Youth Vrindavan Trip-2015

Vrindavan-The Land of God himself, Land of the Supreme Lord Krishna and land of the great devotees of him.A place which is non-different from the abode of Lord Krishna, the Goloka Vrindavan and to visit that land makes you feel very good. Kartik (Damodar month) is going on and just like previous years this year too many of us had the mercy of Srimati Radharani to enter into most sacred place on this earth .i.e. Vrindavan.

A group click of all the devotees who were there with us in this spiritual journey

The divine darshan of the "whole and soul" of this Sankirtan movement , of this Hare Krishna Society, of the "Savior" of the whole world, His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada on his samdhi temple at ISKCON Vrindavan

In Vrindavan after having darshan of Shri Shri Krishna Balarama, Shri Gaur Nitai and Shri Shri Radha Shyamsundar at ISKCON we set out for having darshan of various temples and spots where Lord Krishna performed enormous pastimes.

The place where we all are sitting is the very place where Kaliya(the giant serpent) surrendered to Lord Krishna popularly known as "Kalidah".

The Parikrama cum Sankirtan of the Kadamba tree from which Lord Krishna jumped over Kaliya serpent to save Vrindavan from the evils of Kaliya.

The Kadamba tree on Kalidah is having the name of "Radha" on its surface

Sankirtan on the campus of Radha Madan Mohan Ji temple-the deity of Shri Sanatan Goswami

Sankirtan and Discussion on the glories of Radha Madan Mohan Ji and his dearmost servitor Sanatana Goswami in latter's samadhi mandir

The special darshans at Radha Damodar Ji temple

After doing parikrama of Radha Damodar temple we did sankirtan at Roop Goswami's Samadhi Mandir and Bhajan Kutir and all the devotees present there joined us

  Late evening boat ride

Dipa Daan at ISKCON Vrindavan 

Finally we took prasadam, everyone above seems serious and very much engrossed in consuming the tasty gift from Krishna.

Darshan at Gokulanand temple in Sri Vrindavan Dham.

Samadhi of Srila Narottam Das Thakur

Samadhi of Loknath Nath Goswami,spiritual master of  Loknath Goswami

The deities at Radha Gopinath Ji temple in Vrindavan

the beautiful temple of Radha Gopinath Ji

Below are some special clicks during Goverdhan Parikrama

At Govind Kund

 

We spent very quality time in Radha Kund and Shyam Kund

Kusum Sarovar's spectacular view in night in colorful lights

The successful "Parikrama Team"

The very beautiful and giant monumental temple of Shri Shri Radha Govind Devji in Vrindavan

 Shri Shri Radha Raman Ji

A scenic view of "Jaipur Mandir" dedicated to Srimati Radha Rani by a king of Jaipur(Rajasthan) from main temple of Barsana. 

Doing sankirtan while coming down on the stairs from Barsana temple

Now here is a very rare view of Shri Shri Krishna Balarama with Nand Maharaja and Mother Yasoda. A very difficult image to click but any how we managed too to click on pic.

A top view of Nandgaon

Last group pics of the journey

Kartik Vrindavan Trip 2015

            Beautiful Darshan of Shri Shri Radha Shyamsundar 

                                  Beautiful Darshan of Shri Shri Gaur Nitai

 Beautiful Darshan of Shri Shri Krishna Balarama

                           Beautiful Darshan of Mother Yasoda with Lord Damodar

 Darshan at Prabhupada Samadhi at Iskcon,Vrindavan

A group pic of all the devotees who were on this trip

Sankirtan during visit to Bhaktivedanta Goshala

Krishna Katha at Kalidah, the place where Lord performed the pastime with Kaliya serpent

                      

             The Kadamba Tree from which Lord Krishna jumped over Kaliya                                                                             Serpent

Imli Tala

Some Clipping of Prabhupada's Room at Radha Damodar Temple

Srila Rupa Goswami's Samadhi Temple

Radha Damodar Temple

The very beautiful darshan at Radha Damodar Temple

Boat Ride in Yamuna

Krishna Katha going on....

Kusum Sarovar

Beautiful Darshan of the deities at Radha Banabihari Ji Temple

Goverdhan Yatra begins----Govind Kund, the kund created as a result of abhishek of Lord Krishna performed by King Indra 

This is the place where "Eirawat"-the giant elephant of Indra has marked his footstep while he prayed to the Lord

Devotees engaged in sankirtan at Radha Kund

Some pics from Nandgoan- The residing place of Lord Krishna and Barsana-the favorite place of Srimati Radharani 

"Many causes of Dissatisfaction"

 

It is nonsensical to think that simply by increasing production everyone will become satisfied. No one will be satisfied. Man is not meant simply for eating. He has mental necessities, intellectual necessities, spiritual necessities. In India many people sit alone silently in the jungle and practice yoga. They do not require anything. How will increased production satisfy them? If someone were to say to them, "If you give up this yoga practice, I will give you two hundred bags of rice," they would laugh at the proposal. It is animalistic to think that simply by increasing production everyone will become satisfied. Real happiness does not depend on either production or starvation, but upon peace of mind. For example, if a child is crying but the mother does not know why, the child will not stop simply by giving him some milk. Sometimes this actually happens: the mother cannot understand why her child is crying, and though she is giving him her breast, he continues to cry. Similarly, dissatisfaction in human society is not caused solely by low economic production. That is nonsense.There are many causes of dissatisfaction.The practical example is America, where there is sufficient production of everything, yet the young men are becoming hippies. They are dissatisfied, confused. No, simply by increasing economic production people will not become satisfied.

Srila Prabhupada,

JSD 7: Perspectives on Science and Philosophy

"You are the great physician"

Prabhupada: And we laugh at us, so what is the wrong? We laugh at them. We tell them. So that struggle will go on.

Rupanuga: But we will laugh last.

Devotee (1): No, they'll say, "You're chanting Hare Krsna, but I can give you this pill and I'll take away your pain," or, "I can give you this medicine and correct your disease. You're chanting, but I am not seeing a practical result."

Prabhupada: No, I will say, "because I'm chanting you, you are my servant, you have brought the pill. (laughter) Because I am chanting, therefore Krsna has sent the pill through you."

Rupanuga: "You're simply working."

Prabhupada: "You're simply working as my servant, that's all."

Rupanuga: They can make.... We'll chant and dance and they can make the car to take us on kirtana, make the pills so we can keep healthy.

Svarupa Damodara: The best pill is this hari-nama.

Rupanuga: Actually, Srila Prabhupada, you are the great physician. Everyone should come under your treatment. They're taking this hari-nama as a bitter pill. But we are tasting it now, and after chanting and chanting, we're tasting, it's becoming sweeter and sweeter.

Prabhupada: Hmm. This is all of us?

Devotees: Oh, yes. 

 Morning Walk -- July 9, 1976, Washington D.C.