Srila Prabhupada information expanded by Srila Sridhar Maharaj

Srila Prabhupada information expanded by Srila Sridhar Maharaj

Not far from the mango grove Prabhupada stops at for breakfast whenever he goes to Mayapur, in the village of Palapada, and about one mile south of the Cakadaha railway station, is a temple with the same Gaura-Nitai Deities that Mahesa Pandita worshiped. There are also several other Deities and a dozen salagrama-silas. Mahesa Pandita is described as the seventeenth branch of Lord Nityananda and the seventh of the twelve gopalas.

The current sevait, Sri Keshav Priya Brahmacari, is a disciple of a former British World War I air pilot called Richard Nixon. Nixon settled in Almora in the Himalayas and was later initiated as Krishna Prem by one of the Gosvamis from the Radha-Ramana temple. It is well developed and maintained and the devotee appears to be a competent manager. He holds an annual festival that attracts several thousand pilgrims.

Srila Sridhara Maharaja: Yes, according to one's capacity he may be enlisted in a particular class. Some will go to Christianity, and after finishing that, if their  hankering is still unsatisfied, they will seek somewhere else, thinking, "What is  God? I want to know more perfectly."
In this regard, I can give one example: there was a Professor Nixon in England. He went to fight against Germany in the First World War, on the French side.  As he was flying over the German lines, his airplane was hit, and began to fall.   e saw that the plane would fall on the German lines. When I met him here in India, he told me, "At that time, I prayed, 'If there is any God, let him save me, and I promise that if I do not die in this plane crash, I will go to search after Him. I will devote my whole life in search of Him."'  The plane crashed, and when Professor Nixon regained consciousness, he found that he was behind the French lines, in a hospital in France. At that time, He thought to himself, "There is God! He has heard my last prayer." When his wounds were healed, he went straight to England to see some churchmen. He told them, "I want to search after God, and engage myself twenty-four hours a day in the cause of His service. I want to see Him face to face."

Bishops: "Go to India"

He saw many clergymen and even some bishops, and they ultimately advised him, "If you want to see God face to face, then go to India. We cannot recommend such a process to you. But we have heard that in India there are yogis who internally connect with the Lord in the heart. You may try your fortune there." So, he came here to India, where he met the Vice-Chancellor of Lucknow University. In talking with him, Professor Nixon met the Vice-Chancellor's wife, who was a Gaudiya Vaisnava, a devotee of Mahaprabhu. He was so much charmed by her advice that he accepted her as his guru. Finally he took sannyasa (the renounced order of life), and his name became Swami Krsna Prema. He established a temple here in India, and preached about Bhagavata-dharma, and Mahaprabhu. He made a comparative study of all religions, beginning from Christianity, and gradually came to Vaisnavism, attracted by Mahaprabhu's gift. One German scholar also said, "In all the religious conceptions of the world, the conception of twenty-four hour engagement with God (astakaliya-lila) has never been given. I have studied all religious theologies, but none could even conceive of twenty-four hour service to the Supreme Lord. It is only given in Srimad- Bhagavatam."

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Swami Gaurangapadas Biographie und Pranama Mantra (4)

 

Er empfing die Segnungen sowohl von seinem diksha-guru als auch von seinem sannyasa-guru, die Nachricht und die Spiele von Caitanya Mahaprabhu zu predigen. Dies gemäss den Anweisungen von Srila A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (seinem wichtigsten shiksha-guru), Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura Prabhupada (seinem parama-guru sowohl von seiner shiksa- als auch seiner diksha-Verbindung) und von Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura (seinem höchst respektierten und verehrten istha guru).

Srila Bhaktiratna Sadhu Swami Gaurangapada arbeitet zur Zeit an der Übersetzung verschiedener Bücher, welche die Herrlichkeit der heiligen Namen und Spiele von Nityananda und Gauranga und vom Hare Krischna Mahamantra beschreiben. Er ist auch ein einweihender spiritueller Meister und Lehrer von NITAAI Yoga, das heisst Nityananda Gauranga Hare Krischna Naam Bhakti Yoga.

Zusammen mit diesen Predigertätigkeiten besteht sein Hauptdienst und sein Beitrag zur Verbreitung der Herrlichkeit von Nityananda-Gauranga vor allem aus dem Schreiben und Veröffentlichen zahlreicher spiritueller Bücher und Videos über Ihre Herrlichkeit. Swami Gaurangapada betrachtet das Schreiben und die Videoproduktion als seinen wichtigsten Dienst für Guru und Gauranga.

Bhaktiratna Sadhu Swami Gaurangapada fühlt schmerzliches Mitleid und Besorgnis wenn er sieht, dass die Menschen nicht die geringste Ahnung vom Kronjuwel aller Inkarnationen Gottes haben, Nityananda Gauranga, Welche erschienen, um die Gefallensten in diesem Zeitalter zu erlösen. Er sieht sein Leben als nutzlos an, wenn er die Leute nicht über die Herrlichkeit des Chantens der Namen von Nityananda Gauranga zusammen mit dem Hare Krischna Mahamantra und über Ihre Spiele unterrichten kann.

Er kann den beklagenswerten Zustand der bedingten Seelen nicht verkraften, welcher von der Unwissenheit über die barmherzigste Inkarnation Nityananda Gauranga herrührt. Wie Srila Prabodhananda Sarasvati sagt: achaitanyam idam vishvam, yadi chaitanyam ishvaram: „So lange nicht die ganze Welt Caitanya Mahaprabhu als höchste Persönlichkeit Gottes und Krischna selbst annimmt, wird es nur tote Materie ohne jegliches Bewusstsein bleiben (caitanya)“. Deshalb wird Swami Gaurangapada sehr dankbar gegenüber denjenigen sein, welche ihm dabei helfen, die Herrlichkeit von Nityananda Gauranga zu verbreiten, besonders durch das Verteilen der Heiligen Namen von Nityananda und Gauranga zusammen mit dem Mahamantra, des Sri Navadvipa Dhaama Mahaatmyas und des Sri Caitanya-Bhagavatas (in verschiedenen Sprachen), des Sri Caitanya-Caritamritas und von anderen Büchern in welchen Nityananda Gauranga verherrlicht werden, und der Bücher von Srila Prabhupada. Dies wird der beste Dienst sein, den man zu Swami Gaurangapadas Mission leisten kann, nämlich die Herrlichkeit der höchsten Persönlichkeiten Gottes Gauranga Mahaprabhu und Nityananda Prabhu zu verbreiten und Sie als Gott in dieser Welt zu etablieren.

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