vrindayai tulasi-devyai priyayai keshavasya cha krishna-bhakti-prade devi satyavatyai namo namaha
vrndayai--unto Vrnda; tulasi-devyai--unto Tulasl Devi; priyayai-- who is dear; kesavasya--to Lord Kesava; ca-and; krsna-bhakti-- devotional service to Lord Krsna, prade--who bestows; devi--O goddess; satya-vatyai--unto Satyavati; namah namah--repeated obeisances.
TRANSLATION
I offer my repeated obeisances unto Vrnda, Srimati Tulasi Devi, who is very dear to Lord Kesava. O goddess, you bestow devotional service to Lord Krsna and possess the highest truth.
Sri Tulasi-kirtana
namo namaha tulasi! krishna-preyasi radha-krishna-seva pabo ei abhilashi
mor ei abhilash, bilas kunje dio vas nayane heribo sada jugala-rupa-rashi
ei nivedana dharo, sakhir anugata koro seva-adhikara diye koro nija dasi
dina krishna-dase koy, ei jena mora hoy sri-radha-govinda-preme sada jena bhasi
TRANSLATION
O Tulasi, beloved of Krsna, I bow before you again and again. My desire is to obtain the service of Sri Sri Radha-Krsna.
Whoever takes shelter of you has his wishes fulfilled. Bestowing your mercy on him, you make him a resident of Vrndavana.
My desire is that you will also grant me a residence in the pleasure groves of Sri Vrndavana-dhama. Thus, within my vision I will always behold the beautiful pastimes of Radha and Krsna.
I beg you to make me a follower of the cowherd damsels of Vraja. Please give me the privilege of devotional service and make me your own maidservant.
This very fallen and lowly servant of Krsna prays, ''May I always swim in the love of Sri Radha and Govinda.
Sri Tulasi Pradaksina Mantra
yani kani cha papani brahma-hatyadikani cha tani tani pranashyanti pradakshinaha pade pade
yani kani--whatever; ca--and; papani--sins; brahma-hatya--killing of a brahmana; adikani--and so on; ca--also, tani tani--all of them; pranasyanti--are destroyed; pradaksinah--(by) the circumambulation (of Tulasi Devi); pade pade--at every step.
By the circumambulation of Srimati Tulasi Devi all the sins that one may have committed are destroyed at every step, even the sin of killing a brahmana.
Vrnda devi is a pure devotee of Lord Krsna and is responsible for setting up the wonderful pastimes of Radha and Krsna in Vrndavana. She exists as Tulasi to benefit the fallen conditioned souls by bestowing devotional service to Krsna.
1) Krsna is the lover of Radha. He displays many amorous pastimes in the groves of Vrndavana, He is the lover of the cowherd maidens of Vraja, and the holder of the great hill named Govardhana.
2) He is the beloved son of mother Yasoda, the delighter of the inhabitants of Vraja, and He wanders in the forests along the banks of the River Yamuna!
REMARKS/ EXTRA INFORMATION:
Srila Prabhupada was very fond of this sort and sang it just before his lectures. In Allahabad and Gorakhpur, Srila Prabhupada fell into a trance after singing the first two lines, and after some time he came back into external consciousness and said, "Now just chant Hare Krsna." Srila Prabhupada said that this song is "a picture of Vrndavana. Everything is there--Srimati Radharani, Vrndavana, Govardhana, Yasoda, and all the cowherd boys."
This song is heard in Raga Kafi, Raga Misra Pilu, and Raga Darbari Kanhada.
The standard temple schedule begins very early in the morning, at 4:30 am. The first worship service is called Mangal Arotik (mangal=auspicious arotik=worship). Spiritual life is very successful when one gets up early and starts off the day right. Srila Prabhupada said that all temple devotees must attend Mangal Arotik. If it is not possible to go to a temple and you would like to begin at home, this page should give you a good start.
Click the links below for different parts of the morning program. They are in chronological order. You can follow this program beginning with Sri Sri Gurvastakam and ending with breakfast prasadam. The link above allows you listen to the kirtan and read along. It is a great way to learn and have the program in your own home.
I offer my respectful obeisances unto Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, Lord Nityananda, Sri Advaita,
Gadadhara Pandit, Srivas Thakur, and all the devotees of Lord Caitanya.
Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu is always accompanied by His very confidential associates such as Sri Nityananda, Sri Gadadhara and Sri Adwaita and by many devotees like Srivasa. Lord Caitanya is the most merciful incarnation of Sri Krsna and His associates are even more merciful. They are always engaged in chanting the name of the Lord and are always describing Lord Krsna. The Krishna consciousness movement has established its center in Mayapur, the birthsite of Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, to give men the great opportunity to go there and perform a constant festival of sankirtana-yugya, as recommended herein (yajnesa-makha-mahotsavah) and to distribute prasada to millions of hungry people hankering for spiritual emancipation. This is the mission of the Krsna consciousness movement.
Hare Krishna Maha Mantra
*•.¸♥¸.•*. Hare Krishna *•.¸♥¸.•*. *•.¸♥¸.•*. Hare Krishna *•.¸♥¸.•*. *•.¸♥¸.•*. Krishna Krishna *•.¸♥¸.•*. *•.¸♥¸.•*. Hare Hare *•.¸♥¸.•*.
*•.¸♥¸.•*.Hare Rama *•.¸♥¸.•*. *•.¸♥¸.•*. Hare Rama *•.¸♥¸.•*. *•.¸♥¸.•*. Rama Rama *•.¸♥¸.•*. *•.¸♥¸.•*. Hare Hare *•.¸♥¸.•*.
Vishnujana Swami (also Visnujana Swami; 1948–1976[1]) was a disciple of A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, and a sannyasi within the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (commonly known as the 'Hare Krishnas' or ISKCON). Despite his mysterious disappearance in 1976, he continues to be regarded as a saintly figure within ISKCON. His legend lives on through decrepit recordings[2] of his celebrated singing of the Hare Krishna mantra and through his unmatched success as a preacher in the early days of the movement.
Vishnujana Swami was born on June 2, 1948, in San Jose, California. At the age of seventeen, he moved to San Francisco along with his girlfriend, whom he then married. It was in 1966–1967 that Vishnujana first came into contact with the Hare Krishnas, and by 1968 he had received initiation from Srila Prabhupada and became a full-time member of the movement. On July 20, 1970, Srila Prabhupada awarded Vishnujana the order of sannyasa.
Vishnujana was especially well known within ISKCON for his singing voice, and skill at playing instruments, such as the harmonium and mridanga. Musical recordings of Vishunjana would later be released in 1995[3] and are popularly sold within ISKCON.
By 1973, Vishnujana Swami headed up a team of devotees traveling on a bus across the USA which became famous within ISKCON as one of its most successful preaching parties. The team was named after the deities which travelled with them in the bus, called Radha-Damodara. This bus, filled with ISKCON devotees, would travel from city to city, performing sankirtan, and distributing Srila Prabhupada's books. Vishujana Swami continued travelling with the Sankirtan Party in this way until 1976.[citation needed]
In 1976, during the Gaura Purnima festival in India, Vishnujana Swami disappeared. It is commonly believed that he chose to leave his body at the confluence of several sacred rivers at the Ganges. During a walk some days earlier it is believed he had heard a general statement by Prabhupada concerning the duty of a sannyasi which could have led to him taking his own life, but as Vishnujana is not recorded to have disclosed his thoughts to anyone before disappearing it is not known for certain if this was the case.[citation needed]
In 1999, a biography of Vishnujana Swami entitled Radha-Damodara Vilasa was published by Vaiyasaki das Adhikari.
Vishnujana Swami was the soul of the Radha-Damodara Travelling Sankirtan Party. It was the largest travelling sankirtan army the world had ever seen.
Gauridasa PanditaHH Visnujana Swami was a yogi in devotion to the highest degree. He was my first spiritual mentor and is very special to thousands of souls. When I first saw him I saw he had a bright aura around him probably because of his constant chanting and living loving devotional services eclectically to his most beloved Deities, Sri Sri Radha Damodar. I was so fortunate to get to spend my first year in KC with him chanting all day every day all over America. \o/ Glad he left this material world but also miss him as the world does a lot. I hope to reach perfection in this life by the mercy of Srila Prabhupada and rejoin all the great souls who are already there, back home, back to Godhead. Guru, Sastra and Sadhu's Ki Jaya! \o/
Gauridasa PanditaVisnujana cooked a milk sweet for the Deities before Mangala Aratika every day! Everything he cooked tasted like nectar! He was/is famous for his Strawberry Malpura 8P
1968 Bhagavad-Gita As It Is
