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His Divine Grace Om Vishnupad
Srila Bhakti Nirmal Acharya Maharaj
Srila B.R. Sridhar Dev-Goswami Maharaj's tirobhav
Sri Nrisingha Palli, 11 August 2018, morning, part 2
Translated from Bengali
Today is the holy disappearance day of Param Guru Maharaj Om Vishnupad Jagad-Guru Srila Bhakti Raksak Sridhar Dev-Goswami Maharaj. It is to observe this day that we have come here today. Let me offer vandana first.
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vande 'ham sri-guroh sri-yuta-pada-kamalam sri-gurun vaisnavams cha 'I worship the holy lotus feet of my initiating and instructing Sri Guru as well as all predecessor gurus, all Vaishnavs, Rupa Goswami, Sanatan Goswami, their dear associates Raghunath and Jiva, Advaita Prabhu, Nityananda Prabhu and Sri Krishna Chaitanyadev along with all His near and dear ones, and Sri Radha–Krishna along with Their associates headed by Lalita and Visakha.'
om ajnana-timirandhasya jnananjana-salakaya 'I offer my obeisance to Sri Guru who has opened my eyes, rescuing me from the illusory darkness of ignorance by applying the potent kajal of knowledge upon my eyes.'
gurvvabhista-supurakam guru-ganair asisa-sambhusitam 'I offer my obeisance to him who perfectly fulfils his Gurudev's most cherished desires; who is fully adorned with the blessings of his Gurudev's associates; who is expert in all conceivable and inconceivable aspects of Vedic knowledge; who is the pre-eminent follower of Srila Rupa Goswami Prabhu's line; who is known as "Govinda" (Srila Bhakti Sundar Govinda Dev-Goswami Maharaj); whose beautiful, effulgent, exalted form is infused with pure devotion; who is the Guru of the entire universe; and who is the giver of the seed of divine love for the Supreme Lord.'
devam divya-tanum suchanda-vadanam balarka-chelanchitam 'I worship Srila Bhakti Raksak Sridhar Dev-Goswami Maharaj, the bestower of all auspiciousness, my only shelter and the master of all renunciates. He is my Lord who possesses a transcendental form, whose face expression is very grave, who is clad in the holy clothes the colour of the newly risen sun. He is an abode of intense joy, the only genuine master whom one can accept and surrender to, and an ocean of divine knowledge of renunciation. He is a repository of holy scriptural teachings and pastimes of the highest devotion and a great follower of Srila Saraswati Thakur Prabhupad.'
vanchha-kalpatarubhyas cha krpa-sindhubhya eva cha 'Again and again I offer obeisances to the Supreme Lord's devotees, who are saviours of the fallen, oceans of mercy and wish-fulfilling trees.'
vrndayai tulasi-devyai priyayai kesavasya cha 'Again and again I offer obeisances to Vrinda Devi (Tulasi Devi), who is very dear to Lord Kesava, who bestows devotion to Krishna and is known as Satyavati.'
atha natva mantra-gurun gurun bhagavatarthadan 'Before reciting scriptures that can conquer material world, let us offer obeisances to our initiating Guru, to the Guru who teaches us the meaning of Srimad Bhagavatam, to Sri Vyasadev and all gurus in the universe.' jayah sa-parikara sri-sri-guru-gauranga-gandharva-govinda-sundar-padapadmanam jayastu! 'All glory to the lotus feet of Sri Sri Guru Gauranga Gandharva-Govindasundar and all Their associates.' vande rupa-sanatanau raghu-yugau sri-jiva-gopalakau 'I worship Sri Rupa Goswami, Sri Sanatan Goswami, Sri Raghunath Bhatta Goswami, Sri Raghunath Das Goswami, Sri Jiva Goswami, and Sri Gopala Bhatta Goswami.'
sri-krsna-chaitanya prabhu nityananda
hare krsna hare krsna krsna krsna hare hare |
It is our great fortune to be able to take part in some service today, on the holy disappearance day of Param Gurudev Om Vishnupad Jagad-Guru Srila Bhakti Raksak Sridhar Dev-Goswami Maharaj. We have got an opportunity to take part in his service today. One thing I want to tell you is that coming to see a festival or coming to take prasad at a festival and coming to participate in the service at a festival are not one and the same thing. Guru Maharaj often said, 'Going to see the Deity of Durga and arranging Durga-puja are not one and the same thing.' When you come to Durga-puja to eat, you only come to the festival itself, but when you arrange it, you have to start thinking and doing things a long time beforehand. So, when we make a festival, we come beforehand to prepare the place, to take part in the services. There is so much service to be done. You can see that I keep remembering to one thing, another thing – every moment something comes to my mind.
I decided to test one devotee to see how much he loves me. I brought him here yesterday to cook, but I did not bring anything for him. He goes house to house to cook at festivals – people give him lists and he follows the list. But I did not give him any list. I bring him every year, so he should know everything. The only thing I brought was ghee. As for the rest of the things, I told him to go and look in the storeroom to check what there was and if he needed anything. I told him to check it, but he did not say anything after that, and today I see that he is doing all the cooking nicely without saying anything. You can see how much he is serving and what a good cook he is. He is responsible and very good at cooking. I wanted to test him – I thought, 'I will not bring anything, let me see how he will make puspanna and what vegetables he will cook...'
Gurudev tests us in different ways, and we must pass all examinations. There is only one reason why people fail – you can study all subjects very well, but if an extra subject you do not know well comes up, you are bound to fail. It is like that whether you are at middle school, high school, university or doing a master's course. Why should we take initiation? What does it mean to take initiation? The meaning of initiation is to get an opportunity to serve your Gurupadpadma and Vaishnavs. We must practise Krishna consciousness eternally.
If I do not wake up early in the morning, then I will not be able to wake up when I come here – I will struggle a lot to wake up for mangal-arati. It is necessary to wake up for mangal-arati every day, to do parikrama and after that do whatever service is to be done. It is true for everybody, be it a householder, a brahmachari or a sannyasi. But the problem is that we are not used to this, so we cannot wake up for mangal-arati, we cannot do parikrama...
নিদ্রালস্য-হত, সুকার্য্যে বিরত,
অকার্য্যে উদ্যোগী আমি ।
nidralasya hata, sukarye virata,
akarye udyogi ami
‘Ruined by laziness and sleep, I am averse to doing anything good and eager to do wrong things.’
(Saranagati, Srila Bhaktivinod Thakur)
We are ruined by laziness and sleep...
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