20 Days If The Harmonist Kartik

aträsét kila nanda-sadma çakaöasyäträ bhavad-bhaïjanaà bandhaccheda-karo ’pi däma-bhirabhüd baddho ’tra dämodaraù itthaà mäthura-våddha-vaktra-vigalat-péyüña-dhäräà pibannänandäçru-dharaù kadä madhu-puréà dhanyaç cariñyämy-aham
Çré Kavi-çekhara
quoted in Çréla Rüpa Gosvämé’s Çré Padyävalé (120)

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his is where Çré Nanda’s palace stood. Here, Kåñëa demolished the bullock cart, which wasactually a demon in disguise. Here, He who releases all souls from the bondage of illusion was Himself bound to a grinding mortar by the rope of His mother’s love. For that He came to be known as Dämodara: that beautiful boy whose belly was bound by rope. Oh! When shall I be fortunate enough to wander the land of Mathurä, crying tears of joy as I thoroughly drink, through my ears, the streams ofthese nectarean pastimes, which flow from the lips of the elderly, realized Mathuräväsés?

The Harmonist
Gaudiya Vedanta Publications Kärttika-pürëimä 2009

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Editorial Çré Govinda-Dämodara Stotram
Çréla Bilvamaìgala Öhäkura

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Vaiñëava-nindä (Criticizing a Vaiñëava)
Çréla Saccidänanada Bhaktivinoda Öhäkura

Çré Rädhäñöamé – The Day of Her AdventPainting by Çyämaräëé däsé, © BBT

Çréla Bhaktisiddhänta Sarasvaté Öhäkura Prabhupäda

Çréman Aténdriya Prabhu has Returned Home 36
Çré Çrémad Bhakti Prajïäna Keçava Gosvämé Mahäräja

Knowledge and Feeling
Çré Çrémad Bhakti Säraìga Gosvämé Maharäja

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Çré Kåñëa-lélä and Mundane Sense Gratification 52
Çré Çrémad Bhaktivedänta Svämé Mahäräja

Jävälä and Satyakäma
Çré ÇrémadBhaktivedänta Vämana Gosvämé Mahäräja
Front cover painting © Väsudeva däsa

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Well-Wishers of the Fallen
Çré Çrémad Bhaktivedänta Trivikrama Gosvämé Mahäräja

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Çrémad Bhakti Prajïäna Keçava Gosvämé Mahäräja
Founder-Äcärya of Çré Gauòéya Vedänta Samiti He earnestly desired to re-institute the publication of all the magazines and journals that were being published during the manifest presence of ÇrélaBhaktisiddhänta Sarasvaté Öhäkura Prabhupäda.

Çänti däsé sulatä däsé

Mädhava-priya däsa Vijaya-kåñëa däsa Veëu-gopäla däsa (uk) giridhäri däsa Vraja-mohana däsa Vånda däsé Maïjaré däsé

STaTeMenT oF PurPoSeS
1. To protect the vicära-dhärä, or current of conceptions, of the svärüpa-rüpänuga-guru-paramparä as presented in the modern age by Çréla Saccidänanda Bhaktivinoda Öhäkura (i.e. to...