In His footsteps

Gaur Purnima 2018 Celebrations at our Temple in Navadvipa Our Temple lit up like a bride for Dol Purnima 2018  As every year, the holy day of Gaur Purnima 2018 was celebrated with great devotion. As it is also the advent day of our beloved Guru, the day is specially holy. We had the most amazing serving of the divine pastimes of Radha and Krishna, of Gauranga Mahaprabhu through lila kirtan. The nectar of the Holy Name purified us so much, sung in Raga by the melodious kirtanias. Once a holy Vaishnav sage had told me: Lila Kirtan is a brilliant jewel that Bengal has offered the world. The main temple newly renovated The Deities wore gorgeous attires, fragrant garlands, and were adored by all of us to our hearts content. The special feasts prepared for the Deities were partaken by us as holy prasad, definitely giving us the feel of 'soul food'. The festivities in the temple and around the whole town, the fairy lights everywhere, the parikramas, the special hus...

All Glory to Guru & Gauranga! Navadvipa Dhama ~ the Love locked land! The transcendental nature of Navadvipa is revealed in a big way in all its beauty during the Dol Purnima festival. This is such a maddeningly magical time. There is so much one can do to taste the nectar of devotion. The ashrams are bursting at the seams with devotees ~ even a toehold during the discourses pouring out of the mouths of saints is a blessing. The temples are so beautifully decorated, the Dieties look ravishing, and the pilgrimage of the islands bestows blissfull blisters! Bathing in the Ganges, eating the prasad that has been offered to the Lord clears all body ailments and one feels the vitality of good health. What I also love very much is the sense of community, as people from all over the world congregate with the single intent to serve Lord Gauranga. One is instantly uplifted in this collective consciousness. The Holy Festival of Colours! Navadvipa ~ the land of nine islan...

Radharani speaks on Surrender (as channelled by me) Surrender comes from deep love. The power of love melts away every trace of ego. In surrender, one begs, pleads, cajoles for the love and grace of the Beloved. What one gives up in surrender is the thought that I can stay separate from the beloved and still exist. One who is surrendered in love cannot think so. She thinks she cannot exist even for a moment without the Beloved. Her life is always on line. That is how she lives. While surrender is the best way to live, it is not necessarily the easiest way to live. A surrendered soul knows that one literally scrambles one way back to the Beloved. If it had been an easy one time process, wouldn’t we all have done it? On the way back to the Beloved, we have to accost every resistance that we have built against god. We will have to face all the thoughts, ideas, emotions that had first taken us away from Him. One by one, we will have to encounter and overcome each of these including our fea...

Lord Nityananda's Message (as channelled by me on the eve of Gaur Purnima, 2001, at Navadvipa) The one thing that mankind has forgotton and is now time to remember is soul consciousness. No matter what you do, even if you fulfil all your desires and fulfilment all your pleasures, the fulfilment of your soul will not happen until you have inhabited the kingdom of god. So come into the fold of this realm now. Enjoy the bliss and glory of this world. It is so many times magnified as compared to the realm you think you will find fulfilment. The impious and the impervious will have to stall, take stalk, and enter into the realm of Gauranga’s love. My mission on earth was to distribute this love to all and sundry, and to whoever, to ignite the hearts of as many as possible. Those were wondrous times when the Lord incarnated, and when the job of distributing His bhakti was performed by me. I had sung and danced in this land of Navadvipa, and my passion exists here. Those who connect to i...

Dear Beloved, I had the most transcendental experience in Navadvipa, spending 4 days and 3 nights immersed in the ecstasy of the celebrations of Gour Purnima. The devotees that thronged the holy land this year were unusually large in numbers. Bhakti is growing! I seek the continued blessing of my beloved Gurudev, Radharani, Mahaprabhu, Nityananda Prabhu that I may continue to serve them in their Dham. Navadvipa is the Dham of Bhakti like no other! All Glory to Guru and Gouranga!

The Return of Bhakti A message by Radharani, channelled on eve of Gour Purnima, 18.3.2011 The sun shines brighter by the day, and so does the moon. And tomorrow is the most beauteous full moon, grandiose and fuller than ever. it shines with the love of Gouranga, The beautiful one, the radiant one. Those of you at Navadvipa are fully blessed, and those who remember the pastimes of Gouranga are blessed too. This is the time of resurgence of Bhakti. Bhakti of the rarest and refined realms will be revealed to those of you whose hearts are open. The bhakti that will be revealed now will cause the heart to become extremely tender and soft. There will be a melting down of the gross body because of the fire of bhakti that will burn all impurities. This fire of bhakti will bring a fluidity and flow in your body, in all your movements and in your life. The greatest of offences is nullified in the fire of bhakti. No matter what you have done till now, in this moment I clearly declare that all o...

Feeling completely rejuvinated after an amazing week of parikramas of the dham, sadhu sanga, listening of naam and lila kirtan, partaking of prasad and ganga darshan. There were grand celebrations in our temple 'Sonar Mandir' as we celebrated our gurudev Om Vishnupad 108 Tridandi Swami's birthday along with Mahaprabhu's abirbhav on the 11th of March. A grand feast was held on Jagannath Mishra's utsav, on the 12th when a large congregation enjoyed mahaprasadam. Devotees from all over the country were present to pay homage to guru and gauranga! The miracle of the holy dham is indeed mindblowing. Truly, there is no place like Navadvipa in the entire planet! yours in the service of the guru, sukhvinder