Srila Bhakti Vaibhava Puri Goswami Maharaja
Sri Guru Tattva
June 24, 1999: Tivoli, Slovenia
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June 26, 1999: Ljubljana, Slovenia
June 26, 1999: Novo Mesto, Slovenia
June 30, 1999: Rijeka, Croatia
July 1, 1999: Pula, Croatia
July 2, 1999: Pula, Croatia
June 7, 2000: Ljubljana, Slovenia
June 10, 2000: Nava Vrindavan, Slovenia
Srila Bhakti Vaibhava Puri Maharaja's Cry for Help
Srila B.V. Puri Maharaja Passes Away at 96
Samadhi Vidhi of Srila Bhakti Vaibhava Puri Goswami Maharaja
Srila B.V. Puri Maharaja Given Samadhi Burial in Puri
Audio [Lectures in .wma format]
India is the most sacred country in the world. Sri Krishna Chaitanya and his followers sanctified the province of Bengal by their appearance in the 15th Century. Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu who is Sri Krishna Himself, appeared in Sridham Mayapur, in order to be bestow an all,irrespective of caste, colour or creed, the highest gift of Divine Love. In the same line of disciplic succession, presently our Acharya, Sri Srimad B.V Puri Goswami Maharaj is bestowing his divine grace by his causeless mercy.
The Spiritual Master Srimad Bhakti Vaibhava Puri Goswami Maharaj who appeared on this material plane on the 5th day of the waning period of the moon of Magha in 1913, in the house of his grand-father, in the village fulta, which is 5km away from Berhampur in Ganjam District of Orissa State in India, Bharata Varsha, the most sacred place in the world. His mother’s name is Smt.Devi and his father’s name is Sri Damodar. Maharaj is then named as Sri Nrusingha by his beloved parents.
Maharaj has completed his higher education in Berhampur and received his B.A., degree. He was beneficial, noble, truthful and unenvious from his student career. Gradually he developed interest in Ayurveda and decided to learn it. He successfully completed his study about Ayurveda from the renowned Kaviraj Spripad Madhusudan Shara who took initiation from Srila Bakthi Sridhanta Saraswathi Prabhupada, the spiritual master of Sri B.V. Puri Maharaj. At the encouragement of Sri pad Madhusudana Sarma our Maharaj received his initiation from the world spiritual master Srila Bhakti Siddhanta Saraswati Goswami Prabhupada, on 3rd August, 1936, the advent day of Lord Balaram in Sridham Mayapur.
- In charge Of Kowur Gaudiya Math 1937-1942
- Stay At Mayapur During 1942-1948
- Grand Celebrations Of 10th Anniversari Of Srila Prabhupada Made A Great Success
- Took Sanyas In 1966 From Srila Giri Maharaj
The aged sanyasis who were loving Maharaj wanted to make him their sannyasi desciple seeing Maharaj’s great devotion, service to Vaishanavas, and his thoroughness in Scriptures. He consulted with Srila Baikhanas Maharaj about taking sannyasa and on 7th February, 1996 he took Sannyasa in Mayapur at Sriman Mahaprabhu’s Birth place according to the spiritual injunctions, from Srila Bhakti Swarupa Giri Maharaj in the presence of his Vaishanava circle.
Formed The Present Sri Krishna Chaitanya Mission Eventually
In 1996 he formed registered board and modified it to present shape in 1983 at I.tota in Sridham PURI making Sri Chaitanya Chandra Ashram the centre place of the Mission and Srila Purusotam Titha Maharaj become the Secretary of the registered body. From that time onwords this body is functioning and the number of maths under the mission raised to 18.
Eyes With Tears:
Srila Maharaj comes into trance with full of tears in his eyes while narrating the pastimes of Gauranga or commenting on the verses of Srimad Bhagavata. He does with utmost care the service to Tulsi, circumambulating the temple of the Lord, worshipping the deities or singing the glories of the Lord.
Affectionate Towords Desciples Both For Grihastas & Thyagies
Srila Maharaj is affectionate to his disciples. He is eager to dispel the doubts of his disciples. He asks disciples how do they chant, what do they feel and so on !He never tries to disrespect others. He also does not tolerate any kind of desrespect to others.
Good Command On Discourses In Different Languages:
Srila Maharaj has a great power in delivering speech without a pause in Oriya, Telgu, Hindi, Bengali and English languages. The listeners are wonderstruck by hearing his speech.
Visits Abroad In His Pursuit Of Preaching
He went on tour for two months to the Western countries like Italy, Spain and etc., on 5th May, 1997 as per request of the foreign devotees and delivered devotional discourses on unalloyed devotion in the religious meetings arranged in Schools, Colleges, Universities and public places.
Intimate Friendship With Srila A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
The Founder/Acharya of ISKCON, Srila A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (Our Guru Maharaj calls him affectionately as ‘Swami Maharaj’) was an intimate friend of our Maharaj. They liked each other very much among all the God-brothers of Srila Prabhupad Bhakti Siddhanta Saraswthi of Gaudiya Math.
All glories, all glories to the crest jewel of paramahamsa
Om Vishnupad 108 Sri Srimad Bhakti Vaibhava Puri Goswami Maharaj
on his 89th Birth Anniversary.
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