The story, “Lord Caitanya delivering Amogha the offender.” And we heard yesterday, Sarvabhauma Bhattacarya telling his wife to instruct her daughter Shati that she should give up her relationship with her husband, Amogha. Because Amogha is a great offender of Lord... Read more
Reading from Caitanya Caritamrta. Continuing the story, “Lord Caitanya delivers Amogha the offender.” This is taken from Madhya lila chapter 15 verse 244 through 301, quite a long story. And of course we left off yesterday. When Sarvabhauma returned home and he was... Read more
MS: Yesterday we left off the story – Mahaprabhu is glorifying the brahmana and telling him how happy He was to accept food in his house and the brahmana was feeling overwhelmed. Because he was a merely a vipra advanced in various Vedic knowledges and sciences but... Read more
So where did we leave off yesterday, anybody remember? The brahmana met Lord Caitanya in the Kesavaji mandira in Mathura and they danced together. Brahmana was exhibiting so many symptoms of prema, and afterwards they fell at each other’s feet, the brahmana... Read more
MS: Reading from Sri Caitanya Caritamrta. We are in Mathura, we are in a temple of Lord Kesava. Caitanya Mahaprabhu has met one brahmana there. They’ve been dancing in ecstasy and many of the onlookers and spectators also became ecstatic by seeing this sight and they... Read more
MS: This is Caitanya Caritamrta class, the title of the story is ‘Lord Caitanya Takes Prasadam From The Sanodiya Brahmana In Mathura.’ So we can kind of conclude although we have not found out yet, this may be that brahmana. But some brahmana, eka vipra… Lord Caitanya... Read more
MS: So now some of the instructional stories from the Sri Caitanya Caritamrta. This story is called ‘Lord Caitanya takes Prasadam from the Sanodiya Brahmana in Mathura.’ This is chapter 17 of Madhya lila. Of course the title of this chapter is Lord Caitanya travels to... Read more
MS: This story from Caitanya Caritamrta, we are beginning a new story here – this is from Madhya Lila, chapter 10, verse 49 through 60. ‘Bhavananda Raya offers his family to Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu.’ Of course the implication of describing the story is that, anyone... Read more
MS: This is kind of a light interlude; this is kind of a heavy sandwich with cream cheese in the middle. Philosophy, cream cheese and philosophy. Bhajan Rahasyam is philosophy but there is sweetness now, lot of sweetness and then the philosophy of Bhakti Rasamrta... Read more
The Coconut Lila Reading from Sri Caitanya Caritamrta, Madhya Lila chapter 15, this is the story of Raghava Pandita, this is called the coconut lila. Caitanya Mahaprabhu, He was having lunch at Sarvabhauma’s house in Jagannatha Puri and while He was sitting with all... Read more
