Day 4
1. Dandabanga
Village
a.
We had breakfast prasadam here and then had
katha at Dandabhanga village.
Katha:
500 Years ago Mahaprabhu along
with Nityananda and other associates walked from Navadwip all the way to the
bank of this river and then swam across this river.
Kirtan – Gauranga Karuna Koro an
then The mercy of Nitai
Nityananda Prabhu has only 1
earing, he has come as the older brother of Mahaprabhu. He is destroying the
evils of Kali Yuga and is the husband of Jhanav Mata. In this place we are
going to glorify Nityananda Prabhu.
2 secrets in getting success in Naam
Bhajan by HH Gaura Govinda Maharaj.
1. Pray
for other people
2. Everyday
you should say prayers to Lord Nityananda.
He has expanded the ocean of Love
of God with Sri Mahaprabhu had come to give. He has tried to compare his mercy to
the following and showed how Nityananda pr is more merciful than these:
1. Kamadhenu
cow and he says it’s nothing compared to Mahaprabhu’s mercy. This Cow can give
you everything except Love of God.
2. 2nd
example is Indra but no comparison. He is demanding respect from Brij but Lord
Nityananda is not seeing any fault in anyone and is giving mercy to everyone.
3. Moon
– is very kind gives cooling rays, gives life to vegetables, but Nityananda’s
cooling rays are all the time unlike moon which gives rays only at night.
4. Chintamani
stone and if you touch it to any metal makes it to Gold, but Nityananda when He
touches anybody he gives them golden Love of Krsna.
5. Better
than Cupid – Lord Nityananda’s beauty is the Love of God.
6. Vatsalaya
– Matri or mother is the most famous. If you compare the mother’s love to
anybody is very high. Mother’s mercy is to forgive you for everything. Lord
Nityananda is more forgiving than the most famous mother. Just like a baby
hurts his mother’s breast when drinking milk, similarly Lord N is more merciful
than a mother.
Hence the author pays his obeisance
to Lord Nityananda. Example – when offering prayers to Sun, we offer fire, when
offering prayers to Ganga we offer ganga water. Similarly, when offering
prayers to Nityananda we have to become adhosa darasi, then the author of the
song is saying I haven’t prayed to you Lord Nityananda.
Author then says, O my
unfortunate heart, will you ever become happy? From baby till now you have got
so much but you are still wanting more and more. You are like a ghost, just
wanting to get more and more. Will you ever become happy? Just call out Nitai
and just die. Don’t have any hope in this material world, just become hopeless
for any happiness in this material world.
His mercy is so amazing, when the
stones hear they start melting but my heart doesn’t melt as it’s harder than
the stone. He then says if someone doesn’t offend Mahaprabhu then Lord Nitai
give HIS gift of spiritual
love and devotion.
The same Holy name will destroy you if you offend a devotee. In
the unlimited universe everyone is my servant. And anyone who offends or
criticizes any other living entity is an offender. NOD = Gives 64 limbs of dev
service; SB = Gives 9 limbs of dev service; Mahaprabhu gave 5 limbs but then He
said ok not even 5 just do these 2 things and I will give you liberation – 1.
Don’t criticize anyone and 2. Chant the Holy Name. Even though only 2 things which
gives us the topmost results but we are still not able to follow these 2 items.
Therefore stop Criticizing.
You can work for 2 courts – 1 is
making a list of all items other devotees are making mistakes and point them
out 2nd court is the court of mercy – “I forgive you”. The author
also says Holy Name doesn’t rest on his throat and in his heart, hence very
unfortunate.
Class by Gurudeva at Dandabhanga:
Every place has its influence of
the activities that have taken place there. In this place there is a very sweet
and esoteric pastime between Lord Chaitanya
and Nityananda. After sanyas, everyone was shocked. Lord Nityananda had taken
charge of Mahaprabhu’s danda which was only 1 danda in the line of
Sankaracharya. 4 levels of Sanyas. He did it because He wanted to impress
people so people could come to Him and He could preach.
Lord Nityananda pr didn’t like
that Mahaprabhu was carrying a danda. Only the first 2 orders need to carry the
danda. So Nityananda broke it into 3 pieces and threw it into the water when
Mahaprabhu asked, Nityananda spoke some funny words and said well I don’t know,
in your ecstacy you fell on me, I fell on you, danda broke and now I don’t know
where it is. Mahaprabhu was angry – but he showed anger only externally but
internally He was very pleased.
In the material world we are
constantly contaminated and hence we need to purify ourselves. In dev ser goal
is to become purified and come to the point that we have no designations. Exalted
Vaisnavs are just a humble servant and they have no designation at all.
Breaking the danda he showed Nityananda’s mercy and also wanted to show
Mahaprabhu didn’t require any designation.
Mahaprabhu gave K bhakti to
anyone who asked for it BUT Nityananda prabhu gave it to everyone even if they
didn’t want it. He chased after them. Similarly we do book distribution to give
this mercy to everyone. This is how SP also showed from his example. We have to
keep pushing a little by little to give this mercy of Lord Nityananda and
practically by book distribution we can give it to everyone. People are eagerly
awaiting to get this mercy. Without any designation, just chase after the
material souls and give them this mercy.
In this place, pray to Nityananda
and Mahaprabhu that I am someone with no designation and I’m just the servant
of the servant of the servant of Krsna. And Please bless me so I can continue
giving this mercy to everyone.
Class by HG Satyadeva Prabhu
These places are so potent, that
we should pray to Nityananda Prabhu for all the anrthas we have in our heart
and plead with Him so he can take away these anarthas in our heart so we can progress
spiritually.
Prayers before we start chanting:
1. Find
the place in his heart, which attracts him to the Holy Name. So he can chant sincerely.
2. My
dear Lord Holy Name, please give me the best of association and take advantage
of it. Only by the mercy of the advanced devotees can we grown spiritually.
Sometimes because we aren’t ready to take that association we aren’t able to
take advantage of it. Hence, pray before we start chanting – Krsna I want to
fully take advantage of the Sadhu sanga, full advantage of Holy Name.
From CC Madhya 5 – sang the verse
– Bindu Sarovar became = River Bhargavi ; Murari Gupta wrote many works at this
bank. Puri dhaam is gupta Vrindavan. Lord Siva was present here now known as
Chandan pur previously know as Kamalapur. It was known as Kamala pura as it had
so many lotuses. Lord Siva was here with (known as Kaputeshwar Mahadev) parvati
and he got shy when Lord Rama came and hence both of them became piegons. River
Bhargavi is non different from Yamuna and there is also Ganga and Saraswati.
Sage Bhrigu came here for meditation here. First rays of sun would always fall
on his ashram. Of sages K says He is Bhrigu. In Chaitanya Bhagavat there is a
very nice story of Bhrigu and the Lord. Bhrigu muni kicked him by the desire of
the Lord. Vrindavan das Thakur said you don’t know what is the internal reason
for a devotee to be behaving the way they are behaving so don’t judge anybody.His
solution was respect everyone as a devotee then we have no problem. This is the
mood Lord Nityananda taught at this place = No designation, full of mercy.
Mahaprabhu took sanyas for a
reason – just like what He did in Gambhira = Radha Bhava; Many confidential
kathas/secrets which are vairaga adbutha = In the Chaitanya vilas he has a
conversation with Locana Das Gosvami told him that when I take sanyas it is to
repay the debt to Radharani. Vyasatmika budhi eke kur nandana. Radharani only
want to see K playing on his flute, but K reciprocates with everyone – with Nanda
Yashoda Gopis etc. Our mood should become like Radharani to only be one pointed
to think of Krsna. Hence he took Sanyas so he could only think of Radharani
with one pointed attention. The love of Radharani was more than the love of
Saci mata or Vishupriya. Just like how
the gopis when they heard the song of the flute they dropped everything and
just gave everything to Krsna. To also repay the debt He has to become one
pointed to only think of Radharani, external reason was for prachar.
Ramachandra Puri the devotee who
was always criticizing was Jatila in Krsna lila MIL of Radharani. Navadwip dham
and Puri dhaam are 2 different rooms in the same university. Living in Puri is
as good as living in Vrindavan. SP says – Puri, Vrindavan and Navadwip are all
non different, they are the same rooms in the house. But different rooms has
different purposes and Puri dhaam was for K to taste radhabhav. To taste
Radhabhav you have no business to follow the rules and regulations of danda
etc, hence Nitya broke the danda.
Reasons for breaking danda:
1. With
body, mind and heart we have sell ourselves to K and Radha hence not 1 danda
but 3
2. To
know Radharani, you can’t have rules and regulations when going into gupt
vrindavan
3. No
designations required for Mahaprabhu. Mahaprabhu came for preaching and for
preaching you have to do it without any designations.
4. Not
a mayavadi sanyas but Vaishnava sanyas.
Bhakti comes from Bhakti.
Mahaprabhu came for 2 purposes – to taste Radhrani’s mood and to preach. For both
the danda was broken to break the varnasrama dharma. Don’t put too much stress
on Varnasrama dharma but focus on bhakti and from bhakti you will get bhakti.
8 people to give maryada – Hunter, English gentlemen, Raja Maryada(some
position), Vidya maryada, Satguna
maryada, Brahman maryada, ashram maryada (Sanyas) but more than that Bhakti
maryada the most important maryada, even if it’s a housewife, a child we give
respect to them if they are more advanced.
If we want to go deep into
bhakti, we should just take instructions of Guru and the Holy Name. Our
Varnasrama dharma as a devotee is – chant Holy Name, 4 reg principles,
distribute books and preach and hence we need to break this danda and judge
people that this person is better and I will give them mercy or not, but
Nityananda’s mood is give mercy to anyone and everyone and that is the meaning
of breaking the danda the designation.
Gurudev’s
evening class – important for progressing in life – start with the tongue which
is very practical. Chant/talk about Krsna Katha only and just have prasadam.
Invite sadhus to home so that way you only keep items which are necessary for
your life. Things which you notice that you keep moving when you have sadhus
come home you can permanently remove.
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