in LA 2006 saying, “we can not imaging the fortunate that we are to have the asocciation of a pure devotee as Srila Gurudeva”. I’m just happy to know he is with Radha and Krsna now. And I pray that Srila Gurudeva will always stay in our minds and our hearts through his teachings.
Lost for words. It’s inconceivable not to have Srila Gurudeva with us in his directly manifest from. Myself, as well as the devotees here in KL and Malaysia, are feeling bereft and grieving. May he live forever in our hearts.
Aspiring to serve Srila Gurudeva and his mission,
BV Giri
Tears are in our eyes, pain in our hearts to hear that our beloved Gurudeva has gone into samadhi. Deep gratitude rests in our hearts for the One, who profoundly changed our lives completely by offering us his mercifull love, protection and guidance. Eternally indebted to Him….
Forever in our hearts,
Jayadeva Dasa and Uma Dasi – Belgium
May I always follow you, remember you, and keep you in my heart,Dandavats a million times, when will I ever see you again, till then I pray to remain forever somehow or other at your glance, at your service.
A Thousand Dandavat Pranams to His Grace Srila Bhaktivedanta Narayana Maharaja Goswami, my beloved Siksa Guru.
tridandinam bhakta-siromanim ca sri-krsna-padabja-dhrtaika-hrdi
caitanya-lilamrta-sara-saram narayanam tvam satatam prapadye
Oh my Gurudeva you are without a doubt the crown-jewel of all devotees. Within your heart reside the lotus feet of Srimati Radharani and Sri Krishna. You are always deeply meditating on Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu and you especially know and have conveyed to us all the inner most reason for His advent. But now I am lost. My reason for living has vanished from my sight. There is only darkness surrounding me. The whole world seems vacant and without purpose. Please forgive me of all my offenses. Place me somewhere near you so that I may do some small service. I do not deserve anything from you but I am hoping that you will glance my way and give me hope. I will glorify your activities forever and everywhere.
lost in a pool of tears,
Gour Govinda das
Che tu possa benedirci per poter seguire le tue orme..
My beloved Srila Gurudev..you can bless us to follow your footsteps..
Jaya Srila Gurudev!!!! I’m feeling sooo lost-being your most recent Prabhupada disciple to take diksa from you -I too was hoping for more of your association -feeling simply lost !!!
oh my beloved gurudev
you always stay in ara hearts,
we sol always do your instruktions.
we no you are with as
Gurudeva siempre estarás entre nosotros, te amo y continuare sirviéndote mientras exista en este mundo. Ahora estas con Krisnha, gracias por tu misericordia sin causa.
Gurudeva Ki Jay!
Shocked and saddened beyond the expression of mere words. Nothing will ever be the same again.
A million regrets, billions of tears, I am ashamed I wasted so much time in useless pursuits instead of just being with you. Your fame is spread throughout the three worlds. Your disciples will never cease to glorify you.
Srila Gurudeva!!!!!!!
My heart is shattered into a million pieces.
oh, my life and soul! oh, most beloved gurudeva! make me like you; make my heart fit for Their service. I thought I was going to have your darshan one more time. oh..
he’Sri Gurudev ji,i am feeling very sad…
dandavats and pranams to you Jaya Madhava Das,
we all who come to Sri Srimad BV Swami Prabhupada and to Sri srimad BV Narayana Goswami Maharaja, are actualy happy people. We all belong to same Guru Line. GAUDIYA VAISHNAVAs are we. We are all in same time ISCON and PURE BHAKTI.
We can not make difference, there where is no difference.
That is my opinion.
BV Swami Prabhupada says: Chant hare Krishna and be happy
BV Narayana Gosvami Maharaj says: If your mind does not want to practice devotion, dont care. Practice anyway.
With respect, Liladevi dasi
Dear Jaya Madhava Das, pranams from your godsister.
Myself and other disciples of A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada have never left the Iskcon, originally established by Srila Prabhupada. The love and affection Srila Prabhupada gave us is always burning in the core of our hearts. Many of us were forced to leave his established temples because , feeling his loss and separation, and seeing his mission crumbling due to the mismanagement and offences perpetrated by the new guru system, we dared to disobey the sectarian management and go hear Hari Katha from the pure unmotivated heart of Srila Gurudeva.
We were then banned from Iskcon centres and not welcomed there, even though we gave our life, our blood, our everything for years in his mission. What could be more cruel.
And you are now suggesting we go back to a hornet’s nest to get stung again?!
I don’t think you realize what you are saying. I don’t think you are aware of the deep relationship between Srila Prabhupada and Srila Gurudeva, and the order Srila Prabhupada requested of Srila Narayana Maharaja, to help his disciples.
I don’t think you realize Srila Prabhupada’s movement was led astray, due to the immature guidance of the guru’s that appointed themselves as Acharaya, without possessing the necessary qualifications.
They were appointed as managers, of his mission, because the appearance of a next acharaya is someone that is empowered by the Supreme Lord Himself to carry on the purity of the mission from the previous master.
You must know that practically all the self appointed guru’s fell down from their position as Acharaya because they could not fill the qualifications of this Divine Transcendental Parampara system. The transperant via medium of the Lord’s mercy, is gifted to one who is chosen by the Lord Himself.
How can you expect myself or other disciples of Srila Prabhupada to go back to the judgemental, fault finding, and offensive proud mentality that has unfortunatly permeated his temples. This bias, sectarian spirit will ruin love and trust all over the world.
Srila Prabhupada built a house in which the whole world could live, except for Srila Narayana Maharaja and those who are inspired by his purity ???????????????
We would love to see unity between the two organizations, and put the past hate, behind us, and forgive offences caused on both sides. Srila Gurudeva never held the offences he received from Iskcon, but saw that it came from a place of immaturity and lack of love.
Personally, I am always carrying Prabhupada’s Iskcon in the core of my heart, so there is no need to return to something I have never left.
My wish for you, is to also deepen your real connection to Srila Prabhupada, by loving those, whom he personally loved. And Srila Prabhupada loved Srila Gurudeva. Perhaps you were not aware of their connection due to the poisenous politics that entered his movement.
In the service of Srila Prabhupada, and his transcendental family of the Caitanya Tree, I remain with my head at the feet of Srila Prabhupada, and his loved ones.
a wretched soul,,,,,,,,,Pracetana dasi
Thank you for these words Pracetana….very well put!
Now is the time for love, understanding and harmony. Let us not be divided vaisnavas but come together as all part of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu’s family.