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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Thank You Thakura Bhaktivinoda

Nityananda! Gauranga! Hare Krishna!

i just finished reading Shri Navadvipa Dhaama Mahatmya and Shri Navadvipa Bhava Taranga and i feel like the most fortunate soul in this universe. So much mercy is there in the Holy Names, Forms and Abodes of Lords Nityananda Gauranga! By reading this two books i feel a strong desire developing in the core of my heart for the exclusive shelter of Lord Gauranga and His Holy Abode, Shri Navadvipa Dhaama. i am utmost grateful to His Divine Grace Shrila Bhaktivinoda Thakura for revealing the topmost and most confidential glories of Shri Navadvipa Dhaama contained within these two divine scriptures, Shri Navadvipa Dhaama Mahatmya and Shri Navadvipa Bhava Taranga. How bereft are all those who never gets the opportunity to dive into the sublime spiritual truths of Navadvipa Dhaama as described within these two holy books! Alas, one cannot even hope to attain the confidential service to the Divine Couple Shri Shri Radha Krishna and Lord Gaurahari in this quarrelsome and dark age of Kali, except taking exclusive shelter at Shri Navadvipa Dhaama, Lords Nityananda Gauranga and Their Holy Names!

Matus

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Please Dance My Mind

Nityaananda! Gauraanga! Hare Krishna! Perhaps one of my perennial favorites, is the song..Dayala Nitaai Chaitanya Bali Naacha re Aamaara Mana.. I was hearing this Song today. Not only my mind, but my heart and soul begin dancing on hearing this song.  But today I had an unique experience. Not only my soul was dancing but today I faintly found myself in the midst of the dancing of the Sankirtana of Lords Nitaai Gaura and His Associates while hearing this song.

I could feel Lords Nitaai Gaura swinging to and fro while dancing and I could hear Their Associates singing. This was not a hallucination because I was crying in bliss. The syllables of the song and the way it was sung forcefully dragged me into the Sankirtana of the Lord. It is undescribable how unlimited meanings and realizations are present in the transcendental sound vibration. One may hear the same vibration again but one will receive a totally different unique realization every time.

These realizations increase my greed to constantly hear this transcendental sound vibration always. The moment one is not under the protection of transcendental sound, the same moment one gets captured by Maya or the Illusory Energy, who is always waiting nearby for her chance to drag our consciousness down.

Daaso'smi, BRS Swami Gaurangapada.

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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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