Taking Lord Gaura back to Navadvipa

Nityananda! Gauranga! Hare Krishna!

Dear Swami Gaurangapada Gurudeva, Dear Devotees

i would like to share with You some Gaura Nectar which i read today in Shri Navadvipa Bhava Taranga from Shrila Bhaktivinoda Thakura. As yesterday i celebrated the Ratha Yatra Festival, it remembers me on the meaning and pastime of Ratha Yatra. The same way the devotees of Lord Krishna, when they see Him in His royal appearance, yearn to have Him back in Vrindavana, devotees of Lord Gaura, when they see Him in His appearance as a sannyasi, yearn to have Him back in Navadvipa. After all Gaura is Krishna, Navadvipa is Vrindavana and Gaura Lila is Krishna Lila

When will I stand still on this bank of the Ganga by the door of Vidya  Vacaspati's school and view the opulence of the spiritual kingdom?  After a few   moments will the Lord, who is king among sannyasis, suddenly appear up in the  palace before me very eyes? Seeing the golden  effulgence of the Lord in the form of a sannyasi, I will fall to the earth in  great anxiety.  I will feel just as the gopis did upon seeing Krishna in Dvaraka  dressed like a royal prince; thus they cried while remembering His sweet and  simple cowherd pastimes on the bank of the  Jamuna. I long to take the moonlike  Gaura-chandra back to Mayapur where He is dressed like a young boy and His  divine limbs are radiant wit ornaments, where His hair is long and curly and Hid  dhoti folded thrice, where He performs pastimes with His devotees in His own  Garden named Isodyana. Of course, this sannyasi  is my Lord and I am just His servant.  These different appearances that the Lord  assumes are but some of His unlimited pastimes.  Still, my heart longs to take  the Lord back to the temple of Shrivasa Pandita on the bank of Prithu Kunda!

Navadvipa-chandra Shri Gauranga Bhagavan ki jaya!

Matus

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