Nitai Pada Kamala (The Spiritual Truths of Sri Nityananda Prabhu)

About the Book Yathestam re bhratah kuru hari-hari-dhvanam anisam tato Vah sarimarambudhi-tarana-dayo mayi laget idam bahu-sphotair atati ratayan yah pratigrham bhaje nityanandarh bhajana-taru-kandarh niravadhi

I perpetually worship Sri Nityananda Prabhu; the root of the krsna-bhakti tree, who wandering around Bengal, approached the door of every home, and with upraised arms exclaimed, "O Brothers! Without inhibition all of you together, continuously chant sri-harinama. If you do so, I will take the responsibility to deliver you from the ocean of material existence."

Introduction Sri Nityananda Prabhu is everything for us, our all in all. Why is that so? I will briefly elucidate this conclusion (siddhanta) here. Nityananda Tattva is very confidential, very deep and very complex. Nityananda is very mysterious, He is an avadhuta, beyond all the rules and regulations and injunctions of shastra, yet he gets married and becomes a progenitor. He appears to be a contradictory, inconsistent personality. It is very difficult to fathom His nature and to reconcile His outlandish, seemingly irrational behaviour. Thus, He is known as Nitai pagal, mad Nitai. He is transcendentally mad and anyone who tries to figure Him out intellectually will fail to do so. He is the embodiment of acintya bhedabheda tattva, one and different simultaneously, which is beyond human logic. Therefore, Nityananda tattva can only be realised by the heart, by accepting the truth and the mood hidden in the heart of a pure, genuine Guru who can instill it in the heart of a sensitive, faithful disciple. Therefore, Nityananda hides Himself and His tattva in a tricky way - only those who have unwavering faith in Him and in his agent, Sri Guru, can understand Him in truth. And ultimately we aspire to become as mad as Nitai or at least imbibe a drop of His mood of seva to His Gauranga.

Nityananda/Balaram expands Himself in many ways and serves Radha-Krishna in all rasas and in all circumstances, spiritual and material. One may pose the question, 'Who is more important, Nityananda or Gauranga?' One answer is that Gauranga is more important because attaining Gaura prema is our ultimate goal. Another answer is that they are equally important because even though their mood is different, they are one in tattva. But our conclusion is that Nityananda is more important for us because without His kripa (mercy) we cannot attain Gaura. He takes us to Gauranga, He teaches us how to serve Gauranga and without Him there is no Gauranga. In Gaura lila we are Nitai das, not Gaura das. We are dasadasanudas, servants of the servants of Gauranga and Nitai is Gauranga's topmost servant.

Similarly, one may pose the question as to who is more important, Guru or Vaisnava. We may say that Guru is more important or that they are equally important but our conclusion is that the Vaisnava is more important because he shows us who is Guru, he leads us to Sri Guru, and without his kripa we cannot attain the association and the shelter of Sri Guru. And who is Sri Guru? He is Nityananda prakash (direct manifestation of Nitai). Nityananda is adi Guru, the primeval Guru, the origin of Guru Tattva, the Guru of all Gurus. Without sadhu/Vaisnava kripa we cannot get Sri Guru, without Guru Kripa and Nitai kripa we cannot get Gauranga, without Gauranga kripa we cannot get Radharani kripa and without her kripa we cannot attain Vrajendra-nandana Krishna.

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