The Most Valuable Love Of Godhead

February 2, 2010

Of

the nine processes of devotional service, the most important is to

always chant the holy name of the Lord. If one does so, avoiding the

ten kinds of offenses, one very easily obtains the most valuable love

of Godhead.Caitanya Caritamrta Antya 4.71

Deliverer of Drowning Souls

Hare

Krsna my dear devotees, I hope you have had nice festivals this week,

the appearance Day of Lord Nityananda was celebrated here at home. We

prepared a beautiful cake, kachoris, dhal and rice and we chanted our

rounds in association .The boys chanted 1 extra round on this day and

also worshipped our Deities of Gaura Nitai offering Them flowers,

incense, garlands and bathing with honey, yogurt and rose water.We

are making bhajans everyday here and the kids feel very enthusiastic

when devotees come to sing along with them. Today we had a namahatta at

home and it was so nice while I was bathing the Deities again,

listening to beautiful bhajans coming from the living room - it's so

nice to hear the Holy Names being chanted in a very soft and devotional

way....fills our heart with this love and association is really

important.I was thinking about how the Holy names give us

everything in all aspects - we become more devotional because it's a

purifying process and when we take it seriously we can see this

purification coming from inside and molding us into devotees - devoted

souls that just by looking at the Lord and remembering Him we become

satisfied.By engaging our senses in this process we can

achieve eternal bliss and we will never be attached to sense

gratification anymore. It's like when we first took a full dish of

prasadam we wouldn't like to have anything else - we became addicted to

the Lord's remnants and mercy so we don't want any other kind of food.

The same happens with the holy names, they change our inner self and

removes the dust that covers our pure love for Krsna and sets an

eternal relationship with the Lord through the sound. The sound is the

Lord Himself and as much as we hear we become reconnected to the

Supreme and will never feel like abandoning Him again.Here is a beautiful verse from Nityanandastakam, I hope you appreciate it and are able to feel how merciful He is towards us. " I

perpetually worship Sri Nityananda, the root of the tree of

krishna-bhakti, who is very dear to the son of Saci devi and who is

worshiped by the entire universe. He is the embodiment of happiness and

out of infinite mercy he is chanting the holy names of Lord Hari, thus

delivering the souls drowning in the age of Kali and eradicating the

swelling false pride of the ocean of repeated birth and death. " May the power of devotees association soften your heart and your chanting becomes pure and devoted.your servant,Aruna devi

-- LET US NOT MAKE OUR STOMACH A GRAVEYARD. LET US NOT EAT FLESH. LET US BE VEGETARIANS AND STAY HEALTHY. Animals are to be loved, not eaten. Eating flesh is good neither for the mind nor for the intellect, not even for the body. It distorts the basic character of human. Think Soul is Soul and it came from the Supreme Soul...God Head Krishna

Chant:Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna Hare HareHare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama Hare Hare