Category:Godavari River
source - Kusavarta
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Pages in category "Godavari River"
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- After bathing in the river, the Lord walked a little distance from the bathing place and engaged in chanting the holy name of Krsna
- After meeting for the first time that morning on the banks of the Godavari, Ramananda Raya and Lord Caitanya separated with the understanding that Ramananda Raya would come in the evening to see the Lord
- After performing His usual chanting and dancing for some time in this forest, the Lord crossed the river and took His bath on the other bank
- After taking a bath on the banks of the Godavari, the Lord sat near the bank and began chanting Hare Krsna, Hare Krsna, Krsna Krsna, Hare Hare/ Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare
- After taking His (Balarama's) bath in the river Godavari and performing the necessary ritualistic ceremonies, He gradually visited the other rivers - the Vena, Pampa and Bhimarathi
- After visiting the temple of Jiyara-nrsimha, the Lord proceeded further south into India and ultimately reached the bank of the Godavari
- Anyone living on the land adjacent to these rivers (Ganges, Yamuna, Godavari, Kaveri, Krsna and Narmada) is naturally advanced in spiritual consciousness
- As previously, Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu converted to Vaisnavism many people He met on the road. After some days, the Lord reached the banks of the river Godavari
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- In India, all the big places of pilgrimage are situated on nice rivers like the Ganges, Yamuna, Sarasvati, Narmada, Godavari and Kaveri
- In India, all the big places of pilgrimage are situated on nice rivers like the Ganges, Yamuna, Sarasvati, Narmada, Godavari and Kaveri. Ambikavana was situated on the bank of the Sarasvati, and Nanda Maharaja and all the other cowherd men went there
- In that meeting (of brahmanas), he also heard that the Deity may be worshiped within the mind. After this incident, the brahmana, having bathed in the Godavari River, began mentally worshiping the Deity
- In the town of Vidyanagara, on the bank of the Godavari, there is a responsible government officer named Ramananda Raya
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- Near Rajamahendri is a famous railway station. Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati notes that the present Rajamahendri City is located on the northern bank of the Godavari
- Not only did he collect water from Godavari, but he collected from the Ganges, Yamuna, Narmada and Kaveri. Generally a Vaisnava, while worshiping the Lord, collects water from all these rivers by mantra chanting
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- Sometimes he would take his bath in the River Godavari. After taking his bath he would sit in a secluded place on the bank of the river, and, by practicing the yoga exercises of pranayama, the usual breathing exercise, he would concentrate his mind
- Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu could understand that the person who had come to bathe in the river was Ramananda Raya. The Lord wanted so much to meet him that His mind immediately began running after him
- Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu traveled from the source of the Godavari River and eventually visited the northern side of Hyderabad state. He finally arrived at the state of Kalinga
- Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu visited Nasika, where He saw the deity of Tryambaka (Lord Siva). He then went to Brahma-giri and then to Kusavarta, the source of the river Godavari
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- The Gautami-ganga is a branch of the river Godavari. Formerly a great sage named Gautama Rsi used to live on the bank of this river opposite the city of Rajahmundry, and consequently this branch was called the Gautami-ganga
- The Godavari River flows through this (Dandakaranya) tract of land, and there is a great forest there where Lord Ramacandra lived
- The Orissa kingdom was very powerful, and Kotadesa was the capital of Orissa. It was then known as Vidyanagara. Formerly this city was situated on the southern side of the river Godavari
- These are other great rivers that are very prominent: Krsnavenya, Bhimarathi, Godavari, Nirvindhya, Payosni, Tapi, Reva, Surasa, Narmada, Carmanvati, Mahanadi, Vedasmrti, Rsikulya, Trisama, Kausiki, Mandakini, Yamuna, Sarasvati, Drsadvati, Gomati, Sarayu
- This city of Vidyanagara is situated in Trailanga-desa, South India, on the bank of the river Godavari. The place where the Godavari flows into the Bay of Bengal is called Kotadesa
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- When Caitanya met Srila Ramananda Raya of Kavaur on the bank of the Godavari, the Lord developed all these symptoms (of ecstasy), but because of the presence of some nondevotee brahmanas who were attendants of the Raya, the Lord suppressed the symptoms
- When Lord Caitanya met Sri Ramananda Raya on the bank of the Godavari, the varnasrama-dharma followed by the Hindus was mentioned by the Lord
- When Lord Caitanya saw the river Godavari, the Lord remembered the river Yamuna, and when He saw the forest on the banks of the river, He remembered Sri Vrndavana-dhama
- When Madhvacarya returned from Badarikasrama, he went to Ganjama, which is on the bank of the river Godavari
- When Ramananda Raya was governor, the state capital, Vidyanagara or Vidyapura, was located on the southern side of the Godavari, at the confluence of the Godavari & the sea. That was the part of the country which at that time was known as Rajamahendri
- While on the bank of this river (Godavari), the Lord remembered the Yamuna River in Vrndavana, and He considered the trees on the bank to be the forest of Vrndavana. Thus He was in ecstasy there
- While sitting and chanting, the Lord saw that the governor of the province, Sri Ramananda Raya, had reached the banks of the river (Godavari) accompanied by his associates, which included many brahmanas
- While touring South India, Lord Caitanya met Ramananda Raya by the bank of the Godavari, and in their long discourses the Lord took the position of a student, and Ramananda Raya instructed Him