Re: Vyasa Puja Dec 1 2008

Nityananda! Gauranga! Hare Krsna!

Dear Hadai,

Your greatest gift to the world is your emphasizes on the Mantrarajas. In my case the Maha Mantra became only alive after I started chanting the Mantrarajas ‘Nityananda’ and ‘Gauranga’. Although we see this most sacred of instructions throughout the scriptures and writings of our teachers, it is in this modern time only you who is actually inviting the aspiring devotees to these most accessible nectarian Names of the Lord. Thank you so much for enduring all defying opinions and reaching out to fallen souls like me and safe me from the vicious circle of repeated birth and death without experiencing the unlimited ocean of love for Lord Nitai-Gauranga-Krishna. I do not mind to be born again and again but I beg it will always be where you are so I can remain, by your mercy, a tiny dust particle at your feet. Posted by Hadai

Thanks for expressing these things for us all to hear. We are so fortunate that these Mantraraja's entered our hearts. Thx Hadai, Gurudeva is surely the jewel in our heart that lightens the Holy Names of Nityananda and Gauranga!

y.s. Nava.

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Re: Vyasa Puja Dec 1 2008

Respected Guruji,

         Nityananda Gauranga Hare Krishna! Please accept my humble obeisances!

         On the occasion of your Vyasa Puja on December 1 2008, I find myself unable to express my gratitude to you and to all your servants as well for having taken so much mercy on ignorant fools as myself to introduce us to the mantrarajas Nityananda and Gauranga and thereby give us an indescribably rare,  once in an eternity opportunity where you have condescended to offer the Lord on a golden platter. Divine mercy of this magnitude astounds the entire universe for its extreme simplicity and rarity, a chance so valuable it is denied even to great demigods.

          On this same day of December last year was the day I was introduced to the most merciful names of Nityananda Gauranga at a time when my Hare Krishna had dwindled so badly I considered to give up and succumb to weakness. The day I chanted Nityananda Gauranga I felt a new awakening of the spiritual fire inside me and the course of events that have conspired over the last 1 year, too elaborate to put into words, have made me realise a tiny bit of how great the mercy of devotees like you really is.

          Among all the modern teachers, you who chose to go beyond all insitutional and formal limitations, the seasoned prejudices and superstitious misconceptions of the orthodoxy, knowing very well the world-wide opposition you could face, and yet with the mercy of your gurudeva and his gurudeva all the way back to the original Vyasadeva, you have openly broken the secret treasure chest of Nityananda Gauranga naama for the sake of all the conditioned souls in the Kali Yuga against all odds with a will and energy that is reminiscent of the immortal Srila Prabhupada's legendary preaching of the Hare Krishna maha-mantra all over the world.  By your own example of breaking the sealed vaults you have inspired me and many others to take it up. We consider ourselves to be very fortunate to be among the recipients of this special mercy although we are ungrateful wretches who totally do not deserve this.

          Your example inspires all of us to practice and preach the chanting of the holy names of the Lord despite all the hardships we may face. All glories to your causeless and unlimited mercy on conditioned souls, the likes of which we insignificant souls may never realise completely. As Hadai prabhu said, although the sacred association of Nityananda Gauranga is there in all scriptures of our acaryas, still you are the only acarya today who has realised the potency of that hidden treasure and also the need to officially and openly invite all conditioned souls to this confidential treasure of chanting the holy names of Nityananda and Gauranga. On this occasion I also express my heartfelt gratitude to your gurudeva who placed his lotus hand on your head and empowered you to spread Nitai Gaura naama and empowered us to be the recipients of your mercy.
 
            The Lord is now knocking on the hearts of all the living entities all over the world demanding, "Let me in. Let me in." It is clear that the glories of Nityananda Gauranga naam have been waiting for this time when a most astute genius would notice the confidential secret and its impilcations by the mercy of the Lord and Gurudeva and inagurate the divine flood that will soon spread everywhere. We cannot do anything but only marvel at the glories of your transcendental personality when we realise that you have noticed something so confidential which has never been revealed in the history of this universe in this day of Brahma. In the future there will certainly be many more great souls who will take up Nitaai Gaura naam and preach with the same vigour and energy. The flood of devotion that swept the planet during Lord Gaura's manifest pastimes will come forth in a second wave, with Lord Gaura-Nitai appearing manifest again as their names.

           Therefore on your Vyasa Puja, I dedicate myself with renewed vigour and determination to serving the Lord and the Vaisnavas. Putting the mistakes of the past behind, I attempt to give your divine grace and all Vaisnavas some happiness by taking the holy names of the Lord with more determination and faith then ever before in gratitude for all the mercy you have shown me. Other than this I do not know any other way by which I can serve you because of all my limitations and I pray for your mercy as always.

Unlimitedly grateful and Aspiring to be of service,

Srinath

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Re: Vyasa Puja Dec 1 2008

Nityananda! Gauranga! Hare Krsna!

Dear Swami Gaurangapada, please accept my full dandavat pranams.

As each year goes by in your association, I realize that your love, kindness, and service mood lives in my heart, in felt gratitude. This year has presented many challenges in my unfoldment, with many humbling experiences. Even though difficult, I know that such breaking of my false ego is necessary. I consider all graces that have arisen over the last five years in my heart, as a manifestation of your mercy. Directly from the mercy potency of God. Who knows me well.

Simply this year I want to say thank you! And hopefully oneday I can be free of the unwanted things that keep me from full service mood.

You are patient, and always encouraging your disciples to begin even the smallest of services. That is why I love you as my dear friend and guide.

I am so grateful that you called me Nava. Because that is how I see God and personalism now. It is surely ever-new. Jaya Gauranga!

your servant...Nava Gauranga dasa.

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Re: Vyasa Puja 2008

Nityananda Gauranga Hare Krishna!

Dear Guruji,

Please accept my humble obeisances at your lotus feet. All glories to the guru parampara. All glories to Lord Nityananda and Lord Gauranga. All glories to Sri-Sri Radha Govinda.

On this most sacred day of your appearance we express our gratefulness and thankfulness towards you. Via your guru and his guru and his guru our worship is transferred to Vyasadeva which makes Lord Sri Gaura Krishna very happy Who accepts the devotee of his devotee rather than His direct devotee. In this sense everyday is your sacred appearance day because you are the permanent transparent medium through which we are enabled to render loving service unto the lotus feet of the Lord. Therefore your lotus feet are equal, no even greater, than the lotus feet of the Lord. At these most sacred of all feet I pray:

Thank you for extinguishing the blazing fire of our material conditioning and allowing us to receive a glimpse of the spiritual existence which is beyond words for description. Thank you for spreading the most merciful holy Names of Lord Nityananda and Lord Gauranga so boldly throughout the world. Thank you for being so patient and compassionate towards our repeated ignorance. Thank you for your courage that sometimes has to row upstream against all currents. Thank you for this holy forum where we can meet at your feet. Thank you for everything you do and everything you are.

By your mercy I had this last year the great fortune to experience so much happiness and to receive so many insights. There were times that I couldn�t sleep for days because my inner happiness was dancing so vigorously. I have realized my eternal connection with you as never before: there is no space and time between us, you are always in my heart and you give me continuous instruction. By your mercy Srila Vyasadeva in his manifestation as Sri Vrndavan dasa Thakura is speaking so clearly in his Sri Chaitanya-Bhagavata; there are books of realization hidden between the lines and our Lordships Nityananda and Gauranga are dancing in every sloka.

Your greatest gift to the world is your emphasizes on the Mantrarajas. In my case the Maha Mantra became only alive after I started chanting the Mantrarajas �Nityananda� and �Gauranga�. Although we see this most sacred of instructions throughout the scriptures and writings of our teachers, it is in this modern time only you who is actually inviting the aspiring devotees to these most accessible nectarian Names of the Lord. Thank you so much for enduring all defying opinions and reaching out to fallen souls like me and safe me from the vicious circle of repeated birth and death without experiencing the unlimited ocean of love for Lord Nitai-Gauranga-Krishna. I do not mind to be born again and again but I beg it will always be where you are so I can remain, by your mercy, a tiny dust particle at your feet.

Eternally we sing your glories throughout the entire universe and without beginning and without end we ask for your continuous mercy of extending that always expanding ocean of love for Lord Nitai-Gauranga-Krishna! Dear Guruji when you read these words awake, unlimited flower petals are raining from the sky filling your atmosphere with celestial fragrance and every atom around you is singing in the sweetest of all voices: Nityaananda! Gauraanga! Hare Krishna!

With love beyond words,

Hadai Nityananda dasa

Nityananda Gauranga Hare Krishna!

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