HG Yasomatinandana Prabhu

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March 19, 2005

Verse: Srimad Bhagavatam 1.13.23

Speaker: HG Yasomatinandana Das Adhikari

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aho mahiyasi jantor jivitasa yatha bhavan

bhimapavarjitam pindam adatte grha-palavat

 

TRANSLATION: Alas, how powerful are the hopes of a living being to continue

his life. Verily, you are living just like a household dog and are eating

remnants of food given by Bhima.

 

PURPORT: A sadhu should never flatter kings or rich men to live comfortably

at their cost. A sadhu is to speak to the householders about the naked truth

of life so that they may come to their senses about the precarious life in

material existence. Dhrtarastra is a typical example of an attached old man

in household life. He had become a pauper in the true sense, yet he wanted

to live comfortably in the house of the Pandavas, of whom Bhima especially

is mentioned because personally he killed two prominent sons of Dhrtarastra,

namely Duryodhana and Duhsasana. These two sons were very much dear to him

for their notorious and nefarious activities, and Bhima is particularly

pointed out because he killed these two pet sons. Why was Dhrtarastra living

there at the house of the Pandavas? Because he wanted to continue his life

comfortably, even at the risk of all humiliation. Vidura, therefore, was

astonished how powerful is the urge to continue life. This sense of

continuing one's life indicates that a living being is eternally a living

entity and does not want to change his bodily habitation. The foolish man

does not know that a particular term of bodily existence is awarded to him

to undergo a term of imprisonment, and the human body is awarded, after

many, many births and deaths, as a chance for self-realization to go back

home, back to Godhead. But persons like Dhrtarastra try to make plans to

live there in a comfortable position with profit and interest, for they do

not see things as they are. Dhrtarastra is blind and continues to hope to

live comfortably in the midst of all kinds of reverses of life. A sadhu like

Vidura is meant to awaken such blind persons and thus help them go back to

Godhead, where life is eternal. Once going there, no one wants to come back

to this material world of miseries. We can just imagine how responsible a

task is entrusted to a sadhu like Mahatma Vidura.

 

 

Srila Prabhupadi ki jai. Mahatma Vidura was preaching to one Dhrtarastra;

Srila Prabhupada taught millions of Dhrtarastras. Prabhupada says in one

purport that people in the modern world are. . . there was one Dhrtarastra

at that time, now practically everyone is a Dhrtarastra. There's one very

nice verse by Sankaracarya:

 

angam galitam palitam mundam

datanavihinam jatam tundam

vrddho yati grhitva dandam

tadapi na muncatyatapindam

 

One's bodily limbs have all become worn out, all his hair is gone, teeth are

all broken down, he cannot walk--he takes the stick and barely walks--yet he

does not give up hope against hope. He never gives up the hope. Even to the

last drop everyone wants to try to squeeze out sense enjoyment. This is the

jivitasa, desire to continue to live in the same body.

 

There is a Bhumi-gita in 12th Canto of Srimad Bhagavatam where Mother Earth

is singing, "Look at all these great kings are trying to conquer me forever

and enjoy me. How powerful is the illusory energy of the Lord that these

kings try to own me, and they see that so many other kings and emperors have

come and gone, and their accounts, stories, and pastimes are simply

historical accounts, katha-avasesah. They simply remain stories now:

Napolean the Great, Alexander the Great, Vikramaditya, Candragupta Maurya,

Yayati, Mandhata, Gaya, Khatvanga, there are many great rajarsis who

conquered the whole world. They say that we will control our senses, and we

will control our ministers, and we will control our subjects, and we will

conquer and expand our kingdom. Then I will leave the kingdom for my sons

and grandsons. In this way they all make plans, and yet nothing of them

survives."

 

Therefore this jivitasa, there is a verse called Bhumi-gita where it says:

 

drstvatmani jaye vyagran nrpan hasati bhur iyam

aho ma vijigisanti mrtyoh kridanaka nrpah

 

They are the toys in the hands of death, these kings, but see how they want

to conquer me.

 

So by stroke of some good fortune if one meets someone like Mahatma Vidura

it harshly knocks out our slumber, sometimes harshly sometimes very

peacefully, humbly. "Yena kena prakarena", Prabhupada says whatever means

you have to employ. Once we were on a morning walk in Vrndavana, and

Prabhupada was saying, Caitanya Mahaprabhu, simply by seeing and hearing him

people were chanting and dancing, tears of love were flowing from their

eyes. He made animals chant and dance. So what am I supposed to do, I cannot

do anything like that. But the principle is there to follow Sri Caitanya

Mahaprabhu. So I have to find my method, my means to preach and convert and

transform the lives of the people. He walked everywhere but that does not

mean I have to walk everywhere. But I have to follow the principle "yare

dekho tare kaho krsna upadesa", so I went out in the plane to different

mleccha countries where they never heard the Name. I had to arrange

marriages, I had to teach them everything from scratch."

 

Saintly persons like Prabhupada and Mahatma Vidura they see the opposite

person and employ the method just to deliver that person. Srila Prabhupada,

every morning on the Juhu beach, used to use one gentleman, Dr. Patel, to

put up foolish opposition arguments, all apasiddhanta, materialistic

philosophy or some other bogus philosophies, and Prabhupada would smash him.

That was his utility. But we were inexperienced devotees so we could not

tolerate the familiarity with which he was speaking and asking questions

with Prabhupada. Prabhupada knew this but ignored it and he simply used him

to preach to us how many bogus philosophies are there and how to defeat

them. Prabhupada would blast everybody.

 

There was some particular saint in India who used to say you can worship

whomever you like--Kali, Durga, Siva, Ganesh--yata mata tata path, as many

ways, so many conclustions. Prabhupada would blast him. He particularly did

not like the term "daridra-narayana". Because Prabhupada said that Narayana

is the husband of the goddess of fortune, to call him daridra [poor] is an

insult to Naryana. How can you call him daridra-narayana when you would not

call an ordinary materialistic leader daridra? Daridra Prime Minister,

Daridra President, Daridra Mr. Bush. If you call Mr. Bush and say "Wretched

Mr. Bush, how are you?" how would he feel? So here is Krsna, the master of

Laksmi, the master of unlimited planets and you're calling Him daridra, it's

a great insult.

 

The idea is that there is Narayana in daridra also, so you should help and

serve daridra. So instead of serving Narayana in the temple, go and serve

daridra. This kind of a bogus philosophy somebody was preaching. And

Prabhupada said "No, daridra is daridra and Narayana is Narayana. Narayana

is Laksmi-Narayana, Sriman Narayana. Narayana, you serve him, and daridra,

you may feel compassion upon him, you may be kind to him, but do not equate

daridra with Narayana. This is an insult to Narayana, a devaluation of

Narayana." Prabhupada would speak like this. One gentleman on the morning

walk was coming every day. One day he just blew up and he started saying

"You're always criticising everybody, all the sadhus, all the saints, you're

always criticising," he started shouting like this. So the devotees were

ready to physically remove him but Prabhupada said nothing. He just kept

quiet, he let him go on blabbing for a few minutes. Very quietly he said,

"What can we do, we have a very difficult task. We have to save all these

students from so many bogus philosophies. Therefore we have to point this

out. We do not hate the sinner, we hate the sin. Krsna says:

 

na mam duskrtino mudhah prapadyante naradhamah

mayayapahrta-jnana asuram bhavam asritah

 

Those who are duskrtinas, mudhas, fools, rascals, those whose knowledge is

stolen by maya, they do not surrender to Me. So if one does not surrender to

Krsna, he comes under these four categories. We are simply repeating the

words of Krsna. Hare Krsna."

 

So he said like this and kept quiet for about 10 minutes as we walked back

to the temple. Then as usual during gurupuja we were offering flowers to him

on the vyasasana. This man also used to come every day for darshan. He also

offered flowers to Prabhupada and he put his head on Prabhupada's feet and

starting crying like a little baby. So Prabhupada put his hand on his head

and said, "It's all right."

 

Next day, Prabhupada said "Now, we don't want to talk. We will simply

quietly walk. Bring Krsna book with you and we'll read Krsna book on the

beach." So we were walking from one end to another we were reading Krsna

book for almost 45 minutes. . . . It was very auspicious. He tried his best

to use the danda, when he saw that this man is too foolish to understand,

then he just withdrew, retreated. Prabhupada was so expert. He never ever

spoiled a person. He never left a bad impression on a person. He was very

careful of everyone's tender creeper of devotional service and he did not

want to hurt. If anyone offered him anything he would take it even if he

could not use. And anyone could come and he would try to preach. . . however

less intelligent man was there, Prabhupada would give him a full dose of

mercy.

 

This is why the spiritual master or the pure devotees are called most

merciful:

 

vanca kalpatarubhyas ca krpa sindhubhya eva ca

patitanam pavanebhyo vaisnavebhyo namo namah

 

Mahatma Vidura is very merciful to Dhrtarastra. Dhrtarastra was very

fortunate to have Vidura as his friend. He had another misfortune and that

was that he was envious of the Pandavas. Envious of Pandavas means envious

of Krsna also because Krsna liked the Pandavas. His misfortune was that he

was envious of the devotees of the Lord, that is the greatest misfortune

anyone can have. That was his problem. But because he was a part of Krsna's

pastimes, lilas, he was kind of an associate, parsada, of Krsna. He was

functioning for Krsna's pleasure to expand Krsna's lila and to help Krsna's

mission of establishing dharma. By acting as an example of adharma he was

helping Krsna to establish "yato dharma tato jaya", wherever there is dharma

there is victory. So therefore he was also awarded this wonderful

association of Vidura. Vidura, like Sukadeva Gosvami, did not mince any

words. Sukadeva Goswami says:

 

cirani kim pathi na santi disanti bhiksam. . .

kasmad bhajanti kavayo dhana-durmadandhan

 

Are there the not rags lying in the ground? Aren't the trees giving shelter?

Aren't there the caves for inhabitation? Why should a saintly person, those

who are learned men, why should they worship or glorify intoxicated people,

intoxicated with power or riches.

 

Dhrtarastra as long as he had some power, in spite of good association of

Vidura, he could not be gotten out. But he always asked Vidura for help and

Vidura always gave him the right advice, but he could not take it because

that power of intoxication was there. So when that power was gone, now he's

eligible to understand Vidura.

 

This is very significant. In the 11th Canto there is a verse by a

prostitute, Pingala. The brahmana avadhuta had 24 gurus and one of them was

Pingala, a prostitute. She was waiting for a customer in the night, "This

man will come, oh, he went away. This man will come. . . ." Like that she

was counting, waiting, someone will come. But everybody just came and

passed. Three or four hours she waited and waited like this. Then finally

she said "Oh, what a fool I am! I am waiting for these human beings made of

flesh and bone, mucus, bile and air, urine and stool. I'm waiting for these

bodies which are perishable, full of lust, anger, and greed. If I would

wait so intently upon the Supreme Lord then my whole life will be successful

forever." Then she said "Oh, it was so nice that my hope was frustrated."

 

nairasyam paramam sukham asa hi paramam duhkham

 

The frustration in life is the highest happiness and the material hope,

optimism, is a great misery because it leads one on to the material life

like the carrot dangled in front of a donkey. That's why the whole modern

education and the whole modern environment is condemned by Bhaktivinoda

Thakura:

 

jada-vidya jata, mayara vaibhava,

tomara bhajane badha

moha janamiya, anitya samsare,

jivake koraye gadha

 

All this materialistic knowledge is the glittering glare of Maya and it is

an obstacle to Your worship. It creates an illusory attraction for the

material world and makes a donkey out of a living being. Sei gadha ho'ye, "I

became a donkey like this and this same burden I carried on for a long time,

my dear Krsna. Now old age has approached, and nothing feels good. Please my

dear Krsna, now let me take shelter of Your lotus feet!" Srila Bhaktivinoda

Thakur sings a song like this:

 

vidyara vilase, katainu kala,

parama sahase ami

 

I spent my time in the pastimes of scholarship with great adventure and

enthusiasm. I never worshipped You, my dear Krsna, and now I have become

old.

 

He is actually painting the picture of people like Dhrtarastra, or people

like us, who are hoping against hope that we will enjoy till the last minute

of our life. King Mucukunda explains the plight of life of all people in the

material world. He says, "My dear Lord, I was worshipped as a king. And

people used to come and say "Naradeva!" and they would offer me obeisances.

I was intoxicated by my power and my domain and I wasted my whole life,

never recognizing You. You are always waiting as Bhagavan Kala, to grab the

living entity, to eat away the living entity like the snake is ever alert to

catch a mouse. Similarly, I was wasting away time and at the end I never

recognized that your form of Kala is waiting to devour me. All these great

kings conquered all directions. Then the kings that were equal to him start

falling at his feet and praying to him. But actually when they go to their

inner chambers, to the women, they dance like animals in their hands. So

this body which is simply ultimately going to end up as a worm, as ash, as a

bug, is now being addressed as "Naradeva", is now being decorated with

golden ornaments and carried around on big elephants. In this way, a man

never understands the ultimate futility of life and wastes away his life."

 

So Lord Caitanya is so kind. When Raghunatha Dasa Goswami finally ran away

from his home and came to Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, Caitanya Mahaprabhu

became very happy. Actually Raghunatha was the son of a billionaire in those

days, landlord. In those days his father and uncle earned 400,000 rupees a

year. They collected 120,000 tax of which 800,000 they gave to the king, and

400,000 they enjoyed. One rupee in those days is like 1000 rupees today. You

could buy 20 kgs of ghee with one rupee. Now it's 200 rupees a kilo.

 

Raghunatha was like princely demigod, his wife was as beautiful as an

apsara, and he was the only son between two brothers. He was the heart and

soul of their family, but his heart was not into the family, he wanted to

run away to Lord Caitanya. So when Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu came he went to

Him and said "Please pull me out." Lord Caitanya said, "Very soon Krsna will

pull you out, not now. You go and live like a woman who has a lover other

than her husband, ulta(?) unchaste woman. She's very careful her husband

doesn't find out she has a lover so she serves the husband nicely. Similarly

you should engage in material activities even though your heart is

surrendered to Krsna so your parents won't detect you are going to run

away."

 

The parents knew this son is going to run away so they had put about ten

different watchmen around him. Even when he went to clean or pass stool

there were people watching him all day and night. His mother was always

telling the father "You better watch him, he's going to run away, better tie

him up, lock him in the room." The father said "All this wealth and a wife

as beautiful as an apsara has not tied this boy, what will all these other

things do, how will these other things tie him up? This boy is blessed by

Caitanya Mahaprabhu so sooner or later he's going to go." He knew that.

 

In the meantime Lord Nityananda came to a nearby town and Raghunatha Das was

so shy and modest and saintly, he offered obeisances to Nityananda from a

distance. And Nityananda said "Hey, thief, why are you hiding from Me, come

here!" So he brought him and forcibly put his foot on Raghunatha's head and

in this way He blessed him and said, "Raghunatha, for Me and My associates

and all the brahmanas here, arrange dahi and chira festival."

 

So in Panihati Raghunatha Das Goswami immediately arranged a huge festival

in which very nicely spiced dahi-chira with cardamon and bananas and

camphor, very delicious preparation he prepared along with many other items

and he fed thousands of people there and pleased Lord Nityananda on that

day. Actually Caitanya Mahaprabhu also came and sat down with Nityananda

Prabhu and He also ate. So both the Prabhus ate and at the end Raghunatha

told Raghava Pandit, "Please tell the Lord to somehow or other deliver me

from these shackles of household life and please give me the shade of the

lotus feet of Lord Caitanya." So Lord Nityananda told Raghunatha "Today Sri

Caitanya Mahaprabhu came and participated in our dancing and chanting. He

ate this prasad, He's very pleased with you and very soon you will be

delivered." By the grace of Nityananda then he got the opportunity.

 

Narottama Das Thakur says:

 

ara kabe nitaicanda karuna karibe

samsara-vasana mora kabe tuccha habe

 

visaya chadiya kabe suddha habe mana

kabe hama heraba sri-vrndavana

 

When will the day come when Nityananda will be merciful upon me, when will

my mind be purified, when will I give up sense gratification, when will I

actually see Vrindavana?

 

We may live in Vrndavana but unless we have given up materialistic hopes and

desires we cannot see Vrndavana. We cannot stay in Vrndavana by purchasing

some piece of land or purchasing a house, we can only stay in Vrndavana by

purified mind, by the grace of Lord Nityananda. Nityananda Prabhu awarded

the same benediction to Krsnadas Kaviraja: "Go to Vrndavana and stay there

in the association of Rupa Goswami, Sanatana Goswami."

 

Similarly Jiva Goswami also came to surrender to Nityananda Prabhu who told

him "Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu has given your family Vrndavana. Your uncles

are all staying in Vrndavana and they are serving the Lord there so you go

to Vrndavana and serve the Lord there and the Lord will fulfill all that you

desire."

 

Krsnadas Kaviraja Goswami says "It was by the grace of Nityananda that I got

the lotus feet of Rupa and Raghunatha, by the grace of Nityananda that I had

darshan of Radha Madan Mohan, Radha Govinda, Radha Gopinatha. It is by His

grace I'm able to associate with the great saintly devotees there and hear

the pastimes of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu. So he attributed all his success,

finally writing Caitanya Caritamrta also, to Nityananda Prabhu.

 

Similarly Vrndavana Das Thakur also attributes all his success to Nityananda

Prabhu. He says by the grace of Nityananda Prabhu he has been able to write

Caitanya-bhagavat. Krsnadas Kaviraja says:

 

krsna-lila bhagavate kahe veda-vyasa

caitanya-lilara vyasa-vrndavana-dasa

 

Vrndavana Das is the actual Vyasadeva of Caitanya-lila. In fact

Caitanya-lila is so wonderful, so sweet, that there are more verses of

Caitanya Mahaprabhu's pastimes than Krsna's pastimes. Krsna's pastimes are

there in Srimad Bhagavatam in 90 chapters. But there are two full

volumes--in Caitanya-caritamrta alone there are 11,000 verses--and in

Caitanya Bhagavat another 10000 verses. So we can spend our whole life

simply studying Caitanya Mahaprabhu's pastimes, Nityananda Prabhu's

pastimes.

 

At then end of writing Caitanya Bhagavat, Vrndavana Das Thakur became so

ecstatic writing the pastimes of Lord Nityananda. Nityananda Prabhu was told

by Caitanya Mahaprabhu to go to Bengal and distribute love of God there. So

he started going to Bengal along with His personal associates and all of

them were maddened in love of Krsna, they had lost all their external

consciousness. While going to Bengal they would sometimes go ten miles off

to the eastern side, simply chanting and dancing. And then they would ask

somebody "Which way is Bengal, which way is Nadia, Navadvipa?" And the man

would say "Oh, you've come ten miles this way. You have to go the other

way." Then they would walk back and go ten miles the other way. And again

ask. "Oh, you've come back ten miles too far!"

 

Like that they were simply intoxicated. One devotee just stood still for

nine hours, holding a flute, and others were just climbing the trees and

jumping from one branch to another. They would sometimes jump on a really

thin branch, and still it would not collapse and fall. It is said that when

He came to Raghava Pandit's house at Panihati, He stayed there for three

months. And for three months everybody was just immersed in ecstasy. They

forgot eating for three months, sleeping for three months, all people around

forgot their body. Even the little children around were fasting for a month,

simply dancing and chanting. By the grace of Nityananda He distributed this

love and ecstasy so intensely that the whole country was flooded and even

those who never chanted the name of Krsna all developed love of Krsna,

ecstatic prema.

 

Nityananda Prabhu's pastimes are so nicely narrated in Caitanya Bhagavat.

Once Nityananda Prabhu wanted to wear all kinds of ornaments so somehow or

other His lila-sakti arranged all beautiful bracelets and golden chains and

he was looking like a king. One dacoit saw this sadhu, avadhuta, dressed so

opulently. And he said "If I rob Him, I will not have to rob for six

months." He had a big gang of very ferocious dacoits and planned "I will go

to His residence in the night and when nobody is there I'll attack Him and

rob Him."

 

So they went and surrounded the house at night. They were seeing these nice

decorations of Lord Nityananda. They were thinking, "Oh, I'll take this

bracelet, I'll take this earring," they were planning, dreaming. Somehow or

other there were some people coming and going in the house. It was late

night and they started dozing and fell asleep. In the morning the sun rose

and they woke up. They starting blaming each other "Oh, you fell asleep, you

fell asleep!" So they went away came back the next night. And then they saw

these big muscular guards with big weapons guarding Lord Nityananda's house.

They were afraid, "There was nobody like this, how did He get these, now

what to do?" Again they went. They said "Let all these guards go, we'll come

back after ten days.

 

They came back after ten days and there was heavy rain, such a heavy rain

started, unseasonal. They were all flooded and lost vision because it was

dark. They fell into a ditch full of very bad worms and reptiles and they

were being bitten all over their skin. They were crying "Oh, save me, save

me, save me!" They were going through such agony. They realized finally that

"This Nityananda Prabhu is not an ordinary person. I'm an idiot, I'm a fool

trying to rob Him. I will come tomorrow and surrender unto Him. Tomorrow

morning I must come and surrender unto Him, O Nityananda please have mercy

on me, save me. Even though I wanted rob You, I am the lowest of the low,

please bestow Your kindness upon me."

 

Somehow or other they were able to go home. Next morning, the leader of the

dacoits came and fell at the feet of Lord Nityananda. "Oh, You're so

merciful, I'm the most heinous person, I wanted to rob You of all Your

jewels. Now by Your mercy I have come to Your shelter, You have given me the

right intelligence. You have accepted me, You have appeared to deliver all

the souls, so please deliver me." And Nityananda Prabhu accepted him and his

gang members and they all became devotees of Lord Nityananda. So this is the

special mercy of Lord Nityananda.

 

One time I was in one asrama and one senior, elderly Gaudiya Math member,

Srila Prabhupada's Godbrother, told me "In ISKCON people don't understand

much about how Caitanya Mahaprabhu is Krsna Himself. Therefore they have a

separate altar for Caitanya Mahaprabhu. In our Gaudiya Math we put Radha

Krsna and Lord Caitanya on the same altar." I said to him simply by looking

at that Deity nobody will know that Gauranga is Krsna. Prabhupada wrote

books, 17 volumes of Caitanya-caritamrta glorifying Caitanya Mahaprabhu and

broadcasting to the whole world, brhad-mrdanga, that Caitanya is Krsna. And

because he also wanted to put Nityananda, because without the grace of

Nityananda, no one can preach the glories of Caitanya Mahaprabhu. Nityananda

has the power to bestow the lotus feet of Lord Caitanya:

 

heno nitai bine bhai, radha-krsna paite nai

 

nitai na bolilo mukhe, majilo samsara-sukhe

vidya-kule ki koribe tar

 

ahankare matta hoiya, nitai-pada pasariya,

asatyere satya kori mani

 

Without the grace of Nityananda, no one can understand Radha-Krsna's

pastimes. If one does not chant the name of Nityananda, then he is immersed

in material life. What is the use of his learning, what is the use of his

high parentage? When somebody becomes intoxicated with pride and forgets

Lord Nityananda he starts to believe false things to be true, he believes

his body to be soul and absorbs into material life.

 

Therefore Prabhupada, as the greatest preacher, established the glories of

Gaura-Nitai all over the world so Nityananda's mercy would be expanded to

all the Jagais and Madhais of the world and they would all be delivered.

This is why Prabhupada established Krsna Balarama temple in Vrndavana

because Balarama is the original guru, He's the original preacher and

teacher. And by His grace one gets the grace of guru-tattva and understands

the mercy of Krsna.

 

So by our good fortune, we have received the grace of Prabhupada who is like

Vidura. That's an understatement--Prabhupada is like thousands of Vidura put

together. Because Vidura told Dhrtarastra to go, leave home and go and do

meditation. Dhrtarastra went and started meditating on impersonal Brahman.

And he passed his life way in a very auspicious way and merged in

Transcendence. But Prabhupada saved us from the calamity of impersonalism.

Like he said:

 

Absolute is sentient

Thou hast proved.

Impersonal calamity

Thou hast moved.

 

This was Prabhupada's contribution, "nirvisesa-sunyavadi-pascatya-desa-

tarine". I never understood why Prabhupada called pascatya-desa as nirvisesa

sunyavadi, because nirvisesa-vada and sunya-vada went from the East to the

West. But it is fact that now pascatya-desa has become completely flooded

with nirvisesa-vada and sunya-vada. Even their concept of God is actually

nirvisesa-vada. Because they have no information of God, now they are

identifying or equating God's servant as God. That's maya. To think that

Jesus is God, or the guru is God, is also mayavada. So even they don't know,

they are nirvisesa-vadis. If at all they are Christians, most of them don't

even believe in God.

 

So Prabhupada gave us the highest truth, the most wonderful spiritual life.

When Raghunatha Das went to Caitanya Mahaprabhu finally, he ran way from

home, then he said that "Krsna is very merciful upon you and He has pulled

you out of this stool pit of sense gratification. Your father and uncle are

the worms in the stool pit of sense gratification and being in absorbed in

the stool pit of sense gratification they consider it a great happiness. Now

Krsna has pulled you out of all this, and brought you to His lotus feet. You

cannot estimate enough the grace of Krsna."

 

The same mercy is extended to all of us as our hearts are also like

Dhrtarastra. Even after hearing so many wonderful instructions of Srila

Prabhupada, day in day out, we still don't give up the hope against hope. So

here in Navadvipa Dham, we pray to Prabhupada and Gaura Nitai. This the most

powerful place for such benediction because Caitanya Mahaprabhu is the only

one who can remove these desires out of our heart even though we are the

least qualified person. Bhaktivinoda Thakur says "You please travel in the

holy dhama of Navadvipa."

 

cala gaura-vanam nava-khanda-mayam

patha gaura-hares caritani muda

lutha gaura-padankita-ganga-tatam

bhaja godruma-kanana-kunja-vidhum

 

Go and wander about in this Gaura-vana, Navadvipa, which is divided in nine

parts. And always read the pastimes of Gaurahari. Roll yourself in the dust

of the banks of Ganga which are marked by the lotus feet of Gauranga. In

this way you worship the moon of the Godruma.

 

smara gaura-gadadhara-keli-kalam

bhava gaura-gadadhara-paksa-carah

srnu gaura-gadadhara-caru-katham

bhaja godruma-kanana-kunja-vidhum

 

Remember the wonderful pastimes of Gauranga Mahaprabhu and Gadadhara Prabhu

and become a party man of Gaura-Gadadhara.

 

Srila Prabhupada ki jai! Gaura-premanande, haribol! Hare Krsna. Anybody has

any questions or comments?

 

Hare Krsna. Sri Sri Radha Madhava ki jai. Sri Sri Pancatattva ki jai. Srila

Prabhupada ki jai! Sri Mayapur Candrodaya Mandir ki jai!