Srila Narayana maharaj entra en samadhi en Jaganatha Puri-dhama.
Este 29 de Diciembre del 2010, a las 3 am. entró en samadhi Srila Narayana Maharaj en Jaganath Puri-dhama y planean llevar su cuerpo a Sri Navawipa dhama para ponerlo allí en samadhi.
Srila Narayana Maharaj fue discípulo de Sripada Bhakti Prajñan-Kesava Maharaj, el sannyasi-guru de A.C.Bhaktivedanta Swami, quien tuvo íntima relación con Narayana Maharah desde sus tiempos de sannyasi en Vrindavana. Con todo el respeto que merece como uttama-vaisnava y asociado de nuestro amado Guru Maharaj, A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami, Narayana Maharaj fue apreciado por su obra y su siksa por toda la comunidad Vaisnava internacional.
Más allá de toda polémica y discordancias que algunos pudieran haber tenido con la actitud crítica de Narayana Maharaj, se debe lamentar esta pérdida sinceramente, pues este mundo material sin los Vaisnavas es un lugar desértico e inhóspito. Ofrecemos nuestras humildes reverencias desde la distancia a todos sus discípulos y seguidores, deseando que sean celebrados auspiciosamente en Navavipa-dhama los rituales prescritos para poner su cuerpo en samadhi.
La noticia está circulando por internet. Honrando a los Vaisnavas publicamos esta nota de condolencia. La última vez que tuve un intercambio devocional con Srila Narayana Maharaj, fue en la Sri Giridhari Gaudiya Math de Govardhana, el 11 de septiembre del 2009, cuando fui invitado a participar en la auspiciosa celebración en el Visvaruyoa-tithi, con motivo del aniversario de la toma de sannyasi de A.C.Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, junto con otros discípulos de Srila Prabhupada allí presentes.
En esa ocasión, como representante del Bhaktiveanta Institute, fui invitado a pronunciar unas palabras en glorificación de ese aniversario y ofrecí el debido respeto a la nutrida asamble de Vaisnavas y Vaisnavas amigos allí rpesente. Mis humildes palabras fueron recibidas con beneplácito por Narayana Maharaj y los devotos, tras haber relatado varios lilas de Srila Prabhupada cuando estaba residenciado en su bhajan-kutir del templo de Radha-Damodara, época en la que ambos tuvieron una íntima asociación, la cual prosiguió hasta los días finales, cuando Srila Prabhupada pidió personalmente a Narayana Maharaja que pudiera su cuerpo en samadhi después de su desaparición, ocurrida el 14 de noviembre de 1977.
Cuando tal personalidad Vaisnava desaparece físicamente no hay nada que lamentar, porque su alma pasa a los pasatiempos eternos de Radha-Vinoda. Sin embargo, la desaparición de los Vaisnavas es siempre dolorosa, porque ellos difunden la concienciia de Krishna y el mensaje de Sri Chaitanya Mahraprabhu para el beneficio espiritual de las almas condicionadas. Los Vaisnavas son como árboles de deseos, porque ellos pueden complacer los deseos de todos y están llenos de compasión por todas las almas caídas:
vañca-kalpatarubhyas ca kripa-sindhubhy eva ca
patitanam pavanebhyo vaisnavebhyo namo namah
A continuación, cito ltextualmente el mensaje informativo que apareción en Internet acerca de esta lamentable partida, en el auspicioso lugar sagrado de Sri Jaganatha ksetra-dhama.
____________Visuddha-sattva dasanudas
"Queridos devotos y queridos amigos,
Por favor acepten nuestros dandavat pranams y reciban bendiciones de Srila Gurudeva. Todas las Glorias a Sri Guru y Sri Gauranga y todas las glorias a sri Sri Radha Vinod Bihariji.
Hoy, Sri Krsna Navami Tithi, 29 de Diciembre [del 2010], en el más auspicioso día de la aparición de nityalila pravista om vishnupada Sri Srimad Bhaktivedanta Vaman Gosvami Maharaja, nuestro más amado Gurudeva, Sri Srimad Bhaktivedanta Narayana Gosvami Maharaj ha entrado en los eternos pasatiempos de Sri Sri Radha y Krsna a las 03:00 am (17:30 horas del 28 de dic. de Bolivia, 15:30 de México) en Sri Jagannath Ksetra Dham, la eterna residencia de Sri Jagannath Deva, Sri Baladeva y Srimati Subhadra.
Estamos haciendo ahora los arreglos para trasladar el cuerpo trascendental de Srila Gurudeva a Sri Navadwip Dham y ponerlo en samadhi.
Pronto daremos mayores noticias.
Vaisnavadasanudasa y aspirantes por el servicio de Sri Guru y Vaisnavas
Swami BV. Madhava & Brajanath das".
_______________Ultima hora:
A continuación, cito textualemente el siguiente texto en inglés donde se da un recuento biográfico sobre la vida y obra de Srila Narayana Maharaj. La información aparecio en este Website:
Debido a que traducir este fragmento al español llevaría algún tiempo, prefiero citar la noticia fresca de ultima hora, tal como aparece en el referido vínculo de Internet:
"... Shrila Narayan Maharaj’s body will be taken to Nabadwip Dham where it will be buried according to the Vaishnava rites for samadhi burial.
Affectionate disciples from all over the world are grieving at his departure. Many, including hundreds of from the Braj area, where Narayan Maharaj has three maths–in Mathura, Govardhan and Vrindavan, will be making the trip to Nabadwip to attend the ceremony.
Narayan Maharaj had been affected by cancer over the past few months and left Govardhan after Karttik in the hope that the seaside climate would help him to improve his health.
Shrila Narayan Maharaj spent most of his life in the Braj area, leading one of the most successful 84-kos parikramas for Bengali and foreign devotees. But he will particularly be known for his production of translations and writings in Hindi, which were then translated into English, especially those that are in glorification of the pastimes of Radha and Krishna.
All of us at Vrindavan Today offer our condolences to those who are grieving his departure and hope that they will build on his contributions to attain their goal of prema-bhakti.
Srila Narayan Maharaj was born in Tewaripur near the Ganges in Bihar on February 16, 1921, into a Trivedi brahman family. Throughout his childhood he regularly accompanied his father in his brahminical activities, including kirtan and recounting the Puranic lore.
He met his spiritual master, the founder of the Gaudiya Vedanta Samiti, Shrila Bhakti Prajnan Keshav Maharaj, in February of 1947 in Sri Nabadwip Dham and took initiation from him.
He was given the name Gaura Narayan, and later awarded the title “Bhakta-bandhava”, which means “friend of the devotees.”
He travelled extensively with Srila Keshava Maharaj on preaching tours throughout India over the next five years, and in 1952, on Gaura-purnima, his beloved Gurudeva awarded him initiation into the sacred order of sannyas. In 1954 Srila Kesava Maharaja posted him in charge of the newly opened temple in Mathura named Sri Kesavaji Gaudiya Matha. Srila Bhaktivedanta Narayan Maharaj began to spend part of the year in Mathura and the other part in Bengal, carrying on extensive services in both areas. This went on over the period of the next fourteen years.
He was also appointed by Srila Kesava Maharaja as Vice-President of his institution, the Sri Gaudiya Vedanta Samiti, and Editor-in-Chief of its Hindi publications and the monthly magazine Sri Bhagavat Patrika. In 1968 Srila Kesava Maharaja passed from this world, and Srila Narayan Maharaja performed all the necessary ceremonial rituals for his samadhi burial.
During this time period, Narayan Maharaj began to organize the annual Karttika Braja Mandala Parikrama, which he continues to carry on up to the present day.
Srila Narayan Maharaj also met A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Founder-Acarya of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness, who was also a close associate of his guru, Keshava Maharaj, in Calcutta in 1948. Narayan Maharaj considered him a senior and a friend. He performed the fire yajna when Bhaktivedanta Swami took sannyas in 1959.
Bhaktivedanta Swami maintained regular correspondence with Srila Keshava and Narayan Maharaj up until 1968 when Srila Kesava Maharaja entered nitya-lila. And after that, he continued to write Srila Narayan Maharaj until his own departure in 1977. He also requested Srila Narayan Maharaj to take complete charge of performing all the rituals for his samadhi burial after his departure.
Since November 1977, Srila Narayan Maharaj took it as a part of his mission to reach out to those who left ISKCON in search of advanced association and satsang. Narayan Maharaj felt that a taste for Vrindavan rasa, heard from rasika devotees, was a necessary step in advancement towards the mood of the Six Goswamis. This was, however, somewhat controversial in both ISKCON and the Gaudiya Math.
In this he was extremely successful and many thousads of devotees from all over the world, both new and old, continued to find inspiration from his deep insights into the literature surrounding Radha and Krishna’s lilas".
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