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Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Re: Gaura-Nitaai: The Most Merciful


Bhaktivinoda Thakura says: "If we surrender to Mahaprabhu and Nityananda Prabhu, all our previous offences are instantly absolved. Then the merciful Holy Name showers us with divine love."

I do not know which quote in which book this statement refers to exactly. It may be from Shrila Sacchidaananda Bhaktivinoda Thaakura's song..gaura kripaa habe he...aparadha dure jabe...pabe prema dhana...doyal nitaai chaitanya bali naacha re aamaara mana.

This statement talks about the general process surrendering to Lords Nitaai Gaura. The statement in Shri Navadvipa Dhaama Mahaatmya specifically talks about chanting Their Holy Names feelingly and regularly. So there is a difference. Simply surrendering to Lords Gaura Nitaai will first destroy all our offenses and then grant us pure love eventually. But chanting Nityaananda Gauraanga Naama regularly even goes a further and pure love begins searching after such a fortunate person irrespective of whether the person possesses offenses or not and later grants that person freedom from all the offenses and the offensive mentality. Again this shows the extra magnanimous nature Nityaananda Gauraanga Naama over and above Their Lordships Nityaananda Gauraanga Themselves. Thus, I personally have implicit faith that if Nityaananda Gauraanga Naama are spread widely in this world, there can be a golden age like the most fortunate time when Lords Nityaananda Gauraanga were personally present on this planet 522 years ago. I hope some sincere souls take us this mission for the ultimate welfare of all the living entities in the next few thousand years.

Daaso'smi, BR Sadhu Swami Gaurangapada.



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Lord Chaitanya: The Supreme Absolute Truth


Nityananda! Gauranga! Hare Krishna!

It is stated in Prema Vilasa:

"Lord Chaitanya is the spiritual master of the whole world, and he is so compassionate to the living entities that He fulfills everyone's desires. He is the reservoir of all transcendental pleasure and the supreme object of worship. He is the ultimate goal for all living entities. He assumed the form of a devotee to inaugurate the sankirtana movement. Nevertheless, His devotees know Him as their supreme worshipable Lord. Lord Gauranga's devotees are not ordinary people. They possess all the Lord's transcendental qualities even as they remain forever subordinate to Him."

Your servant,
Matus



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Re: Gaura-Nitaai: The Most Merciful


Dear Mihir,

      Nityananda Gauranga Hare Krishna! Please accept my respectful obeisances!

      One thing to understand is that Nitai Gaura are fully capable of giving love of Godhead to offensive souls and there are so many cases where that has happened like Jagai-Madhai. "After granting the most confidential pure love for Lord Krishna to even the offensive chanter, the Holy Names of Nityananda and Gauranga make the offenses run away from the heart within a very short time. Then the heart becomes fully purified and the love increases even more." Chanting Nitai Gaura once destroys all the offenses one has committed in unlimited sins and lifetimes.

      A person may be committing offenses due to ignorance. But if he is honest in his chanting without hypocrisy, then he will get the special mercy of Nitai Gaura as mentioned in Navadvipa Dham Mahatmya very quickly. Honesty and straightforward simplicity is most important. Nityananda Gauranga will give love of Godhead to an honest person overlooking his limitations, but they are not obliged to give prema to cheaters. For such people, cheating mentality goes first before love of Godhead can enter.

       But if a person thinks, "I will do all offenses and still chant Nitai Gaura.", then that is a hypocritical attitude and it could lead to bad consequences like Vaisnava aparadhas and subsequent falldown. The chanter should not use Nitai Gaura's mercy like a contract business as an excuse for committing further aparadhas, "I will sin and commit offences as I like and at the end of the day Nitai Gaura will remove everything. So I can offend without consequences." That is very dangerous and invites falldown very near.

      Offensive mentality is worst thing, more dangerous than offenses. Fearing that this cheating mentality will arise, Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Prabhupada has used aparadha to mean offensive mentality. Ignorance can be excused, but not cheating. Nitai Gaura won't give love of Godhead to a cheater. First cheating has to go. If we don't make an effort than the Lord will have to get rid of it the hard way and that is not very pleasant. It's very painful and I beg everyone not to let that happen because we will be smashed very hard. That's how it has to be understood according to my experience.

Your unworthy servant,
Srinath



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Re: Gaura-Nitaai: The Most Merciful


Nityananda! Gauranga! Hare Krishna!

Dear Mihir, thank You for Your feedback. Actually the same question i have also, and i am eagerly awaiting clarification from Shrila Swami Gaurangapada and the assembled Vaishnavas.

Yours,
Matus



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Expose the whole world to Nitai Gauranga consciousness but who will it


We need to get real here not every one is going to be krsna conscious because every one is going through their own karma spiritual evolution,
brahmanda bhramite kona bhagyavan jiva
guru-krsna-prasade paya bhakti-lata-bija (cc mad 19 txt 151)
�According to their karma, all living entities are wandering throughout the entire universe. Some of them are being elevated to the upper planetary systems, and some are going down into the lower planetary systems. Out of many millions of wandering living entities, one who is very fortunate gets an opportunity to associate with a bona fide spiritual master by the grace of Krsna. By the mercy of both Krsna and the spiritual master, such a person receives the seed of the creeper of devotional service.

�But who is fortunate gets an opportunity to associate with a bona fide spiritual master by the grace of Krsna. By the mercy of both Krsna and the spiritual master, such a person receives the seed of the creeper of devotional service.�
But be careful Padam padam yad vipadam [SB 10.14.58]. But those who have taken shelter of K���a, the disaster is not meant for them. Samasrita ye pada-pallava-plavam. Padam padam yad vipadam na tesam. So how big it is?

�For those who have accepted the boat of the lotus feet of the Lord, who is the shelter of the cosmic manifestation and is famous as Murari, the enemy of the Mura demon, the ocean of the material world is like the water contained in a calf's hoof-print. Their goal is param padam, Vaiku��ha, the place where there are no material miseries, not the place where there is danger at every step.�

We all know Srila A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami is a Saktyavesa avatara empowered by Lord Nityananda Prabhu. What he did in spreading Sri Nitai Gauranga consciousness outside of India a is truly a miracle not even other religious personality�s like Jesus or Mohamed where able to do so much in a short time.

Even now Saktyavesa avatara Srila A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami is not here in the physical sense, but the mission of Sri Nitai Gauranga is going on in every country, city, town and village. Maybe not everybody is chanting in the same melody of the founder Acharyya Srila Bhakti Siddhanta Saraswati Prabhupada, but still the fortunate people are being exposed to Nitai Gauranga.
Srila A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami dream or plan for the future was to help those who are not so interested in Nitai Gauranga consciousness by setting up farms and community where Varnasrama dharma can be taught starting from the basic lesson right up to initiation into krsna consciousness.

�Bhagavad Gita as it is
IN THE SYSTEM of the Varnasrama, there are many principles and religious traditions to help the members of the family grow properly in spiritual values. The elderly members are responsible for such purifying processes in the family, beginning from birth to death. But on the death of elderly members, such family traditions of purification might stop, and the remaining minor family members would develop irreligious habits, thereby losing their chance for spiritual salvation. �


Srila A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami understood even though Nitai Gauranga conscious is exposed to every one not every one will take to it just like you can expose every one to food but not everyone will eat; �some will say I don�t like the food� and go away; another will look; another will look and smell; while the other will stay site down and eat.

We have all heard of mass prasadam distribution and some us know of the ten offences to the holy name so consider this if will are giving prasadam to some who do not believe in Sri Krsna Nitai Gauranga and they are offensive to that prasadam who will get the reaction.



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Re: Srila Prabhupada on bombing and terrorists


dandavats Maharaj's and vaisnavas. yes I know this mistake well after all I  am only human and make mistake.

Please over look my mistakes and help me find a good diacritic remover off line that work on the mac

regards to all lowerthanarat



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Re: Gaura-Nitaai: The Most Merciful


Nityaananda ! Gauraanga ! Hare Krishna !

Quote : This does not imply that Mahaprabhu and Nityananda Prabhu bestow prema in the presence of aparadha. They are so magnanimous that whoever seeks shelter at Their lotus feet receives Their mercy. Soon the offences disappear and the offender feels love for Krishna.

Bhaktivinoda Thakura says: "If we surrender to Mahaprabhu and Nityananda Prabhu, all our previous offences are instantly absolved. Then the merciful Holy Name showers us with divine love."
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Thank you so much for posting this Bhakta Matus. Here it is stated that Lord Nitaai and Lord Gaura first burn offenses then they give bliss in chanting. They do not give it in the presence of offenses. However in Navadvipa Dhaam Mahatmaya I read that for a person chanting the Holy Names of Lord Nitaai and Lord Gaura love of God comes first then the offenses start shivering in our heart and leave.

I would request you to explain me that for a chanter of NGN does bliss in chanting come first or do the offenses burn first ?

Thanking you in advance.

Sincerely,
Mihir.



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Re: Srila Prabhupada on bombing and terrorists


Dear Friend,

     Nityananda Gauranga Hare Krishna! Please accept my humble obeisances!

     Your posts are very good, but please do remove the Balaram font's diacritics before pasting them up here as diacritics appear illegible and unreadable on editors that don't have it. You can find a Balaram font converter at http://bvml.org/books/fonts/convertor.html.

Sincerely,
Srinath



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