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Lord Caitanya delivered crocodile by chanting holy names! Once, Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu came with devotees to a lake. The lake is in Nabadwip Dham, near Godrumdwip—when we go on parikrama, you can see that place. Mahaprabhu offered the devotees, “Let’s sit by the lake,” but one of the cowherd men of that area told Him, “Do not go there! A crocodile lives in that lake.Even the cows are afraid and do not drink water from that lake.” Mahaprabhu already knew everything, and hearing the words of the cowherd man, He started chanting. When the crocodile heard Mahaprabhu chanting the Holy Name, it turned into a dev-sisu, a child god. The boy paid obeisance to Mahaprabhu and started to cry. Mahaprabhu asked him why he was crying, and the boy told Him everything—what had happened and how he became a crocodile. It happened four ages ago, during Satya-yuga. At that time, there was a forest near Vrindavan called Kamyavan. Once, when Durvasa Muni was sleeping in that forest, childishly the boy deci...

On the full moon day in the month of Jaistha, Śrī Puruşottama- Jagannātha 's Snāna Yātrā festival is performed. During this time, Śrī Jagannātha, Śrī Balabhadra, and Śrī Subhadrādevī are brought to the snana-vedi or bathing platform in a similar way as Pahāṇḍī Vijaya is done. There a grand bathing ceremony is performed on the three Deities and Sudarsana with 108 gold pitchers of water.  After the bathing, the Lord accepts the form of Ganesa. It is said that in order to bathe Śrī Jagannātha with pärijit-scented celestial Ganges water, all the great sages and demigos carry that water on their heads and visit Sri Purusottama Delima, and under the leadership of Brahma, they bathe the Supreme Lord on the bathing platform and offer lavish prayers. So that the demigods can freely sit and watch the Lord's grand bathing cer emony, the exalted devotee King Indradyumna would erect a canopy and other large curtains bedecked with emeralds around the bathing altar during the bathing ceremony...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Srila Baladeva Vidyabhushana 🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁 Srila Baladeva Vidyabhushana was born sometime in the eighteenth century, in Odisha. At a very early age, he finished his studies of grammar, poetry, rhetoric and logic and then went on pilgrimage. During his travels he met  Sri Radha-Damodara Deva a grand-disciple of Sri Rasikananda Deva with whom he discussed philosophy. Sri Radha-Damodara Deva explained the conclusions of Gaudiya Vaishnava philosophy as expounded by Sri Gaurasundara and requested him to consider the unlimited mercy of Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu. In a very short time he became an expert in Gaudiya Vaishnava philosophy. He then moved to Vrindavana to further study these teachings under Sri Vishvanatha Chakravarti Thakura who instructed him in achintya-bhedabheda-tattva. One day, in Jaipur, in the royal court, the Ramanuja sampradaya began arguing a case in connection with the Gaudiya sampradaya. They informed the king that the Gaudiya sampradaya had no commentary...

  Pandava Nirjala Ekadasi 🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁 The description of Nirjala Ekadasi, which occurs during the month of May/June, is found in the Brahma-vaivarta Purana in the conversation between Vyasadeva and Bhimasena.  Once Bhimasena, the younger brother of Yudhisthira, inquired from the great sage Srila Vyásadeva, "O most learned and wor shipable grandfather, please hear my request My elder brother Yudhisthira, mother Kuntidevi, brothers Arjuna, Nakula, and Sahadeva, and Draupadi do not cat anything on the day of Ekadasi. They, especially Yudhisthira, always tell me that I should also fast on Ekadasi. But I always tell them that though I know that to fast on Ekadasi is an injunction of the scriptures, I cannot bear my hunger and therefore I am unable to fast. I can give in charity as per my capacity, I can worship Lord Kesava with proper rules and regulations, but I cannot fast. So please instruct me how can I obtain the result of Ekadasi without having to fast." On hearing these wo...

Shyamananda Prabhu was a great devotee of Lord Chaitanya. He was a contemporary of the great Acharyas Srinivasa Acharya and Narottama Dasa Thakura. The three were eternal associates of Lord Chaitanya incarnated to spread His teachings after the Lord’s disappearance. They studied under Srila Jiva Goswami in Vrindavan. They created a resurgence of Lord Chaitanya’s Bhakti movement in Bengal and Orissa, where it was flagging in the period after the Lord had left the planet. Birth & Childhood 🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁 Shri Syamananda made his appearance at Utkala in the village of Dharenda Bahadurpur. His father’s name was Shri Krishna Mandal and his mother’s name was Shri Durika. Shri Krishna Mandal, who descended in the line of sad-gopas, had many sons and daughters who unfortunately passed away before the birth of this son. For this reason this son was named Dukhiya.    Everyone said that this child would be a very high-souled saintly person. “On the full moon day of the month of Caitra ...