Thursday, May 22, 2008
Re: More deity pictures
Nitaaaai! Gaaaauranga! Wonderful! Really Wonderful! Please keep with posting! Nitaaai Gauraa Premanandeee!
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Re: Photos of Shrila Bhaktivinoda Thakura
Nityananda Gauranga Hare Krsna
Thank you Gurudeva for your words. We may learn so much simply by watching such wonderful photos of our Acharyas!
Dear Srinath and other devotees, yes, we should alweys share and inspire each others with bhakti katha, pictures etc! We are one family and if we are suporting and inspire each other we will satisfy whole Guru Varga and Supreme Lord Himself! Here are more beautifull photos of Srilla Bhaktivinoda Thakura! Nityananda! Gauranga!
Srilla Bhaktivinoda Thakura ki jay!
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Re: Photos of Shrila Bhaktivinoda Thakura
Dear Bhakta Igor,
Nityananda! Gauranga! Hare Krishna!
Jaya Visnupada Srila Prabhupada!
Jaya Swami Gaurangpada!
All glories to the guru parampara!
All glories to the Vaisnavas!
These are some of the rarest pictures in the whole world! Where did you get them? It makes us feel as if our acaryas are always right next to us, ready to guide a worthless soul like me at all times. Really very moving. Thank you so much! My obeisances again and again!
Aspiring to be your servant,
Srinath
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Contd : Deity images + file transfer problem
Respected Swamiji and all Vaisnavas,
Nityananda! Gauranga! Hare Krishna!
Jaya Visnupada Srila Prabhupada!
Jaya Swami Gaurangpada!
All glories to the guru parampara!
All glories to the Vaisnavas!
Here are some more of the deity pictures with me. Some of them are absolutely rare and valuable. I haven't been able to find them anywhere else. For convenience I do not post all at once
The Visnu deity at Alarnatha,
This is the deity of Mahaprabhu worshipped by his eternal consort Srimati Visnupriya devi herself!
Krishna decides to kill Aghasura and save his friends
Courtesy Bhaktivedanta Book Trust (BBT) www.krishna.com
Krishna Balarama with the gopas!
Courtesy Bhaktivedanta Book Trust (BBT) www.krishna.com
The song of the bee! The most beautiful drawing of Radharani I have ever seen!
Courtesy Bhaktivedanta Book Trust (BBT) www.krishna.com
Beautiful image of Nitaai's lotus feet, excellent for meditation
Another Radharani painting,
Radha Kunda photo
Image of Ksirodakasayi Visnu standing on Ananta Sesha,
I have more pictures to share, but I am unable to post any of them up here as they are all ACDsee 6.0 JPEG images which are not recognised by the software. As a result I cannot post my Vrndavana trip as well. So sorry. I will try to send them by email, if no one is inconvenienced.
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More deity pictures
Respected Swamiji and all vaisnavas,
Nityananda! Gauranga! Hare Krishna!
Jaya Visnupada Srila Prabhupada!
Jaya Swami Gaurangpada!
All glories to the guru parampara!
All glories to the Vaisnavas!
This is so beautiful. I am actually seeing Vrndavana despite having only material eyes. The full size picture is even more intricate.
Artwork courtesy of Bhaktivedanta Book Trust (BBT) at www.krishna.com
Srila Prabhupada dancing in ecstasy . Jay Srila Prabhupada!
The very very beautiful Tota Gopinatha in Puri (?)
Here are a series of three different Photos of Sri Radha Ramana at Vrndavana. If one looks closely one can see that he shows his teeth in the first picture, does not show them in the second, but again shows them in the third!! The deity is so beautiful and cute! Also see how intricate and detailed his features are.
When Mahaprabhu visited Udupi, he danced in ecstasy before the Udupi Krishna deity which had been brought and installed by Madhvacharya. This was the deity which belonged to Rukmini. A similar deity made by Vishwakarma of The child Lord in 4-handed form belonged to Devaki and when Dwaraka disappeared the deity was brought by Brihaspati and Vayu to the place now known as Guruwayur. (see CC Madhya lila) Hence the name Guruvayurappan
The photo shown is Udupi Krishna
More rare deity pictures in the next post. Please relish their beauty! Even if I personally went there I wouldn't be able to see the deities this close up with such intricacy.
Aspiring to be your servant,
Srinath
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Srilla Prabhupada ki jay!
Nityananda Gauranga Hare Krsna
We all are Srilla Prabhupada's children and grandchildrens:
Srilla Prabhupada chanting:
Srilla Prabhupada ki jay!
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Re: Gaura Shakti Svarupaya
Nityananda Gauranga Hare Krsna
All glories to Swami Gaurangapada!
Please forgive me for writing before you Gurudeva (I do not know answer so we will anyway waiting for Gurudeva to post). Just a thout. While reading your question Matus, one small realisation manifested, so I want to share. Please forgive if this is not correct.
Why is Srilla Bhaktivinoda Thakura addresed with gaura-shakti-svarupaya? What is this Gaura-Shakti, and why it is so special and unique? Krsna-sakti in Gaura-lila is Gaura-sakti! In Krsna lila - Lord is enjoying in His amarous pastimes, but in Gaura-lila He is preaching, sankirtana. In Krsna-lila His associates are helping Him most His in madhurya-rasa mood, but in Gaura lila His associates is helping Him in preaching. Therefore, Krsna-sakti is in Gaura lila Gaura-sakti, sakti, power of sankirtana movement, and because Srilla Bhaktivinota Thakura is unparalell Acharya of Sankirtana Movement he is addresed as Gaura-sakti-svarupaya.
I just wanted to sharte this insignificant thoughts.Let us wait for Gurudeva to answer to this question, I just wanted to share this with you. Please forgive me on my mistakes. Nitaai! Gaura! All glories to Srilla Bhaktivinoda Thakura! All Glories to Srilla Prabhupada! All glories to Swami Gaurangapada!
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Photos of Srilla Bhaktisidhantha Sarasvati Thakura
Nityananda Gauranga Hare Krsna
Srilla Bhaktisidhantha Saravsvati Thakur ki jay!
Nama om visnu-padaya krsna-presthaya bhutale
Srimate bhakti-siddhanta-sarasvatiti-namine
Sri-varsabhanavi-devi-dayitaya krpabdhaye
Krsna-sambandha-vijnana-dayine prabhave namah
I offer pranama unto om visnupada Sri Srimad Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Gosvami Thakura Prabhupada, who is very dear to Krsna, who is most beloved to Sri Varsabhanavi-devi Radhika, who is an ocean of mercy, and who is kindly bestowing realization (sambandha-vijnana) of our eternal relationship with Sri Radha and Krsna.
Madhuryojjvala-premadhya-sri-rupanuga-bhaktida-
Sri-gaura-karuna-sakti-vigrahaya namo'stu te
Again and again I offer obeisances unto Srila Sarasvati Thakura who is the mercy incarnate of Sri Gauranga Mahaprabhu (who descended upon the earth to bestow ujjvala-madhurya-rasa, full conjugal prema), and who is the embodiment of the line of sri rupanuga-bhakti
Namaste gaura-vani sri-murtaye dina-tarine
Rupanuga-viruddha'pasiddhanta-dhvanta-harine
I offer obeisances unto Srila Sarasvati Thakura, who is the embodiment of Sri Gauranga Mahaprabhu?s teachings (vani). You deliver the fallen souls and you annihilate the darkness arising from misconceptions (apasiddhanta) which are opposed (viruddha) to the precepts enunciated by Srila Rupa Gosvami.
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Mahaprabhu in Srirangam
Respected Swamiji and All Vaisnavas,
Nityananda! Gauranga! Hare Krishna!
Jaya Visnupada Srila Prabhupada!
Jaya Swami Gaurangpada!
All glories to the guru parampara!
All glories to the Vaisnavas!
First I must apologize for putting in so many posts in one day with so many pictures. It will take time to got through and I fully beg your pardon if it has been of any inconvenience to all of you. The fact is that I am simply unable to control my enthusiasm in trying to contribute my least bit for your glorious services and please accept these humble offerings as the little I can do in gratitude for the unlimited mercy all of you have shown on this worthless, low and sinful wretch.
By Krishna's mercy the compatability problem I mentioned earlier got solved after I changed the file type from .JPG to .jpg. I am unable to post many other nice pictures as they are all above the 1.5 MB limit. It will take me some time to compress the copies of the originals to a lower size before printing them which will take a few days to do.
Mahaprabhu attending water pastimes of Lord Govinda
Mahaprabhu's footprints in Varanasi! Just see the size of his feet! When he appeared on this planet he must have indeed been very very tall over 7 ft!
The tree under which Mahaprabhu sat in Vrindavana
Beautiful picture of Lord Krishna playing the flute! No words left.....
This is the most beautiful deity of Radha Krishna personally with me in the altar of the deity room. This deity is very special as Radha Krishna came by themselves on one fine day when I had just started reading Srila Prabhupada's books and wishing I could worship the Lord. So stunning!! The Radha Krishna here in center are very mysterious in the sense Whenever I see the deity, they always appear in a new manner. In the fraction of a second that it takes to focus my eyes on them, I see them looking at each other, or making different expressions, or roll their eyes in ecstasy or stand in a new posture!! But then before I can adjust my eyes they are back to normal. Whenever I am offensive in my chanting, I see a sad or slightly displeased look on their faces too! Sometimes they smile if I have chanted atleast a bit sincerely. It is too much to describe. It always happens when I never expect it -- it is as if they show themselves when I 'accidentally' look at them at times -- actually it is all the lord's mercy on this most sinful and condemned rascal and aparadhi.
Excuse the blurry image -- poor light. When able I will post a better quality one
Aspiring to be a servant of the Vaisnavas and the Lord,
Srinath
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