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Daaso'smi, BR Sadhu Swami Gaurangapada.
Nityananda Gauranga Hare Krishna!
Dear Guruji and devotees please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to the guru parampara. All glories to Sri Sri Gaura Nitai. All glories to Sri Sri Radha Krishna.
nityanandam aham naumi
sarvananda-karam param
hari-nama-pradam-devam
avadhuta-shriromanim
Lord Gaura-Nityananda’s glories are unlimited and Srila Vrndavana dasa Thakura says that it is impossible to describe them in full. Although the pastimes of our Lordships are described in various scriptures with similar descriptions, the variations within the pastimes itself are unlimited. All these variations are accurate and sources of pure nectar and They flow from His unrestricted mercy into the hearts of His devotees. The Supreme Lord Gaura-Nityananda is the end-all of all devotion and He has made me completely mad with love for Him. His restless nature reflects in my heart: I have become extremely restless and I constantly think of Lord Nityananda. Just saying His name ‘Nityananda’ is such an all-embracing wave of love and saying His name again and again means love to the infinite power. The infinite ocean of nectar and supreme love of Lord Gauranga is beyond our means of comprehension but with His celestial plow Lord Nityananda channels that ocean right into our hearts. The Lord told me to churn His glories and treasure after treasure comes to the surface. The latest jewel is the narration of His kaupina. I understand now why Srila Vrndavan das Thakura keeps openings between the verses describing the glories of his spiritual master because in His supreme beauty Lord Nityananda Himself fills in the gaps for His devotees and invites them, right here and now, to witness His pastimes.
Just before Lord Gauranga glorifies His older brother, Lord Nityananda arrives at the Lord’s house, naked, in ecstasy and in the mood of a little boy. On seeing Lord Nityananda’s effulgent beautiful naked body Lord Gauranga laughed and took the cloth from His Own head and put it on Lord Nityananda. This in itself is so wonderful because the cloth on Lord Gauranga’s head is nobody else than Lord Nityananda extended form of Ananta Sesa manifesting the Lord’s personal paraphernalia including His clothes. The kaupina consists of two pieces of cloth, one serving as a belt, the other as the covering flap folded over the front and wrapped in the back. In this version of His supreme pastime, as I was allowed to witness, Lord Nityananda had the cloth that functions as the belt still around His waist. Totally internalized and in ecstasy He had simple lost the covering flap when He danced His way to Lord Chaitanya. Lord Gauranga wrapped the cloth from His Own head in the belt of Lord Nityananda Who laughed while receiving back His Own manifested paraphernalia for the Lord. The cloth on Lord Gauranga’s head is maha-prasadam and now back on the waist of Lord Nityananda it has become maha-maha-prasadam.
As a side note we have to remember that Lord Gauranga had told Lord Nityananda before, on different occasions, that He should not walk around naked especially not in a householder’s house. It was not the first time that Lord Visvambhara had dressed Lord Nityananda and He had told Him that He felt embarrassed by His misdeeds. This is what the Supreme Lord said externally but internally the Lord is always very pleased with Lord Nityananda in all that He does.
So this time Lord Gauranga Krishna took the being naked pastime of Lord Nityananda to the fullest extend and after putting His kaupina on He smeared Lord Nityananda’s body with sandalwood paste, gave Him a flower garland and offered Him an asana. In front of all the assembled devotees Lord Visvambhara glorifies Lord Nityananda declaring that He is nobody else than Lord Balarama and that He is present wherever Krishna is. Then the Supreme Lord asks for the kaupina of Lord Nityananda. Nitai just laughs. He knows that His kaupina belongs to Lord Gauranga to begin with. When Lord Visvambhara ‘takes’ the kaupina from Lord Nityananda, it has become uniquely maha-maha-maha-prasadam Which is non-different from both of our Lordships. Then Lord Gauranga tears this maha-maha-maha-prasadam into many small pieces and distributes Them to the Vaisnavas while instructing them: “Tie this piece of Lord Nityananda’s kaupina on your head with devotion. Go home and worship it with great care.”
This pastime is so beautiful and the joy of the devotees present is beyond measurement. Ordinary people do not understand what is so special about tying somebody’s underwear on their heads. They think that that is a crazy thing to do and they attribute the ecstasy derived from it as even more crazy. And in a sense they are right: the devotees present became like madmen and were drowning in the unfathomable bliss of love for the Lord. But what they don’t see is the desirability of this kind of madness and they are cheated out of so much bliss. Even though They display Them openly our Lordships are so expert in hiding Their confidential pastimes, but for Their devotees They are the ultimate source of boundless bliss.
Dearest devotees know that when you read the words of the pastimes of the Lord’s kaupina awake you have received a piece of this maha-maha-maha-prasadam as well, within your heart. In our hearts we treasure the Lord’s pastimes and it is in our hearts where the actual pastimes of the Lord can be seen. Lord Gaura-Nityananda gives us in an instant more than we can ever ask for and makes us happy beyond our comprehension. His mercy is all we need for complete spiritual realization and He distributes it so eagerly to us fallen souls.
Your servant,
Hadai Nityananda dasa
Nityananda Gauranga Hare Krishna!
Nityananda Gauranga Hare Krishna!
Dear Guruji, Nava and devotees please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Sri Sri Guru and Gauranga.
Very deep thoughts Nava. A few thoughts about thoughts itself and the seeking attitude.
Thoughts are the direction of our focus and focus determines where we are heading to which is eventually our outcome. All of our thoughts, every single one of them bubble up as energies from the floor of our consciousness a kind of like the way bubbles arise from the bottom of the ocean. On their way up they get ‘colored’ by many factors that eventually ends up to be a tangible, recognizable thought. We have roughly a million of those bubbles coming up per day and about 50.000 of them result into ‘meaningful’ thoughts. I agree that the closer to the root you can identify with the thought the more profound ‘power’ it embodies. That’s how siddhis work. However those thoughts are not necessary better or even spiritual for that sake. Our thoughts are shaped during their journey from deep within our consciousness to the surface. Spiritual thoughts are shaped rather than that they are spiritual by default. Therefore the more we indulge ourselves in reading about Lord Gauranga Krishna’s pastimes the more our thoughts will be aligned with His Supreme will and bliss. When we mix our indulgence with other interests our thoughts will be shaped by them as well.
A word about seeking: in the material sense that is a logic process because when I misplace something and seek for it I can find it back. In the spiritual sense it is a misleading activity. As long as we are engaged in the process of seeking we are not finding. When we have found we are not seeking anymore. Sounds like basic logic? Yes, but not as easy to put into practice. When I say I want to be happy that implicates I am not happy yet. Most people say those things for a lifetime. When the beggar doesn’t want to look in the treasure trunk he is sitting on he misses out on the wealth he has already. In this very fortunate Kali Yuga the Lord has incarnated in His holy Names. We only have to chant Them with faith and a drop of love to actually experience that the Lord has indeed incarnated in His Names. Without faith and that drop of love we miss out and although we seek Him we don’t find Him. But as soon as we experience the Lord vividly in His Names we are not seeking Him anymore.
Actually on a subtle level the process of seeking means that we are avoiding a relationship with the Lord. We might exhibit a desire to establish a relationship with the Lord on the outside but on the inside the desired fulfillment remains unoccupied. We HAVE already a relationship with the Lord which will instantly unfold within our consciousness the moment we surrender. Surrender means to give up our false ego, to step out of the way and to invite Lord Gaura-Nityananda to take over. As long as we are busy seeking we are pre-occupied with a self-fabricated image and are standing in the way. When we pour clear water in a glass with muddy water the water stays muddy. Our glass needs to be empty and clean so the Lord can be recognized rather than imagined. Recognition here and now is a million times more potent than waiting or seeking for something in the future.
When we surrender our thoughts to be exclusively shaped by sadhu, guru and shastra the Lord will reveal Himself as He is.
Thank you so much for your posts Nava .. may the Lord flood you with unlimited bliss.
Your servant,
Hadai Nityananda dasa
Nityananda Gauranga Hare Krishna!
