Sri Gaura Vinoda Saraswat Sanga

Srila Giri Maharaja offers a few words of glorification on the 97th appearance day of Srila Bhakti Sundar Govinda dev Goswami Maharaja. Short introduction by Gokulananda das.

In this audio lecture Srila Sridhar Maharaja discusses “Innermost Fulfillment”.

This lecture was recorded in Miami on the evening of July 16, 1992 during Srila Govinda Maharaja’s first world tour. At file position 45m30s-47m05s Includes discussion of how a person with material tongue and senses can chant the transcendental Maha Mantra. “Mahaprabhu said, ‘Service to the Vaishnava, service to Guru can give you that transcendental form and, through that you can chant Hare Krishna Maha Mantra and you can do seva.
Then the first necessity is to do service, to give your service to Guru Vaishnava. And through that you will get everything. Your form must become transcendental. And, another way you can see in the scripture, in Chaitanya Charitamrta, “diksa-kale bhakta kare atma-samarpana, sei-kale krsna tare kare atma-sama sei deha kare tara cid-ananda-maya, aprakrta-dehe tanra carana bhajaya” –Gurudeva substitutes the word “Krishne” (Krishna) for “tanra” (His, the Lord’s)
Then, nobody got this from your Guru. And the meaning can also come this way, diksa-kale bhakta kare atma-samarpana, when you are taking diksha from your Gurudeva, you are doing surrender, atma-samarpana, and immediately Krishna in the form of your Guru, He is taking you and immediately making your body transcendental and through that transcendental body you are worshiping Krishna.”

This recording was made on June 26, 2011 at the Sri Chaitanya Saraswat Math, New Jersey.

This talk was recorded 11/03/07 in Soquel, California on the Appearance Day of Srila Sridhar Maharaja. In it, Srila Giri Maharaja responds to the devotees questions on how he (a Brahmachari from ISKCON) became the first western sannyasa disciple of Srila Sridhar Maharaja in 1981. This recording was made by Kamal Krishna das.

In this audio lecture Srila Sridhar Maharaja discusses “Varnasrama Dharma in light of Krishna Consciousness”.

This evening lecture was recorded at the 108 Street Temple in Brooklyn, New York on October 23, 1993, during the first world tour of Srila Govinda Maharaja. Srila Govinda Maharaja gives a unique perspective on the missions of Srila Sridhar Maharaja and of Srila AC Bhaktivedanta Swami, as seen from the perspective of someone who knew them both extremely well. This was his first stop on his first tour of the Big Apple. Thanks to Radha Raman das for making this video!

In this audio lecture Srila Sridhar Maharaja discusses the internal taste of the devotee.

This recording of Srila Govinda Maharaja was made on 2/12/89 in Navadwip, India.

This recording was made on 10/21/11 at the Sri Chaitanya Saraswat Math New Jersey.