These are some of the verses chanted at the Sri Chaitanya Saraswat Math for the appearance of Sri Gaurasundara right before moonrise.
by Vrinda Devi Dasi – Please Come Meet Us! These days we hear words like ashram, kirtan, bhakti, yoga, very easily and very freely. And to discern what is what may not be so easy since everything sounds like a drop of a mystic, far away India. Yet a part of us can feel we are lacking some substance.
Sripad Maturanath Prabhu relates how Srila Gurudev, Srila Govinda Maharaj, installed a temple of Sada Shiva at our Sri Chaitanya Saraswat Math in Nabadwip and established the worship of Lord Shiva as a vaishnava.
Bhakti Lalita Devi Dasi, who was Srila Govinda Maharaj’s personal secretary for over ten years, explains in this article the importance of associating with spiritually superior devotees to help us make progress in our spiritual lives.
Srila Sridhar Maharaj explains that our search for Sri Krishna has brought us to the process of devotional service–but at the same time–Sri Krishna Himself is searching for us, His lost servants.
Srila Govinda Maharaj says, “If ‘struggle’ means ‘movement,’ then there, on that [spiritual] plane, where movement is so sweet, struggle is a high thing. But if we think that struggle means something painful, then that struggle must be of the lower plane…”