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His Divine Grace Om Vishnupad
Srila Bhakti Nirmal Acharya Maharaj
Sri Ekachakra Dham, 23 February 2021, part 13
Translated from Bengali

You know that it is Bhaimi Ekadasi today, and tomorrow is Lord Varahadev's appearance. I have told before, you must take sweet rice tomorrow.

Lord Varahadev removes all opposing elements from our lives. You must do archan in the morning, after that offer special sweet-rice bhoga to Varahadev; then everyone can make paran (break the fast) with the prasadam. This must be completed before 9:57 a.m. Paran is between 6:09 and 9:57 a.m. tomorrow, but cooking must be finished before 8 a.m.—after that do the archan and offer the bhog. Where is the pujari?

[Devotee calls out: Bhaja Da!]

Do not call him 'Bhaja Da', you must say 'Prabhu'.

[Devotee: Dada Prabhu!]

No 'dada' [elder brother], no 'ma' [mummy]. [Devotees laugh.]

[Devotee: Bhajahari Prabhu!]

You must talk respectfully to others. Do not behave like aul, baul, karttabhaja, neda, daravesa, sani, sakhibheki, jata-goswami. "Sambandha janiya bhajite bhajite abhimana hau dura: if we practise Krishna consciousness with proper decorum (understanding the relationship), then our ego will be removed." You must call [male] devotees 'Prabhu'. Even a father must call his son 'Prabhu'. Have you seen Sripad Niriha Maharaj's father? His son is a sannyasi, but he pays full obeisance to his son and addresses him respectfully. You must learn from him. Do not see his faults, you must look at his good qualities. They complain that he did not give prasadam to some outside people, but it is ekadasi today—if outside people come and take prasadam, then our devotees arriving from a long train journey will have to stay hungry. He did right. Do not look at others' faults; always see good qualities in others. [A devotee tries to explain something.] I know everything, I have heard it. Everything comes to my ears. You think I am staying upstairs and do not see anything. I see everything, I hear everything—who does what, who does not do what, etc.

The day after tomorrow is Nityananda Prabhu's appearance day. You must fast on this day in the morning. Nityananda Prabhu is Baladev's incarnation, if you fast on this day, it will bring you spiritual benefit—fast in the morning and take prasadam at midday.

Another thing I want to tell you is that this year we are starting Sri Nabadwip Dham parikrama from dasami. Everyone must come. This year, the parikrama will be during five days. I have cancelled the trip to Ganga Sagar this year because foreign devotees cannot come and I need to finish the construction of the rooms in Nabadwip—devotees will come and they need accommodation. I made the third floor here, and so many people can stay here now; otherwise, where would you all stay? It would have been necessary to make pandals, etc. It is so much austerity for you. We need to take care of the accommodation in Nrisingha Palli as well. We left the main Nabadwip temple, so we must make rooms in Nrisingha Palli. The floors are already marbled, and the bathrooms are also complete...

So, everyone must take paran timely, after the worship of Lord Varahadev, tomorrow. You know that Varahadev is one of the ten incarnations of the Lord. I will tell about His pastimes tomorrow. The Lord assumed the form of a boar. The Lord assumed the form of Nrisinghadev (half-man, half-lion) to slay Hiranyakasipu, and Lord Varahadev killed Hiranyakasipu's elder brother, Hiranyaksa. I have heard there are many people who want to take initiation. They can come after the paran. You can give prasadam at 8:30 a.m. Offer the bhog at 8 a.m., and give prasadam at 8:30 a.m. You have been all fasting today, it is ekadasi, so everybody will be hungry. This is why Srila Prabhupad made the rule that we must fast on ekadasi only one day—Bengali people love rice so much that they cannot live without it. So, to decrease the austerity, Srila Prabhupad made it only one day. It is good for health to fast on ekadasi. Every day we eat all kinds of food, it is good to take a break every now and then for a day and take potato, fruit, etc. without rice, chilli, etc.

I will not take much of your time today. I am finishing.

Devotee: Can those who are taking initiation tomorrow take prasadam?

Yes, they can, it is not a problem. Initiations will start from 9 a.m. If they come hungry, I will tell them about the Holy Name, but they will only think about food. Instead of the Holy Name, they will only think, "When will I eat?" [Devotees laugh.] Better if they eat and then come to me. I am telling it straight, it is the truth. Those who are surrendered souls have no offence. If someone is genuinely surrendered, there is no offence for them.

কি শয়নে, কি ভোজনে, কিবা জাগরণে ।
অহর্নিশ চিন্ত কৃষ্ণ, বলহ বদনে ॥

ki sayane, ki bhojane, kiba jagarane
aharnisa chinta krsna, balaha vadane

Whether you are sleeping, eating, or resting, always chant the Name of Krishna.

(Sri Chaitanya-bhagavat, Madhya-khanda, 28.28)

Always chant the Holy Name—when you are eating, when you are sleeping. Always keep your heart and mood clean.

However, those who are taking the second initiation must fast because they must sit at the fire sacrifice. I will not be able to make a yajna tomorrow, so ladies can take the second initiation tomorrow, and male devotees can come to Nabadwip to receive their brahman threads.

কি শয়নে, কি ভোজনে, কিবা জাগরণে ।
অহর্নিশ চিন্ত কৃষ্ণ, বলহ বদনে ॥

ki sayane, ki bhojane, kiba jagarane
aharnisa chinta krsna, balaha vadane

Whether you are sleeping, eating, or resting, always chant the Name of Krishna.

Sri Chaitanya-bhagavat, Madhya-khanda, 28.28

There are no rules and regulations (viddhi).

প্রভু কহে,—"কহিলাঙ এই মহামন্ত্র ।
ইহা জপ' গিয়া সবে করিয়া নির্ব্বন্ধ" ॥

prabhu kahe—kahilan ei maha-mantra
iha japa' giya sabe kariya nirbandha

"Always chant the Holy Name—there is no obstruction, no binding, you can chant this Holy Name at any time."

ইহা হৈতে সর্ব্ব-সিদ্ধি হইবে সবার
সর্ব্বক্ষণ বল' ইথে বিধি নাহি আর

iha haite sarva-siddhi haibe sabara
sarva-ksana bala ithe vidhi nahi ara

"By doing this, you will attain success in all respects. There is no other rule but to chant it at every moment."

(Sri Chaitanya-bhagavata, Madhya-khanda, 23.77-78)

These are Mahaprabhu's words. There are no rules and regulations regarding the chanting of the Holy Name. There no question of "you cannot take the Holy Name if you have eaten." However, Srila Haridas Thakur followed many rules and regulations. He chanted 300,000 Names daily. One day, when Mahaprabhu's prasadam came, he said, "Today I have to break the rule." He ate without having completed 300,000 Names that day. When Srila Haridas Thakur rescued Laksmihira, he told her, "I have vowed to chant ten million Holy Names this month." He chanted the Holy Name the whole day, and chanted loudly.

If you chant silently, in your mind, many thoughts will come to your mind—you will be moving the beads and thinking about other things (the same happens when people go out for a walk with their beads in hand). Gurudev called this 'finger exercise'. People walk and talk to each other and do their mala—can you be saying Hare Krishna and other things at the same time? This is how you get 'Pare Besto Pare Besto' instead of 'Hare Krishna Hare Krishna'... Do not chant to impress others—always do it privately. "Apana bhajana-katha na kahibe yatha tatha (আপন ভজন-কথা, না কহিবে যথা তথা): Do not tell anyone and everyone about your own bhajan, service and practice." We must not tell anyone about our spiritual practice. It is not necessary to tell anything to impress others. I have seen people also hanging their chanting beads around their necks... It is said in the scriptures, "There is only one Krishna-bhakta among a thousand of Vaishnavs." Some say they are Krishna-bhaktas. We are not Krishna-bhaktas. We are devotees of Gauranga. First, you must become a devotee of Lord Nityananda Prabhu, then a devotee of Gauranga Mahaprabhu, then only can you become a devotee of Lord Krishna. There are missions that say that you must first become a devotee of Krishna. This is not how spiritual life is practised.

The other day, one temple installed Pancha-tattva Deities. You can see here also that there are asta-sakhis installed together with Nitai and Gauranga. I have never been there, but I have heard about it. There is vatsalya-, sakhya-rasa between Nitai and Gauranga, how does madhura-rasa come here? And in Vrindavan, the place of madhura-rasa, they have Baladev's Temple. When somebody asked Srila Sridhar Maharaj about it, he answered that it depends on one's qualification—somebody is a shanta-rasa bhakta, somebody is a dasya-rasa bhakta, somebody is a sakhya-rasa bhakta, somebody is a vatsalya-rasa bhakta, and somebody is a madhura-rasa bhakta. Madhura-rasa is extremely high. Our Param Guru Maharaj installed Sri Sri Guru Gauranga Gandharva Govinda-sundar, and Srila Prabhupad installed Sri Sri Guru Gauranga Gandharva Giridhari. There are three Deities that have 'hijacked' Gaudiya Vaishnavs—Govinda, Gopinath, and Madan-Mohan. Srila Rupa Goswami Prabhu served Govinda, Srila Sanatan Goswami served Madan-Mohan, and Sri Madhu Pandit served Gopinath.

Jay Srila Guru Maharaj ki jay.

Om Vishnupad Jagad-Guru Srila Bhakti Sundar Govinda Dev-Goswami Maharaj ki jay
Visva-varenya Srila Guru Maharaj ki jay
Om Vishnupad Jagad-Guru Srila Bhakti Raksak Sridhar Dev-Goswami Maharaj ki jay
Jay Om Vishnupad Bhagavan Sri Srila Bhakti Siddhanta Saraswati Goswami Thakur Prabhupad ki jay
Om Vishnupad Srila Gaura Kishor Das Babaji Maharaj ki jay
Sachchidananda Srila Bhaktivinod Thakur ki jay
Sarvabhauma Sri Jagannath Das Babaji Maharaj ki jay
Rupanuga-guru-varga ki jay
Namacharya Haridas Thakur ki jay
Vrinda Devi, Tulasi Devi, Sri Bhakti Devi ki jay
Sri Shyama Kunda, Radha Kunda, Sri Giri Govardhan ki jay
Sri Mayapur Dham, Sri Nabadwip Dham, Sri Vrindavan, Mathura ki jay
Sri Ekachakra Dham ki jay
Sri Hadai Pandit, Sri Padmavati Mayi ki jay
Jay Sri Ganga, Yamuna ki jay

Do you know that there is Yamuna Devi here? There is also Jahnu Kunda, or Hantugada. There is also Kadamkhandi. Sivji Maharaj is also here, his name is Chakleshwar here. There is also Jagannath, Baladev, Subhadra here, we will go to pay obeisance to Them the day after tomorrow during the parikrama. Everybody must come, we will hear about the glories of each place.

There will be a class tomorrow in the morning. Tomorrow is Lord Varahadev's appearance, and everybody must wake up early in the morning and come to the class. You are used to sleeping till late, I have told you before,

শৈশব-যৌবনে, জড়সুখ-সঙ্গে,
অভ্যাস হইল মন্দ ।
নিজকর্ম্ম-দোষে, এ দেহ হইল,
ভজনের প্রতিবন্ধ ॥

saisava-yauvane, jada-sukha-sange,
abhyasa ha-ila manda
nija-karma-dose, e deha ha-ila,
bhajanera pratibandha

In my childhood and youth, I always indulged in material happiness and I have become habituated to bad things. Because of my own sins, this body has become an impediment to spiritual practice.

Our habits are bad, we cannot wake up early in the morning. People watch TV the whole night and wake up late. This is how we end up,

বার্দ্ধক্যে এখন, পঞ্চরোগে হত,
কেমনে ভজিব বল’ ।
কাঁদিয়া কাঁদিয়া, তোমার চরণে
পড়িয়াছি সুবিহ্বল ॥

vardhakye ekhana, pancha-roge hata,
kemane bhajiba bala'
kandiya kandiya, tomara charane
padiyachhi suvihvala

Now aged, I am afflicted by five-fold diseases. Tell me, how shall I serve? Crying incessantly, I have fallen at your feet, utterly bewildered.

Now you think, "How can I practise?" We did not develop good habits from childhood. You must get into good habits.

Jay Srila Guru Maharaj ki jay
Sri Hadai Pandit, Sri Padmavati Mayi ki jay
Samagata Sri Gaura bhakta-vrinda ki jay
Nitai Gaura premanande Hari bol

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