Showing posts with label Panca-Tattva. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Panca-Tattva. Show all posts

Sunday, July 10, 2011

PICTURE OF THE WEEK (from Krishna.com):


Pancatattva - Laguna Beach, California, USA

Monday, October 25, 2010

EXTRA SLOKA OF THE WEEK:

Śrī Caitanya Caritāmṛta
Ādi-līlā 7.4

pañca-tattva avatīrṇa caitanyera sańge
pañca-tattva lañā karena sańkīrtana rańge

pañca-tattva — these five tattvas; avatīrṇa — advented; caitanyera — with Caitanya Mahāprabhu; sańge — in company with; pañca-tattva — the same five subjects; lañā — taking with Himself; karena — He does; sańkīrtana — the sańkīrtana movement; rańge — in great pleasure.

TRANSLATION

These five tattvas incarnate with Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu, and thus the Lord executes His sańkīrtana movement with great pleasure.

PURPORT

Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu is always accompanied by His plenary expansion Śrī Nityānanda Prabhu, His incarnation Śrī Advaita Prabhu, His internal potency Śrī Gadādhara Prabhu and His marginal potency Śrīvāsa Prabhu. He is in the midst of them as the Supreme Personality of Godhead. One should know that Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu is always accompanied by these other tattvas. Therefore our obeisances to Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu are complete when we say śrī-kṛṣṇa-caitanya prabhu-nityānanda śrī-advaita gadādhara śrīvāsādi-gaura-bhakta-vṛnda. As preachers of the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement, we first offer our obeisances to Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu by chanting this Pañca-tattva mantra; then we say Hare Kṛṣṇa, Hare Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa, Hare Hare/ Hare Rāma, Hare Rāma, Rāma Rāma, Hare Hare. There are ten offenses in the chanting of the Hare Kṛṣṇa mahā-mantra, but these are not considered in the chanting of the Pañca-tattva mantra, namely, śrī-kṛṣṇa-caitanya prabhu-nityānanda śrī-advaita gadādhara śrīvāsādi-gaura-bhakta-vṛnda. Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu is known as mahā-vadānyāvatāra, the most magnanimous incarnation, for He does not consider the offenses of the fallen souls. Thus to derive the full benefit of the chanting of the mahā-mantra (Hare Kṛṣṇa, Hare Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa, Hare Hare/ Hare Rāma, Hare Rāma, Rāma Rāma, Hare Hare), we must first take shelter of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, learn the Pañca-tattva mahā-mantra, and then chant the Hare Kṛṣṇa mahā-mantra. That will be very effective.

Sunday, September 26, 2010

The Panca-Tattva

Sri Krishna Chaitanya Prabhu Nityananda Sri Advaita
Gadadhara Srivasdi Gaura Bhakta Vrnda

This was one of the first mantras I learned after the maha-mantra. After years of saying it I realized that I could not tell you who was who in this picture. Sure, I knew Sri Chaitanya is in the middle and that Sri Nityananda was probably the guy dressed in blue, but that was far as it went.

So, the answer is, from left to right;
Sri Advaita - Sri Nityananda - Sri Gouranga - Sri Gadahara - Sri Srivasa.
And according the second version Sri Nityananda is not in blue. So, I'm attaching the names from the second picture to the images of the first, which is the published version (BG 1983 edition). Also I know that Sri Advaita was the oldest of Sri Gouranga's devotees. And there you go.

Here is a link for the audio book Chaitanya Bhagavata by Vrindavana dasa Thakura; an excellent biography of Lord Chaitanya and His devotees:

http://www.archive.org/details/chaitanya-bhagavata