Re: Shri Chaitanya Bhagavata Verses about Nitaai Gaura Naama

Dear Swamiji and Vaishnavas,

     Nityananda! Gauranga! Hare Krishna! My humble pranams to you all!

    On reading and hearing Chaitanya Bhagavata for the first time, I immediately felt that lots of truths of Nityananda Gauranga and their holy names must be here as it is the original Bhagavata of Gaura lila itself.  Feeling inspired by the Lord and his devotees, I began this work and what I have seen is miracle after miracle.

      In coming up with this list, I have gone through each and every verse in the Chaitanya Bhagavata to compile this list and submit it for your service and for the service of Vaishnavas worldwide. I am unable to fully express my feelings at the end of such an undertaking. Gold mine after gold mine kept coming and the Chaitanya Bhagavata has broken all record and surpassed every other literature in direct references to Nitaai Gaura naama. It was a very ecstatic research and even eating and sleeping became secondary while doing it. I only now realise a little bit of the glories of Chaitanya Bhagavata and the glories of Vaishnava Vani seva. Nothing can compare to Chaitanya Bhagavata.

      Even if all books of knowledge in the world are destroyed by time, if only the Chaitanya Bhagavata remains, it will still be more than enough for the job. I do not minimize the glories of any other scripture by specially glorifying Vrindavana Dasa Thakur's book. Therefore I humbly request you not to take my juvenile words offensively.

      Directly or Indirectly, Nityananda Gauranga are there in every verse of the Chaitanya Bhagavata. Therefore I have just tried to find out the ones which express it most prominently. Where I could not find direct references, I included indirect ones as far as possible where the meaning is implied.

      I sincerely submit my prayer to Guru, the Vaishnavas and the Lord that these verses be revealed to all those who want to know about the true glories of the mantrarajas. I pray that even those who are antagonistic to the continuously chanting of Nitaai Gaura naam along with Hare Krishna maha-mantra also receive the mercy of Sri Chaitanya Bhagavata and realise the glories of Gaura Nitaai. This service is especially meant for these people.

      By no means is this research perfect or complete. I am a fool full of errors and in my hurry I would have overlooked many things. Some verses I put up may be far too indirect. I may have put up such long lists that it may have been cubersome and time consuming to go through them. The verses are also not in order as they were found at different times and places.

      What still remains is putting up the original verses for each of these translations, in the same order. I humbly request some devotee(s) to help me out in this as right now I am bound up with huge amounts of college work and exams and hard pressed to devote any time or energy for a massive compilation like this and I won't be able to come back for atleast 3 weeks or more. If we have the original verses, then we can make our own book of Nitaai Gaura naam in all the Gaudiya Vaishnava scriptures. Chaitanya Bhagavata's single contribution alone has been greater than everything else put together.

      Yet despite all this my humble prayer is that I never get egoistic but always remain humble and always remain honest. These two qualities are most important for devotion and they can be obtained only by serving you devotees. So I pray that you will overlook all my limitations and always engage me in some service or the other. I pray that I remain devoted to the parampara and to the chanting of Nityananda! Gauranga! and Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare / Hare Raama Hare Raama Raama Raama Hare Hare and to Sri Gurudeva and all Vaishnavas.

       Please feel free to express your opinions and replies for improving this or if you have found any more verses outside this list.

      With this I entrust this compilation to you. Please accept this humble offering.

Your humble servant always,
Srinath

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