Violently attacks the Gopis

Some time after Krsna had left for Mathura, a gopi lamented: O my friend, at the gateway of Vraja village, Krsna, whose eyes are like hundred-petalled lotus flowers, planted this kadamba tree when it was a baby sapling with only two leaves. Now the sight of that same kadamba tree in full bloom violently attacks the gopis and causes them great pain.

A Hidden Secret

Tota Gopinatha is the Deity manifested by Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu and given to Sri Gadadhara Pandita to worship. He is the Deity in whom Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu entered at the time of His disappearance from this world. Outside and to the left of the temple as one approaches it, is the enchanting garden ( In the oriyan language,Tota means Garden ) where Mahaprabhu heard Srimad Bhagavatam from Gadadhara Pandita.

Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu came here ( a remote area on the Cataka-Parvata sand dunes near the beach in puri) to hear Rasa Katha, and when He heard it He fainted is ecstacy . Both He and Gadadhara Pandita fainted. Gadadhara Pandita knew that by hearing from him, Mahaprabhu would be more enthusiastic to play 'Her ( Radha's )' part. Srimati Radhika is the Professor in the Universcity of Srimad-Bhagavatam, in the course of Rasa Tattva ( tasting its meanings).

There were three-and-a-half confidential associates of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu when visiting the Gambhira. Why was Sri Gadadhara Pandita not one of them after all he is superior to these others ?

This is a hidden secret and here is the answer.

If Sri Gadadhara Pandita was there, Mahaprabhu's mood of separation would not have manifested. In the association of Srimati Radhika (Gadadhara Pandit ) He would have thought Himself to be Krsna. Union not seepration would of been present.

One day, after hearing Srimad Bhagavatam, Mahaprabhu was siting on the sand at Cataka Parvata, which He considered to be Govardhana. He told Gadadhara Pandita, "Gadadhara, I want to give you My most valuable property. Will you accept it?" When Gadadhara Pandita agreed, Mahaprabhu said, "This is the property of My heart." He began removing the sand and said, "My prana-dhana (life and soul) is here.

In the mood of Srimati Radhika. He exposed Tota-Gopinatha's head and crown, and others then began to help reveal His form. Mahaprabhu then requested Sri Gadadhara Pandita, "You should take Him and serve Him throughout your life.

Mahaprabhu would daily go to the Tota Gardens to hear Srimad Bhagavatam and upon seeing the exquisite beauty of the Yameshwar Tota Garden , Lord Gauranga would immediately remember the divine Nikunjas around Radha-kund & Shyama-kunda in Vrindavava.

At the time of His disappearance Mahaprabhu entered the Tota-Gopinatha Deity. Mahaprabhu left the world at the age of 48 , when Sri Gadadhara Pandita was 47. Out of great separation, Gadhadara Pandita quickly became like an old man, lean and weak. In the mood of separation from Mahaprabhu, Sri Gadadhara Pandita soon after left this world.

Shyamasundar Madana-mohana Paramananda-kanda Sri Krishna ...Ki Jai

Hladini Shakti Svarupini, Mahabhava svarupini Vrishabhanu-nandini Sri Radha .....Ki Jai

Sri Ramacandra

appeared on earth 18,144 million years ago.

Rasgulla

Formerly, at the end of Dvapara-yuga, all the cowherd men of Vrindavan had arranged to worship King Indra, but they gave this worship up, following the advice of Krishna. Instead, they performed a ceremony whereby they worshiped the cows, brahmanas and Govardhana Hill. At that time Krishna expanded Himself and declared, “I am Govardhana Hill.” In this way He accepted all the paraphernalia and food offered to Govardhana Hill.

It is stated in the Srimad-Bhagavatam (10.24.26, 31–33): "Prepare very nice foods of all descriptions from the grains and ghee collected for the yajna. Prepare rice, dhal, then halavah, pakora, puri and all kinds of milk preparations like sweet rice, sweetballs, sandesa, rasagulla and laddu."

“The Supreme Personality of Godhead, Krishna, therefore advised the cowherd men to stop the Indra-yajna ( Sacrifice ) and begin the Govardhana-puja to chastise Indra, who was very much puffed up at being the supreme controller of the heavenly planets.

The honest and simple cowherd men, headed by Nanda Maharaja, accepted Krishna's’s proposal and executed in detail everything He advised. They performed Govardhana worship and circumambulation of the hill. According to the instruction of Lord Krishna, Nanda Maharaja and the cowherd men called in learned brahmanas and began to worship Govardhana Hill by chanting Vedic hymns and offering prasadam.

The inhabitants of Vrndavana assembled together, decorated their cows and gave them grass. Keeping the cows in front, they began to circumambulate Govardhana Hill.” C.C Madhya 4.86 purport

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Bangala ( Bengali ) Rasgulla Recipe
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Homemade cheese or paneer balls soaked in chilled sugar syrup.

Ingredients for 12 Rasgullas using a pressure cooker

4 cups milk
1/4 cup lemon juice
1 1/2 cups sugar
4 1/2 cups water

Method:

To make paneer or homemade cheese, heat the milk in a heavy pan on medium-high heat until the milk comes to a boil. Make sure to frequently stir the milk as it burns easily in bottom of the pan.

As the milk comes to a boil, add the lemon juice slowly and stir the milk gently. When the milk starts to curdle, turn off the heat. Once the milk fat has separated from the whey, strain the milk into a cheesecloth or muslin cloth.

Pour some cold water over the paneer to remove the flavor of the lemon juice. Now strain out the water, by squeezing the cloth. The water in the paneer needs to be squeezed just enough so that the paneer is not too dry.

Taking the water out of the paneer is the most important part of this recipe. To check if enough water is out of the paneer, take a little piece of paneer on your palm and rub with your fingers. After rubbing the paneer for about 15-20 seconds, you should be able to make a firm but smooth ball. If the paneer is too dry, add a few drops of water, using the squeezed-out water from the paneer.

Once the paneer is drained, place on a dry, clean surface and rub with your palm until the paneer becomes a smooth dough and your hands turn a little oily.

Divide the dough into 12 equal parts and roll them in smooth balls.To make the balls , you should apply some pressure at first and then release when forming the balls.

Mix the sugar and water in a pressure cooker on medium high heat and bring to a boil. Add the paneer balls and close the pressure cooker. After the pressure cooker starts steaming, turn the heat to medium and cook for about seven minutes. Make sure the pressure cooker is large enough to accommodate the finished Rasgullas as they will expand to about double their size while cooking in the syrup!

Close the heat and wait a few minutes before you open the pressure cooker. Before opening the pressure cooker, put cold water over the pressure cooker. After all the steam has escaped, open the pressure cooker. The Rasgullas should be little spongy.


Offer and Serve chilled.

Sex in the City

Since the body is a great city, there must be various arrangements such as lakes and gardens for sense enjoyment. Of the various parts of the body, those which incite sexual impulses are referred to here ( Canto 4 About the Character of King Puranjana) indirectly. Because the body has genitals, when the living entity attains the right age be he man or woman he becomes agitated by the sex impulse. As long as one remains a child, he is not agitated by seeing a beautiful woman. Although the sense organs are present, unless the age is ripe there is no sex impulse. The favorable conditions surrounding the sex impulse are compared here to a garden or a nice solitary park. When one sees the opposite sex, naturally the sex impulse increases. It is said that if a man in a solitary place does not become agitated upon seeing a woman, he is to be considered a brahmacari. But this practice is almost impossible. The sex impulse is so strong that even by seeing, touching or talking, coming into contact with, or even thinking of the opposite sex even in so many subtle ways one becomes sexually impelled. Consequently, a brahmacari or sannyasi is prohibited to associate with women, especially in a secret place. The sastras enjoin that one should not even talk to a woman in a secret place, even if she happens to be one’s own daughter, sister or mother. The sex impulse is so strong that even if one is very learned, he becomes agitated in such circumstances. If this is the case, how can a young man in a nice park remain calm and quiet after seeing a beautiful young woman? SB 4.25 Purport

It is said in the Manu-smriti that lust cannot be satisfied by any amount of sense enjoyment, just as fire is never extinguished by a constant supply of fuel. In the material world, the center of all activities is sex, and thus this material world is called maithunya-agara, or the shackles of sex life. In the ordinary prison house, criminals are kept within bars; similarly, the criminals who are disobedient to the laws of the Lord are shackled by sex life. Advancement of material civilization on the basis of sense gratification means increasing the duration of the material existence of a living entity. Therefore, this lust is the symbol of ignorance by which the living entity is kept within the material world. While one enjoys sense gratification, it may be that there is some feeling of happiness, but actually that so-called feeling of happiness is the ultimate enemy of the sense enjoyer.

Srila Viswanth Cakravarti Thakura specifically deals with the original and pure sex psychology (adi-rasa), devoid of all mundane inebriety. The whole material creation is moving under the principle of sex life. In modern civilization, sex life is the focal point for all activities. Wherever one turns his face, he sees sex life predominant. Therefore, sex life is not unreal. Its reality is experienced in the spiritual world. The material sex life is but a perverted reflection of the original fact. The original fact is in the Absolute Truth, and thus the Absolute Truth cannot be impersonal. It is not possible to be impersonal and contain pure sex life. Consequently, the impersonalist philosophers have given indirect impetus to the abominable mundane sex life because they have overstressed the impersonality of the ultimate truth. Consequently, man without information of the actual spiritual form of sex has accepted perverted material sex life as the all in all. There is a distinction between sex life in the diseased material condition and spiritual sex life.

Srimad-Bhagavatam will gradually elevate the unbiased reader to the highest perfectional stage of transcendence. It will enable him to transcend the three modes of material activities: fruitive actions, speculative philosophy, and worship of functional deities as inculcated in Vedic verses. SB 1.1.1 Purport

Sri Isopanishad

Invocation: The Personality of Godhead is perfect and complete, and because He is completely perfect, all emanations from Him, such as this phenomenal world, are perfectly equipped as complete wholes. Whatever is produced of the Complete Whole is also complete in itself. Because He is the Complete Whole, even though so many complete units emanate from Him, He remains the complete balance.

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Everything animate or inanimate that is within the universe is controlled and owned by the Lord. One should therefore accept only those things necessary for himself, which are set aside as his quota, and one should not accept other things, knowing well to whom they belong.


One may aspire to live for hundreds of years if he continuously goes on working in that way, for that sort of work will not bind him to the law of karma. There is no alternative to this way for man.

The killer of the soul, whoever he may be, must enter into the planets known as the worlds of the faithless, full of darkness and ignorance.

Although fixed in His abode, the Personality of Godhead is swifter than the mind and can overcome all others running. The powerful demigods cannot approach Him. Although in one place, He controls those who supply the air and rain. He surpasses all in excellence.

The Supreme Lord walks and does not walk. He is far away, but He is very near as well. He is within everything, and yet He is outside of everything.

He who sees everything in relation to the Supreme Lord, who sees all living entities as His parts and parcels, and who sees the Supreme Lord within everything never hates anything or any being.

One who always sees all living entities as spiritual sparks, in quality one with the Lord, becomes a true knower of things. What, then, can be illusion or anxiety for him?

Such a person must factually know the greatest of all, the Personality of Godhead, who is unembodied, omniscient, beyond reproach, without veins, pure and uncontaminated, the self-sufficient philosopher who has been fulfilling everyone's desire since time immemorial.

Those who engage in the culture of nescient activities shall enter into the darkest region of ignorance. Worse still are those engaged in the culture of so-called knowledge.

The wise have explained that one result is derived from the culture of knowledge and that a different result is obtained from the culture of nescience.

Only one who can learn the process of nescience and that of transcendental knowledge side by side can transcend the influence of repeated birth and death and enjoy the full blessings of immortality.

Those who are engaged in the worship of demigods enter into the darkest region of ignorance, and still more so do the worshipers of the impersonal Absolute.

It is said that one result is obtained by worshiping the supreme cause of all causes and that another result is obtained by worshiping what is not supreme. All this is heard from the undisturbed authorities, who clearly explained it.

One should know perfectly the Personality of Godhead Sri Krishna and His transcendental name, form, qualities and pastimes, as well as the temporary material creation with its temporary demigods, men and animals. When one knows these, he surpasses death and the ephemeral cosmic manifestation with it, and in the eternal kingdom of God he enjoys his eternal life of bliss and knowledge.

O my Lord, sustainer of all that lives, Your real face is covered by Your dazzling effulgence. Kindly remove that covering and exhibit Yourself to Your pure devotee.

O my Lord, O primeval philosopher, maintainer of the universe, O regulating principle, destination of the pure devotees, well-wisher of the progenitors of mankind, please remove the effulgence of Your transcendental rays so that I can see Your form of bliss. You are the eternal Supreme Personality of Godhead, like unto the sun, as am I.

Let this temporary body be burnt to ashes, and let the air of life be merged with the totality of air. Now, O my Lord, please remember all my sacrifices, and because You are the ultimate beneficiary, please remember all that I have done for You.

O my Lord, as powerful as fire, O omnipotent one, now I offer You all obeisances, falling on the ground at Your feet. O my Lord, please lead me on the right path to reach You, and since You know all that I have done in the past, please free me from the reactions to my past sins so that there will be no hindrance to my progress.

Translated from Sanskrit by AC Bhaktivedanta Swami Maharaj