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Gopi Geet Song Name: Jayati Te 'Dhikaṁ Janmanā Vrajaḥ Official Name: Gopi Gitam (The Gopīs’ Songs of Separation) Spoken by: Satyavrata Muni in a conversation with Nārada Muni Author: Vyasadeva Book Name: Bhagavata Purana (Section: Canto 10 Chapter 31 Verses 1 to 19) (1) gopya ūcuḥ jayati te 'dhikaṁ janmanā vrajaḥ śrayata indirā śaśvad atra hi dayita dṛśyatāṁ dikṣu tāvakās tvayi dhṛtāsavas tvāṁ vicinvate (2) śarad-udāśaye sādhu-jāta-sat- sarasijodara-śrī-muṣā dṛśā surata-nātha te 'śulka-dāsikā vara-da nighnato neha kiṁ vadhaḥ (3) viṣa-jalāpyayād vyāla-rākṣasād varṣa-mārutād vaidyutānalāt vṛṣa-mayātmajād viśvato bhayād ṛṣabha te vayaṁ rakṣitā muhuḥ (4) na khalu gopīkā-nandano bhavān akhila-dehinām antarātma-dṛk vikhanasārthito viśva-guptaye sakha udeyivān sātvatāṁ kule (5) viracitābhayaṁ vṛṣṇi-dhūrya te caraṇam īyuṣāṁ saṁsṛter bhayāt kara-saroruhaṁ kānta kāma-daṁ śirasi dhehi naḥ śrī-kara-graham (6) vraja-janārti-han vīra yoṣitāṁ nija-jana-smaya-dhvaṁsana-smita bhaja sakhe bhavat-kińkarīḥ sma no jalaruhānanaṁ cāru darśaya (7) praṇata-dehināṁ pāpa-karṣaṇaṁ tṛṇa-carānugaṁ śrī-niketanam phaṇi-phaṇārpitaṁ te padāmbujaṁ kṛṇu kuceṣu naḥ kṛndhi hṛc-chayam (8) madhurayā girā valgu-vākyayā budha-manojshayā puṣkarekṣaṇa vidhi-karīr imā vīra muhyatīr adhara-sīdhunāpyāyayasva naḥ (9) tava kathāmṛtaṁ tapta-jīvanaṁ kavibhir īḍitaṁ kalmaṣāpaham śravaṇa-mańgalaṁ śrīmad ātataṁ bhuvi gṛṇanti ye bhūri-dā janāḥ (10) prahasitaṁ priya-prema-vīkṣaṇaṁ viharaṇaṁ ca te dhyāna-mańgalam rahasi saṁvido yā hṛdi spṛśaḥ kuhaka no manaḥ kṣobhayanti hi (11) calasi yad vrajāc cārayan paśūn nalina-sundaraṁ nātha te padam śila-tṛṇāńkuraiḥ sīdatīti naḥ kalilatāṁ manaḥ kānta gacchati (12) dina-parikṣaye nīla-kuntalair vanaruhānanaṁ bibhrad āvṛtam ghana-rajasvalaṁ darśayan muhur manasi naḥ smaraṁ vīra yacchasi (13) praṇata-kāma-daṁ padmajārcitaṁ dharaṇi-maṇḍanaṁ dhyeyam āpadi caraṇa-pańkajaṁ śantamaṁ ca te ramaṇa naḥ staneṣv arpayādhi-han (14) surata-vardhanaṁ śoka-nāśanaṁ svarita-veṇunā suṣṭhu cumbitam itara-rāga-vismāraṇaṁ nṛṇāṁ vitara vīra nas te 'dharāmṛtam (15) aṭati yad bhavān ahni kānanaṁ truṭi yugāyate tvām apaśyatām kuṭila-kuntalaṁ śrī-mukhaṁ ca te jaḍa udīkṣatāṁ pakṣma-kṛd dṛśām (16) pati-sutānvaya-bhrātṛ-bāndhavān ativilańghya te 'nty acyutāgatāḥ gati-vidas tavodgīta-mohitāḥ kitava yoṣitaḥ kas tyajen niśi (17) rahasi saṁvidaṁ hṛc-chayodayaṁ prahasitānanaṁ prema-vīkṣaṇam bṛhad-uraḥ śriyo vīkṣya dhāma te muhur ati-spṛhā muhyate manaḥ (18) vraja-vanaukasāṁ vyaktir ańga te vṛjina-hantry alaṁ viśva-mańgalam tyaja manāk ca nas tvat-spṛhātmanāṁ sva-jana-hṛd-rujāṁ yan niṣūdanam (19) yat te sujāta-caraṇāmburuhaṁ staneṣu bhītāḥ śanaiḥ priya dadhīmahi karkaśeṣu tenāṭavīm aṭasi tad vyathate na kiṁ svit kūrpādibhir bhramati dhīr bhavad-āyuṣāṁ naḥ TRANSLATION 1) The gopīs said: O beloved, Your birth in the land of Vraja has made it exceedingly glorious, and thus Indirā, the goddess of fortune, always resides here. It is only for Your sake that we, Your devoted servants, maintain our lives. We have been searching everywhere for You, so please show Yourself to us. 2) O Lord of love, in beauty Your glance excels the whorl of the finest, most perfectly formed lotus within the autumn pond. O bestower of benedictions, You are killing the maidservants who have given themselves to You freely, without any price. Isn't this murder? 3) O greatest of personalities, You have repeatedly saved us from all kinds of danger —from poisoned water, from the terrible man-eater Agha, from the great rains, from the wind demon, from the fiery thunderbolt of Indra, from the bull demon and from the son of Maya Dānava. 4) You are not actually the son of the gopī Yaśodā, O friend, but rather the indwelling witness in the hearts of all embodied souls. Because Lord Brahmā prayed for You to come and protect the universe, You have now appeared in the Sātvata dynasty. 5) O best of the Vṛṣṇis, Your lotuslike hand, which holds the hand of the goddess of fortune, grants fearlessness to those who approach Your feet out of fear of material existence. O lover, please place that wish-fulfilling lotus hand on our heads. 6) O You who destroy the suffering of Vraja's people, O hero of all women, Your smile shatters the false pride of Your devotees. Please, dear friend, accept us as Your maidservants and show us Your beautiful lotus face. 7) Your lotus feet destroy the past sins of all embodied souls who surrender to them. Those feet follow after the cows in the pastures and are the eternal abode of the goddess of fortune. Since You once put those feet on the hoods of the great serpent Kāliya, please place them upon our breasts and tear away the lust in our hearts. 8) O lotus-eyed one, Your sweet voice and charming words, which attract the minds of the intelligent, are bewildering us more and more. Our dear hero, please revive Your maidservants with the nectar of Your lips. 9) The nectar of Your words and the descriptions of Your activities are the life and soul of those suffering in this material world. These narrations, transmitted by learned sages, eradicate one's sinful reactions and bestow good fortune upon whoever hears them. These narrations are broadcast all over the world and are filled with spiritual power. Certainly those who spread the message of Godhead are most munificent. 10) Your smiles, Your sweet, loving glances, the intimate pastimes and confidential talks we enjoyed with You — all these are auspicious to meditate upon, and they touch our hearts. But at the same time, O deceiver, they very much agitate our minds. 11) Dear master, dear lover, when You leave the cowherd village to herd the cows, our minds are disturbed with the thought that Your feet, more beautiful than a lotus, will be pricked by the spiked husks of grain and the rough grass and plants. 12) At the end of the day You repeatedly show us Your lotus face, covered with dark blue locks ofhair and thickly powdered with dust. Thus, O hero, You arouse lusty desires in our minds. 13) Your lotus feet, which are worshiped by Lord Brahmā, fulfill the desires of all who bow down to them. They are the ornament of the earth, they give the highest satisfaction, and in times of danger they are the appropriate object of meditation. O lover, O destroyer of anxiety, please put those lotus feet upon our breasts. 14) O hero, kindly distribute to us the nectar of Your lips, which enhances conjugal pleasure and vanquishes grief. That nectar is thoroughly relished by Your vibrating flute and makes people forget any other attachment. 15) When You go off to the forest during the day, a tiny fraction of a second becomes like a millennium for us because we cannot see You. And even when we can eagerly look upon Your beautiful face, so lovely with its adornment of curly locks, our pleasure is hindered by our eyelids, which were fashioned by the foolish creator. 16) Dear Acyuta, You know very well why we have come here. Who but a cheater like You would abandon young women who come to see Him in the middle of the night, enchanted by the loud song of His flute? Just to see You, we have completely rejected our husbands, children, ancestors, brothers and other relatives. 17) Our minds are repeatedly bewildered as we think of the intimate conversations we had with You in secret, feel the rise of lust in our hearts and remember Your smiling face, Your loving glances and Your broad chest, the resting place of the goddess of fortune. Thus we experience the most severe hankering for You. 18) O beloved, Your all-auspicious appearance vanquishes the distress of those living in Vraja's forests. Our minds long for Your association. Please give to us just a bit of that medicine, which counteracts the disease in Your devotees' hearts. 19) O dearly beloved! Your lotus feet are so soft that we place them gently on our breasts, fearing that Your feet will be hurt. Our life rests only in You. Our minds, therefore, are filled with anxiety that Your tender feet might be wounded by pebbles as You roam about on the forest path.

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Founder Acharya His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Founder-Acharya of International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), was born Abhay Charan De, on the 1 September 1896, in Calcutta. In 1922 he met His Divine Grace Bhaktisiddanta Sarasvati Thakur, Founder of Gaudiya Math, who requested Abhay to broadcast Vedic knowledge in the English medium. In 1933, at Allahabad, Abhay was formally initiated and made it his life ambition to expound the Vedic conclusion that real freedom means liberation from the miseries of material life : birth, death, old age and disease, a state that can be permanently attained by awakening one’s pure love for God, Krishna-prema or Krishna-bhakti. In the ensuing years Abhay Charanaravinda (his initiated name), wrote a commentary on the Bhagavad-gita. In 1944 he started the Back to Godhead magazine, which to this day is being continued by his disciples. In recognition of his philosophical knowledge and devotion the Gaudiya Vaishnava Society honored him with the title Bhaktivedanta in 1947. Following his retirement from married life, A.C. Bhaktivedanta traveled to Vrindavan where he lived in the humble surrounding of the Radha Damodar temple. In 1959 he took the sannyasa order of life and, as A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami, started his work on the multi-volume translation and commentary of the 18,000 verse Srimad Bhagavatam. In 1965, at the age of 69, when ordinary persons are thinking of retirement, he went to the United States to fulfill the mission of his spiritual master and founded ISKCON. He brought to the West the divine teachings of Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu who taught the public glorification of Hare Krishna mantra. Srila Prabhupada, (as he was affectionately called by his followers), taught on a non-sectarian level that every living being is an eternal servant of Lord Krishna with a dormant natural propensity to experience the eternal bliss of pure love of God. English

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कार्तिक महात्मयः कार्तिक महात्मयः ( श्रील गोपालभट् गोस्वामी कृत हरि भक्ति विलास के सोलहवें विलास के पहले खण्ड से ) स्कन्ध पुराण में कहा गया है- “ समस्त तीर्थ स्थलों में स्नान करने , दान देने आदि से कार्तिक व्रत पालन की तुलना में एक लाखवाँ फल भी प्राप्त नहीं होता । पद्मपुराण में कहा गया है- " बारह महीनों में से कार्तिक मास भगवान् को सर्वाधिक प्रिय है । इस मास में यदि कोई भगवान् विष्णु की थोड़ी सी भी पूजा करता है तो कार्तिक मास उसे भगवान् विष्णु के दिव्य धाम में निवास प्रदान करता है । " कार्तिक महिने में मात्र एक दीपक अर्पित करने से भगवान् कृष्ण प्रसन्न हो जाते है । भगवान् कृष्ण ऐसे व्यक्ति का भी गुणगान करते है जो दीपक जलाकर अन्यों को अर्पित करने के लिए देता है । " हे ऋषियों में श्रेष्ठ , कार्तिक मास में भगवान् हरि की महिमाओं का श्रवण करने वाला व्यक्ति सैकड़ों लाखो जन्मों के कष्टों से मुक्त हो जाता है । " कार्तिक महिने में जो व्यक्ति स्नान करके रात्रि जागरण करता है , दीपक अर्पित करता है और तुलसी वन की रक्षा करता है , वह भगवान् विष्णु के समान आध्यात्मिक देह प्राप्त करता है । " कार्तिक मास उत्सव ऊखल - बंधन लीला : श्री विश्वनाथ चक्रवर्ती ठाकुर के अनुसार कार्तिक मास में दीपावली के दिन ही भगवान् ने दामोदर लीला की , जिसका विवरण श्रीमद्भागवतम् के दशम् स्कन्ध में आता है । इस लीला में बाल - कृष्ण माखन की मटकियाँ फोड़कर माँ यशोदा को क्रोधित कर देते है । आवेश में आकर जैसे ही यशोदा माता उन्हें दण्ड देने के लिए खड़ी होती है तभी कृष्ण वहाँ से भाग जाते है । बहुत परिश्रम के पश्चात् अन्ततः यशोदा माता कृष्ण को पकड़ने में सफल होती है और उन्हें ऊखल से बाँधने का प्रयास करती है । दुर्भाग्यवश , जब रस्सी को गाँठ लगाने का समय आया तो वह रस्सी लम्बाई में दो अंगुली छोटी पड़ गई । जब यशोदा मैया ने उसमें और रस्सी जोड़कर श्रीकृष्ण को बाँधने का प्रयास किया तो वह पुनः दो अँगुली छोटी रही । वह बार - बार प्रयास कर रही थी तथा रस्सी बार - बार दो अँगुली छोटी पड़ रही थी । अंततः वे बहुत थक गई तथा श्रीकृष्ण ने अपनी स्नेहमयी माँ को थकी देखकर बँधना स्वीकार कर लिया और उनका नाम पड़ा- ' दामोदर ' अर्थात जिनका उदर ( पेट ) दाम ( रस्सी ) से बँध गया । यह लीला दर्शाती है कि पूर्ण पुरूषोत्तम भगवान् कृष्ण को केवल प्रेम के बन्धन द्वारा ही बाँधा जा सकता है । जब यशोदा मैया श्रीकृष्ण को बाँधकर घर के अन्य कार्यों में व्यस्त हो गई , तो श्रीकृष्ण ने दो यमुलार्जुन पेड़ देखे । वे वास्तव में कुबेर के दो पुत्र नलकूबर तथा मणिग्रीव थे , जो नारद् मुनि द्वारा शापित किये गए थे और पेड़ बने हुए थे । श्री कृष्ण अपनी अहैतुकी कृपा से नारद मुनि की इच्छा पूर्ति के लिए उनकी ओर बढ़े । कार्तिक में भक्ति करना कार्तिक में भक्ति करना पद्म पुराण में कहा गया है कि अपनी आर्थिक स्थिति के अनुसार हर व्यक्ति को चाहिए कि भगवान् के विभिन्न उत्सवों एवं समारोहों को अवश्य मनाये । इन सर्वाधिक महत्वपूर्ण उत्सवों में एक उत्सव है- ' ऊर्जा - व्रत ' । यह कार्तिक ( अक्टूबर - नवम्बर ) मास में मनाया जाता है । इस उत्सव में विशेषतया वृन्दावन में दामोदर रूप में भगवान् के अर्चाविग्रह की पूजा का विशेष कार्यक्रम होता है । दामोदर का संदर्भ है , अपनी माता यशोदा द्वारा कृष्ण को रस्सी से बाँधा जाना । कहा जाता है कि जिस प्रकार भगवान् दामोदर अपने भक्तों को अत्यन्त प्रिय है उसी प्रकार दामोदर मास अर्थात् कार्तिक मास भी उन्हें अति प्रिय है । कार्तिक मास में ' ऊर्जा - व्रत ' के समय मथुरा में भक्ति करने की विशेष संस्तुति की जाती है । आज भी उनके भक्त इस प्रथा का पालन करते है । वे मथुरा या वृन्दावन में पूरे कार्तिक मास में भक्ति करने के उद्देश्य से वहाँ जाकर ठहरते है । पद्म - पुराण में कहा गया है ' भगवान् भक्त को मुक्ति या भौतिक सुख तो दे सकते है , किन्तु भक्तगण कार्तिक मास में मथुरा में रह कर कुछ भक्ति कर लेने पर ही भगवान् की शुद्ध भक्ति प्राप्त करना चाहते हैं । तात्पर्य यह है कि भगवान उन सामान्य व्यक्तियों को भक्ति नहीं प्रदान करते , जो भक्ति के विषय में निष्ठावान नहीं है । किन्तु ऐसे निष्ठारहित व्यक्ति भी यदि कार्तिक मास में विशेषतया मथुरा मण्डल में रह कर विधिपूर्वक भक्ति करते है , तो उन्हें भगवान् की व्यक्तिगत सेवा प्राप्त होती है । ( भक्तिरसामृत सिन्धु , अध्याय 12 ) संक्षिप्त रूप में कार्तिक व्रत पालन कैसे करें :- भूमिकाः - कार्तिक मास एक विशेष मास है जिसमें राधा दामोदर भगवान की उपासना की जाती है । कार्तिक मास की अधिष्ठात्री देवी श्रीमती राधिका है इसलिए ये मास श्रीकृष्ण को प्रिय है । इस मास में अल्प प्रयास द्वारा राधारानी शीघ्र प्रसन्न हो जाती है , अगर व्यक्ति उनकी आराधना उनके प्रियतम दामोदर के साथ करता है । प्रार्थनाः - " हे जनार्दन , हे दामोदर , हे देव , आप जोकि श्री राधिका सहित हैं ! कार्तिक मास में , मैं आपकी प्रसन्नता हेतु , प्रत्येक दिन प्रातः जल्दी स्नान करूँगा । " " हे गोपिकाओं ! आपकी कृपा द्वारा राधा कृष्ण मेरे कार्तिक व्रत से प्रसन्न हो ' । ब्रह्म मुहूर्त तक प्रत्येक दिन उठ जायें तथा स्नान करके , जप एवं मंगल आरती में शामिल हों । श्रीमद्भागवतम् श्रवण करें , विशेषकर राधा - कृष्ण की वृंदावन लीलाएं । संभव हो तो श्रवण वैष्णवों के सान्ध्यि में करें | परिवार के समस्त सदस्यों सहित अधिकाधिक हरिनाम का जप - कीर्तन करें । तुलसी जी की आरती , वृंदावन में नित्यवास एवं श्रीराधा - कृष्ण युगल चरणारविन्दों की सेवा की अभिलाषा के साथ करें । राधा कृष्ण को नित्य दीप अपर्ण करें एवं दामोदराष्टकम् पढ़ें ( अर्थपर मनन करतेहुए ) । नित्य यमुना में स्नान एवं वैष्णवों को दान करें । वैष्णवों , वेद - शास्त्रों एवं अन्यों की निन्दा से बचें । नोट : कार्तिक मास में अपनी किसी भी एक प्रिय खाद्य वस्तु का त्याग करने का प्रयत्न करें । कार्तिक में उड़द् दाल वर्जित है । इस मास में विशेषतः भगवान् श्री कृष्ण को दीप - दान द्वारा प्रसन्न करने हेतु आप निकटतम इस्कॉन मन्दिर में सांय 7-8 बजे तक जा सकते हैं अथवा प्रतिदिन अपने घर पर अथवा निकट के मन्दिर में दीपक अर्पण कर सकते हैं । कार्तिक व्रत पारण:- मास के अन्त में प्रातः राधा - कृष्णा की आरती करें एवं अपने संपूर्ण व्रत की तपस्या को राधा कृष्ण की प्रसन्ता हेतु अर्पित करें । वैष्णवों का सम्मान करते हुए उन्हें उपहार , दान इत्यादि देकर सुन्दर स्वादिष्ट प्रसाद अर्पित करें । इसके उपरान्त अपने व्रत का पारण उन वस्तुओं को ग्रहण करते हुए करे जिनका त्याग ( उड़द् , मिठाई या अन्य वस्तु ) आपने कार्तिक व्रत में किया था । महामंत्र का गान करें एवं संपूर्ण कार्तिक में व्यतीन किए हुए राधा - कृष्ण के स्मरण रूपी रसमयी अनुभव का आस्वादन करें । प्रतिदिन दीप - दान ( अर्पण ) करने की विधिः 1. सर्वप्रथम भगवान् की बंधन - लीला अथवा राधा कृष्ण के चित्र को सुंदरता के साथ अपने घर के मन्दिर में अथवा किसी अन्य स्वच्छ स्थान पर विराजमान करें । सायं 7 बजे अपने परिवार के सभी सदस्यों को वहाँ एकत्रित करें । प्रति व्यक्ति एक घी ( संभव हो तो देसी गाय का घी उपयोग करें ) के दीपक की व्यवस्था रखे । मिटी के छोटे दीपक ठीक रहेंगें । प्रतिदिन नये दीपक का प्रयोग करें । घी के स्थान पर तिल का तेल भी प्रयोग किया जा सकता है । 2. आगे पेज पर दी गयी प्रार्थना ' दामोदराष्टकम् ' को सभी सदस्य पढ़ने का प्रयास करें । साथ ही साथ बारी से हर सदस्य अपने अपने दीपक द्वारा आरती करे । संस्कृत अगर नहीं पढ़ पाएं तो बाद में सभी हिन्दी अनुवाद को पढ़े । यह प्रार्थना आप इस्कॉन मन्दिर से ऑडियो सीडी के रूप में लेकर प्रतिदिन आरती के दौरान सुन सकते है । 3. तत्पश्चात् दिव्य आनन्द की अनुभूति के लिए कुछ देर तक हरे कृष्ण महामंत्र का सम्मिलित रूप से कीर्तन करें । नोट : आरती के दौरान कमरे में दिव्य वातावरण के लिए कम से कम बिजली का प्रकाश ( लाइटों ) का प्रयोग करें । अगर आप निकटतम इस्कॉन मन्दिर में आकर इस आरती को साक्षात देखें तो आपका उत्साह एवं आनन्द और बढ़ेगा । अपने मित्रों एवं सम्बन्धियों को भी दीप दान की विधि एवं महत्व के बारे में अवश्य बताएँ एवं प्रेरित करें ।