Young Abhay Charan (Srila Prabhupada’s legal name) was convinced and years later, Srila Prabhupada told his disciples that during that fortuitous meeting he had internally surrendered to his spiritual master and he was defeated by Srila Bhakti Siddhanta Saraswati Thakur. “I was happy to be defeated by my guru Maharaj”, Srila Prabhupada would happily recount,…
Lord Chaitanya replied, “You are a pure devotee of Krishna. Any words spoken by a pure devotee are perfect. Anything a pure devotee writes, even if by material considerations there are faults, it is still considered to be flawless. That’s because it is done with a pure desire to love and serve Krishna. And if…
Isvara Puri replied, “I am the most insignificant, lowest of all sudras. I have come here to take shelter of your lotus feet.” Upon hearing this, Mukunda Dutta began beautiful kirtan. As his melodious kirtan filled the space with divine chants, Isvara Puri entered a spiritual trance. Overwhelmed with ecstatic love, he fell to the…
The festivities included brahmanas chanting mantras, singing and dancing. This way, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Lord Gaura Hari was married to his eternal consort Srimati Lakshmi devi.
After the marriage cremony, there was a procession back to Sachi mata’s house and Vallabhacharya bid farewell to his daughter to her new home. Sachi mata offered…
In the previous ages, she was none other than Sita and Rukmini. When Nimai and Laksmi’s eyes met, their eternal love awakened. Shortly after this, a Brahmin named Vanamali Ghaltak, from the Nawadwip marriage board came to Mother Sachi’s house. He told her, “I bring an alliance for your son. The girl is Lakshmi devi,…
When he heard the word ‘one moment’, Nimai was suddenly outraged. “I want now” he screamed, and picked up a stick and broke every pot in the house. He then broke the bags that contained food and rice. Then he beat the doors and the windows. When nothing else was left in the house to…
Nimai then induced all his relatives to chant the holy names, surrounding his father. Under his inspiration, everyone chanted beautiful kirtan around Jagannath Mishra. With tears in his eyes, Nimai clasped the lotus feet of his father and began to speak, “my dear father, why are you leaving us? I am your child. If you…
Jagannath Mishra replied, “last night I had an extraordinary dream. I saw Nimai in saffron robes of a sannyasi and shaved head. His arms were raised, tears were flowing from his eyes, his hairs stood on end, as he loudly chanted the holy names of Krishna , hare Krishna hare Krishna Krishna Krishna hare hare…
Within just a few days of his studies, Vishwambhar was presenting such forceful and logical arguments that no could refute or defeat him. Any difficult question that Gangadas pandit asked, which no one else could answer, Nimai would answer with perfect logical and shastric reference.
Nimai would sometimes establish a point and ask if anyone…
One day Jagannath Mishra left for the town of nawadwip for some work. During the day, gaura hari, sat on a pile of old used cooking pots. These pots had blackened and the soot was all over the golden form of Nimai. People went to Sachi mata and said, “Your son is sitting on a…
Meanwhile, since his studies had stopped, Nimai became uncontrollable in his restless mischief. Jagananth mishra told his wife Sachi, “let Nimai do what he wants as long as he stays home and doesn’t study.”
Amongst many pranks, Nimai’s favourite was to go out in the morning with his friends and scout the neighbourhood. They would…
When Nimai and his parents learnt of this, they were devastated. They hearts broken, they cried incessantly. Nimai fell unconscious in grief; he felt immense separation from his brother. The entire town of nadia was saddened. The relatives of Jagannath Mishra and mother Sachi consoled the family. They told Nimai’s parents, “You are actually fortunate.…