Krishna Kathamrita Bindu # 211

September 28, 2009

Our humble obeisances to all the vaishnavas!

Jaya Sri Sri Guru Gauranga!

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IN THIS ISSUE

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* " Approaching Krishna Through His Representative " -- His Divine Grace A.C.

Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada describes how to find and approach a guru.

* " Cheating Bhajan " -- Sri Srimad Gour Govinda Swami Maharaja speaks about

how the importance of purity and humility in chanting the holy names.

* " Krishna Katha is Life " -- A local history describing how Jayadev Goswami

once brought his wife back from the dead.

* " Prayers to the Supreme Spiritual Master " -- Part two of the freshly

translated verses from Shankaracharya's beautiful Krishnastakam, especially

done for Bindu.

We pray that this issue may bring some happiness and inspiration to the

followers of the most munificent Lord Gaura Ray.

Vaishnava pada dhuli o kripa prarthi,

Madhavananda Das, editor

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COMMENTS

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Thanks a lot for spreading not a " Sri Krsna Kathamrta bindhu " , but a

shoreless Kathamrta Sindhu, that gives to thirsty devotees real amrtaushadhi

[nectarean medicine] and sharanam [shelter]! [Regarding the Krishnastakam

prayers included in issue 210] poems like this are written not in Sanskrit,

Bengali, or Oriya etc., rather they are written in a priti language, the

language of love. Reading these verses we can appreciate even how

beautifully they sound!

-- Kaustubha Das, Ukraine (comment from Facebook)

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-- At the present moment our minds are polluted with the dirt accumulated over millions and millions of lifetimes of sense gratification. Even though our original pure nature is eternal, full of knowledge, and full of bliss, due to our mental contamination we are presently suffering in the realm of temporality, ignorance, and misery. By the purificatory process of chanting the holy names of God we can revive our original, pure nature and thus relish the sweetest happiness at every minute.

Chant:Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna Hare HareHare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama Hare Hare

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