Gauranga Krishna consciousness 24 hours a day

Dear Vaishnavas,

      Nityananda! Gauranga! Hare Krishna! Please accept my humble obeisances!

      I am feeling very regretful that I wasted such a huge portion of my time in various seeking process of sense gratifcation, impersonalism and doubt  and that it has taken me since December 2007 to wake up to the fact of how I was not sincere in practice. If I had been smart, I should have been inspired by your examples to come to having so much sraddha in Nitaai Gaura naam despite all your limitations.

     But I found out today that if we try, we can compose so many naama sankirtans for worshipping our Lordships, giving endless varieties of sankirtan. The best part is that if we just keep the sankirtan going in our head through daily life, it is so powerful that it keeps the mind engaged in Gauranga Krishna consciousness. It is very easy to just sing the names in kirtan rather than monotonically try to chant japa and face the problem of the mind losing track after 10 seconds.

     I was trying to do kirtan in my head starting from Jaya Radha madhava and going to Jaya Nityananda Gauranga Nitaai Gaurahari while sitting in my college classroom and I found surprisingly that the kirtan was going on and on and on. At the same time I had no difficulty in listening to what the professor was lecturing or taking notes and as a matter of fact, I was more attentive than usual. But the ultimate experience was that the kirtan was going on and on and in the background all other routines were going on. There was so much manasika kirtan that I felt really that the whole 24 hours can be made into spiritual bliss if we just keep the sankirtana going. Today nothing was boring because all the happiness of doing kirtan mitigated the usual boredom of classes on a hot day.

       Finally I realized that the Lord wants our sincerity and if we are sincere he will readily make all our material work very easy so that we can dispense with them quick and keep spirituality riding high. Our material life gives us many challenges that eat up our time and energy. When I have exams I find my chanting getting badly affected because of this. But today I realized that if I stick sincerely to sankirtana, it is possible to stay Gauranga Krishna consciousness. At that time the Supreme Lord really prompts us from within what to do and if we really follow his management plan, then suddenly we find ourselves having all time and energy for spiritual progress.

        It is so simple and easy to be honest and place everything in the Lord's hands and just do our services. The other thing is being lazy. I am learning the hard way that being lazy is the mother of all spiritual illness. Dishonesty and laziness are the two qualities which are the #1 enemies of devotion and they must go if anything worthwhile has to be achieved.

        Nityaananda Gauraanga naam combined with the Hare Krishna mahamantra is like Nitroglycerin added to fire. The potency works so swiftly and if only I let it work instead of bringing my overly inflated ego into the picture, everything will turn out fine. We have spent many many lifetimes in utter waste. Enough! This is one opportunity that we will never get again. Never after the next 9500 years will such a chance come till the next 8,640,000,000 years. The possibility that one is born as a human, and in this golden age, and having spiritual apitutde AND being able to chant the most merciful and sweet names of the Lord AND have all favourable circumstances is a combination so rare that it is virtually a once in eternity opportunity. We cannot take it lightly no matter how hard our material life becomes because if we miss this chance, then..............

Daaso'smi,
Srinath

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