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Appearance of Srila Madhvendra Puri<\/p>\n
\u201cSri Madhavendra Puri, a great devotee and acarya in the line of devotees, says, \u2018O Lord, in my prayers three times a day, all glory to You. O Bathing, I offer my obeisances unto You. O demigods, O forefathers, please excuse me for my inability to offer you my respects. Now wherever I sit I am able to remember the great descendant of the Yadu dynasty, Krsna, the enemy of Kamsa, and therefore I can get myself free from all sinful bondage. I think this is sufficient for me.\u2019 \u201d
\nPrabhupada: This is a prayer by Madhavendra Puri. He says that \u201cI am not going to do anything except serving Krsna.\u201d
\n>>> Ref. VedaBase => Bhagavad-gita 2.46\u201362 \u2013 December 16, 1968, Los Angeles<\/p>\n
The whole thing is that Sridhara Svami is giving stress very strongly that you can simply chant Hare Krsna mantra without undergoing any ritualistic ceremonies. Actually it is very difficult to understand. Madhavendra Puri, our predecessor acarya, he also has composed a nice verse. He says, \u201cMy dear gayatri-mantra, I offer you my respect, but no more I can chant gayatri-mantra.\u201d In this way\u2026 Taking bath early in the morning, that\u2019s a good recommendation for spiritual advancement. But Madhavendra Puri said, \u201cNow I am unable to execute this order. Please excuse me.\u201d In this way he has described in many ways. At last, he concludes that \u201cI shall sit down somewhere underneath a tree and simply remember Govinda\u2019s name. That is sufficient. Yes.\u201d He says, \u201cPlease excuse me, please excuse me, please excuse me.”But this Madhavendra\u2019s statement is not for the neophyte devotees. We should not imitate Madhavendra Puri. So the position of Madhavendra Puri, the position of Haridasa Thakura, they are different from our position. We should not imitate, that “Because Madhavendra Puri gave up everything and simply concentrated his mind in chanting maha-mantra, Hare Krsna, or Haridasa Thakura, therefore I shall also do that. I shall not rise early in the morning. I shall not take bath. I shall not worship the Deity. That is not possible. That is not possible.
\n>>> Ref. VedaBase => Srimad-Bhagavatam 6.3.25\u201326 \u2013 February 18, 1971, Gorakhpur<\/p>\n
\u015ar\u012b M\u0101dhavendra Pur\u012b was going from this V\u1e5bnd\u0101vana. Perhaps you do not know the story of M\u0101dhavendra Pur\u012b. M\u0101dhavendra Pur\u012b was a great devotee in this Gau\u1e0d\u012bya-samprad\u0101ya, and in this Govardhana there was Gop\u0101la covered by dirty and jungles and trees. So When M\u0101dhavendra Pur\u012b was in V\u1e5bnd\u0101vana, the Gop\u0101la in dream expressed Himself, “M\u0101dhavendra Pur\u012b, I am very much suffocated. I am covered by this dirt and jungles. Please re-excavate Me from this condition and install Me in the temple.\u201d So M\u0101dhavendra Pur\u012b, with the help of villagers, he excavated the earth and found this Gop\u0101la m\u016brti. And this Gop\u0101la m\u016brti was installed by the help of the villagers very luxuriantly. For so many days there was festival. So after some days, M\u0101dhavendra Pur\u012b was informed in dream that \u201cSince I was long within the earth, My body is very much heated. So you kindly bring some sandalwood from Jagann\u0101tha Pur\u012b and smear all over the body the pulp of sandalwood, then I shall be happy.\u201d So M\u0101dhavendra Pur\u012b was very old man at that time, and it is order of Gop\u0101laj\u012b, so he started for Jagann\u0101tha Pur\u012b. On the way there is a Gop\u012bn\u0101tha temple in Orissa, on the border of Orissa and Bengal. So he stayed there overnight and he saw that the Gop\u012bn\u0101thaj\u012b was offered k\u1e63\u012bra, seven pots of k\u1e63\u012bra. So M\u0101dhavendra Pur\u012b thought within himself, \u201cIf I could taste little k\u1e63\u012bra, then I would also make such k\u1e63\u012bra to offer my Gop\u0101la in V\u1e5bnd\u0101vana.\u201d Then again he thought that \u201cOh, I am so stupid that before offering to the Deity I am thinking of eating it.\u201d He thought himself to be very much culprit, and he immediately left the temple, I am committing offense.\u201c So M\u0101dhavendra Pur\u012b thought it that he was a great offender; he should not live in this temple, he should go outside. So he went outside, and underneath a tree he was chanting Hare K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a, just to pass over the night, then proceed toward Jagann\u0101tha Pur\u012b. So at night the Deity, Gop\u012bn\u0101tha, was asking the p\u016bj\u0101r\u012b, the priest, that “I have kept one pot of k\u1e63\u012bra behind My back garment. “So you take this pot of k\u1e63\u012bra, condensed milk, to M\u0101dhavendra Pur\u012b\u2014he is sitting underneath a tree\u2014and offer him.\u201d So the pujari wake up, and actually when he opened the door of the Deity room, he found that pot of ksira. So he could understand that \u201cThis Madhavendra Puri is not an ordinary devotee, he is a great devotee; otherwise how the Lord has stolen this pot for him?\u201d [laughter] Since then, that Gopinatha is famous as Ksira-cora Gopinatha: Ksira-cora Gopinatha, the Gopinatha who stole the ksira for His devotee. So He is known as thief, Ksira-cora. He is famous as a great thief. Still people go to see Him, how nice this thief is. That is the difference between Krsna and ourself. When we are thief, we are beaten by shoes. And when Krsna is thief, He is worshiped by devotees.
\n>>> Ref. VedaBase => Srimad-Bhagavatam 4.14.14 \u2013 November 16, 1971, Delhi<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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Sri Madhavendra Puri, a great devotee and acarya in the line of devotees, says, O Lord, in my prayers three times a day, all glory to You. O Bathing, I offer my obeisances unto You. O demigods, O forefathers, please excuse me for my inability to offer you my respects. Now wherever I sit I am able to remember the great descendant of the Yadu dynasty, Krsna, the enemy of Kamsa, and therefore I can get myself free from all sinful bondage. I think this is sufficient for me.<\/p>\n
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