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---------- Forwarded message ----------vish <itgarg >Oct 24, 2007 8:12 PMTake time to offer a Lamp...

 

 

 

Take time to offer a Lamp in

Kartik Month (26 Oct – 24 Nov)...

 

 

 

(Sri Radha Damodarji at

Sri Vrindavan)

Just as there is no yuga equal to

Satya-yuga, no scripture equal to the Vedas, and no place of pilgrimage equal

to the Ganges, so there is no month equal to

Kartika. Even unserious persons who execute devotional service according to the

regulative principles during the month of Karttika, and within the jurisdiction

of Mathura (or Vrindavana) in India, are very easily awarded the

Lord's personal service " . During the Kartika month millions of

devotees worship Damodara Krishna

with ghee lamps and devotional bhajans, glorifying His playful childhood

pastime of stealing yogurt. (H.H. Mahanidhi Swami)

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" When one offers a lamp during the

month of Karttika, his sins in many thousands and millions of births perish in

half an eye blink. "

 

 

" Please hear the glories of offering a lamp

during pleasing to Lord Kesava. O King of brahmanas, a person who offers a lamp

in this way will not take birth again in this world. "

 

 

" By offering a lamp during the month of

Karttika one attains a pious result ten million times greater than the result

obtained by bathing at Kuruksetra during a solar eclipse or by bathing in the

river Narmada during a lunar eclipse. "

 

 

" O Tiger among sages! For a person who thus

offers a lamp burning with ghee or sesame oil, what is the use of performing an

asvasmedha-yajia? "

 

 

" Even if there are no mantras, no pious

deeds, and no purity, everything becomes perfect when a person offers a lamp

during the month of Karttika. "

 

 

" A person who during the month of Karttika

offers a lamp to Lord Kesava has already performed all yajnas and bathing in

all holy rivers. "

 

 

" The ancestors say: When someone in our

family pleases Lord Kesava by offering to Him a lamp during the month of

Karttika, then, by the mercy of the Lord who holds the Sudarsana-cakra in His

Hand, we will all attain liberation. "

 

 

" By offering a lamp during the month of

Karttika one burns away a collection of sins as big as Mount

Meru or Mount Mandara.

Of this there is no doubt. "

 

 

" A person who offers a lamp during the month

of Karttika attains a result that cannot be obtained with even a hundred yajnas

or a hundred pilgrimages. "

 

 

" Even a person addicted to all sins and

averse to all pious deeds who somehow offer a lamp during Karttika becomes

purified. Of this there is no doubt. "

 

 

" O Narada, no sin exists anywhere in the

three worlds that will not be purified by offering a lamp to Lord Kesava during

Karttika. "

 

 

" A person who offers a lamp to Lord Krishna

during Karttika attains the eternal spiritual world where there is no

suffering. "

 

 

" As fire is present in all wood and may be

extracted by friction, so piety is always present in the offering of a lamp

during the month of Karttika. Of this there is no doubt. "

 

 

" O King of brahmanas, when someone offers Him

a lamp on the full-moon day of the month of Karttika, Lord Krishna, finding

that He does not have sufficient money to repay that gift, gives Himself in

exchange for that lamp. "

 

 

" One who offers a steady lamp to Lord Hari

during the month of Karttika enjoys pastimes in Lord Hari's splendid

spiritual world. "

 

 

Even one who never performs religious rituals or

even the worst sinner will surely be purified by this offering. O Narada, in

the three worlds there is no sin that can stand before this Kartika dipa. In

fact, by presenting this dipa before Lord Vasudeva, the eternal abode can be

reached without obstruction.

 

 

" All the results acquired by donating grains

during pitri-paksha or by distributing water in the hot months of Jyeshtha or

Ashadha are easily gained in the course of Kartika merely by reviving

(relighting) a dipa offered by someone else. "

 

 

All glories to beautiful Lordship Sri Sri Radha

Damodarji!

All glories to Kartik Masa!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Yours in service

of Krishna,

Vishvambhar

 

 

 

" In Kartik month, after bathing in

the morning, one should worship Lord Damodara.

At night, one should light brilliant lamps filled with either ghee or

sesame-seed oil, and place them in these places - in the Lord's temple, around

the base of tulasi plants, and in the sky. During the month of Kartika, one should eat only vegetarian

foodstuffs and Bhagavan's prasad remnants. There should be incessant harinama-kirtana and smarana.

 

The sole activity to be done during the observance of Damodara-vrata is the worship of Sri Sri Radha-Damodara. " – Srila Bhaktivinod Thakura

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

-- Sri Krishna Hari DasDr Satish Gosain MBBS DNB i MedCongregational Preacher, ISKCON, Delhi.098-913-86194, 2512-5595, 2512-8754