Nityananda! Gauranga! Hare Krsna!
Dear Swami Gaurangapada, Bhakta Tommy, and assembled devotees, please accept my full dandavat pranams.

Here is today's Gita As It Is verse from my daily reading. Bhakta Tommy I started reading one verse and purport per day last November, and this is the reading for the last two days.
Srila Gurudeva has so beautifully expressed the glory of Sri Gauranga in his above comment. A topmost sannyasi is the leader of brahmanas and all orders of life, setting the example for all to follow. As we know Sri Gauranga is the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and within him are all transcendental qualities unlimited. Because he is the personification of mercy, he designed in his heart how best to win souls to Krsna. He thus considered taking the sannyasa dress and setting the highest example of behaviour, so all would follow.
Gita explicitly says what a great person does others follow. The below verse contains the transcendental qualities which lead to liberation. It has been said that one has to be born of godly parents at an auspicious time (and conceived auspiciously) to attain these qualties. But it has also been said that liberation comes to serve the pure hearted bhakta.
Srila Gurudeva, Sri Nityananda and Sri Gauranga have appeared in this world to hand out this great treasure of bhakti. All these qualities will manifest in due course by the grace of Naam Prabhu (Sri Sri Nitaai-GauraKrsna Naam), in the hearts of the sincere.
We have been graced with the highest benediction and been given a chance to cultivate loving service this life. The association of a gentle hearted sannyasa monk. All these qualities in Vaisnava Thakura will come down to us as we serve him, to assist us in cultivating service mood, day by day. Eventually leaving behind the material body (of suffering) and entering divine lila.
We are so fortunate to be under the shelter of this divine potency. Under the shelter of loving devotion.
Here is the Gita reading for you:
Bhagavad Gita As It Is 16 1-3 click here
your servant Nava.
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