Advaita Acharyas Loud Cries Saved Us Jaya jaya sri-caitanya jaya nityananda jayadvaita-candra jaya gaura-bhakta-vrnda Yesterday Thousands of devotees gathered in Sri Mayapur Dham Chandrodaya Mandir to celebrate the appearance day of Sri Advaita Acarya. Devotees chanted loudly the Holy Names of the Lord for 12 hours and Beautiful Abhishek was done while eager hearts waited to get the Mercy in the form of Maha Carinamrta. Advaita Acarya Prabhu was an ideal householder. He had read in the scriptures that the Lord sells Himself to a devotee who offers Him a Tulasi leaf and a palmful of water. As a grhastha brahmana, He worshipped a salagrama-sila at home. Therefore, He specifically began to worship Salagrama with Ganges water and Tulasi leaves with the aim of bringing about Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu’s descent. The Caitanya-caritamrta describes Sri Advaita Acarya’s appeal to Lord Krsna to appear again on earth. He cried with such intensity that the sound traveled throughout the entire universe and ultimately reached Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu. Because of the loud cries of Sri Advaita Acarya, Mahaprabhu did indeed descend, appearing in Navadvipa. Thus the Lord came at the request of Advaita Acarya, His pure devotee, to reclaim the fallen souls. What was the method by which He reclaimed them? The method was hari-nama- sankirtana, or the chanting of the holy names of the Lord. And so, in response to Advaita Acarya’s cries, the Lord appeared in Navadvipa Thus, we all have been blessed by the mercy of Advaita Acarya, directly and indirectly. We should take advantage of His mercy, and the mercy He caused to descend from the spiritual world for us. We should serve Him with great love and affection. Haribol, Haribol!
Posted on: Tue, 27 Jan 2015 01:12:03 +0000