From: Radhakund Gopalji <radhakundgopalji@gmail.com> Hare Krishna 5th Tirobhava Mahotsava H.H.Srila Sripada Bhaktisvarupa Damodara Swami Maharaj Sri Gopalji Mandir , Radhakund, U.P. India Request for sponsorship Dear Maharajas, devotees, friends and well-wishers, We offer our most humble and sincere dandavat pranam. All glories to Srila Sripada and Srila Prabhupada. All glories to Sri Gopalji, [...]
by Jayadvaita Swami www.jswami.info Now that “our scientist,” Sripada Bhaktisvarupa Damodara Maharaja, has departed from our worldly vision, we have lost a unique and beloved member of the spiritual world in which we grew up and lived, the world of Srila Prabhupada’s pastimes on earth, and the world in which the disciples he personally instructed [...]
By Kṛṣṇābhiṣeka Dāsa My Dear Mahārāja, Danḍavat. All glories to Your Divine Grace. Jaya Śrīla Prabhupāda. Although I have met your several times until March 2006, I have never written any letter to you. I hope and pray that you will accept this posthumous offering at your lotus feet. As I sat for my work [...]
By HH Giriraj Swami October 8, 2006 Carpinteria, CA USA My dear Maharaja, Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. We are missing you terribly today, after your sudden departure from this realm of mortality to the service of Srila Prabhupada in eternity. My thoughts turn to my earliest association with you. [...]
by HH Hridayananda das Goswami (The following is a letter read to the devotees at ISKCON Atlanta’s memorial service for HH Bhakti Svarupa Damodara Swami’s from our GBC, HH Hridayananda das Goswami. HDG letter captures the mood of the devotees in Atlanta ISKCON. Atlanta was particularly dear to Bhaktisvarupa Damodara Swami because he began the [...]
by dr. Putu Benny (Dasan Rangaraja) om ajnana-timirandhasya jnananjana salakaya caksur unmilitam yena tasmai sri gurave namah namah om vishnupadaya krishna-presthaya bhu-tale srimate bhaktisvarupa damodara svamin iti namine namah sad-bhakta-manaye manipura-udbhavaya ca prabhupada lasad-vani pracara niratayate babhruvahana-vamsadbhi somaya subha drstye sunyavadi madebhendra singhaya bhagavata namah abhayadi gunadaya sad-vijnana ghanaya ca navya vaijnana tamas suryaya te [...]
by Ekalavya das Dear Maharaja, Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. All glories to your on this most auspicious day of your Vyasapuja. I remember Gurumaharaja inviting me to Manipur when I was in Mayapur with him. He very much appreciated my trumpet playing in the kirtan. One year I was [...]
by Rev. Canon Charles P. Gibbs, Executive Director of URI’s (Sent By gopijana of www.Mayapur.com on Mon, 2009-09-28 17:33. Today is HH Bhaktisvarupa Damodara Maharaja’s disapperance day.Maharaja is a dear most disciple of Srila Prabhupada. It was Maharaja’s desire to have URI (United Religious Initiative)Global Assembly in Mayapur.Honouring Maharaja’s desire, URI Global Assembly 2008 took [...]
By Visuddha-sattva Prabhu (Visuddha-sattva Prabhu who was working with Bhaktisvarupa Damodara Maharaja since about 1980 on the scientific preaching, particularly in pursuance of the instructions Prabhupada gave to Bhaktisvarupa Damodara Maharaja to gather up all our PhDs and present the Vedic Planetarium.) Visuddha-sattva Prabhu: It is my honor to say a few words about my [...]
by Hrdayananda Dasa Goswami Hrdayananda Goswami: Hare Krsna. I spent a good deal of time with Bhaktisvarupa Damodara in Los Angeles when he, I think not too long after, he began visiting the temple and taking those famous walks with Srila Prabhupada. I was present so I was on many of those walks. Of course, [...]
Sesa Prabhu: I take it as a very great honor that I can sit before you today to speak a little bit about His Holiness Bhaktisvarupa Damodara Swami. As I do so, I remember my godbrother, His Grace Bhojadeva Prabhu. I want to mention his name because he was actually our godbrother, Srila Prabhupada’s disciples’ [...]
by Devarsi Das Devarsi Prabhu: So my name is Devarsi Das. I received initiation from Srila Bhaktisvarupa Damodara Maharaja in 1992 in New Mayapur in France. The day that he gave me initiation, it was re-initiation for me, I asked him to come to the Padayatra in south of France. He accepted. Two-three days after, [...]
remembrance by His Holiness Srila Jayapataka Swami Jayapataka Swami: Every year, at the New Panihati festival in Atlanta, we have a Prabhupada lila-smarana festival of his visit there. Svarupa Damodara Maharaja was there when Prabhupada was there and he would come to this lila-smarana festival. So we heard from different devotees also how much Prabhupada [...]
by Dasan Rangaraja (1) ananda-sac-cid-baladeva-murttih brahmanda-sammandita-suddha-kirttih samsara-sindhuttaranaika-potah pasyema kim tam srimad sripada-padam? His blissful, eternal and cognizant form is the embodiment of Sri Baladeva, the akhanda-guru-tattva. His immaculate supra-mundane fame has adorned the universe, and he is the boat to deliver all living beings from samsara, the ocean of material existence. Will I ever again [...]
Oleh Dasan Rangarajan om ajnana-timirandhasya jnananjana salakaya caksur unmilitam yena tasmai sri gurave namah Hamba bersujud dengan hormat kepada Sang Guru Kerohanian, yang telah membuka mata hamba yang sudah dibutakan oleh kelamnya kebodohan, dengan pelita ilmu pengetahuan. nama om vishnupadaya krishna-presthaya bhu-tale srimate bhaktisvarupa damodara svamin iti namine Hamba bersujud dengan hormat kepada Sri Srimad [...]
