Tamal krishna goswami funeral songs
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A Darsana For Tamal Krsna Gosvami
Mathura, India, Oct. 21, 1991
Submitted by Syamarani dasi on April 9, 2002
[Since the recent departure of Tamal Krsna Gosvami, many devotees have been sharing their feelings and sentiments about him. Very few, however, are aware of a great service rendered by him. From 1991-1995, in Vrndavana, Mathura, and Bombay, he and his associates like Dhanurdara Svami, Bhurjana Prabhu, and Giriraja Svami, had the good fortune to inquire from Srila Bhaktivedanta Narayana Gosvami Maharaja. Besides asking specific questions about guru-tattva, jiva-tattva, Vaisnava sadacara (proper conduct), and so on, he also asked Srila Narayana Maharaja to explain certain sastras. These sastras include Srila Raghunatha dasa Gosvami's Vilapa Kusumanjali, Srila Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura's Madhurya Kadambini and Raga Vartma Candrika, and Srimad-Bhagavatam's Rasa Pancadhaya.
These topics had already been published by other devotees, and by other persons who are not in our Gaudiya line. But Tamal Krsna Gosvami and his god-brothers wanted to hear the true version and pure teachings of the self-realized souls in the line of Sri Rupa Gosvami and our predecessor acaryas. By his good questions, he was instrumental in manifesting very valuable manuscripts, some already published and some to be published. The following in a sample of his inquiries and Srila Narayana Maharaja's replies, on the subject of Vilapa Kusumanjali. The date is Oct. 21, 1991
Affectionately remembering Tamal Krsna Gosvami, Srila Narayana Maharaja said, "He forced me to speak in English and by that I learned the language." Srila Narayana Maharaja also said that Tamal Krsna Gosvami was indirectly responsible for Srila Maharaja's world preaching tours over the last seven years, and his spreading the message of Srila Prabhupada and the guru-parampara.]
[Srila Narayana Maharaja:] What sloka do you want to hear?
[Tamal Krsna Gosvami:] Do you want to repeat yesterday's sloka?
[Srila Naraya Tamal Krishna Goswami's Disappearance Festival 16.03.02, Mayapur Dham Master of Ceremonies: Sivarama Swami Speech by Keshava Bharati Prabhu. [a lot of text missing from this one] Om ajnana timirandhasya................... TKG, when I heard the news yesterday I could not conceive of how it would be for you possible to be in the car and run into a tree. You were so attentive to details. Our lives were intertwined. During Prabhupada's presence when I watched you, when I assisted you in serving him. How attentive you were. All day ysterday I could only chant Hare Krushna and it was inconceivable. I only could conceive one thing that Prabhupada has called you back. I want to make it as short as I can because I can't speak. The essence of TKg's heart was ecstatic love for SP. Wherever he went before and after disappearance You're not an ordinary person. You are a great soul. Great souls are never attracted to anything mediocre. They are driven by energies that are very difficult to understand. I know that you're one of most misunderstood personalities that I met in my life. When Srila Prabhupada departed I was fortunate enough to be in the room and assist you in serivng SP during those days. When SP deprated the world became vacant. Externally SP used you to keep you, to use you with very deep intelligence and orgainae things to push KC from one place to another form San Francisco, to India, China, etc. He used you as an instrument because you wanted to I Some people, please forgive me for mentioning this. Some people have actually criticized him for not crying when SP left this world .. how could he have the ecstatic love for SP when he was so unmoved I But the next day when we took SP on his flower aiplane around Vrindavna, he was fanning SP and I was next to him. I was watching very carefully and tears started to Type in Text here and Click on Source button to get HTML Source Code.
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> them b Tamal Krishna Goswami has served on ISKCON's Governing Body Commission since its inception in 1970. In January 1972, he accepted the renounced order of life (sannyasa) from his spiritual master, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada in Jaipur, India. He served as ISKCON's first GBC Secretary for India from 1970-74 and was appointed trustee of the Bhaktivedanta Book Trust, responsible for U.S. sales. In 1977, he served as Srila Prabhupada's last personal secretary. Since that time, he has served as the GBC Secretary for Texas and a large number of countries in the Orient. He left the world in March 2002 . His publications include: Reason and Belief: Problem-solving in the Philosophy of Religion (Pundits Press, 1997); Yoga for the 21st Century (1991); Prabhupada Antya-lila: The final Pastimes of Srila Prabhupada (Washington, D.C.: Institute for Vaishnava Studies, 1988); Jagannatha-Priya-Natakam: The Drama of Lord Jagannatha (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Bhaktivedanta Institute of Religion and Culture, 1985); and Servant of the Servant (Hong Kong: BBT, 1984).