Ratha Yatra - Transcendental Pull of Emotions | Part 3 | Amarendra Dasa
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- Ratha Yatra - Transcendental Pull of Emotions | Part 3 | Amarendra Dasa
At the great chariot festival in the holy city of Puri, Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu danced in ecstasy before the chariot of Lord Jagannatha, revealing a most intimate pastime of the Supreme Lord.
These days you might see Lord Jagannatha parade majestically through Trafalgar Square in London or along the sun-drenched beaches of Los Angeles; or you might watch the dome of His chariot float past the skyscrapers of New York or the mountains that rim Denver; or you might gaze at the massive wheels as they turn in Toronto, Guadalajara, or Florence. All around the globe. Lord Jagannatha boards His stately chariot and, escorted by dancing and chanting devotees, goes out to see and be seen by all the people of His domain.
The festival is not new. Since time beyond memory, the celebrated Deity of Krishna known as Jagannatha (“Lord of the Universe”) has been honored with a great chariot parade at Jagannatha Puri, a city in Orissa on the Bay of Bengal. Every summer pilgrims gather from all over India to join in the awesome and magnificent celebration, in which the Supreme Personality of Godhead graces everyone-highborn or low, pure or impure, rich or poor-with His presence when He leaves His palatial temple and travels in state to His peaceful summer retreat.
Long before you reach the city you can see the temple’s majestic parabolic dome, topped by a golden chakra-the discus that symbolizes the all- pervading power of God. On first sight of the gleaming chakra pilgrims fall prostrate in obeisance on the road. The awe-inspiring grandeur of the temple at Puri is entirely apposite, for the Deity of Jagannatha memorializes Krishna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, as He manifest Himself at Dvaraka fifty centuries ago.
There, as part of His personal pastimes on earth, Lord Krishna reigned as king in dazzling splendor and revealed the unsurpassable opulence and majesty of His Godhood. In Dvaraka, Lord Krishna kept close company with Lord Balarama, His brother, and Srimati Subhadra, His sister. Balarama is the Supreme Personality of Godhead’s first expansion; Subhadra, one of His internal spiritual energies. Since the three divine persons were always together at Dvaraka, the form of Jagannatha at Puri is worshiped with those of Balarama and Subhadra.
It is important to understand the Deity form of God properly. God appears in this form out of His supreme kindness. The eternal spiritual form of the Lord cannot be apprehended by our materially contaminated senses; therefore He graciously condescends to take a form we can directly perceive and serve. God is not stone or wood, but by His omnipotence He can appear as stone or wood and be perceptible even to our dulled and constricted vision. Therefore, Lord Jagannatha is the Supreme Personality of Godhead Himself.
Even though God so kindly makes Himself available to us, there is still a problem. Knowledge of the Lord’s personal form is revealed at the height of spiritual attainment, and worship of the form as the Deity in the temple is a most exalted mode of devotional service. People who are degraded by culture and habit, who are not purified by reformatory practices, who are not enlightened by transcendental knowledge, cannot understand the personal form of God or appreciate the Deity incarnation of the Lord. Such people are likely to mistake the bona fide Deity for an idol fabricated by human imagination. Therefore, to prevent the ignorant from committing offenses to the Lord, people without the benefits of spiritual culture have been traditionally excluded from temples in India.
Yet this exclusiveness contrasts markedly with that divine spirit of liberality which moves God to make Himself available in the Deity form. He wants to extend His mercy to everyone. Exclusiveness and inclusiveness are thus in tension. The Ratha-yatra chariot festival helps resolve the difficulty. For on this occasion Lord Jagannatha goes out into the streets and discloses Himself to those from whom He is normally hidden. Lord Jagannatha is accordingly celebrated for being the most merciful even to the degraded and spiritually backward people.
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I literally cried when you said about 100 years of pain in Krishna's heart thinking brindavan and the meeting between Nandbaba and krishna in gurukshethra.. thank you Prabhuji... for taking me to dwaraka, brindavan, and kurukshetha mentally/emotionally/lovingly/ spiritually. May Krishna bless you abundantly
His all lectures are like that only every one cry 😢😢
Idk why i don't have any feelings toward krishna😅 i don't feel anything please bless me 😢
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🙏🙏🙏🙏 the one which is most confidential and difficult to understand is very nicely explained by u sir we offer our gratitude to you 🙏 Jai srila Prabhupada 🙏
Wow! What a roller coaster ride of emotions. Thank you so much for this Prabhu
Jay Jagannath🙏🙏
Jay His Grace Amarendra dasa prabuji Ki Jay 👍👍👍🌷🌷🌷💛🙌🙏🙂💛💛💛💛💛💛
Hare Krishna
Hare krishna...
2 parts seen earlier were really underrated.... loved the stories very well... shared it to others....
Nilachala nivasaya
Nityaya paramatmane
Balbhadra Subhadrabhyam
Jagannathaya te namaha
Thank you so much for such a beautiful and relishable seminar about the inner mood and meaning of Lord Jagannath and the Rath Yatra festival!
...Prabhuji is saying 108 is an auspicious number and I'm seeing on the screen there are 108 likes for the video..) Jai Jagannath!
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Ohhh Hare Krishna, don't have words to thank you enough... thanks for uploading again..
Please accept my humble obesiances...
I dont desire,bhukti or mukti.. your words make the journey more beautiful than the destination...
My son BLESS YOU
This is pure nectar of devotion ☺☺☺🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏❤❤❤❤❤❤
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Thank you prabhuji, you haven taken us to vrindavan by your words. Amazing class full of nectar
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Hare krishna prabhuji.. bahat bahat aabhari.... jay radha madhab...
Hare Krishna Prabhuji very very wonderful explanations of real meaning of rath yatra
Thank u for uploading this again prabhuji 🙏
Hare krishna very happy to see...i also experienced rathayatras....🙏
Jai jagannath 🙏🙏
Beautiful lecture❤️🙏🙏
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Hare Krishna prabhuji..🙏🙏🙏
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Jay Jagannath !!!!!
Hare Krishna🙏🙏🙏
O my Krishna.... So deep... I think you must have write a commentary on Srimad Bhagwatam prabhu Ji
Njan saw in muscat temple rathayatraas....
Press the like button even before you watch. 😀
Can you please tell us what happened to Radha rani after her meeting with Krishna at Kurukshetra. How she died? How and where she spends her last days? How was her life with abhimanyu? Did she have any children? Did Abhimanyu give her permission to come and meet Krishna at Kurukshetra? These questions smothering me in the vortex of doubt and I wish you or any wise devotee can answer convincingly.
Radhakrishna leelas happen on a highly transcendental level. Abhimanyu was a ln expansion. of krishna only and just to increase the taste that shadow of krishna mariied Radha.
after meeting of krishna she returned to braj and after some years when krishna ended his pastimes an aeroplane from golok came and carried all the brajwasi back
Abhimanyu never associated with Radha because he always went to Mathura for his jobs in Kans army. zthey always had a professional and distanced relations
No children Of Radharani she was always a 14 year old little girl
Hare Krishna Prabhu Ji.....Can you please share the link of the kirtan which is being played in the beginning of the lecture
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Nice class can you give us the class about Gopi geet? Please forgive me for that, pranam prabhuji, thanks 🙏🙏
CCM 13.137 = sb 10.83 .48
Does anybody have the bhajan that plays in the intro part of all videos on this channel. 🙏
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Please help me to get the starting Song.. Please please
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