Kurukshetra monthly plan for APRIL

Dear brothers,sisters and friends,we have the pleasure to present you the new info program from our centre-The monthly plan.There you can chek out what surprises we are going to offer you in each day from the month.The special for April is that many days our beloved spiritual teacher Paramadvaiti maharaj is in Berlin ,so ,please,don´t miss the chanse to share this exiting expirience with us!!!

For more info come to our place or call us!!!

Kurukshetra team

Swami BA Paramadvaiti in Berlin

Hello,dear friends!We have the luck to invite you on a visit in our ashram in the time when our dear spiritual master is here.First we are going on the beautiful Eastern mela,Neu Sammit,from 31.03-05.04..The dates when Paramadvaiti Maharaj is giving lectures are :

                                   05.04-evening lecure

                                   06.04-morning and evening lectures

                                   07.04-morning and evening lecture

                                   12.04-evening lecture

                                   13.04-morning and evening lectures

                                   18.04-evening lecture on sunday festival

                                   19.04-morning and evening lectures

                                    20.04-morning and evening lecture

                                    26.04-morning and evening lecture

                                    27.04-morning and evening lecture

                                    28.04-morning and evening lecture

                                    29.04-morning and evening lecture

The morning lectures will  start at 08.00 and the evening lectires will start at 19.00.The lecture on the sunday festival will start around 17.00.

          WELCOME AND BRING A FRIEND WELCOME

Kurukshetra team

Passing of Srila Bhakti Sundara Govinda Maharaja

At about 4:30am yesterday, 27 March 2010, Srila Bhakti Sundar Govinda Dev-Goswami Maharaj passed away from our vision by his own sweet will and surrounded by sannyasis and servitors chanting softly. His holy form was presently taken with a convoy of vehicles from our Dum Dum Park Temple, Kolkata, to Navadvipa, where this afternoon (28.03)  was given samadhi close to the Samadhi Mandir of his beloved Srila Guru Maharaj, Srila Bhakti Raksak Sridhar Dev-Goswami Maharaj.

2 p.m. update from Nabadwip: Srila Gurudev’s holy body was brought before the deities here at Sri Chaitanya Saraswat Math. Accompanied by continuous kirtana, devotees garlanded His Divine Grace and offered flowers and prayers. Bathing took place just
now on the plinth of the ‘Temple of Union in Separation’ where chanting continues.
Live online BlogTV broadcasts are taking place throughout the afternoon:
TVdarshan broadcast by Anukrishna Devi dasi of Russia
and Vaishnavadarshan TV broadcast by Nimai Chandra Prabhu.

Srila Govinda Maharaja joined Srila Sridhara Maharaja in 1947 at the age of seventeen and it was announced shortly thereafter that he would become Srila Sridhara Maharaja’s successor. Almost forty years later this proclamation came to pass and in 1985 Srila Govinda Maharaja inherited the service of acarya of the international Sri Chaitanya Saraswat Math mission. Srila Govinda Maharaja was integral in spreading Srila Sridhara Maharaja’s teachings throughout the global Gaudiya community, nourishing countless devotees in the process and continuing to guide and nourish them after the departure of his beloved Guru Maharaja. Srila Bhakti Sundara Govinda-Dev Goswami’s departure is a great loss to the Gaudiya Vaishnava community.

 Srila Bhakti Sundara Govinda Maharaja ki jay

                        Kurukshetra team

Rama Navami - wed. 24.03.10

                         The appearance day of Lord Ramachandra! 

Ramayana, the saga of the AVATAR of God

God, the personifyed absolute truth descended in a bygone age to relieve the earth from the terrorization of the demon king Ravana and to bring happiness for His devotees.
His name is Rama, and his adventures are alive in the hearts of his devotees worldwide. Hearing about His transcendental activities purifyes the mind and gives sublime satisfaction to the heart. The sacred message of the Ramayana reveals precious wisdom that can bring answers many modern questions and doubts regarding God and His creation.


WELCOME to celebrate with us the appearance day of Lord Ramachandra ,THE PROGRAM WILL START 17 h with bhajan,lecture,arati,dancing  and singing for the Lord,prasadam distribution-delicious veg.food :)

We will wait for you!!!

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Kurukshetra team

Vyasapuja of Guru deva Atulananda

Welcome to the Vyasapuja of Guru deva Atulananda ,saturday 20 March.Let´s celebrate together his birthday,singing,dancing,hearing about his glories and eating prasadam.

Program:

17.00-Bhajan

17.45-Guru Puja

18.00-Lecture from Srauti Maharaj

19.00-Arati(oltar ceremonie with singing of mantras)

19.30-Prasadam(vegetarian food)

Srila Atulananda Acharya Ki Jay

Kurukshetra team

1 year of the disapearance day of Bhakti Vaibhav Puri Goswami Maharaj

Before 1 year one great personality left the body,going back to the spiritual wolrd.His samadhi is in Puri,Orissa,India.Being thankful to him and to all pure devoties,who have come to help us and to save us we can give our respectful obeissances!

Our Guru Deva BA Paramadvaiti Maharaj loves Puri Maharaj very much.Let´s folow his example and sing for him today!!!Last year i was in Mayapur in that time and Guru deva shared with us beautiful stories about the life of Puri Maharaj and he dedicated this day to him.

Bhakti Vaibhav Puri Maharaj Ki Jay

Kurukshetra team

गौराङ्ग

गौराङ्ग (gaurāṅga ) means "having a white or yellowish body", from gaura "white, yellowish, reddish" and aṅga "limb, member; the body".

Sri Siksastakam

(the eight verses from Mahaprabhu)

ceto-darpana-marjanam bhava-maha-davagni-nirvapanam
sreyah-kairava-candrika-vitaranamvidya-vadhu-jivanam
anandambudhi-vardhanam prati-padam purnamrtasvadanam
sarvatma-snapanam param vijayate sri-krsna-sankirtanam

Translation

The holy name of Krsna cleanses the mirror of the heart and extinguishes the fire of misery in the forest of birth and death.
As the evening lotus blooms in the moon's cooling rays, the heart begins to blossom in the nectar of the name.
And at last the soul awakens to its real inner treasure —a life of love with Krsna.
Again and again tasting nectar, the soul dives and surfaces in the ever-increasing ocean of ecstatic joy.
All phases of the self of which we may conceive are fully satisfied and purified, and at last conquered by the all-auspicious influence of the holy name of Krsna.

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namnam akari bahudha nija sarva-saktis
tatrarpita niyamitah smarane na kalah
etadrisi tava krpa bhagavan mamapi
durdaivam idrsam ihajani nanuragah

Translation

O my Lord, Your holy name bestows auspiciousness upon all. And You have unlimited names such as Krsna and Govinda by which You reveal Yourself.
In Your many holy names You have kindly invested all Your transcendental potency. And in chanitng these names, there are no strict rules concerning time or place.
Out of Your cuaseless mercy, You have descended in the form of divine sound, but my great misfortune is that I have no love for Your holy name.


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trnad api sunicena
taror api sahisnuna
amanina manadena
kirtaniyah sada harih

Translation

One who is humbler than a blade of grass, more forbearing than a tree who gives due honor to others without desiring it for himself is qualified to always chant the holy name of Krsna.


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na dhanam na janam na sundarim
kavitam va jagad-isa kamaye
mama janmani janmanisvare
bhavatad bhaktir ahaituki tvayi

Translation

0 Lord, I have no desires to accumulate wealth, followers, beautiful women, or salvation.

My only prayer is for Your causeless devotional service, birth after birth.

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ayi nanda-tanuja kinkaram
patitam mam visame bhavambudhau
krpaya tava pada-pankaja-
sthita-dhuli-sadrsam vicintaya

Translation

O son of Nanda Maharaja, I am Your eternal servant, yet because of my own karma, I have fallen into this terrible ocean of birth and death. Accept this fallen soul and consider me a particle of dust at Your holy lotus feet.

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nayanam galad-asru-dharaya
vadanam gadgada-ruddhayd gira
pulakair nicitam vapuh kada
tava nama-grahane bhavisyati

Translation

0 Lord, when will tears flow from my eyes like waves? And my voice tremble in ecstasy. When will the hairs of my body stand on end while chanting Your holy name?

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yugayitam nimesena
caksusa pravrsayitam
sunyayitam jagat sarvarh
govinda-virahena me

Translation

O Govinda! Without You, the world is empty. Tears are flooding my eyes like rain, and a moment seems like forever.
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aslisya va pada-ratam pinastu mam
adarsana marma-hatam karotu va
yatha tatha va vidadhatu lampato
mat-prana-nathas tu sa eva naparah

Translation

Krsna may embrace me in love or trample me under His feet. He may break my heart by hiding Himself from me. Let that debauchee do whatever He likes, but He will always be the only Lord of my life.

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Sri Siksastakam Ki Jay!Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu Ki Jay!Nitai Goura Premanande Hari Hari Bol!Gaura Purnima 2010 ki kay!

Sri Gaura Purnima 2010 Ki Jay

Today is a special day and we need to be   very thankful !

Here in the ashram is going on a fool marathon of preparations,cooking,cleaning,decorating,singing and just being happy that we have all that is around!!!

Later we will share with you some photos from all the day we spent together :)

Now ,please ,just come and join us!!!

 Kurukshetra,Invalidenstr.145,Berlin

 

Diving deep into the reality

of His own beauty and sweetness,

Krsna stole the mood of Radharani

And, garbing Himself in Her brilliant luster,

Appeared as Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu.

For the last twelve years of His manifest pastimes

He was deeply absorbed in union and separation

And shared His heart's inner feelings

With His most confidential devotees.

Volcanic eruptions of ecstasy flowed

From His heart in the agony of separation from Krsna.

And His teachings known as Sri Siksastakam

Appeared from His lips like streams of golden lava.

I fall at the feet of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu The Golden Volcano of Divine Love.

(Prema Dhama Stotram, Verse 54)

Kurukshetra team

Come to dance and sing for him together!!

Gaura Purnima Festival-28.02.2010

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Dear friends,welcome to the extraordinary day of the appearance of Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu!Transcendental music,intersting ceremonies,helpful philosophy,delicious vegetarian preparations,nice asosiation....WELCOME!!!

Kurukshetra team

Shivaratri in Kurukshetra,Berlin

  We had a special visit from 

Lord Gopeshvar Mahadev  

in the ashram:)

Also another special guest was Bhakti Raksak Swami Maharaj.The event attened also our Srauti Maharaj,Cheitya Guru -who performed an abishake and arati ceremony to Gopeshvar Mahadev,other devoties and guests.

 

A lot of sweet bhajans...This is Gopal Nsrmha.

His wife-Yashoda Shakti was doing all this pictures!

Jaganath Prasad gave us a lot of inspiration with his prayers...

The ceremonies:

 

It is good to remind for the pure devoties of the Lord and that we have respect for them!
Sri Sri Guru Gouranga Gandharvika Govinda Sundaram Ki Jay!


Kurukshetra team

A mercyful visit from Bhakti Rakshak Swami Maharaj in Berlin (10-15.02)

We have the ouprtunity to have the asosiation of B.R.Swami Maharaj,who is now doing a great job in Mexico yatra.There  he has the responsability of a temple president and of taking care for a  wonderful preaching with standart and love.He will be 4 weeks out of Mexico and we have the chanse that in some of this days he can  be with us in Berlin.Welcome on sadhu-sanga and classes-saturday(13.02),sunday(14.02),monday(15.02) morning from 06,00 h ,saturday(13.02) evening 19,30 and sunday(14.02) for the sunday festival (from 16h.).



                                                                                                                                    Kurukshetra team 

Shivaratri 12.02.2010

We are celebrating the day of Lord Shiva,Gopeshvar Mahadev.He is the protector of Vrindavan and one should respect him propaly.Vaishnavas are worshiping him as The Lord Of The Gopis-Gopishvara.

  

vrindavanavani-pate! jaya soma! soma-maule!
sanaka-sanandana-sanatana-naradedya
gopisvara! vraja-vilasi-yuganghri-padme
prema prayaccha nirupadhi namo namas te

O gatekeeper of Vrindavana! O Soma, all glories to you! O you whose forehead is decorated with the moon, and who is worshipful for the sages headed by Sanaka, Sanandana, Sanatana and Narada! O Gopisvara! Desiring that you bestow upon me prema for the lotus feet of Sri Radha-Madhava, who perform joyous pastimes in Vraja-dhama, I offer obeisances unto you time and again.

 

Kurukshetra team

64 Tanscendental Arts of Srimati Radharani

  

 



ananada-cinmaya-rasa-pratibhavitabhis
tabhir ya eva nija-rupataya kalabhih
goloka eva nivasaty akhilatma-bhuto
govindam adi-purusam tam aham bhajami  

"I worship Govinda, the primeval Lord, residing in His own realm, Goloka, with Radha, resembling His own spiritual figure, the embodiment of the ecstatic potency possessed of the sixty-four artistic activities, in the company of Her confidantes (sakhis), embodiments of the extensions of Her bodily form, permeated and vitalized by His ever-blissful spiritual rasa."

Sri Brahma-samhita, Text 37

1. gita - art of singing
2. vadya - art of playing on musical instruments
3. nrtya - art of dancing
4. natya - art of theatricals
5. alekhya - art of painting
6. visesakacchedya - art of painting the face and body with colored unguents and cosmetics
7. tandula-kusuma-bali-vikara - art of preparing offerings from rice and flowers
8. puspastarana - art of making a covering of flowers for a bed
9. dasana-vasananga-raga - art of applying preparations for cleansing the teeth, cloths and painting the body
10. mani-bhumika-karma - art of making the groundwork of jewels
11. sayya-racana - art of covering the bed
12. udaka-vadya - art of playing on music in water
13. udaka-ghata - art of splashing with water
14. citra-yoga - art of practically applying an admixture of colors
15. malya-grathana-vikalpa - art of designing a preparation of wreaths
16. sekharapida-yojana - art of practically setting the coronet on the head
17. nepathya-yoga - art of practically dressing in the tiring room
18. karnapatra-bhanga - art of decorating the tragus of the ear
19. sugandha-yukti - art of practical application of aromatics
20. bhusana-yojana - art of applying or setting ornaments
21. aindra-jala - art of jugglery
22. kaucumara - art of kaucumara - a kind of art
23. hasta-lagava - art of sleight of hand
24. citra-sakapupa-bhaksya-vikara-kriya - art of preparing varieties of salad, bread, cake and delicious food
25. panaka-rasa-ragasava-yojana - art of practically preparing palatable drinks and tinging draughts with red color
26. suci-vaya-karma - art of needleworks and weaving
27. sutra-krida - art of playing with thread
28. vina-damuraka-vadya - art of playing on lute and small x-shaped drum
29. prahelika - art of making and solving riddles 29a. pratimala - art of caping or reciting verse for verse as a trial for memory or skill.
30. durvacaka-yoga - art of practicing language difficult to be answered by others
31. pustaka-vacana - art of reciting books
32. natikakhyayika-darsana - art of enacting short plays and anecdotes
33. kavya-samasya-purana - art of solving enigmatic verses
34. pattika-vetra-bana-vikalpa - art of designing preparation of shield, cane and arrows
35. tarku-karma - art of spinning by spindle
36. taksana - art of carpentry
37. vastu-vidya - art of engineering
38. raupya-ratna-pariksa - art of testing silver and jewels
39. dhatu-vada - art of metallurgy
40. mani-raga-jnana - art of tinging jewels
41. akara-jnana - art of mineralogy
42. vrksayur-veda-yoga - art of practicing medicine or medical treatment, by herbs
43. mes-kukkuta-lavaka-yuddha-vidhi - art of knowing the mode of fighting of lambs, cocks and birds
44. suka-sarika-prapalana (pralapana?) - art of maintaining or knowing conversation between male andfemale cockatoos
45. utsadana - art of healing or cleaning a person with perfumes
46. kesa-marjana-kausala - art of combing hair
47. aksara-mustika-kathana - art of talking with letters and fingers
48. mlecchita-kutarka-vikalpa - art of fabricating barbarous or foreign sophistry
49. desa-bhasa-jnana - art of knowing provincial dialects
50. puspa-sakatika-nirmiti-jnana - art of knowing prediction by heavenly voice or knowing preparation of toy carts by flowers
51. yantra-matrka - art of art of mechanics
52. dharana-matrka - art of the use of amulets
53. samvacya - art of conversation
54. manasi kavya-kriya - art of composing verse mentally
55. kriya-vikalpa - art of designing a literary work or a medical remedy
56. chalitaka-yoga - art of practicing as a builder of shrines called after him
57. abhidhana-kosa-cchando-jnana - art of the use of lexicography and meters
58. vastra-gopana - art of concealment of cloths
59. dyuta-visesa - art of knowing specific gambling
60. akarsa-krida - art of playing with dice or magnet
61. balaka-kridanaka - art of using children's toys
62. vainayiki vidya - art of enforcing discipline
63. vaijayiki vidya - art of gaining victory
64. vaitaliki vidya - art of awakening with music at dawn 

Kurukshetra team

Join the World Prayer and Kirtan Day in Kurukshetra

Kurukshetra team

Lord Nityananda's appearance day

 

"So today, the appearance day of Nityänanda Prabhu... Nityänanda Prabhu is Baladeva, Baladeva-tattva.So Balaräma... In the Vedic literature it is said, näyam ätmä bala-hinena labhyaù; na bahunä çrutena. So bala means strength. This bala, this strength, is different from the material strenght. This is spiritual strength.So today is Nityänanda Prabhu’s appearance day. We shall always pray Nityänanda Prabhu, “Kindly keep me under your shelter so that...I am very unhappy. Under the shelter of Your lotus feet I shall be happy.” And that is real happiness. "

part of lecture from  Srila A.C.Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

You are also very welcome to celebrate with us this holly day in Kurukshetra ashram,Invalidenstr.145,for more info contact us

 

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वराह Varaha Avatar appearance day

 

Varaha is the third avatar of  Vishnu, in the form of a boar. He appeared in order to defeat Hiranyaksa, a demon who had taken the Earth(Prithvi) and carried it to the bottom of what is described as the cosmic ocean in the story. The battle between Varaha and Hiranyaksa is believed to have lasted for a thousand years, which the former finally won. Varaha carried the Earth out of the ocean between his tusks and restored it to its place in the universe.He saved the earth.:)

Kurukshetra team

Bhaimi Ekadasi-26.01.2010

                                                   

   Jaya Ekadashi 26th January 2010 

This Ekadasi is also observed as Bhoumi Ekadasi and Bhishma Ekadashi by other Hindu communities.

Jaya Ekadashi is observed in the Shukla Paksha of Magha Month in Orissa during the waxing phase of the moon. As the festival is associated with Vishnu Sahasranama Stotram and Bhishma, Lord Puri Jagannath is worshipped with utmost gaiety.

The half-day fast (vrata) for the appearance of Lord Varahadev is also observed on this Ekadasi day, and the utsav (festival celebration - pujas and feasting, etc.) is observed on the Dvadasi, which is when He appeared. 

As in all ekadashi days of the year is recomended to chant the holly names of the Lord and to meditate upon purifying ourselfs,mostly internaly.The stories for each ekadashi are very intersting,but one should be careful to don't fell into the believe that making sinful activities can be purified with chanting the names of the Lord,this is also one of the 10 ofences against the holly name.So,dear devoties and friends,have a nice day ,make as much good things as you can,help others as much as you can,fast as much as you can,chant as much as you can and hari bol!

                                                                                                   Kurukshetra team

Today is Ekadasi.What Srila Prabhupada said about the Day of Ekadasi?

''' The Inner Meaning of Ekadasi
Submitted by Harmonist staff on June 3, 2009 – 8:54 pm13 Comments
By Swami B. V. Tripurari

I was walking with Srila Prabhupada once and one of my Godbrothers asked, “Prabhupada, is Ekadasi auspicious or inauspicious?” In other words, do we observe certain practices on Ekadasi because the stellar arrangement is inauspicious and we seek to counteract that influence, or is it simply auspicious to observe Ekadasi? And if it is auspicious, why do we do things like fasting and so forth? Prabhupada replied, “Ekadasi is most auspicious, and it is not about fasting; it’s about feasting.”

               

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Sri Advaita Acharya

Advaita acarya appeared some sixty years before Lord Caitanya's own advent. He was the first among the associates of Lord Caitanya to appear within the material world to deliver the conditioned souls. It was Advaita acarya who asked Lord Caitanya to descend. Before Lord Caitanya's advent, Advaita acarya had already begun chanting Krishna's names in the streets with devotees and discussing scriptures on devotional service to Krishna. Advaita acarya's name indicates that He is avaita-i.e., nondifferent- from Lord Hari (Krishna), and He is called Acarya (one who teaches by example) because He taught bhakti in all directions, Advaitacarya lived in Santipura and Maypura, in what is now West Bengal, and was the head of the Vaisnava community of Nadia.

When Advaita Prabhu saw that the total human society was full of materialistic activities and devoid of devotional service, which alone could save mankind from the threefold miseries of material existence, He, out of His causeless compassion for the age-worn human society, prayed fervently for the incarnation of the Lord and continually worshiped the Lord with water of the Ganges and leaves of the holy tulasi tree.

Sri Advaita Acharya Ki Jay!

                                                          

                                                                                                                               Kurukshetra team