Friday, January 16, 2009
Re: What Lord Gauraanga said on chanting ' Nityaananda '
Dear Mihir,
Nityananda! Gauranga! Hare Krishna! Please accept my respectful obeisances! Jaya Gurudeva! Jaya Guru Parampara
Did you get this from the Chaitanya Bhagavata or the Chaitanya Mangala? This one verse is so vast that our entire preaching and its purpose with the entire plan of the Lord is contained here. This one verse is enough to refute every single misconception about our chanting Nityananda! Gauranga!
I listened once to the Chaitanya Bhagavata audio by Damodara Dasa prabhu. After listening it I am astounded and speechless. I have only one thing to say -- "90% or more of all objection to chanting Nityananda! Gauranga! is simply because those people have not read Chaitanya Bhagavata. The rest is due to 'other' factors. If any one out there has anything to doubt, then the advice to that person is "first and foremost go, read or listen to Chaitanya Bhagavata!, then come back". That's most important -- so much illusion will be gone by going through just a part of a sloka like this one, what to speak of going through the whole book just once. No wonder Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Prabhupada was almost obsessed with knowing whether people had read Chaitanya Bhagavata. I wonder what might happen if we read it 100 times or more like he insisted.
Phew! Sometimes when I hear a quarter part of a sloka, that itself gives me a hint about what it contains, though I am not qualified to go further. I am totally carried away by simply getting that small hint, and I see this sloka to be the answer to all doubts. I feel this one should go on top priority for 'Reasons to Chant Nitaai Gaura'. Who can understand the glory of Nityananda prabhu? Simply by chanting him, he clears all sins and anyone who chants him becomes the life and soul of Lord Gauranga. Only by his mercy can we realise Lord Caitanya and Radha Krishna, as Narottama Dasa pointed out in "Nitaai Pada Kamala". He used very strong words, "He who has never chanted Nityananda in his life is an untamed animal."
Amazed,
Srinath
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