Avirbhava of Sri Sri Guru Gauranga Gandharvika Giridharijiu, Seva Ashram, Soquel, CA

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Installation of Sri Sri Guru Gauranga Gandharvika Giridhari Jiu, 1996, Sri Chaitanya Saraswat Seva Ashram, Soquel, CA

Dear Sripada Janardana Maharaja,

Please accept my humble obeisances.

A rose by the same name smells just as sweet.

Extending Their unlimited mercy to this fallen soul Sri Sri Guru Gauranga Gandharvika Giridharijiu came to me, as I recall, in 1983. At that time I was living alone, as usual, in Ft. Worth, TX. To confirm the year of this blessed event I referred to an article published around the same time; an entry referring to me in Mukunda Mala Vilasa’s (later Maha Yogi Maharaja’s) first edition of the “Maha Mandal World News” newsletter.

I was surreptitiously distributing Prabhupada’s books (we had no others) at the DFW airport which provided sufficient income for me to attempt a preaching center. Apparently I was not surreptitious enough as later on Tamal Krishna Maharaja found out about it and, believing the airport belonged to him and a sannyasa disciple of Srila Sridhara Maharaja had no business there, sent one of his followers to discourage me from distributing books at his airport by beating me to the point of a severe concussion that kept me bedridden for the next two weeks or so.… Read More...

No Rights for Women

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Śrīla Śrīdhara Mahārāja: . . . Just as the custom and the law of the Hindu law, bhaja, sanskriti [?] the position of the females, no right is given to them. The whole right with the man, nothing with the women. But by their affection and serving spirit, they hold the key to the whole respect, the respect of the son, the affection of the husband, they enjoy like anything. But externally no right is given to them in the law or in the society. But the ladies they hold a peculiar and very venerable position in the eyes of the society. The mother, the wife, the daughter, but no right has been given to them by law.

pitā rakṣati kaumāre, bharttā rakṣati yauvane

baddha ke suto ruke nastri satan meyatmyat

Manu says, in early age the father will protect them, in youth the husband will protect them, and in old age the son will protect them. More than gods they draw respect from the society; more than goddess, but externally, no right.

This whole potency holds such a position to Kṛṣṇa. It is His but by the power of affection, not any external right. They do not care for that.… Read More...

Avirbhava: Sri Krishna Chaitanya, the Golden Avatara

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Sri Sri Gaura Nitai

 

CC Ādi 1.2
বন্দে শ্রীকৃষ্ণচৈতন্যনিত্যানন্দৌ সহোদিতৌ ।
গৌড়োদয়ে পুষ্পবন্তৌ চিত্রৌ শন্দৌ তমোনুদৌ ॥ ২ ॥
vande śrī-kṛṣṇa-caitanya-
nityānandau sahoditau
gauḍodaye puṣpavantau
citrau śan-dau tamo-nudau
Synonyms
vande — I offer respectful obeisances; śrī–kṛṣṇa–caitanya — to Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya; nityānandau — and to Lord Nityānanda; saha–uditau — simultaneously arisen; gauḍa–udaye — on the eastern horizon of Gauḍa; puṣpavantau — the sun and moon together; citrau — wonderful; śam–dau — bestowing benediction; tamaḥ–nudau — dissipating darkness.

Translation
I offer my respectful obeisances unto Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya and Lord Nityānanda, who are like the sun and moon. They have arisen simultaneously on the horizon of Gauḍa to dissipate the darkness of ignorance and thus wonderfully bestow benediction upon all.

 

 

3 March 2026 (Tuesday) Invitation to Sri Gaura Purnima Festival!

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When: Tuesday March 3rd, 2026 from 6PM – 8PM.

Dear devotees and friends: We humbly invite you to participate along with devotees from Sri Gaura Vinoda Saraswat Sanga New Jersey in the grand festival for Sri Gaura Purnima.

Fast until moonrise (6:22 PM), then no grains (anukalpa). Paran is Wednesday March 4th, 2026 06:02 AM and 09:53 AM.

Come and participate in the grand festival of Sri Gaura-Purnima & the start of the 540th Gaurabda year. Festivities include kirtana, readings (From Chaitanya-caritamrta), discourses and prasadam.

Please RSVP via our contact page.

For your satisfaction we offer this audio lecture of Srila Govinda Maharaja’s talk on Sri Gaura Purnima day February 24th 1994.

Srila Govinda Maharaja’s talk on Sri Gaura Purnima day February 24th 1994

21 February 2026 (Saturday) Invitation to Srila B.K. Giri Maharaja’s Appearance Festival!

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On Saturday February 21st, 2026, we humbly invite you to celebrate with us the Grand Appearance day of the President Acharya of Sri Gaura Vinoda Saraswat Sangal, His Divine Grace Om Vishnupada Paramahamsa Parivrajakacharya-varya Astottara-sata Sri Srila Bhakti Kanan Giri Maharaja.

Celebrations for this most blessed event will be held at Sri Gaura Vinoda Saraswat Sanga Global Headquarters in New Jersey, USA, and centers worldwide from 5-7 PM.

The festival will include kirtana, discourses and other all-auspicious activities.
Please RSVP using one of the methods available.

6 December 2025 (Saturday) Invitation to the Celebration of Srila B.S. Govinda Maharaja’s Appearance Day!

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Dear devotees and friends, we humbly invite you to participate in the festival for the Grand 97th Appearance Day Celebration of Om Vishnupad Paramahamsa Parivrajakacharya-varya Astottara-sata Sri Srila Bhakti Sundar Govinda Dev-Goswami Maharaja which will take place at Sri Gaura Vinoda Saraswat Sanga Global Headquarters in New Jersey, USA and worldwide centers on Saturday, December 6, 2025 from 7-9 PM.

This festival will include kirtana, discourses and other all-auspicious activities. Please RSVP by clicking on the contact page and using one of the methods available there.

15 October 2025 (Wednesday) Invitation to Srila Sridhar Maharaja’s 131th Appearance Day Celebration!

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Dear devotees and friends, we humbly invite you to participate in the festival for the Grand 131th Appearance Day Celebration of Sri Chaitanya Saraswat Math’s Founder President Acharya, Om Vishnupad Paramahamsa Parivrajakacharya-varya Astottara-sata Sri Srila Bhakti Raksaka Sridhara Dev-Goswami Maharaja which will take place at the Sri Gaura Vinoda Saraswat Sanga headquarters in New Jersey, USA and at GVSS centers around the world on October 15th 2025 from 7-9 PM.

This festival will include Nama sankirtana, discourses and other all-auspicious activities. Please RSVP by clicking on the contact page and using one of the methods available there.

The Value of Well-Wishers

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What follows is a brief introduction of His Grace Sriman Suresh Durgam dasa followed by a recent email exchange between myself and him.

In 1981 I spent the months of October and November in the ”blue house”, as it was known, with some of my Godbrothers from ISKCON. It was one of the properties owned by Srila Sridhara Maharaja and had previously been offered for the use of Srila Swami Maharaja (Prabhupada) and his disciples during his and their stays at Sri Chaitanya Saraswat Math Navadwipa.

The purpose of my visit was to request sannyasa from Srila Sridhara Maharaja. As it turned out I received much more than the sannyasa mantra from him. Everyday in the early morning and evening Srila Sridhara Maharaja spoke with us very freely and informally. We asked him many questions on a wide variety of topics. Often his response to a single question might extend into a discourse of thirty to forty minutes or more covering many facets of a topic or expanding into other areas of interest that might arise from a sloka he quoted or a subject tangential to the one at hand. At other times a sentence or two might seem sufficient or there might be a series of back and forth probative questions followed by a reply that, however brief or extended, appeared to issue forth from the scriptures themselves or some other area of the plane of transcendental knowledge with which he was obviously intimately familiar.… Read More...