Govinda Hare Gopala Hare Jaya Jaya Prabhu Deena Dayala Hare Jaya Nanda Nandana Deva Hare Jaya Nanda Nandana Krishna Hare Jaya Yashoda Nandana Krishna Hare Govinda Hare Gopala Hare Jaya Govinda Jaya Gopal Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare Hari Bol Hari Bol
Kīrtana — Songs of the Vaiṣṇavas
Srila Gurudev has always emphasized on performing all the devotional practices with the sole purpose of satisfying the object of our worship Supreme Lord Sri Krishna. “Example is better than precept”, is his way of teaching. He showed the pastimes of utmost absorption in each and every devotional forms he enacted to practice. So does His pastime of performing Kirtans. Srila Bhakti Pramod Puri Goswami Maharaj, one prominent disciple of Srila Bhakti Siddhant Saraswati Thakur Prabhupad, used to say that Nityanand Prabhu and Gauranga Mahaprabhu Himself get manifest and dance in Srila Gurudev’s Kirtan.
Kīrtana — Songs of the Vaiṣṇavas
It is prescribed by our Guruvarga that we should remember the eight verses of Sri Shikshashtaka given by Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu Himself, to enter into the eternal eight periods (astayama) pastimes of Sri RadhaKrishna. When we get established in Sri Shikshastaka, then the pastimes will be gradually manifested. So, this is very important.
Articles — Sree Chaitanya Gaudiya Math
In the beginning Sriman Mahaprabhu for His first twenty four years acted as a regular householder in Sridham Navadvipa. He after that time, in the holy City of Puri in His role as a renunciate, began exhibiting the pangs of intense separation characteristic of high devotional moods. Apparently, although it was His mother's behest in Advaita Bhavan for Himself to reside in the holy City of Puri, in actual fact it was all His own very plan. Puri City is the Supreme Lord's natural abode. The other familiar names for this City are Purusottama, Sri Ksetra, Nilacala, Lord Sri Krishna at one time, informed Sri Mahadeva about His hidden realm Puri whose glories are understood by only a very few (Chaitanya Bhagavata Antya 2nd).
Govinda Hare Gopal Hare