20260123 Śrī Caitanya-śikṣāmṛta

His Grace Puṣṭa-gaura dāsa has come with sixty devotees from Dvārakā, Delhi.

Jayapatākā Swami: So welcome to Navadvīpa Dhāma. Svāgatam! Rādhārāṇī played on the flute. She made this holy dhāma of Navadvīpa! Like a lotus with eight petals. And there are nine practices of devotional service. The center and eight petals around, so nine. So Kṛṣṇa was very grateful. He told Rādhārāṇī that all the holy places will come here just like Vṛndāvana. So we have tīrthas like Puṣkara-tīrtha, Hari-Hara Kṣetra and also some places which they do not have in Vṛndāvana. Like Surabhi-kuñja. Any service you do here you get a thousand times benefit. But the offences would not get a thousand times multiplied like in Vṛndāvana. Here Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa combined appear as Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu. So, Lord Caitanya is a channa-avatāra He did not reveal Himself as the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Like Kṛṣṇa lifted the Govardhana Hill and was not hiding that He was the Supreme Person.

January 26^th is the special day of India! Republic Day! Somehow I thought today was 25^th! Three days more.