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Archive for Sri Sri Prapanna Jivanamritam

Monday Evening Classes with Vidura Krishna

Posted by Sushila Devi Dasi on Thursday, March 29th, 2012 in 2012 Photo Gallery, Events | Comments (0)
Vidura Krishna Prabhu
Cover of Sri Sri Prapanna Jivanamritam
The beautiful cover of Sri Sri Prapanna Jivanamritam by Srila Sridhar Maharaj
March 19, 2012

For many years Vidura Krishna Prabhu led a popular weekly youth class. Now he has resumed leading one of the evening programs; however, the new class it is not only for young people. It has a new theme. Every week he covers a chapter of Sri Sri Prapanna Jivanamritam, which is a very special book full of scriptural quotations about the six limbs of surrender. Everyone in the class is memorizing the six limbs of surrender (acceptance of the favorable, rejection of the unfavorable, full confidence in the Lord’s protection, embracing the Lord’s guardianship, full self-surrender and surrender in humility) and takes turns reading some verses. Vidura Krishna Prabhu shares insightful comments that he has heard from our guru varga about the verses and their themes.  After this book is finished he says the class will read Sri Sikshastakam (Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu’s eight prayers) and then the ten offenses to the Holy Name. His goal is to review the basics of Krishna Consciousness philosophy so that we can apply them in our daily practicing lives.

Scroll to the bottom of the photos to view or download a pdf of the whole book Sri Sri Prapanna Jivanamritam.

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01-vidura-monday-class Bilwamangal Prabhu kindly poses with Sri Sri Prapanna Jivanamrita and one of the nice photocopies Vidura prepares each week of one chapter at a time
02-vidura-monday-class Devaki, Vaidehi, and Vaishnavi Didis contemplate the beautiful verses contained in this special book

03-vidura-monday-class Bilwamangal Prabhu again, who extended his stay at the Ashram by two days just so that he could attend this class
04-vidura-monday-class Sakhi and Vidura Krishna Prabhus

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07-vidura-monday-class Devaki and Priya Didis follow the class in the temple room
08-vidura-monday-class while Naveen Prabhu washes all the dishes from the evening offering

09-vidura-monday-class Vaidehi Didi prepares to serve the delicious prasadam which Ratan Krishna Prabhu cooked
10-vidura-monday-class Neelamani Prabhu comes every Monday night to serve as Their Lordship's pujari. Jatindra Mohan Prabhu was sweeping the floors as he always does in the evening. They were happy to pose for this picture so that I could document just how many people participate in in the Monday evening class in behind the scenes capacities

11-vidura-monday-class Priya and Devaki Didis participate in Vidura Prabhu's class every week.

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Lectures by Sripad Bhakti Sharan Vaishnav Maharaj

Posted by Sushila Devi Dasi on Tuesday, January 17th, 2012 in Audio | Comments (0)
Sripad Bhakti Sharan Vaishnav Maharaj
Sripad Vaishnav Maharaj’s exciting lectures convey his deep and contagious appreciation for Srila Govinda Maharaj and his teachings. Vaishnav Maharaj’s tone was always very honest and his advice focused on the essential aspects of Bhakti-yoga. Our recordings include Sunday Feast lectures, Saturday Feast lectures at the San Jose Ashram, classes on Sri Chaitanya Charitamrita, Srimad Bhagavatam, and Sri Sri Prapanna Jivanamritam, and short (1-5 minute) clips from those lectures.

Lectures delivered at the Sunday Feast:

110710 Reciprocating with Gurudev.mp3 (46 minutes, 32.1 MB)

110918 Controlling Anger.mp3 (48 minutes, 33 MB)

110828 Finding Beauty in the Company of Devotees.mp3 (33 minutes, 30.3 MB)

Cover of Sri Sri Prapanna Jivanamritam
The beautiful cover of Sri Sri Prapanna Jivanamritam by Srila Sridhar Maharaj

Evening Classes on Sri Sri Prapanna Jivanamritam:

Throughout the winter and spring of 2010/2011 Sripad Vaishnav Maharaj gave class on Tuesday and Thursday evenings from the holy scripture Sri Sri Prapanna Jivanamritam by Srila B.R. Sridhar Dev-Goswami Maharaj. Vaishnav Maharaj insisted that everyone in the class would take turns reading the verses. Although various devotees read the particular Sanskrit and Bengali verses, Sripad Vaishnav Maharaj illuminates their meaning and mentions illuminating anecdotes from his early experiences in Krishna Consciousness as well as his long years of personal service to Srila Govinda Maharaj.

Scroll down to download or view a pdf of the text.

File names describe the chapters and verses covered during the class. For example, the first one is on chapter 1 verses 1-37.

110307_PJ_1.1-37.mp3 (71 minutes, 50 MB)

110321 PJ 1.38-2.4.mp3 (47 minutes, 32.3 MB)

110328 PJ 2.22-3.3.mp3 (59 minutes, 40 MB)

110330 PJ 3.4-3.12.mp3 (83 minutes,  56.9 MB) (This one is especially good.)

110406 PJ 3.13-23.mp3 (73 minutes,  50.4 MB)

110414 PJ 3.28-4.7.mp3 (72 minutes,  33.1 MB)

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