64 Rounds of Nityananda and Gauranga Naam

Nityananda! Gauranga! Hare Krsna!

Dear Swami Gaurangapada and devotees,
please accept my simple obiesances.

Some thoughts and realizations from my heart this morning while doing sadhana/jaap.

1. Gurudeva has expressed several times to me, 'the slow and steady win the race'. That statement rings true in so many aspects of life, and even truer in the devotional life, on all levels.

2. When I met Srila Gaurangapada in 2004 (how fortunate) he gave me the most important instruction of my life. 'Please' he asked, 'chant 10 rounds of Nityananda Naam and Gauranga Naam everyday without fail. Please! They have given you so much to be grateful for: fresh air, good health, nice foodstuffs, wonderful beauty all around you. So much to be grateful for, please chant Their Holy Names everyday'.

I took this instruction to heart, and gratitude for life has become the key. Especially now that I can behold a tiny glimpse of the beautiful path set forth by Sri Krishna Caitanya Mahaprabhu. Without Srila Gurudeva and his wise instructions this would not have been possible.

3.By regularly chanting a fixed number of rounds of Nityananda and Gauranga Naam, before chanting the Hare Krsna Mahamantra, we become fixed very quickly in Naam sadhana. The cry of the heart to Lord Nitaai becomes, 'purify me please so pure devotion may arise in my heart. Purify me please so I may know how to live a devotional life, learning to love and respect others, as parts and particles of God. Please show me how to live, so I may be qualified oneday to serve the associates of Sri Sri Radha Krsna! Oh Sri Gauranga thank you!'

4. I have realized that by chanting a fixed number of rounds of Nitaai-Gaura Naam without fail each day, the heart begins to yearn for chanting the Holy Name more and more. Why is that? Because the offences in the heart begin to be slowly cleared away.

5. I have realized over the last 4 years that Nitaai-Gaura Naam jaap has become an essential part of daily sadhana. And that 64 rounds of each Holy Name of Nityananda and Gauranga is desired deeply, at all costs, without fail. And then after completing rounds of the Mahamantra, to dive deeply into Nitaai-Gaura Naam again. I feel deeply this is the master key, greatest gift, and most radical mercy of our beloved spiritual master and acarayas.

6. Nitaai-Gauranga covers a multitude of sins and offences, and encourages by this merciful love, to continue the process of devotional life and awakening to love. Their mercy is truly heart inspiring, and shelter in the storms of life. Mercy!

7. Very very quickly after regular chanting of 64 rounds of Nityananda and Gauranga Naam, an intense desire for chanting the Hare Krsna Mahamantra arises! And the chanting of Nitaai-Gauranga becomes stronger, fixed, and more intense. 'Oh please wipe away all dust from my heart Gaura Naam, so I may see who you truly are, so I may truly live and fulfill the plan of this human birth!'

8. 'I am so fallen and far from love! How can I ever taste the beauty and sweetness of Goloka Vrindavan, without your mercy, Lords Nityananda-Gauranga!'

9. 64 rounds each of Nityananda, Gauranga, and the Hare Krishna Mahamantra is the greatest gift of our disciplic succession, and will very quickly awaken Naam Siddhi in the heart. We should aspire for this goal birth after birth, and take Sri Gauranga's intructions about Laksha Naam upon our head, and fully worship Naam in such a way.

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