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On the appearance day of Sri Gaura, the new temple was opened and the service of Sri Guru-Gauranga Gandharvika-Giridhari was established. During that time there was a great festival held. Srila Thakura Bhaktivinoda's prediction was that at Sri Yogapitha one wonderful temple would manifest.

The main desire of Bhaktivinoda was that there should be a great sky-scraping temple built for Mahaprabhu at His birth place. By the mercy of Sri Guru-pada-padma (Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura) and with the help of Srestharya Sriyukta Sakhi-carana Bhaktivijaya, Bhaktivinoda's instructions and desire have been fulfilled.

An article by Prof. Nishi Kanta Sanyal, disciple of Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Gosvami Prabhupada, taken from The Harmonist magazine Vol. 28. 1931. Prof. Sanyal explains both the academic and transcendental evidences to authenticate the Mayapura birthsite.

The name must be of finite characteristic that can take away all that is undesirable in us. The name must have a spiritual conception not mere physical imitation, that can be produced only by the help of the lip and tongue. Krsna-nama, Hari-nama, Visnu, Narayana, all these are Vaikuntha-nama, it is necessary that They have spiritual existence, that is all in all.

The identification of many of the sites has been rendered comparatively easy by the survival of the old place names. This is as was to be expected in the case of a place which is only four centuries old. In the Bhakti-ratnakara we find the corroboration, from on old source of the truth of the relative positions of these locally recognizable sites.

An extract from an article entitled "The Full Moon of the Advent of Lord Gauranga" from The Harmonist, Vol. 15 1935. Thakura Vrndavana Dasa, writer of 'Sri Caitanya-Bhagavata', has predicted that sages, who transcend the plane of three dimensions, will on a future date make Navadvipa-dhama known to the world.

It is due to vaisnava aparadha, losing faith in the conscious agents of the Supreme, that we go to the material substance, "Help me!" I lose faith in the spiritual agency and the long and the short is this - we seek shelter in a material thing and we lose our faith in the higher agency. We can’t see their Grace. So, that is the underlying position of an intoxication monger.

So a few words to all the Vaishnavas. I would like to say something about Srila Prabhupada, His Divine Grace. I thought of three particular things regarding His Divine Grace. I thought about his mission, I thought about his highest ideal and I thought about his achievements.

With his fellow godbrothers, Srila Puri Goswami Maharaja shared an indomitable faith in the service of his Guru and the message of Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu. This service was the sole purpose and highest aspiration of his being. This conviction led him to spend his entire life in the pursuit of Srila Prabhupada and Mahaprabhu’s pleasure and the fulfillment of their desires.

Study, learning, discourse on philosophy so many things are possible prior to initiation (diksha), but unless one gets this ashraya one does not gain admission to the descending flow of bhakti-rasa. To remain in that flow there are requirements also, not that just because I have taken shelter by initiation that I am always connected.

Srila Prabhupada came to America in 1965 as "an aggressor." Aggression against illusion is the highest service to humanity. The cost of this war is absolute humility, for souls in this world are often less than thankful, unaware as they are of their own self-interest. The reward, however, is great. It is the dignity of the soul.

Following the transition from Newtonian classical physics to quantum mechanics, several scientists have explored the possibility of a connection between physics and transcendence. For India's great realizers, the primary evidence in support of their theses is revealed scripture (sastra), such as the Vedanta-sutras.