Pushtimarg: The Path of Grace. Jai Shri Krishna to All..!! Enjoy life with Love, Fun and Bhakti…
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[NEW]: Download Bhajans
01 year ago
Jai Shri Krishna to all Vaishnavs, 
Hope everybody is doing wonderful. We have some good new updates on “Audio Bhajans” section and wanted to share with you. Until now we haven’t put any download link for bhajans because its related to PIRACY of the contents. Today we discussed the same point with some other vaishnavs as we received more than 600 download requests via email & comments in past 6 months. As a conclusion we have decided to provide download links for most frequent requested bhajans.
Download here: http://divinecrunch.com/audio/
Please notice new download icon image next to bhajan title. You can download those by this steps: “Right click on icon -> Save Link As…” 
Also, we would like to know your thougths on download links related to piracy. Please write down a line in comment section and we will work on that. That’s about all in updates and news . Feel free to explore the blog and share/expand pushtimargiy knowledge.
Sincerely,
DivineCrunch Team
THE SWAROOP OF SHREENATHJI
22 years ago
Pushtimarg is a Bhavna pradhan sampraday, in it bhavna is very important. According to the bhavna of Pushtimarg Shri Nathji is a small child, only 7 years old. Shri Nathji’s right hand is kept on his waist while the left hand is held up in the air. The bhavna reagarding this posture is that Shri Nathji is standing at the gate of a Nikunj. That is why Shri Nathji is also called Nikunj Nayak. Shri Nathji is the pradhan swaroop (main deity) of Pushtimarg. Every Vaishnav must be humble infront of Shri Nathji.
Shri Gokulnathji, Shri Raghunathji
02 years ago
Shri Gokulnathji:
He was the fourth son of Shri Gusainji, born in the year 1551 A.D. Once the emperor Jehangir passed an order whereby any vaishnav or person wearing a kanthi or tilak would be executed. This order created tremors in Pushtimarg because kanthi-tilak were indespensible in Pushtimarg and anyone found with these would be executed as the the king’s orders. Shri Gokulnathji approached the emperor to have this order cancelled, he had even gone all the way to Kashmir to hold talks with the emperor who had gone there on a holiday. Shri Gokulnathji had given his whole-hearted efforts for protecting the kanthi-tilak. After many days emperor Jehangir saw logic and cancelled the order. For this epic effort Shri Gokulnathji is known as the ‘protector of kanthi-tilak’ in Pushtimarg even today.
It was Shri Gokulnathji who explained in an easy way to the vaishnavas. He wrote extensive commentaries on the sanskrit works of Shri Vallabh. The stories of the 84 and 252 vaishnavas, Nij-Varta, Gharu-varta, sewa rahasya bhavna are some of the works written by Shri Gokulnathji in Vraj bhasha. He can be differentiated by the hair tied in a knot over his head.
Shri Raghunathji:
Shri Raghunathji was the fifth son of Shri Gusainji, he was born in the year 1554 A.D. He loved Shri Gusainji very much. Every morning Shri Raghunathji would open his eyes only after he was infront of his father Shri Gusainji, till then he would keep his eyes closed. One day when he was going to the darshan of Shri Gusainji with closed eyes, he bumped his head on the pillar and he fell down. Immediately Shri Gusainji gave Shri Raghunathji a drawing of himself and told Raghunathji to do darshan of that drawing in the morning.
Just as Shri Gusainji has shown his love for his father – Shri Vallabh – by writing 108 names in praise of Shri Vallabh in the “Sarvottam stotram”, Shri Raghunathji has also created 108 names of Shri Gusainji in the “Namratnakhya stotra”. This shows his love for Shri Gusainji. He can be differentiated by the pag (head-gear) he wore.
From: http://www.kripanidhi.com/Pathshala/sevenBalaks.htm#Girdharji
Festivals in Pushtisampradaya
03 years ago
In pushtimarg , Seva is not done for achieving the grace of Shrinathji, but Seva includes festivals that are included in the curriculum of seva.
* Shri Vallabhacharya started the mode of Seva of Shrinathji in a simple form. But his second son Shri Vitthalnatji became the successor of Shri Vallabhacharya who was also incarnation of Shrinathji with some divine abilities as Shri Vallabhacharya. Shri Vitthalnathji introduced many reforms in this Seva of Pushtimarg, just as a small child would like to have variety of toys and dresses which would keep him happy. So also Shri Vitthalnathji introduced a variety of reforms in the performance of Seva of Shrinathji.
* He started observing festivals starting with the birth of Lord Shri Krishna. This Festival is known as Krishna Janmashtmi, in this festival all the rituals in minute form are observed which had taken place at the time of birth of Shri Krishna. In this festival Krishna Janmashatmi which is the main festival, which falls on eighth day of gujarati month shravan Krishna paksha which falls in the month of august according to English calendar.
* This festival is performed with all the pomp and joy as if a son is born in the family. On the night of shravan 8th Krishna paksha the birth of Lord Krishna took place at midnight, though the birth of Lord Krishna took place in jail of Mathura to Vasudev and devaki (For the details of Lord Krishna one should read the 10th skanda of Shrimath bhagavad) he was brought to Gokul by his father Vasudev for lord Krishna’s safety. As Devaki feared that her brother Kamsa will kill the small boy, which was the 8th child of Devaki.
* Preparation for this festival is made in a Vaishnav’s house some four or five days before the actual date. New clothes or vaghas of saffron color made of cotton or stitched by the ladies of Vaishnava family. Where the Seva of Lord Shrinathji (Lord Balakrishna) is done according to the guidance introduced by Shri Vitthalnathji, this guidance is known as Pranalika. Every Vaishnav has to strictly follow this guidance (Pranalika). These Vaishnava’s should not do Seva according to his whims and fancies.
