Re: Vyasa Puja Dec 1 2008

Please accept my most humble obesiances at Your lotus feet. Nityaananda! Gauraanga! Hare Krishna.

I am not at all qualified to offer You prayers so instead I might take a different approach. You are my main inspiration and on Your auspicious Vyasa Puja day it is proper I take Your advise to heart and glorify Your dear Lord, Sri Nityaananda Rama. Here is a simple poem that I am offering at Your lotus feet. I am not at all qualified to compose either, but this was a simple thing that I wanted to give to You so that You may instruct me further on how to improve.


Came to this world as the son of Padmavati Devi
He gave this miserable Kali Yuga the light to see
That Gaurasundar Vishwambar is our real master
Let us start running to him, faster and faster

Hadai Pandit could not leave Nitai alone anywhere
He always took his beloved son with him everywhere
Their love grew and grew until their bodies melted together
Seeing this the happiness increased within the mother
   
But Nityananda�s parents couldn�t keep him for long
In came a sanyassi singing his heartbreaking song
Just like king Dasarath, his father felt the knife
And out of intense separation soon gave up his life

Nityananda prabhu toured all the holy places
And in each he found many interesting cases
    But only until he met Madhavendra Puri did he feel grateful   
Why, without Vaishnava association nothing is fruitful

A sudden inspiration told him to meet his brother
He was going to establish the samkirtan movement and none other
So Nitai set off to find his Lord on foot
And on the way he worked on people�s hearts, removing the soot

The meeting between the two Lords is indescribable
I can only relate what I am able
That day the most fortunate person was Nandanacharya
Otherwise why would this auspicious event take place in his griha?

Nitai�s Vyas Puja occurs in Srivas Angan
It was ecstatic with everyone glorifying Sri Radha Raman
The house of Srivas became a storehouse of ecstasy
And everyone could now understand the Lord�s supremacy

Then one day on the order of his Lord
He went to transcendentally bind the people with his �cord�
But Jagai and Madhai were filling him with dismay
They hated this Harinam movement and hit him with a pot made of clay

Then Vishwambar came as angry as fire
The Sudarsan came upon his fiery desire
Nityananda however interrupted
And by his desire the rogues became liberated

Such are the glories of Nityananda
His entire personality was filled with prema
The Vedas describe of his appearance and disappearance
However of his glories there is no clearance!
One day Lord Chaitanya called Lord Nityananda near
He said, �Come close dear Nitai, and carefully hear�
The smarta brahmanas are making the world chaos
To defeat them I have decided to take sannyasa

Lord Nityananda�s heart immediately broke
He knew the Lord was speaking no joke
He sent out the news to Saci, Gadadhara and Brahmananda
Not to forget Chandrasekhar and the amazing singer Mukunda

Lord Chaitanya became a sannyasi and got his ekadanda
Here in the Nityananda Charitamrita starts the Antya Khanda
Lord Nityananda broke his danda in three
The Lord was outwardly angry but continued to declare, �Nityananda is dear to me!�

At Raghava Pandit�s house did Nityananda have his grand bathing
In ecstacy the devotees were not aware of anything
Lord Nityananda was chanting �Haribol!� and around the room he was prancing
Lord Chaitanya secretly came just to witness his dancing

Some envious people decided to steal Lord Nityananda�s jewels
They came to Hiranya Pandit�s house at night with knives and many tools
By Nidra devi, Yogamaya and the demigods they were deceived
They were not successful in their original plan but Nityananda�s mercy they received

A brahmana had on Lord Nityananda some baseless thoughts
Lord Chaitanya�s advice he sought
The Lord made sure those doubts were dispelled
And then Lord Nityananda made sure all the brahmanas anarthas were at once expelled

The Subal of Krishna-lila was Gauridasa Pandita
And his brother was no other than Suryadasa Pandit
Lord Chaitanya had ordered Lord Nityananda to marry
And in following the Lord�s order Nityananda did not tarry

He married the first daughter of Suryadasa Pandit named Jahnava
One day he was being served prasadam by the second daughter, Vasudha
Her sari was slipping but she manifested two more arms to put it on her head
Seeing this Nityananda asked for her hand. �Take her!� Suryadasa said

The time came for Nityananda to leave
Krishna bhakti was fixed so no one was left to grieve
He went back to Ekachakra where he appeared and merged into Sri Banka Raya
No one could find him no matter how hard they did try

Such are the glories of Nityananda
His entire personality is filled with prema
The Vedas describe of his appearance and disappearance
However of his glories there is no clearance!

I hope this humble attempt at poetry will please Your Divine Grace.

I end with the following, which is coming from my heart:
'tomara koruna na hoile khandiya khandiya prana na rakhibo ara'

I also take this opportunity to ask forgiveness at Your lotus feet for all the offenses I have committed. A Guru is particularly magnanimous on the Vyasa Puja Day so I hope that You will forgive me.

Your most insignificant servant,
Sridevi Sandhini dasi

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