Nama Om Vishnu paadaaya..
Hari Haraya Naama Krishna …
Mukham karoti…
Oh listeners, I will speak in English now. I am a humble representative of His Divine Grace Abhay Charan Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada. And he is a representative of His Divine Grace Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Goswami Prabhupad. And he said that we, as the spiritual grandchildren of Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Prabhupada, that the grandfather gives sweets to the grandchildren, but the parents have to discipline their children. So like that, he was saying that we get some special favor from the grandfather. So you as the grand children of A C Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupad, you will get lots of sweets and mercy! We, the sons and daughters of Srila Prabhupad, may get chastised if we do not live up to the requirements. Prabhupad would always tell us please chant your rounds and follow the regulative principles. So that is my humble request to all my disciples. Follow the four regulative principles sincerely. I have been living here in Bengal for fifty years. So sometimes I think in Bengali. Ha! Ha! And you should also chant Hare Krishna. 16 rounds as a minimum. How much time would be required for us to get Krishna prema, depends on each individual. Prabhupada said that it took him 20 years. How long will it take us? Prabhupada said like a baby crying out for its mother, we should cry out very sincerely. If a baby is just half crying, aan, aan, aan, mother may not pay so much attention. But if the baby cries very loud AAAAH, MUMMYYYYY, AAAHHH! The mother will run and immediately grab her child. So we should cry like that for Krishna. Here in Navadvip, Lord Caitanya did not reveal that He was Krishna, except to a few devotees. But people loved Him. And Nimai Pandit was appreciated by everyone. Some smarthas did not like His devotion. But then when He started the sankirtan movement, all the youths joined Him. Lots of people in Navadvip followed Him. We saw last night there was a drama of His getting married. They didn’t know that He was Bhagavan. But they wanted to attend His wedding. And there was a huge procession through the city of Navadvip. Just like in Vrndavan, the Vrajwasis did not know that Krishna was Bhagavan. But they loved Krishna. When Krishna lifted up the Govardhan, with one finger of His left hand and held it for seven days, the Vrajwasi men came and asked Nanda maharaj, who is your son? We saw Him raise the Govardhan hill for seven days, so don’t tell us that He is an ordinary kid. So then Nanda maharaj spoke, that Garga Muni had told us that He had the power of Vishnu. And that He will be very good for the cowherd men. So then they became satisfied. But they didn’t ask how does He have the power of Vishnu? They didn’t know that HE WAS VISHNU. He is the source of all the Vishnus. So similarly, people didn’t know who Nityananda Prabhu really was. But when Nimai Pandit took sanyas and left Navadvip, they all felt so much separation. When He came back to the western bank, ten years later, Sarva Bhauma Bhattacharya’s brother, he sent for mother Sachi and said, don’t tell anyone I am here. But somehow the word got out! Gauranga! Gauranga! Gauranga is here! Gauranga! Gauranga! Gauranga! Gauranga! People left whatever they were doing and ran to the river. They went into the boats, kayaks, the boatmen said, no, no, not too many, not too many. But they wouldn’t be stopped. The boat sank. All the boats sank! So they jumped into the river and began to swim, Gauranga! Gauranga! Gauuuuuranga! That time the Ganges became black, with the hair on the heads of all the people swimming in the Ganges. So we should have such eagerness to see Lord Gauranga. Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Swami Goswami Prabhupada, in his time, there were sahajiyas who imitated bhakti by crying. So he said, better not to cry publicly. So Prabhupada would control his emotions. But sometimes he couldn’t. When he was in Gorakhpur, he was telling how Lord Caitanya and Sanatan Goswami met. It was like Krishna meeting the gopis. And saying this Prabhupada choked up and started crying. Here in Mayapur, one time he was saying how during Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Thakur’s Vyasa puja, how all the previous acharyas did something to help develop Mayapur. Then he said, I am also trying to do something. I am very grateful to all the devotees who are helping me. Then he started to cry! He couldn’t speak any more, he choked up! So Lord Caitanya when He was here, people could associate with Him. For some intimate devotees, He went and told them how in Kanainaathshaala, He had achieved Krishna, but then He lost Him! He told them, you don’t know what it Is like to have Krishna and then lose Him! So He put His arm around different devotees next to Him and started to cry and cry for Krishna. When He was crying the devotees also were crying. This was not the Nimai Pandit they knew. He was changed!! So like that, Lord Caitanya showed us, that we can worship Krishna in separation. So that is our mood, that we should be serving Krishna in separation. And Prabhupada said, that he had five thousand disciples. So he told me, you should have ten times, that is 50 thousand! So I thought, impossible! Little faith! But by Prabhupada’s mercy, so many devotees have come! So not only should you follow the principles, but you should also help to realize Prabhupada’s dream of a Krishna conscious world. How we associate with Lord Caitanya, Nityananda, Advaita, Gadaadhar and Srivas, and all the associates of the Lord, are so wonderful! We want all of you to have a taste of how wonderful is Krishna. How wonderful is Gauranga! Gauuuuranga! Gauuuuranga! Gauuuranga! Nityananda, Nityananda! Nityananda! Om Tat Sat!
Transcribed by Jayaraseshwari devi dasi
16 April 2019