(9/13) "Come Back to Your Home"

His Divine Grace Om Vishnupad
Srila Bhakti Nirmal Acharya Maharaj
Kolkata (Jatragachhi), 8 February 2021, part 9

Srila Sanatan Goswami asked Mahaprabhu, ‘What is the goal of life? How to attain it?’ The goal of life is devotion to the Lord and to return to the Lord. Back to God, back to home. Come back to your own home! Where you are now is not your home. Somebody is living in America, somebody is living in Mexico, somebody is living in London, somebody is living in Russia, somebody is living in Bangladesh, somebody is living in Pakistan, somebody is living in a goshala, there are flies living in gardens, snakes living in their nests, goats living in their goats’ places, but everybody must ultimately return to their own home! We must reach our real home. We must go to the place where we all come from.

What must you do to get there? ‘Bhagavata pada Vaisnavera sthane, ekanta asraya kara Chaitanya-charane. Read Bhagavatam under the guidance of bona fide Vaishnavs and take shelter at Mahaprabhu’s lotus feet’ (Sri Chaitanya-charitamrita, 3.5.131). We must take exclusive shelter in Gauranga Mahaprabhu.

The Supreme Lord Sri Krishna comes to this Age of Kali as Gauranga Mahaprabhu, a combined form of Sri Radha and Krishna. Somebody asked me recently, ‘Gadadhar is the incarnation of Srimati Radharani, then how is it possible that Gauranga Mahaprabhu is a combined form of Sri Radha and Krishna?’ They do not know it. Krishna has taken Srimati Radharani’s heart and halo. ‘Halo’ means the bodily colour, and ‘heart’ means the mood. Does a person have only a mood and a colour? Is there nothing else besides that? Of course there is. So, Gadadhar took that which remained of Her.

So, Gauranga Mahaprabhu is a combined form of Sri Radha and Krishna. What did He do when He came to this world? He went door to door, telling everyone: ‘Wake up! Wake up, souls! Stop sleeping! (Jiva jaga, jiva jaga, Gorachanda bale.) I have come for you! You must come back to your home. You must go back to the place where you come from.’ This is what is called ‘back to God, back to home.’ Come back to your home. This is the main thing.

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1) Practise Devotion
2) Land of Religions
3) Seva Vidya
4) Conditioned Souls' Inaptitude
5) Choose Your Association
6) Lost and Languid Souls
7) "Make the Teachings of Sri Guru Non-Different from Your Heart"
8) Price of Independence
9) "Come Back to Your Home"
10) Fighting Misconceptions
11) Goloka at Your Home
12) Ekadasi: Devotional Practice
13) Stay Connected