Nityananda Gauranga Hare Krishna!
Dear Guruji and devotees,
Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to the guru Parampara. All glories to Sri Sri Nityananda Gauranga. All glories to Sri Sri Radha Govinda. All glories to the assembled devotees.
In Navadvipa dhama mahatmya written by Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura it is said:
�Shri Chaitanya's incarnation is most uncommon. By His mercy, a serious person, though filled with offenses, can quickly obtain love of God. When someone calls out the names of Nitai and Chaitanya, krishna-prema comes looking for him. Offenses do not hinder his progress, and he soon sheds tears of ecstasy out of pure love of God. By the mercy of Lord Chaitanya, all the offenses quickly flee away, the heart becomes pure, and love of God fully blossoms. Because people in Kali-yuga commit unlimited offenses, which are difficult to check, there can be no means of deliverance other than Gauranga's name. Therefore, in Kali-yuga, I see no alternative to Shri Gauranga. This is also the proclamation of the scriptures.�
�After Lord Gauranga completed His pastimes on earth His obedient servant Mayadevi, understood the desire of the Lord. She lifted the veil of illusion from the eyes of the living entities and revealed the true nature of Shri Gauranga within this material universe.�
However, Lord Gauranga revealed these confidential topics already while still present on earth to His intimate devotees. One of the first disclosures about the full extent of His mercy as Lord Gauranga is when He explains to Srivas Prabhu how He is going to protect His dear devotee. As Krishna, He protected His devotees by killing the demons and by merging their souls into the impersonal light of His radiation. As Gauranga He goes way beyond that. He does not kill the evil minded enemies of the devotees, instead he delivers them by inducing them with the highest Gift of all gifts: ecstatic love for God. This utmost mercy is incomprehensible mind-blowing. And we are so fortunate to live on a planet that is so recently touched by His merciful feet guaranteeing that all souls of this universe will be delivered. Even those who are against Him will fall in Love and cry for Krishna. Listen how Lord Gauranga ran to the house of Srivas when the rumor went that the king had sent two boots to Navadvip in order to arrest Srivas Prabhu. When you read the following passages of the Chaitanya Bhagavata Madhya Lila chapter 2, keep in mind that Srivas is the divine incarnation of the marginal energy of the Lord with which we can identify ourselves so easy since we are coming from that same energy:
�Oh Srivas, are you afraid of something? News has reached Me that the government men want to capture you, and they have come with two boats. I am the Supersoul within everyone's heart; I control and direct everyone's activities according to My sweet will. The king can only capture you if I, being situated in his heart, prompt him to do so. Yet, for some reason, if he acts independently and gives the order to capture you, then I will do the following: I will be the first to step into the boat and present Myself before the king. On seeing Me do you think that he will still remain sitting on the throne? I will delude him and take control of him. If the king evades this move of mine, then I have another alternative. I will tell the king, 'Listen to the truth, oh king. Call all of your religious heads and judges to come to the court. Collect all of your elephants, horses, animals, and birds, etc. Whatever you have, bring them to your place. Then order all of your Kazi priests to read from your scriptures and inspire every listener to such a state of spiritual emotion that they begin to cry.' If they fail to do so, then I will reveal my true identity to the king.�
By the way here the Lord explains simultaneously that the highest religion is the one that can establish such an intimate relationship of the living entity with the Lord that �such a state of spiritual emotion is reached that one starts to cry.�
�Then I will say, 'Oh king, on the instructions of these same Kazi priests, whose spiritual powers we have already witnessed, you want to forbid the congregational chanting of the holy name of God? Now you shall see My power to the full satisfaction of your eyes. I will capture a mad elephant and bring him here, along with other elephants, horses, deer and other animals, and make them all cry in ecstasy and chant Krishna's name.' I will make the king and all his men cry and chant Krishna's name.
Lord Gauranga in His causeless mercy will make the devotee�s enemy cry of Love for God. He doesn�t kill, He doesn�t give the king ordinary liberation by merging his soul into the brahmayoti, no He gives him Love for God. In order to fully console His devotee Lord Gauranga says to Srivas:
�I know that you don't believe that it is possible, but I will show you right now and you can see for yourself. The Lord noticed a small girl, who was the daughter of Srivas Pandit's brother, named Narayani. Lord Gaurachandra, the Supreme Godhead, the Supersoul within everyone's heart, ordered the little girl, "Narayani! Chant Krishna's name and cry in ecstasy." The four-year-old girl became extremely agitated with ecstatic spiritual emotions and cried out, "Oh Krishna!" She began to weep, losing all perception of the external world. Tears streamed down her body, and she fell to the ground. Smiling, Lord Visvambhar asked Srivas, "Are your fears pacified now?" Vaisnavas will remember for many years to come how Narayani was a recipient of the Lord's mercy.�
This same Lord Gauranga�s feet have touched this planet only a few hundred years ago. All living entities are sanctified just by touching the dust of this planet. Friend and enemy receive the highest Gift of all gifts: Love for God. The demigods envy the living entities on this planet who are given a free-pass to engage into such an intimate relationship with the Lord. Just by chanting �Nityananda� and �Gauranga�, even just once, mountains of sins are burned to ashes and Krishna Prema comes looking for us. And when we are somehow not able to receive it immediately, the Lord will find ways until our hearts melt and until we cry of Love for Krishna. The Lord truly came to engage all of us. And those who seem not to be engaged yet, just wait and see how all the souls of our entire universe will be transported to the highest destination. No single ant will be left behind because through Lord Gauranga even the animals cry for love for Krishna. Who can understand such a Love? Who can understand that the cries of Lord Advaita and Srivas have saved all of us?
I pray to Lord Nityananda and Lord Gauranga that They allow this insignificant soul to be a particle of dust at Their lotus feet to continue to witness this most wondrous miracle. Oh Lord, we do not have to travel all the way to Your planet, you have brought Your planet here. And now You are drowning us all in Your endless Love.
Humbled at the ocean of Lord Gauranga�s Love and begging for the mercy of the devotees,
Hadai Nityananda dasa
Nityananda Gauranga Hare Krishna!
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Beautiful. Glorifying Shri Gaura Paarshadas (Associates) is even higher than glorifying Lord Gaura Himself.
