CM (chaitnya mahaprabhu) once met a brahmana wjo told him that, my guru maharaj told me to read BG but i am not qualified.
1.but brahmana said When i hear ,that krsna took charioteer position in mahabharata, tears come in his eyes, my lord so great but he took this position. CM hugged him this place, said u hv realized gita's essence, touched its spirit. So, although this man did not have educatn to read gita bt he touched its depth. Many ppl read bt dey do not have any feelings for krsna.
1.but brahmana said When i hear ,that krsna took charioteer position in mahabharata, tears come in his eyes, my lord so great but he took this position. CM hugged him this place, said u hv realized gita's essence, touched its spirit. So, although this man did not have educatn to read gita bt he touched its depth. Many ppl read bt dey do not have any feelings for krsna.
2. On the spot, that brahmana recited (in his own verses)1000 words glorification for lord's lotus feet (vedanta desika) ,so devotee glorified this place sahasra padka strotam, ranganath swami lotus feet.
3. Ramanujacharya , when he stayed here he also performed various pastimes, his spiritual body is kept there, bih diety is build on top of the transcendental body.
4. Kulashekara Alhwar(a king) incarnated from Kaustubha jewel which is on the chest of krsna. Eg, he heard ramayana, he felt its happening now, when he heard sita kidnapped by ravana, he immediately felt great pain, he called army to march on this rascal ravana, dandakaranya, so minister did some trick to pacify kulashekara that mother sita is saved.
5.. So, lots of pastimes happened in his presence. So, very difficult to keep him in present while recitation. So minister told reciters to tell only happy pastimes of ramayana, bhagvatam.
6. Eg rama worried to build bridge, so kulasekara again went into that alhwar consciousness, he ordered his army to go to remeshvaram to help rama building bridge.
afterwards Kulasekara handed over his kingdom to his son, he married his daughter (devotee) to lord ranganathan in this temple, then he left his kingdom and lived with ranganathan to glorify lord whole lives, wrote many devotional poems.
7. Tirumangala alhwar Used all decoits, theives all in service of lord, by using looted money to build temple. But he also delivered them in last stage of their lives.
So, ppl gathered when they knew dat this alhwar whom we were considering a devotee, our guru is chief of all looters, so, in their gathering ,lord ranganatha appeared and said whatever this alhwar does is all right to me.
8. Bhutaka alhwar- bhuta means haunted so he was haunted by KC. All 3 devotees were coming to tirukevellor, a dark place, cottage they entered .how?
Rainy dark night, 1 alhwar took shelter, then 2nd comes, 3rd came, all alhwars discussing ranganatha pastimes.
So, in dark room, since they could not see but they sense 4th person entered, he was none other than supreme personality of godhead.
Krsana said " i do not reside in vaikuntha, but wherever my devotees describe my pastimes i am personally present there."
Rainy dark night, 1 alhwar took shelter, then 2nd comes, 3rd came, all alhwars discussing ranganatha pastimes.
So, in dark room, since they could not see but they sense 4th person entered, he was none other than supreme personality of godhead.
Krsana said " i do not reside in vaikuntha, but wherever my devotees describe my pastimes i am personally present there."
9. One another pastimes, where lord who was sleeping came outside of the door to hear the beautiful recitation of bhagvatam from his great devotee.
10. Another pastime, where in a shiva temple of a village, a devotee reciting pastime from srimad bhgvatam :krishna teasking rukmini.
He finished the chapter and put the bookmarker on the last page of the chapter. But, continuously it happened that bookmarker comes to the start of the chapter then he has to recite that chapter again and it went on to 30 days (month).
He forgot his book there while he was going, so when he remembered he mediately came back to get his precious book.he was in shock to see lord shiva reciting same pastime of krsna teasing rukmini to all his kailash vasi and mother parvati, and sons ganesh, kartikeya. Everyone was in tears, shiva then asked after end of the pastime recitation, he asked mother parviti "how was the pastime?". She said, " yes indeed it is great, but it was much sweeter to hear from that devotee". The devotee could not control his tear hearing this from mother parvati.
So sb (bhagvatm) is so sweet, full of nectar that even self-realized souls feel attracted towards it like siva.
He forgot his book there while he was going, so when he remembered he mediately came back to get his precious book.he was in shock to see lord shiva reciting same pastime of krsna teasing rukmini to all his kailash vasi and mother parvati, and sons ganesh, kartikeya. Everyone was in tears, shiva then asked after end of the pastime recitation, he asked mother parviti "how was the pastime?". She said, " yes indeed it is great, but it was much sweeter to hear from that devotee". The devotee could not control his tear hearing this from mother parvati.
So sb (bhagvatm) is so sweet, full of nectar that even self-realized souls feel attracted towards it like siva.
11. One reciprocation b/w ramanujacharya and ranganatha (lord)-
He came here to meet his guru but he passed away, so he felt so upset that ranganatha could not keep his guru till the time he could see hos master last time, get his last instruction. So in agony he went to vardharaja and left ranganatha.
Ranganatha felt great pain that ramanujacharya left so he wrote a letter to kanchi varadharaja temple to send his devotee back to him. So kanchi varadharaja wrote back, you have so many devotees but i do not have too many devotee so please let him be with him.
So, ranganatha did not felt satisfied so he planned how to get back ramanujacharya by making settlement with vardharaja. He sent some devotees to glorify, to please him sufficiently then when asked for benediction, they all asked ramanujacharya back.
So, he became more and more excited as ramanujacharya came closer,as he got the news of him coming step by step closer he became more and more excited, and the last step he came personally to recieve him.
He came here to meet his guru but he passed away, so he felt so upset that ranganatha could not keep his guru till the time he could see hos master last time, get his last instruction. So in agony he went to vardharaja and left ranganatha.
Ranganatha felt great pain that ramanujacharya left so he wrote a letter to kanchi varadharaja temple to send his devotee back to him. So kanchi varadharaja wrote back, you have so many devotees but i do not have too many devotee so please let him be with him.
So, ranganatha did not felt satisfied so he planned how to get back ramanujacharya by making settlement with vardharaja. He sent some devotees to glorify, to please him sufficiently then when asked for benediction, they all asked ramanujacharya back.
So, he became more and more excited as ramanujacharya came closer,as he got the news of him coming step by step closer he became more and more excited, and the last step he came personally to recieve him.
12. Vaikuntja ekadashi pastime read- lord personally came to receive namha alhwar.
13. Then, last but not least jagannatha mahaprasadam ,we heard thag cc stayed there for 4turmasa (4 months) so he felt separation from lord jagannatha and thus a small temple of jagannatha is build there.
hari haribollllllll
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