Saturday, April 11, 2009
Nitai Gaura's and their devotee's record breaking mercy
Dear Vaishavas,
Nityananda Gauranga Hare Krishna! Please accept my respectful obeisances!
I just went through Brihad Bhagavatamrta and my head is still spinning after reading it. The superlatives are really causing some heart stopping moments. Why? Because in it, it makes it clear that the mercy of Nitaai Gaura breaks all records and setting this record is something big even for the Lord Himself! I just can't believe it! How can we even express this in words? What kind of level are we talking about when we say Nitaai Gaura naam is most merciful? I am still in a strange state of shock and I can't believe this is possible -- it is unreal, crazy! Nitaai and Gaura's mercy is so, so great that it approach the point where it creates a ridiculously large, show stopping gap between them and the mercy shown anywhere, anytime, by any other incarnation of Godhead. Jaw dropping! Now we're talking BIG mercy and I mean BIG !
So let's get to the point.
1) We cannot even comprehend the richest type of luxuries that exist in on this earth. Evidently from the Puranas the kind of opulence that existed earlier makes our senses drool. But......
2) Above earth is Svargaloka, the opulences are millions of times greater. One diamond can't be bought by ALL the money in this planet, people! And that's a fact! You don't get old age or disease there and no one dies miserable deaths. But.....
3) Above earth is Maharloka, which is millions of times more than Svargaloka. The demigods are made to look poor and they look green with envy at that opulence. But......
4) Still greater than that is Janaloka and already things must be becoming hard to digest, but even Maharloka residents aspire to go higher to Janaloka. But....
5) Above that is Tapaloka, and there we have perfected yogis seeing the Lord in Samadhi. This type of bliss is hundreds of billions of times greater and it comes only to the greatest siddhas. This bliss approaches closer to spiritual bliss on seeing the Lord within. But.......
6) Above that is Satyaloka, and over there we have direct darshan of Lord Vishnu served by Lakshmi devi. Brahma's bliss is so great that all the yogis ultimately do penances for trillions of years just to attain his abode. Ultimately all jnana yogis go there and attain liberation with Brahma. There things are so great that the scriptures are personalities -- yes sir! Like you and me! But.....(again)
7) Beyond Brahmaloka lies the earthly covering where the pleasure of the WHOLE UNIVERSE is there and makes Brahma's abode dirt cheap by comparison! And it is not an exaggeration my dear friends, no! The enjoyment is ten million times greater than Brahmaloka. But.....
8) After that come the next layers of water, air, fire, space, mind, intelligence and finally pradhana. EACH layer is far, far to the power of far times greater and the pradhana represents the HIGHEST happiness in all the material creation! Souls there get pleasures whose subatomic particles are the pleasures of the universe within. So 7 layers over. But wait! There's more.......
9) Then comes impersonal brahman, which is another billion times more. Now THIS is the kind of bliss that is the highest goal of the monists who want to merge into God's formless feature. So much so that it tempts us to totally forget that if anything could be higher. But.....
10) Then above that is Shiva Loka, where Lord Shiva goes mad with bliss in sankirtana. This type of bliss is so great that it is the only other bliss that is respected by the spiritual world. Shiva's devotees don't want Brahman at all. Hang on to your seats. Now we are actually progressing......
11) Then comes VAIKUNTHA! Hooray! We are at the abode of the Lord. This bliss is infinite and I mean infinitely more than Brahman and devotees simply spit at impersonalism in disgust. That is the INFINITE bliss. From here on it becomes a personal matter. But for Gopa Kumara......
12) The next highest stage came at Ayodhya the abode of Lord Ramachandra. All the residents of Ayodhya are even more beautiful than Vaikuntha and there is great intimacy in service. Hanuman cannot imagine anyone other than Rama, not even Vishnu. The bliss is even greater by a million. But for Gopa Kumara.....
13) Then comes Dwaraka where the bliss is totally unlike anything even by Vaikuntha standards. Billions of times more than Vaikuntha, this is even greater. But for Gopa Kumara......
14) Then he gets to Vrindavana via Puri Dham! At last! We are here....Gopa Kumara is a cowherd boyfriend of Krishna! And this bliss is infintely, no! Indescribably more than even Dvaraka and he very well forgets about all the other abodes!
15) The ecstasy and the bliss of the Vrajavasis is so much that even the Lord is totally overwhelmed and cannot do anything but drown in it. This is THE SUPREME LORD KRISHNA! If he gets drowned by it, what can we say about his devotees?
By now if your mathematics was correct you must have got infinity to the power infinity to the power infinity etc, etc, etc.......
16) But WAIT! Now, Now comes the MOST IMPORTANT Part. Lord Nitaai Gaura are so merciful that they are willing to give away THIS BLISS, and the whole of existence agrees, they are willing to give this like FOR FREE --- ON THIS EARTH (do you remember that tiny little planet at the start ?)
Even scrap metal is very costly, but Gaura Nitaai give THIS INFINITY POWER INFINITY etc...like some throw-away matter. If you have not gone beserk by now, please help yourself to Nitaai Gaura's gifts. BUT WAIT! IT'S NOT OVER UNTIL THE LAST LAP IS RUN.........
17) Prabhodhananda Sarasvati in Chaitanya Chandamrta says that even the residents of Vrindavana by attaining shelter of Gauranga, Nitaai Gauranga's names, abodes, pastimes, qualities, all..... attained a level of bliss and ecstasy that they did not get EVEN IN GOLOKA. It was SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO HIGH!
NOW THAT IS THE MERCY OF GAURA NITAAI. THEY GIVE THAT HIGHEST AND TRULY HIGHEST BLISS AND WE ARE ABLE TO EXPERIENCE EVERYTHING INCLUDING GOLOKA WITH GAURA NITAAI ALONG WITH SOME MORE..........! NOW WHAT LEVEL OF MERCY, WHAT LEVEL OF BLISS, WHAT ARE WE TALKING ABOUT?
Don't you all agree that this is a record breaker? Big isn't it? If you haven't fallen unconscious or gone mad by now, then please do not restrain yourselves any longer, please feel free to just ................................................. (I'm sorry, I'm out of words now....you please fill up the gap)
I am not realized. My knowledge is just theory. But if any realized devotee actually understands this, how can they not stop themselves from falling unconscious and drowing in the ocean of pure love. Is it even possible not to? But ALAS I am so fallen that I am not able to get any ecstasy and I am feeling so dry and materially dirty. I am such a cheater eating stool. How will I be saved?
Ans : That's where the devotees -- guru and sadhu come in. They give us eligibility where we are unqualified to reach the Lord. In that case WHO CAN UNDERSTAND THE MERCY OF GURUDEVA!
Jaya Nitaai! Jaya Gaura! Hare Krishna! Jaya Gurudeva! I pray that you all go mad with joy on reading this and give me the chance to serve you eternally, just serve you that's all. That's enough for me. That will ensure that I can also drown in love, eventually....................
Very contaminated and totally insincere and foolish,
Srinath
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