Kīrtana — Songs of the Vaiṣṇavas
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ceto-darpaṇa-mārjanaḿ bhava-mahā-dāvāgni-nirvāpaṇaḿśreyaḥ-kairava-candrikā-vitaraṇaḿ vidyā-vadhū-jīvanamānandāmbudhi-vardhanaḿ prati-padaḿ pūrṇāmṛtāsvādanaḿsarvātma-snapanaḿ paraḿ vijayate śrī-kṛṣṇa-sańkīrtanam
nāmnām akāri bahudhā nija-sarva-śaktistatrārpitā niyamitaḥ smaraṇe na kālaḥetādṛśī tava kṛpā bhagavan mamāpidurdaivam īdṛśam ihājani nānurāgaḥ
tṛṇād api sunīcenataror api sahiṣṇunāamāninā mānadenakīrtanīyaḥ sadā hariḥ
na dhanaḿ na janaḿ na sundarīḿkavitāḿ vā jagad-īśa kāmayemama janmani janmanīśvarebhavatād bhaktir ahaitukī tvayi
ayi nanda-tanuja kińkaraḿpatitaḿ māḿ viṣame bhavāmbudhaukṛpayā tava pāda-pańkaja-sthita-dhūlī-sadṛśaḿ vicintaya
nayanaḿ galad-aśru-dhārayāvadanaḿ gadgada-ruddhayā girāpulakair nicitaḿ vapuḥ kadātava nāma-grahaṇe bhaviṣyati
yugāyitaḿ nimeṣeṇacakṣuṣā prāvṛṣāyitamśūnyāyitaḿ jagat sarvaḿgovinda-viraheṇa me
āśliṣya vā pāda-ratāḿ pinaṣṭu māmadarśanān marma-hatāḿ karotu vāyathā tathā vā vidadhātu lampaṭomat-prāṇa-nāthas tu sa eva nāparaḥ

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Kīrtana — Songs of the Vaiṣṇavas

Jay Govinda Jay Gopal..

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.

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Sri Jagannatha Ratha-Yatra

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).

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