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Kripamoya Dasa
This is a collection of lectures given by H.G. Kripamoya Das on various Vaishnava festivals at Bhaktivedanta Manor, UK.
This is a class given by H.G. Kripamoya prabhu on the festival of the appearance of Sri Madhvacharya at Bhaktivedanta Manor, UK
This is a class given by H.G. Kripamoya prabhu on the festival of the appearance of Srimati Radharani at Bhaktivedanta Manor, UK
This is a class given by H.G. Kripamoya prabhu as a lead up to Janmashtami at Bhaktivedanta Manor, UK
This is a class given by H.G. Kripamoya prabhu as a lead up to the festival of appearance of Lord Rama at Bhaktivedanta Manor, UK
This is a class given by H.G. Kripamoya prabhu on the festival of the appearance of Lord Nityananda at Bhaktivedanta Manor, UK
This is a class given by H.G. Kripamoya prabhu on the festival of Diwali at Bhaktivedanta Manor, UK
This is a class given by H.G. Kripamoya prabhu on the festival of the disappearance of Srila Raghunath Das Goswami, Raghunath Bhatta Goswami and Krishnadas Kaviraj Goswami at Bhaktivedanta Manor, UK
This is a class given by H.G. Kripamoya prabhu on the festival of the appearance of Radhashtami (appearance day of Srimati Radharani) at Bhaktivedanta Manor, UK
This is a class given by H.G. Kripamoya prabhu as a lead up to Gaura Purinma at Bhaktivedanta Manor, UK.
This is a class given by H.G. Kripamoya prabhu on the festival of the appearance of Srimati Radharani, UK
This is a class given by H.G. Kripamoya prabhu on the festival of the appearance of Sri Madhavendra Puri and Srinivas Acharya at Bhaktivedanta Manor, UK
This is a class given by H.G. Kripamoya prabhu on the Sikshastakam at Bhaktivedanta Manor, UK
This is a class given by H.G. Kripamoya prabhu as a lead up to the Book Marathon at Bhaktivedanta Manor, UK
This is a class given by H.G. Kripamoya prabhu on the festival of the disappearance of Raghunath Das Goswami, Raghhunath Bhatta Goswami and Krishnadas Kaviraj Goswami at Bhaktivedanta Manor, UK
This is a class given by H.G. Kripamoya prabhu on the festival of the appearance of Balaram at Bhaktivedanta Manor, UK
This is a class given by H.G. Kripamoya prabhu on the festival of the appearance of Lord Balaram at Bhaktivedanta Manor, UK
This is a class given by H.G. Kripamoya prabhu on the festival of the appearance of Sri Madhavendra Puri
Madhavendra Puri Goswami is a Vaishnava saint who appeared in the 14th century. He was initiated in to Dvaita Vedanta of Madhvacharya of Udupi region of Karnataka, and was highly revered in Vallabhacharya's Pushtimarg and Chaitanya Mahaprabhu's Gaudiya Vaishnavism, both sects that emanate from the famed Vrindavan region.
Very little is known about the early years of Madhavendra Puri, as from the majority of sources he had already become a renunciant - a sannyasi. After making an extensive pilgrimage of India as a sannyasi he passed the remaining period of his life in Vrndavana and Orissa. The main source of knowledge about this personality is Caitanya Caritamrita. What is known is that he was a sannyasi of the Madhva line being a disciple of Lakshmipati Tirtha and it appears that Madhavendra was the founder of the Vaishnava centre at Mathura, Vrindavana. He is considered as a fountainhead of devotional worship of Krishna and he started the worship of the Gopala deity, better known as Shrinathji. He is attributed to the mysterious discovery of the famous deity of Gopala near Govardhana that was later worshipped by Vallabhacharya, a follower of Vishnuswami in Rudra sampradaya, who in turn was influenced by the devotional mood of Vrindavana.
Close-up of Govardhan hill, Vrindavan, the area where Madhavendra puri worshipped Bala-Gopala. He is also famed for receiving direct instructions and gifts from the deity of Gopinatha, who commanded him to travel for the supply of scarce sandal wood paste from Orissa to the Malaya Mountains.
This is a class given by H.G. Kripamoya prabhu on the festival of the appearance of Srila Gopala Bhatta Goswami at Bhaktivedanta Manor, UK
This is a class given by H.G. Kripamoya prabhu on the festival of the appearance of Ramachandra Vijaya Dasami (Dusshera) at Bhaktivedanta Manor, UK
This is a class given by H.G. Kripamoya prabhu as a lead up to Janamashtami at Bhaktivedanta Manor, UK
kṛtavān kila karmāṇi
saha rāmeṇa keśavaḥ
atimartyāni bhagavān
gūḍhaḥ kapaṭa-mānuṣaḥ
Synonyms
kṛtavān — done by; kila — what; karmāṇi — acts; saha — along with; rāmeṇa — Balarāma; keśavaḥ — Śrī Kṛṣṇa; atimartyāni — superhuman; bhagavān — the Personality of Godhead; gūḍhaḥ — masked as; kapaṭa — apparently; mānuṣaḥ — human being.
Translation
Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa, the Personality of Godhead, along with Balarāma, played like a human being, and so masked He performed many superhuman acts.
Purport
The doctrines of anthropomorphism and zoomorphism are never applicable to Śrī Kṛṣṇa, or the Personality of Godhead. The theory that a man becomes God by dint of penance and austerities is very much rampant nowadays, especially in India. Since Lord Rāma, Lord Kṛṣṇa and Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu were detected by the sages and saints to be the Personality of Godhead as indicated in revealed scriptures, many unscrupulous men have created their own incarnations. This process of concocting an incarnation of God has become an ordinary business, especially in Bengal. Any popular personality with a few traits of mystic powers will display some feat of jugglery and easily become an incarnation of Godhead by popular vote. Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa was not that type of incarnation. He was actually the Personality of Godhead from the very beginning of His appearance. He appeared before His so-called mother as four-armed Viṣṇu. Then, at the request of the mother, He became like a human child and at once left her for another devotee at Gokula, where He was accepted as the son of Nanda Mahārāja and Yaśodā Mātā. Similarly, Śrī Baladeva, the counterpart of Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa, was also considered a human child born of another wife of Śrī Vasudeva. In Bhagavad-gītā, the Lord says that His birth and deeds are transcendental and that anyone who is so fortunate as to know the transcendental nature of His birth and deeds will at once become liberated and eligible to return to the kingdom of God. So knowledge of the transcendental nature of the birth and deeds of Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa is sufficient for liberation. In the Bhāgavatam, the transcendental nature of the Lord is described in nine cantos, and in the Tenth Canto His specific pastimes are taken up. All this becomes known as one’s reading of this literature progresses. It is important to note here, however, that the Lord exhibited His divinity even from the lap of His mother, that His deeds are all superhuman (He lifted Govardhana Hill at the age of seven), and that all these acts definitely prove Him to be actually the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Yet, due to His mystic covering, He was always accepted as an ordinary human child by His so-called father and mother and other relatives. Whenever some herculean task was performed by Him, the father and mother took it otherwise. And they remained satisfied with unflinching parental love for their son. As such, the sages of Naimiṣāraṇya describe Him as apparently resembling a human being, but actually He is the supreme almighty Personality of Godhead.
This is a class given by H.G. Kripamoya prabhu on the festival of the appearance of Lord Chaitanya at Bhaktivedanta Manor, UK
This is a class given by H.G. Kripamoya prabhu on the lead up to the Book Marathon at Bhaktivedanta Manor, UK
This is a class given by H.G. Kripamoya prabhu on the festival of Govardhan Puja at Bhaktivedanta Manor, UK
This is a class given by H.G. Kripamoya prabhu on the festival of the appearance of Srila Bhaktivinode Thakur at Bhaktivedanta Manor, UK
This is a class given by H.G. Kripamoya prabhu on the lead up to Janmashtami at Bhaktivedanta Manor, UK
This is a class given by H.G. Kripamoya prabhu on the festival of the appearance of Sri Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Thakur, Srila Prabhupada's spiritual master.
This is a class given by H.G. Kripamoya prabhu on the festival of the appearance of Lord Balaram at Bhaktivedanta Manor, UK
This is a class given by H.G. Kripamoya prabhu on the festival of the appearance of Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati at Bhaktivedanta Manor, UK
This is a class given by H.G. Kripamoya prabhu on the festival of the disappearance of Srila Gaura Kishore Das Babaji at Bhaktivedanta Manor, UK
This is a class given by H.G. Kripamoya prabhu on the festival of the appearance of Lord Rama at Bhaktivedanta Manor, UK
This is a class given by H.G. Kripamoya prabhu as an introduction to a Maha Sanga at Leicester, UK