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SRILA
JIVA GOSWAMI´S TIROBHAV
MAHOTSAV IN VRINDAVAN
by our WVA correspondent in Vrindavan |
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Despite
the extremely cold days in Vrindavan, the disappearance
day of Srila Jiva Goswami was celebrated with great
happiness. A big amount of sadhus from all sampradayas
came to participate infront of the harinam-party went
twelve devotees carrying Hanuman victory flags from
the Ramanuja-sampradaya, followed by a beautiful cart
with the deities of Sri Sri Gaur-Nitai. These peculiar
deities of Gaur-Nitai have traveled all around the
world on the pada-yatra program with their faithful
servant, Saunaka das. And
they were also present in the previous Vishva Vaishnava
Raj Sabha Nagar Sankirtan.
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Jiva Goswami is the original founder of the Vishva Vaishnava
Raj Sabha and
in his temple the famous A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
prepared the Srimad Bhagavatam, which reached within
a very short time the entire world, being translated
into almost all languages of the world. The Goswamis
of the Radha-Damodar temple had invited everybody to
participate in the Nagar-Sankirtan and also to take the
feast of Srila Jiva Goswami. The temple was beautifully
decorated and Srila Jiva Goswami was being pulled on
a separate cart, also beautifully decorated. |
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| Different members of the World
Vaishnava Association, with their banner, joined the three
kirtan groups. Following strict tradition, all the sadhus
and kirtaniyas went barefooted through the entire city.
The kirtan lasted for 3,5 hours and all the members were
meaming(shining) in happiness. Culminating in the aratik
ceremony of Radha-Damodar and a nice feast served by seniour
devotees. By the grace of Srila Jiva Goswami Prabhupada,
so many devotees from so many different missions were brought
togethere, even though in the middle of the winter it was
very noticalbe that many Vaishnavas hailing from western
countries were also present in the harinam and in the celebration. |
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The concept of the Vishva Vaishnava
Raj Sabha was clearly conceived by the founder of the Radha-Damodar
temple. His position in Vrindavan was very prominent, as
can be clearly understood when reading his will. In Vrindavan
and the surrounding area, practically all the land belonged
to Radha-Govindaji, Radha-Gopinathaji and Radha-Madan Mohanji,
and Srila Jiva Goswami became trust-holder of most of these
lands. Even today the majority of the shops in Vrindavan
pay rent to the respective deities and their sevaite families.
Srila Jiva Goswami, besides being a great scholar, was
also very practical. He was told by his spiritual mentors
that for the future the many branches of the tree of Lord
Chaitanya will need a common ground so that they can expand
nicely with proper respect of each other. Today we can
again feel that great need intensively. When offering obeisances
to such a great personality, we are simultanuously offering
obeisances to all the great teachers of bhakti, they are
all sustained by the same divine energy. If you reject
one of them, you question the validity of all of them.
How can you combine people from all over the world, different
nations and races, different economical groups, different
languages and different priorities and customs, all to
chant and dance together under one banner? How will that
be possible? All this was explained by Srila Jiva Goswami,
and we can only pray that the spirit of this Nagar Sankirtan
will further grow into all directions, so that devotees
can chant together and give the impression to the world
that the one truth, the loving teachings of the Supreme
Lord and His special merciful incarnation, Lord Chaitanya
Mahaprabhu, offer true solace for a world suffering the
ignorance of egotism, prejudice and sectarianism. |
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