What is Krishna Janmashtami !

 What is Krishna Janmashtami?

Janmashtami will be celebrated occasioning the birth of Supreme personality Lord Sri Krishna.

According to Hindu Mythology Janmashtami is one of the most renowned festivals celebrated across the world. It is estimated that close to 50 million people across the world celebrate this festival, at home, Temples, or at places which are specially organized to celebrate this occasion. It’s like a new years eve to all the Hindu’s as it is celebrated at the biggest scale across the World / Country.

Now the most important question is on what is that special thing about Krishna, to celebrate his Birthday! This actually happens to be a question which every individual has [the one who belongs to other religion i.e. Non Hindu]

It is said that the Heart of Human beings [Hurdy] is the Birth Place of Lord Krishna, it is said that only when the hearts of people become pure, filled with peace, and as cool as Himachala that is the True Birth Day of Krishna.

Lord Sri Krishna who always gives back to all the individuals who love with pure heart and worship him without any worldly requests

Lord Sri Krishna is the only adorable and the Most romantic and compassionate Lover the world have ever witnessed, during his child hood he was the mischievous son to matha yashoda and Krishna always surprised her with new things in life.

During his entire life lord sri Krishna had no. of wars with people in order to save his country and devotes, hence it is also believed that the B’day of Krishna [AShtami] is the day of bad luck by some people and rumors float around to say that everybody who is born janmashtami will end his life in troubles, however with the other section of society believe that the person who is born on janmashtami will be a RULER and would be protector of Dharma

How is Janmastami Celebrated?

The Birth day of Lord Krishna [Janmashtami] is celebrated most uniquely than any other festival. Unlike other festivals janmastami is not celebrated by wearing new clothes on the day of janmastami or by going to relatives houses to celebrate it, is it celebrated in a different way altogether.

Janmashtami is the festival which is celebrated with utmost zeal and enthusiasm among people on the day of Lord Sri Krishna.

the other name for celebrating the birth of Lord Sri Krishna [janmashtami ] is DAHIHANDI it is known as dahi handi in the business capital of India i.e  Mumbai and the growing city of the country Pune along with some western part of Indian states.

On the Day of Janmashtami people gather at one place, most preferable in and around the temple premises, the Handi [Pot] will be fully filled with Curd / butter milk and it will be positioned at a height which can only be reached with the help of ladder, and to reach it all the youngsters together form the human Pyramid to reach the Handi which is already positioned at a height.

The Top most person in the pyramid will get a chance to break the HANDI by hitting it with either a coconut which he would carry along with him while he climbs the pyramid or with anything which is blunt in nature. When the person breaks the handi the curd / butter milk will be spilled on the entire pyramid which is formed with Humans, it is the symbol of UNITY and ACHIEVEMENT IN TOGETHER NESS this would only be possible when people trust each other.

During the formation of Pyramid, people chant / shout the name of lord Sri Krishna as Govinda, hare Krishna / bal Krishna, etc and dance in the trans of lord Krishna            

Life of Chaitanya Maha Prabhu

Life of Chaitanya Maha Prabhu - Part 2

The Adolescent Scholar

The Young Scholar:

 After the death of Sri Jagannatha Misra, the father of Sri Chaitanya Prabhu there was lot of change which took place in the life and thought process of Sri Chaitanya Prabhu. The Naughty behavior of caitanya prabhu has changed to a more matured approach towards life,

Post death of his father caitanya prabhu’s naughty behavior has subsidized and he has started moving towards more structural way of living by religiously following all the duties which are prescribed by brahminical order one of those was to regularly perform SANDHYA VANDANA

Later in his life through his journey of structural living lord Chaitanya Prabhu, opened a Sanskrit School Teaching the True Form and language of Sanskrit and also ensured his students followed the standards

Caitanya Prabhu was truly dedicated and diligent through his vision and never wasted time in Idle Gossip and also avoided the association of Irreligious Persons

He Soon became “Nimai Pandita” In spite being the youngest Pandita Caitanya prabhu never showed arrogance with people and he would always get mingled with all kinds of people in the society be it Milkman, Merchants, Flower Seller etc he mingled up with everybody.

One Day During his visit to Market Caitanya Prabhu had to meet an Astrologer, upon his meet prabhu tried enquiring about his past life post looking at prabhu and his “Jathaka” Astrologer was astonished and said he was the supreme persona of god in his past life which prabhu did not accept and kept moving on.

The Marriage:

Caitanya Prabhu married to a girl named Laxmipriya show as the same girl whom Nimai [caitanya Prabhu] met during his child hood days on the river banks of River Ganga and both Lived Happily

Laxmi priya as a faithful wife was very happily taking care of house without any complaint and served food to all the guests who lord chaitanya prabhu used to get everyday to his home to serve food and give necessary clothing

Laxmi Priya never complained on the charity which Nimai did, however mother sacidevi, raised concerns and always asked on his future would sustain as they did not have any land to their name.

The Answer from Nimai was “KRSNA IS THE CREATOR OF THIS WORLD AND HE WOULD TAKE CARE OF ALL THE NECESSITIES OF THE NEEDY”

Moving to East Bengal:

 On the Push of Mother Sacidevi to make some earning Nimai moved to East Bengal, However his ideal aim was to spread the word of Krsna in the area.

Looking at his spiritual Vision and Scriptural Explanation, all those who heard him could not take their eyes off and where very much impressed and were attracted towards the word of Prabhu and started worshipping Krsna and started chanting the name of Lord Srihari.

There lived a Brahmana with the name Tapana Misra who was eager to determine and know the real meaning of Life and to achieve the same he was always with books the more he read the books more he got confused, looking at his confusion people suggested him to meet Chaitanya Prabhu whos was in town and assured him to get an answer to all his confusions and questions

When he met [Nimai]Chaitanya prabhu explained him that the real meaning of life cannot be ascertained by Just Reading books rather only by chanting the name of Lord SRI HARI.

Chaitanya Prabhu suggested him to chant the MAHA MANTRA

HARE KRSNA HARE KRSNA; KRSNA KRSNA HARE HARE HARE RAMA HARE RAMA; RAMA RAMA HARE HARE

Re Marriage:

During the Visit of Nimai to East Bengal Laxmi Priya had a snake bite which took her life

When Nimai Returned to Navadvipa he consoled his mother and as per her suggestion lord Chaitanya Prabhu married to Visnu priya and his marriage was celebrated as the biggest festival of the town.

 

Sadguru - Radha Krishna - MahaPrabhu

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Chaitanya Mahaprabhu !

The Krsna Consciousness movement is now spread all over the world.Yet its originator, Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu [Chaitanya Mahaprabhu] remains largely unknown across the World, even in India where at least the name of Lord Caitanya is widely familiar, most people know little about him, and about his activities or his message, Even persons who know something of Lord Caitanya mostly misunderstand him as merely a Great Devotee of LordKrishna, Where revealed Scriptures uphold that he is one of the supreme personality of God head which world knows

When looked into the voluminous original biographies Sri Caitanya-bhagavata and Sri Caitanya-caritamtra, which were scripted few hundreds of years ago it has revealed that Certain customs, attitudes and practices within Hindu society as recounted herein, and even the very personage of Lord Caitanya,  May seem strange to the Un acquainted .

Lord Caitanya [Lord Chaitanya / Sri Chaitanya] is known to world with many of his names, which were given to him along with his stages of life.

Lord Chaitanya’s  father  has Named him as Visvambhara, and  when he was young and by the time he entered his youth he was called Nimai Pandita by all his family, friends and his tutors. When he took Sannyasa, he was started being known as Sri Krsna Caitanya however he was known as Sri Krsna Caitanya, he was also known as Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu or just Mahaprabhu. and throughout his pastimes he was known as “Gauranga”, or as “Gaurahari”, because of his Golden [awesomely beautiful] Complexion.

Sri Caitnaya prabhu spent his first 24 years in Navadvipa one of the known city of Nadia District in  West Bengal [one of the State of INDIA]. Thereafter he left his family life and accepted sannyasa. Making Puri his Headquarters, Caitanya Mahaprabhu then spent 6 years on travelling between “Vrndavana” [Vrindavana, Brindavana], West Bengal and parts of South India. For the remaining 18 years of His manifest presence he stayed in Puri, however he drifted into ever deeper trances of love of Krsna.

Biographers  have recorded that in the ecstasy of separation from Lord Krsna, sometimes the arms, legs and heard of Caitanya Mahaprabhu has found to be merged into His body in the manner [way] of a tortoise, or his limbs  would become disjointed from his body and remain connected only by skin. 

Often when Srichaitanya mahaprabhu chanted “Hare Krsna” and danced his body would be covered with goose bumps, tears would squirt from his eyes as if from a syringe, and foam would ooze from his mouth. He would jump high into the air and crash down so heavily that the earth would shake. But due to spiritual rhapsody he would feel no pain and would continue to chant Hare Krsna.

Gaudiya Vaisnava [Vaishnavism movement started by Chaitanya Mahaprabhu in Bengal] authorities say that such transformations are not among those which would be possible for an ordinary human beings or a trained person and thus classify or see or discover or make out lord Caitanya as non different person from the lord Krsna.

Lord Krsna is famous known as “Syamasundara”, or he who or the one who is blackish and Beautiful. And Lord Caitanya is most famously known to his followers as  “Gaurasundara”,  which mean to the one who is with Golden complexion and Awesomely Beautiful appearing in this wonderful fair feature due to combining of Radha. Thus Caitanya Mahaprabhu is the combined form of Radha and Krsna but with the mood and complexion of Srimati Radharani, come to teach the world the  adore of Sri Radha-Krsna.

Detailed knowledge may be gathered by studying Sri Caitanya-caritamrta.