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Srila Sridhara Maharaja classes.

Devotee: So, I was thinking Mayapur is so important because it is

the appearance place, site of Lord Caitanya and here Eka Cakra ,now they call it Bhircandra , is the most important placetogetherwith Mayapur and we don't have anything there.Srila Sridhara Maharaja: When I came here to take permanentshelter, I came through Nityananda Prabhu ; "If Your mercy I canhave, then I can have a permanent shelter in Gaura dhama.You arethe master ofGaura Mandala. Nityananda Prabhu is the master. Inlast days Mahaprabhu gave it away to Nityananda Prabhu thecharge of whole Gaura Mandala .Devotee: So they were very interested that we start a school there.And two school teachers from the village actually were in contact

with us in such a short time, Lord Nityanada had made thearangement.Srila Sridhara Maharaja:( ) His arangementDevotee: All His arangements. So I also ordered two sets ofGaura-Nitai deities , two feet and one set ofRadha-Krsna, for preaching inSouth America.Srila Sridhara Maharaja: Who is the acarya of that now? Nityanandavamsa?Devotee: Yes, someJiva....Goswami, I don't remember his nameexactly.Srila Sridhara Maharaja:Jiva Goswami?

Srila Sridhara Maharja: Any experience, Bharati Maharaja has gotthat.Devotee: It was very enlivening Maharaja.Srila Sridhara Maharaja:Very?Devotee: Enlivening.Srila Sridhara Maharaja: Enlivening.Devotee: It was like going to another Dhama, Eka Chakra dhama. Itwas like Puri or Vrndavana.Srila Sridhara Maharaja: Eka Chakra ,only one round.Devotee: The people there were very nice, very very nice.Srila Sridhara Maharaja:Aradesh

Devotee: Next to thejanmastanaSrila Sridhara Maharaja: That isjnana-sunya, thepitha. Theselected position ofjnana-sunya bhakti. Not very scholarly, butenladdend with devotion,faith. But the scholarship which has beenshown by Kaviraja Goswami, that is unique. According to myestimation, the best thieistic book in the whole universe is CaitanyaCaritamrta. Cid-vilasa . Even the ordinary man of a little scholarlysection they say how Krsna lila is aprakrta . It is known when you go

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Goswami says. "Though it is self assertion, still I can not but admitTheir grace, that I have got Their grace." Kaviraja Goswami" By thegrace ofNityananda Prabhu is the cause. By the effect of that wehave got grace of so many. Comming Vrndavana, Rupa, Sanatana,Raghunatha, Madanmohana, Govinda ,Gopinatha, all these I have

got. At the root, grace ofNityananda." Kaviraja Goswami says.(Bengali verse) "With both hands up, I announce."Devotee: There at thejanmastana there is Nitai-Gaura and alsoSitanatha, Advaita Prabhu's Deities.Srila Sridhara Maharaja: There.Devotee: So what part doesAdvaita Prabhu play in our marchtowards Mahaprabhu?Srila Sridhara Maharaja:They are Visnutatva Nitai , Gaura, Advaita.Generally, externally that is under the command of the worldyhouseholder devotees. And they are mostly in the disciplic line ofAdvaita section and Nityananda section in the physical line.

Ramadasa Babaji they have got some influence on that place. Notso much under Gaudiya Math decision. They are managed byRamadasa party. And the patrons of the place they must be fromthe Goswami, Jati Goswami line. The followers ofNityananda PrabhuandAdvaita Prabhu .Gaudiya Math does not give them muchindulgence, thoseJati Goswami Maths. Physical line, lineage ofguru.Theological lineage, spiritual lineage, that we admit. They arefollowers of flesh lineage mostly. And they have got greater hold inthe ( )there. So Ramadasa party, Ramadasa has some physicalthiefs and will capture those ( ) and they gave some money andthere by that has been developed.There was one (name) Catergee

he was an educated man. V.A. Beal I have some aquaintence withhim. When I went there, 1940, December he was in charge of thattemple. He had much affection for me but still he was mostlyconnected with the sahajiya section. Sahajiyas they have got betterposition.They have in all places, Gaudiya Math has ( ). Norecognition of theJati brahmin, Jati goswami this babajis,Ramakrsna mission, all foes, no friend. This is Gaudiya Math . Singlehanded they are fighting with everyone, existing in the name ofreligon or non religon or hodgepodge religon. Single handed ourGuru Maharaja ,on the basis ofBhaktivinodaThakur's finding, ourGuru Maharaja took this sword and he began, declared war agianst

the whole of the world. That was his characteristic. No recognitionoutside Bhaktivinoda Thakur. And we are trained in that way. Andwe have also appreciated to certain extent, what was his innertendancy, what to do. So when in my praise to Bhaktivinoda ThakuraI wrote; there he began his appreciation (sanskrit verse) What youhave done, in general, Ramanujacarya and other great acaryascholar acarya, they have also done it. But your greatness, yournobility, nobleness does not end there, but transcend high where?

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(sanskritverse). I was present when I produced this sloka toPrabhupada, and Sroti Maharaja was there and Prabhupada ,whenheread out this stanza, I found him, he was reading very happily.Andalso pronounced in very happy style, happy style.That poetry and within poetry the theological argument, ontological

argument. The argument, preciese, regular preciese and accuratepoints of argument adjusted in a poetic way. He appreciated verymuch. Then the gradation (sanskrit verse) What is brahma given bySankara , then what is Paramatma given by theyogi, the what isgiven by Ramanuja Laxmi-Narayana, that is the highest.Then,crossing all them you have come so far, so high to show Krsnaconsciousness, after crossing, eliminating them. Generally conceivedby the theist, so called theist, the prime cause of the whole, Brahma(sanskritverse) That is only the halo of the spiritual world, the haloof the spiritual world that has been called Brahma in Veda andSankara and other of his followers. They say that is the ultimate, the

halo of the spiritual cosmos. The impersonal halo of the spiritualcosmos, that is Brahma. And what is Paramatma that theyogis arerunning after? (sanskritverse) With great pain and penances theyare trying to find out what is within, the all permiating. Not allcovering, all aprehending but all permiating. The principle, what isthe ( ) residing within guides the thing, Paramatma . (sanskritverse) That is the part of the part of the part of the Narayana,Paramatma. And the Narayana Himself in Vaikuntha. (sanskritverse) And the Narayana Himself whose part and whose dhama is allthis (sanskrit) and really liberated souls many of them are engagedin vidhi service of that great entity. (sanskrit) And He is vilasa and

we have to aspire after and inquire after the very source ofNarayana . And following the quality of the rasa quality andintensity of the rasa we are to further approach higher, to the higherlevel and there we can find Krsna,syam bhagavan .You can give thatto us,Bhaktivinoda Thakura , you are so great. By your grace,crossing the gift ofSankara, Patanjali, Ramanuja and others, we areallowed to go further high and there in the Krsnaloka (sanskritverse)Which is transcendental of the transcendental. Where we find thisjnana sunya bhakti under the gopis, gopa-gopi , the Krsna lila wefind you, Bhaktivinoda Thakura, you can give us passport and visa ofthat land in Vrndavana , where the very inconceivably beautiful

damsels ofgopa-gopa, gopa-gopi . There in rual pastimes ofKrsna isleaving Himself wholly at their disposal. To the simplicity and theplainess, the beauty and love, Krsna has given Himself wholly. Thatyou can give us, you can take us to that layer ,you, BhaktivinodaThakura.Your writings, your advices, your grace can take us so high.Next,(sanskritverse) Not only Krsna in his rasa lila. But somethingmore you have given us. What is that? (sanskrit) Which is grantedby Gauranga Himself, Radha-Govinda combined. He has granted.

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(sanskrit) And the quality of that grant, only understood fully bySvarupa Damodara. (sanskrit) The great Sanatana , the elderbrother ofRupa, the sambhanda jnana acarya, he fully appreciated,appreciated (sanskrit) Rupa Goswami himself he imbibed from youby transmission, inspiration,(sanskrit) And he himself distributed that

raga rasa.The love divine. (sanskrit) And Raghunatha has tasted itfully and developed.(sanskrit)And Sri Jiva and Baladeva they haveprotected it.Give protection of the scriptual knowledge from theargument side. That it is as it is the outcome of all revealedscriptures, proved it, has kept connection with the other sastrasalso. That it is not a whimsical statement. It has got connection withother existing scriptures, spiritual scriptures. And in this way theyare trying to mark this end only. They cannot express, but they aremaking suggestion, other scriptures to this Bhagavata truth. What isthat?( ) Brahma, Siva, Uddhava, they are only hankering,searching , not got. Such thing, Radha rasa, the service ofSri

Radhika. And you are in a position to bestow it to us. You,Bhaktivinoda Thakura, are so great. The comparitive position ofBhaktivinoda Thakura amongst all other acarys, that is mentionedhere and it is proved as if in a theological ontological way. SoPrabhupada was very much satisfied. With this critical and scientificand spiritual development and also poetic beauty. From all aspectshe expressed his satisfaction of this. So Prabhupada came withBhaktivinoda Thaukra on his head. With a sword to fight with thewhole world. Whole world. So it is no easy thing and we are trainedin that manner; not to submit to anyone. In the matter of theologicaljudgement, ontological judgement it is very difficult to submit to

anyone's statement or proposal. We are trained in such a way.Where is the flaw? When anyone will speak something, we can feelwhere is the gap, where is the flaw? We are to detect. The normalbody taking the sound this way that way where is abnormality here?Diesease is where located? Where the diesease located? The fullnormal healthy body is represented in our front. Whenever anyanomally we are to detect what part the anomally or the diesease iswhat part. Attackted what part of the body? And help us the normalactivity of the body. The whole system advaya jnana. Advaya jnanais one whole and we have got some sort of conception of the wholeadvaya jnana. Where which is located . Where the shoe pinches?

Where the shoe pinches, where is the anomally? This is a clear figureof the whole conception . In this way, step by step the whole thing.As given by Mahaprbhu, Bhagavatam, Goswamis and GuruMaharaja, exponet, and Bhaktivinoda Thakura analitical books, allthese things.Devotee:Guru Maharaja, in Delhi I happend to meet a preacher ofthe Ramakrsna mission. He was preaching, not to me only but toothers around me. Acting very friendly, like he was everyone's

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Nityananda , no Gadadhara ( )Advaita. Advaita , that may beanother cause.Devotee: We had the opportunity to preach to many Muslims.Srila Sridhara Maharaja: Yes? Where?Devotee: Eka Chakra.

Srila Sridhara Maharaja: Eka Chakra.Devotee: There were many Muslims there.Srila Sridhara Maharaja: There are Muslims also.Devotee: Yes.Srila Sridhara Maharaja: What's there attitude?Devotee: One man was very happy, was very happy to see us. Andeven he said, he was agreeing that actually he wasn't following theMuslim faith. Was very inquisitive.Srila Sridhara Maharaja:There are two sections among the Muslims.One section is Sufi.Their conception of religon near to Sankara. So'ham, anna lak, they say anna lak, that means so 'ham, I am he. (

) and the anna lak. The anna lakthey try to come nearer to theHindu. Vidantic, mayavada (sanskrit) anna lak the particular sectionknown as sufi. Generally they fight with each other. Iran and Iraq,some are sufi and some are this, what they say, proper. The sufisection is little different from them. They are more inclined towardsHinduism, I am he, I am God.Mahaprabhu says (Bengali verse) The givers of your scriptures ,they also suffer under misconception. Could not distribute thingsproperly. And in also another place; you could not understand whatwas given to you. ru, ru meansjiva . eskmeansprema .Bhaktivinoda Thakura has pointed out that esk meansprema , and

ru meansjiva. resk is there connection with thejiva and Allah,Kolla.Devotee: Maharaja, I found one book called theAllah Upanisad.Srila Sridhara Maharaja: What?Devotee:Allah Upanisad.Srila Sridhara Maharaja: What?Devotee:Allah Upanisad.Srila Sridhara Maharaja:Allah Upanisad? That was made by (name)during Akbar's reign. Akbar was pro-Hindu, and he wanted to startone religon both combined. And that was known, I forget, byparticular name. Akbar tried to start a new religon Hindu and Muslim

mixed. And the name of that religon, forget that. Dinlahi,somethinglike that. Dinlahi. By this name Akbar formed a new religon. And he,not he but his grandson (name), he translated many Upanisads intoArabic language. And there was one pro-Hindu Arabic scholarperhaps (name) his name. He composed one Upanisad. In the styleofUpanisad language he produced something and that is known asAllah Upanisad. The Upanisad in which the ( ) is Allah. Allahmeans all light, we are told, Al lah. All light, that is Brahma

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conception, he is all light. All light, in contrast to darkness. Thesceince and neisceince. He is light. Allah.Allah Upanisad. So manyUpanisad have come have been concocted. Called Upanisad, in thenameto exploit the name ofUpanisad. So many Upanisad has beenintroduced. Have been pushed in the box. Sankaracarya accepted

only ten. And Ramanuja accepted twelve. Madhvacarya also, sothese are genuine. That is the basis of their theological conception,twelve Upanisad. It is mentioned there.Devotee: And who is accepting these one hundred eight?Srila Sridhara Maharaja: What?Devotee: Who is accepting the one hundred eight Upanisads ?Srila Sridhara Maharaja: Who is?Devotee: From where they spring?Srila Sridhara Maharaja:We accept what is accepted by Ramanuja,Madhavacarya.Devotee:Maharaja, Near the birthplace of Lord Nityanada there was

one place where the youngest son, I'm sorry, the youngst brother ofNityananda Prabhu BhakurayaSrila Sridhara Maharaja:No. The son ofNityananda ,BhircandraDevotee: No the brother.Srila Sridhara Maharaja: No, no son. Nityananda had no brother.Bhunkibihari,Bhunkaraya means Bhunkibihari, the name of thedeity. The name of the diety is Bhunkibihari, just as in Vrndavana,Bhunkibihari temple. This is Bhunkibihari, Bhunkaraya, that is thename of the Sri Murti there. And that was established by BhircandraPrabhu, in his time. After the departure ofNityananda. And that islittle far. And then this newly discoverd place has been established

and told that this is (sanskritname). The name of that place isgarbhavasa it is where Nityananda lived in the womb. That is themeaning ofgarbhavasa. And that has been, the new constructionthere, all on the basis of that word in the meadow, the garbha vasa.This was near Miapura. The Muslims still demand that this is Miapur,not Mayapura. But in our previous scripture that it was namedMayapura. We find in Bhaktiratnakara . But the Muslims, the Hindusfled away, for the different parts of the river, thisJalangi. AtMahaprabhu's time this Kola yanadi was located here and theJalangi advanced this way. And those ( )the inhabitants of theother side, they had to come this side. And that became( )

When Mahaprabhu went in procession to Kazi, Kazi's house islocated fixed . And in that campaign, he also traveled to Goddruma(sanskrit) Svarupa ganga, present. And no crossing of rivermentioned there. And theJalangi advanced this way and the peoplewere forced to come this side. And so many sides. So Mahaprabhu,Mahaprabhu's time,the whole filled up with scholarly men. And thatside( ) the captial two hundred years ago or three hundred yearsago ofMahaprabhu, that was the capital. The captial of Bengal, the

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Bala Sena, the Sena dynasty that was the captial on the other side.The remenants of that palace is also still there. The Deity, the lake,and by the name of Balav diti, it is still there the course waschanged. What from this point came out?Devotee: Bhakaraya.

Srila Sridhara Maharaja: Bhakaraya, Bhakaraya. So Miapura,Bhaktivinoda found it Mayapura. So this Garbhavasa (sanskrit) inthis way it was located. So in Garbhavasa, land located by the nameGarbhavasa . They came to find it out by some other externalreferences that Nityananda Prabhu's time His father's time here wastheir real house. Nityananda's home was in Garbhavasa. Butsomewhat that is a small brook is it not that after which crossing youare to approach Garbhavasa?Devotee: Yes.Srila Sridhara Maharaja: That was of bigger size. And by that brookdiscovered that position, former position. So Bhircandra Prabhu he

located that available sight near by and there installed Bhankaraya.And he managed the service ofBhankiraya there in memory ofNityananda Prabhu. But the real birhtplace, like that ofMahaprabhu .That afterwards tracing the name ofGarbhavasa that place hasbeen developed and now we are shown that his is the real placewhere Nityananda Prabhu had His birth. Hadi Pandit's house waslocated here we are told. But as that Deity at the time ofNityanandaPrabhu's son and installed by the son ofNityananda himself. Sothat is also living material.Devotee: The Mahanta there, he was giving a lot of falseinformation.

Srila Sridhara Maharaja: What?Devotee: A lot of false information.Srila Sridhara Maharaja:False information?Devotee: Yes.Srila Sridhara Maharaja:What is that?Devotee: He was saying that there were eight sons.Srila Sridhara Maharaja: Who?Devotee: Nityananda was the first of eight sons.Srila Sridhara Maharaja: Any indication ofMahaprabhu and Krsna . Iam not told like that. (sanskritverse) When Nityananda Prahbu wasoffered to that sanyasi unknown, both mother and father became

mad, half mad. And also in Caitanya Bhagavata Vrndavana DasaThakura, he was direct disciple ofNityananda Prabhu, he has notmentioned that in his book. Vrndavana Dasa Thakura was the directdisciple ofNityananda Prabhu