Kali Mandir Satsang

Class by Rev. Dr. Mahant Swami Bhajanananda Saraswati on Book X, chapter 13, verses 6 - 8 of Srimad Bhagavatam given at Kali Mandir Ramakrishna Ashram on 21 June 2025.

Brahma said:

तथापि भूमन् महिमागुणस्य ते विबोद्धुम् अर्हत्य् अमलान्तरात्मभिः |

अविक्रियात् स्वानुभवाद् अरूपतो ह्य् अनन्यबोध्यात्मतया न चान्यथा || ६ ||

tathāpi bhūman mahimāguṇasya te viboddhum arhaty amalāntar-ātmabhiḥ |

avikriyāt svānubhavād arūpato hy ananya-bod...

Class by Rev Dr. Mahant Swami Bhajanananda Saraswati on Book X of Srimad Bhagavatam given at Kali Mandir Ramakrishna Ashram on 14 June 2025. 

Brahma said:

ज्ञाने प्रयासम् उदपास्य नमन्त एव  जीवन्ति सन्मुखरितां भवदीयवार्ताम् | स्थाने स्थिताह्̣ श्रुतिगतां तनुवाङ्मनोभिर् ये प्रायशोऽजित जितोऽप्य् असि तैस् त्रिलोक्याम् || ३ || jñāne prayāsam udapāsya namanta eva jjīvanti sanmukharitāṃ bhavadīyavārtām | sthāne sthitāḥ śrutigatāṃ ta...

Scripture class by Rev. Dr. Swami Bhajanananda Saraswati on Devi Gita, chapter 2, verses 27-34, given to students of the Ramakrishna Seminary at Kali Mandir via Zoom on 18 June 2025.

The Goddess said:

तस्मादाकाश उत्पन्नः शब्दतन्मात्ररूपकः | भवेत् स्पर्शात्मको वायुस्तेजोरूपात्मकं पुनः || २७ || tasmādākāśa utpannaḥ śabda-tanmātra-rūpakaḥ | bhavet sparśātmako vāyus-tejo-rūpātmakaṃ punaḥ || 27 || 27. "Out of that primal substance a...

Class by Rev Dr. Swami Bhajanananda Saraswati on Book X, Chapter 14 of Srimad Bhagavatam, given at Kali Mandir Ramakrishna Ashram on 7 June 2025. 

श्रीब्रह्मोवाच नौमीद्̣य तेऽभ्रवपुस्̣ए तद्̣इदम्बराय गुञ्जावतम्́सपरिपिच्छलसन्मुखाय वन्यस्रजे कवलवेत्रविस्̣आन्̣अवेन्̣उलक्स्̣मश्रिये म्र्̣दुपदे पशुपाńगजाय

śrī-brahmovāca 1. naumīḍya te 'bhra-vapuṣe taḍid-ambarāya guñjāvataḿsa-paripiccha-lasan-mukhāya vanya-sraje kavala-vetra-viṣāṇ...

Scripture class by Rev. Dr. Swami Bhajanananda Saraswati on Devi Gita, chapter 2, verses 22-26, given to students of the Ramakrishna Seminary at Kali Mandir via Zoom on 28 May 2025.

स पुनः कामकर्मादियुक्तया स्रीयमायया |

पूर्वानुभूतसंस्कारात् कालकर्मविपाकतः || २२ ||

sa punaḥ kāma-karmādi-yuktayā srīyamāyayā |

pūrvānubhūta-saṃskārāt kāla-karma-vipākataḥ || 22 ||

22. "This Self, however, by its own power of Maya conjoined with des...

Scripture class by Rev. Dr. Swami Bhajanananda Saraswati on Devi Gita, chapter 2, verses 19-21, given to students of the Ramakrishna Seminary at Kali Mandir via Zoom on 16 April 2025.

अपरिच्छन्नताऽप्येवमत एव मता मम |

तच्चज्ञानं नात्मधर्मो धर्मत्वे जडताऽत्मनः || १९ ||

aparicchannatā'pyevamata eva matā mama |

taccajñānaṃ nātma-dharmo dharmatve jaḍatā'tmanaḥ || 19 ||

19. "Therefore I am regarded truly as an undivided whole, and...

Scripture class by Rev. Dr. Swami Bhajanananda Saraswati on Devi Gita, chapter 2, verse18, given to students of the Ramakrishna Seminary at Kali Mandir via Zoom on 9 April 2025.

मा न भूवं हि भूयासमिति प्रेमात्मनि स्थितम् | सर्वस्याऽन्यस्य मिथ्यात्वादसङ्गत्वं स्फुटं मम || १८ || mā na bhūvaṃ hi bhūyāsamiti premātmani sthitam | sarvasyā'nyasya mithyātvādasaṅgatvaṃ sphuṭaṃ mama || 18 || 18. "The feeling "Let me not cease to be; let...

Scripture class by Rev. Dr. Swami Bhajanananda Saraswati on Devi Gita, chapter 2, verses 15 through 17 given to students of the Ramakrishna Seminary at Kali Mandir via Zoom on 2 April 2025.

जाग्रत्स्वप्नसुषुप्त्यादौ दृश्यस्य व्यभिचारतः | संविदो व्यभिचारश्च नाऽनुभूतोऽस्ति कर्हिछित् || १५ || jāgrat-svapna-suṣuptyādau dṛśyasya vyabhicārataḥ | saṃvido vyabhicāraśca nā'nubhūto'sti karhichit || 15 || 15. "The visible world appears an...

Discourse by Revered Dr. Swami Bhajanananda Saraswati, on names 340 through 344 of verses 42 of the "Thousand Names of Kali", given at Kali Mandir Ramakrishna Ashram on 29 March 2025.

ऋक्सामाथर्वनिलया रागिणी शोभनस्वरा | कलकण्ठी कम्बुकण्ठी वेणुवीणापरायणा || ४२ || ṛk-sāmātharva-nilayā rāgiṇī śobhana-svarā | kala-kaṇṭhī kambu-kaṇṭhī veṇu-vīṇā-parāyaṇā || 42 ||

340. रागिणी rāgiṇī 341. शोभनस्वरा śobhana-svarā  342. कलकण्ठी kala-kaṇ...

Scripture class by Rev. Dr. Swami Bhajanananda Saraswati on Devi Gita, chapter 2, verses 9 & 10 given to students of the Ramakrishna Seminary at Kali Mandir via Zoom on 26 March 2025.

एवं नानाविधानि स्युर्नामानि निगमादिषु | तस्या जडत्वं दृश्यत्वाज्ज्ञाननाशात् ततोऽसती ||११|| evaṃ nānāvidhāni syurnāmāni nigamādiṣu | tasyā jaḍa-tvaṃ dṛśya-tvāj-jñāna-nāśāt tato'satī ||11|| 11. Such are its various names found in the Vedic and o...

Discourse by Pujya (Revered) Dr. Swami Bhajanananda Saraswati, on names 337 through 339 of verses 41 & 52of the "Thousand Names of Kali", given at Kali Mandir Ramakrishna Ashram on 22 March 2025.

337. यज्ञकर्त्री yajña-kartrī   338. यजुःप्रिया yajuḥ-priyā 339. ऋक्सामाथर्वनिलया ṛk-sāmātharva-nilayā

भीमा भयानका भीमनादिनी भीः प्रभावती | वागीश्वरी श्रीर्यमुना यज्ञकर्त्री यजुःप्रिया || ४१ || bhīmā bhayānakā bhīma-nādinī bhīḥ p...

Discourse by Rev. Dr. Swami Bhajanananda Saraswati, on names 334 through 336 of verse 41 of the "Thousand Names of Kali", given at Kali Mandir Ramakrishna Ashram on 15 March 2025.

भीमा भयानका भीमनादिनी भीः प्रभावती | वागीश्वरी श्रीर्यमुना यज्ञकर्त्री यजुःप्रिया |४१|

bhīmā bhayānakā bhīma-nādinī bhīḥ prabhāvatī | vāgīśvarī śrīr-yamunā yajña-kartrī yajuḥ-priyā |41|

 vāgīśvarī– She Who is the Supreme Ruler of All Vibrations |334  ś...

Discourse by Pujya (Revered) Dr. Swami Bhajanananda Saraswati, on names 327 through 332 of verses 40 & 41 of the "Thousand Names of Kali", given at Kali Mandir Ramakrishna Ashram on 9 March 2025.

सत्यवती धर्मनिष्ठा श्रेष्था निष्ठुरनादिनी |

गरिष्ठा दुष्टसṁहर्ती विशिष्टा श्रेयसी घृणा |४०|

भीमा भयानका भीमनादिनी भीः प्रभावती |

वागीश्वरी श्रीर्यमुना यज्ञकर्त्री यजुःप्रिया |४१|

satyavatī dharma-niṣṭhā śreṣthā niṣṭhura-nādinī |...

Discourse by Pujya (Revered) Dr. Swami Bhajanananda Saraswati, on names 320 through 325 of veres 40 of the "Thousand Names of Kali", given at Kali Mandir Ramakrishna Ashram on 28 December 2024.

सत्यवती धर्मनिष्ठा श्रेष्ठा निष्ठुरवादिनी ।  गरिष्ठा दुष्टसंहर्त्री विशिष्टा श्रेयसी घृणा ॥ ४०॥ satyavatī dharma-niṣṭhā śreṣṭhā niṣṭhura-vādinī ।  gariṣṭhā duṣṭa-saṃhartrī viśiṣṭā śreyasī ghṛṇā ॥ 40॥

satyavatī |320 dharma-niṣṭhā |321 śr...