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Meerabai

BirthBirth 

•Meerabai was born as a Rajputana princess in Rajasthan, 1498.

•Her father was Ratan Singh.

Her mother was Veer Kumari, died during

childbirth when Meera was just 8 yrs

old.She was grand

daughter of Rao Duda, ruler of Merta.

•After the death of mother, meera was sent to her grandfather.

•Meera studied at Merta where she lived with her grandfather and her father’s older brother Rao Viram Dev.

Lord Krishna

•Meera was devoted towards Lord Krishna.

•She never worship their family deity, Tulaja Bhawani, and her family didn’t approved it.

•She was married to Bhoj Raj, ruler of Chittor. 

•She never had children with her marriage.

•She believed herself to be married with Lord Krishna.

•Meera's husband died in a battle.

•Her father-in-law, Rana Sanga, respected and protected Meera Bai.

• He died a few years later and Meera was then persecuted by the rest of her in-laws.

•She found Krishna to be her only support.

•Her In-Laws was against her religious

practices towards Krishna.

 

•  Her grief turned into a passionate spiritual devotion towards Krishna.

•Her countless poems drenched with separation and longing.

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•Meera’s love for krishna was private.

•Sometimes she overflowed her love that led

to sing her and dance in public.•She quietly left Chittor Fort at

night and join Satsangs.

•She violated all the rules which was related to a widow Rajput Princess.

•Vikramaditya, Meera’s brother-in-law was strictly against Meera’s devotion.

•Vikramaditya made several attempts to kill Meera.

•Her sister-in-law, Uda bai, tried to kill her by locking her in a room for several days without food.

There are a number of popular beliefs asserting that Meera's brother-in-law Vikramaditya, who later became king of Chittor, after Bhojraj's death, tried to harm Meera ………

•He mixed poison in the prasadam or charna-amritam of Krishna and made her drink it. But by God's grace, Krishna changed it to Amrit.

•He put a snake in a flower basket and told her that it was a gift from him to her Lord Krishna, but when she opened it she found a garland or an image of Krishna. This episode is referred to in her poems.

•He pinned iron nails in Meera's bed, but, again by God's grace they turned into rose petals. As she explains in one of her couplets.

•Meera Bai considered herself to be a reborn gopi, Lalita, mad with love for

Krishna.•She pilgrimage and "danced from

one village to another village.• She is thought to have spent her

last years as a pilgrim in Dwarka, Gujarat.

• In 1546, Udai Singh, who had succeeded Vikram Singh as rana, sent a delegation of Brahmans 

to bring her back to Mewar. •Reluctant, she asked permission

to spend the night at a temple of Krishna.

•Next morning she was found to have disappeared.

•According to popular belief, she miraculously

merged with the image of Krishna.

PoetryPoetry

•Meera's songs are in a simple form called a chand.•  A term used for a small spiritual song.•Usually composed in simple rhythms with a repeating refrain.

•The extant versions are in a Rajasthani and 

Braj.• A dialect of Hindi spoken in and

around  Vrindavan.•Sometimes mixed with

Rajasthani.

•Meera is often classed with the northern Sant

bhakt is who spoke of a formless divinity.

•She presents Krishna as the historical master of the Bhagavad Gita

•Meera says that Krishna is a perfect Avatar of

the eternal.

•She speaks of a personal relationship with Krishna as her lover, lord and master.

•The characteristic of her poetry is complete

surrender.

•Her longing for union with Krishna is predominant in her poetry: she wants

to be "coloured with the colour of dusk"

• Her style of literature is mainly Rajasthani mixed with Brij language.

• But one can also see a hint of Gujarati as well as Punjabi in

her writings. • Her noted songs include, Hari Tuma Haro,

also sung by M S Subbulakshmi and Sanson ki Mala Pe sang as a qawwali 

by Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan.

ISKCON Temple

ISKCON Temple Delhi• Sri Sri Radha Parthasarathi Mandir

• Generally known as the ISKCON Delhi temple

• Well known Vaishnav temple of Lord Krishna and Radharani in the form of

Radha Parthasarathi.

Temple Complex

• Temple complex for the followers of Srila Prabhupada

• One of the largest temple complexes in India.

• Comprises numerous rooms for priests and for service renders

Worship of Lord

• As Vaishnavism, ISKCON has very high standard of worship, daily routine of temple is:-

• Twenty four brahmanically trained pujaris worship the Deities according to strict spiritual regulations

• It also includes complete purity and auspiciousness of pujaris, mentioned by Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Prabhupada.

Six aratis are offered to the Deities everyday, which are

as:-• Mangala Aarti• Tulsi Aarti• Dhoop Aarti• Raj-Bhoga Aarti• Pushpa Aarti• Sandhya Aarti• Six bhoga offerings, corresponding to

these six aratis, are made to the Deities.• The outfits of the Deities are changed

twice every day, morning and evening.

Sri Chaitanya…..

Chaitanya Mahaprabhu

• Chaitanya Mahaprabhu was a Hindu monk and social reformer from 16th century India.

• A native of Nabadwip in Bengal, he promoted the worship of God, in his tradition known by the name Krishna.[2] He is venerated by followers of Gaudiya Vaishnavism.

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Chaitanya was a notable proponent for the Vaishnava school of Bhakti

yoga

• He worshipped the forms of Krishna, popularised the chanting of the Hare Krishna mantra[5] and composed the

Siksastakam in Sanskrit. • Chaitanya is also sometimes referred

to by the names Gaura

• Chief works are, Sri Chaitanya Charitamritam Mahakavyam by Kavi Karnapura and Sri Krishna Chaitanya

Charitamritam by Murari Gupta.

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