Guru Charitra

This Satsang covers the discourses on the Guru Charitra Chapters titled – 38 Miracle of the Poor Brahmin’s Samaradhana*, 39 Aswatha Vrata Mahima and 40 Dead Wood Grows into Tree by Guru’s Grace by Master KrsnaKnows. Chapter 38: Miracle of the Poor Brahmin’s Samaradhana* This chapter describes how Guru Nath made the food prepared for a couple of persons akshaya and made it suffice for a large Samaradhana, for thousands of people to be fed sumptuously. Chapter 39: Aswatha Vrata Mahima This chapter describes the birth of children to a barren woman past her sixties, as a result of Guru Nath’s blessings. Chapter 40: Dead Wood Grows into Tree by Guru’s Grace This chapter describes the miracle of fresh leaves sprouting out of a piece of dead wood and the cure of leprosy of a Brahmin by name Narahari, by the grace of Guru Nath. Guru Nath gives the illustration of the forest couple and narrates how their steadfast faith was rewarded. #KrsnaKnows #KrsnaGuru #KrsnaTeachings #GuruCharitra For More>> Podcast  : https://goo.gl/LaTbQ4 Youtube: https://goo.gl/evCwyF https://youtu.be/RnApG98I_PU

This Satsang covers the discourses on the Guru Charitra Chapters titled – 36 Achara Dharma* & 37 Grihasta Dharma by Master KrsnaKnows. Chapter  36: Achara Dharma* This chapter describes the plight of the Brahmin woman who went for parannabhojana. Guru Nath explains to the Brahmin woman and her husband some of the Vedic injuctions. Chapter 37: Grihasta Dharma This chapter describes the religious duties incumbent on a Grihasta. #KrsnaKnows #KrsnaGuru #KrsnaTeachings #GuruCharitra For More>> Podcast  : https://goo.gl/LaTbQ4 Youtube: https://goo.gl/evCwyF https://youtu.be/W8BCT3u3vXM

This Satsang covers the discourses on the Guru Charitra Chapters titled – 33 Rudraksha Mahima, 34 Rudrabhisheka Mahima and 35 Somavara Vrata Mahima by Master KrsnaKnows. Chapter 33: Rudraksha Mahima In this chapter describes Rudraksha Mahima and illustrates upon the merit earned by those who wear rudrakshas on their bodies. Chapter 34: Rudrabhisheka Mahima This chapter refers to the Rudradhyana and Rudrabhisheka Mahima and the story of the prince who died at a very young age but got back his life again. Chapter 35: Somavara Vrata Mahima     This chapter narrates about the Somavara Vrata mahima and the story of Princess Simantini. It also tells how the mantras forfeit their potency if they are made overt, and that for a woman the Vratas are far more bebeficial than the Mantras. #KrsnaKnows #KrsnaGuru #KrsnaTeachings #GuruCharitra For More>> Podcast  : https://goo.gl/LaTbQ4 Youtube: https://goo.gl/evCwyF https://youtu.be/2vzDvSN9x0s

This Satsang covers the discourses on the Guru Charitra Chapters titled – 29 Significance and Power of Vibhuti, 30 Vairagyabodha*, 31 Supreme Power of Chastity and 32 Triumph over Death with Guru’s Grace by Master KrsnaKnows. Chapter 29: Significance and Power of Vibhuti In this chapter the great power of the holy ashes is further explained. The mere touch of holy ash on the body of Sage Vamadeva, the Maha Rakshasa, got him liberated. Chapter 30: Vairagyabodha* This chapter describes the story of the young woman Savitri and the death of her sick husband whom she brought all the way from her far away home, for Guru Nath’s darshan with great hopes of his recovery. Chapter 31: Supreme Power of Chastity This chapter deals with Pativrata dharma, the duties and disciplines for a married woman. Chapter 32: Triumph over Death with Guru’s Grace This chapter describes how Savitri husband regained his life by Guru Nath’s grace. #KrsnaKnows #KrsnaGuru #KrsnaTeachings #GuruCharitra For More>> Podcast  : https://goo.gl/LaTbQ4 Youtube: https://goo.gl/evCwyF https://youtu.be/iXVkOlNkcmU

This Satsang covers the discourses on the Guru Charitra Chapters titled – 28 Actions and Consequences( Law of Cause and Effect) by Master KrsnaKnows. Chapter 28: Actions and Consequences( Law of Cause and Effect) This chapter* narrates the story of the Harijan-turned Brahmin who was first unwilling to go back to his home but soon sank back into delusion again, when the holy ash(bhasma) was washed off his body. He went back home along with his wife and children merrily, forgetting all that had happened just a little earlier. #KrsnaKnows #KrsnaGuru #KrsnaTeachings #GuruCharitra For More>> Podcast  : https://goo.gl/LaTbQ4 Youtube: https://goo.gl/evCwyF https://youtu.be/L1_3KeqVkvA

This Satsang covers the discourses on the Guru Charitra Chapters titled – 25 Pride of the Foolish Pandits, 26 Infinite Glory of the Vedas and Their True Purpose and 27 Humbling the Pride of the Pandits by Master KrsnaKnows. Chapter 25: Pride of the Foolish Pandits* This chapter describes how two boastful Brahmins who, so to say, were trading in the Vedas, were brought by Trivikrama Bharati before Guru Nath. This chapter commences the karma Kanda section of Sri Guru Charitra. Chapter 26: Infinite Glory of the Vedas and Their True Purpose This chapter Sri Narasimha Saraswati explaining to the two vain-glorious pandits about the sanctity of Vedic lore and that Vedas are not meant for vada and polemics. Vedas are verily the mother; they are to be treated with reverence and veneration. They are meant to illumine our intellect and to help us discover our true self, and are not intended for bartering them for self-aggrandisement. They are not for jeevanopadhi but for Jeevana-Paramavadhi. They are meant for Bhakti and Mukti and not for Bhukti. They are meant for nurturing and enriching the spirit but not for filling and pampering one’s being. Chapter 27: Humbling the Pride of the Pandits This chapter describes how the two vain-glorious pandits were humbled, and had brought upon themselves a curse which turned them into Bramha Rakshasas. #KrsnaKnows #KrsnaGuru #KrsnaTeachings #GuruCharitra For More>> Podcast : https://goo.gl/LaTbQ4 Youtube: https://goo.gl/evCwyF https://youtu.be/Qklg844tpPU

This Satsang covers the discourses on the Guru Charitra Chapters titled – 23 Bramha Rakshasa Attains Liberation by Guru’s Grace & 24 Sri Narasimha Saraswati’s Viswarupa Darshan by Master KrsnaKnows. Chapter 23: Bramha Rakshasa Attains Liberation by Guru’s Grace* This chapter describes Guru Nath’s settling down at Gangapur Math at the request of the King of that place. Guru Nath blesses a Bramha Rakshasa and rstores it to human form and grants him Sadgathi. Chapter 24: Sri Narasimha Saraswati’s Viswarupa Darshan This chapter describes Guru Nath vouchsafing Viswarupa darshan to Trivikrama Bharati. Trivikrama Bharati is taken to the very threshold of Jnana and he is able to gain a glimpse of the all-pervading divinity. ‘One sees the Self in all and all in the Self’ in the state of Jnana. #KrsnaKnows #KrsnaGuru #KrsnaTeachings #GuruCharitra For More>> Podcast : https://goo.gl/LaTbQ4 Youtube: https://goo.gl/evCwyF https://youtu.be/PVjKWNxZLZs

This Satsang covers the discourses on the Guru Charitra Chapters titled – 21 Gurusthan Mahima & 22 Guru Nath’s Advent at Ganagapur by Master KrsnaKnows. Chapter 21: Gurusthan Mahima This chapter describes how Sri Guru Nath, moved by pity at the sorrow of the woman, brings back the dead child to life. Chapter 22: Guru Nath’s Advent at Gangapur* From this chapter onwards begins the glorious sage of Gangapur. It begins with the narrative of Guru Nath making the old, dry buffalo yielding milk copiously and thus relieving the poverty of a Brahmin couple of a Gangapur. Implicit obedience of the Guru, and unquestioning faith in his words are needed both in worldly matters as well as in Spiritual Sadhana. There is nothing that cannot be achieved. ‘Sraddhaavaan Iabhate Jnanam,’ says the Bhagwad Gita. #KrsnaKnows #KrsnaGuru #KrsnaTeachings #GuruCharitra For More>> Podcast : https://goo.gl/LaTbQ4 Youtube: https://goo.gl/evCwyF https://youtu.be/xLcxZjbIHvU

This Satsang covers the discourses on the Guru Charitra Chapters titled – 18 Poor Brahmin Finds Treasure, 19 Guru Nath’s Grace on the Yogini – Ganas and 20 Guru Nath’s Blessings on the Brahmin’s Wife by Master KrsnaKnows. Chapter 18: Poor Brahmin Finds Trasure* This chapter describes how Guru Nath comes to the Panchaganga Kshetra, the holy confluence of the Panchaganga and River Krishna, near Amarapur. Guru Nath relieves the poverty of a Brahmin of Amarapur by making him discover a treasure pot in his own yard. Chapter 19: Guru Nath’s Grace on the Yogini-Ganas This chapter describes the Audambar Vriksha Mahima. It also narrates about the special worship which was being done by the Yogini-Ganas to Guru Nath every day. Guru Nath shows Prayaga, Kasi and Gaya to Ganganuja and makes him complete the whole pilgrimage within just a single day. Sri Narasimha Saraswati later announces that he was leaving from there. He comforts the Yogini-Ganas that he would continue to be present there only in his subtle form(grace body) and will be answering the prayers of all his devotees. Chapter 20: Guru Nath’s Blessings on the Brahmin’s Wife The chapter describes that even after Guru Nath left the Panchaganga Kshetra(Narsobowadi), his padukas which had been left under the Audamber Tree continued to respond to the prayers of devotees as per the assurance given to the Yogini-Ganas by Guru Nath. A woman was freed from a Bramha Rakshasa, who had caused death to all five children born to her. With the grace of Guru Nath, two sons were born to her again. But one of the sons, just when the parents were planning to do his Upanayana ceremony, dies. Guru Nath in the guise of a yogi, appears before her and imparts philosophical teaching about the inevitability of death. He tries to reconcile her with the event, but the woman remains inconsolable. #KrsnaKnows #KrsnaGuru #KrsnaTeachings #GuruCharitra For More>> Podcast : https://goo.gl/LaTbQ4 Youtube: https://goo.gl/evCwyF https://youtu.be/2o1EBSuotAk

This Satsang covers the discourses on the Guru Charitra Chapters titled – 16 Fruits of Devotion to the Guru & 17 Metamorphosis of the Blockheaded Youth by Master KrsnaKnows. Chapter 16: Fruits of Devotion to the Guru In this chapter, Guru Nath narrates to a Brahmin about the necessity of single-pointed devotion to the Guru and the merit of Guru Seva, by way of illustration of the anecdote of Dhaumaya Rishi and his disciples namely Aruni, Baid and Upamanyu. Unless the Guru is pleased, the doors of knowledge will not be opened to the student/aspirant. Guru Nath now comes to Bhillawadi (Bhuvaneswari Kshetra) on the eastern bank of River Krishna. He stays there for four months(Chaturmasya – four months of the monsoon season), under the Audambar tree on the western side of River Krishna Chapter 17: Metamorphosis of the Blockheaded Youth This chapter describes how Guru Nath transforms a blockheaded Brahmin youth into a great pandit, who was directed to him by Goddess Bhuvaneswari Devi herself. #KrsnaKnows #KrsnaGuru #KrsnaTeachings #GuruCharitra Fort More>> Podcast : https://goo.gl/LaTbQ4 Youtube: https://goo.gl/evCwyF https://youtu.be/26gguh-A76M

This Satsang covers the discourses on the Guru Charitra Chapters titled – 15 Holy Places of Bharat by Master KrsnaKnows. Chapter 15: Holy Places of Bharat In this chapter Guru nath’s instruction to his disciples regarding the merits of doing pilgrimages and the places which they should unfailingly visit is described. After sending most of his disciples on pilgrimage,  Guru Nath lives in seclusion (invisible to others) at Vaijnath. The Siddha Yogi was the only disciple who was retained by Guru Nath with him at Vaijnath. (The mere study of his chapter with faith and devotion, is believed to confer on the reader the very merit of doing the pilgrimages himself. #KrsnaKnows #KrsnaGuru #KrsnaTeachings #GuruCharitra For More>> Podcast  : https://goo.gl/LaTbQ4 Youtube: https://goo.gl/evCwyF https://youtu.be/1hwf5T1oDWo

This Satsang covers the discourses on the Guru Charitra Chapters titled – 13 Narasimha Saraswati’s Healing Touch & 14 Sri Narasimha Saraswati Rescues Sayamdeo by Master KrsnaKnows. Chapter 13: Narasimha Saraswati’s Healing Touch This chapter describes the visit of Guru Nath along with his disciples to his parents at Karanjapuri. From there he again sets out on his itinerary. At Vasar Brahmeshwar,  Guru Nath cures the chronic stomach –ulcer of a Brahmin, who was about to kill himself, being unable to bear the excruciating pain of the ulcer. Chapter 14: Sri Narasimha Saraswati Rescues Sayamdeo This chapter narrates how Sayamdeo, the village-officer of Vasar Brahmeswara, was protected by Guru Nath from being killed by the Muslim Nawab. #KrsnaKnows #KrsnaGuru #KrsnaTeachings #GuruCharitra For More>> Podcast  : https://goo.gl/LaTbQ4 Youtube: https://goo.gl/evCwyF https://youtu.be/G-s0S9vGI8E

This Satsang covers the discourses on the Guru Charitra Chapters titled – 11 Birth of Sri Narasimha Saraswati & 12 Narahari Taking to Sanyasa by Master KrsnaKnows. Chapter 11: Birth of Sri Narasimha Saraswati This chapter describes the advent of Sri Narasimha Saraswati. He was born as a son of Amba in Karanjapuri as per the promise made to her in her previous life by Sripada Sri vallabha. At birth, he could chant the Omkar. He was otherwise ‘dumb’ till his Upanayana was performed. After Upanayana, he bursts into the recital of Vedic mantras and begins to glow with knowledge and wisdom. Chapter 12: Narahari Taking to Sanyasa In this chapter Narahari, Amba’s son, gives spiritual instruction to his mother; he blesses her that she would have two more sons within a year, and one more son and daughter later. After the birth of the two sons(twins), Narahari leaves home for Kasi. He was hardly nine years old at that time. At Kasi, he took initiation into Sanyasasrama from Krishna Saraswati and took the name of Narasimha Saraswati.  After that he went to Badarikasrama and visited many holy places. #KrsnaKnows #KrsnaGuru #KrsnaTeachings #GuruCharitra For More>> Podcast  : https://goo.gl/LaTbQ4 Youtube: https://goo.gl/evCwyF https://youtu.be/K3gK-N4bjr0

This Satsang covers the discourses on the Guru Charitra Chapters titled – 08 Sani Pradosha Vrata Mahatmya, 09 Sripada Sri Vallabha Blesses the Washer – man and 10 Sripada Sri Vallabha’s Blessings after His Mahaprasthan by Master KrsnaKnows. Chapter 08: Sani Pradosha Vrata Mahatmya In this chapter, Sripada Sri Vallabha teaches about the Sani Pradosha Puja Mahima to Ambika, who in a state of desperation, came to the river with the intention of drowning herself along with her blockheaded son. He narrates how a shepherd-woman was born as Yasoda in her next life through the merit earned by her  by merely watching the Sani Pradosha Puja, and becoming the (foster) mother of Lord Sri Krsna. Sripada Sri Vallabha also blessed the blockheaded son of Ambika and endowed him with all shastric knowledge and wisdom. In this chapter is also described the emergence of the Mahakaleswar Jyotirlinga as a result of the Sani Pradosha Puja done with deep devotion by the shephered-boy. Chapter 09: Sripada Sri Vallabha Blesses the Washer-man In this chapter, Sripada Sri Vallabha gives a boon to his devotee, a rajak, that he would be born in a Nawab family and would be a ruler in his next birth and would also have his darshan but in his new avatar(i.e., when he would reappear as Sri Narasimha Saraswati). Chapter 10: Sripada Sri Vallabha’s Blessings after His Mahaprasthan* In this chapter, an account is given of how Sripada Sri Vallabha, even after the withdrawal of his avatar(i.e., even after Mahaprasthan), continues to manifest and shower his grace on his devotees. An illustration is given how Sripada Sri Vallbha protected a Brahmin devotee by bringing him back to life after he was killed by dacoits. The same grace continues to be showered even now, on whosever seeks it. #KrsnaKnows #KrsnaGuru #KrsnaTeachings #GuruCharitra For More>> Podcast  : https://goo.gl/LaTbQ4 Youtube: https://goo.gl/evCwyF

This Satsang covers the discourses on the Guru Charitra Chapters titled –  Ch 07 Gokarna Sthala Mahatmaya by Master KrsnaKnows. Chapter 07: Gokarna Sthala Mahatmaya This chapter describes the Gokarna Kshetra Mahatmaya. Gokarna had so much sanctity that Sripada Sri Vallabha chose to visit and spend some years there. A visit to this holy place burns off all sins however much grievous they be and earns for the person Kailasha-pada. Gautama Rishi narrates to King Mitrasahu who was under a curse, how a Chandala woman, with sins galore on her head, earns Kailasha-pada  by the mere coincidence of her dying at the holy Gokarna. #KrsnaKnows #KrsnaGuru #KrsnaTeachings #GuruCharitra For More>> Podcast  : https://goo.gl/LaTbQ4 Youtube: https://goo.gl/evCwyF