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    Our humble obeisances to all the vaishnavas! Jaya Sri Sri Guru Gauranga! You will find attached to this text issue #272 of Sri Krishna Kathamrita Bindu. In honor of the upcoming festival days of Rama Navami and the appearance of Ramanujacharya, this issue focuses on this two illustrious personalities. This issue will also be available for downloading within a day or two from here: http://www.archive.org/details/SriKrishnaKathamritaBindu272 All back issues of Bindu are available for free download. Just copy and paste the following link into your web browser: http://www.gopaljiu.org/bindu ~*~*~*~*~*~*~ IN THIS ISSUE ~*~*~*~*~*~*~ * "The Medicine of Hari Sankirtana" -- An excerpt from a letter by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. * "The Miracle of Tulsidas" -- Through a story about Tulsidas, the famous devotee of Lord Ramachandra, Sri Srimad Gour Govinda Swami Maharaja offers a deep explanation of the Cc. madhya 23.39 verse, vaisnavera kriya mudra vijneha na bujhaya - "However learned a man may be, he cannot understand the activities of a vaishnava." * "Eight Variations of Lord Rama's Name" -- A first time translation for this issue of Bindu of a verse by the sage Budha-Kaushik. * "Glorification of Sri Ramanujacharya" - Another first time translation done especially for this issue -- the Dhati-pancakam written by the disciples of Sri Ramanuja. We pray that this issue may bring some happiness and inspiration to all the saintly vaishnava devotees. Vaishnava pada dhuli o kripa prarthi, Madhavananda Das, editor ==================================== We hope you will find Bindu a valuable tool for your bhajan and preaching. Please tell others about this free service, and, if possible, print out a copy and post it on your community bulletin board. If you want to unsubscribe from this service just send an email to minimag@gopaljiu.org and type "Unsubscribe" in the subject line, and please accept our apologies for any inconvenience caused. Each Bindu is an easily digestible four pages long, and will be published in "PDF" format. To read them you will need to have Adobe Acrobat Reader 4.0 or later installed on your system. Adobe Acrobat Reader is free software. If you do not already have a copy, you can download it from: http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep.html Look for the little blue hands at the end of each column. Click on one and it will take you to where the text continues. For the convenience of our readers that use screen reader software and hand-held devices to read Bindu, we use PDF "embedded tags". Please know that any letters to the editor may be published. If you would prefer your correspondence to not be, please inform us. Invite the congregation to subscribe - it will help keep them connected! Sri Krishna Kathamrita Bindu will always be free of politics and institutional bashing or promotion. Just simply nectarean Krishna Katha! To download back issues of Sri Krishna Kathamrita Bindu or to find out more about Gopal Jiu Publications, please visit our web site: www.gopaljiu.org We appreciate your letters, comments, and suggestions. Write to us at either of the following addresses: minimag@gopaljiu.org katha@gopaljiu.org Or visit us on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/kkbindu http://www.facebook.com/sggsm "Madhavananda Das" ----------------------------------------------------------------- "This chanting should go on. Instead of meetings, resolutions, dissolutions, revolutions and then no solutions, there should be chanting." - His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, from Lilamrita, Vol.6, p.182

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    Our humble obeisances to all the vaishnavas! Jaya Sri Sri Guru Gauranga! You will find attached to this text issue #272 of Sri Krishna Kathamrita Bindu. In honor of the upcoming festival days of Rama Navami and the appearance of Ramanujacharya, this issue focuses on this two illustrious personalities. This issue will also be available for downloading within a day or two from here: http://www.archive.org/details/SriKrishnaKathamritaBindu272 All back issues of Bindu are available for free download. Just copy and paste the following link into your web browser: http://www.gopaljiu.org/bindu ~*~*~*~*~*~*~ IN THIS ISSUE ~*~*~*~*~*~*~ * "The Medicine of Hari Sankirtana" -- An excerpt from a letter by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. * "The Miracle of Tulsidas" -- Through a story about Tulsidas, the famous devotee of Lord Ramachandra, Sri Srimad Gour Govinda Swami Maharaja offers a deep explanation of the Cc. madhya 23.39 verse, vaisnavera kriya mudra vijneha na bujhaya - "However learned a man may be, he cannot understand the activities of a vaishnava." * "Eight Variations of Lord Rama's Name" -- A first time translation for this issue of Bindu of a verse by the sage Budha-Kaushik. * "Glorification of Sri Ramanujacharya" - Another first time translation done especially for this issue -- the Dhati-pancakam written by the disciples of Sri Ramanuja. We pray that this issue may bring some happiness and inspiration to all the saintly vaishnava devotees. Vaishnava pada dhuli o kripa prarthi, Madhavananda Das, editor ==================================== We hope you will find Bindu a valuable tool for your bhajan and preaching. Please tell others about this free service, and, if possible, print out a copy and post it on your community bulletin board. If you want to unsubscribe from this service just send an email to minimag@gopaljiu.org and type "Unsubscribe" in the subject line, and please accept our apologies for any inconvenience caused. Each Bindu is an easily digestible four pages long, and will be published in "PDF" format. To read them you will need to have Adobe Acrobat Reader 4.0 or later installed on your system. Adobe Acrobat Reader is free software. If you do not already have a copy, you can download it from: http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep.html Look for the little blue hands at the end of each column. Click on one and it will take you to where the text continues. For the convenience of our readers that use screen reader software and hand-held devices to read Bindu, we use PDF "embedded tags". Please know that any letters to the editor may be published. If you would prefer your correspondence to not be, please inform us. Invite the congregation to subscribe - it will help keep them connected! Sri Krishna Kathamrita Bindu will always be free of politics and institutional bashing or promotion. Just simply nectarean Krishna Katha! To download back issues of Sri Krishna Kathamrita Bindu or to find out more about Gopal Jiu Publications, please visit our web site: www.gopaljiu.org We appreciate your letters, comments, and suggestions. Write to us at either of the following addresses: minimag@gopaljiu.org katha@gopaljiu.org Or visit us on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/kkbindu http://www.facebook.com/sggsm "Madhavananda Das" ----------------------------------------------------------------- "This chanting should go on. Instead of meetings, resolutions, dissolutions, revolutions and then no solutions, there should be chanting." - His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, from Lilamrita, Vol.6, p.182

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    Our humble obeisances to all the vaishnavas! Jaya Sri Sri Guru Gauranga! You will find attached to this text issue #272 of Sri Krishna Kathamrita Bindu. In honor of the upcoming festival days of Rama Navami and the appearance of Ramanujacharya, this issue focuses on this two illustrious personalities. This issue will also be available for downloading within a day or two from here: http://www.archive.org/details/SriKrishnaKathamritaBindu272 All back issues of Bindu are available for free download. Just copy and paste the following link into your web browser: http://www.gopaljiu.org/bindu ~*~*~*~*~*~*~ IN THIS ISSUE ~*~*~*~*~*~*~ * "The Medicine of Hari Sankirtana" -- An excerpt from a letter by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. * "The Miracle of Tulsidas" -- Through a story about Tulsidas, the famous devotee of Lord Ramachandra, Sri Srimad Gour Govinda Swami Maharaja offers a deep explanation of the Cc. madhya 23.39 verse, vaisnavera kriya mudra vijneha na bujhaya - "However learned a man may be, he cannot understand the activities of a vaishnava." * "Eight Variations of Lord Rama's Name" -- A first time translation for this issue of Bindu of a verse by the sage Budha-Kaushik. * "Glorification of Sri Ramanujacharya" - Another first time translation done especially for this issue -- the Dhati-pancakam written by the disciples of Sri Ramanuja. We pray that this issue may bring some happiness and inspiration to all the saintly vaishnava devotees. Vaishnava pada dhuli o kripa prarthi, Madhavananda Das, editor ==================================== We hope you will find Bindu a valuable tool for your bhajan and preaching. Please tell others about this free service, and, if possible, print out a copy and post it on your community bulletin board. If you want to unsubscribe from this service just send an email to minimag@gopaljiu.org and type "Unsubscribe" in the subject line, and please accept our apologies for any inconvenience caused. Each Bindu is an easily digestible four pages long, and will be published in "PDF" format. To read them you will need to have Adobe Acrobat Reader 4.0 or later installed on your system. Adobe Acrobat Reader is free software. If you do not already have a copy, you can download it from: http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep.html Look for the little blue hands at the end of each column. Click on one and it will take you to where the text continues. For the convenience of our readers that use screen reader software and hand-held devices to read Bindu, we use PDF "embedded tags". Please know that any letters to the editor may be published. If you would prefer your correspondence to not be, please inform us. Invite the congregation to subscribe - it will help keep them connected! Sri Krishna Kathamrita Bindu will always be free of politics and institutional bashing or promotion. Just simply nectarean Krishna Katha! To download back issues of Sri Krishna Kathamrita Bindu or to find out more about Gopal Jiu Publications, please visit our web site: www.gopaljiu.org We appreciate your letters, comments, and suggestions. Write to us at either of the following addresses: minimag@gopaljiu.org katha@gopaljiu.org Or visit us on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/kkbindu http://www.facebook.com/sggsm "Madhavananda Das" ----------------------------------------------------------------- "This chanting should go on. Instead of meetings, resolutions, dissolutions, revolutions and then no solutions, there should be chanting." - His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, from Lilamrita, Vol.6, p.182

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    Sri Krishna Kathamrita

    Tav k QaaMa*Ta& TaJaqvNaMa(


    tava kathmta tapta-jvanam

    Fortnightly email mini-magazine from Gopal Jiu Publications


    Issue No. 272 r Ppamocan Ekda 18 March 2012

    Bindu

    Circulation 5,375

    The Medicine of hari SankirTana


    His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

    Highlights

    The Miracle of TulSidaS


    Sri Srimad Gour Govinda Swami Maharaja

    eighT VariaTionS of lord raMaS naMe


    The sage Budha-Kaushik

    glorificaTion of Sri raManujacharya


    The Dh-pacakam of his disciples

    The Medicine of hari sankirTana


    His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
    We follow in the footsteps of Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu and his associates, who were all kind enough to raise the social status of everyone, irrespective of birth and occupation. The process given by Caitanya Mahaprabhu is not only transcendental to all sorts of mundane speculation, but is also very simple and innocent. It is like curing a disease by not only administering proper medicine but also by supplying proper diet at the same time. The medicine is administered through the submissive aural channel as hari-sakrtana, which means: (1) To sing bhajan songs glorifying the almighty and his pastimes. (2) To preach the teachings of Bhagavad-gt, rmad Bhgavatam, Rmyaa, and the life of saints such as Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, Tulsidas, etc. (3) To establish the philosophy of devotional life as opposed to fruitive action or dry speculation of empiric philosophy and meet the opposite elements with all logical weapons. In other words, the medicine of hari-sakrtana is administered by melodious songs and by propaganda through printing press and other platforms.
    Letter to R. Prakash. 22 June 1951.

    His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

    The Miracle of Tulsidas


    Sri Srimad Gour Govinda Swami Maharaja
    The activities of a vaiava, a dear devotee of the Lord, are very wonderful. vaiavera kriy mudr vijeha n bujhaya However learned a man

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    canto of rmad Bhgavatam [9.4.63 and 68], the Supreme Lord told Durvasa Muni:
    aha bhakta-pardhno hy asvatantra iva dvija sdhubhir grasta-hdayo bhaktair bhakta-jana-priya My devotees are so dear to me, and I am so dear to my devotees! Although I am omniscient, all powerful, and supremely independent, still I have no independence. I am subordinate to my devotees. The sadhu, bhakta, has occupied my heart. My heart doesnt belong to me. sdhavo hdaya mahya sdhn hdaya tv aham mad-anyat te na jnanti nha tebhyo mang api

    Lithograph, Ravi Varma studios, c. 1920

    Those sadhu devotees are like my heart and I am the heart of those devotees. I dont know anyone other than my devotees and they dont know anyone other than me.

    Hanuman carrying Rama and Lakshman

    may be, he cannot understand the activities of a vaiava. [Cc. madhya 23.39] Goswami Tulsidas wrote the book Rma-caritamnasa, the activities of Lord Rama. His fame as a great devotee of Lord Rama spread far and wide. Once, the mogul emperor of Delhi heard that Tulsidas was displaying many wonderful, miraculous activities. So the emperor sent his men, Bring Tulsidas here! So Tulsidas came to the court. Then the emperor asked him, I have heard that you are displaying some miraculous activities. Will you please display some? Id like to see. Tulsidas is a great devotee of Lord Rama. He said, I dont know anything but Rama. I never display any miraculous activity. I only chant the name of Rama. I dont know anything but Rama. Then the emperor said, Oh! This person is cheating me! So he ordered, Put him into prison. He is not displaying any miraculous activity. So Tulsidas was put into prison, where he chanted, Rama, Rama, Rama The Supreme Lord always protects his devotees, because the devotees are so dear to him. In the ninth

    Krishna always protects and keeps the prestige of his devotees. For example, when Hiranyakasipu, the great demon and father of Prahlad Maharaja, threatened Prahlad, Is your Lord in this stone pillar? Prahlad Maharaja said, Yes he is there. Will he come out? If he wont come out, then Ill chop off your head with this sword! He drew his sword, hit the stone pillar with his fist, and then suddenly Lord Nrsimhadev came out and tore open the stomach of that Hiranyakasipu. The Lord always protects his devotees. Shortly after Tulsidas was put into prison, suddenly innumerable monkeys came and started breaking the palace of the emperor. The emperor said, See this miracle! Now Tulsidas has displayed a miracle. Hey! Get him! Set him free from prison now! Tulsidas didnt display any miracle himself. It was the Lord who protected him. That means that although it seems that the dear devotee of the Lord can do such wonderful things, in actuality he doesnt do anything. The Lord does it for him. He is so dear to the Lord. Therefore it is said, vaiavera kriy mudr vijeha n bujhaya however learned or intelligent a person may be, he cannot understand the activities of a vaiava. [Cc. madhya 23.39]
    From a class at New Govardhan, Australia, 1990.

    eighT VariaTionS of lord raMaS naMe


    The sage Budha-Kaushik
    The following verse gives Lord Ramas name in the eight cases of Sanskrit Grammar:

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    Top left 3 rma rjamai sad vijayate rma ramea bhaje rmebhihat nicara-cam rmya tasmai nama rmt nsti paryaa paratara rmasya dso smy aha rme citta-laya sad bhavatu me bho rma mm-uddhara

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    (1) Rma May Rama, the crest jewel of all kings, be ever victorious. (Rama as the subject) (2) Rmam Let there be worship of Lord Rama, the husband and Lord of Ram-devi. (Rama as the object) (3) Rmea Hordes of nocturnal demons were slaughtered by Rama. (Rama as the instrument of action) (4) Rmya My obeisances unto Lord Rama. (Rama as the recipient of action) (5) Rmt No one is greater than Rama. (Rama in a comparative sense) (6) Rmasya I am a servant of Rama. (Rama in a relationship) (7) Rme Let my consciousness always dwell in the name, fame, pastimes and qualities of Lord Rama. (Rama as the shelter of an object or quality) (8) Bho Rma! O Rama! Please deliver me from material existence! (Rama being addressed directly).
    r Rma-rak-stotra, verse 37, taken from Bhat-stotraratnval, published by Khemraj Sri Krishnadas, Sri Venkateshwar Steam Press, Bombay. Samvat 2013 (1957).

    Sita and Rama

    the victory flag of Lord Ranganath and the crest jewel of Vedic philosophers, be victorious!
    paa-aa giri-khaana vajrada pracchanna bauddha makarlaya manthada vednta-sra sukha-darana dpada rmnujasya vilasanti munes-trida

    glorificaTion of Sri raManujacharya


    The Dh-pacakam of his disciples
    paa dma-aa dva-dahana crvka ailani bauddha-dhvnta nirsa vsarapatir jainebha kahrava myvdi bhujaga-bhaga-garuas traividya cmai rragea-jayadhvajo vijayate rmnujo yam muni

    He is a thunderbolt-stick that cracks the mountain-peaks of a multitude of charlatan philosophers. He is a churning stick that churns the ocean of Vedic philosophy and destroys the deepswimming makara fishes of covert Buddhists, who are externally Vedic but internally atheists. He is a lamp-stick that illuminates the blissful essence of the Vednta-sutra. These three sticks of Sri Ramanuja thus glow brilliantly!
    critroddhra-daa catura-naya-pathlakriy-ketu-daa sadvidy-dpa-daa sakala-kali-kath samhte kla-daam trayyantlamba-daa tribhuvana vijayac-chhatra sauvara-daa dhatte rmnujrya prati-kathaka iro vajra-daam tridaam

    He is a forest fire to the forest of charlatans, a heavy thunderbolt to the mountain-peaks of Charvaks atheistic philosophy, a brilliant sun for the dark night of the Buddhist philosophy, a chasing lion for the elephants of Jaina philosophy, and a Garuda to the snake-like myvds. May Sri Ramanuja,

    Brijbasi Print, c. 1900

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    He is a redemption-stick that lifts up the character of mankind; an illuminating comet-stick that demonstrates the correct path even to the expert logicians; a lamp-stick that illuminates true knowledge; a death-stick for all of Kali-yugas nefarious activities; a support-stick for the fatigued Vedas; a golden umbrella-stick for the umbrella that proclaims philosophical victory over the three worlds. The same Ramanujacharya, who is a thunderboltstick for his philosophical opponents, now carries a tridaa (three sticks of sannysa) in his hands.
    trayy-mgalya-stra triyuga-pada-yugrohalamba-stra sad-vidy dpa-stra sakala-kalikath-samhte kla-stram praj-stra budhn praama-dhana-mana padmin nla-stra rak-stra munn jayati yatipater vakasi brahma-stram

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    [q k* Z<ak QaaMa*Ta ibNd

    The sacred Brahmin threads of Ramanuja are like the magala-stra (auspicious necklace threads) of the Vedas, like the support threads of a rope ladder by which one can climb up to the lotus feet of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, like a threadwick which illuminates the lamp of true knowledge, like the threads of the death-rope of Yamaraj for killing the nefarious activities of Kali-yuga, like the

    Srila Ramanujacharya

    threads which connect and nourish the intellects of great personalities, like the fine threads within a lotus stem which connects those great personalities whose only wealth is their good qualities, and like a protection-thread [worn on the wrist] for great sages. All glories to that Brahmin thread (brahma-stra) decorating the chest of this king of renunciates.
    paa sgara mah-vaab mukhgni r-ragarja carambuja mla-dsa r-viu-loka mai-maapa mrgady rmnujo vijayate yatirjarja

    Sri KriShna Kathamrita Bindu


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    (According to the Vedic scriptures, there is a fire constantly burning in the oceans that consumes excess water, thereby preventing it from flooding land-areas. This fire comes out from the mouth of a vaab, a female horse. The poet thus prays:) He is the vaab fire which controls the ocean of charlatan philosophers. He is the devoted servant of the lotus like feet of Lord Sri Rangaraj. He is the pathfinder and guide of the path which takes everyone back to the decorated encampment of Lord Vishnus abode. May there be victory to Ramanuja, the king of renunciates!
    Translated by Hari Parshad Das from r-Rmnuja-Stotrval, an Anthology on Bhagavad Ramanuja. Published by Ranjani Sujatha and Sri Shankara Jayanthi Mandali. Bangalore. 1977.

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