Dance, when you're broken open.
Dance, if you've torn the bandage off.
Dance, in the middle of the fighting.
Dance, in your blood.
Dance, when you're perfectly free.
Struck, the dancers hear a tambourine inside them,
as a wave turns to foam on its very top, begin.
Maybe you don't hear that tambourine,
or the tree leaves clapping time.
Close the ears on your head that listen mostly
to lies and cynical jokes.
There are other things to hear and see:
dance-music, and a brilliant city inside the Soul.
                                                   -Jalaludin Rumi
So many Great Gifts are given to us through the teachings of our
Guru Maharaj - Bhakti Rakshaka Sridhar Deva Goswami Maharaja, including the revelation that in our line LIBERATION is available to ALL through SINGING and DANCING!
lyrics and translation of Verse 1 of the beautiful bhajan above:
samsara-davanala-lidha-loka-
tranaya karunya-ghanaghanatvam
praptasya kalyana-gunarnavasya
vande guroh sri-caranaravindam
I worship the lotus feet of the
Divine Master, who is the ocean of
auspicious qualities. Just to
deliver all planes of life that are
suffering in the forest fire of the
material world, he, as the rain-cloud
of mercy, melts to shower down the
waters of compassion.
Guru Maharaj also reveals that the Name of the Lord and the Lord are simultaneously different yet NON-DIFFERENT (Acintya beda-beda tattva)
HARE KRISHNA MAHA-MANTRA:
hare krishna hare krishna
krishna krishna hare hare
hare rama hare rama
rama rama hare hare
"In the Name of Rama within the Hare Krishna mantra, the Gaudiya Vaisnavas will fing Radha-ramana Rama. That means, 'Krishna who gives pleasure (raman) to Srimati Radharani."
And Who is this Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, Who "flooded the flooded the world with Krishna Prema but did not taste a drop of it Himself?"
This is revealed in the "cream of the Vedas" the Chaitanya Charitamrita, Adi-lila 1.5 "The loving affairs of Srimati Radharani and Krishna are transcendental manifestations of the Lord’s internal pleasure-giving potency. Although Srimati Radharani and Krishna are one in Their identity, They separated Themselves eternally. Now these two transcendental identities have again united, in the form of Sri Krishna Chaitanya. I bow down to Him, who has manifested Himself with the sentiment and complexion of Srimati Radharani although He is Krishna Himself."
In the words of our Guru Maharaj -
"Krishna covered in the Heart and Halo of Srimati Radharani."
"EMPORIUM OF RASA The Lord's potency is dynamic, and that dynamicism is always producing rasa or the flavor of ecstasy. The whole lila is producing ecstasy (anandam, rasam). Krsna Himself is the emporium of rasa (akhila rasamrta murtih... anandamaya vilasa). Dynamic movement is a necessity in His lila; it cannot be eliminated. And that movement is always producing a novel ecstasy which feeds every atom of the spiritual world. In that transcendental abode, Krsna is the center who attracts everything and enthuses rasa and anandam, ecstasy and joy within everything. This is the nature of the movement of the absolute. It is not static, but dynamic - filled with movement. And that movement is prati-padam purnamrtasvadanam: at every point, every step, it produces a new type of joy which is infinite."
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Jaya Om Vishnupada Paramahamsa Parivracarya-varya
Sarva-sastra-siddhanta-vit Astottara-sata-sri-srimad
Bhakti Rakshaka Sridhar Deva Goswami Maharaja ki-JAYA!
Jaya Om Vishnupada Srila Bhakti Sundar Govinda Dev-Goswami Maharaj ki-JAYA!
Dream of Lotus Feet - Arindam Krishna Das
All that I hold
I will not hold for long.
All that I have held
I have held and now is gone.
When I release – let go
then I find
that all along
it is I that have been held.
I have been Guided
Protected
given Causeless Mercy
Endless Shelter
all along
held by the One
Who is Everywhere
in Everything
Krishna
The Enjoyer, All-Attractive
HARE KRISHNA
I have been taught
that He is
Everywhere in Everything.
When I am awake
I realize He sees our hearts – our Souls -
Eternally.
Sometimes I can hardly bring myself
To look into the Deity’s Eyes…
…barely dream
Of His Lotus feet…
In the corner of my eye
the reflection of a jewel
sparkles from the ring
around His toe
and somewhere there
in the periphery
dare I raise my eyes
to glance upon the
Transcendental Beauty
there beside Him?
Srimati Radharani
JAYA RADHE
HARE KRISHNA HARE KRISHNA KRISHNA KRISHNA HARE HARE
HARE RAMA HARE RAMA RAMA RAMA HARE HARE
GAURANGA!
NITYANANDA!
- OM -
JAYA GURUDEV!
JAYA SRILA GOVINDA MAHARAJ!
I lay me down at last
At His Lotus feet
To find finally
There I am complete………
…………At His Lotus feet
There at last I am complete.
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