SRI KRISHNA CHAITANYA ANTARANG RAS ASWADAN MANDIR is the FIRST BonafideGaudiyaVaisnavism- Ragamarga Preaching Movement in the history of mankind, having an unbroken Parampara (Lineage) coming directly from SrimanGaurangaMahaprabhu.
Sri SriShachinandanJi Maharaja is the Divine Messenger, Truth and Wisdom Personified and the Torch-Bearer to the entire humanity.
His Appearance and Initiation-
SriSriShachinandanJi Maharaja gifted this mortal world with His Appearance on 10th February in 1977 in New Delhi, India.
Sri Gurudeva always had an ardent spark of acquiring knowledge about Absolute truth and a natural inclination towards reading Scriptures. It is very common to find Him spending 8-10 hours at a stretch, associating with the Scriptures. Sri Gurudeva remains in His room for days and days, sometimes for months at a stretch, without meeting anyone. Just sitting at one place for such a long duration is next to impossible for any ordinary person, while composed at one place. It really requires a very high level of purity to practice this.
In mid 1990s, Sri Gurudeva got associated with a renowned spiritual society based on spreading Krishna Consciousness. SriGurudeva, from delivering Lectures to personally talking on one to one basis, from giving after-Lecture Counselling (s) to regularly following them up, did anything and everything while selflessly rendering this humble service of making people, devotees. And thus the temple became one of the most active preaching centers of Vedic Education and Culture, in whole world, taking care of thousands of devotees connected to the temple.
The milestones in the Temple History – formation of Congregation Groups, boys’ group, girls’ group – were laid down by SriGurudeva’s strenuous Efforts. Thus, mere a Temple building (where no one used to come) became an eminent platform for the spiritual development ofdevotees – girls, boys, married couples and everyone could grow there individually and flourish together as a family.
But as the saying goes- “Whatever happens, happens by the Divine Will of The Lord”, the time had come for a Renaissance. Certain facts of the institution were revealed, which were being practiced without any scriptural basis. Moreover, it did not commensurate to fulfil for what SrimanGaurangaMahaprabhu had especially descended, to bestow to all the people of this Kaliyuga. SriGurudeva remained undeterred and principled for the path of pure devotion as He, along with other few devotees left the institution , the opulence , lavish culture , only and only to attain The Highest- The ManjariBhava.
SriGurudeva associated with Sri SriAnanta DasaBabaji Maharaja’s Granthas (Babaji is widely recognized as the foremost teacher of GaudiyaVaisnava Tradition)- for about a year, even before He got His Darsana. Finally, on AksayaTrtya of 2009 Sri Gurudeva took initiation from Him at Sri Radhakunda.
This marked for a new beginning, the Beginning of the Era which would change the entire humanity forever. That would submerge and drench the humanity/mankind, into the Ocean of Selfless Reciprocated Love.
The True Acharya–
Sri Gurudeva’s uncompromising Approach to the Principles of Devotion, Purity and extraordinary Saintly qualities were exemplified as SriGurudeva remained composed and unflinching for The Truth even in the face of adverse circumstances.
Sri Gurudeva is the true GaudiyaAcharya. He is the 17th Guru, in an unbroken bonafidelineage, belonging to Lord Nityananda, Ma JahnavaParivara, which is coming directly from SrimanGaurangaMahaprabhu, and is carrying on the rich traditions of the previous Acharyas in worshipping Sri SriRadha-Madhava in the mood of a manjari, the dearmost friend and servant of SrimatiRadharani. SriGurudeva is passing on the same to the next generation of disciples, thus bestowing upon them the greatest boon which SrimanMahaprabhu Himself came to give to the fallen jivas of this very special Kaliyuga. This particular type of mood/bhava of worship is called manjaribhava, and is the highest relishment to which ajiva can ever ascend to, in both the spiritual as well as the material world… there is NOTHING higher than this(Bhava).
The True Disciple –
SriGurudeva is the living example of SrilaVisvanathaCakravartipada’s, (a leading Acharya) saying- “Spiritual Master’s Instruction should be my life and soul.” After Initiation, SriGurudeva had thought of living a life of solitude and settling down in Sri Radhakunda for bhajana. But His Guru Nistha, a single Instruction of His Spiritual Master, Sri Sri Ananta DasaBabaji Maharaja, brought 360 degrees change in SriGurudeva’s Life.
In 2009 itself, on the TirobhavaUtsava, the Disappearance Day of His ParamaGurudeva, Sri SriKunja Bihari DasaBabaji Maharaja, (the Spiritual Master of Sri Sri Ananta DasaBabaji Maharaja), Sri Sri Ananta DasaBabaji Maharaja Instructed Him in an assembly of devotees- “O Shachinandan! Distribute my Granthas all over, even after my departure.”
Without even any mental ‘if’ or ‘but’, SriGurudeva humbly agreed. He dropped His own inner desire to lead a life of solitude and started making preparations to fulfil the desire of His Gurudeva. Then, His Gurudeva Instructed Him for Temple construction in Delhi, about the Deities, guided about location of Temple etc.
Fulfilling His Guruji’s Desire, “jiva- kalyana hetu” (for the welfare of all jivas), SriGurudeva laid down the foundation of first KARM Mandira in New Delhi, capital of India with the Blessings of His Spiritual Master, Sri Sri Ananta DasaBabaji Maharaja. KARM is actually an offering of a True Disciple unto the LotusFeet of His Spiritual Master. Sri Gurudeva is also writing Granthas for all walks of people, so as to realize the dreams of His Spiritual Master turn into reality, at the earliest.
His Wisdom: through Unheard Lectures, Granthas-
It is stated in Mahabharata- “Life is useless without Dharma/Bhagavata.” And to understand The Scripture Bhagvata, one needs Living Bhagvata. In other words, Scriptures cannot be understood without the One who is actually living Scriptural Teachings. SriGurudeva personifies this (Scriptural Teachings). Infact, there is nothing as pure as the Real Knowledge, and SriGurudeva is bestowing it on upon all.
From a long time, with His unalloyed and unflinching faith on Rasa Sastras, “SastriyeSraddha”, Sri Gurudeva, being “sabda brahma and parabrahmanisnat” (insert inverted comma), has been inculcating the same faith in the devotees through numerous unheard Spiritual Discourses. These are not only confined to elaborating on Bhagavad Gita, SrimadBhagavatam slokas, but extend to the teachings of GaudiyaVaisnavism, subtle topics. They unravel the mysteries of the Scriptures like the Vedas, Upanisads, Bhagavad Gita, Bhagavatam, Gaudiya literatures and many others, thus providing Spiritual solutions to all the problems of life and befitting them to be called as ANANDA SUTRAS. SriGurudeva’sUnparalleled and Unprecedented ANANDA SUTRAS are straight forward and uncompromising in bringing forth the truth and pierces through the layers of contaminated consciousness of various births.
Whosoever hears these Ananda Sutras, though not live and even from far a distance cannot help being attracted to the profound wisdom and simplified understanding inherent in them, and desires to hear them again and again. SriGurudeva makes the deepest scriptural truths accessible to everyone in the simplest language, enabling aspiring sadhaka to blossom spiritually very quickly. SriGurudeva is divine in every aspect. His words are just not mere words. It is SriGurudeva’s self-realized knowledge. They are mercy-laden and full of mercy.
His Ecstatic Kirtana carries Love for The Lord. It directly touches the heart arousing from deep within the pure consciousness of The Lord and servitude to Him.
As it is well known that it is difficult…rather impossible for a Ph. D qualified person to teach ABC to a nursery student…but for the really Compassionate and Affectionate “su-snigdhamehtar” like SriGurudeva, it is very natural to revive the natural consciousness of eternally krishna-bahirmukhajiva by infusing the stream of selfless loving service into the devotees under His shelter. This humble service of SriGurudeva has not been confined to a particular section of people but He has been nurturing all- brahmacaris and sannyasis, girls and boys, married and unmarried- everyone by enriching them with the Essence of Scriptures, clarifying all their doubts, guiding them individually and constantly inspiring/ encouraging them, SriGurudeva is thereby uplifting them spiritually. It has not only been the Knowledge enriched with profound wisdom and enlightenment, but the Selflessness and the Purity of SriGurudeva which always attracts one and all!
Very soon the Supremely Pure, the Real Knowledge will be delivered by SriGurudeva through the Books, thereby enlightening the humanity and uprooting their darkness of ignorance forever!!
His Vision: Selfless Loving Culture-
In the present age of Kaliyuga ‘The age of quarrels’, it is next to impossible to find people from different walks of life, of different ages and having no blood relation being happily unified under one shelter. But through KARM, SriGurudeva has turned this into a reality by establishing a culture of selflessness built on a steady foundation of bonafide Scriptural Injunctions.
Bhakti is generally considered to be full of austerities, penances and sacrifices. But under SriGurudeva’s Divine Shelter, it becomes so spontaneous and effortless.
SriGurudeva is not only bestowing Spiritual Teachings but also giving the Environment for everyone to learn, the platform to practice and the much needed aspiration to grow. Many devotees from different parts of the world have also taken Shelter. Birthdays, Anniversaries find new meanings. They are taken up as the opportunities to develop deep loving relationships through serving devotees.
SrilaRupaGoswami’s Teachings are preached in many spiritual societies, but is practiced to the highest limit on planet earth in KARM as foremost priority by all devotees.
These teachings are given to all those who are Rupanugas (in allegiance of Sri RupaGoswami) but its real essence gets revealed only to the devotees who receive the benediction of SriGurudeva Association.
Through SriGurudeva’s own conduct, one can learn how to remain immersed in the flavours of devotional service following these six priti laksana, guhyam akhyatipacchati in particular, and thus to remain in the realm of ecstasy day and night, relishing Lord’s sweetness. Exchange of gifts, serving and accepting Prasada is a tradition of KARM Devotees.
His Directive: ‘Love all, Respect all, Serve all’-
SriGurudeva believes in loving all, respecting all and serving all living entities. Whoever gets the opportunity to have Sri Gurudeva’sDarsana even once, can feel His charismatic effulgence and magnetic attraction. It is said- ‘The highest expression of happiness is love, and the highest expression of love is to take living entities closer to The Lord’. Through KARM, SriGurudeva is not only bringing everyone closer to The Lord, but also enabling all to enter into the innermost chamber ( Nivrita-Nikunja) of The Lord as a dear manjari, in this life only!
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