Dear Bruce, Nityananda!! Gauranga!! Hare Krishna!! Jaya Shri Guru Parampara! Pranaams and blessings.
I welcome you here to our site and am so happy that you have kindly shared with us your nice realizations about Nityaananda Gauraanga Naama.
However, I started to make amazing result. I became steady in my spiritual practices. I became so attached to these holy names now.
You are directly experiencing the benefits of Nityaananda Gauraanga Naama mentioned in the Scriptures and by our Acharyas. gaura naama jei labe, taate krishna kripaa habe ... so you should cherish them. 
So, I decided to share this spiritual realization with my spiritual master Babaji and to the general community at large, and I have been placed on corrective actions.
Your intentions were good and you wanted to share your spirtual realizations about Nityaananda Gauraanga Naama for everyone's benefit but it was the fully correct thing to do since others were not able to appreciate it and ended up committing offenses against Nityaananda Gauraanga Naama. You should have tested the waters before and gauged what the response was going to be before telling them everything. It is said in the scriptures, that one should refrain from explaining those glories of the Holy Names from the scriptures which others may not accept and react to in an antagonistic way in order to avoid offenses against the most merciful Naama Prabhu of Nityaananda Gauraanga Naama. I know it is quite sad and unfortunate to keep such a great mercy within ourselves after knowing about and directly experiencing the benefits of such a great secret from the Vedic scriptures but we have to do that as an austerity in order to minimize the belittling of the sublime process of chanting Nityaananda Gauraanga Naama along with the Hare Krishna Mahaamantra and save those souls from committing this grievious offense.
I was told that I was not intellect because I'm trying to concoct some nonsense.
Shrila Prabhupada said the following not in his conversations but in the most important book (Cc) he wrote, "Therefore one who chants the mantra "gauranga" and one who chants the names of Radha and Krishna are on the same level." And many previous Acharyas said the same thing. So how are you concocting? This statement has absolutely no foundation. It shows lack of scriptural knowledge about the authenticity and the merciful nature of Nityaananda Gauraanga Naama Tattva.
I was told that this is a form of impresonalism, and that I was chopping a branch for devotion service by such foolish methods.
That is sheer nonsense. Chanting Nityaananda Gauraanga Naama along with the Hare Krishna Mahaamantra roots out impersonalism from our heart totally. In fact, Nityaananda Gauraanga Naama are the very terminators of impersonalism. The two main branches of Bhakti are Krishna and Gaura. Differenciating between Them, accepting the chanting of the Holy Name of One and rejecting the chanting of the Holy Name of the Other, is just chopping One off. So it is s not you who is doing the chopping but those who say so may be doing it. Chanting Nityaananda Gauraanga Naama along with the Hare Krishna Mahaamantra is not a foolish method, but an authorized and bonafide method of Bhajana described in the scriptures. And the practical proof is your own realizations in the chanting of Nityaananda Gauraanga Naama.
What is more, I was told that because such named actions I was informed that I had committed an offense to the holy name, and that I probably have lost my taste for the Maha mantra.
Again, it is the directly the opposite of this. Chanting Nityaananda Gauraanga Naama is the fastest and easiest process to remove all the stringent ten offenses in the chanting of the Hare Krishna Mahaamantra and granting us unending taste for the Hari Naama.
I had tried to submit scripture, but he would have none of it. He told me that I was trying to find a quick and easy way to Krsna, and simply put: there are none.
Hearing the verses from the scriptures about the glories of the Holy Names should be the greatest pleasure for all Gurus, Sadhus and Vaishnavas and one should be most happy to hear such authentic glories. In the words of Lord Shiva and Shrila Narada Muni in the Navadvipa Dhaama Mahatmya, there is an easy way. gauranga bhajana sarala ati, sahaja tahara phala vitati. In this verse both "sarala" and "sahaja" words means Gauraanga Naama is certainly the easy way.
A golden woman placed her foot on the top of my head, and the next day all this has happened.
Shrimati Radharani gave you a glimpse and Her mercy so that you could pass the difficult test which was to happen. The Gauraanga Mantra is very dear to Shrimati Radha and She wanted you to continue chanting Nityaananda Gauraanga Naama along with the Hare Krishna Mahaamantra. Thus, She appeared to you in a dream to give you strength and prepare you for the next day.
I'm attached to Nityananda, Gauranga mantra. I don't think I can give it up. I have tried, but I feel so sad and empty away from them. Have I lost the taste for the holy name?
Please, listen to your heart and never give Them up. They are your key to chanting the pure Name. Gaining taste in Nityaananda Gauraanga Naama means you will receive much more increased taste for the Hare Krishna Mahaamantra very soon. So you are not loosing but gaining. We are always here to serve and assist you in your Bhajana.
Daaso'smi, BR Sadhu Swami Gaurangapada.
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