English
Topic: Navadwip Mandal Parikrama Day 1
Date: 15th March 2024
Speaker: HG IstadevPrabhuji
HG PadamaliPrabhuji:
Today we will having the Japa Talk with HG IstadevPrabhuji who is from Sri Mayapur Dham. He will discussing about various pastimes related to holy places in Nawadwip. HH Radha Raman Swami Maharaj is also present there.
Let’s hear from him.
HG IstadevPrabhuji:
My humble obeisances unto the lotus feet of my beloved Gurudev. By the mercy of Srila Prabhupada and Gurumaharaj we can do this Parikrama today. Today Maharaj was saying that this Parikrama started with seventy devotees and now it has seven thousands coming up every year. HH Radha Raman Maharaj is witness to the same. Nitai Gaurasundar is also present from the beginning of this padayatra. Maharaj is saying that we have done this Parikrama thirty four times. This is the thirty fifth year of the parikrama and we have long history of this Parikrama. Nityananda Prabhu himself is the founder acharya of this Parikrama and started this Parikrama. He is the servant of the Lord and Chaitanya Mahaprabhu is the Sevya, one who is to be worshipped. He is the one of makes us understand that how we should worship Krsna. He is the one who revealed the Dham to everyone. He was the one who started this Parikrama and as time passed it was stopped. Then Bhaktivinoda Thakur started it again. Then again it was stopped and then HH Vamsi Thakur Maharaj started it again.
So we have just reached Nandan Acharya Bhavan. This Parikrama has started from ISKCON. This Nandan Acharya Bhavan is the place where Gaur Nitai met for the first time, we know ChaitanayMahaprabhu was born here. Nityananda Prabhu appeared in Rada Desh, Ekachakra Dham and he travelled all across India at a very young age with a sannayasi. When Chaitanya Mahaprabhu came from Gaya after his sannayas initiation and started harinaamsankirtan, then Nityananda Prabhu knew that and went to meet him. So he stayed in the Nandan Acharya Bhavan for sometime and Nandan Acharya was a devotee Brahmin. But he couldn’t meet Mahaprabhu at that time. So Nandan Acharya had an instruction in his dream from Mahaprabhu that a tall person has come to meet him so they all should find him. So Haridas Thakur, SrivasaPandit and all the associates wen to find Nityanand Prabhu but no one could find him. So when they couldn’t find him, then they went to Chaitanya Mahaprabhu with a heavy heart that they couldn’t find him. So just like Rama wanted to meet Hanuman similarly Chaitanya Mahaprabhu wanted to meet Nityananda Prabhu. Then Mahaprabhu said that “I will find him!” and then when we met face to face with Nityananda Prabhu just like Bharath met Lord Rama during his exile and also when Krsna and Balaram met, so similar to these instances, even Chaitanya Mahaprabhu met in the same way with Nityananda Prabhu. Both of them cried unstoppably and fell on the ground, started dancing and held each other as if they are two bodies, one soul. So ChaitanayaMahaprabhu who is Krsna and Nityananda Prabhu who is Balram himself met like two brothers.
Ishta-deveVijnapti– by Narottama Das Thakur
Vrajendra-nandanajei, saci-sutahoilo sei,
balaramahoilonitai
dina-hinajatachilo, hari-name uddharilo,
tara sakshijagaimadhai (Text 3)
Translation
O Lord Hari, I have spent my life uselessly. Having obtained a human birth and having not worshipedRadha and Krishna, I have knowingly drunk poison.
So this is no doubt in it that Krsna only is Chaitanya Mahaprabhu and Balrama is Nityananda Prabhu. So, this is the first meeting place of Mahaprabhu and Nityananda Prabhu. Today the Parikrama is in Antardwip. So from there we are going to Gauradwip by boat and we will cross the Ganga river reach is western bank. Right now we are on the Eastern Bank of Ganga. In Gauradwip, we will have darshans of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu in the form of a boar. So here we have a darshan of a hill which is similar to Govardhan hill. There is one temple of Godamayamata who is Paurnamasi or Yogamaya. So in every Dham there is Dhameswar for example in Ayodhya it is Sri Rama and in Jagannath Puri, Lord Jagannath is the dhami and in Pandharpur it is Vitthal Rukmini and in Mathura Krsna is the Dhami and in the Gauradwip the dhami is Chaitanya Mahaprabhu. So that’s why he is known as Dhameswar Gauranga. So we will have his darshans today. This murti is very beautiful and compassionate and both his hands are in front. So this deity is the first deity that we will have darshan of in the parikrama. He was worshipped by Vishnu Priya. She is the wife of Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu. She disappeared quite early and it is said that she got bitten by a snake. She was Mahaprabhu’s first wife. We know about Bhudevi and Sudevi and Lalita and Vishakha.
Then after her disappearance he married again but as we know that after his second marriage, Chaitanya Mahaprabhu took sannayasa at the age of twenty four years. So sanayas ashram is the topmost of all- Brahmacharya, Grihasta and Vanprashtha ashram and to establish a rule for all the ashrams and to spread the glories of the holyname, he become a ideal devotee. Then he went to Jagannath Puri. So Vishnu Priya built a temple for worshipping Chaitanya Mahaprabhu. So she used to keep a single grain everyday and whatever rounds that she used to chant she used to place that many grains in front of the Lord and she used to chant day and night and have that much only everyday. So we will have the darshan of these deity today. After that we will go to Jagannath Das Babaji Maharaj’s samadhi. So Jagannath Babaji appeared in Navadwip but later on we went to Vrindavan. So while performing his bhajan in Vrindavan he realised that he has to go back to Navadwipa and then he came back again and then he went to Back to Godhead from here. So many Sannayasis and devotees come here. He was the one who authenticated the birthplace of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu. So he told that here only Chaitanya Mahaprabhu appeared.
He was called Sandhu Maharaj and Sarvabhauma so everyone use to respect him may it be Hindu, Muslim and so on. So a person who couldn’t even stand, he started dancing when we came there. He started saying that this is the birthplace of ChaitnayaMahaprabhu. So please have darshans of DhameswarMahaprabhu. Now we will show you the darshans of Gangamata. So both Jalanghi and Saraswati also meet here. So by the mercy of Lord Bhagirath who brought Ganga to this world, she also appeared here. So you will have darshans. So we have large land near this place. So from America, Dashrath Prabhu has come to do Parikrama and our Parikrama leaders Damodar Prabhu, Acharya Prabhu all are with us. Have darshans of Ganga Mai. Ganga Mai ki Jai. So this is the path for the ghat. So we have Security Department incharge for the Parikrama as well. So ChaitnayaMahaprabhu used to bathe in this Ganga water. So Chaitanya Mahaprabhu performed a lot of pastimes here. So Mahprabhu was missing Yamuna badly so Ganga said to Lord that what is my mistake? When can I serve you? So Lord said you will appear in Navadwip and then you can serve me in my audarya and madhuryadham Sri Mayapur.
So this time ten thousand devotees are doing Parikrama. So from Mayapur we are moving towards Navadwip. So DhameswarMahaprabhu deity was given by Chaitanya Mahaprabhu to Visnupriya. In Parikrama we will also have darshans of Jagannath Das Babaji’s samadhi. So many people from Vrindavan have also come. So we can see Nitai Gaursundar. So now we are reaching Jagannath Das Babaji’s samadhi. So he was a very renounced devotee of Lord. So he saw with his divine vision a Tulasi tree in Kamayavan in Vrindavan and he having the tulsi leaves in Navadwip. So he was a sakshadkari and he used to eat a lot of prasadam with puppies in Vrindavan and someone drove them away. So he stopped eating and once they came back then only he started having prasadam. He was affectionate towards Dhamvasis.So he used to never take donation like KarmakandiBrahamans and didn’t showoff his knowledge. So he used to serve cows and all other animals. He said that these are Vishnu but these Brahamans are not devotees actually. So now we will go to his birthplace tomorrow.
HG Padmamali Prabhu:
Thank you for the darshans prabhuji.
