(2/3) Sincere, Firm and Ardent

His Divine Grace Om Vishnupad
Srila Bhakti Nirmal Acharya Maharaj
Sri Ekachakra Dham, morning class
16 February 2019, part 2
Translated from Bengali

আর কবে নিতাইচাঁদ করুণা করিবে ।
সংসার-বাসনা মোর কবে তুচ্ছ হ'বে ॥

ara kabe nitaichand karuna karibe
samsara-vasana mora kabe tuchha ha'be

'When will Nitaichand give me His mercy? When will my material desires become trifle?'

(Prarthana, Srila Narottam Das Thakur)

You must cry, 'When will Nityananda Prabhu give mercy to me? When will my material attachments be removed?' We have so many material attachments, but instead we must use everything for the service to the Lord, for the service to Nitai. We must have attachment and devotion with this understanding. But the problem is that we have forgotten everything.

We have fallen into this illusory material environment, and Maya is making us forget everything – she makes us forget the Lord's service and Nitai's service. By hook or by crook, at any cost, we must serve our gurudev. We always think about this material world, and our time is passing. We must spend our lives always serving our gurudev, always thinking about Nityananda Prabhu. Coming to Nitai's feet, you must always pray:

নিতাই গুণমণি আমার নিতাই গুণমণি ।
আনিয়া প্রেমের বন্যা ভাসাল অবনী ॥

nitai guna-mani amara nitai guna-mani
aniya premera vanya bhasala avani

'O jewel of all good qualities, Nitai! O my jewel of all good-qualities, my Nitai! You have brought and flooded the whole world with divine love for the Lord.'

You must always do this. There is no time to waste! Nitai engaged everybody, even such people like Madhai. Although he was born in the family of brahmans, He made arrangements for good association for everybody. Always keep good association and always avoid bad association, which removes you from the service of the Lord and destroys your faith in your guru. It is necessary to have the strongest faith; faith (the strongest faith) is the most important thing in our spiritual life. Our faith must be very strong. We must clasp Nitai's feel firmly (drdha kari' dhara nitaira paya, দৃঢ় করি ধর নিতাই পায়); we must ardently pray at His feet and always remain firm.

You must love with your heart. External show of love is not love! We must love our guru with our hearts, we must have sincere love for Nitai's holy feet. Such love must come to us. Always think about it.

It is an ekadasi day today, so spend it chanting the Holy Name, chanting Nitai's Name, chanting kirtan on your own the whole day. Do you understand what I am saying?

[His Divine Grace then chants kirtans.]

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