Donnerstag, 30. September 2010

Jagat Guru Ki Jay



On this day,Srila Prabhubad arrived in USA.Jay Srila Prabhupad!Becouse of His mercy we are also so fortunate to be close to all this nectar and to have the shelter of  the pure devotees !Thank you,Srila Prabhupad,please be mercyful with us to always have the power to countinue on the way back to home,back to Godhead.Nitai Gaura Hari Bol





This is one of the two songs Srila Prabhupada wrote while he was on the Jaladuta in 1965,



LYRICS:
(refrain)
kṛṣṇa taba puṇya habe bhāi
e-puṇya koribe jabe rādhārāṇī khusī habe
dhruva ati boli tomā tāi

(1)
śrī-siddhānta saraswatī śacī-suta priya ati
kṛṣṇa-sebāya jāra
tula nāi
sei se mohānta-guru jagater madhe uru
kṛṣṇa-bhakti dey ṭhāi ṭhāi

(2)
tāra icchā balavān pāścātyete ṭhān ṭhān
hoy jāte gaurāńger nām
pṛthivīte nagarādi āsamudra nada nadī
sakalei loy kṛṣṇa nām

(3)
tāhale ānanda hoy tabe hoy digvijay
caitanyer kṛpā atiśay
māyā duṣṭa jata duḥkhī jagate sabāi sukhī
vaiṣṇaver icchā pūrṇa hoy

(4)
se kārja je koribāre ājñā jadi dilo more
jogya nahi an dīna hīna
tāi se tomāra kṛpā māgitechi anurūpā
āji numi sabār pravīṇa

(5)
tomāra se śakti pele guru-sebāya bastu mile
jībana sārthak jadi hoy
sei se sevā pāile tāhale sukhī hale
taba sańga bhāgyate miloy

(6)
evaḿ janaḿ nipatitaḿ prabhavāhikūpe
kāmābhikāmam anu yaḥ prapatan prasańgāt
kṛtvātmasāt surarṣiṇā bhagavan gṛhītaḥ
so 'haḿ kathaḿ nu visṛje tava bhṛtya-sevām

(7)
tumi mor cira sāthī bhuliyā māyār lāthi
khāiyāchi janma-janmāntare
āji punaḥ e sujoga jadi hoy jogāyoga
tabe pāri tuhe milibāre

(8)
tomāra milane bhāi ābār se sukha pāi
gocārane ghuri din bhor
kata bane chuṭāchuṭi bane khāi luṭāpuṭi
sei din kabe habe mor

(9)
āji se subidhāne tomāra smaraṇa bhela
baro āśā ḍākilām tāi
āmi tomāra nitya-dāsa tāi kori eta āśa
tumi binā anya gati nāi

TRANSLATION
Refrain: O, brothers, (o brother) The Supreme Lord Krsna will bestow virtue upon you -- but He will do this only when Srimati Radharani first becomes pleased with you. This I surely declare to you.

1) Sri Srimad Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura, who is very dear to Lord Gauranga, the son of mother Saci, is unparalleled in his service to the Supreme Lord Sri Krsna. He is that great saintly spiritual master, most magnanimous within this universe, who bestows devotion to Krsna in various places throughout the world.

2) His desire is very powerful, and thus he is causing the Holy Name of Lord Gauranga to spread throughout all the countries of the Western World. In all the cities, towns, and villages on the earth, extending to all the oceans, rivers, and streams, everyone may accept the Holy Name of Krsna.

3) Thus all directions will be conquered by a flood of transcendental ecstasy flowing with the excessive mercy of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu. When all the miserable living entities that have been corrupted by maya become happy, then the Vaisnava's desire is fulfilled.

4) Although my Guru Maharaja ordered me to accomplish this mission, I am unworthy to do it, being very fallen and incompetent. That being the case, O Lord Krsna, Your mercy is today arising in a befitting manner to make me become worthy, for You are the wisest of all.

5) If You bestow Your divine power, then one attains the factual substance which is service to the spiritual master - and life becomes successful. If that service is obtained, then one becomes truly satisfied, and ultimately received Your association due to good fortune.

6) (As stated by Prahlada Maharaja to Lord Nrsimhadeva in the Srimad Bhagavatam, 7.9.28:)
"Thus, by associating with material desires one after another, I was following the general populace by falling into a blind well full of snakes. My dear Lord, O Supreme Personality of Godhead! Then the great sage Narada Muni kindly accepted me as his disciple, and instructed me how to achieve the transcendental position similar to his own. How could I ever leave the service of your servant?"

7) O Lord Krsna, You are my eternal companion. Forgetting You, I have suffered the kicking of maya birth after birth. If today the chance to meet You occurs again, then surely I will be able to rejoin You.

8) O my dear brother! In Your company I will experience great joy once again. Wandering about the pastures and fields, I will pass the entire day with You in tending the cows. Joking with You and frolicking throughout so many forests of Vraja, I will roll upon the ground in spiritual ecstasy. When, oh when will that day be mine?

9) Today that remembrance of bei
ng with You came to me in a very nice way. Feeling great longing I called out for You, O Lord Krsna! Only because I am Your eternal servant do I desire Your association so much. Except for You, I have no other refuge.



Mittwoch, 22. September 2010

More from the visit of BV Vishnu Maharaj


Vishnu Maharaj,the vice-president of WVA,gave us the blessing of his asosiation.



The visit of a pure devotee is a real celebration! :)



After almost 3 days time in our Kurulshetra and Vrinda Kunja ashrams on the last evening there was an organised program with devotees from our family,from Sarvabhavana Acharya and from Narayan Maharaj.

 

Nice harikatha,bhajans.and.....



Prasadammmm :)




Becouse of the nice service of Lalita Madhava Maharani and Harikatha ashram we have the nice recordings of Vishnu Maharajas visit.




Don´t miss also the last CD with nectar from our Guru Deva Paramadvaiti.Also many other special lectures,music,films.....All you cna buy or borow from Harikatha Ashram!


Hariii bol!

Radhastami was great!


 On this special day everything was very beautiful...



And Gandarvika Govinda Sundaram were shining with their love and mercy towards us.


A lot of bhajans were making happy our guests.



Vrindavanesvari ki jay jay jay!




Radhe!Radhe!





And our present for this day was the visit of Vishnu Maharaj.Full dose Harikatha...




Singing the names of the Lord....



 The pure devotees are like maginits atracting all others!


 


Another special thing was that all of us wrote a wish or a prayer to Srimati Radharani and one by one all passed to give their dandavats,to offer pushpanjali,then the pujari offered the wishes and gave to everyone a package with maha sweets!



We were inspired from Janmashtami and on Radhastami were offered again more than 108 preparations for their Lordships...unfortunately we can not realy see them on the picture :)



 Kirtan!

 

The little friends were also not bored and there was a nice children program!






Radharani has many friends :)



This is Roland,who has a Yoga studio near by.He is a good friend of us and on this day around 15 from his students came to celebrate with us:)




Welcome again and again to our Vrinda center in Berlin!We hope we can be your servants!



Realy!Don´t forget to come back or to visit us if you haven´t!!!!


Srimati Radharani Ki Jay!

Montag, 20. September 2010

Suppe & Mucke


Soup and music is a name of a street festival in Berlin.


The Kitchen was very happy to have the company of many happy vegetables,who tranformed themselves in different soups.And they warmed up many hearts in that day.



 Vegetarisch-in-Berlin is winning more and more friends with the delicious preparations!



Who was there to smile to the guests.... :)


And to the neighbors :)


We were distributing....


3 types of fantastic soups,invitations.....


with some parsley on top :)


it was working :)



Find the 10 diferences...from before......




and after.... :)


we realy finished a lot of kg soup for short time....



around the festival were different stages with music and art performances


The organisers had some stands from where you could buy a bow and a spoon,becouse nobody was allowed to distribute plastic plates.So some of the friends had with them a cup or a plate,and others just took on the place.


This is the Spoon revolution,fighting against the ilusion....



a new friend fell in love with the Love revolution :)



Everybody was distributing the sopus for free and had the chanse to have his stand with advertisment there.Something intersting was the orrange soup.Almost all soups were vegetarian or vegan.




Even with a lot of soup in the end of the festival there were still many hungry people.








Preaching and inviting the people to our Radhastami festival,who was in a few days....




The soup made us happy and we hope that also the people were happy with us.


Prasadam distribution Ki Jay!

Sri Krishna Janmashtami 2010

In the begining of the month we had a special celebration here in Berlin and alsoi all over the world and i am shure in another universes too :)The appearance day of Lord Krsna.



Gandharvika Govinda Sundaram beautiful like always :)


 from closer....



closer.....


and closer.... :)



Starting the abhishake ceremony...


Bathing The Lord...

 

 Hariiii bol!


Full program.


Trying to serve Him.


So fortunate are the children who can be part of this special day!


Singing the holly name....


Cleaning the mirors of the heart!


Offerings to the Lord.


Harikatha ashram.Here you can buy or rent a huge amount of different CD´s and DVD´s with lectures,bhajans,moovies.Full of nectar.



On the next day we were very happy to share the 108(actualy around120)different preparations we offered to the Lord!



Janmashtami KI JAY