Re: Nitai-Gauranga's mercy easily obtainable or not?

Nityananda! Gauranga! Hare Krishna!

I definitely agree with Swami Gaurangapada that one must accept the mercy of Lord Nityananda completely to attain the highest treasure. We all can approach Lord�s Nitai and Gaura even with offenses, but if we aren�t 100% ready to accept their mercy and give up all material desires, then how can we accept immediately? The Lord is not going to force us or take our independence, even though he sincerely wants to help us, so in most cases it is a gradual process, sometimes very gradual and other times more quickly.

I also think it is the acquired nature of us conditioned souls to blame someone else for our problems. We want to blame our boss, the government, our families, God, etc. for things not always going our way, but we must always remember that it is our own actions that cause our circumstances. It is our habit of gratifying our material senses that causes our downfall, great or small. The more strongly we try to engage in material sense gratification, to that degree we will suffer the threefold miseries. This is a very simple formula that all of us should see working in our lives.

So sometimes we go to the Lord for desires other than pure devotional service, and this is natural in our conditioned stage. Sometimes we have trace desires for liberation, material enjoyment, etc. still left in us. We should know that if we chant the holy names of Nityananda and Gauranga and become absorbed in their pastimes, then we will attain the highest treasure. But if we stop chanting their names, or quit reading their pastimes, or quit associating with real devotees, and then go back to our sinful activities and bad association, then who is to blame? We voluntarily turn away from God at times because of other desires or our doubting mind.

The true Vaisnavas have given us a simple process in this age of Kali Yuga for attaining pure love of God and acquiring our inherent eternally blissful nature and this is the path we must follow if we do indeed want the highest treasure of eternal blissful love.

harer nama harer nama
harer namaiva kevalam
kalau nasty eva nasty eva
nasty eva gatir anyatha

In this age of quarrel and hypocrisy, the only means of deliverance is the chanting of the holy names of the Lord. There is no other way. There is no other way. There is no other way.

We must chant the holy names in a very humble submissive mood, and this mood is only possible by association with eternal Vaisnavas who are the only ones who possess it.

Nityananda Gauranga Hare Krishna
Jagannatha Gauranga dasa

PS- This reply wasn't directed to anyone specifically.

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