Re: What Nadiya Nagari bhava?

Nityananda Gauranga Hare Krishna!

Dear Guruji, Srinath and devotees please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Sri Sri Guru and Gauranga.

This is a very good observation and thank you Srinath for bringing this to our attention.

Sri Vamsidasa Babaji was personally known and respected by Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati and Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura and he was highly praised by Srila Prabhupada. He was a contemporary of Srila Gaura Kishora Dasa Babaji and used to perform his bhajan in a hut at a place called Mutan Chada on the bank of the Ganges in Kuliya. He used to worship his Deities, Gaura-Nityananda, with great devotion.

Because he was so much absorbed in chanting the holy Names of the Lord, he would forget when it was Ekadasi. Sometimes he would perform Ekadasi when it was not Ekadasi. Sometimes he would fast for several days without water thinking Ekadasi was that long. To avoid the association of materialistic people he would spread fish bones and other abominable things outside his bhajana-sthali so people would think he was not strictly practicing bhajan.

The above respect our acharyas showed towards Vamsidasa Babaji Maharaja in itself proves that he is a self-realized Vaisnava and topmost paramahamsa. As far as the Nadiya Nagari bhava goes this is either a false accusation or if it was displayed by him we should understand this in the same manner as the fish bones around his bhajana-sthali: to avoid the wrong company.

Some very advanced devotees seem on the outside different than that they are on the inside. Like we would not be able to know that Srila Gaura Kisora dasa Babaji Maharaja is an uttama maha-bhagavata. But when somebody has even the slightest doubt about him we better avoid associating with that person. Advanced devotees can not be recognized and understood by our mundane perception. But when our guru or a guru in our sampradaya respects a devotee who displays a seemingly odd behavior, we have to trust and offer him respect as well and hold the devotee in question high above our heads. 

Your servant,

Hadai Nityananda dasa 

Nityananda Gauranga Hare Krishna!

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