dandavats Maharajs and vaisnavas.
Does any one know how to repair a Mrdanga.
I have a brass mrdanga and the top head is broken.
So I am trying reverse engneering to take aprat,but what can I do to repair the head
regards
lowerthanarat
Nityananda Gauranga Hare Krishna!Dear Guruji and devotees please accept my humble obeisances.I am still contemplating the whole exchange of Lord Gauranga Krishna with Sridhara. There is so much confidentiality and beautiful instruction here. For instance it is easy to make a hasty conclusion that Sridhara didn�t recognize the Lord during his scholarly pastimes thinking that Lord Gauranga kept His Identity hidden. After all even Lord Advaita Acharya who caused the Lord�s descend didn�t know from the very beginning. However in this context Sridhara says something very remarkable to Lord Gauranga: �Previously You personally told me, �The water of your Ganges has emanated from My feet.� Yet neither did my sinful heart recognize You, nor did I understand the glories of Your valuable lotus feet.� Sridhara blames his sinful heart to be the cause of him not recognizing the Lord. Why does the pure devotee of the Lord consider himself sinful? The pure devotee has no drop of sin in his heart. In my previous post I said in this context that �the Lord can stand right in front of His pure devotee, in Person, and still He is able to hide His true identity. This means that we are never able to recognize the Lord unless He reveals Himself. It is solely by the will of the Lord that He is recognized. The Lord uses His pure devotee Shridhara as an example here and covers him with His Yoga Maya, to show us how He reveals Himself to us (conditioned souls).The Lord asks for Sridhara�s prayers and manifests Sarasvati on his tongue and Sridhara prays: �You are dharma, You are karma, You are bhakti and You are jnana. You are the scriptures, You are the Vedas, and You are the object of all meditation. You are the mystic perfections, You are prosperity, You are enjoyment, and You are yoga. You are faith, You are compassion, You are illusion and greed. You are Indra, You are Chandra, Your are Agni and Varuna, You are Surya, You are Vayu, You are wealth and strength. You are devotional service, You are liberation, You are Brahma and Shiva.� Sridhara shows here that He sees Lord Gauranga in everything but then he says: �But why consider You to be them? They are all subordinate to you.�Sridhara first sees Lord Gauranga Krishna in all of His manifestation but then he makes a new distinction: actually everything I just mentioned is an expansion from You. Lord Gauranga Krishna�s first expansion is Lord Nityananda Who expands further into the rest of all manifestations. So all the purusha expansions are subordinate to Adi purusha and all of Lord Nityananda and His expansions are there to serve Lord Gauranga Krishna. Sridhara reveals here the glue of the whole of all manifestations: Love for Lord Gauranga Krishna via the medium of Lord Nityananda. First he sees only Lord Gauranga Krishna in al differentiation but then he sees a new differentiation: all he perceives is Lord Nityananda and His expansions in the service of Lord Gauranga Krishna. From then on his ecstasy is fully unleashed.We know this instruction from another episode when Shrila Murari Gupta was chastised by Lord Gauranga when he offered obeisances to Lord Gauranga first and then to Lord Nityananda. That same night he had a dream and both the Lords appeared and he saw how Lord Balarama was walking ahead of Lord Krishna being the elder brother. So the next day he came and offered obeisances to Lord Nityananda and worshiped Him first and then He did the same to Lord Gauranga. Lord Gauranga was very pleased. There are unlimited wonders hidden in the Lord and there is a never ending, always something more and deeper that He will reveal to his devotees.In a sense Sridhara was innocent by seeing the Lord in everything. It is a natural evolution in a devotee�s development to come to that super vision of seeing the Lord in everything. It is just that the Lord wants us to discover the differentiation of how He is in everything: via His first expansion Lord Nityananda Who is nothing but love and worship for Lord Gauranga Krishna. Lord Gauranga Krishna wants us to approach Him through Lord Nityananda because He is the absolute expert in love and service for the Lord. So in this wonderful exchange of Lord Gauranga Krishna with Sridhara the Lord not only shows that He is more pleased by being approached through Lord Nityananda, He also reveals that we miss out on so much ecstasy if we don�t approach Him through Lord Nityananda.Of course Sridhara is not sinful and never was sinful�it is all Lord Gauranga Krishna�s supreme mercy and special instruction to us fallen souls, so we get a glimpse of His transcendental Being that is so way beyond our sense perception.So I am still stuck at the exchange between Lord Gauranga Krishna and Sridhara. Or am I really? To me these realizations of a few verses contain more ecstasy than I can bear. How could I ever be able to bear the ecstasy of the entire Sri Chaitanya-Bhagavata? Really I have ways to go to expand my tiny container and only by the mercy of Guruji, the Guru Parampara, Lord Nityananda, Lord Gauranga, and Radha Krishna have I not exploded into thousand pieces yet. How can I ever get calm with so much excitement in and around me? And how can I overcome the fear that somebody could get envious about my realizations? It is absolutely not my intention to frustrate anybody and when I do please I want to give you all off my bliss in an instant. It is overflowing constantly. Also I am very aware of my extreme vulnerability because I have lost all grips except the lotus feet of Guruji, the devotees and the Lord. Without Them I am lost because there is nothing but Them. My life is in Your hands. I want You to know dear devotees, that when You read these words awake, that I have fallen into Your hands and that I am totally depending on You to catch me. I also beg to the devotees who are not initiated yet by Guruji, please jump and take it! I promise the wings will come and you will fly. Make it your highest priority and put all other considerations aside. Please make your most important decision now and ask Guruji for diksha. When you think that you will not be able to follow all of the rules, just do the best you can and you will see that you will be able to overcome all obstacles with his mercy. I know who Guruji Swami Gaurangapada is and you don�t want to miss out on a once in a billions of lifetimes opportunity to take diksha from him. After diksha Guruji will forever live in your heart and He will give you Lord Nityananda without delay. Actually the moment you decide to take diksha from Guruji Lord Nityananda takes over your life. If that is what you really want�please, please, I beg you: jump now!Your servant,Hadai Nityananda dasaNityananda Gauranga Hare Krishna!
