Assisting the Associates

Nityaananda! Gauraanga! Hare Krishna! Today I was hearing the song "Gauranga karuna koro dina hina jani..." by Shrila Narottama Dasa Thakura. The tone of this song is an intense cry from the heart of Shrila Narottama Dasa Thakura and it will certainly melt the hearts of even the hard-hearted. In the end when I heard, "shri krishna chaitanya prabhu dasera anudasa....", I felt myself getting absorbed within. I found myself outside the door of the nikunja or the beautiful grove where Lords Nitaai Gaura were performing Sankirtana with Their Associates. I could see the exhuberant dancing of Lord Gaura with my inner eyes even though I was waiting outside.

I was deeply ecstatic and I felt that I awaiting orders from the intimate Asociates of Lords Nitaai Gaura on how to serve Them. Oh! I pray I can experience this mood always. The loving mellows of rendering service to the Associates of the Lord Gaura is much more ecstatic than those attained while serving the Lord Himself. Therefore, Shrila Narottama Dasa Thakura desires to become to the servant of His servants and not His direct servant. While serving the Lord's Associates, even though one may not be physically present in the Lord's Pastimes, all the Pastimes are revealed to one's inner eye due to th causeless mercy of the Lord's Associates who are even more merciful than Him.

Daaso'smi, BRS Swami Gaurangapada.

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