Crushing lust, anger, greed, etc.

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SrI SrI Guru Gaurangau Jayatah

 

Camp:Gaura_Nitai temple, Dnepropetrovs'k, Ukraine

DaNDavats Dear Mukunda datta Prabhu. Jaya Krishna BalarAma!

Please accept my respectful obeisances. All Glories to Sreela PrabhupAda..

 

Thank you for your inspiring sloka which brings the wandering mind back to

the natural village of vrajabhumi.

 

when I took sannyasa in Moscow in 2001 you sent me a verse from Bilvamangala

stava about how Krsna's friends visit him in the morning to go to the forest

with sticks in their hands. what's that verse?

 

you sent it with the caption "they've got sticks too!"

 

Dandavats. Jaya Srila Prabhupada! Jaya Nitay Gauranga!

 

As for asking directions (not just any, but the best!), the following is

such a beautiful verse:

 

aye vrndaranya tvaritam iha te sevana-parah

param apuh ke va na kila paramananda-padavim

ato nicair yace svayam adhipayor iksana-vidher

varenyam me cetasy upadisa disam ha kuru krpam

 

 

aye - O; vrndaranya - Vrndavana forest; tvaritam - quickly; iha - here; te -

they; sevana- parah - devoted to service; param - great; apuh - attain; ke -

who?; va - or; na - not; kila - indeed; parama - transcendental; ananda - of

bliss; padavim - the path; atah - then; nicaih - with humility; yace - I

beg; svayam - own; adhipayoh - of the two monarchs; iksana-vidheh - of the

sight; varenyam - best; me - of me; cetasy - in the heart; upadisa - please

show; disam - the direction; ha - Oh!; kuru - please do; krpam - mercy.

 

O Vrndavana forest, who among your devoted servants has not quickly

attained the path of supreme transcendental bliss? I humbly beg you: please

reveal in my heart the best way to attain my king and queen. Please be kind

to me.

 

/Srila Rupa Gosvami, Sri Stava-mala, Utkallika-vallari, text 2/

 

Here in Ukraine, since I've been here I'm drinking 1 litre + daily of

wheatgrass juice to maintain traveling + preaching stamina.

 

Daily I use for a message oil, 90% cooked down cow urine for stopping

vericose veins from acting up again.

 

if there are any "cow" verses you can sling me, I'd much appreiciate it as

it looks like I'm increasingly being forced by circumstances to take shelter

of the cows more and more.

 

TridaNDi BhikSu, Bhakti Visrambha MAdhava

> pesaye 'ham ahitan iha sarvan

> evam ity upadisann iva loke |

> pada-janu-kara-pistakarisam

> prangane kam api balam upase ||

>

> 'Here's how I crush all your enemies!'

> In His courtyard, as if so instructing those of us within this

> material world, the unique child squishes cowdung under His hand, knee,

> and foot. I worship Him.

>

>

> Bilvamangala-stava, 1.56

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On Fri, 7 Jul 2006, Bhakti Visrambha Madhava Swami wrote:

> SrI SrI Guru Gaurangau Jayatah

>

> Camp:Gaura_Nitai temple, Dnepropetrovs'k, Ukraine

> DaNDavats Dear Mukunda datta Prabhu. Jaya Krishna BalarAma!

> Please accept my respectful obeisances. All Glories to Sreela PrabhupAda..

>

> Thank you for your inspiring sloka which brings the wandering mind back to

> the natural village of vrajabhumi.

>

> when I took sannyasa in Moscow in 2001 you sent me a verse from Bilvamangala

> stava about how Krsna's friends visit him in the morning to go to the forest

> with sticks in their hands. what's that verse?

 

 

prabhata-kale vara-vallavaugha

go-raksanartham dhrta-vetra-dandah |

akarayam asur anantam adyam

govinda damodara madhaveti ||

 

At daybreak, holdng sticks and canes to protect the cows, group[s of His

favorite cowherd boy friends addressed the unlimited, primeval Pesonality of

Godhead: "Hey! Govinda, Damodara! Madhava!"

 

 

 

 

> if there are any "cow" verses you can sling me, I'd much appreiciate it as

> it looks like I'm increasingly being forced by circumstances to take shelter

> of the cows more and more.

>

> TridaNDi BhikSu, Bhakti Visrambha MAdhava

>> pesaye 'ham ahitan iha sarvan

>> evam ity upadisann iva loke |

>> pada-janu-kara-pistakarisam

>> prangane kam api balam upase ||

>>

>> 'Here's how I crush all your enemies!'

>> In His courtyard, as if so instructing those of us within this

>> material world, the unique child squishes cowdung under His hand, knee,

>> and foot. I worship Him.

>>

>>

>> Bilvamangala-stava, 1.56

 

 

See Srila Prabhupada's purport to SB 8.8.2, Vraja-vilasa-stava 44-47, and this

one from Bilvamangala Thakura:

 

svagocare caraya kim madiyam

upeksase gam apthe vrajantim |

yad gopa-natha kriyate kadacin

na cetasapi tvayi vrtti-bhangah ||

 

"Will you not herd mine, too, into Your own cow pasture? Certainly You can see

 

this cow wandering off the path; how could the Lord of the cowherds ever even

think to lose a cow?"

 

 

Your humble servant,

 

MDd