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    Our humble obeisances to all the vaishnavas! Jaya Sri Sri Guru Gauranga! You will find attached to this text issue #252 of Sri Krishna Kathamrita Bindu. All back issues of Bindu are available for free download. Just copy and paste the following link into your web browser: http://www.gopaljiu.org/bindu ~*~*~*~*~*~*~ IN THIS ISSUE ~*~*~*~*~*~*~ * "Learning the Languages" -- Various instructions from His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada regarding learning Sanskrit and Bengali. * "We Don't Care!" -- A compilation of verses from various acaryas, some of which have been translated for the first time for this issue of Bindu. * "Sri-ladileyastakam, The Beloved of Brishabhanu's Darling" -- A first time translation done especially for Bindu of some little known prayers by the great devotee Sri Narayan Bhatta Goswami. We pray that this issue may bring some happiness and inspiration to the followers of the beloved son of Mother Sachi. Vaishnava pada dhuli o kripa prarthi, Madhavananda Das, editor ==================================== We hope you will find Bindu a valuable tool for your bhajan and preaching. Please tell others about this free service, and, if possible, print out a copy and post it on your community bulletin board. If you want to unsubscribe from this service just send an email to minimag@gopaljiu.org and type "Unsubscribe" in the subject line, and please accept our apologies for any inconvenience caused. Each Bindu is an easily digestible four pages long, and will be published in "PDF" format. To read them you will need to have Adobe Acrobat Reader 4.0 or later installed on your system. Adobe Acrobat Reader is free software. If you do not already have a copy, you can download it from: http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep.html Look for the little blue hands at the end of each column. Click on one and it will take you to where the text continues. For the convenience of our readers that use screen reader software and hand-held devices to read Bindu, we use PDF "embedded tags". Please know that any letters to the editor may be published. If you would prefer your correspondence to not be, please inform us. Invite the congregation to subscribe - it will help keep them connected! Sri Krishna Kathamrita Bindu will always be free of politics and institutional bashing or promotion. Just simply nectarean Krishna Katha! To download back issues of Sri Krishna Kathamrita Bindu or to find out more about Gopal Jiu Publications, please visit our web site: www.gopaljiu.org We appreciate your letters, comments, and suggestions. Write to us at either of the following addresses: minimag@gopaljiu.org katha@gopaljiu.org Or visit us on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/kkbindu http://www.facebook.com/sggsm "Madhavananda Das" ----------------------------------------------------------------- "This chanting should go on. Instead of meetings, resolutions, dissolutions, revolutions and then no solutions, there should be chanting." - His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, from Lilamrita, Vol.6, p.182

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    Our humble obeisances to all the vaishnavas! Jaya Sri Sri Guru Gauranga! You will find attached to this text issue #252 of Sri Krishna Kathamrita Bindu. All back issues of Bindu are available for free download. Just copy and paste the following link into your web browser: http://www.gopaljiu.org/bindu ~*~*~*~*~*~*~ IN THIS ISSUE ~*~*~*~*~*~*~ * "Learning the Languages" -- Various instructions from His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada regarding learning Sanskrit and Bengali. * "We Don't Care!" -- A compilation of verses from various acaryas, some of which have been translated for the first time for this issue of Bindu. * "Sri-ladileyastakam, The Beloved of Brishabhanu's Darling" -- A first time translation done especially for Bindu of some little known prayers by the great devotee Sri Narayan Bhatta Goswami. We pray that this issue may bring some happiness and inspiration to the followers of the beloved son of Mother Sachi. Vaishnava pada dhuli o kripa prarthi, Madhavananda Das, editor ==================================== We hope you will find Bindu a valuable tool for your bhajan and preaching. Please tell others about this free service, and, if possible, print out a copy and post it on your community bulletin board. If you want to unsubscribe from this service just send an email to minimag@gopaljiu.org and type "Unsubscribe" in the subject line, and please accept our apologies for any inconvenience caused. Each Bindu is an easily digestible four pages long, and will be published in "PDF" format. To read them you will need to have Adobe Acrobat Reader 4.0 or later installed on your system. Adobe Acrobat Reader is free software. If you do not already have a copy, you can download it from: http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep.html Look for the little blue hands at the end of each column. Click on one and it will take you to where the text continues. For the convenience of our readers that use screen reader software and hand-held devices to read Bindu, we use PDF "embedded tags". Please know that any letters to the editor may be published. If you would prefer your correspondence to not be, please inform us. Invite the congregation to subscribe - it will help keep them connected! Sri Krishna Kathamrita Bindu will always be free of politics and institutional bashing or promotion. Just simply nectarean Krishna Katha! To download back issues of Sri Krishna Kathamrita Bindu or to find out more about Gopal Jiu Publications, please visit our web site: www.gopaljiu.org We appreciate your letters, comments, and suggestions. Write to us at either of the following addresses: minimag@gopaljiu.org katha@gopaljiu.org Or visit us on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/kkbindu http://www.facebook.com/sggsm "Madhavananda Das" ----------------------------------------------------------------- "This chanting should go on. Instead of meetings, resolutions, dissolutions, revolutions and then no solutions, there should be chanting." - His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, from Lilamrita, Vol.6, p.182

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    KK Bindu #252

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    Our humble obeisances to all the vaishnavas! Jaya Sri Sri Guru Gauranga! You will find attached to this text issue #252 of Sri Krishna Kathamrita Bindu. All back issues of Bindu are available for free download. Just copy and paste the following link into your web browser: http://www.gopaljiu.org/bindu ~*~*~*~*~*~*~ IN THIS ISSUE ~*~*~*~*~*~*~ * "Learning the Languages" -- Various instructions from His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada regarding learning Sanskrit and Bengali. * "We Don't Care!" -- A compilation of verses from various acaryas, some of which have been translated for the first time for this issue of Bindu. * "Sri-ladileyastakam, The Beloved of Brishabhanu's Darling" -- A first time translation done especially for Bindu of some little known prayers by the great devotee Sri Narayan Bhatta Goswami. We pray that this issue may bring some happiness and inspiration to the followers of the beloved son of Mother Sachi. Vaishnava pada dhuli o kripa prarthi, Madhavananda Das, editor ==================================== We hope you will find Bindu a valuable tool for your bhajan and preaching. Please tell others about this free service, and, if possible, print out a copy and post it on your community bulletin board. If you want to unsubscribe from this service just send an email to minimag@gopaljiu.org and type "Unsubscribe" in the subject line, and please accept our apologies for any inconvenience caused. Each Bindu is an easily digestible four pages long, and will be published in "PDF" format. To read them you will need to have Adobe Acrobat Reader 4.0 or later installed on your system. Adobe Acrobat Reader is free software. If you do not already have a copy, you can download it from: http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep.html Look for the little blue hands at the end of each column. Click on one and it will take you to where the text continues. For the convenience of our readers that use screen reader software and hand-held devices to read Bindu, we use PDF "embedded tags". Please know that any letters to the editor may be published. If you would prefer your correspondence to not be, please inform us. Invite the congregation to subscribe - it will help keep them connected! Sri Krishna Kathamrita Bindu will always be free of politics and institutional bashing or promotion. Just simply nectarean Krishna Katha! To download back issues of Sri Krishna Kathamrita Bindu or to find out more about Gopal Jiu Publications, please visit our web site: www.gopaljiu.org We appreciate your letters, comments, and suggestions. Write to us at either of the following addresses: minimag@gopaljiu.org katha@gopaljiu.org Or visit us on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/kkbindu http://www.facebook.com/sggsm "Madhavananda Das" ----------------------------------------------------------------- "This chanting should go on. Instead of meetings, resolutions, dissolutions, revolutions and then no solutions, there should be chanting." - His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, from Lilamrita, Vol.6, p.182

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    Sri Krishna Kathamrita

    Tav k QaaMa*Ta& TaáJaqvNaMa(


    tava kathämåtaà tapta-jévanam
    Bindu
    Fortnightly email mini-magazine from Gopal Jiu Publications

    Issue No. 252 Çré Aparä Ekädaçé 28 May 2011 Circulation 3,995

    • Learning the Languages


    Highlights

    His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada


    • We Don't Care! page one top collumn two
    Various Authors
    • The Beloved of Brishabhanu’s Darling
    Sri Narayan Bhatta Goswami

    Learning the Languages


    His Divine Grace A. C.
    Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

    I hope you are continuing to study Bengali. I


    shall be glad to know how much progress you
    have made by this time. (Letter, 7 February 1968.)

    You mention that you have enclosed the


    transliteration work of Çrémad Bhägavatam,
    but I do not find it here. You may have missed
    it. Anyway, I am happy to hear you are steadily
    studying Sanskrit and reading Çrémad Bhägavatam
    — that is very good. (Letter, 23 March 1968.)

    All these discrepancies are happening on account


    of my students being unaware of Sanskrit language.
    Therefore I requested him to learn Sanskrit very
    seriously. He has got the aptitude, and I hope he
    may come out very successful. (Letter, 9 April 1968.)

    Regarding his study of Sanskrit, I am very glad


    to learn of his seriousness to study. We need many
    Sanskrit scholar devotees. When it is convenient he
    His Divine Grace A. C.
    may study in Boston, and there are Sanskrit courses Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
    at the university there also. (Letter, 15 March 1970.)
    how to pronounce the Sanskrit verses, especially
    Regarding Sanskrit class, it is very encouraging that the ones in our published books, just like you have
    the teacher is helping you in this connection, but already chanted the Govinda verses in the record.
    our chief aim for learning Sanskrit would be to learn Similarly, if you chant all the verses combinedly and
    next column  
    Issue Two Hundred Fifty-two, Page — 2 Top right 2 é[q k* Z<ak QaaMa*Ta ibNdu
    melodiously along with musical instruments it will be precious jewel that decorates my breasts. (Unknown
    a great charm to the people of the world. When we author, quoted in Padyävalé 174.)
    start our World Sankirtana Party it will be our unique svämé nihantu vihasantu puraù sapatnyo
    position if we can demonstrate the chanting of the bhartur bhajantu guravaù pitaraç ca lajjäm
    etävatä yadi kalaìki kulaà tathästu
    mantras as they are given in Éçopaniñad, Bhagavad- rämänuje mama tanotu mano ‘nurägam
    gétä, Çrémad Bhägavatam and Brahma Saàhitä.
    Let my husband beat me! Let my enemies laugh
    Therefore the main aim of this Sanskrit class should
    in my face! Let my parents and elderly relatives
    be for you to learn this chanting in the proper accent.
    shame me before my husband! Let my whole
    It is not our aim to become Sanskrit scholars. (Letter, family become polluted! I don’t care! My heart will
    9 November 1975.) continue to love Balaram’s younger brother Krishna.
    We have seen your note regarding the child. You (Unknown author, quoted in Padyävalé 175.)
    may engage one Sanskrit teacher for her so she svämé kupyati kupyatäà parijanä nindanti nindantu mäm
    anyat kià prathatäm ayaà ca jagati prauòho mamopadravaù
    shall become a very great scholar. Just like Jiva
    äçäsyaà punar etad eva yad idaà cakñuç ciraà vardhatäà
    Goswami was trained in Sanskrit language from yenedaà paripéyate muraripoù saundarya-säraà vapuù
    early childhood and no one could surpass him in
    My husband is angry? Let him be! My friends
    all of India. (Letter, 1 August 1972.) · rebuke me? Let them do so! Whatever other
    We Don’t Care! catastrophe there may be in this world, let it fall upon
    me. I don’t care! I simply wish that my eyes may
    A compilation from various authors
    eternally drink the nectar of Krishna’s handsome
    parivadatu jano yathä tathä vä form. (Sri Pushkaraksha, quoted in Padyävalé 176.)
    nanu mukharo na vayaà vicärayämaù
    hari-rasa-madirä madätimattä dhyänäbhyäsa-vaçékåtena manasä tan nirguëaà niñkriyaà
    bhuvi viluöhäma naöäma nirviçäma jyotiù kiïcana yogino yadi paraà paçyanti paçyantu te
    asmäkaà tu tad eva locana-camatkäräya bhüyäc ciraà
    The talkative people will rebuke us. Is it not? Well, kälindé-pulineñu yat kim api tan nélaà maho dhävati
    we don’t care for them! We will drink the liquor
    of love for Lord Hari and will become completely If after practicing meditation and controlling their
    intoxicated, roll about on the ground, dance, and minds, the yogés perceive the absolute truth as a
    experience ecstasy. (Sri Sarvabhauma Bhattacharya, mere light devoid of all qualities, let them perceive
    quoted in Padyävalé 73.) so. We don’t care! For us, that absolute truth roams
    eternally in a bluish hue on the banks of the
    purataù sphuratu vimuktiç
    Kalindi river, ravishing our eyes. (Sri Madhusudana
    ciram iha räjyaà karotu vairäjyam
    paçupäla-bälaka-pateù Saraswati, from the Güòhärtha-dépikä commentary
    seväm eväbhiväïchämi on Bhagavad-gétä 13.1) ·
    Liberation may appear before me. The enduring Translated and adapted by Hari Parshad Das from:
    kingdom of Lord Brahma may also appear before — Srila Rupa Goswami. Padyävalé. Sanskrit with English
    me. I don’t care! I simply desire to serve Lord translation by Sri Kusakratha Das. The Krishna Library. Culver
    City, CA. 1989.
    Krishna, the leader of the cowherd boys. (Sri — http://granthamandira.com/index.php?show=entry&e_no=731
    Surottamacharya, quoted in Padyävalé 84.)
    Çré Läòileyäñöakam
    tåpyantu me chidram aväpya çatravaù
    karotu me çästi-bharaà gåheçvaraù The Beloved of
    maëis tu vakñoruha-madhya-bhüñaëaà
    mamästu våndävana-kåñëa-candramä
    Brishabhanu’s Darling
    Let my enemies be pleased to find fault with me. Let The author of this prayer, Narayan Bhatta Goswami,
    my husband punish me again and again. I don’t care! was a disciple of Sri Krishnadas Brahmachari, who
    Lord Krishnachandra, who enjoys transcendental in turn was a disciple of Sri Gadadhar Pandit. Narayan
    pastimes in Vrindavan forest, will always be the Bhatta Goswami lived for many years in Vraja.
     
    Sri Krishna-kathamrita Bindu top rightIssue
    3 Two Hundred Fifty-two, Page — 3
    Top left 3

    Mohana Madhuri
    He is said to have discovered the ancient deity of Accepting a form possessed of all beautiful limbs
    Sriji and had her installed on top of Barshana hill. and wearing a yellowish cloth around his waist, his
    He was a prolific writer and authored Bhakti-rasa- lotus feet are worshipped by all sages and demigods
    taraìgiëé, Vraja-bhakti-viläsa, Vraja-dépikä, Vrajotsava- headed by Lord Brahma. I constantly worship that
    candrikä, Vraja-mahodadhi, Vrajotsava- hlädiné, beloved of Vrishabhanu’s darling daughter.
    Båhad Vraja-gunotsava, Vraja-prakäça, Vraja-dépikä, tiryag-kiréöa-mukuöaà vana-mälayä vai
    Bhakta-bhüñaëa-sandarbha, Vraja-sädhana-candrikä, saàçobhamäna-vapuñaà hasatekñaëäòhyam
    dedépyamäna-makaräkåti-kuëòalaà ca
    Bhakti-viveka, Sahana-dépikä, Rasika-hlädiné,
    çré-läòileya-lalitaà satataà bhajämi
    Premäìkura (drama), Läòilé-läla Yugala Paddhati
    and this Läòileyäñöakam. Narayan Bhatta Goswami’s On his head rests a curved helmet, his ears are
    samädhi is near Barshana in Uchagaon, the village embellished with a pair of brilliantly glowing
    where Lalita Sakhi appeared. shark-shaped earrings, his eyes are enhanced with
    a smile, and his body is decorated with a garland
    “Ladili” literally means “darling”. It is a popular of forest flowers. I constantly worship that beloved
    name of Srimati Radharani in Vrindavan. In of Vrishabhanu’s darling daughter.
    this context, “Ladili” can mean “Brishabhanu’s
    änamra-jänu-yugalaà vraja-bhümikäyäm
    darling” or “the darling queen of Barshana”. utthäya dakñiëa-karaà sasarésåpantam
    çrémad-vrajeça-tanayaà dhåta-mänaväìgaà pädäravinda-yugale dhåta-nüpuraà ca
    sarväìga-sundara-varaà kati-péta-vastram çré-läòileya-lalitaà satataà bhajämi
    brahmädi-deva-muni-vandya-padäravindaà His lotus feet are decorated with a pair of anklets. He
    çré-läòileya-lalitaà satataà bhajämi
    crawls beautifully on the land of Vraja while using his
     
    Issue Two
    Top left 4 Hundred Fifty-two, Page — 4 é[q k* Z<ak QaaMa*Ta ibNd
    Top right 4
    right hand to pull himself forward. I constantly worship His well built arms appear to subdue the strength
    that beloved of Vrishabhanu’s darling daughter. of mountains. He displays a beautiful form having
    kaumära-darçita-sukhaà vapuñä sva-pitror blackish eyes, beautiful brows, perfect nose, and a
    bälaiç ca kréòaëa-paraà samudärayantam sweet smile. Around his waist is a strand of jewels
    mugdha-smitaà nija-bhuje dhåta-modakaà ca that steals one’s mind. I constantly worship that
    çré-läòileya-lalitaà satataà bhajämi beloved of Vrishabhanu’s darling daughter.
    He smilingly holds a sweet in his hands go-vatsa-khelana-paraà gala-maukti-häraà
    vaàçé-dharaà sughaöa-nåtya-karaà varaà ca
    and displays his unlimitedly magnanimous
    gopé-gåheñu nitaräà navanéta-cauraà
    playful pastimes of infancy, thus delighting his çré-läòileya-lalitaà satataà bhajämi
    parents. I constantly worship that beloved of
    Around his neck swings a necklace of pearls as
    Vrishabhanu’s darling daughter.
    he exhibits his pastimes of playing with the calves.
    çrémad-balänujam atéva priya-svarüpaà He holds a flute in his hands and effortlessly
    saukhya-pradaà nija-janän atimänayantäm
    displays his dancing skill as well as his expertise
    çyämäìgam adbhutataraà sumukhaà sunetraà
    at regularly stealing butter from the homes of
    çré-läòileya-lalitaà satataà bhajämi
    the gopés. I constantly worship that beloved of
    The younger brother of Baladev has an immensely Vrishabhanu’s darling daughter.
    wonderful form with complexion like a dark monsoon
    dhyänäspadaà jagati pürëatamävatäraà
    cloud and beautiful lotus-like face and eyes. These santaà paraà nikhila-jéva-nikäya-ketum
    bestow great happiness on his kinsmen and earn him lélä-kadambam atilaìghita-çatru-vargaà
    a respected place amongst them. I constantly worship çré-läòileya-lalitaà satataà bhajämi
    that beloved of Vrishabhanu’s darling daughter. He soundly defeated his enemies in his
    subhrü-nasaà subhuja-daëòa-paräga-dämaà multifarious pastimes. He is the Supreme Lord in the
    drañöavya-rüpam asitekñaëa-cäru-häsam most perfect form, the object of meditation for the
    käïcyä paräìga-dhåta-hära-manoharantaà entire world, the sought-after shelter of the sages,
    çré-läòileya-lalitaà satataà bhajämi and the refuge of all souls. I constantly worship that
    beloved of Vrishabhanu’s darling daughter.

    çlokäñöakaà hi sumukhaà sumudä sva-citte
    sandhäya nityam amalaà hari-bhaktidaà ca
    Sri Krishna Kathamrita Bindu devälaye paöhati tasya hariù svayaà ca
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